The Age of Disclosure: Is Trump Ready to Tell the World We’re Not Alone?
Written by Christopher Sharp - 3 December 2025
If President Donald Trump wishes to disclose information about Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) - and reveal what whistleblowers claim, that multiple advanced non-human species surround us - now is the time to do it.
Dan Farah’s film The Age of Disclosure features testimony from several high-profile current and former public officials.
Interviewees include former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Mike Rounds and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Since its release on 21 November, it has attracted a tidal wave of media attention.
The movie's message is clear. There is a ‘legacy’ UAP program hidden even from senior public officials, including the President. And behind the scenes, this program is in a race against time with other nations to retrieve non-human vehicles and reverse engineer their technology — whoever succeeds first will dominate the world.
The allegation is that this is the Manhattan Project on steroids.
But is President Trump ready to disclose? That depends on who you ask. Liberation Times understands that Trump takes little personal interest in the issue. This is despite his Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, allegedly currently pursuing her own investigations after stating that her office is ‘continuing to look for the truth, and share that truth with the American people.’
In The Age of Disclosure, his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, recounts whistleblower allegations that elements within the U.S. government have recovered technology from a non-human intelligence, reverse-engineered it, and turned it over to private military contractors in ways that could undermine national security and risk a Pearl Harbour–like event.
According to journalist Michael Shellenberger, a senior Rubio advisor has said, “We’re headed toward massive disclosure.”
However, there are no overt signs that disclosure is close. When Fox News host Sean Hannity asked Rubio about his comments in the film last night, Rubio simply smiled before eventually retreating to his usual line: that whistleblowers in sensitive government roles are either lying, crazy, or telling the truth. He added that admirals and generals were telling him that programs were operating within the U.S. government that even Presidents were not made aware of.
He then claimed he has no answers and no independent way to verify what they have said - an astonishing admission for someone who also serves as National Security Advisor in the Trump White House, sitting at the very centre of the apparatus that is supposed to know.
Rubio also voiced concern that a foreign adversary may have developed an asymmetric capability that the U.S. is not prepared for, comparing such capabilities to drones or balloons.
It was clear in his Fox News interview that Rubio wished to downplay the film and his own comments. Rubio preferred to speak of balloons and drones penetrating sensitive airspace rather than what the current CIA Director and former Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, has described as:
"Objects that demonstrate technologies that seem to defy the law of physics and capabilities that we don't have as the world's superpower."
Even the much-maligned former deputy director of the Pentagon’s UAP office, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), Tim Phillips, has gone further than Rubio - speaking about alarming, unexplainable incidents reported to him which go beyond conventional technology.
Phillips has described seeing reports and evidence of fiery orbs appearing over U.S. military ranges that seem able to mask their presence, and of black triangular craft that manoeuvre with little noise or heat signature.
Describing one fiery-orb incident, he recalled:
“When we start seeing a corona or plasma discharge, and when we've had some of these really really strange events from the reports of the security personnel on site, these devices attempted to conceal themselves.
“In one case, when a truck from main side was coming out onto the range, this device stopped, hovered, went off the road and turned its fricking lights off.”
Turning to the black triangles, Phillips said:
“There were some reports from credible people where they saw something, and they saw a flying vehicle, triangular in shape, trans… just good performance coming off it, not a huge acoustic sound, not a lot of heat picking up….I want to know what it is, because I think it's an adversary capability.”
He claimed that AARO has been studying photographs, videos, and witness reports of these triangular craft.
It strains credulity to suggest that Rubio - a former Gang of Eight member, and now both Secretary of State and National Security Advisor - is unaware of such incidents.
And if Ratcliffe and Phillips are correct, it is even harder to believe that he would not treat investigating these sightings, and the whistleblowers’ claims about secretive UAP programs, as an urgent priority — particularly if there is any chance that earthly adversaries possess such technology and are responsible for incursions over U.S. military ranges.
Therefore, Rubio’s remarks to Hannity should be taken with a grain of salt.
Anyone familiar with politics knows that public statements are often shaped by messaging, deniability and risk management rather than by the full underlying reality.
At the same time, Rubio is deeply engaged in sensitive peace talks over Ukraine, giving him every incentive to project steadiness and avoid making explosive UAP headlines that could distract from his diplomatic role.
Instead, we should pay closer attention to what is being said in private and by senior advisers — including the detailed accounts given by a senior adviser to Rubio, speaking to Michael Shellenberger, which suggest that a major disclosure effort is being prepared behind the scenes.
But there is still no concrete overt sign that UAP disclosure is currently a priority for the Trump administration, despite the reported interest of key figures, including Gabbard, Rubio, and Ratcliffe.
Even Vice President JD Vance has declared his interest in the topic, stating, "I can’t allow myself to become so busy that I don’t get to the bottom of this. I will get to the bottom of this".
The Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act (UAPDA) has been proposed multiple times for inclusion in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), but has never been fully implemented in law. A version of it was first introduced in 2023 by then Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
The UAPDA - put forward for the NDAA again this year - proposes the creation of an independent UAP Records Review Board to oversee the review and declassification process and require public disclosure of UAP records within 25 years unless the President certifies a clear national security reason for delay.
President Trump’s Republican Party currently controls the House and Senate - and if Trump wished to prioritise UAP transparency, it is likely the UAPDA would be tightly locked into the NDAA.
However, it is also worth noting that President Trump does not need to pass a law in order to create a Review Board and commit to a declassification process.
Despite no overt signs that disclosure is imminent - sources have repeatedly told Liberation Times that investigations are being conducted by members of Trump’s team - and that it isn’t inconceivable that an announcement that humanity is not alone could be made by the President.
For that to happen, President Trump would have to confront resistance from the secret keepers.
In the Age of Disclosure, Eric Davis, a theoretical physicist, former Pentagon contractor, and propulsion researcher, described the CIA’s Deputy Director of Science and Technology as controlling the UAP crash retrieval portfolio.
When asked by Liberation Times for comment regarding allegations that the Directorate and Science and Technology is part of a UAP cover-up, one of its former Deputy Directors, Dawn Meyerriecks, gave little away, answering, ‘Since I'm retired, you should contact CIA directly.’
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Christopher Mellon, has urged the congressional Intelligence Committees to bring the CIA’s Deputy Director for Science and Technology and its Director of Operations into a secure hearing room to testify under oath.
According to Liberation Times sources, these officials oversee the coordination of UAP retrieval missions and must be questioned directly to provide clear answers.
Mellon has also urged that the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force, General Kenneth S. Wilsbach, the Secretary of the Air Force, Troy Meink, and the Director of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, Pearl S. Mundt, be questioned under oath by the Armed Services Committees and the relevant defence appropriations subcommittees.
Mellon’s call to action followed remarks by former Director of National Intelligence and former head of Air Force intelligence, James Clapper, in the Age of Disclosure. In the film, Clapper claims that a secretive Air Force program has been actively monitoring UAP, particularly over the highly classified Area 51 facility in Nevada, long regarded as an epicentre of cutting-edge military development and testing.
Liberation Times asked the Air Force whether it could confirm or deny whether Clapper’s allegations were true. But the Air Force was unable to do so.
Instead, an Air Force official told Liberation Times:
“The Nevada Test and Training Range provides flexible, realistic and multidimensional battlespace to test and develop tactics as well as conduct advanced training in support of U.S. national interests.
“Several agencies have jurisdiction over various parts of the Nevada Test and Training Range. The U.S. Air Force controls the airspace over the range and roughly 2.9 million acres of land withdrawn for military use. Various organizations including the Department of Energy, Department of the Interior and private towns such as Rachel also manage portions of the land.”
Although Liberation Times understands that overall interest in UAP on Capitol Hill has grown, it remains unclear how much real appetite the key national-security committees — the Armed Services and Intelligence Committees in both chambers — have for the issue.
These are the panels with access to the most sensitive briefings and with the power to write binding language into the NDAA and the Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA). Yet the UAPDA struggles to pass in its entirety.
By contrast, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform and its members have continued to hold high-profile UAP hearings, keeping the subject in the public eye. But its members have limited ability to shape core defence and intelligence legislation - despite attempts from representatives, such as Eric Burlison, to champion the UAPDA.
This represents a shift from earlier pushes for transparency, helped by former intelligence committee chairs, such as Marco Rubio and Mark Warner in the Senate and Adam Schiff in the House, whose committees drove initial UAP hearings, legislation, and the creation of AARO.
On the surface, key congressional leaders — and the President himself — appear in no hurry to prioritise UAP.
Yet sources insist that interest is intensifying behind the scenes, despite the public façade. In the end, only actions, not words, will reveal the truth.
