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By his own calculation, Dan Farah watched Steven Spielberg’sClose Encounters of the Third KindandE.T. The Extra-Terrestrialclose to “a thousand times” before he turned 15. So it’s hardly surprising that the 45-year-old Hollywood producer yearned to one day create a film that picked up where Spielberg’s two fictional movies about alien visitations and government coverups left off.
Anyone who has gotten a chance to watch a screening of Farah’s groundbreaking documentaryThe Age Of Disclosure(and, as of publication time, only a handful have) and pondered some of the film’s jaw-dropping revelations will tell you that the 45-year-old first-time director pretty much nailed it.
Over the course of his 1-hour-and-49-minute-long documentary, Farah speaks with 34 senior members of the U.S. government, military and intelligence community who all paint a disturbing portrait of what they claim is an 80-year-long cover-up regarding the existence of non-human intelligent life that has been visiting our planet for decades.
This has resulted, they say, in what has essentially become a top-secret arms race with China and Russia — where each nation is vying to be the first to find a way to harness this other-worldly advanced technology. The downside, warn many of the officials who appear inDisclosure, is that keeping this information secret and compartmentalized within the government and the military industrial complex could result in an intelligence failure exponentially worse than what happened with 9/11.
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If true, the impact of these revelations — some of which were discussed in a series of bi-partisancongressional hearingsover the past few years — has the potential to alter the future of humanity. That’s why, explains Farrah, that he was able to get so many heavy hitters to speak on camera about this once-taboo topic.
Marco Rubio.Farah Films/YouTube
“I think,” says Farah, “one of the best lines in the film is when Secretary Rubio says, ‘At the heart of every blunder in intelligence is a lack of imagination — the idea that an adversary can’t do something or won’t do something because it hadn’t been done before. And that leads to strategic surprise and sometimes strategic surprise changes the course of human history.' ”
Those interviewed in the film include retired Air Force Lieutenant General (and former Director of National Intelligence) James Clapper, Admiral (and former Navy Chief Oceanographer) Tim Gallaudet and former Department of Defense official (and one-time member of the Government’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program)Lue Elizondo.
Their first-hand accounts — such as those fromJay Stratton, the former director of the government’sUnidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force— are both spellbinding and disturbing. “I have seen with my own eyes non-human craft and non-human beings,” Stratton says in the film.
Farah — who produced Spielberg’s 2018 sci-fi action featureReady Player One— worked on the film in secret for two and a half years. “The truth is,” he says, “there’s a lot of people who would try to stop this movie from getting made if they had the opportunity.”
Dan Farah.Karwai Tang/WireImage
Karwai Tang/WireImage
Lining up officials to speak on the record proved to be a long and difficult process. “A number of people, specifically intelligence officials, were actually concerned that their lives would be in danger if they participated and ultimately decided not to,” he says.
“The response has been really validating and rewarding,” adds Farah. “I think it speaks volumes to the universal appeal of this topic. I always knew that I couldn’t be the only person who wished that a movie like this existed.”
The Age of Disclosurepremieres at SXSW on Sunday.
source: people.com
