The Age of Disclosure (2025) – Mind-Blowing UFO Doc That Leaves You Stuck in the Gray Zone

The Age of Disclosure (2025), directed by Dan Farah, hit me right in the childhood X-Files spot and left me whispering “wow… what if this is actually real?” One minute I’m 100 % convinced that aliens are here and the government has been lying for 80 years, the next minute I’m shaking my head because… where’s the smoking-gun proof? It’s frustrating, fascinating, hopeful, and infuriating all at the same time.

Starring testimonies from 34 high-ranking (mostly retired) U.S. government insiders, this documentary thriller dives deep into the world of UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) and the decades-long cover-up of non-human intelligence. I walked away giving it a solid 7/10. Let’s unpack why it both blew my mind and drove me a little crazy.

The Plot: From “Trust Me Bro” to Congressional Testimony

The Age of Disclosure isn’t your typical talking-head doc – it feels more like a real-life X-Files episode on steroids. We get whistleblower after whistleblower – former Pentagon officials, intelligence officers, military pilots, even people who claim they worked on reverse-engineering programs – all saying the same thing: non-human intelligence is real, craft of unknown origin have been recovered, and world governments have been hiding it since at least the 1940s.

The film walks us through the last 80 years: Roswell, the secret cold-war race to reverse-engineer crashed UAP tech, private aerospace corporations allegedly holding the material away from public oversight, and the recent congressional hearings where some of these exact people testified under oath. There are grainy (but officially released) Navy videos, leaked footage, mainstream news clips from CNN and Fox, and a ton of “I swear this happened” moments from extremely credible-looking people.

The central idea is simple: there’s been a global cover-up, multiple countries are in a secret arms race over alien tech that could literally change energy and travel forever, and now – finally – some insiders want Disclosure. No big spoilers because the movie itself doesn’t drop a dead alien on the table, but it sure makes you feel like we’re one whistleblower away from the biggest story in human history.

What Had Me Totally Hooked

I loved how the film uses real congressional testimony and mainstream media clips – it makes everything feel legit instead of some random YouTube conspiracy. When you see decorated pilots and intelligence veterans basically risking their careers and saying “this is real” under oath… man, it’s hard not to lean forward.

The sci-fi explanations some of them give are wild but strangely hopeful: craft that bend space-time, zero-point energy that could end fossil fuels overnight, beings that might be interdimensional rather than interstellar. For a lifelong X-Files kid like me, those parts were pure dopamine. It’s thought-provoking in the best way – it forces you to ask: is our government actually transparent, or are there massive things they’ll never tell us unless forced?

The One Thing That Really Bugged Me (Okay, It’s a Big One)

Here’s my main problem, and it’s a deal-breaker for a lot of people: there’s no hard proof shown. Zero clear photos, zero pieces of non-human metal on camera, zero documents that haven’t already been public for years. It’s 1 hour 49 minutes of extremely credible people saying “Trust me, I saw it, I worked on it, it’s real”… but they never actually show it to us.

So you swing wildly between “oh my god we’re not alone” and “wait, is this just the world’s most elaborate game of telephone?” That lack of a hard evidence  is why I can’t go higher than 7/10. I wanted one undeniable piece of evidence that would shut the skeptics up for good. Instead we stay firmly in the gray zone.

Ratings and Critical Reception

• IMDb: 7.1/10 (from ~1,300 votes)
• Rotten Tomatoes: No Tomatometer yet (only 8 critic reviews, most negative)
• Audience Popcornmeter: 93 % (250+ ratings)

Box office isn’t really a thing for small docs like this, but the audience score tells the story: regular people who are open to the topic absolutely love it, while professional critics mostly roll their eyes and call it “conspiracy porn.” I’m somewhere in the middle – the film is undeniably compelling, but the critics aren’t wrong about the evidence problem. Hence my 7/10 feels fair.

A Thought-Provoking Gem for Anyone Who Ever Looked Up at the Stars and Wondered

At 7/10, The Age of Disclosure is the perfect weekend watch if you want something that will mess with your head for days. It won’t give you the final answer (hell, it might leave you more confused), but it will make you question everything you thought you knew about what’s out there – and what our governments are willing to hide.

Personally? It reignited that childhood sense of wonder… and paranoia. I’m back to checking the night sky a little more often.

What did you think of The Age of Disclosure? Did the insider testimonies convince you, or did the lack of hard proof kill it for you? Drop your thoughts below – I read every comment!

And here’s the big one: suggest a movie (or documentary!) for my next review. I’m craving more mind-bending, reality-questioning stuff – bonus points if it’s UFO/alien related.

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