Age of Disclosure.

Uncap The House

Is the United States government engaged in a massive cover-up, withholding vital information that threatens national security, or is it stuck in a broken bureaucratic system that struggles to communicate from one department to the next? From the government officials to the elected officials who provide oversight to the people, they have both sworn to serve. That’s the question posed by the new documentary Age of Disclosure, written and directed by Dan Farah.

The allegations proposed in Age of Disclosure and previous congressional hearings hint at the possibility of an unknown species visiting Earth or a foreign adversary with superior technology and surveying our most important military sites. As Americans learn about this, they will feel misled and kept in the dark. It might stir conspiracies or even anger in some. Those leading need to consider the best way to get to the bottom of this and communicate it to the American people.

To usher in an Age of Disclosure, we must repair self-government and return to a government of the people.

The movie explores how a bureaucratic mix of private and public entities has withheld vital information from Congress, the President, and the public about UAPs (unidentified anomalous phenomena). The film features interviews with 34 senior government officials and some high-profile politicians, like current Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Senator Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY).

At a National Security congressional hearing back on July 26^th, 2023, former Navy pilot Ryan Graves described a UAP as a “Dark grey or black cube inside of a clear sphere.” His description is consistent with that of several officials in the documentary. Mr. Graves has founded Americans for Safe Aerospace to provide a safe place for commercial and military pilots to report UAP sightings, as many are afraid to come forward due to the stigma associated with it.

The UAPs are described as maneuvering outside the bounds of physics as we know it, traveling up to 40,000 MPH, and changing direction on a dime 10x faster than an SR-71. For comparison, the fastest plane we have travels at 4,600 MPH. They reportedly travel from space to the atmosphere into the ocean without losing any velocity. A theory of the technology is that an energy field so strong is created around the ship that it allows the ship to move without the environment affecting it at speeds previously thought impossible.

Besides the advanced flight capabilities, the most concerning aspect is where they are flying. UAPs are actively surveilling US nuclear sites and reportedly have activated nuclear weapons in both the United States and Russia.

Former Intelligence officer David Grusch testified that the US has engaged in a “multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program,” and said that “nonhuman biologics” have been recovered. In the documentary, it’s claimed that the US, Russia, and China are all in possession of UAP technology and are in a cold war race to reverse engineer it.

Since 1969, the military has stated that UFOs do not pose a threat to national security. However, with this new information, most Americans might disagree. Besides national security, it’s also a matter of self-government. The public has a right to know the truth and decide how to proceed. You might wonder how a decades-old secret program restricted from members of Congress and the president gets funded. Mr. Grusch suggests that funds are misappropriated, meaning that funds Congress intends for one program are redirected without congressional approval.

This all may sound like a massive cover-up, but that would be an oversimplification of the problem. In the film, Marco Rubio describes how layers of bureaucracy prevent important information from reaching the top of the chain of command. How elected officials change, how department heads change, and how the only people left are the thirty-year public servants holding this very sensitive information. With such polarization and politicization of any issue, these officials probably struggle to know who to trust.

Solving this problem is a matter of rebuilding a structure of trust and communication.

Representative Tim Burchett said, “We can’t trust a government that doesn’t trust its people.” However, our government is supposed to be a government of the people, yet we have strayed from that principle. Congress is responsible for providing appropriations and exercising oversight, yet it is overwhelmed and outnumbered by a bureaucracy that is more than 5,000 times its size.

The federal government employs more than 2 million civilians (non-Postal, non-military), and the Department of Defense alone employs 950,000 people. The military workforce is about 2.1 million civilians, and government contractors employ another estimated 1 million civilians. It’s nearly impossible to know for sure, but a 2015 study on the true size of government estimated the total federal workforce at around 9.1 million.

Counterbalance that with the 535 elected members of Congress who are responsible for providing oversight and appropriations for the workforce. The House and Senate employ about 15,000 staff to help, but much of their time is spent on constituent services, serving the over 330 million Americans.

We don’t know whether the UAPs are an alien species conducting research or a foreign adversary that has surpassed us in technology. Either one is a scary prospect. We could pretend it isn’t real and gamble that nothing will happen. Opening the possibility that one of our adversaries uses the technology against us. Or we could be proactive, developing technology to take the next step in human civilization, helping foster an era of clean, abundant energy that nearly eliminates poverty.

But to do that, we need transparency.

We would need the people of America on board. We must uncap and expand the House of Representatives to balance the people and the bureaucracy. We must empower Congress by giving it the tools to provide proper oversight. By expanding the House of Representatives, we not only share power with the American people but also build trust with them by asking them to be part of the solution and enhancing communication.