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The Age of Disclosure: every expert, with cited credentials

The Age of Disclosure is a 2025 documentary directed by Dan Farah that brings more than thirty U.S. officials, military officers, scientists, and journalists on the record about unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). This page is the comprehensive directory — each expert linked to their full profile with verified credentials and primary-source citations.

The modern UAP-disclosure timeline

Anchors many experts in this list reference on camera

Dec 16, 2017
NYT reveals AATIP

Cooper, Blumenthal, Kean publish 'Glowing Auras and Black Money' in the New York Times, revealing the existence of the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.

Apr 27, 2020
DoD officially releases three Navy FLIR videos

FLIR1, GIMBAL, and GO FAST officially declassified and released by the Department of Defense.

Jun 25, 2021
ODNI Preliminary Assessment on UAP

Office of the Director of National Intelligence delivers the first congressionally-mandated unclassified UAP report to Congress, examining 144 cases.

May 17, 2022
First public Congressional UAP hearing in 50+ years

House Intelligence Subcommittee hears testimony from Ronald Moultrie and Scott Bray. ONI shows the committee unexplained spherical-object Navy footage.

Dec 23, 2022
Congress establishes AARO

Section 1683 of the FY2022 NDAA — co-authored by Sens. Rubio and Gillibrand — creates the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office.

Apr 19, 2023
First Senate UAP hearing — SASC Subcommittee

Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities — chaired by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand — hears AARO director Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick. Largely closed session; brief open portion.

Jun 5, 2023
The Debrief breaks David Grusch story

Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal report David Grusch's whistleblower allegations of a non-disclosed UAP retrieval and reverse-engineering program.

Jul 26, 2023
House Oversight UAP hearing

Sworn testimony from David Grusch, Cmdr. David Fravor, and Lt. Ryan Graves before the Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs.

Mar 8, 2024
AARO releases Historical Record Report, Vol. I

63-page review of U.S. government UAP-related programs since 1945. Concludes no verifiable evidence of extraterrestrial technology in U.S. possession.

Nov 13, 2024
House Oversight 'Eyes Wide Open' hearing

Testimony from Rear Adm. Tim Gallaudet, Luis Elizondo, Michael Shellenberger, and Michael Gold on UAP transparency.

Mar 9, 2025
*The Age of Disclosure* premieres at SXSW

Dan Farah's documentary, featuring 30+ named U.S. officials and military personnel speaking on the record about UAP, debuts at South by Southwest.

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Featured experts

26 on the record · alphabetical

Anna Paulina Luna
Anna Paulina Luna
U.S. Representative (R-FL-13); Chair, House Oversight Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets

Speaks on her congressional declassification task force and the witness protections it has put in place for UAP-program insiders.

Christopher Mellon
Christopher Mellon
Former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence; former Senate Intelligence Committee staff

Speaks on the multi-decade history of compartmented UAP work inside the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community.

Colm Kelleher
Biochemist; former Deputy Administrator, Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS)

Speaks on the day-to-day investigative work BAASS performed under AAWSAP, including on the Utah ranch site that gives the Skinwalkers book its name.

David Grusch
David Grusch
Former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer; former co-lead for UAP analysis at the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)

Speaks on his career inside the UAPTF and NRO, and on the substance of his sworn whistleblower complaint.

Eric Burlison
Eric Burlison
U.S. Representative (R-MO-7); House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security

Speaks on his role in House Oversight UAP hearings and the need for whistleblower protections.

Eric Davis
Physicist; consultant on advanced propulsion concepts; former scientific consultant to BAASS/AAWSAP

Speaks on the technical content of the AAWSAP-era reference documents and on theoretical propulsion physics.

Garry Nolan
Professor of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine

Speaks on the academic and scientific case for taking UAP empirical questions seriously, and on his own laboratory work on related medical effects.

George Knapp
George Knapp
Investigative journalist, KLAS-TV Las Vegas; chief investigative reporter; Peabody and Edward R. Murrow Award winner

Speaks on his decades-long reporting on the Nevada UAP story, including Bob Lazar, Area 51, and Skinwalker Ranch.

Hal Puthoff
Hal Puthoff
Physicist; Founder and CEO, EarthTech International; former Stanford Research Institute scientist

Speaks on the AAWSAP/BAASS scientific work and on the technical case for taking UAP propulsion observations seriously.

James Comer
James Comer
U.S. Representative (R-KY-1); Chair, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability (118th Congress)

Speaks as the committee chair who authorized the modern era of formal House UAP hearings.

James Lacatski
Former U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency program manager; director of the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP)

Speaks on his time directing the AAWSAP contract and on the BAASS investigative work it funded.

Jay Stratton
Former U.S. Department of Defense official; former director, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF)

Speaks on the inner workings of the UAPTF and on the cases he prioritized for investigation while he ran it.

Jim Semivan
Former senior member, Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Operations; co-founder, To The Stars Academy

Speaks on the CIA's institutional posture toward UAP and on his co-founding of To The Stars Academy.

Karl Nell
Colonel, U.S. Army (retired); former co-lead, Department of Defense Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF)

Speaks on his time leading the UAPTF and on his on-the-record corroboration of David Grusch's account.

Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
U.S. Senator (D-NY); Chair, Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel; co-author of the AARO statute

Speaks on the legislative history of AARO and on the persistent gaps in what executive-branch UAP programs disclose to Congress.

Leslie Kean
Investigative journalist; co-author of the December 2017 New York Times AATIP story

Speaks as the journalist most closely associated with both the AATIP and Grusch stories, and on the editorial standards she applies to UAP whistleblower sourcing.

Luis Elizondo
Luis Elizondo
Former U.S. Department of Defense intelligence official; described as the director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP)

Speaks on his time leading AATIP, the resistance he describes encountering from DoD officials, and his post-resignation public advocacy.

Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
U.S. Secretary of State; former U.S. Senator (R-FL); former Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chair

Speaks on the credibility of UAP witnesses he interacted with as Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chair, and on the limits of what Congress has been told.

Michael Shellenberger
Michael Shellenberger
Author and journalist; Substack publisher of *Public*; testified at the November 2024 House Oversight UAP hearing

Speaks on his *Public* Substack reporting on UAP and on his House Oversight testimony.

Mike Rounds
Mike Rounds
U.S. Senator (R-SD); Senate Armed Services Committee; co-author of the Schumer–Rounds UAP Disclosure Act

Speaks on the UAP Disclosure Act, the political resistance it ran into, and the case for an independent records review board with eminent-domain authority.

Ross Coulthart
Ross Coulthart
Australian investigative journalist; senior investigative reporter, Channel 7 Spotlight; author of *In Plain Sight*

Speaks on his investigative reporting on UAP and on the Grusch story specifically.

Ryan Graves
Ryan Graves
Lieutenant, U.S. Navy (retired); former F/A-18F pilot, VFA-11 'Red Rippers'; founder, Americans for Safe Aerospace

Speaks on the East Coast UAP incursions of 2014–2015 and on the systemic safety issues that led him to found Americans for Safe Aerospace.

Scott Bray
Scott Bray
Former Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence

Speaks on the Office of Naval Intelligence's UAP responsibilities and the constraints on what it can show in open hearings.

Steve Justice
Former Program Director, Lockheed Martin Skunk Works Advanced Systems

Speaks on the engineering challenges of the propulsion behaviors reported in UAP encounters, drawing on his career at Skunk Works.

Tim Burchett
Tim Burchett
U.S. Representative (R-TN-2); House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security

Speaks on his work organizing congressional UAP hearings and on the difficulty witnesses report when seeking to declassify their accounts.

Tim Gallaudet
Tim Gallaudet
Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (retired); former Acting Administrator, NOAA; former Oceanographer of the Navy

Speaks as the most senior retired Navy officer on the record, with a focus on transmedium objects and Navy oceanographic data.

Frequently asked

What is The Age of Disclosure?
A 2025 documentary directed by Dan Farah that premiered at South by Southwest on March 9, 2025. It features more than thirty named U.S. officials, military personnel, scientists, and journalists speaking on the record about unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP).
Who is the director?
Dan Farah — a producer best known for the 2018 film *Ready Player One*, who turned to documentary work for The Age of Disclosure after several years of pre-production interviews with intelligence-community sources.
How is this list compiled?
From the documentary's own credit roll plus on-the-record reporting by the major outlets that have covered the film. Each expert profile carries primary-source citations for biographical claims — see the footnoted citations on each individual profile page.
Is the documentary streaming?
As of the date of this page, distribution arrangements continue to be announced. Check the documentary's official channels for the latest streaming availability.
Are these experts authoritative?
Each profile lists the person's verified institutional credentials with primary-source citations — congressional bioguides, official .gov pages, peer-reviewed publications, sworn testimony transcripts. Authority on UAP topics specifically is a matter for individual readers to weigh; this site presents what the public record shows.

Cross-reference these experts against the full record: Department of War files, AARO releases, Congressional hearings, AATIP, the main timeline, or browse the full witness directory.