Joe Rogan Experience #2545 - Jesse Michels · Aired Aug 25, 2026
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High-ranking intelligence officials have stated on camera in the documentary 'The Age of Disclosure' that UFOs are real.
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The Age of Disclosure is a real 2025 documentary with legitimate high-ranking figures on camera, including former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. But most of them give careful, hedged statements rather than flatly declaring UFOs are real, Rubio for instance says he has no independent way to verify what he's been told. So the film and the officials are real, but the claim overstates how definitive their on camera statements actually are.
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Is it true that High-ranking intelligence officials have stated on camera in the documentary 'The Age of Disclosure' that UFOs are real?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. The Age of Disclosure is a real 2025 documentary with legitimate high-ranking figures on camera, including former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Jesse Michels said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2545 - Jesse Michels, aired Aug 25, 2026, at 2:59:01. The supporting source is en.wikipedia.org, linked below.
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