A new Amazon Prime documentary has ignited fresh controversy in the UFO disclosure debate, alleging that three unidentified craft touched down at a New Mexico air base in 1964 and that former US President George HW Bush was privately informed about the extraordinary encounter decades later.
Documentary revives claim of alien encounter at US Air Force base in 1964
The film, The Age of Disclosure, features testimony from astrophysicist Eric Davis, a former scientific advisor for the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). Davis alleges that Bush told him in private conversations in 2003 that military and CIA personnel witnessed three spacecraft approaching Holloman Air Force Base in Otero County, with one landing directly on the tarmac. According to his account, a “non-human entity” stepped out of the craft and engaged face-to-face with officials.Davis further claims Bush, a former CIA director and decorated Navy aviator, was briefed on the incident years after his presidency but was denied deeper access to the files. He says Bush was told he did not have the “need to know” for further details, despite his background in intelligence.
The ‘Legacy Programme’: Acreative UFO retrieval operation
At the heart of the documentary is an alleged top-secret US government initiative known as the “Legacy Programme”. Interviewees claim the operation, run by elements of the CIA, US Air Force, Department of Energy and private defense contractors, has recovered multiple crashed vehicles and alien bodies over several decades. The film asserts that even sitting US presidents have been blocked from accessing information related to the programme.Despite these sweeping claims, the documentary does not present new physical evidence such as materials, photographs or documents, and instead relies on testimonies from former officials, scientists and military personnel.Hal Puthoff, a physicist and longtime figure in the UFO transparency movement, appears in the film asserting that several different types of extraterrestrial beings have been recovered. He declines, however, to describe them in detail. “Whoever it is, they are here,” he says. “And they have been operating here for a long time.”The documentary also revisits reports of a supposed 1988 UFO crash in Russia, where alien remains were allegedly retrieved from a damaged “tic tac” shaped craft.
Claims of injuries from contact with an unknown craft
Prominent Stanford immunologist Dr Gary Nolan recounts his examination of US military personnel who claimed to have been exposed to unidentified anomalous phenomena. He describes “horrific” burns, neurological damage and internal scarring found inside the brain tissues of patients brought to him by CIA representatives and an unnamed aerospace contractor.A retired Navy and Air Force intelligence officer, Mike Flaherty, similarly alleges that he experienced “biological effects” after coming into close contact with a craft while in service.
Politicians warn of secrecy and earthly threats
The film includes comments from senior US lawmakers who argue that secrecy around unidentified objects, whether extraterrestrial or adversarial technology, presents national security risks. Former Senator Marco Rubio warns that the assumption presidents are fully briefed on UFO matters is naive, while Senator Kirsten Gillibrand stresses that unidentified objects could originate from hostile nations such as China or Russia.Director Dan Farah says he hopes the documentary accelerates global transparency on UFO and UAP incidents. “I think this film puts us in a different place,” he tells viewers. “It sets the table for a president to step to the microphone and more comfortably tell all of humanity that we are not alone.”While the documentary’s claims remain unverified, its mixture of military testimony, scientific speculation and political concern has already stirred intense debate and reignited public fascination with the possibility that Earth experienced a historic extraterrestrial encounter more than half a century ago.
