If you’ve opened a social network in the last 72 hours, chances are the rumor that Donald Trump is about to confirm the existence of biological life outside of Earth has blown up in your face. The truth behind this news could be very cinematic, in the most earthly sense possible.
The seed of the rumor. This news cycle is not born from a leak from the Pentagon, nor from a casual chat at Mar-a-Lago. The exact origin is an interview published by Entertainment Weekly on November 21, 2025.
The protagonist of the article is Dan Farah, director of the documentary ‘The Age of Disclosure’, which brings together dozens of former senior US military, intelligence and political officials stating that there is “non-human intelligence”, and that the government has been hiding it for about eight decades. Coincidentally, it was released in theaters and Prime Video this very weekend.
What exactly did he say? “I think it’s only a matter of time before the release of this film is followed by a sitting president taking the lectern to tell the world, ‘We are not alone in the universe.'”
Farah said Trump had been briefed on the “basic facts” and that, according to his sources, the documentary was “100% on his radar.” However, he only expressed one belief that his film would catalyze an announcement, not a confirmation that the White House had a press conference scheduled.
The broken phone. The nuance was lost in the subsequent media coverage. YouTube channels and TikTok and Instagram accounts changed the narrative from “Trump is aware of the documentary” to “Trump knows the truth,” “Trump will break the silence,” and “Trump will make the files public.”
The documentary. The film that gave rise to all this, ‘The Age of Disclosure’ interviews 34 US government and intelligence officials. The most prominent names are Senator Marco Rubio, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.
Together they allege a cover-up of 80 years of history of non-human intelligence, uncovering a secret reverse engineering race to understand alleged alien ships. Just the trailer It had more than 20 million viewswhich demonstrates the public’s hunger for this issue and explains the media coverage of Farah’s statements.
Trump doesn’t believe in aliens. There are reasons for skepticism, beyond the promotion of the documentary. In one interview with Logan PaulDonald Trump defined himself as a “non-believer” in ufology.
However, he admitted to speaking to “serious” pilots who have seen strange things (“round, flying four times faster than our fighters”) and promised “radical transparency” and declassifying related documents. What would be for another debate: there is a big difference between investigating unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) and announcing extraterrestrial life.
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