Americans deserve the truth, not more evasions from career bureaucrats, and a new documentary called The Age of Disclosure is tearing at the curtain the deep state has tried to keep closed for decades. The film, which premiered at SXSW in March 2025, features former Pentagon official Luis Elizondo and dozens of military and intelligence veterans who say the U.S. government has long hidden hard, consequential evidence about Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena.
On Newsmax’s “Saturday Agenda,” Elizondo doubled down on what patriots already suspected: there are serious data and metadata questions that must be answered before anyone can wave away these incidents as nonsense. He stressed the need for velocity, altitude, trajectory and provenance to establish whether dramatic video — including footage Rep. Eric Burlison says shows a Hellfire missile strike on an unknown object — is authentic. Conservatives who care about national security should welcome that call for rigorous, transparent analysis rather than another media hand wave.
The documentary and whistleblower testimony are not idle entertainment; they allege a pattern of concealment that reaches into the highest levels of our national security apparatus. The filmmakers and witnesses claim there are programs and recoveries dating back to 1947, and some participants even assert that nonhuman biological material and reverse-engineering efforts exist. Whether every explosive claim holds up to scrutiny, the sheer volume of credible former officials demanding answers should make every American uneasy about the secrecy we’ve been sold.
Skeptics in the establishment press will howl about lack of publicly released wreckage or a smoking gun, but that is precisely the point conservatives have long made about classified programs: secrecy becomes a shield against accountability. If there are technologies or materials that could alter the balance of power, Congress and the American people have a right to know whether we’ve been kept behind the eight ball while adversaries like China and Russia watch and learn. The argument for transparency is a national security argument, and it should unite patriots across the aisle.
Make no mistake: demanding proof and demanding disclosure are not mutually exclusive. Elizondo’s insistence on metadata and provenance is sober, sensible, and exactly what a responsible government should provide when confronted with extraordinary claims. Republicans and conservatives must lead the charge for serious, unclassified hearings, preservation of whistleblower protections, and immediate release of non-sensitive data that would let independent experts verify or debunk the most consequential allegations.
At the end of the day this is about trust — the American people are tired of being treated like children while career officials decide what to hide. If these revelations in The Age of Disclosure are true, the consequences for our security, technology leadership and even our understanding of humanity are enormous. Stand with those asking hard questions, demand the documents and data, and don’t let the swamp bury this story with the same tired excuses that have protected bureaucratic power for far too long.
