Dec 03, 2025
Written By [Christopher Sharp](https://www.liberationtimes.com/?author=610434e320e3e945538177b1)
Written by [Christopher Sharp](https://twitter.com/ChrisUKSharp) \- 3 December 2025
If President Donald Trump wishes to disclose information about Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) – and reveal what whistleblowers claim, that multiple advanced non-human species surround us – now is the time to do it.
Dan Farah’s film The Age of Disclosure features testimony from several high-profile current and former public officials.
Interviewees include former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Mike Rounds and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Since its release on 21 November, it has attracted a tidal wave of media attention.
The movie’s message is clear. There is a ‘legacy’ UAP program hidden even from senior public officials, including the President. And behind the scenes, this program is in a race against time with other nations to retrieve non-human vehicles and reverse engineer their technology — whoever succeeds first will dominate the world.
The allegation is that this is the Manhattan Project on steroids.
But is President Trump ready to disclose? That depends on who you ask. Liberation Times understands that Trump takes little personal interest in the issue. This is despite his Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, allegedly currently pursuing her own investigations after [stating that her office is](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tulsi-gabbard-tells-podcaster-aliens-may-real-were-continuing-look-truth) ‘continuing to look for the truth, and share that truth with the American people.’
In The Age of Disclosure, his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, recounts whistleblower allegations that elements within the U.S. government have recovered technology from a non-human intelligence, reverse-engineered it, and turned it over to private military contractors in ways that could undermine national security and risk a Pearl Harbour–like event.
According to [journalist Michael Shellenberger](https://x.com/shellenberger/status/1995905942068887651?s=20), a senior Rubio advisor has said, “We’re headed toward massive disclosure.”
However, there are no overt signs that disclosure is close. When Fox News host Sean Hannity [asked Rubio about his comments in the film last night](https://x.com/MvonRen/status/1996041348848517599?s=20), Rubio simply smiled before eventually retreating to his usual line: that whistleblowers in sensitive government roles are either lying, crazy, or telling the truth. He added that admirals and generals were telling him that programs were operating within the U.S. government that even Presidents were not made aware of.
He then claimed he has no answers and no independent way to verify what they have said – an astonishing admission for someone who also serves as National Security Advisor in the Trump White House, sitting at the very centre of the apparatus that is supposed to know.
Rubio also voiced concern that a foreign adversary may have developed an asymmetric capability that the U.S. is not prepared for, comparing such capabilities to drones or balloons.
It was clear in his Fox News interview that Rubio wished to downplay the film and his own comments. Rubio preferred to speak of balloons and drones penetrating sensitive airspace rather than what the current CIA Director and former Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, [has described as](https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/former-director-of-national-intelligence-undermines-efforts-to-downplay-unusual-ufo-cases-claiming-that-some-demonstrate-technologies-that-seem-to-defy-the-law-of-physics?rq=john%20ratcliff):
“Objects that demonstrate technologies that seem to defy the law of physics and capabilities that we don’t have as the world’s superpower.”
Even the much-maligned former deputy director of the Pentagon’s UAP office, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), [Tim Phillips, has gone further than Rubio](https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/former-pentagon-investigator-warns-of-ufos-with-capabilities-we-could-not-duplicate-today?rq=tim%20phillips) \- speaking about alarming, unexplainable incidents reported to him which go beyond conventional technology.
Phillips has described seeing reports and evidence of fiery orbs appearing over U.S. military ranges that seem able to mask their presence, and of black triangular craft that manoeuvre with little noise or heat signature.
Describing one fiery-orb incident, he recalled:
“When we start seeing a corona or plasma discharge, and when we’ve had some of these really really strange events from the reports of the security personnel on site, these devices attempted to conceal themselves.
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“In one case, when a truck from main side was coming out onto the range, this device stopped, hovered, went off the road and turned its fricking lights off.”
Turning to the black triangles, Phillips said:
“There were some reports from credible people where they saw something, and they saw a flying vehicle, triangular in shape, trans… just good performance coming off it, not a huge acoustic sound, not a lot of heat picking up….I want to know what it is, because I think it’s an adversary capability.”
He claimed that AARO has been studying photographs, videos, and witness reports of these triangular craft.
It strains credulity to suggest that Rubio – a former Gang of Eight member, and now both Secretary of State and National Security Advisor – is unaware of such incidents.
And if Ratcliffe and Phillips are correct, it is even harder to believe that he would not treat investigating these sightings, and the whistleblowers’ claims about secretive UAP programs, as an urgent priority — particularly if there is any chance that earthly adversaries possess such technology and are responsible for incursions over U.S. military ranges.
Therefore, Rubio’s remarks to Hannity should be taken with a grain of salt.
Anyone familiar with politics knows that public statements are often shaped by messaging, deniability and risk management rather than by the full underlying reality.
At the same time, Rubio is deeply engaged in sensitive peace talks over Ukraine, giving him every incentive to project steadiness and avoid making explosive UAP headlines that could distract from his diplomatic role.
Instead, we should pay closer attention to what is being said in private and by senior advisers — including the account given by a senior adviser to Rubio, speaking to Michael Shellenberger, which suggests that a major disclosure effort is being prepared behind the scenes.
But there is still no concrete overt sign that UAP disclosure is currently a priority for the Trump administration, despite the reported interest of key figures, including Gabbard, Rubio, and Ratcliffe.
Even Vice President JD Vance has [declared his interest in the topic](https://www.foxnews.com/us/jd-vance-says-ufos-aliens-could-be-spiritual-forces-vp-vows-get-bottom-mystery-skies), stating, “I can’t allow myself to become so busy that I don’t get to the bottom of this. I will get to the bottom of this”.
The Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act (UAPDA) has been proposed multiple times for inclusion in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), but has never been fully implemented in law. A version of it was first introduced in 2023 by then Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
The UAPDA – put forward for the NDAA again this year – proposes the creation of an independent UAP Records Review Board to oversee the review and declassification process and require public disclosure of UAP records within 25 years unless the Presi
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