"Age of Disclosure," released in April 2025, arrived at a moment when the UAP conversation had moved so far into the mainstream that a serious documentary treatment no longer required apology.
Directed by James Fox, the film assembled an unprecedented roster of on-camera participants: David Grusch giving his most extensive post-testimony interview; Luis Elizondo walking through declassified AATIP footage with forensic precision; Christopher Mellon describing what he characterized as a deliberate and ongoing cover-up; and half a dozen former military and intelligence officers whose names had not previously appeared in public reporting.
The film's structural choice — to treat the subject with the unironic seriousness of a geopolitical documentary rather than the credulous register of conventional UFO films — distinguished it from everything that had preceded it.
Within three weeks of release, the documentary had been streamed more than eight million times and cited in floor speeches by four members of Congress as evidence that the UAP Disclosure Act required immediate action.