Danny Jones Podcast - #393 - The REAL Reason Trump is Rushing to Disclose UFO Files | Dan Farah

Episode Date: May 4, 2026

Watch every episode ad-free & uncensored on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dannyjones With news of Trump releasing UFO Files, Dan Farah explains the secret effort to block disclosure, and what would happen if UFO files were released today. Dan's new film "The Age of Disclosure" is available now. SPONSORS https://shopify.com/dannyjones - Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today. https://hexclad.com/dannyjones - Get 49% off during The Mother's Day Sale. https://cheershealth.com/danny - Get 20% off your entire order (limited time only). https://whiterabbitenergy.com/?ref=DJP - Use code DJP for 20% off. EPISODE LINKS Watch The Age of Disclosure: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0FMF29BBJ FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/dannyjones https://twitter.com/jonesdanny OUTLINE 00:00 - Living in the age of disclosure 04:53 - Cover-up of non-human intelligent life 08:12 - The intelligence officials who spoke out 16:42 - The secret cold war happening since the 1940s 22:28 - Private industry's role in UAP technology 24:49 - America is losing the "UAP race" 30:58 - Who turned down Dan's film 34:27 - We're dealing with multiple forms of alien life 36:51 - Navy sightings of underwater crafts 42:33 - The legacy UFO program 48:16 - Where secret UFO programs get their money 51:01 - The free energy source that powers UAPs 56:44 - What Hal Puthoff said about alien technology 59:48 - UFO tech on the battlefield 01:07:49 - Indisputable video evidence of UAPs 01:14:50 - UAP sightings at nuclear facilities 01:17:51 - How the military lures in UAPs 01:29:26 - Trusting sources 01:33:53 - James Clapper 01:40:47 - Why a new energy source hasn't been discovered 01:45:03 - UAPs spotted during WW2 01:45:50 - Tic Tac UFOs 01:56:57 - Anti-gravity research that went dark 01:59:27 - Child's UFO encounter triggered remote viewing 02:06:35 - UFO event at Rendlesham Forest 02:10:38 - Ariel School UFO encounter 02:17:07 - James Fox's alien documentaries 02:23:14 - Aliens are watching government officials 02:27:51 - What Dan was told about aliens 02:36:23 - Toughest decisions when making Age of Disclosure 02:38:16 - Working with Spielberg 02:42:13 - Producing "Ready Player One" 02:49:20 - Alien secrets hidden in Hollywood films 02:52:04 - Ocean UFO sighting deleted from the film 02:57:20 - What past presidents said about aliens Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Three flights canceled. You ended up jumping on the PJ coming down here. A friend came through with PJ. Well, we made it happen, dude. I'm glad we did. And that's nice to finally meet you. Thank you too, man. We're in the age of disclosure, huh?

We are, we are. It's a wild time to be alive, you know? That is, that's why I went with that title. Disclosure's not going to be a singular moment. It's going to be this process that unfolds over many years. And, you know, when we look back, 50 years from now, it'll be this little pocket of time. That's the age of disclosure, the age where all this stuff comes out.

And the truth comes out in, in steps. Mm-hmm. Yeah. How did this whole documentary start out for you? So it's a kind of long origin story, I would say. So, you know, I'm 46 and my childhood's the 80s and early 90s and grew up with movies like Close Encounters and E.T.

Close Encounters made the biggest impact on me. I was obsessed with that movie. X Files was running on TV when I was a kid and movies like Fire in the Sky. You know, we're making, we're getting a lot of attention. And I remember my cousins and I watching, watching fire in the sky late at night, scared the crap out of us, but also made us super curious about this topic. And so my whole life just been interested in the topic, these big questions like, are we alone in the universe?

Does the U.S. government know more about this topic than the average person? That's kind of the common thesis and all that pop culture I grew up with, right? Close encounters, ET, X-Files, the one common. common ideas that two common ideas are yes there's life from elsewhere um but elements of the us government have been covering it up um so i've always wondered if that was true you know and watched every movie and tv show rhetoric over the years and um i always wished that someone would make a really credible serious non-sensational documentary about this topic and only and like basically set the bar at only interviewing people who have direct knowledge of it

as a result of working for the government. If elements of the government do in fact know more than the public, the idea would be to find that out, right? And no one ever made that film. My career ended up going into mainstream producing. I had a lot of, I was very fortunate over the last 20 years, building movies and TV shows as a producer from the ground up, like big commercial stuff.

The biggest that people know would be Ready Player 1, which Spielberg directed. And then it was on the set of Ready Player 1 watching Steven Spielberg direct, in my opinion, is the greatest filmmaker that's ever lived. And watching them direct was just unbelievably inspiring. And I started thinking then in the back of my mind, like I'd like to direct something after years of producing. I've got my will spinning on what that might be.

And I was actually doing research for a scripted project a couple years. a couple years after Ready Player 1 came out. And in doing research, I was trying to learn how real the situation around this topic was. And so I got connected to some senior intelligence officials that had worked on this topic for the U.S. government and started having just private conversations, meals with those guys trying to understand the lay of the land. And I quickly realized how real the situation actually is. And these ideas that were put in our heads when we were kids with movies like Close Encounters and ET weren't far off from the truth. There has in fact been a massive cover-up of non-human intelligence life. And the government does take it very serious and does know a lot more than the public does.

So in those conversations that originally were research for a scripted project, like I said, I started to realize that these people that I form relationships with would be great interview subjects for that documentary that I always wish existed. And then I kind of shifted my focus to no longer doing research for a scripted project. And I was like, okay, I'm going to make the definitive documentary on this topic that I always wish existed. And this will be that thing that I direct to. And so it's sort of like the origin. And then from there, I started socializing with these intelligence officials I had met and their colleagues that I wanted to make a film that would bring the truth out about what is known that can legally be shared. All these people are privy to classified information, but there's a lot they can share.

They've just been historically discouraged from doing so. I wanted to make the doc that gave them a platform to share what they lawfully could. and really kind of open the public's eyes to what's really been going on. And as I started to socialize that, it started to catch momentum. You know, one, I would have like a, you know, private meal with someone who wanted to tell us Fischel, explain what I wanted to do, they would think about it, they would come back and say, you know what, I think I'd be interested in participating, but let's see who else you can get before I say I will.

And then they'd introduce me to a couple of their friends and sort of sent me down a rabbit hole. eventually I started getting passed up to senior members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, the staff, the members, same thing with the Senate Armed Services Committee. And what I didn't know then, that I know now, is in that same moment, senior leadership on the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Senate Armed Services Committee had on their own, in a classified setting, uncovered this massive cover-up. They had learned about it and they knew it was real. They knew that non-human intelligence life had been covered up for 80 years.

They knew that there were elements of our government actively gatekeeping this information and keeping it from the public. They knew it was being kept from Congress, the White House, and the public. And they were trying to figure out a way to get the base facts out into the public. None of those politicians, those elected leaders, wanted to be the one guy out on a limb, going on Fox News or CNN saying these extraordinary things and being subject to the pushback. They didn't really have a way to tell the world this complicated situation, right? And so I was sort of in the right place at the right time in that while they were having that

thought process, I was socializing that I wanted to make a documentary that would essentially do that, right? And so something really wild happened, which is basically there was this moment in time where while I was putting together the documentary, my film essentially became the plan for disclosure for those who had the knowledge. So this group of military government and intelligence officials that had learned the truth about the cover-up decided my film would be the vehicle for disclosing that information. And I spent about three and a half.

half years putting this together, both learning the lay of the land myself and really understanding what's real and what's not real. And, you know, as they say, the saying, you know, who's who in the zoo, you know, like all the, all the different players and all this. And then making it doing interviews over the course of three years. Yeah. In the beginning, when you said you were meeting with some intelligence. officials that were sort of like guiding you in the right direction and telling you like if you can get more people to speak out, you know, we'll do it too publicly. How many of them that those original intelligence people you were talking about were in the movie? A number of them. Most of them. Most of them. Most of them. Like who? So for example, Jay Stratton. Okay. You know, Jay was. Was he one of the first people you talked to? Yeah. Yeah. So Jay was in the first people.

process of retiring from government when I met him. At the time, he was the director of the U.S. government's UAP task force, the large total government investigation of UAP and non-human intelligent life. Right. His story is pretty amazing. He's really the central figure in the modern investigation of UAP and non-human intelligence life and, frankly, in disclosure. He, he in a, he in a and intelligence official named Dr. James Lakatsky, goes by Jim, they co-founded Ossap, the investigation of UAP, that eventually became known as ATIP. There was this moment in time where Ossap essentially lost its funding and they carried on as a bootstrapped working group that went by ATIP. after that he was tasked by leadership in naval intelligence and at the DOD to put together the largest whole of government investigation that's ever existed and that's the UAP task force and he spent a couple years building it handpicking key members some of your some of your listeners you know have heard some of those names like David crush who testified to Congress he was a member of the UAP task

Fast Force. Yeah, that was a big deal when he came out. Yeah, yeah. So he was one of the people on Jay's team. Was he in the film? Yeah, he was in the film. There's some, there's some footage of him in the film. Yeah.

His, his hearing. No, he didn't do any interviews. Yeah, we didn't do a direct interview, but I had, I already knew I had him in the film through his congressional hearings where he was saying the most important stuff. So, and I liked having the hearing footage in there. I think it makes people, so a lot of people who watched the movie. he was saying in front of Congress was nutty. Yeah, yeah.

And there's a lot of people who watched the movie, and they say to me, they're like, I had no idea those hearings even happened. Right. You know, people are just so busy. You know, everyone's got there nine to five and, you know, putting food on the table for the kids and all those other priorities.

And, you know, maybe they see it in their social media feed. Oh, there was a hearing in UFOs, but it doesn't really register for everybody. So Jay was there from the jump, and he was sort of leading you around, kind of like holding your hand, showing you the lay of the land, what tree, what branches to shake to.

Yeah, him and him and him and some other people in the film. There was about four or five guys who were really guiding me in the early days. And then once I got connected with the Senate Intelligence Committee specifically, I formed a really strong relationship with the guys who run the Senate Intelligence Committee staff. So most people don't know this actually. It's really interesting. So the Senate Intelligence Committee, the members, the senators on the committee, they can kind of come and go, right? Like they, they, you know, they get assigned to a committee and depending on who's, you know, running the Senate at the time.

You know, it impacts it. And they might spend, a senator might spend, you know, a year on it, two years on it, three years on it. But the staffers, they can be there for many years. Right. Three layers down, or career long. Yeah, they can, you know, like I can be working for the, the, be a senior staff member for a decade. And the way they handle the staff work is they break up topics. So like one guy will know everything about UAP.

One guy will know everything about nuclear technology. One guy will know everything about, you know, environmental issues. Sure. You name it. And so I got introduced early on to the Senate Intel. staff member who really own the UAP topic for the two chairman, which were Rubio and Warner. Warner was the chairman and Rubio was the vice chairman of the Senate Intel Committee. And this staffer's job was to basically just shake all the trees every day and all the different intelligence agencies and the military and learn everything and be hyper aware of everything.

And he was a central figure in Rubio and Warner figuring out what was going on. on uncovering this truth and learning all the reality of it. So I formed a career relationship with that senior staffer and his colleagues, and they were really, really helpful. Once Rubio decided to participate in the film and other senior senators like Senator Rounds from South Dakota, Senator Gillibrand from New York from the Democratic Party, once they leaned in, then the committee staff was essentially told to help make sure that this doc is the definitive doc and is legit from start to finish and that I don't end up interviewing the wrong person

who shares bullshit, you know, that I don't end up misunderstanding the lay of the land and presenting it, you know, different than it is. And so they really help keep me on the right path. I shared with them people I was considering interviewing. Sometimes they would say, hey, you should stay clear of that person. Sometimes they would guide me to people. They introduced me to a number of the people who did interviews in the film. I feel like that would make me so skeptical, though. You know, if I'm having politicians and intelligence people telling me who to talk to and who not to talk to,

I'm automatically the wheels in my head are going, whoa. Well, it wasn't telling me. It was more. Or even like subtly suggesting. Yeah. Well, a number of the very like indisputably legitimate people in my film were introduced to me by the Senate Intel Committee. I mean, there's certain, you know, think about it.

Like the people in my film are all, they have the most credible resumes. Sure. Yeah. Like they're unimpeachably credible people. And they have all, they all have direct knowledge of this topic as a result of work for the government. They all have been discouraged from moment one of learning about this not to talk about it publicly. You know, it makes sense that like it would help encourage them to do it if, you know, they're hearing from folks on the Senate and tell them's committee that, hey, you know,

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Like the fact that this guy was living in New Mexico or Nevada, seeing these objects flying around and getting obsessed with them, the fact that they had like a whole group of people from the NSA and from the Air Force whose job was to convince this guy that he was seeing aliens from another world. when in reality, it was just their own technology that they were testing. Drove the guy crazy, it installed NSA next door to him to beam shit into his house because he was using radios and shit to detect stuff. He was going nuts.

And they were like beaming stuff into his house saying that they were civilization from another planet that had run out of water and they were coming here. And they knew that this guy was a big deal in Mufon. And they knew Mufon. This was in like the 60s, I think, 70s maybe. They knew that Mufon had been penetrated by the Soviets

because the Soviets were trying to get more information and intelligence on what we had going on in our Air Force bases and our war, weapon technology, all that kind of stuff during the Cold War. So they're like, oh, this is a great opportunity to just convince this guy, it's aliens. He's going to go tell everyone to move on, and that's going to poison the well. He's going to be a conduit of disinfo for the Soviet spies who were trying to get information on us. The guy ended up going to a mental institution and dying. And like, I was like, after that, I was like, whoa, okay. This is a fucking hall of mirrors. That's a real situation.

Yeah. For sure. But you got to also remember, you know, I learned about all that as well. And I inadvertently had the same reaction as you. But then, you know, you got to realize the role that that storyline plays in a bigger picture, right? Why is it that elements of the Intelligence Committee, not the Intelligence Committee, of the intelligence community, would make up a story. like that to try to have it end up, as you said, received by the Russians as real, right?

Right. Because the answer is because there is, in fact, a high-stake secret Cold War race playing out and there has been since the 40s regarding non-human technology. And anywhere you can throw off your adversary, it's strategic to do so. Sure. So just because that situation is real doesn't mean the bigger picture isn't, you know. There's actually, I've been told from my most senior relationship, ships inside of military government and the intelligence community that a couple, and I'm not going

to say here, but a couple of the more, the whistle, quote unquote, they're not whistleblowers, a couple of the people who have come out in a big way in the public to talk about this topic and reveal something they learned, something specific they experienced or saw, have this, it's the same backstory. You know, they did, they did experience that, but it was staged for them because at the time there was a there was a in those in those situations there was either a russian or a Chinese unit of spies that that that that were being fed information through this this public spectacle like like the paul thing so look I think the reality of it is everyone I interviewed despite their political and ideological differences all told me the same thing they all

made it super clear that the existence of non-eem and intelligent life has been getting covered up since the 40s. There are these elements within the U.S. government, within various agencies within the Air Force, and the DOE and some private contractors who have been gatekeeping this and covering it up for years and keeping it from the public. And, you know, the movie, I'm proud to say, has made a big impact in that it opened a lot of people's eyes inside a government who didn't necessarily realize all this. And then the people who had already realized it are taking that new interest and really accelerating, accelerating

disclosure. It led to, it led to like four weeks ago, Trump gave a presidential directive to declassify evidence of non-human intelligent life and UAP. And I'm sure he saw that, you know. And in the week since, two of his cabinet members, Pete Heggsett, the Secretary of War and Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, have been basically going through the process of trying to identify what evidence exists that can safely be declassified and shared with the American public without becoming a threat to national security. And what I've been told through my relationships is that they are receiving a lot of pushback from the folks who have gate kept this despite the fact that there's a presidential directive. They're still getting blocked from getting to this very real evidence that exists. Yeah, the idea is that, I'm correct if I'm wrong, but what I got from the documentary was in the 40s after Roswell, all this stuff got sucked up into private contractors. And it's been being controlled by private contractors. and people have rotated in and out of top-level positions over the decades.

And now the new people that come in don't even get briefed on this stuff. And essentially, all of that, whatever you want to call it, black budget stuff or recovered craft, is being controlled by the private sector. And even like top-tier generals can't even get access to it in the government. So the government, there's like the secret war between the U.S. government and private industry, trying to wrestle control of this stuff, whatever it is. So private industry certainly has a lot of control over the situation right now, but there's still elements of, for example, the CIA and the Air Force and the Department of Energy, like career bureaucrats within those organizations that are very much involved with the defense contractors. But, you know, in my film, Rubio breaks down how when you give technology to a private company,

like a defense contractor to understand it, which is the only option the government has. The government doesn't have a room full of engineers. Yeah, plus they want to hide behind FOIA. They want to hide behind FOIA, but more importantly, if you recover a piece of exotic technology and you want to try to reverse engineer it or hopefully understand it, there's just not a room for those engineers sitting in an office at, you know, the DOD. And so, you know, he explained how, you know, you give that technology to a device. contractor and then and then as you said over the years they keep working at it they stay constant

the government overseer you know retires or dies or you know changes and then the next guy knows a little bit about the program but doesn't know everything and then the guy after that doesn't even know the program exists but the the defense contractor still chugging along and so you get to this point where the defense contractors hold a lot of the cards and at the same time though there are still these career bureaucrats that, you know, are there throughout multiple administrations within the CIA, the Air Force, and the Department of Energy that are very much involved in this. And so everyone in my film that talked about this, this hidden program, referred to as the legacy program, they all say that it has just been, it was immediately removed from congressional

oversight when it started in the 40s. And so the tug of war really is elected officials and their appointed officials like the Secretary of War and the Director of National Intelligence trying to wrestle this information out of these career bureaucrats and the defense contractors. And it's a complicated situation as the film shows. It's not a black and white situation. And the craziest part about all that is the United States is probably the only country that that's happening in because all the other countries, the government just controls everything. no private contractors. Yeah, which also, you know, leads to one of the other really important takeaways for me from my interviews and in the film, which is, you know, Rubio also expresses this really clearly, which is the concern that if we don't take this more seriously as a nation

and make the, make it known that this is a valid area of inquiry, that it's a real situation, right? And cause our scientific community and academia to want to take it. serious, then we are likely going to lose this race to our adversaries because our adversaries don't need the public to decide it's important. They can just tell them it's important. She can just take the smartest scientist in China and say, you're going to work on this. Right. They don't. Yeah. Who can do the same thing. And so it's hard to simply put, it's hard to win a technology race if most of your scientists don't even know it's real. You know? And so, you know, the analogy I often heard was the space race analogy. Would we have won the space race?

if Kennedy didn't step to the microphone and give that big famous speech at Rice University and say, we're going to get to the moon. Here's why it's important. Here's why it's important. We're in this race. He articulated it in a way that, the same kind of way you would articulate

the importance of this topic. He said space technology, like nuclear technology, has no conscious of its own. It's up to mankind, whether it's used for good or bad. And that's why it was important that the, he felt it was important that the U.S. lead

in this new frontier. so we can make sure that it's used for the betterment of all mankind and not to create another sea of war. That was his whole thesis, right? And then the country rallied behind them and scientific community rallied behind them. And then, you know, we won the space race. So a number of the people I interviewed made the point of, you know, their opinion is that we need that sort of like level set with the American public. And that sort of like, you know, mission made a national priority on this front so that we went. in this technology race.

Do you think there's any sort of like super high level top top tier backstop agreement between all of these nation states like the United States, China and Russia about disclosure? Like do you think there's any like super deep back channel? Like look, there's got to be some coordination here. I think so multiple people I interviewed told me this isn't something we got into in the film. But multiple people told me that in the past there was information sharing. between China and the US, excuse me, sorry, Russia and the US, not China,

Russia in the US. And that that apparently broke down about 15 years ago. And so I don't, no one's ever told me that currently there is still active communication and strategizing, but many people told me about information sharing back in the day between the US and Russia. And they always gave the same examples.

They basically said there was so much UAP activity near nuclear weapon sites that it was clear to both leaders of both nations that they needed to make the other aware so that no one misinterpreted a UAP as an attack. Right. And they were happening all over the place, not just in the U.S., they were happening in Russia, UK, all over the place. Yeah. What do you think? Have you, has anyone ever, anyone that you think is credible ever told you that there is an active. No, no one's ever told me that, but I think about it all the time.

You know, I sometimes wonder, you know, is there like some deep level of like, you know, the bankers that run the world or whatever that are, that know about this stuff? The people that are above the presidents, you know. Well, look, President Trump just, didn't he just announce recently that he's, he's going to meet with she four times over the next 12 months. Something that's never happened, you know. Maybe, maybe it's a coincidence that that, that, those meetings are happening while disclosure is unfolding following his presidential directive.

That's interesting. You know, but I just, I'm skeptical that Trump has any power to do that. I'm skeptical about the president. Any politicians in the United States have that kind of power? I think there's a, I think there's a change happening here. I think the current administration is really actively trying to get their hands on the reins of the situation. Whereas every other administration has been kept so much out of the loop that they didn't even have a shot at grabbing the reins. Mother's Day is coming up.

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senior in the military or in the government and and just couldn't do it intelligence officials and then there were a couple people that was a few people actually who also ultimately decided that it would be too dangerous for them to speak up about what they know. The one that always stays in my head is a someone who's part of the Special Forces community who was going to do an interview and talk about what he had learned. And then ultimately, he used very specific words that have stayed in my head. He ultimately told me that after long conversations with his wife, they both determined he would be forfeiting his life if he participated in.

the film and I always thought the use of the word forfeiting was very specific and you know terrifying yeah you know you you don't ever want to hear especially coming from a special forces guy yeah and and it almost the vibe I got when I first heard that was it was it was the kind of word choice that like made you think like someone else had said that to him you know like someone said you before freeing your life and then he's just using those words because it's such an unusual work choice, you know. But, you know, put yourself in my shoes, man. Like I had, I immediately was like, well, of course, I definitely do not want you or me in

any situation remotely like that, you know. Right. So, you know, of course, let's, let's, you know, let's not do an interview. And, you know, I always made a point also of telling everyone I talk to, which is the truth. I would say, hey, I don't want to know anything I shouldn't know, you know, don't tell me, don't cross any lines. Don't tell me anything that's classified.

Don't tell me anything I as a, you know, just a member of the public shouldn't know, shouldn't know. Don't want to be in some crazy, dangerous situation. There's a lot of information that people have on this topic from their work for the U.S. government that they can lawfully talk about. And that's where I wanted to live and I wanted this movie to live, you know. And that stuff's fascinating enough. It also does beg the question, though, of like what's on the other side of that line? because what's revealed in my film is shocking. You know, people, senior talent officials talking about recoveries of crafts of non-human origin

and bodies of not, you know, non-human bodies being in these crashes. And talking about the extent of the cover up, it's also mind-blowing. It just makes you, it's impossible not to get your wheels spinning on what's on the other side of that line. You know, like if this is what they can lawfully share, what's the stuff they can't lawfully share yet? Right. Right. Like, that's, that's pretty wild when you go down that rabbit hole thinking of what the possibilities are. Yeah. So after everything, what is your high, high level 30,000 foot view of what this phenomena actually is?

Oof. Look, I think, I think it's been made pretty clear to me that we're not dealing with one non-human intelligent life. That we're dealing with multiple forms of intelligent life from multiple forms. multiple origins and, you know, essentially the universe is full of life. And so extraterrestrials. I think, I think, I think all things are on the table. I think it could be extraterrestrials. And I think this concept of interdimensional beings, as fantastical as that sounds,

could be one of the other possibilities of origin. There's also the possibility of there being other intelligent life that's been here all along and that earth has been the home to from you know home four to the beginning since the future humans human time travelers i i guess i guess it'd be foolish at this point to take anything off the table you know yeah but um you know one of the most interesting things to me about the the the grays that you see in close encounters and in all the media lore is that they're they're bipedal upright walking hominids with two eyes two legs two arms, fingers, toes, and that's us.

Like if life were to evolve on any other Goldilocks planet with different atmosphere, different gravity, different chemical makeup, maybe a whole entire water world with no land, what are the chances that it's going to evolve to be so similar to us? I mean, I'm not smart enough to know the answer, but I'm sure it's not, I mean, I've talked to anthropologists who look at this stuff and they say it's very, very low probability. It's fascinating. Yeah. And then you have, you know, people like, who was it, Tim Burchett that said there was

underwater bases, just he's casually walking down the street. They're underwater bases. They're down there. No, Tim, look, Tim's a great guy. And he's great. He's really on top of this issue. Him and some of his colleagues on the House side of Congress that are really on top of this. It's him, Anna Luna from Florida.

to Burleson from Missouri, Moskowitz from Florida, Carson from Indianapolis. That's like a short list of people that are really on top of it and trying to share what they can. Tim, you know, Tim, I saw that, that too,

and I've talked to him about it. How does he know that? Multiple leaders in the Navy, in the U.S. Navy, you know, ranging from admirals to naval intelligence officials have told Congress about crap.

moving at impossible speeds under the water past our submarines. Mm-hmm. And so much so that they- Tim Galadette. Tim's one of those people. Yeah. So much so that they're making a logical conclusion that there's bases.

And it's crazy. It's crazy, man. You know, apparently, you know, I'm no naval experts. So if there's people listening who, you know, No, I'm off on this. That's fine. But apparently our submarines can only go like 40 or 50 miles an hour. And these things are going hundreds of miles away. Right.

There was one that was that was tracked in Aguadilla, right, in Puerto Rico that they said was going like 500 miles per hour under the ocean or something insane. It's crazy. Yeah. It's absolutely crazy. I mean, look, the reason why Jay Stratton was the one who changed. using, he's the reason we no longer use the word UFO, right? Because, that's a son of a bitch. I got a phone to pick with him about that.

No, I think he was right, though, because UFO stands for unidentified flying object. Right. And he knew early on that a lot of this activity is happening in our oceans and in space where you're not flying, right? Right. And so unidentified anomalous phenomena became the, the catch-all for UAEP activity. Yeah. UFO's catchy. But here's the other reason they did it is UFO has this cultural stigma.

It makes people giggle and not take it serious. Right, right. And sort of changing the optics, helped the conversation. Yeah, UAP is like the suit and tie version of it. Yeah, the suit and tie version. Yeah. That's another wild thing that came out of my interviews. A number of the officials, including a senior CIA official, Jim Semivand,

talked about how the program that has gate kept this, the legacy program that has gate kept this since the 40s, they created the stigma around this topic in the late 40s, early 50s as like a security rapper, as a security system. Like pretty smart idea. Like you don't want people looking into something. Put it into society.

Put this idea into society that you're a wacky person. If you look into it, you're nuts. You'll have your reputation ruined. Like a couple movies about it. Yeah. Fund some movies making it look silly. And no one will take it serious. No one will want to look into it.

No real journalists will want to go. go look into it. If the media is not paying attention to it, then the public's not paying attention. It's kind of genius. But the problem is it got compounded over the years by, you know, multiple generations. And then it got to the point where, you know, the average person just thought it was a, you know, it's like talking about Bigfoot, you know, it's ridiculous. And the average scientists didn't think it was real. And so the stigma is a couple of the officials of my film talked about how this stigma that was created originally, with a national security intention of, you know, keeping it secret.

Well, while they figured out what was going on, it's grown into this new national security threat where, you know, we could be falling behind in this technology race because our scientific community doesn't even know it's real as a result of the stigma. So a big mission for people in my film when I talked to them, you know, off camera about why, what was driving them to want to participate in the film? One of the big reasons was to put an end to this antiquated bullshit. stigma around this topic and to make sure people just simply understand that it's a real situation

that it's a valid area of inquiry and um yeah the stigma you know and the stigma led to you know jay stratton talks in the film about how uh when you try to raise you know this issue up the flagpole within the government right um he was constantly faced with the stigma and then the people who've been covering this up have have weaponized the stigma you know if uh heard so many stories of high level Navy fighter pilots who see something in the air that's indisputably not from here. And before they can make an official report, somebody from the legacy program approaches them, you know, basically like makes jokes, makes them uncomfortable, says things like, hey, where are we going to send the tinfoil hats, you know, like how, you know,

what's going to be your nickname now, that kind of stuff, you know, like, where you could really quickly see how a senior fighter pilot would just be like, you know what, I'm just not going to report this. I don't need this bullshit, you know. And so they weaponize it. Dude, there's a crazy, a great story in Annie Jacobson's book, Area 51, where she explains how when the CIA first started test flying, their first jet propelled airplanes in, I forget what year it was, super early, they would send the CIA test pilots up with gorilla masks in the cockpits.

So in the case they got into visual distance with a commercial aircraft, they'd wear their guerrilla mask. Wow. So if they tried to go to the bar later, be like, yo, I saw this airplane powered by jets. That's crazy. Oh, yeah, who was flying? A gorilla.

So you're like fucking throwing a curveball into the story. That's crazy. Yeah, dude. That's wild. Yeah. So imagine, man. Imagine it. That was probably what?

The 40s they were doing that? 60s. Imagine what they're fucking doing now, bro. Dude, that's crazy. That is crazy. That is wild. So this legacy program, Is this a monolithic program or is there factions of this?

I think, well, how do you, those two choices you just laid out. How do you define those differently? So you talk in the movie, you hear about the legacy program. You hear other people talk about the legacy program on the internet. It sounds like this big model, how people talk about the CIA. Oh, yeah. How the CIA is this big monolith. So it's not that in that I learned pretty quickly, you know, leadership of the

CIA doesn't necessarily know about this. You know, the director of the CIA is a political appointee. They're there for, they could be there for four years, you know, eight years, whatever. The CIA is thousands and thousands of employees. Yeah. And so someone reveals in my film that it's the head of science and technology at the CIA that controls this topic. It's one person who could be there for a long time.

And there's career bureaucrats at, uh, within the Air Force and within the Department of Energy, uh, that really, run the legacy program's interest in this. That's my understanding of the situation from all my interviews. It's not. But what I'm saying is like, is the legacy program one big program inside of one umbrella underneath one company? Or is it multiple companies?

So it's all kinds of things? Multiple companies all working together is the best way. All working together? Yeah. Not competing. No. So from, from, You know, what the big takeaway was from all my interviews is that the CIA acts as the quarterback of all this.

The CIA acts as the operational command. So sits at the top of the org chart. And then the Air Force is used for operations. So they have the airplanes and they have the warehouses, the hangars. They can do the retrievals, right? And then the defense contractors are used. used for reverse engineering. They are only given, you know, certain technology and tasked with certain, you know, reverse

engineering work. And then the Department of Energy is apparently a key player in the situation because they have the best experts on technology that gives off great amounts of energy and anything related to... radiation. Yeah. And they, you know, own the space of anything related to nuclear technology. And a lot of the UAP activity is at sites involved in the nuclear process, ranging from nuclear weapons sites to uranium mines to, you know, processing centers.

So they also have a classification system that allows to keep all of this extremely secret. They get to use the classification system that was designed for anything nuclear. Right. So the classification system that they go by is like outside of the intelligence community's classification system. It's even more secret. Did you talk to anybody that worked for any of these private industry companies, any of these private military industrial complex companies? None of known from any of the defense contractors would. would participate.

Did you talk, sorry. I talked to a couple people that used to work for some of the key players on the defense contracting side. They would not go on camera, but they helped inform me of the lay of the land. Give me, give me insight. People who were, I mean, those meetings were interesting. They'd be in person and be told to leave my cell phone at home. Really?

No way. With the defense contractors? Yeah. Yeah, no way of cell phones can be tracked. Did you talk to any of the CIA science and technology folks? No. Did you try to? I didn't because a number of the people in my film made it clear to me that those folks, you know,

slam the door on even them when they were inside a government, you know. So, you know, Jay Stratt and. when he was running the UAP task force, he figured out who the key gatekeeper was at the CIA. And he went to go to talk to him, literally knocked on his door, and wanted to see if he could get some answers to some of his big questions. And, you know, he knew that this person had 80 years of knowledge, you know. And essentially just legitimately, like literally had the door slink.

that his face. Wow. Yeah. And another crazy thing is a lot of these people at CIA who are in charge of science and technology or other levels of CIA spookiness, they all end up in the private sector. Like one of the most recent directors of science and technology for like seven or 10 years now works at the MITR Corporation. So there's this revolving door with the CIA and these giant private contractors. Yeah. Yeah. And they know the contractors know that these people have top secret access to shit and they're going to bring all that with them which is why they can get these insanely high salaries

when they move there. Which is a form of corruption. It's a flawed system. And then the other question is how do these, where are they getting all the fucking money to do this stuff? Well, you know, as Dave Grush testified to Congress about and as a number of the officials in my film say,

there's been a misappropriation of funds, you know. money that's supposed to go to one thing that actually goes to to this on top of that i have been told that there's a lot of um off book funding from the public sector uh wealthy just wealthy people who uh are providing funding for certain uh technology reverse engineering work the hopes that they'll get some they'll get the benefit down the line from some techno technological breakthrough that's been gleamed you know um it's a lot of lot of money out there in the world, you know? And look, the thing, you know, people will take, one of the things people will take away

from the movie is that all of these folks who have been involved in covering this up, they've, they've all had their reasons for doing so, you know? That's why I keep saying it's not a black and white situation, you know. Some of these people, you know, likely if you, you know, if you put a gun to the head of people within the CIA that have touched this over the years, likely they would honestly say that they think they're doing the right thing, you know, that they think we are in a, we are in a technology race with adversaries. And so the best course of action ultimately is to not share with the public what we know and don't know because that also will tell our adversaries.

That's, they might just come out, that's where they come out on it, you know. And I don't think that any of these people are villains. I really don't. I just think it's a complicated situation and there's no easy answer. But I do think at the same time that we've gotten to a place where we would benefit from the basic facts being known. I do not think that a president or any leader of our country should step to the microphone and literally say everything we know and don't know. Like that's pretty stupid when we're in a race with adversaries. But I think the base facts that we're not alone in the universe that the U.S. government,

has in fact retrieved technology of non-human origin that adversaries have as well and that we are in this technology race, those base facts can be comfortably shared. And what I think it will do is I think it will motivate the scientific community and private industry and academia to really lean into this. And I think it will lead to a whole error of technological breakthroughs that we wouldn't otherwise get to. Yeah. And then you have the whole conflict with like at the end, energy. Like if we can, if we have this ability to have free, clean energy around the world and it's been it's been covered up and hidden for this long, this is going to disrupt the whole petroleum industry, which is like, you know, the whole world is propped up on oil, right?

Yeah, but we've been hiding free energy. But the energy source thing goes back to my point where I think some of these, some of these people involved in gatekeeping this. Yeah. It's the, it's the race we're in with adversaries that they worry about. So if you look at the technology, these crafts are it's revealed in my film how these craft are working essentially right they are tapping into an energy source that we are currently not tapping into

and whether that is so-called free energy you know zero point energy or whether it's using quantum entanglement to bring large amounts of energy from somewhere else to that area whichever way they're achieving

creating this much energy in a localized area They're warping space time in a localized area. They're creating what the scientists in my film described as a bubble around the craft. And that separates the craft from the environment around it. It allows it to do things that, you know, this is kind of what Bob Lazar described, right? In his film. He did. He did describe it.

Yeah. It allows the craft to operate in a way that looks like it's defying physics as we know it. But it's not defined physics as we know it. It's working within physics as we understand it. It's just in its own space time. Yeah. But the reason I just went down the road is the point is, yes, that could, if we figure that out, if it becomes known to mankind, this technology exists and that it has been cracked, yes, it could, as you said, solve the energy crisis in theory. It could revolutionize the way we live.

But the people who have been, you know, gatekeeping this information would also say it could be used by a bad actor very easily to deliver a weapon of mass destruction in the blink of an eye. And that's a terrifying thought. And so see how it's not black or it's not a black or white situation. Yes, it could solve the energy crisis. But, you know, a bad actor in his garage could make, you know, a weapon of mass destruction all of a sudden. Right. And that's absolutely terrifying.

So, you know, again, the people who have been involved in this would say that's the only reason you need to just keep it locked down and keep it quiet. Right. Or like crazy hypothetical situation. Imagine some of the people that are on the boards. of these private industry companies also own a huge stake in oil companies too. If I get this out, I'm going to lose billions of dollars. So I'm just going to keep a secret for as long as I can

and fucking hold a gun to the head of every government around the world knowing that if I wanted to, I could fucking, like it seems like this stuff if weaponized, it could be more powerful than every military around the world and every government combined. Yeah, I mean, you don't know. Right now,

generally speaking, my understanding is that you essentially need to be a nation state to have the means to build nuclear weapons. If this technology and the ability to tap into energy like this was made public, you do not need to be a nation state. You could literally be a bad actor in your garage in Middle America and you could make something as destructive as a nuclear weapon. You could be a rogue breakaway military that's more powerful than any nation state. You could, yeah, or do you want this ending up in the hands of like terrorists like, you know? Imagine cartels get free energy fucking weapons and UFOs. It's crazy. But so when you talk about it like this, then you quickly start to realize, you know, no matter how much people like us who grew up, you know, watching close encounters and ET and interest in this would like to know the truth and and learn about it all.

Yeah. You quickly get to like having to be honest and understand why these people have kept this all secret. It's a complicated mess, you know? And they kill people. From what I understand people, people have been killed. I mean, just look at the Boeing shit. With the Boeing whistleblowers,

with the whole Boeing lawsuit. Did you follow that at all? Yeah, it was, all these people that were like in line to go in front of Congress or give their testimony just like, you know, killing themselves by shooting themselves in the head five times. It's horrible.

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And one of the most brilliant people I've met, one of the most interesting people I've met, too, is Hal Poodoff, Dr. Hal Pudoff. He's a senior scientist, has been involved in a lot of highly classified programs dealing with UAP, and all sorts of other things. And, you know, we've had a lot of conversations like the one we're having now about, you know, the pros and cons of disclosure and why it's such a complicated situation and all these special interests and all these concerns, these valid concerns people have. And where he ultimately comes out on it as a guy who's been around this topic for decades and is in his 80s now, he ultimately comes out thinking that we need to make it a humanitarian issue

in the same way that we do with nuclear technology, you know? Like just tackle it as a species. Like world leaders need to just come together on a plan for how to use this for good and to safeguard the public from destruction. You know, there's laws that were made around nuclear technologies. Like, you know, you can't, probably a company can't go and say, hey, I'm going to build a nuclear weapon. You know, they would be stopped. So by who?

The government's illegal to build nuclear weapons. Yeah, but you think they could think the government could really stop them? If four-star generals can't get access to the secret programs, what's going to stop from building attaching a nuke to a TikTok? Maybe, but look, I think there could be an attempt to to tackle this. I think this stuff makes nuclear weapons obsolete, though. Well, not obsolete, but it's just, it's just, they're just superior. It would create superior weapons. So anyway, I mean, look, maybe Howell's right, maybe he's wrong, but his, his outlook is that because this technology could be so revelable.

evolutionary to the way we live. And because the truth about all this could, could, in theory, unite humanity. It could make all of humanity realize that we have more in common than we have differences. And because there's this potential for all this positive outcome, he thinks that the best thing is to do a level set with the public and make this a humanitarian issue

where we figure out as a whole how to deal with it. Now look, that might just not be in the cards. That might not be possible. The dynamics might not, the dynamics between us and our adversaries might not allow for that. But it's certainly, in my opinion, the most interesting time to be alive

because some amount of the truth is coming out right now. You know, my film makes it clear that there has in fact been a cover-up of non-human intelligence in life. This technology does exist. And now we have, you know, we had a president put this, put this disclosure directive in motion. And so it's playing out right now. We'll see, you know. And also, why haven't we seen, do they plan on using any of this stuff on the battlefield? You know, that's an interesting point.

I'm glad you brought it up. Someone really senior that in the intelligence case. community that's in my film told me that when he formed a confidential relationship with someone in the leadership of the legacy program, he asked them straight up, would we break this technology out on the battlefield to, you know, win a war or prevent a war? And the answer quickly was no, that we would not, we would not show this card unless it was to prevent nuclear destruction. Like the last, like a last, last, the last thing, the last card that we played, basically. And the idea being that the reason being once, once you show this card, then again, you're

showing your adversary is what you know and don't know. And you're, you're opening this giant can of worms and you're telling the public, we got this. And I remember when I was, told that and I was that was pretty mind-blowing. So no, I don't think, I don't think it's been, I don't think it's been used. Did they give you any idea of how they could weaponize it? Yeah. I mean, if you, you know, as is described in the film, you know, you create a bubble. If you warp space time in a localized area, you can create a bubble around anything, a craft, you know, a weapon of mass destruction, anything.

So the way you could use it is, I think, pretty clear. So you can move a weapon from point A to point B instantaneously. Yeah. Or a craft with weapons on it. Right. I mean, if you go from, if you can go from, if you can travel great distances in the blink of an eye, then. Yeah.

That's how you do it. What do you? I'm curious, you've talked a lot about this topic. Like, where would you come out? And when you start talking about the ways that this technology can be used, you know, for bad, but then, you know, solve the energy crisis sounds awesome, right? Where do you come out? Do you think, do you think it's possible to, to make it a humanitarian issue and, and figure it out with our allies and adversaries at a high level? Or do you think

that ultimately, gaming people's, you know, gaminship will come in and geopolitics will come in and, I think ultimately there's probably so many layers above this and above the, so many layers above not only the politicians and the CIA, but above that, you have like this decentralized mafia layer and banking layer that controls all of them and probably own some of these corporations and own these politicians and control everything that happens. And that just like work behind the curtain. And it's hard to be optimistic that like human.

that humanity can rise up and overthrow that, you know, especially with all this Epstein stuff that's come out that like basically shows how these people work behind the scenes and that like politicians are basically like fake stand-ins. You know, again, I hope like Dave Grush was when he came out and did that and all these congressional hearings started happening. Like it gave me a lot of hope. you know, maybe we can see shine.

They can shine just enough light to get people. Because now, I will say this, at least now, the UFO topic in general, I don't think it's stigmatized anymore. It's completely out of the back. That's a completely normal thing for everyone to talk about, right? Yeah. I actually think that's the thing I'm the most proud of with my film with the age of disclosure is I really think it puts the nail on the coffin for the stigma. We all know, everybody knows UFOs are real. You can't watch that film and not be like, okay, this is a real.

100%. Yeah. 100%. So what's the next level of that? You know? Like where does that move to next? The thing is when there is this gap in knowledge, people are just going to fill it with whatever. They're going to fill it with whatever they want to believe.

They're going to fill it with aliens, extraterrestrials, time traveling humans, angels and demons, religious stuff. And again, that stuff, it's like there's factions, it seems like in the intelligence and military communities that all have different views on this stuff. Like there's people that are in the military and in intelligence and in high levels of government who think that it's like, J.D. Vance said that. Yeah. He thinks they're angels and demons. No, people are applying their belief systems to it, which is not surprising, you know.

And that's what happens when they don't give, when the people in charge don't give a definitive analysis of it. They just sort of like, here's this crazy shit, do with it what you will. That's why I really do think. We need the equivalent of Kennedy's space race speech that he gave at Rice University. Just that level set of we have retrieved craft, actual aircraft, like technology, not spiritual stuff, technology of non-human origin. And so have our adversaries and our allies.

And there is this race. And we need to win this race for the following reasons, right? And just like that kind of a level set. I think that will take it out of all this like guessing game of what it is and just make it a real thing for people. The reason I think the space race analogy is so great too is like, think about it. Like there's probably a lot of people at that time, you know, throughout the country that the idea, like if you were to go up to them prior to Kennedy speech and say, you know, the moon, the thing up in the sky there, we're going to go there. They would laugh at you and be like, that sounds crazy, you know? Like in the context of that time, it probably sounds crazy, right?

Right. But then a president, you know, and other leaders in the country saying that that's a real thing that can have. happen and we're going to make it a national priority, it made it like an accepted idea that that's possible, you know, and then people put their brain power towards it. So I think like that that's sort of a level set with the American public is I think what we're going to get. And I think we'll get it relatively soon. What was how and Eric Davis, what was their view on what this stuff was? Did they have like a singular view or was, do they think it was a much of stuff? They think it's a, you know, for lack of better words, like a, like a smorgasbord of like,

possibilities. The, you know, interdimensional, extraterrestrial, ultra-terrestrial, you know, might have been, there might be a species that has been here all long and some, at some point, long time ago, broke off the human family tree. You know, there's so much of our planet that we haven't explored probably, you know. Yeah, we've explored more of the surface of Mars than we have of our own ocean floors. Then our ocean floors. People, we have an entire continent that's essentially, you know, on, on explored.

Yeah. I mean, Antarctica is just like a big mystery box. Great place to hide shit. Great place to hide shit. An entire species could have, you know, could be under the ice in Antarctica. And we'd have no idea. We're, we're in a little bubble, you know. I mean, it could be like, literally, I mean, I'm making a joke here, but I'm, you know,

I mean, like, you watch a movie like Black Panther, and you're like, you know what? It's an entire advanced species that's co-existed alongside humanity. Right. They've developed ahead of us. They have technology that we don't have. They're worried about our blossoming, you know, technological advancements. Right. And they don't want us to end up having their technology because it could destroy the world.

Right. You're like, hmm, all right. Very familiar story. Yeah. So, you know, look, there's a lot of. The only thing that's certain is that, you know, a number of people in my film know is a fact from their, from their work with the government that crafts of non-human origin have indeed crashed or been caused to crash. And we have recovered them. It's tangible technology. And in some cases, there's been non-human beings in these crafts. And, you know, the other thing is, you know, they say, people say it in my film, but, uh, there is indisputable video evidence that exists. It's just classified.

So, you know, the best we can get now is credible people. Have you seen any of it? I have not seen anything that's classified. No. But the best we can get now is people who have great reputations, putting their credibility on the line, saying on camera, I have seen with my own eyes. Yeah.

Craft of non-human origin. I have seen non-human beings. I have seen evidence that is classified, that is indisputable. Like, that's the best we can get now. Yeah. Until that information can legally be, those videos and photos can legally be shared. Well, the best you can get is someone credible putting their up on the line saying, I have seen that moment.

It exists, right? And so that's where we are now. And I think in this age of disclosure, we're living. And I think we will eventually get to some of that stuff being unclassified and shared with some kind of thoughtful context. And it seems like these things have this certainly have the ability to make themselves visible or not at will. You know, I think one of the interesting things you and Rogan were talking about on his podcast, which was a great analogy, I thought, how taking a photo of fish under the water, the water basically like warps and occludes and blurs out the fish. You can barely see it because there's this layer, right, of elements between you and the fish. Yes.

And like the same thing with these UFOs. Like if they're creating some sort of a gravity bubble around them or something or warping space time around them, it's going to be like essentially cloakable. Yeah. So people always say, you know, the average person always says, well, if these things are out there, how come no one's ever gotten a good video with their iPhone? Everyone's got a 4K camera in their pocket. Yeah, everyone has a 4K camera in their pocket. But it's the same reason why everyone with a 4K camera in their pocket can't get clear video of, fish under the ocean from above the ocean. It's not possible. You know, if you, if you, if, you know, the coi pond

analogy, if you, if you stand above a coy pond and you see the fish down there with your, your naked eye and you take out your iPhone and you try to film them, it's going to look all distorted because you're literally filming through a barrier, you know, a different medium. There's the, the top of the water, you know, you're above the water, they're below the water line. Exactly. And, and so it's the same thing here. If you try filming these things, um, from outside the bubble that they've created, the bubble around them, then you're just trying to film through a spacetime barrier, essentially.

Right. You're never going to get anything more than the kind of footage we get now. Right. But at the same time, I've been told that there is video evidence that exists at a classified level of these craft when the bubble is turned off, where you can see clear as day the craft.

and that's the stuff that people my film have seen and go on the record saying exists. It's a very clear cut, indisputable. I've heard from folks that I've had on this podcast who are like the most tapped-in, dorkiest UFO dorks ever who really study this stuff. That out of all the agencies that look at the, the UFO topic. The one that knows the most about everything is the Navy. And there's this this agency called the, I think it's the U.N. R or NRO something. It's like the underwater NRO, like the National Reconnaissance Office of the Ocean. And like if we see so many of these

things coming out of the oceans all the time and we have, I mean, historical evidence back into like the beginning of written history of these things coming out of the ocean. Like, what have these nuclear submarine pilots seen or, like, detected on their radars? I wonder, because you don't hear a lot about that. Probably a lot. Probably a lot.

Look, I do think the Navy knows a lot, for sure. You know, Jay Stratton, who ran the UAP Task Force and who co-created OASAP with KASCII, which became, you know, ATIP. He comes from Naval Intelligence, very senior naval intelligence official. But I do believe him and his colleagues who I've gotten to know well when they say that despite the Navy having learned a lot, they are still boxed out by the legacy program. And they are still like, you know, on their own parallel path to figure this all out. I think they collect a lot of data, though.

Yeah. Like a lot of data at a classified level. There's got to be so much more under the water. Look, I was just to guess. Yeah, I would guess there would be so much more. Because you can't, obviously, you can't take phone. I don't think that they have cameras outside their submarines. They can take photos of stuff. But I'm sure they have some sort of ways of detecting it.

No, stuff they're catching on sonar. They're grabbing that data for sure. Right. The, the, the, the, um, Tim Gallaudet told us a crazy story. What's that? About, uh, like, a Navy captain, a submarine captain who, he talked to who explained they had like their signals going off inside their nuclear submarine somewhere in like the North Atlantic or whatever of like an incoming something really fast like

as fast as a missile and it came up like really close behind him and it ended up being like way bigger than their submarine like 10 times bigger than their submarine and it just stopped on a dime and then vanished Jesus that's fucking bananas. It's got to be so scary because you're a sitting duck inside this metal tube in the middle of the ocean. Yeah. I mean, think back to, you know, for context, like think back to movies like Hunt for Red October, like those claustrophobic like sardine can at the bottom of the ocean. It's terrifying. Right. Right.

Terrifying. It makes me, it makes me, you know, whenever we talk about the under the water activity, it makes me think that maybe, maybe James Cameron was ahead of his time and, you know, onto something. Yeah, the water stuff is spooky, man. Abyss, the abyss makes you rethink the abyss, you know. It is spooky. The people I've spoken to who have seen with their own eyes, some of those kind of events, it's all been on nuclear weapons sites. I mean, for example, in my film, one of the interview subjects was a Air Force security guard

at Vanderberg Air Force Base on the California coast. I live in Los Angeles and this is just like a couple hours north of us around Santa Barbara and he goes on the record on camera for the first time saying that he personally witnessed he was standing guard at a nuclear weapon site

and sorry that was not a nuclear weapon site that was a missile site That's where their interceptor system is based there in Alaska exactly it was a missile site that he was guarding it was not a nuclear weapon site but it was part of our defense system a key part of our defense system is, as you said.

And he said that him and a few other guards, I think it might have been six. I can't remember off the top of my head. It was either three or six. But they saw a light approaching from the Pacific Ocean going towards the base. At first they thought it was an airplane, like heading towards the base, which also concerned them, but that's what they thought it was at first. And then as it got closer, like the size just completely changed.

And all of a sudden they saw a met, and the light went away. And all of a sudden they saw a matte black. giant object the size of a football field described as like to the left and to the right of their their eyesline and he said that it slowed almost to a stop when it came above the base and then it kind of hovered above them for for I can't remember whether he said like 30 seconds or 60 seconds but short while and he said they all just kind of stood there in awe staring at this thing processing this he said there was no lights no windows no visual you know visible means of propulsion it was just there this giant um rectangular object the size of a football field uh and then he said it took up took off

thousands of miles an hour up the coast and um you know there was also the guy bob jacobs who bob jacobs is decades ago yeah he's in the film he talked about they were sending dummy nukes up or something yeah same base vanderberg air force base decades prior um he's interviewed in the film as well he was a he was a cameraman for the Air Force. His job was to film a missile test that was happening. And they shot a dummy missile up and they had it being filmed by a bunch of different cameras just to study, study it. And while they were filming, a UAP came into frame and moved around the missile zapping it as this missile was moving along thousands of miles an hour. And, uh, fell out of the sky, right? Yeah. And then, and then this UAP just took off.

And it was all caught on camera. And, you know, he was told, you know, never to talk about it. And, you know, essentially like, wow, dude. Threatened in a way. And haven't they used nukes to try to, like, bait the UFOs in? Yeah. So that's one of the really fascinating things that my interview subject shared.

And a long time ago, they realized folks involved in covering this up in the legacy program and in other, you know, areas like the Navy, they learned that nuclear footprints attract these things. They're paying attention to our nuclear progress and to what we do with nuclear technology. And so they started creating environments that would attract UAP and lower them in. And then they could collect data

and get, get information that would help them in their technology race. I do believe that my understanding is some lines were crossed where they also caused some of these crashes. They would lower them in and they would create circumstances that would cause some crashes, which seems like a pretty risky decision. But at the same time,

I think my understanding is that adversarial nations have done this and do this so if we don't do it, then we would fall behind. Again, one of those like examples of this being a super complicated situation, you know, sort of damned if you do, damned if you don't in any part of this whole conversation. Right. And I found that fascinating.

Interestingly, I just learned through some of my relationships in the government right now that some of the intelligence officials who have been tasked, with identifying what evidence can be lawfully disclosed following President Trump's directive. Some of them learned that various agencies and branches of the military had been loring these things in in the past and that they had figured out how to do that. And these intelligence officials asked for a demonstration of that as recent as a couple weeks ago and apparently saw with their own eyes UAP. I was told this in confidence by a couple people within the last couple weeks. And then interestingly, Congressman Burleson, who also had learned this, shared it on a podcast, I think last week, a few days ago, that he had heard the same thing. If true, pretty shocking.

Who were they showing this to? So it was some of the intelligence officials tasked by. by a member of the current cabinet to uncover evidence that can be declassified. Trump gives a directive, we need to identify what evidence exists that can be declassified, right? So then he tells certain cabinet members, you know, get on that, right? And then they have their teams go and shake those trees.

And in that process, apparently some of them were given a demonstration on how UAP can be lured in. On how to lure them in. And apparently saw it with their own eyes, which was a game changer. And Burlinson said this on a podcast. Yeah, I had heard this from multiple sources prior to Burleson saying it on a podcast. Recently. Yeah, within the last couple weeks.

Wow. And then it was three or four days ago, Congressman Burleson said it on a podcast. I was just going to keep it to myself, but then he brought it up. So there you go. It's interesting. How were they lowering? If that's true, if that really happened, it's a pretty. Is this a psionic stuff?

Incredible escalation. I honestly don't know how they actually, how they actually, how. they actually did it. And the people I've talked to, such as Drake, such as Jay Stratt, have told me that in the past, nuclear footprints were used. So you could put a nuclear submarine in a certain area

and nearby it. You could put another vessel with a nuclear weapon on it. And that footprint will attract them. Whoa. Yeah. So actually something that your listeners will find fascinating. So Jay actually has a big memoir coming out later this year, Jay Stratton. And it's his tell-all book about his journey down this rabbit hole over the,

investigating UAP and non-human intelligent life for 16 years. And he goes into a lot of detail on this stuff. and the learnings that he and his colleagues had about how these things could be lured in and how they how elements of our government and other governments have been doing that. Did they ever talk to you about, or did he ever mention or anyone ever mentioned any of the psionic stuff? No. No. I've read, I've seen, you know, like you, I've seen, I've seen other people talk about it online and stuff.

But no one ever talked to me about that. You never heard anything about that. What have you found to be the most interesting about it? there was a guy Michael Herrera who was one of the whistleblowers who came out I forget how long ago it was I want to say the 90s maybe I could be wrong could be in the 2000s who said that he was working in the military somewhere in the remote jungles of Indonesia or something yeah I remember that remember and there was like an earthquake a humanitarian crisis where they were rescuing people but what they were really doing is taking these like indigenous people, children, kidnapping them. And then like all of a sudden like these like fucking crazy looking ships showed up.

Like these fucking like almost human made crafts like UFOs. And they were loading these people onto them. Wow. And taking them away and what I guess he learned or what we eventually learned through other whistleblowers is that they were used. using these people who were sort of like not indoctrinated into Western society, into the technological world that we live in here, people that are more tied to nature, younger people. They were even finding people who are left-handed or gay. And something about them was enabling them to tap into something where they could use their minds to consciously control the UFOs.

Wow. Sounds crazy. There was a guy that Jesse Michaels had in his podcast who was, I forget his name now, but he worked for some private company or whatever. And he said that he was there to red team Michael Herrera when he did his press thing. And he said he was going in there as like counter intel to like find out who was spilling the secrets. And then when he heard Michael Carrera give that testimony, he this guy realized, he goes, holy shit, I was there. I was a part of that team that was doing that. I was one of the guys that he was one of the guys that he. he fucking saw. And then I guess his story was like that like made him want to tell his story and like switch teams. But and then that's like the whole. That's as far as what I'm aware of. I don't know anything about that particular event. No, that was not Ross Cole Hart. That was a different guy that Jesse Michael said on.

I don't know about that particular event in the jungle other than what, you know, I've read on my once Michael started sharing that. But I have heard about, I have heard that there are people who have the ability to communicate using the power of their mind. I know that probably is like the most wacky sounding thing. Not at all. Your listeners are. Have you seen my library? I know.

But there's certainly going to be some of your listeners were like, man, that guy's ab is mine, you know? But this is what I've been told by super serious people. There are a bunch of, there's a bunch of really grounded, not a bunch, that's the stupidest way to say it. There's a lot of, there's a lot of data that shows that this is a real area of inquiry. So if you get out of the UAP topic for a second. So Stargate was a real program that really existed. There is so much evidence of it that's been declassified. Dr. Hal Pudoff, who's in my film, who's very involved in the UAP topic,

he ran Stargate. He was tasked with building Stargate. And what Stargate was was a program that identified people who have psychic abilities. and they trained them to use their mind's eye to wander to remote locations and to be able to do what's called remote viewing, to see a location remotely. Sounds crazy, right? It just sounds completely bananas. But that was a real program that our government funded. The CIA and DARPA and the Department of Defense funded that for you. years and they got actionable intelligence out of it. So something that Joe Rogan and I talked about this for a while, there's there's even

there's even recordings of past presidents talking about this as a valid thing. Jimmy Carter made a couple statements on it before he died saying that they the military actually acted on intelligence that the remote viewers gave and it worked. They used it. He famously gave a quote about a remote viewer being used to find a missing airplane, a crashed, a crashed fighter jet that had fallen off radar. Yeah. And so there's all these, there's all this data out there that's indisputable that that program existed. It was real. There's a there there, right? It's a real situation. And so it's not the craziest leap to go from, accepting that remote viewing is a real thing, even though it's hard to understand and hard to, you know, wrap your head around to,

to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to the, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, people who have those abilities can also communicate, uh, from a distance with, um, non-human life. Um, there are, there are people who have told me that that is a thing, that, that, that there are people who have the ability to do that and that it's referred to as space, space intelligence communications. Let's put a pin there. I got a piss so bad I can taste it.

We're back. So, you know, we're talking about a lot of stuff that I think to the average person just sounds completely bananas and extraordinary. Not to our audience, though. Totally. Yeah, I'm conscious of it for sure.

And so I think it's always worth, you know, it's always worth saying. Like for me, when, you know, when making the age of disclosure, I only interviewed extremely credible people who had a lot to lose reputation-wise and who actually had direct knowledge of the stuff as a result of working for the government because I feel like my personal opinion, and I'm sure a lot of your listeners feel the same, short of indisputable video evidence or a craft landing in Times Square and non-human

intelligent life walking out, you know, short of that level of in your face evidence, the best we can really hope for is extremely credible people putting their reputation on the line to share what they can. That's really what it comes down to. Like that is, that's the best we can hope for short of that, that dream scenario, right? Right. And so, you know, that is, that is sort of the bar I always held. Like, you know, I put weight in things said, by people who fit that description, you know? And whether that's, you know, a very senior politician who has a lot to lose because, you know, A, he sits on classified committees and doesn't want to lose his seat. Right.

B, wants to run for president one day, you know, all these other things. Whether it's someone like that or whether it's an intelligence official who, you know, doesn't want to get himself killed and doesn't want to, you know, you know, you know, you know, loses his clearance, a security clearance, and doesn't want to lose his ability to provide for his family. Twizzlers keep the fun going. Yeah, I know.

I just stopped whatever you were listening to to tell you that Twizzlers keep the fun going. Well, irony isn't my forte, but twisty, chewy, yummy Twizzler sure is. So think of Twizzlers as a little pallet cleanser for whatever's queued up, which, by the way, should be coming very soon. Like any second now.

Okay, Twizzlers. time to keep the fun going. Someone like that speaking up and sharing with you, I put a lot of stock. Yeah. Things credible people say when they have a lot to lose. And it's interesting to like we alluded to this briefly earlier, but how these people can, I just now thought of this

for the first time ever, is that they can use that top secret clearance that they have or that special access that they have as leverage to earn more money in different private organizations. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, a lot of people don't realize this. If you're a high-level intelligence official at like Navy intelligence or within the Department of Defense or the CIA and you retire, you're collecting your pension as a government worker. The way, what a lot of them do after they retire from government work, they go and they work in the work in the private sector. They work for a big defense contractor or, you know, or they work for, you know, a big pharmaceutical company. And one of the requirements for those jobs after is that they have a security clearance and they're set up to be able to like actually work on whatever

whatever classified projects those private companies are doing for elements of the government. Right. Yes. And if you if you if you piss off the wrong people or you start making things up and look crazy or untrustworthy, you're going to lose your clearance and you're not going to be able to provide. for your family. Right. And so no one who spoke on camera in my film and revealed these extraordinary truths lost their clearances after.

No one, you know, lost their job. If anything, many of them excelled. You know, when I interviewed Rubio, he was vice chairman in the Senate intelligence committee. He said these extraordinary things in my film. Did he get laughed out of D.C.? No. he got escalated to the second most powerful guy in the world.

Our Secretary of State and our National Security Advisor. There's only one time in American history that one person has been the National Security Advisor and the Secretary of State at the same time was Henry Kissinger for two years. It's like such rare error. I mean, you unprecedented access to information, you know. Number the people in my film are, are, actively working in the private sector using their their clearances really yeah the number of them dozens of them actually and um you know none of them have been you know laughed out of the room

or called crazy or had their reps run because they really stuck to what is true that can be lawfully disclosed and so yeah what did you make of james clapper i think that james clapper the interview we did was him attempting to come clean with the American public in the only way he could. That's what I think. I think he's a guy who's in his 80s he's been at the highest levels

of the intelligence community for decades. He was the head of Air Force intelligence. He was the director of national intelligence. He's been the head of multiple other intelligence agencies. he's never publicly revealed anything on this topic, but he agreed to participate in my film and play a role in disclosure. And he shared what he could. It was pretty significant, actually.

For those who haven't seen the film on camera, James Clapper confirms that UAP activity over Area 51 is, in fact, real. It's not conspiracy, it's not nonsense. It is a real situation. And he confirmed that despite the Air Force saying they have not had any investigation of UAP since the closure of Project Blue Book, he says when he was the head of Air Force intelligence, they did in fact have a program to actively investigate UAP. So he unveiled the Air Force's actual role in all this, their hidden role. And he, I think, did a big service to the public and to squashing the stigma by acknowledging that UAP. activity over Area 51 is real because I think for most people around the world, the idea of UAP and the mysteries around Area 51, they've been sensationalized so much in movies and TV shows

that I think most people don't think it's real. And I think here was a guy putting his credibility on the line late in life to say that that is real. It's a valid area of inquiry. And I remember, you know, when I interviewed him, I'm this this far away from him. And I remember feeling it like he had just got this off his chest, you know? Like he got a weight off his chest, yeah, when he said that. And I think he was at a place in life where he just, he wanted to, he wanted to sort of like, give that to the public and, you know, come clean on some of these basic facts. You know, he, uh, he, uh, he's a general. General Jim Clapper, right? Yeah, he is. And yeah, he's been caught up in some, you know, political, you know, stuff. There's the whole thing with... Lying to Congress. Yeah, there's this whole Biden laptop thing.

You know, I know a lot of people will say, well, I don't think he was honest about that. So how do I know he's honest about this? Right. You know, you're calling who you want to believe. But like, what would he get out of line? Yeah. What would a guy in his 80s get out of going and participating in this film? that he knows is all about disclosure.

He knew in advance, Rubio, Rounds, Gillibrand, J. Stratt, and Chris Mellon, Al-Poodoff, Eric Davis, White House National Security Council members

all were coming out of the shadows to speak up about what they could legally. Why would he participate and say the things he said? Have you played that out? Have you thought about that? Yeah, why would he?

Can you think of any reasonable explanation of why he would make it up? No, no, especially when you add in context that I alone would have, like the people watching my film wouldn't have, his wife was in the hospital dying, like in her final weeks.

He had been sitting by her bedside every day. He took a couple hours off to come straight from the hospital to do this and then went back to the hospital. Like, you know, and he told me, I actually said when I learned like a day before that that was the circumstances he was dealing with personally, I reached out and said, hey, you know, if it's not the right time in life, it's, it's, it's all good, you know, you know. And

he was like, no, this is important. So, you know, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, senior members of the military government intelligence community, that many of which aren't even, they don't know each other, you know? Did Jay get in touch with Clapper? No. Okay. No.

I just think it's, you know, it's important to keep in mind some of that stuff, the history of these people, you know, because even if somebody is a military general and at the top of the food chain of the American government or intelligence organization, doesn't always mean, in fact, almost never means they're going to,

the truth. And, you know, it is important to know that this guy literally lied to Congress and said that the NSA was not spying on American citizens two months before Snowden leave the NSA documents proving that they were spying on American citizens. Yeah. Look, I do think that if he had lied in the past, maybe this was a way to kind of make up for it. Maybe this was like, hey, I'm going to, I'm going to do the right thing this time. And I'm going to share that this is a real situation. Right. If you study his body language in the dock,

that's the impression I get. Like, he's not excited to do what he's doing, but he's doing it because he thinks he should. He's getting up there in age, man. You know? A lot of these people are. Look at his face in the film when he watched it. I did.

I did. After he says the Area 51 line, you could tell there was other people in the room with me, actually, that picked up on this too. He immediately kind of looked down, and it was like as if he was thinking himself like, Well, I just said it. So hopefully that's okay.

You know? Like, it kind of just came out. Yeah. And, yeah. But I mean, you know, what would be, what would be the narrative if all 34 people in this film, they're all saying the same thing and all sharing information they have personally learned to be true? they're all sharing it. It all fits together. It all works together.

What would be the alternative to the truth? Yeah. I mean, I would personally just be very skeptical if it all fit together perfectly, you know? And it was like bow tied up and wrapped up in a little gift.

It's like, you know, I would be skeptical that they would be trying to push out a narrative to the American public. You know, a specific narrative. You know, who knows? You know, who knows? Maybe they're trying to protect

some sort of secret military weapons program that they've been working on since the 40s when when Roswell happened and they want to convince it they've learned what it is, they know how it works, they're trying to figure out more about how it works. And they want to put out some sort of a public limited hangout, right? And let everyone make everyone think that this is real disclosure when in fact, it's a completely separate narrative from what they think it really is. and they want to throw people off the scent. You know, back to the whole Paul Benowitz story, but on a whole grander scheme.

So, okay, so if you play that out, which of course I've had that, I've had that thought. You play that out, and then where you land is elements of the U.S. government cracked a new energy source in the 40s and kept it secret and never used it to benefit our country. Right.

And, well, it's private industry, right? This doesn't make any sense, because private industry, to make money. You know, if someone had cracked a new energy source in the 40s, I think they would have used it to become the most valuable company on the planet. None of the defense contractors are even in the top 100 most valuable companies in America, much less the world.

Really? Yeah. Yeah. Northrop and Lockheed and Raytheon and all those. No, look at their market caps compared to like Navidia. You know? Yeah. on the same.

What about like Palantir? I mean, all, yeah, these in, they're big, don't get wrong. They're big business. Yeah. But they're not, they're not the most valuable companies on earth, which I just personally believe they would be. I would be curious. Can we ask one of the AIs like compare the, um, just do, just do the GDP of the top five or

top 10 United States, uh, military contractors versus. Well, no, just to, just do market cap Lockheed Martin versus Navidia. Well, don't do, no, don't do that. Do top 10 United States military contractors versus what would be the other industry that could compete with that, you think? I mean, if you're just looking at market cap, just just just ask just ask. Chat, Chbtee, if any of the major defense contractors are in the top 10 corporations market cap wise. I don't think the answer is yes. Yeah, I'd be curious to see what they would compete with and where they would stack with that.

But so if, look, if someone cracked this kind of technology in the 40s, my point is, I think they would have used it to make a fortune. If they were a private company. If they were the government, I think they would have used it in other ways. I don't think that technology would, there's no, there's no, I don't understand any upside to that technology being completely hidden since the 40s. That doesn't make any sense to me. Mm-hmm. You might be right. Anything, Steve?

Major U.S. defense contractors are generally not in the top 10 most valuable companies globally by market capitalization as of 2016. While firms like Lockheed Martin, RTX, formerly Raytheon, General Dynamics, Boeing, and Northrop Grumman are top-tier defense revenue, they are smaller in market valuation compared to tech giants such as Apple, Microsoft, and Vidaia and Alphabet. Yeah. Yeah. So it's just not realistic. Like it, you know, everyone I spoke to says that some of those defense contractors listed there are involved in this.

Yeah. They would just, they would be such bigger and more valuable companies if they had this technology for that long. I think they are involved in reverse engineering it now. And I think they're making massive breakthroughs. And maybe some of them are finally like there already in their black. programs, but I do not believe that, you know, this is organic, human technological breakthroughs that we've had since the 40s. I call bullshit. How many people do you think? Oh, wait, here's the other point. Yeah. Military pilots saw UAP during World War II. Yeah. If we had

that technology, don't you think World War II would have ended a lot quicker? You know, like would we have stayed in war war two. Right. No, that's bonkers. Right. It's crazy. We probably hadn't figured out a way to harness it. There were orbs flying next to fighter pilots.

Right. Energy balls that were flying a long time. They called them food fighters. Yeah. If that was ours, if we had cracked this technology that allowed us to harness energy in a localized area and create these little crafts that flew within, you know, bright bubbles of energy. wouldn't we have won it use it to win World War II? Right. What about the Tic Tac stuff?

There's absolutely no one who has any credibility that would say that was man-made. Really? Yeah, we, we, a number of the people involved in, first off, Jay Stratton ran the investigation of the Tick-Tac for the government.

Like he actually wrote the actual, the actual official report on it. He's the one who actually and investigated it. And completely came to the conclusion that it was not manmade. Like, tried to, you know, assign it to some, you know, hidden program of ours and hoped that would be the case,

you know, wanted to be able to explain it. Right. And couldn't. And that's the guy who would have had the job of knowing. So prior to investigating UAP and non-human intelligence line for the government, the head of air and space warfare for the defense intelligence agency. His literal job was to know what all of our black programs, not our classified programs, our black programs, our unacknowledged

special access programs, what they were building. Right. What was on their roadmap for 20, 30 years out, 20, 30 years out in terms of air and space technology. It was literally his job. So like the analogy for him, you know, we talked about Hunt for October earlier. The analogy is, like, like, remember Hump for October, Alec Baldwin is an analyst at the CIA, and his specialty is knowing everything about Russia's nuclear submarine program and everything about the leadership of that program. Like, he's, that's his wheelhouse, right?

Like, he knows everything there is to know at a classified and on classified level about this one thing. Right. So much so that in the movie, when James Earl Jones, the head of the CIA, gets a satellite photo of a submarine in Russia that he doesn't recognize and they want to know what it is, who do they go and ask, you know, they ask Baldwin. And he knows what it is.

He knows who the commander is. He knows everything about him. We're at school, his relationship with his wife, everything, right? People like that exist within the intelligence community that have these specific lanes that they know everything about at a classified level and an unclassified level. And Jay's, Jay was that guy for air and space technology. And that is why he ended up in,

this investigation of UAP and not human intelligence life because one day one of his colleagues walked into his office and said hey i got to show you something and pulled him into a skiff and showed him a video that air force security guards had taken on a nuclear base of a triangle craft hovering above a nuclear weapon site and moving in ways that nothing does and so they asked him you know please tell us this is one of ours he had been read in on all the black programs developing advanced, you know, next-gen technology for space and air. He was read in on those so that he could identify things that are ours versus things that are unknowns or potential threats. And it was clear to him that it wasn't. So that same guy ends up, you know, putting together ASAP with Jim Lasky, which starts investigating this stuff. And then eventually that same guy runs the investigation. of the TicTac. And there's just no way.

We didn't have that technology. Right. I believe, I think I'm of the belief that it's multiple things going on. I'm sure it's shit that we have no idea what it is. Some other civilization,

I mean, I have no doubt. There's got to be, there has to be intelligent life. Well, go back to Tick-Tac. If, in 2004, if,

if, let's say, I saw the, you know, the conspiracy theory online, somebody, somebody claimed that that was that was Lockheed Martin technology. All right. If Lockheed Martin in 2004 had technology that could go from sea level to

80,000 feet, which is what the Ticktack did, that's when you get into space, 80,000 feet, right? If they had technology that could go from sea level to space in like the blink of an eye and then do that all afternoon, they would be the most valuable company on the planet right now, 20 years later. Yes. It is impossible to accept. the idea that they cracked that technology. If they were publicly public. They're not even in the top 100 market cap in the United States, much less the world.

I mean, I'm saying if that technology was public, they would be for sure. No, they would be, even if it wasn't, if they had that technology, I mean, think about this real stuff, I've thought about this from every angle. If they had that technology in 2004, even if it was highly classified, that would give them so much leverage.

They would have never lost a defense context. a defense contract to any other defense contractor, but in reality, they did. Unless there was a handful of defense contractors who were close to it too, or doing the same stuff. It doesn't matter. They would have so much leverage,

there is no way they would not be a more valuable company. You'd be sitting on the biggest technological breakthrough in the history of humanity. Yeah, but how can you be more valuable when people aren't aware of what you have? If nobody with money or nobody knows what you really had, except for a very small group of people, where's the value? So in this conspiracy theory,

the only way there would be any merit to it is if there was leadership in the government that knew this. Because if they didn't, if Lockheed had tech technology in 2004 and no one in the government knew it, why would they keep it classified? That's make any sense. They would only keep it classified if they had to because there was government overseers that knew they had it.

If there was no government overseers and they were the only and they had actually cracked this technology in 2004 and it was theirs, it wouldn't they wouldn't be classified. They would monetize it. They become the wealthiest company in the history of the world overnight. Yeah, I'm not sure about that though. 100% dude. I'm not sure that they would want to monetize it. I'm sure there'd be more power in keeping it secret. If they were developing something that was like how change it would change the way that modern physics is known.

And if it's been getting siloed and kept secret since the 50s or the 40s. First, like, Lockheed Martin wasn't even around then. No. You know, they bought up smaller companies over the years. Yes. A lot of the companies that they bought were involved in the legacy program early on. I've been told, same with Northrop Grumman. Yeah.

But let me put it to you this way. It's just not realistic. If we're the American government, me and you run the American government. And we do have this technology. We do have this tick tech technology. Nobody knows about it except us. And we have all these adversarial nations around us as well. Do we want to tell them publicly that we do have this?

Or do we want to put out this narrative that it's aliens and we don't know what it is? No, what I'm saying is follow that line of thought. If that was the case, then if that was the case and it led to in 2004, you know, a private contract or on behalf of the government, reverse engineer this technology and create something like the Tic Tac, right? If that was the case, then that means government overseers somewhere

know about it, right? And so does Lockheed. In that dynamic, I personally believe Lockheed would have been able to leverage that dynamic to become a much bigger company by now. I do not believe

you can have those set of, I just don't believe, it sounds insane to me that you can have those circumstances and not be at least in the top 10 market cap. By the way, I own Lockheed Martin stock. It'd be amazing. It's a great company.

Keep holding it. It's a great company. It's a great company. But I just don't believe that. Look, I think they and you don't need to be a rocket scientist to know who the biggest defense contractors are in the U.S., right? I think those are the companies that our military relies on and our government relies on to try to build the most, you know, advanced beyond next generation technology. And I think that they have been involved and utilized in the legacy programs,

efforts to reverse engineer this stuff, to understand it and reverse engineer it. But I do not think that they, that they made all this stuff from the beginning. I just, it just seems absolutely awesome. Do you think they have any technology that's secret that nobody in the public knows about? Yeah, for sure, for sure. And I think they leverage it. Just not this far. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think that there has been a lot of success for reverse engineering this stuff in recent years. That's what I think.

But I do not think that, you know, this was all these giant craft that military people see that fly past it. Right. That the move underwater past our submarines. Right. That this is like. I'm with you, man. Stuff we made.

I think it's a lot. I think it's a mixture of shit. And especially if you have accounts of people seeing this stuff in like antiquity. You know, sailors on ships. seeing these giant balls of light, size of football stadiums coming out of the water. That wasn't laude. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

But don't get me wrong. I don't want to confuse the listeners. It's, I do think that there are reverse engineered craft out there. I think China and Russia are neck and neck in a high stakes race, and they're both making progress. Yeah. I think, you know, in the film, intelligence officials refer to it as the Manhattan Project on steroids.

I think that's real. Hal Pudoff says on camera, He throws, he slides it into one of the interview pieces that I don't, I don't know if enough people picked up on this, but he, he says, you know, some of the UAP activity we see might actually be a result of our legacy programs work. And some of it might be a result of China's program. Right. So I think that there's a lot of these like little nuggets that people might film are trying to share with the public to, right, to say things without overtly saying them. And I think that those set of circumstances exist. But the Tick-Tack was a long time ago, man. It was a couple decades ago.

And I do not think that we cracked that kind of technology back then. One of the scientists in the film, Eric Davis, he says the exact number. I'm not going to try to quote it because I don't remember exactly what he said. But he says he makes an analogy for the amount of energy that would have been required to go from sea level to 80,000 feet. Oh, yeah. And it was like, it was like something just completely. It was like, I think I just watched it. So it was like, I think it was like the entire energy output of the entire continental United States times 100 or something.

Something like that. Yeah. We were just like, okay. Obviously, we don't, we, we didn't have the ability to harness that much energy to localize an area above the ocean 20 years ago. You know? Well, there, there was a lot of anti-gravity research going on in the United States specifically around the, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in the 50s. Lots of physicists were like on the cusp and doing extensive deep research on

anti-gravity and electro-gravitic effects. Yeah. And these scientists went dark. Like just completely stopped doing their research and all the research went underground. Yeah. So if that stuff started happening, getting siloed and hidden underneath black projects in the 50s, who knows what they could have figured out by now. Certainly, I'm sorry, it's certain that they have exponential.

essentially expounded on that research since then. Yeah. And like even if you take like, you know, all the missing money in the US government, where Rumsfeld said right before 9-11 is there was like, what, $4 trillion that had gone missing off the books? Yeah. I think at that time it was like $2 trillion. Yeah.

And now it's like balloon to like $11 trillion or something, 20 something trillion. I do think that we might find out down the line that a lot of that unaccounted money has gone towards this technology race and funding this effort. That's what Grush was tracking, right? Yeah. And look, the other thing that's worth saying is, you know, we just honed in on U.S. defense contractors, and did they have that? And my thesis is no.

And if they did, they'd be a lot more valuable of companies right now. But that doesn't mean that there's not other private groups, you know, that don't have market caps that we aren't aware of that, you know, are heavily invested in our current technologies and have been involved in reverse engineering stuff and are motivated to keep it, keep it private. Yes. Because they don't want their interests. They don't want to disrupt their other interests.

Their other interests. Yes. There's total possibility for that. And numerous people I interviewed alluded to their, they're coming to the conclusion that there is non-government, non-contractor money involved in this. and I never really got any details. Not enough to be able to talk about. So maybe there's another whole hidden hand involved in this

that we don't know about yet. But, you know, you brought up earlier, before we took a break, we were talking about consciousness and remote viewing. And one of the more interesting stories I wanted to circle back to, I met an intelligence official, we'll refer to as Scott, who was a high level intelligence official, mostly focused on counterterrorism, had a really high level career.

And he ended up on a mission in the Middle East and came back. And he had an illness and very long story short, they identified a parasite in his brain. He had a brain surgery to try to relieve swelling and try to save his life. And while he was recuperating from this brain surgery, he had an experience that he couldn't explain where he felt like he had bi-located. Like he felt like while laying stationary, he went somewhere else. Like he saw it all in his mind's eye. Like he felt like he was somewhere else.

And at first, he and his wife just simply thought he was losing his mind from the brain surgery like that he was you know it messed them up and he was just like hallucinating um but then it happened again and he started socializing this with some of his intelligence friends and one of them said what you're explaining is something called remote viewing people are trained to do that to use their mind's eye to go somewhere else he had never even heard of remote viewing so sends him down this rabbit hole and uh that friend of his connected him with someone who used to work for the CIA, who knows a lot about this. And that person asked him if he had ever had a UAP encounter.

He said he didn't think so. The former CIA official said, why don't you talk to your parents and ask them if anything happened when you were young? Scott's father had passed, so he talked to his mother and his mother actually, without missing a beat, was like, yeah, remember when you were a kid? It was like, when he was like six or seven

or something like that, I really can't remember. It was under 10, saw a UFO and apparently it came out of a body of water. like a lake or a pond near their house. And he witnessed it very close. He ran home and he told his parents about it. The mother reminds him, starts jogging his memory. That the day after this event,

a couple guys from Air Force Office of Special Investigation showed up to talk to him. And the mom apparently said, you know, leave my kid alone. He says, kid. But the dad took him into the backyard with these two Air Force guys. And they talked for a while. And that was like the last the mom had heard of it. So she's like jogging Scott's memory. And then after that, it sent him down a little bit of a rabbit hole investigating his past.

And he, again, long story short, I'm really summarizing here. Long story short, he found a collection of files that his father had. And it was broken down by the years of his life, Scott's life. And, yeah. So it's like, Scott, you're. you're seven, Scott, you're eight. And inside was his medical records and his education records. And then shockingly, he found enlistment paperwork in the U.S. Air Force as a child,

which he had absolutely no memory of. Imagine seeing that. You're like, is this like a made up document? What is this? What state he was in? Yeah. Can you say it or no? I probably shouldn't.

I probably should keep those details. So this, so this guy in real life, Scott, is someone I was introduced to from someone in my film. And he is writing a tell-all memoir right now. And Simon & Schuster is the publisher. And I don't know when it's going to be complete or when it's going to come out. But his full story is in this.

And I've gotten to know him and his wife and his kids and spent a lot of time with them. And it is just the most bombshell singular story I've ever heard in my life. And not only did he find enlistment paperwork in the U.S. Air Force, but he also found his discharge paperwork. And the service code on there, when he looked it up, was space communications intelligence. And the base he was assigned to was the old space command base. base at that time.

Yeah. And then he you know like any reasonable intelligent person would do he kind of just went on a mission to like try to piece together his past and he started finding this massive cover up

in those records was was his excused absences from school for weeks at a time. He doesn't remember any of it. The school, when he contacted the school, the school's records were missing. There's all these other things about his past that as he started to look into, it became clear he was a part of something as a kid after this UAP event. And then it was all covered up and something caused him to forget all this

Then the braid surgery brought all these memories back and then just to skip to sort of like the end of the story when he started socializing this to some of his high-level intelligence official friends, he found his life in jeopardy. And there were a couple attempts to end his life. And fortunately, that stopped. And now he's around to tell his story. But it's a remarkable story. And likely it'll lead to,

us all learning about a part of our past that's been hidden and and and these biological, you know, the, the, the, the UAP encounter he had, maybe, I guess there's two ways you can look at it. Maybe the encounter left him with this ability, like it gave him a biological effect that's, yeah, gave him this ability to somehow use his mind in a way that we're, you know, average people don't. Maybe it just like turned on something that's in all of us already. Maybe it's sort of like heightened an ability that had been sort of like repressed or whatever, dormant. Those are kind of like, you know, the two thoughts, right? But either way, it seems that event led to him being recruited into a program that

that worked with young people, kids, that had encounters. I mean, clearly, it was a cause and effect, saw UAP next day, the Air Force guy. show up to talk to them about. Right. So, um, yeah, the same thing happened in Rendlesham, right? Yeah. Yeah. After, after the, there was an event at Rendlesham.

So Rendlesham, for those that don't know, you know, Randlesham, when people say Rendlesham, it's really referring to the, Randlesham Forest in the UK. Right. There was a, there was a joint military UK base there. Mm-hmm. In the 80s, it was called, um, I think it was called R.A.F. Bentwaters. Steve, is that correct? That sounds right.

R.A.F. Bentwentwaters. I think that was the name of the base. It was a joint UK, U.S. base. At the time in the 80s, it had the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons in Europe. Very specific set of circumstances, you know? R.F. Woodbridge? Yeah, okay. Is it R.A.F. Woodbridge?

There's a couple of bent water or other ones. Yeah. Yeah. Which one had the UFO incident? Is your mic on, or can we hear you talking on the mics or no? The events occur just outside of Woodbridge. Okay. UFO landings.

So simply put, there was a joint UK military base in this area of the English countryside. And at the time, they had this massive stockpile of nuclear weapons. And there was a UAP incident there where apparently multiple crafts came down from the sky one night and were hovering around the nuclear weapon sites. like right above where nukes were hidden underground. And a number of the base security guards and the base commander went out and saw these things in the woods around the base. And some of them got very close to them.

One of these guards ended up having a lot of negative biological effects, heart issues and some other medical issues as a result of the contact with this technology, being close to it. And interestingly, also similar to the Scott story, the day after, a mysterious, a Mark plane landed on the base, according to the base commander, who I spoke to personally. And people that identify themselves as being a part of Air Force Office of Special Investigation and of the CIA, talked to the witnesses, brought them into a private room. spoke to them, interrogated them, asked them a lot of questions.

Years later, those witnesses told the base commander, many years later, told them that they were given some kind of serum. Now, whether that was to, like, erase memories or, like, whether it was a true serum, who knows. Yeah. But they all told this base commander that that's what happened. And there's a number of people who have had encounters on bases. who then were promptly put in a room with people from Air Force Office of Special Investigation, OSI, it's called. And people from the CIA who basically just asked them a million questions and then ultimately told them never to talk about it.

So look, the Air Force and the CIA's role in this is well, well documented. People have been talking about it for years. but the overlap with consciousness, remote viewing and this is a really interesting intersection you know and if you accept the fact that remote viewing is real

as crazy as it sounds if you accept that it's real then why would you why would you stop why would you draw a line there and be like oh that's where it stops you can remotely you can make your up your eyes

your eyes your excuse me your mind's eye wander to a remote location, but you can't communicate remotely. It doesn't seem like that, it doesn't feel like a bridge too far for me. There definitely seems to be a huge connection between this whole UFO phenomenon and the human mind, the human psyche.

It seems to be an integral part, or a very important piece to this puzzle. Yeah. You know, that with the, combined with the fact that, like, most UFO sightings happen with children. You know? And there's just

an unbelievable amount of UFO sightings that children report and at schools. There's a lot of... Schools all around the world. The aerial school encounter, you know about this one? Yeah.

That's one of the most fascinating. This is covered very well for those that don't know it in the documentary, the phenomenon, which James Fox directed. I had the opportunity to be one of the producers on it.

By all means, James gets all responsibility for making that movie. That was his baby. That was phenomenon, the aerial school one? Yeah, the phenomenon covered it at the very end. Okay. And James did an amazing job of covering that story in a little section at the end of the film. It was where I first learned about it. And essentially what happened is, I believe it was like 1992 or 1994.

Yep. There was a school in South Africa. in rural South Africa. And it was a international school. It was young kids from actually a lot of European nations, people whose parents were working in South Africa for some reason. And so it wasn't like local South African kids. It was like, it was distinctly an international school.

Yep. And kids representing all parts of the world. And there was like one school day, where there's 100 something kids out in the backyard playing. They ranged in age, I think it was like six to 12 or something like that. And they all came running back to the school, screaming, saying that there was a UFO in the field that had landed and beings. And all these kids told the teachers the same thing.

They all said they described this craft landing. They described it being distorted around it like a blur. They described these beings being. being near the craft and how they seem to move in weird ways, like almost like a blur. And they described them telepathically communicating with them. The message that these kids all got was that one, there's a clip of, there's an actual footage of one of these young girls, like six or seven saying in her kid vocabulary, she says, they told us we mustn't get too technolaged.

was the word she used, right? And that if we did, like, the world could burn and there'd be all this destruction. Yeah. Right. So an adult watching that, you take away the conclusion of saying, you know, be careful about how we're progressing technologically. And then it could lead to destruction, right?

It was like a warning, right? And that was the main takeaway from the communication. These kids claimed to all, not all, but many of them experience. All the kids described the same event, though. And then now looking through the lens of what people reveal in my film in the age of disclosure about how the technology works, if a craft came down and it had a bubble around it, and beings got out of the craft, but they were still in the bubble. It would look like they're moving in slow motion like these kids described because they're in a different space time, right? They're behind the bubble. The distorted look and the light they saw it would all check out with how the people might from say this technology works.

And then where the story gets even wilder is there was a very, very grounded, credible, hardened, wartime news correspondent who was the head of the BBC South Africa, who was stationed in South Africa and heard about this. I actually remember's name. It was his name was Tim Leach. Yes. And he heard about this and he went to go investigate it. At first, there's this footage of him talking about it where he said at first, I thought these kids must be out of their mind or it's a big elaborate lie. They all got together and said they were going to make up the story.

So he goes and he investigates it. And he said after spending time talking to each of these young kids and interviewing them, he was just completely, he completely came to a conclusion that they were all telling the truth because kids just can't lie that good. Like little kids can't one on one tell all the same details as each other. One after another. Like it wasn't like five kids. It was like over 100 kids.

And so he came to believe them. But at the same time, as a hard and, you know, as a serious journalist, he wanted to like bring in some kind of expert to tell them if these kids were all, you know, expert liars or crazy. So he phoned the head of child psychiatry at Harvard. at the time who was like apparently the the leading expert on child psychiatry in the United States at the time. His name was John Mack. So he calls him, he tells him about this event and asks him to come out to South Africa

and interview the kids and tell him his conclusion. So Mac flies out to South Africa and he interviews these kids one at a time. He films the interviews and 100% takes away the fact that these kids are all telling the truth, that they all experienced what they're saying, they experienced. And then years later, James Fox tracked down a bunch of these kids,

and he got them to do interviews for the phenomenon. And it's amazing. You see them talking as kids, intercut with them as adults, and they're saying the exact same thing. None of them have ever tried to monetize their story or become famous. If anything, they've just completely kept it to themselves. One of them says she's actually never told her husband about it. like just didn't want to like be you know make them think she's crazy or whatever and it's just

this wild story and the fact that these these interviews exist that you can watch of these little kids talking it's super moving and yeah man James fox did an amazing job putting that piece of the film together yeah and um you know I was really grateful he you know he brought me on to that project as a producer um towards the end of his process and I was able to play a role and helping get the movie out there and the marketing of the movie and getting it out into the mainstream but he did a hell of a job. Also, moment of contact was fucking.

Oh yeah, moment of contact is a great movie. James is an awesome filmmaker and he's been ahead of the curve on this topic, you know? Like, he started making films on this before people yeah. Oh yeah, he's been doing this for a long fucking time. His first movie, you know,

I think it was out of the blue was a good one and then I, you know, second was I know what I saw, right? Mm-hmm, I think so. Yeah. But moment of contact was crazy because he was just interviewing random everyday people on this like bum fuck town in Brazil who saw this creepy looking creature. He did the, he did the deepest dive.

And somebody actually died from it. Yeah. And then they all talk about these like all these like military people in Brazil are afraid to talk about it. They want to be anonymous, have their voices change and all this stuff. There's sort of one guy who wouldn't even talk who threatened to shoot everybody who came on his property. and like stories of men in black, the U.S. Air Force plane landing, carting this thing off and then leaving.

Yeah. That one is like there's so much testimony, witness testimony that lines up so well. Even his new one has the surgeon of the hospital. Yeah. That one surgeon who like literally said he had a communication with this thing. And he said like he was explaining how when he was like looking at this thing and it was communicating to him, it was just like it made him want to cry.

because he just felt like overwhelming love. Yeah. From this thing. Super, super powerful story. And James, James did the best deep dive ever on it. And I'll tell you,

I have heard from some of my, my most trusted senior intelligence friends, intelligence community friends, including, you know, who we mentioned today, Jay Stratton, who co-ran Ossap and was director of the UAPS Force. He and others have told,

told me that they spoke to people from the Brazilian military, like very senior people, who shared with them evidence of this having happened. Really? Yeah. Reports of the biological effects to civilians in that area. People that got zapped by this UAP in this event, this specific event. the Brazilian military did a massive investigation of it. And there's tons of evidence. They, you know, the people, I've come to trust, talk about it like an event that really

truly happened and is well documented. And maybe, you know, most likely the elements of the U.S. government that have been covering this up, the folks involved in Lakesy program, you know, likely had had a role in covering it up and just, you know, making sure it never made it to the public. You know, talking about James Fox and his filmmaking just, you know, makes me, it's another reminder, like, how important civilian journalism is, you know? Like, we know about this stuff because, you know, some of us have made documentaries, you know, people like you and Joe Rogan are, you know, talking about it on podcasts. Like, in the past, there wasn't enough people bringing attention to it. And because legacy media didn't bring any attention to it.

and is largely controlled, people just didn't find out. You know? So I think it's an exciting time for civilian journalism and documentaries and podcasts because you can do these deep dives and you can put out an independent film where you can put out an independent podcast. And people will see it and learn about it. And it's also leading to more to come out, you know, like, because James made that doc,

that doctor came out of the shadows and decided he would, he would share his story. Yeah. So it's like bringing attention to stuff actually leads to more coming out, you know. And at the same time, there's also like that's that's like ballsy of him to do that, to do that investigation to put that out there. And not just ballsy of him, but it's like it's a huge leap to go from government UFOs recorded on the radar of military fighter jets and unknown objects documented by the military to go all the way to I communicated with a fucking alien. in a hospital telepathically, like that's, we've already,

we've already gone past the UFO bridge. Like everyone can accept that UFOs are real. It's pretty much in like the zeitgeist now in common, in, in America at least. But like, I feel like it's going to take a lot more to get people to the, okay,

we're telepathically communicating with these beings that are coming here. And there, it's some other, uh, entity not human that is really technologically advanced and like yeah even alien abductions like did any of the people that you talk to go that far to talk about like talk about the actual beings people people did people i chose to leave it out of the film because i just felt like for the average person who hasn't spent any time learning about this it's just a bridge too far yeah it's just hard from

they're up their head around it's hard to it's a jagged pill to swallow and i think it I think it makes a lot of people discount the other stuff. And so I think my, ultimately, obviously, you saw the film, ultimately where I came out on it was to have the film cover the base facts of the high-level situation and not get into that, which would be sort of like the next bridge

for the audience to get in. Right, right, right, right. It could be in a follow-up film. It could be in a spinoff. could be in something else I'd do. But there's just already so, the base facts are already, it is already so extraordinary, you know,

and such a departure from people's everyday life that I felt that was enough, you know? Yeah. And I actually had, in one cut of the movie, I did have a little like three or four minute scene that touched on, it wasn't abductions, but touched on the personal experiences

some of the U.S. government officials had at their homes after investigating this. So one of the wild things I learned was that as people involved in investigating this for the government looked into non-human intelligent life, it seems non-human intelligent life started looking into them. The analogy that they used to wrap their head around what was happening is they would say, look, if Russia sends a spy to D.C. to spy on members of our Congress,

our intelligence community spies on the Russian spy. Like, we look into them because they're looking at us. And so these intelligence officials just sort of like applied that logic to what was happening to them. They started looking into non-human intelligence life in UAP for the government, and all of a sudden they were having activity at their houses. Orbs in their homes in front of their wives. In some cases, crafts, like straight up UFOs within eyesight of their homes. That's covered in a lot of my interviews.

And I ended up putting it into like a three or four minute scene in an early cut of the movie. And when I did test screenings, small test screenings with trusted friends time and time again at the end when I would say I would ask general questions like did it change your perspective on all this the ideas you had going into watching the movie

are the same after watching the movie those kind of just headline questions and I always would say was there anything that you found hard to accept and believe to be true and every single time it was that sequence It was that sequence in the film that people had problems with.

There was just something about it that was a bridge too far. And I would even ask, you know, I asked the obvious follow-up questions. You know, I'd say, well, the person telling that story didn't the previous part of the film established their credibility?

And they'd say, yeah, yeah, it did, for sure, 100%. And I'd be like, then why do you find it hard to believe what they're saying in this scene? And it was just something about these people sharing their own personal experience that happened in their own home, that becomes a bridge too far for people. Whereas that same intelligence official

saying what they learned when investigating and what they uncovered is totally digestible to the audience. So I just decided to take that scene out. It's the long story short. Yeah, the normies aren't ready for you. Exactly.

And I don't know what that is. I don't know what part of human psychology makes that a bridge too far for people. One of the interesting things in the film Rubio and Clapper, we talked about, two guys we talked about today, they both say in the film, they talk about how it's difficult for people to wrap their head around something they haven't personally experienced or to prepare themselves for something I've experienced. It's something in the human psyche that does that. And that's actually something that they are concerned about.

They are concerned that collectively, we as a nation, won't properly prepare for what's happening right now and and and and um put the right brain power towards it because we haven't experienced it yet and rubio makes points about um there being several examples of that blowing up in our face like we never imagined terrorists would fly you know come to the homeland and learn to fly commercial airplanes and use it against us in a terrorist stack until they did and we never you know imagined the japanese would be able to you know strike us at pearl harbor with their missiles and get their missiles through the straits, but until they did. And so there's histories full of these examples of us not preparing for or wrapping our head around

things we haven't experienced yet. And then sometimes that leads to a strategic surprise that, as he says in the film, could change the course of human history. And so there's this, it is interesting. And I found it really informative when I was doing these test screenings of earlier cuts where that bridge is for people, where it just goes a bridge too far. Yeah, that's interesting. But I did certainly hear a lot of incredible stories.

And from where I was sitting as the guy doing all the interviews, there was so much overlap. It was like, Tell me what you heard about the aliens. So talk to several people who worked on nuclear weapons bases who had seen a UAP on the base, been part of an event that multiple people witnessed with them. And then in the coming days,

had subsequent events when they were off the base where they encountered UAP and then not human beings. Oh, they encountered beings at their homes. Yeah. Or not necessarily those cases, the New Yorkeropin stories

were actually not homes. It happened in various... Just not at work. Yeah, not at work. One story that did happen on a base, though, and I didn't include this in the film, but I did say, and I have it. Maybe I'll release it one day.

Yeah, when the director's cut. Or like maybe, you know, I've been thinking about, not to digress, but I've been thinking about maybe doing a DVD, a Blu-ray with special features on it. I like it. Deleted scenes. When I was a kid, I used to love buying DVDs that had deleted scenes. Keep it off the internet.

Just make it a DVD. Yeah, it's put on DVD, people can have it, hold on to it, you know? That's a great idea. I still collect DVDs personally. Do you? I like physical media, yeah. I have a few draws of, DVDs in alphabetical order, like a lunatic.

That's awesome. But, yeah, I think I might do that one day. But so one of these interviews I did was an Air Force security guard on a nuclear weapons base, had an encounter where him and his partner saw a UAP over a nuclear weapons site. And then what happened after that was he said that. a bright light came from the UAP and hit this vehicle that him and his partner were in. And they basically became like catatonic, like frozen. They couldn't move.

And he said out of the corner of his eye, he saw three non-human beings approaching the car. And he said he was terrified and his heart started to race. And he thought he's going to have a freaking heart attack. He thought he was like heart, it's going to leap out his chest. And then he just blacked out. And when he woke up, his vehicle was no longer, where it was in front of the the uh the nuke um site he was now at the bottom of a reservoir that was on the back side of the base that you couldn't physically drive down to the truck was just

there it had been relocated and he came to and his partner was still basically catatonic in shock couldn't move he was like gripping the steering wheel he said and um over the base over the radio, he heard like his colleagues looking for him still. And he looked at his watch and hours had passed. And he called in saying where they were. And, you know, as crazy as it was, he's like, this is where we are. And apparently they came and got them. And then when they brought them back to the base, apparently they were separated.

And Air Force Office of Special Investigation and CIA were there and essentially interrogated. them both, asked them a million questions. They sent them both to the hospital after. They checked them for radiation damage. They checked their gums and other medical tests you would do if someone was near, something that gave off a lot of energy that you knew would cause biological effects. And then they were told never to talk to each other again.

And the partner was shipped out to another country very quickly soon after that. Whoa. Yeah. And what's wild about that is I interviewed other people who didn't know another person who didn't know this guy. And he had a very similar story that went down on a different base in a different decade. And then the aftermath was like almost exactly the same. Him and his, that guy was in another vehicle.

He had a partner. They were separated, told him never to talk to each other again. and the same Air Force Office of Special Investigation at CIA asking the questions. And then one of them was shipped to base in Japan. And this is all, this, bolt stories we're saying is before the internet, before email and social media and all that.

So like, you know, by telling someone don't talk to each other and then sending them to, you know, sending one of them to another country, you're really like cutting down on communication and people socializing it and have a better chance of it just like kind of like going away you know did you film those yeah filmed all those testimonies yeah I filmed those and they're really chilling and um each time each of those interviews um you can really feel when they're like going back in their mind these memories

you could feel how much it like stresses them out like it's like dramatic um one guy when he's telling the story actually, I noticed his like knee was like like shaking and like like, you know, when you're thinking about something really dramatic and it was just like going so fast that I actually stopped the interview and I was like, hey man, you want to take a, you need to take a break? How much detail did he give you on like what the beings looked like? He said one was a really tall humanoid being and then there was other shorter, smaller beings that looked different with him. And he said that one looked more human tall, very tall he said. He said he. He was. demonoid and then smaller ones that did not look the same.

And he said that the tall one, he could see in the corner his eye, had what looked like a cattle prod, like a device in its hand that was like a pole. And the only reference point he had was cat was cattle prod. I do remember that, yeah. There's all this overlap in these stories. And, you know, a lot of them, a lot of them happen. happened in different, they happened in different years and like the circumstances. There's also like a lot of, there's a lot of like, you got up, I personally think there's a difference between, the difference between Travis Walton and these guys to me is these guys

were trusted enough to work on nuclear weapons basis. They were placed in positions of authority. Yes. As security forces on a nuclear weapons base. They have to be... Also, during the Cold War... They have to be proven psychologically sound to be in charge of those places.

And I think, like, if we put herself in the context of history, like, during the Cold War, there would have been even more thoughtfulness put towards who gets those jobs, you know? And so, yeah, it really made an impact on me. I just felt for this film, you know, it was a bridge too far, and we could get to that point next.

I think I was really trying to make a movie that was not just for people who were already completely immersed in this topic and interested in it. I wanted to make it for the every man so that the average person could understand this is a real and serious situation. And I do feel like that mission was accomplished,

especially in how it led to this directive from Trump. I feel like the average person seeing 34 really credible military government intelligence officials and people like Rubio and Sinairo rounds and Gillibrand and White House National Security Council members alongside generals and admirals, I do think it just makes an, like a massive impact on people. Yeah. The average person, you know, I want to think about like my folks in Jersey in their mid-70s, like, who've never watched any documentary on this topic, you know, then they watch this

and like, all of a sudden, like, what, this is real, you know? You know, you think about those normal people, the normies, as you said. That's who I was making the movie for. And I think now that the average person is aware that this is real, I think we can get to those other, you know, content, whether it's documentaries or whether it's scripted movies or whether it's just, you know, news program specials. Yeah, I'm sure there's so many more branches and so many more storylines that you could have followed and you can make, you know, movies about all of those individually. I'd like to. I'd like to. I really, I enjoyed making the film and I enjoyed the process of like making an impact.

I do think the problem with it is like when you're doing that kind of thing and I've done it before, it's like there's so much good shit you got to delete. Oh yeah, this was the hardest creative process of my entire life. You know, I've been as a producer, I've built from the ground up a bunch of movies and TV shows, you know, including Ready Player 1. I developed that from the very beginning when it was, you know, we just had the book to start with, the book by Ernest Kline. And developing movies and TV shows is hard. It's a process. It's a hard creative process. But this was the hardest creative process because,

because, you know, there was a, there was a, yeah, there could have been a four and a half, five hour version of this movie. Right. That 10 people would have watched because it would have been too long, you know? But, um, more than 10 people would have watched it. Yeah. More than 10 people to watch it.

But, you know, there's a huge population of, uh, that will not watch a movie if it's over two hours. Yeah. You know, or they'll doze off or they'll watch it. You could have done it in like three parts or something. Then it's a series and series. I don't think series have the same cultural impact as movies. Right. They just don't.

I agree. They don't have the same staying power. or they're not as evergreen. And, you know, a standalone movie, it's a lot to ask someone to watch a whole series. If you ask your friends, honestly, how many series they start and don't finish? It's going to be the majority.

And then you get the whole thing with the cliffhangers, get him into the next episode and all that. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I had the thought, of course, but then I was just like, you know, that's just not going to make the same impact. Right. But a movie, you know, yeah, someone tells you,

someone, you know, I see it all the time. People say, my friend told me to watch the disclosure and like, you know, I went home and I watched it that night. Like, you could do that. You can accomplish that mission. In under two hours, you can watch this movie. You can completely learn the lay of the land.

You can now be able to talk about it. You can now know what's real, what's not real. Yeah. You can't do that with a series. No one's going to. When you did Ready Player 1, how much interaction did you have with Spielberg? A lot. Really?

Yeah. I mean, first off, like I said, I think he's the greatest director of all time. No one inspired me more. Not only to become interested in this topic because of movies, like ET and close encounters, but also to get into filmmaking. I remember when I was a kid and I became obsessed with, with ET and close encounters. I remember reading about how he made short films as a kid in like middle school and high school. Yeah.

On 16 millimeter film and 8 millimeter film. And he used him and his, you know, he did like, he wore a bunch of hats. He would like edit them and direct them and produce them. And then his friends would be in them. family members would be in them. And so I was inspired to do the same thing. So I didn't have any, we didn't have a lot of money growing up. You know, normal like, you know, middle class in Jersey.

And so I saved up shoveling snow in the winter and, you know, mowing lawns in the summer to buy a camera, a super eight camera and a 16 millimeter camera. And to buy film and a little splicing machine, a little editing splicing machine. Like before digital editing, you literally had to like cut the film, right? Yeah. And so I wrote, directed, produced, and edited these little short films that my neighborhood buddies would star in. One of my best friends, shout out to Phil Desjardin and Dan Gomez. Yeah, they, my buddies growing up would play these roles I would give them.

A few times I convinced like local police department guys. to participate and we would do, I remember one, this is actually hilarious. There's just one short film I made where two buddies in mine, Phil and Dan, they rob a 7-Eleven and it's like in the movie, in this little short. And it's like a heist, a little three minute heist, right? And I wanted a police car chase.

So at the time I was working at the local pizzeria, working the counters like, I think it was like probably freshman year in high school. Yeah. The cops came in and they'd always eat really cheap. The role was the owner would let us charge cops 10 bucks no matter what they eat. They could get $30 with the food, 10 bucks.

And so they liked us. And I remember I asked Officer Tim Durkin, shout out to Officer Tim Durkin. I remember asking him, I say, hey, will you, will you participate in this police chase in my short film? And the guy did it. He did it. And I sped up the film.

You know, you can speed up film, right? So he was going fast, but I made him look like was going really fast. And he's peeling around corners in our little suburban Jersey neighborhood. That's absolutely hilarious. And he got really into it. We had this great camera movement at the end. We're like at the end, like, when the two thieves get away, he like slams on his

break, hops out of his car and like the camera like moves around the door. Like, and he just looks like a badass. And he loved it. And he had a great time. And when I go home for the holidays to my little Jersey town, I often bump into him at the local bar. And he always brings it up. He's like, man, that was awesome, you know? So I had all these

I tried to add like production value All the things I did As a kid I was making these short films Yeah And try to make it You know I kept viewing each one as a challenge Like I would get a police car chase

Or I'd get like the local EMTs The ambulances to like You know show up in a scene And like But I was very inspired by Spielberg To do all that Like reading about him The fact that he did that as a kid

Is what made me want to do as a kid Yeah And yeah I made like a I probably made like a dozen short films on Super 8 and 16 throughout middle school and high school. And it really cemented, you know, my, uh, my desire to get into the movie business and make it a career, you know? And then so years later, when we developed Ready Player 1, so the way that started is Ernie, Ernie Klein wrote the book, amazing book. He's an amazing author.

And, um, and, uh, I started collaborating with him and we, I set it up, as a producer, I set it up at Warner Brothers, got them on board to fund the development of it and pay for the adaptations to be written. And that process started in 2010, a year before the book came out. And then the book came out and became this big, you know, sensation, instant bestseller. And we continued developing the screenplay. And then it got to the point in spring of 2015, we had a draft that we all loved and the studio loved and we needed a director and we brought it to Spielberg

and he loved the script and they read the book and loved the book. That's amazing. And I remember learning at the time that his wife had coincidentally just listened to the audio book on her morning walks and so she had been talking about it coincidentally

and then we offered it to him and it was kind of like, you know, he was here, he was meant to be. Yeah, he was hearing for multiple people how wonderful the book was and yeah. And then so he, he, he, he, He came on board spring of 15 and everything got fast-tracked. We started pre-production, end of 15.

We shot in 16 in the UK in the English countryside. Warner has a studio called Levesden. And it's about an hour or hour and a half out of London. And we shot there in 2016. And then it was in post-production throughout all of 2017. And then it came out March of 2018. And we premiered it at the South by Southwest Film Festival, opening weekend, Sunday afternoon of 2018.

And that's relevant because a really cool thing for me was when my movie The Age disclosure was done, we also premiered it in the exact same slot, Sunday afternoon, opening weekend of South by Southwest Film Festival. And we premiered in the same theater, the Paramount Theater in Austin, the historic Paramount Theater. It's like an 1,100 seat theater.

And it was pretty surreal for me. Yeah. Being on stage introducing the movie, while I have this memory of sitting in the audience watching Spielberg introduce Ready Player 1 in the same place in 2018. That's pretty incredible dude. Yeah, yeah. What's even weirder, like kind of a glitch in the matrix, it was South by Southwest Film Festival 2006 that I met Ernest Klein who wrote Ready Player 1.

So this all kind of happened with a couple blocks of each other, which is kind of weird. That's wild. Yeah, it's wild, yeah. But no, Spielberg had a huge influence on me and, you know, They were talking to him about this whole topic, this alien UFO topic? Just a little bit on set, making the movie. Yeah. He's got a new movie coming out. Yeah, he's got, he's got Disclosure Day coming out in June. And I think it's going to make a huge impact.

I think the one, it's like a one two punch, I think. Like this documentary makes people realize how real this is and how serious it is. And then you get like a big popcorn movie from like the greatest filmmaker ever that, you know, shows a grounded story dealing with this. I think the combined impact of that is going to, to really open people's minds. I mean, if me watching close encounters as a kid and ET as a kid led to me having this lifelong interest in eventually making this documentary, what is the combined impact of my doc and his film going to do for someone else, you know, or for other people or for the

collective, you know? Yeah. So I think movies, man, make a bigger impact on culture than anything else. Totally. I really believe that. And I think you get, especially, in this day and age where everyone's so ADD and looking at a million things on their social media scrolls like movies are those is like you know in rare air in that like you get someone's focused for like an hour and a half to two hours that's what they're focused on you know and it makes an emotional impact on them yeah they learn something from it that takes something away from it it makes them think about things they hadn't thought about um yeah it's uh it's a powerful it's a powerful It's a powerful force, the movie, I think.

And so... Especially when you, like, really have to invest in it. You know, like, when you had to get in the car, drive there, go sit down, you know, buy your popcorn, buy your soda, sit down, put your phone away. Make sure your phone's on silent, you know, like, the fact that we don't do that anymore is kind of sad. Because that's like, you're so locked in when you're there and you're that invested in it. You've committed that much time to doing it.

And now it's just like, oh, we watch half of them on our phone, half of them on our laptop at night. We split it into multiple days because we don't have fucking time. Yeah. And man, I don't know where that goes, but yeah, no, it's like it's, I do too. I do too. The um, but making that movie, making Ready Player 1, um, I got to say, you know, for a guy who's the most successful person in the history of Hollywood, right? Yeah. Uh, he was very sweet and he was very cool, you know, I was a, you know, I'm a young producer now as a younger producer. then and he was still super cool and welcoming and you know when a when a when a when a big director's making a a big movie like it's their set right it's their set and they they got a job to do and

like you know anyone else there like they have to be cool with and they have to be welcoming and they have to be okay with it right and he was always cool about that does he shoot what do you mean like Is he a shooter director? Is he a cinematographer? No, no, no, no. He has go-to cinematographers. Okay. One of the...

Some directors like to use the cameras. The one he uses the most is Yomish Kaminsky, who shot our movie. Amazing cinematographer. Also, a great guy. And it was, it was an, I mean, put yourself in my shooting, man. I mean, literally my favorite filmmaker was a kid and the biggest influence on me. And I'm getting to me on set with him making a movie that I developed. right the script I developed and I thought I was like it felt like a kid in the candy store

but he was very cool and um I remember actually uh one day early on and making that movie um myself and uh Ernie Klein were in in the lunch line with the crew just filling up a plate of food we're pretty far down the line I'd filled a full plate of food and Stevens assistant came up behind us and was like, hey guys, I don't want to interrupt you, but, you know, no pressure. I remember saying no pressure, but Stephen's having lunch by himself right now. I wanted to know if you guys wanted to join, but no pressure. We both like instantly just dropped our planes. We're like, let's go.

Let's go. We don't need lunch. We don't need lunch. And then, like, that was a great memory. I remember he was telling us like, he was just like, you know, he was the coolest version of himself. Yeah. He was telling us stories about Jurassic Park and Jaws.

That's amazing. We were just sitting there with our with our jaws on the floor. Wow. Remember literally walking away from that lunch and being like, I cannot fucking believe that that just happened. That's wild.

Fun fact, I was a production assistant or a camera production assistant on a movie with a cinematographer who did Independence Day. The DP of Independence Day. It's amazing movie. That's the closest I've ever gotten

anything cool like that. I love that movie, man. Now I look back at that movie differently. You know, there's that great scene where, Bill Pullman, who plays the president. Yeah. He says some line basically, essentially saying,

someone brings up the idea that, like, our government has a secret UFO alien program. And he says some line like, you know, that's all conspiracy. That's all bullshit. And then the guy who plays the head of the CIA, an actor named James Redbourne, who's passed away, actually lived in my hometown.

He played the head of the CIA. And he has a famous line for the movie where he goes, he's like, well, sir, that's not exactly. Exactly true. And then boom, they're at Area 51. I want to see who that was. Like, I'm not, it's not ringing a bell right now. So James Redbourne's the tall guy, white hair.

He was in the talented Mr. Ripley. He's in a lot of movies. He was in the game. Remember the game? That's an amazing movie, by the way. The game. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. Okay.

Yeah. Really great. Oh, dude. Yeah, he was great. He played it. You never saw the game with Michael Douglas? It's been a long time. I have seen it.

I have seen it. That movie is bonkers. He, yeah, he played the guy in the game. Yeah, I remember that now. The fake boss. I remember that now. But he, remember him being like, Mr. President, that's not exactly true. That's not exactly true.

It's so good. Yeah, dude. I remember that. I remember watching that moment and be like, that's so awesome. And then next to another, they're at Area 51 and then Judd Hirsch, who plays, um. Really? Yeah. Yeah.

Exactly. But do you remember like the bit at Area 51 where they're like, they're like, who pays for all this stuff? When they show the hangar with the UFO and stuff? Yeah. They're like, who funds all this stuff? And then someone's like, you really think a toilet C cost $5,000, you know? Like, so basically like, basically saying that like there's all these, about that basically saying there's all these line items in DOD's budget that actually go towards something else.

That's like, that's what they were saying. Oh my God. It was like the move, the popcorn movie way of saying like misappropriated funds. Wow, they're just hiding it all in fucking movies. I got to go back and watch that movie. It's a really good movie, man. It really is. But like going back, like after like everything.

we know now and going back and watching some of that shit is like can be eye opening yeah totally that's why i said about the abyss yeah go back and watch oh yeah james cameron's abyss you know and then he went down this whole you know the avatar movies and yeah dealing with life from elsewhere and you know i think he was ahead of his time for sure there was a story was ahead of his time obviously there was a story speaking of the abyss there was a story that you that you left out i heard about some guy recovering a vehicle out of ocean or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. One of the people I talked to who wouldn't go on camera, he was a special forces guy who had been involved in a UAP event. And it's a long story, but the summary is when we test missiles, there's a couple ways we test missiles. So it's not

generally speaking, but one of the ways we test missiles, we shoot them out into the ocean, they drop into the ocean. They go far distance and they drop into the ocean. And then we send special forces teams to go recover them. Usually like Navy SEALs, they'll just go recover the missile. They put it on some kind of like a recovery system and they bring it up into a chopper, take it back. And then they pull all the data from it for their tests, like, you know, how it performed. So that's just like a thing we do.

And so one of these tests happened and the recovery was happening and this guy was in the water. with a couple of his colleagues, and they had like a, you know, I don't know what the correct word is. Did you tell you what ocean? No. I don't know if it was a chain or a pulley system, but whatever.

They had, they had this system for connecting the missile. And there was a helicopter floating above them. There was a few of these guys in the water doing this. And then apparently a giant UAP came out of the ocean, like classic saucer UFO. And it was just there. They look up.

They're freaking out. people in the chopper are freaking out and apparently this thing just took the missile somehow like they described it as like a magnet almost like it just took it whoa yeah and then it took off um and these guys were just swimming in the water yeah yeah yeah oh my god yeah yeah yeah that's fucking terrifying it's crazy it's crazy um but uh it was a really credible guy and um he wouldn't he wouldn't go on camera. He wouldn't do it. Went to an interview. He was, I thought he was going to at one point, but decided, couldn't do it. But apparently, uh, that kind of thing has happened before. It's not like

an isolated incident. The ocean stuff is definitely, definitely fascinating, you know. It is. It really is, man. We might find out there's a whole civilization under the ocean. Totally. Totally, man. I had this NASA guy on about a year ago. Kevin Knooth. He, uh, as a former NASA contractor, and he was explaining to me, it made so much sense when he explained this to me. He says, if you're an interplanetary civilization and you want to jump between planet to planet, he goes,

it's not a good idea to stay in the atmospheres because the atmospheres are so volatile from planet to planet. Like, the atmosphere of Venus is like 900 degrees Fahrenheit on like a cold day. So it's like fucking hell, right? And not only that, but like the pressure's different.

There's volcanoes, asteroids, comets, all kinds of shit you can't predict in the atmosphere. But if you can find a planet with liquid water, liquid water can only exist between 33 degrees and like 200 degrees Fahrenheit. And the pressure, if you want to get the pressure right, you just dial it down to the depth. You're going to get the right pressure depending on the depth that you're at, with the atmospheres that you're at. So you would just go to water worlds because you can get the exact temperature and pressure. And if you had the ability to warp space time in a localized area, create a bubble around your craft, that's the key to interstellar travel.

You could explore our galaxy, other galaxies, and you could find these places. Right, totally. I mean, it's definitely the key to interstellar travel, which is wild. Yeah. But by the way, the other thing just made me think of, we were talking about Spielberg, he was so ahead of his time with his topic, right?

Like he clearly had some insight in the 70s when he made close encounters. and when he made AT. But he also, people forget, he also wrote Poultergeist, Poltergeist, the movie about... I didn't know he wrote that. Yeah, about paranormal activity

and a family dealing with it at home. And he was very ahead of his time. Go back and watch... I would like to get that guy some truth serum. Yeah. Yeah, no, he's tackled some really interesting topics for sure. And I'm pumped for discussion. I will definitely be watching that movie in the theater.

Oh, yeah. 100% bro. Yeah. I think he had real consultants in the same way that, you know, before I made the age disclosure, I formed relationships with high level intelligence officials who really kind of like help me understand the lay the land and how serious it is and how real it is. Right. You know, my understanding is he also had insights.

You know, Jacques Valet was, was one of the consultants on the movie. That's the French scientist character. and close Conner's based on Jacques Valet. And Jock had worked with Project Blue Book. And, you know, I believe, I believe Spielberg's talked publicly about how Alan Heineck, who was the lead investigator of Project Blue Book, was one of his consultants. So, yeah, he had people informing him. There's also that great story.

I can't remember who shared this, but there's a great story about Spielberg. doing a screening of E.T. at the White House for Reagan. And on the way out, Reagan commenting on how there's just a few people who know how close to true the E.T. story is or how much truth there is or some line like that. I believe Spielberg might have told this story. Really? We got to look it up. We've got to find it online. No way. It's a great story.

Look that up. Reagan. Just do Reagan Spielberg E.T. screening. Reagan, Spielberg, ET screening story. Yeah. See what comes up with that. Yeah. I can't remember where. I haven't heard.

I've never heard that. Yeah. Who was the president that was super obsessed with the UFOs? Well, there was a lot. Ford was into it. Carter was into it. Reagan was into it. There was a story,

there was a famous story of Jackie Gleason and Nixon. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So that is a famous story that I've heard as well of apparently Nixon was a big, Jackie Gleason fan yeah and Jackie Gleason was very in set with this topic and apparently there was one day where they were talking on the golf course about it and Nixon apparently said you know basically this is see a fucking alien real I'm to show you some stuff and and apparently he showed him a a recovered UFO on a

military base oh I thought he showed him an alien I heard I thought the story was he showed him an alien body oh well I didn't know that I didn't know that that's that I could be wrong that's what and this and this particular story just to say it I I don't know what source that came from. This is just something that's kind of like a story that's out there. In pop culture, I don't know if it's real or not real. But the Reagan thing, I'm pretty sure. Oh, here's the story about Spielberg and ET.

Can you zoom in a little bit? In the new interview, ain't cool news. Spielberg details the time he screened the classic film ET at the White House for Reagan and distinguished guests and the former president's coy response to the alien epic. He just, this is a quote from Spielberg, he just stood up, he looked around the room, almost like he was doing a headcount. And then he said, I want to thank you for bringing E.T. to the White House. We really enjoyed your movie. And then he looked around the room and said, and there are a number of people in this room who know that everything on that screen is absolutely true.

Spielberg remembered. Wow. And Spielberg says he said it without smiling. Without smiling. Yeah. So that's a story. did say that I saw the interview. That's actually an on-camera interview, I think. No way. So, yeah. And that, when you combine that with, you know, Reagan gave a speech at the United Nations that, you know, most people either don't know happened or forgot about. I put it,

I put it in my film in the Ad Disclosure. He gives the speech where he talks about how he often thinks that the one thing that will unite humanity is, and are amongst adversaries, is, a threat from another intelligent life from outside this planet. Right. And how it will help us see more of what we have in common than our differences. We'll think of each other instead of Americans and Chinese and Russians, we'll think of each other as earthlings. Yeah.

But the whole thing about that is like, put yourself in his shoes. He's the president of the United States. He's giving a speech at the UN. He can say anything he wants. And he chooses to say that he often thinks about this. Why do you often think about this? unless it's a situation that you have to think about. The president of the United States doesn't have like free time.

You know? Like, you're choosing very specifically to say that you often think about this. That's bonkers. And then there's this, this Spielberg story. And there's other stories. One of the people I interviewed, there was actually a few people, I should, I should make this clear. There's a few people I interviewed that I didn't end up including in the film simply

because there wasn't time. Or like what they talked about, there wasn't like an organic way to get to it in the context of the dock. It would have felt like a right-hand turn out of nowhere, you know? And they were really great people, super credible. I'm grateful they gave me their time.

And one day I will put those interviews out too somehow in some form. But one of them was a former NSA guy who was involved in Reagan's Star Wars program and he says on camera that he came to understand the concern about UAP

coming in and out of our atmosphere was one of the motivations for the Star Wars program. Wow. Yeah, pretty wild. That is fucking nuts. Yeah, and he also talks about how Reagan had learned how real the situation was. Now, it's revealed in my film

that most U.S. presidents are kept in the dark on this. They're not told the truth. and that they're told the base facts. I think some presidents, my understanding is some presidents, once they learned the base facts, kind of like on their own, figured out the rest. But they're largely just kept in the dark.

But yeah, Reagan. And then Bush, the other one who has a big role and we talk about in the film is Bush 2. I mean, excuse me, Bush 1, Bush Sr. When he was director of the CIA, he was not read in on this. He was not told the truth about the crash retrieval and reverse engineering program.

and when, but that he found out that it existed. And then when he became president, he went out of his way to learn the truth about it and got very involved. And then his son, Bush 2, knew the base facts. And he wanted to disclose it, right? And he was contemplating disclosing it. So he held a multi-day think tank.

We talk about it in my film. One of the people who participated in the think tank is Dr. Hal Pudoff, who's in my film. He tells the story. about how he and I think he said like a dozen other people from various parts of society, scientists, people from finance, were put in a room basically and told that the Russians and the Chinese and the Americans have all recovered technology of non-human origin. And it's circumstances that we're all dealing with.

And that the president was contemplating, stepping to the microphone and telling the world the base facts. And he wanted this group of people to assess what the repercussions would be, what the impact would be on society and rank it from a one to ten scale each vertical. Like the impact on religion, the impact on the economy, the impact on just a list of things, right? And they all went in, he said they all went into it thinking this was going to be a good thing. And then when they started to like honestly evaluate it and like run the numbers, they decided that it was not a good idea. And that there was more more cons than pros. Relative to the story is the fact that it was like just after 9-11.

So the context also was like the world was already dealing with, you know, a big curveball and chaos and, you know, the global war on terror started. And, you know, the timing of it also was a factor. But Hal goes on the record on camera saying he participated in this. And this was an actual process that happened in our lifetime, which is wild, you know, to think that like you think back to the, you know, Bush II's presidency and you thought you knew what was going on in the world. And this was happening in a room secretly in D.C. That's crazy.

And then when asked about it, I found a clip of Bush asked about it, Bush two being asked about it on Jimmy Kimmel. He's like, I'm not going to tell you. Yeah. Right? And timing-wise, it was soon after this panel. And he says, Kimmel goes, you know, have you looked into this? And he thinks for a second. He goes, yeah, but I'm not going to tell you. Right.

And when you put it all together, you're just like, wow. So, yeah, I think some presidents have found out and then ultimately been discouraged from coming forward on it. Yeah. Well, we'll see if Trump can see his legacy and be the one that does it. Yeah, yeah. Let's see what happens. Then we'll come back and talk about it more. That's a crazy shit happening right now.

Trump doing this, missing scientists. We'll see. Yeah. It's going to be an interesting year. We are 100% living in the age of disclosure. That is for sure. I do think a lot more is going to be coming out, though, seriously. And everyone should look for Jay Stratton's book. That's how blow people's minds. I'm thinking about what the next film I'm going to make is. I'm having some high-level conversations with folks in government about doing a follow-up film. there's also a bunch of these like stand-alone stories that I'm interested in like we've talked about a few of them that could be on their own standalone docs like deep dives down a specific situation that happened in the same way that James did that great film moment of contact and

focused on that one event and yeah and I'm building you know I I I founded relentless releasing the distribution company that that released the film and building that and going to be releasing other movies as well. So that's awesome. Yeah, I'm thinking about a bunch of different things for what's next. Well, it's a fantastic film and it's definitely doing a huge part moving the needle and getting people talking about this and making it more normalized and, you know, helping us push this out so we can finally get the truth. Hopefully in my lifetime. Yeah, we will. And thank you for putting, starting a light on this topic, man. Every conversation you have about it helps normalize it and make people realize what's going on. My pleasure, man. I enjoy, I enjoyed every

moment of this and we will we will link your film below thank you and all that good stuff and thanks again dude thank you appreciate it appreciate it oh man cool good night world