Movie: The Age of Disclosure

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Credit: Farah Films

If you have questions about UFOs, now fashionable called Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) to presumably add some seriousness and move it away from the kooky crowd, you might want to check out the upcoming film The Age of Disclosure. It will be available on November 21 on Amazon Prime as well as at select theaters.

Here is the trailer, which might entice you. It has the draw of many entertainment thrillers, and reminds me of the endless videos on YouTube and even Netflix describing secrets only a few know. It comes across as an updated version of the search for Bigfoot and the Arch of the Covenant rolled into one.

The film description states:

The Age of Disclosure is an unprecedented and revelatory film –featuring 34 senior members of the U.S. Government, military, and intelligence community– revealing a cover-up of the existence of non-human intelligent life and a secret war to reverse engineer technology of non-human origin.

The film exposes the profound impact the situation has on the future of humanity, while providing a look behind-the-scenes with those at the forefront of the bi-partisan disclosure effort.

Amazon Prime’s pitch is just as dramatic:

An explosive documentary that reveals an 80-year global cover-up of non-human intelligent life and a secret war among major nations to reverse-engineer advanced technology of non-human origin. Featuring testimony from 34 U.S. Government, military, and intelligence community insiders, the film exposes the profound stakes for the future of humanity.

One of the officials in the trailer is Senator Marco Rubio, now Secretary of State Rubio. If there is any bit of truth to all of this, we should be asking for these UAP files instead of the Epstein files.

The films creator, Dan Farah, was on Real Time with Bill Maher last week discussing the film. You can find the podcast here. Mr. Farah discusses how these non-human actors live in the sea and seem to have appeared right around the time the nuclear age started. Of course, this is also after World War II when new forms of flight and related spying was underway, but why mess up the story.

Mr. Farah also seems surprised they are seen around our military facilities, as if this would not be a prime target for any outside party, human or otherwise. He then states:

…there’s been a few events where UAP activity over nuclear weapon sites has activated the missiles in some case and then turned them off in some cases. And it’s obviously a display of power of some sort. You know, your guess is as good as mine of what the intention is, but it’s concerning.

All of this sounds pretty amazing, yet I think it is more an amazing paste job of various quotes that are then repurposed to create a more dramatic story. For that reason, it may be better for the uninitiated, or just the regular newspaper readers who do not get their news from social media, to first go through the material from the very group set up to study all of this, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, as well as various congressional hearings on this matter. Then you can make up your own mind.

Here are a few congressional hearings to get you started on your search:

We already have too many conspiracies upsetting the public and breeding mistrust of all government entities. Its time to breath and read up on this material yourself.

We need to remain open minded without advancing straight to empty headed. As Carl Sagan stated in his book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark:

Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills. If it were widely understood that claims to knowledge require adequate evidence before they can be accepted, there would be no room for pseudoscience. But a kind of Gresham’s Law prevails in popular culture by which bad science drives out good.

UFO Panic: Someone Needs a Stargazing Class

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Image (Credit): Orion’s Belt. (Davide De Martin & the ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator)

The ongoing panic related to drones it getting pretty silly. I am just glad we are not shooting down small airplanes or trying to take out a star system.

For example, Maryland’s former Governor Larry Hogan recently claimed to have “personally witnessed” drones outside his house. However, he was actually looking at Orion’s Belt.

Maybe he should check with employees at the University of Maryland’s observatory to learn about upcoming stargazing events for the public. Oh wait, the observatory is currently closed due to budget cuts.

I wonder who was governor when that happened.

Space Quote: Drone Flights Over Military Locations Said to be Common

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Image (Credit): NASA’s Alta-8 small Unmanned Aircraft System testbed vehicle. (NASA/Bowman)

“…there have been a limited number of visual sightings of drones over military facilities in New Jersey and elsewhere, including within restricted air space. Such sightings near or over Department of Defense installations are not new. The Department of Defense takes unauthorized access over its airspace seriously and coordinates closely with federal, state, and local law enforcement authorities, as appropriate.”

-Joint statement by the FBI, Federal Aviation Authority, and Departments of Homeland Security and Defense regarding the recent sighting of UFOs long the East Coast. It is an interesting admission by the government that this is more common than thought. It reminds one of the Chinese balloon shot down by the U.S. Air Force in 2023. At that time, we learned that Chinese air balloons had been flying over the United States for years.

Note: The same press release played down the drone issue in general, stating:

Having closely examined the technical data and tips from concerned citizens, we assess that the sightings to date include a combination of lawful commercial drones, hobbyist drones, and law enforcement drones, as well as manned fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and stars mistakenly reported as drones. We have not identified anything anomalous and do not assess the activity to date to present a national security or public safety risk over the civilian airspace in New Jersey or other states in the northeast.

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UFOs in New Jersey?

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Credit: Image by Angelo Scarcella from Pixabay

What’s going on in New Jersey and other parts of the East Coast? We are hearing of mysterious drone flights over communities and military installations, which the government cannot confirm.

Earlier this week, New Jersey State Senator Jon Bramnick stated:

The State of New Jersey should issue a limited state of emergency banning all drones until the public receives an explanation regarding these multiple sightings.”

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy voiced his own concerns as well to President Biden, stating:

While I am sincerely grateful for your administration’s leadership in addressing this concerning issue, it has become apparent that more resources are needed to fully understand what is behind this activity.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation says it knows nothing at this point, stating:

The public can continue to call our 800 line, or submit a tip online, we are acting on every substantive lead that we get.

And, always helpful, Donald Trump has joined the chorus, stating:

Mystery Drone sightings all over the Country,…Can this really be happening without our government’s knowledge. I (don’t) think so! Let the public know, and now. Otherwise, (shoot) them down!

As noted, this mystery covers other parts of the East Coast, including Maryland and Virginia. So is this another Chinese balloon-like incident, teenage pranksters, or something more targeted against U.S. interests?

With drones doing heavy damage in Ukraine, Russia, and the Middle East, we are no longer talking about toys. It just represents another wave of space technology causing us to look up with fear, not unlike the Cold War, which gave us plenty of other UFO scares.

We should know soon enough what is happening, but it demonstrates again the risks related to the militarization of our airspace. It starts low to the ground and goes as high as our most sensitive satellites, representing a renewed threat to all the satellites and aircraft assisting with astronomy.

Keep looking up, but hold off on shooting them down until we know more.

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Podcast: Chinwag with Paul Giamatti

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Credit: Treefort Media

If you saw the recent film The Holdovers, you witnessed Paul Giamatti at the top of his game as a private school instructor (which earned him an Oscar nomination).

But if you would like to learn about another side of Mr. Giamatti, then you may want to check out his podcast with Stephen Asma called Chinwag. It is by no means a science or an astronomy podcast, yet it is a fun collection of conversations that often touch on related topics and guests, be it topics such as UFOs and the Drake Equation, or guests including astronaut Mike Massimino, writer Ted Chiang, and actor William Shatner.

Yes, there is plenty here about the occult and mind-numbing drugs, but I recommend you sift though some of this to find the gems. Below are a few of the episodes you may want to try, but don’t expect William Shatner to talk about Captain Kirk and space travel. He is too busy sharing stories about spiritualism, drugs, and his early acting career.

—Chinwag Mailbag: The Drake Equation

Paul and Stephen dig into our Chinwag mailbag for this SETI-inspired question (that’s Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence to any novice listeners). The Drake Equation is explained and let’s just say there’s A LOT of math involved.

It’s been 60+ years since last estimates were made on the odds of finding intelligent life in the Milky Way, and Chinwag listener Rick B. wants to know, how long could a civilization broadcast its presence through technology, and what current factors might affect a civilization’s ability to remain detectable? Is there a ticking clock to our existence, and what’s Twinkie-lung got to do with all this?

—A Different Kind of Ted (Chiang) Talk

In this Chinwag, Paul and Stephen are thrilled to be subject to fascinating thought experiments by award-winning fiction writer Ted Chiang. Up for the discussion?

The difference between fact and fiction when it comes to the existence of alien life, and whether Paul is indeed an assassin because he played one in an action film Ted once saw. Imaginations are running amok and people can’t differentiate between what’s real and what isn’t. Is social media to blame or was The National Enquirer the social media of yester-year? Online echo chambers and the dangerous speed of information may be a culprit for conspiracy theories. And is belief in aliens and monsters in pop culture a direct response to higher anxiety levels and an externalization of neuroses? Then, what is singularity and was it born with the invention of the wheel?

Paul and Stephen are happy to learn that Ted’s not afraid that AI will take over, but the natural desire to do less work may lead to more romances between humans and AI robots. So buckle up and plug in your lady-cyborg and get ready for an all new fascinating Chinwag!

—Mooning with Mike Massimino

Paul and Stephen are obsessed with UFOs and life beyond earth–so who better to add to the conversation than a guy who’s been to space twice?

This week, our intrepid Chinwaggers are joined by former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino, a man who decided that a fear of heights would be best overcome by a trip to space. In this week’s classified file: space toilets, robot arms, and why there should never be more than one comedian per space shuttle.

—Tripping with William Shatner

Stephen Asma and Paul Giamatti are giddy to speak with lifelong hero and Star Trek alum William Shatner on tequila tastings, space travel, bum drug trips, holding on to your inner child and that time he beat up an Australian Olympic swimmer on stage.