by A few weeks ago, the Age of Disclosure documentary finally hit the digital shelves on Prime Video. The whole UFO/UAP topic has been popping up in the media more often in the last 5 years, particularly after many government insiders began speaking more openly about the topic in 2020.
2020. What a crazy year that was. The pandemic, the elections, the growing Epstein mystery, and then UFOs and Aliens suddenly being reported more widely in the media as cherry on top.
Except now it’s not just any random guy coming forward with a UFO story; it’s legit government officials, retired intelligence officers, politicians, and respected scientists taking this topic more seriously, becoming increasingly vocal, and releasing information publicly.
And now the topic has been reintroduced with a new paint code and a fresher look. Even the word UFO is considered outdated — the new, more scientific term is UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena).
I’ve always been interested in this topic, but with so many wild stories, exaggerated accounts, 22 seasons of Ancient Aliens, and very little solid evidence, most of what I’d come across over the years felt more like entertainment that fired up the imagination.
But these new accounts and disclosures are starting to sound far more credible and plausible as I’ve followed the story over the past few years and listened to witness interviews on various podcasts.
Last year, I even read Lue Elizondo’s highly rated, best-selling book Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs. Elizondo is pretty much the main guy behind this documentary and the recent push for more disclosure over the past few years. He’s an intelligent guy with an impressive career, having served in the U.S. Army, rising to the rank of intelligence officer and military intelligence, and eventually working with the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence (OUSDI) at the Pentagon.
In 2009, Elizondo was recruited to the Advanced Aerospace Identification Program (AATIP), a secret US Department of Defense program that investigated and collected data on mysterious aerial phenomena encountered by military pilots. The purpose of the investigation was to determine if they posed a national security threat.
Elizondo’s investigation into decades of government UAP cover-ups has led him to resign so he can go public with what he has discovered, because he believes humanity deserves to know.
“While there are valid reasons for secrecy around some aspects of UAPs, I do not think humanity should be kept in the dark about the fundamental fact that we are not the only intelligent life in the universe,” Elizondo wrote in his book. “How can any institution or government censor that? No one has the right to keep fundamental truths away from the American people and humanity,” he reiterates in the documentary film.
If you’ve read the book and been following this story closely for the past few years, this documentary isn’t packed with any new, unseen footage or world-shattering revelations. It’s more of a concise package of the testimonies that have already been disclosed over the past few years. As a documentary, it is a good companion to the book, and both are among the most credible sources of information we, as the public, have on UFOs.
So I went ahead and bought the documentary for $25 on Prime Video. It was $19.99 a pop to rent, and I thought I’d go ahead and pay the extra five bucks and own it indefinitely. At least this way I’ll always have it around in case family or friends come over — I can throw it on and hear their opinions on the topic. A physical copy for that price would have been better, though.
I also thought it would be interesting to write an article summarizing the most compelling stories and testimonies from the documentary, so you can catch up on the latest developments if you haven’t had the time, or if you want to save yourself twenty bucks, or if you prefer reading a bit about it before spending the twenty bucks, or even if you already did spend the twenty bucks and just want to go over a concise breakdown of the key points.
So, without further ado, let’s dive in.
The documentary starts with this message:
“Everyone interviewed in this film has direct knowledge of Unidentified Aerial/Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) as a result of their work for the U.S. Government.”
UAP Encounter Cases
1. The Pilots:
UAPs have been reported stalking U.S. Navy Vessels at an increasing frequency. Four retired Navy SEAL and Air Force pilots share some of their experiences in the documentary.
Retired U.S. Air Force Pilot Colonel James Cobb recounts one of his most memorable UAP encounters while being stationed in NORAD. There was an unknown object on the base radar they were tracking. He recalls the commander saying, “I want that target,” and all the pilots scrambled to intercept it. Colonel Cobb says none of the pilots were successful in intercepting or running it down. He remembers this particular instance because, to him, it is a big deal that they “were unable to maintain air sovereignty over North America.”
Commander David Fravor, a retired U.S. Navy fighter pilot, and Lt. Commander Alex Dietrich, who flew alongside him, share their 2004 UAP encounter — the most famous and credible “Tic Tac” incident, with the best footage most of us saw on the news and all over social media five years ago, back in 2020 when it first started making headlines.
I won’t go into as much detail about this case here, since Fravor has given countless interviews and broken down the incident many times. I’ll post the video below in case you haven’t seen it or want to refresh your memory—some fascinating stuff.
Lieutenant Ryan, a retired U.S. Navy pilot, recounts his experience as well. He recalls seeing UAPs almost daily, to the point that it became a safety issue for aircraft in his squadron. “We were flying in section formation, about 150 feet apart, when one of these objects went right between those two aircraft. The lead aircraft was visually able to see the object, and described it as a dark gray or black cube inside of a clear sphere.”
From 2014-15, Lieutenant Ryan remembers a particular time when he and his squadron were operating off the coast of Virginia Beach. Their radars were upgraded from APG-73 to APG-79, allowing them to detect more objects in the sky than before. One of the objects they spotted was able to maintain a stationary position in 120-knot winds, essentially inside a hurricane, completely unaffected by the environment.
Commander Fravor recalls how the Navy Seals would track these objects from above 80,000 feet, basically in space at that altitude, and those objects would come down, hover for three hours, then go back up.
To their knowledge, there is no human technology, not even within the most secretive classified black programs, that comes close to the capabilities observed in these UAP.
2. Aquadilla, Puerto Rico Case:
In 2013, a DHS helicopter caught a spherical object flying at high speed. It then entered the water and exited again, indicating the possibility of being a transmedium without losing velocity. It went into the ocean and made no splash, no wake, despite traveling 75 mph.
Travid Taylor, a Quantum Physicist in the U.S. Army, did a quick calculation to see how much force you would need to propel a basketball underwater at that speed, and he found that “You’d need a BE-7 rocket motor or two Learjet engines, which would churn the water like crazy. This is a frictionless technology.”
3. Soviet UAP Crash Recovery – 1989
Eric Davids, an Astrophysicist and scientific advisor of AATIP, recounts seeing highly credible U.S. government intelligence documents of a Soviet recovery of a crashed UAP in 1989. As the story goes, the Soviets recovered a Tic Tac-shaped UAP that was twice as large as the one encountered by the USS Nimitz carrier strike group. In this crash, they also recovered four humanoid alien bodies.
The Soviet scientists disassembled the recovered craft and discovered a highly advanced directed-energy weapon.
If these things are so advanced, then why are there crashes one might ask? Hal Puthoff speculates that some of these crashes might not be crashes at all. They might be deliberately left behind for us to study. Maybe some sort of “gifts” from a more advanced species, distributed differently among nations.
4. UAP at George W. Bush’s Ranch in Texas
Jay Stratton, a former Navy senior intelligence executive, recalls an incident during the George W. Bush administration when the president routinely went down to his Ranch in Stephenville, Texas. Stratton saw reporting of UAP activity over Bush’s ranch, and F-16s from a nearby Air Force base were alerted to intercept this object. Some people on the ground have also reported seeing it.
Stratton describes going down to question the pilots about what they saw and what they chased. “I’m acting on behalf of the U.S government, and we’re trying to understand what you saw,” he told them.
He recalls the pilots looking him in the eyes and telling him, “We cannot tell you what we saw because the OSI, Air Force Office of Special Investigations, came in here and had us sign non-disclosure agreements. We did see something. We did scramble on something. But we can’t talk to you about it.”
Pretty interesting that whatever those things are, they decided to come down and give the president a quick visit. Or were they sending him some kind of message or signal? The 2000s had some wild stuff going on globally, politically, and technologically.
This wasn’t the only mention of Bushes and UAPs in this documentary. Eric Davis, Astrophysicist and scientific advisor to AATIP, recalls having a few private conversations with former president George Herbert Walker Bush in 2003. Bush told him that when he became the CIA Director during the Ford administration, he was not briefed on the Legacy UAP crash-retrieval program (more on the Legacy Program later). He later learned of it and informed Davis that several crash retrievals had occurred since the mid-1940s.
Bush also told Davis about a UAP incident at Holloman Air Force Base in 1964, where three UAPs approached the base. One of them reportedly landed on the tarmac, and a non-human entity deboarded the craft and interacted with uniformed Air Force and civilian CIA personnel. When Bush asked for more details, he was told he did not have a need-to-know.
I don’t know, but for me personally, the possibility of extraterrestrial, interstellar, or otherworldly beings hovering around us is a big fucking need-to-know.
In the 2000s, the George W. Bush administration organized a panel as the administration contemplated going public with the disclosure. The panel consisted of a small group of intelligence agency personnel, military personnel, and businesspeople. The administration basically cut straight to the chase and said, “Here’s what’s going on. The Americans, the Russians, and the Chinese all have crash-retrieved craft from some other civilization, and there is some belief that maybe this should be revealed to the public, and we want to know what the consequences would be?”
5. Missile Site Encounters
The documentary goes over multiple cases of UAPs hovering around U.S. military missile sites.
Ellsworth Air Force Base –The first missile site encounter mentioned in the documentary occurred in South Dakota. Mario Woods, a retired U.S. Air Force Security Forces, recounts receiving an alarm from the missile site. When he arrived at the site, there was an object directly above that ICBM nuclear missile, right on top of the blast door.
“No noise, no sound whatsoever. It looked like a mini sun sitting in the air. It was the size of a Super Walmart building. This thing was gargantuan, and how it could suspend itself was just completely unnatural to what we know of that can fly or hover,” he recalls.
Missouri Whiteman Air Force Base –In another incident, Terry Lovelace, a retired U.S. Air Force officer, recounts being at the base and seeing his captain looking up at the sky with his mouth open. He looked up as well and saw this object hovering right over the missile launch tube.
“Multifaceted, matte black finish, an oddly shaped diamond. Absolutely silent, made no noise. There was no means of propulsion. Fifty feet up in the air, sitting absolutely still,” he recalls. While they were all watching this thing in amazement, the object suddenly went from perfectly still to shooting off toward the horizon and was gone. “Absolutely instant acceleration.”
Vanderberg Air Force Base in California –Lieutenant Bob Jacobs, a retired U.S. Air Force official, recounts an unexplained incident captured during a missile test. They used 60 high-speed cameras in an experiment to record an Atlas D missile carrying a dummy nuclear warhead, allowing engineers to see and study every millisecond of the ignition. As the warhead was flying along, something else suddenly entered the frame. It shot a beam of light and struck the warhead. Then it moved above it and fired another beam downward. Another beam of light struck from below and from the side, and then the object instantaneously shot out of the frame.
“Everything in our frame was moving at 8,000 – 9,000 miles an hour. There is nothing that could have done that,” Jacobs said.
Montana – Malmstrom Air Force Base – Bob Salas, U.S. Air Force (Ret.), recounts a red-orange light hovering above the front gate, which was oval-shaped and about 40 feet in diameter. Each missile on the base started announcing a guidance and control system failure. All 10 missiles at the base began to go down.
“Within the span of eight days, we lost 20 nuclear missiles to UFOs,” Salas said. And the way he said “UFOs” was almost a whisper, like he was revealing something he shouldn’t.
Vanderberg Air Force Base in California – Vanderberg is one of the most important bases in the U.S. It serves as a launch site for the National Missile Defense project, the system responsible for defending the U.S. against potential incoming ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons.
Jefferey Nuccetelli, U.S. Air Force Security Forces (Ret.), recounts an event on October 14th, 2003, when he showed up to work and everybody on the base immediately started telling him about a UFO incident that had happened earlier that morning. Chaz King, U.S. Air Force Security Forces (Ret.), also reported to work at Vandenberg that day, and he was given a briefing that some Boeing contractors had witnessed a UAP incursion. Three Boeing contractors had called in and reported that a gigantic red square object was hovering over the launchpad at low altitude.
“It was making no noise, it had no obvious signs of propulsion, and it was just hovering silently. It was a very serious security breach of the area,” Nuccetelli explains.
Nuccetelli then spent most of that day driving around the base looking for these objects. Later that night, Chaz King and five security force members observed a bright light approaching the base. “As it got closer, the light was no longer visible, and it was massive, the size of a football field, almost rectangular in shape. It was just floating there. No propulsion system, no windows. It was matte black.” They observed it for another 45 seconds, then it shot off at thousands of miles per hour up the coast.
Nuccetelli talked to over a dozen direct witnesses at the base, and even from their different vantage points, they all told him the same story and saw the same thing.
“UAP activity surrounding nuclear weapons is not a historic issue, it’s an ongoing issue,” Jay Stratton adds.
UAP Origin Possibilities
The documentary presents a few possibilities about the nature of these beings and their origins.
Mike Gallagher, former U.S. representative and member of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, lays out the four main hypotheses discussed within government and scientific circles regarding what these unidentified objects might be.
- Foreign adversary technology that is unknown to us.
- A U.S. counterintelligence program masking a classified project that has slipped away from congressional oversight.
- Interdimensional or extraterrestrial origins.
- Some combination of the above.
Lou Elizondo also raises the possibility that the non-human intelligence already here may not be exclusively extraterrestrial. It could be cryptoterrestrial—perhaps a form of protohuman or an ancient lineage as native to this planet as we are, one that branched off from our family tree long ago.
Hal Puthoff presents another possibility — that these beings might be time travelers, or perhaps an ancient civilization that has sequestered itself somewhere in the ocean, where 80% of the volume remains unexplored and much of the seafloor is still unmapped. If they originally came from space, the ocean would also be a perfect place to hide.
“Whoever it is, they’re here, they’re operating here, and they have been operating here for a long time,” Puthoff concludes.
The Legacy Program & Decades of Cover-Ups
Lou Elizondo’s and Jay Stratton’s investigation within their AATIP program was running into hurdles, bureaucratic mountains, and lots of resistance. During their work, they uncovered another deeply hidden, much larger UAP program — the Legacy Program. According to many people in the documentary, especially Lou and Jay, the major force behind the secrecy and classification of the UAP topic appears to be tied to the Legacy Program and its long-running cover-up efforts.
“This program had been capturing, retrieving, and reverse engineering UAPs since at least 1947. On numerous occasions, these retrievals included the bodies of non-human intelligence,” reveals Elisondo.
Hal Puthoff says that, without a doubt, there has been hardly any program so successfully kept out of the public eye as crash retrievals of unknown craft. This tight control began after the famous Roswell crash in 1947 during the Truman administration.
According to the documentary, a UAP crash did indeed occur in Roswell in 1947. The craft reportedly broke into two pieces on impact, and witnesses described seeing hieroglyphic-like markings across its surface. All recovered material from the site — including four non-human bodies — was transported to Wright Field, where the U.S. had some of its best reverse engineers.
A couple of months after Roswell, as the Cold War with the Soviet Union was approaching in 1947, the U.S. felt it was imperative to reverse-engineer this technology before anyone else even knew about it. That’s when President Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947, which created the U.S. Air Force and the CIA—marking the moment these intelligence bureaus began taking operational control of the UAP topic. A few years later, Truman signed the Central Intelligence Act, which really allowed the CIA to run secret intelligence operations outside normal oversight channels, enabling them to conduct operations without anyone knowing.
As Elisondo puts it, from Roswell forward, the strategy for dealing with the public about the UAP topic was to:
- Deny everything
- Admit nothing
- Make counter-accusations
- Put out false notices
- Intimidate and discredit witnesses
- Deny, deny, deny
The officials in the documentary believe that the Legacy Program created stigma and a culture of disbelief through active disinformation campaigns—using news media, pop culture, and Hollywood films to influence public opinion and reinforce the ridicule factor around “tin-foil hat” UFO conspiracists.
Meanwhile, in the shadows beyond public view, the Legacy Program is engaged in a long-running secret war with other nations to collect and reverse-engineer vehicles not made by humans. Doing whatever it takes to obtain exotic technology, because the first nation to crack it would become a superpower for centuries.
Scientists argue that the Legacy Program, hidden away for decades, is blocking the scientific process. “Science moves forward on the basis of exchanging information, and when it’s all tied up and held down, you just can’t make progress,” Hal Puthoff says in the documentary—locked away information that can improve the lives of billions of humans and change the trajectory ofthe human species.
Too much information is split across different departments and hidden away. Some hoard it like currency, making it harder for everyone to get the big picture and bring the information together.
Marco Rubio explains this issue in the documentary by giving the example of government officials and even presidents having little awareness of secret projects such as the Legacy Program because the positions rotate every few years. But the corporate entity keeps the recovered technology and never rotates. They continue developing it regardless of whether the government maintains oversight. People in key positions rotate, mid-level career officials stay for decades.
The danger of this, according to Rubio, is that the corporate entities then begin to commercialize this advanced technology, and this stuff begins to show up as great innovations from companies making money on it – and they claim it’s theirs. The people in government who knew where it came from are long gone, and their successors have no idea it was ever there.
“You can see where you create — in corporate hands — an extraordinary amount of power. The real risk is that tech not useful to us today gets transferred to a corporate entity, and decades later that corporation possesses control and access to it for its own purposes, not for national security,” Rubio warns.
How UAP Technology Works and the Energy Source Behind It
The scientists presented in this documentary explain in detail how UAP technology operates and travels, making the anomalies people report sound completely absurd begin to make sense.
- The Warp Bubble — With enough energy, a spacecraft can create a warp bubble around itself, producing altered spacetime inside the bubble compared to the spacetime outside it. This energy field completely isolates the craft from the environment. This is also why radars often can’t track UAPs, and why photos and videos appear blurry or distorted—the camera is literally shooting through a spacetime distortion barrier.
- How Does a Craft Move Forward? — The craft inside the bubble can alter the bubble’s properties to change its direction of motion, creating a downward press in front and an upward press behind. The craft is essentially riding spacetime the way a surfer rides a wave, as Hal Puthoff puts it. Anyone inside the craft would feel as if they were simply cruising along, without experiencing the extreme speeds or acceleration forces that would normally liquefy a human body.
- Transmedium Travel — Puthoff and Davis explain that the craft moves and exists within its own spacetime environment, allowing it to pass seamlessly through air and water. This enables effortless movement through any medium, without drag, turbulence, or even a splash.
- Anti-Gravity— Scientists have observed anti-gravity effects on these crafts, as they seem to exist within a spacetime bubble that is unaffected by Earth’s gravitational field. These crafts do not require engines, wings, or any aerodynamic features typically associated with atmospheric flight. They are entirely disconnected from the surrounding atmosphere.
- Time Dilation & “Missing Time” — These craft exist in a spacetime environment different from the exterior one, which helps explain reports from military personnel who approached or entered them and experienced time running at a different rate inside. Some believed they were inside for only minutes, only to discover that hours had passed outside. Witnesses also report that a craft may appear small from the outside but feel “the size of a football stadium” once inside.
What is their energy supply? – UAPs demonstrate propulsion and maneuvering that far exceed any kind of power levels generated by human technology. “UAPs have exhibited propulsion performance characteristics that imply the generation of 1,000 billion watts of power,” explains Dr. Eric Davis, “This is more than 100 times the daily electrical utility power generated in the U.S.”
The two central hypotheses for the craft’s energy source that warps space-time around them are:
- Zero Point Energy – The craft may produce its own bubble of vacuum energy around the craft.
- Quantum Entanglement Power Source – The craft may be using quantum entanglement to draw power from a remote and distant energy source.
Final Thoughts & Credits:
Now you tell me—would all of these individuals who contributed to this documentary and the recent UAP disclosures really go to such lengths and risk their reputations just to make a few bucks by stirring up conspiracies and bullshit?
Chris Mellon – Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, for Intelligence, Department of Defense (Fmr.)
If you want to dive deeper into the topic, you can find the book and the documentary here:
Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs by Lue Elizondo
The Age of Disclosure documentary on Prime Video
