Age of Disclosure: A Personal Review

 Yes, I have seen Dan Farah’s Age of Disclosure, and this will be one of those mixed reviews. There are some good things in it and some clunkers in it. The documentary began with the introductions of some high-level people, or I suppose I should say, some formerly high-level people. This segment is important because it suggests inside information and the possible disclosure of important photographs and video footage. It suggests there is evidence of alien visitation that we haven’t seen and each of these men hint they have seen the truth with their own eyes… well, some of them can only tell us what they derived from second-hand sources, though Jay Stratton makes the claim he has seen the craft and the bodies with his own eyes. Impressive stuff.

As we move on, we are told by those sources that:

“Humans are not the only intelligence in the universe.”

“They’re real, they’re here, and they’re not human.”

“Non-human intelligences are here and have been interacting with humanity for a long time.”

“We are not the only intelligent life form on the planet. There’s something else here.”

“This is the biggest discovery in human history.” 

On that last point, Don Schmitt, Tom Carey and I have been saying for decades this story is the biggest in the last thousand years. There is nothing to compare to it but then, I’m not sure it is the biggest discovery in human history, though if pressed, I could only think of one thing and that takes us into the realm of religion and frankly I don’t want to go there in this review.

I have heard for months about this film changing the landscape of UFO, well, UAP research, and that opening sequence gave me hope. To me, it promised to provide some of that evidence that has been kept from us for decades.

Hal Puthoff tells us, “The classified data that we had access to when we joined the program was indisputable.” That’s good for him, but we must know what those classified data are because we haven’t seen them. We have been promised that data and disclosure for decades but somehow it never happens.

Eric Davis then tells us, “There is 80 years of data that the public isn’t even aware of.”

But I find Eric Davis somewhat problematic. He had said on a few occasions that the Del Rio crash is real. I have spent a great deal of time and effort in my research on this alleged crash and discovered the original tale was told by former Air Force colonel, Robert Willingham. Len Stringfield, whose research changed most of our opinions on stories of crash/retrievals, a term he invented, provided some early analysis of that crash. I even found in Skylook, the original magazine published by MUFON, Willingham’s original story. It is remarkedly different from that he told to others. But let’s ignore all that. Willingham was never an Air Force fighter pilot as he claimed, was not an Air Force colonel as he suggested, had never even served in the Air Force but had been a member of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP). He wore ribbons he had never earned, claimed he had been wounded in the Korean War, but his military record showed only thirteen months of military service from December 1945 to January 1947. He is not a reliable source.

I mention all this because, if Eric Davis had inside information, he would have known that the Del Rio crash was the invention of Robert Willingham. It never happened, but it excited many in the UFO community including me until I saw his military record and pictures of him in a CAP uniform attempting to convince us he had been a high-ranking Air Force officer.

Robert Willingham in his CAP uniform. You can see the
 "CAP" insignia on the collar and the metal plate
showing it is the CAP.

We are treated to Jay Stratton, who tells us, “The things that I’ve seen, the clearest videos, the best evidence we have that these are non-human intelligence, remains classified. I have seen with my own eyes non-human craft and non-human beings.”

He had been featured in some of the trailers about the documentary and I reported on Coast-to-Coast AM his statement about seeing the evidence with his own eyes. I was cautiously optimistic about Stratton’s testimony, but wanted to wait until I saw the documentary. I had expected greater things from Stratton. Do we get any sort of evidence from him in the form of documents and photographs? No. Just his serious claim that he had seen it with his own eyes but we don’t get to see it with ours.

I think here of the officers and enlisted men in Roswell in July 1947. I talked to many of them, as did Don and Tom. They told us what they had seen with their own eyes. Thomas Gonzales, a sergeant with the 509^th made carvings of the alien creatures he had seen. Does that prove he saw aliens? Frankly, no. But at least we had something more than a claim to have seen these things. Gonzales surfaced, literally decades ago, just as the Roswell crash was entering the public consciousness.

Thomas Gonzales cravings of the little men.

Christopher Mellon is featured throughout the film. He talked about his experiences, but I worry about him as well. He released an email, heavily redacted, earlier this year. It mentioned the Kingman UFO crash of 1953, suggesting it was real. But like Del Rio, there is but a single eyewitness to that crash retrieval, Arthur Stansel. The trouble is Stansel told Ray Fowler, who interviewed him in 1973, that when he drank, he tended to embellish his stories. When he told Jeff Young and Paul Chetham, the first to interview him about the crash, he’d had four martinis. I have published a long analysis of the Kingman crash that can be found here:

https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2025/06/chasing-footnotes-sort-of-kingman.html

And like Eric Davis, if Mellon was on the inside, he should have been aware of the trouble with the case. I suppose this is just part of the massive disinformation campaign that we keep hearing about as the excuse for the failure to provide the evidence. Instead, it’s let’s smear these guys so that no one will believe them. But there is a point where that excuse collapses and that point has been reached. I do not find the claims of Kingman to be legitimate, though I do note that Kingman was not mentioned in the documentary.

The email that mentions the Kingman crash.

They also mentioned that the President is kept out of the loop. The President, his cabinet and the top level of bureaucrats serve for short periods. They are replaced by elections but those hired to work under them can serve for decades. This is where the real power lies and there is evidence of this happening.

For decades the FBI office in New York ran Operation Solo. Morris Childs, who had once been a devout communist flipped and became a spy for the FBI. His contributions to our intelligence community were known to the very few who were read into. Even the President was left out unless it became necessary to brief him. John Barron wrote a book about Operation Solo and Morris Childs after Childs had retired from his spy work. It does prove that sometimes there are intelligence programs that as so sensitive that even the President is left out.

I did cover how this could work with the UFO programs, such as the claimed Legacy Program. The President is not briefed on it because there is no reason to do so. If he asks questions, the answers simply are not provided in a timely manner. I did examine this in UFOs and the Deep State, providing sources for that information.

This is becoming longer than I expected, so I’ll just tackle one other aspect of all this. A question that has been asked repeatedly is “If these aliens are as advanced as you claim, why do they keep crashing?” I have written two books on that topic, the latest being Crash: When UFOs Fall from the Sky. The first part of that answer is that they don’t keep crashing. Of the more than one hundred crashes listed in the book, there are fewer than five that can be considered real and two of those are problematic. Roswell is, of course, the top of the crash/retrieval list.

However, many years ago, I suggested that aliens had crashed the UFO on purpose. I said it was a benign way of introducing themselves in a non-threatening way. We recover the craft and the bodies and see the aliens as fallible. They aren’t the threat that we see in the science fiction movies where their technology is so far superior to ours that as Arthur C. Clark has said, it looks like magic.

I didn’t suggest that they actually killed members of the crew but provided us with biological samples that looked humanoid that hadn’t survived the crash. It would give us a chance to get use to the idea that there are creatures from another world. It was just a wild idea that I thought was interesting but I certainly didn’t believe it. Here they seem to have recycled that idea claiming it was a way to share some of their technology with us, if we were smart enough to figure it out.

I suppose my overall point is that there was nothing new in the documentary, some of the information was inaccurate, and part of it seemed to be derived from the work that Don, Tom and I have done. Other parts were derived from the work of Stan Friedman and Len Stringfield. We’re told that there were four bodies recovered in the Roswell crash, but we’ve heard that for decades from multiple sources. We’re told there were two crash sites but already we knew that and we’ve been to both.  Lue Elizondo mentioned all this as if it was some sort of new revelation. The information is at least thirty years old and has been published multiple times. It would have been impressive if he could have told us something new or even added a few new details.

 Don (on right) and me on the impact site where the
main part of the craft and bodies were found.

He did mention that the craft and bodies had been flown to Wright Field, later Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, but we already knew that. In fact, Brigadier General Arthur Exon told us, in the 1990s, that one of the bodies had been sent on to Denver where the Army had a mortuary service. The goal was to find a way to preserve the unique biological samples. Exon had been at Wright Field when the craft and bodies arrived, which put him in the middle of that episode.

Brigadier General Arthur Exon.

End the end, there were no great revelations by the insiders. There was no evidence, other than the testimony of those claiming to be on the inside. There were no pictures, no videos that we haven’t seen, and nothing of substance on which to hang a logical conclusion. Yes, the tales told by the fighter pilots were interesting but the videos were nothing new. We had seen them years ago. The Navy told us the videos were real, meaning they were shot from the Navy fighters, but they weren’t telling us that the videos showed alien craft.

We knew some of it was accurate because we, on the outside had found it. We knew some of the witnesses were telling us what they believed to be the truth, but we couldn’t get to the last step which was the release of the classified information. We knew that some information had been classified because we had samples of the documents marked with classification stamps and we were told that there were hidden files and testimony that we could not access.

The Age of Disclosure didn’t take us anywhere that we, on the outside, hadn’t already been. It was a lot of talk and extraordinary claims but no evidence to back it up other than the testimony of those supposedly on the inside. Given the statements of some of these witnesses, made in the past, I worried about their insider status and what they claimed to know. Frankly, the documentary was a disappointment because it didn’t have the evidence to back up the hyperbole. Watch it if you must, but remember, there wasn’t much new in it and no real proof was offered to bolster the claims. Lots of smoke but no fire.