The director of a new documentary about UFOs has suggested that the US president could soon confirm the existence of extraterrestrial life. Dan Farah, who directed The Age of Disclosure, told Entertainment Weekly that he believes it is only a matter of time before a sitting president announces that humanity is not alone in the universe.
The film, which is released in select theatres and on Amazon Prime on Friday, features interviews with 34 US government insiders, including military and intelligence officials. It alleges an 80-year global cover-up of non-human intelligent life and a secret effort to reverse-engineer advanced technology of non-human origin.
Farah said he has learned from sources that President Donald Trump has become aware of the basic facts and is working to decide a course of action. Trump has previously discussed the possibility of extraterrestrial life, telling podcaster Joe Rogan in October that there is “no reason not to think that Mars and all these planets don't have life.”
Congress has also held multiple meetings on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs), the formal term for UFOs. Florida Republican Representative Anna Paulina Luna, who chairs the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, has called for greater transparency on the subject.
Farah hopes the film’s release will push the government to disclose more information. “For too long, the public has blatantly been lied to, kept in the dark, and misled with a really sophisticated disinformation campaign,” he said. “The stakes have never been higher.”
