QAA Podcast, Episode 353: "I’m Over Disclosure" (Dec 19, 2025)

Hosts: Julian Feeld, Travis View, Jake Rockatansky, Brad Abrahams
Theme: A critical, comedic deep-dive into the modern UFO "Disclosure" movement, the booming “Age of Disclosure” documentary, and the personalities and claims driving public UFO mania.

Episode Overview

This episode centers on the recent frenzy around “disclosure”—the belief that governments will soon reveal the truth about UFOs (“UAPs”) and alien contact. The hosts focus on the spectacular success and problematic nature of the breakout documentary Age of Disclosure, dissecting its content, production, and reception. The discussion also touches on the enduring structure of “disclosure” narratives, the adult children of the UFO-industrial complex, and why even true believers are exhausted by the same old tropes.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Disclosure Fatigue

• Julian Feeld opens up about his UFO fascination—balancing skepticism and genuine belief, but admitting exhaustion with both contemporary UFO documentaries and the endless anticipation of "disclosure."
• Quote:
  "Even though I'm best known for my film Love and Saucers about an ET experiencer, I don't like watching UFO documentaries, particularly in the TV format... They're just always about the subject of disclosure that the powers that be are just about to reveal the grand secret in any moment. And the truth is I just don't care. I'm over with disclosure." (01:40-02:55)
• Jake sums up the general mood:
  "Here we are, bored out of our skulls. We don't give a shit... I don't give a fuck. If they were announced like tomorrow, that guys, it's real... I would go, wow, the craziest person on the Internet was right. ... It's just another buzzing flies around my head..." (03:24)

2. The Documentary: "Age of Disclosure"

• Massive hype at SXSW, outsized venue, celebrity attendance, highest grossing doc on Amazon Prime—yet, critically panned by major outlets, with sky-high audience scores.
• Quote:
  The New York Times said anyone who sits through its nearly two hours of unprovable claims is a chump. (08:15)
• Audience disconnect:
  "I started playing on my phone like 15 minutes into it... Every time they come up with something interesting, there's no NASA specialist for that. It's a guy at a board... He's not even wearing a suit." — Jake (07:14)

3. The Boomerang of Authority: Credentials Over Substance

• The doc leans hard on military, intelligence, and government voices but offers no new proof.
• Host critique:
  "You can believe in some dumb crazy shit; your credentials are irrelevant to your beliefs." — Jake (11:16)
  "So many people serve in the military, there's going to be a decent percent of them that are just insane." — Brad (11:48)
• Montage of officials rattling off service records does not equal evidence.

4. No New Evidence, Just Recycled Claims

• No new declassified materials; same three Navy UAP videos, endless "talking heads."
• "Show me a ship up close and show me a body. Until then I don't care.” — Jake (14:34)

5. Disclosure as IQ Test & National Security Threat

• The doc moves from vague possibility (“maybe there are UFOs”) through layers of assertion (“reverse engineering alien tech,” “bodies were recovered”)—but never delivers the goods.
• Notable sequence:
  "There’s sightings... then that these UAPS are confirmed non human intelligence...then these UAPS have crashed and we've recovered them...then a whole other leap...that bodies have been recovered..." — Julian (27:04)
• UFOs are not a source of awe, but a cited reason for more defense funding:

  “The most important aspect of the phenomena is that they're a national security threat, need to be taken seriously because of this and this alone.” — Julian (40:04)

6. Recurring Characters: Believers, Grifters, & Bureaucrats

• Featured players like Lou Elizondo (whose credentials are disputed), Jay Stratton, Hal Puthoff (ex-Scientologist), Eric Davis, Gary Nolan, Marco Rubio, Dan Crenshaw, James Clapper, and others are presented as authoritative but rarely have firsthand testimony.
• Quote:
  "Once again, a bar owner whose only credential is disputed by the very organization that he claims to belong to is a director of some sort." — Brad (33:22)

7. The Bubble Theory and Sci-Fi Gobbledygook

• The film’s “breakthrough” is a catch-all “warp bubble” hypothesis for UFO maneuvers—met with skepticism and mockery by hosts.
• Quote:
  "So it's basically the theory is just that there's a magic bubble around the crafts that can do anything." — Julian (49:03)

8. Religious and Paranoid Overtones

• The doc nods to “demons not aliens” claims in conservative circles, but hosts point out America’s perpetual need for biblical, cosmic significance.
• Lou Elizondo claims a “committee of 27” might assassinate him for what he knows.
  "If I wind up in a month from now floating in the Potomac somewhere, you know what happened." — Lou Elizondo via Brad (60:05)

9. Mirrors Upon Mirrors: Industrial Complexes & Self-Licking Ice Cream Cones

• Julian draws direct parallels between 1980s disinfo operations (Richard Doty, Majestic 12) and today’s ecosystem of intelligence-adjacent disclosure advocates.
• Quote:
  "A closed ecosystem where the same small network generates claims, validates each other's claims, and then cites those validations as independent confirmation. Which is like a perfect sum up of this movie." — Julian (76:57)
• The "Disclosure Industrial Complex" runs on book deals, podcasts, merch—profitable vested interests outweigh motivation for real revelation.

10. Community, Culture & Pop/Alt Critique

• The movie is one more installment in a long chain of similar revelations promised "any day now."
• While UFO discourse is theoretically bipartisan, it is, per hosts, "the most pilled of each pool" (18:42).
• The disconnect between high-level credentials and actual reliability is hammered home:

  "We have people with very high jobs in the US government that are either A, liars, B, crazy, or C, telling the truth." — Marco Rubio, quoted by Julian (80:38)

11. What UFO Content Do the Hosts Actually Like?

• Julian’s recommendations:
  • Mirage Men (2013): A skeptical, well-researched take on government UFO disinfo
  • The Curse of the Man Who Sees UFOs: Small-scale, personal documentary
  • Witness of Another World: Indigenous close encounter story
  • They're Here: Sociological doc (hasn’t found distribution)
  • Love and Saucers: Julian’s own, more humane film
• Stan Romanek: The Stan Romanek Story and Alien Autopsy recommended for their wildness
• YouTube is declared more exciting than Netflix UFO docs (89:55)

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (with Timestamps)

• "I would say that this movie should have been about four minutes long and all that footage would have been...already seen on TV." — Brad (09:36)
• "The only difference between this and like a crazy guy’s video on YouTube is that they’ll just go on to say, and that guy was Ubok from the Pleiadian star system..." — Jake (55:55)
• "You have Air Force guys. Like, why aren't they talking about it? Maybe because it ain't true, bitch." — Brad & Julian (46:38-46:56)
• "Disclosure is no longer the definitive proof... But it's the infinite edging of about it, you know, it's about to be revealed." — Jake (47:37)
• "A closed ecosystem ... the same small network generates claims, validates each other's claims, and then cites those validations as independent confirmation." — Julian (76:57)
• "A perpetual mystery is more profitable than solving it." — Julian (77:13)
• "I would trust a schizophrenic logger over any of these fuckers." — Brad (81:41)
• Hilarious asides on "sniffies," Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge, and the recurring need to see the "fucking bodies" or “up close pic of the ship” (14:34, 65:20)

Timestamps for Key Segments

• 02:55 — "I'm over disclosure": Julian on UFO fatigue
• 07:56 — Film’s popular and critical reception
• 11:16 — “Credentials are irrelevant”: Authority ≠ Credibility
• 14:34 — Lack of new footage/evidence, overt recycling
• 26:11 — The documentary’s snowballing claims: From vague to wild
• 40:04 — National security framing, threat narrative dominates
• 46:38 — Claims of biological effects, medical evidence
• 49:03 — "Warp bubble" theory, science fiction speculation
• 55:03 — Number of alien species supposedly known
• 60:05 — Lou Elizondo’s assassination paranoia
• 76:57 — "Self-licking ice cream cone": UFO disclosure’s circular logic
• 81:41 — Alternative, genuinely good UFO documentaries

Critical Tone & Takeaways

• The hosts, despite varied backgrounds and a spectrum of skepticism/belief, are united in their frustration with the endless "any day now" hype, the empty promises, and the dullness of disclosure content.
• They emphasize that authenticity and wonder in UFO stories come from sincere, firsthand experience—not institutional prestige.
• They skewer the commercial and national security interests driving UFO narratives and highlight the resemblance between the Disclosure movement and past intelligence community psy-ops.
• Summary Judgment:
  “I believe in aliens. I've seen a ufo...and I still think this doc is bad.” — Jake (65:20)

Final Thoughts

The episode excoriates the Age of Disclosure documentary as high-gloss, rehashed propaganda designed to reinforce military funding and public paranoia, not inspire awe, wonder, or answers. Disclosure, the hosts argue, is no longer about “the truth” coming out—it’s a perpetual cliffhanger, an endless rehearsal for a finale that never arrives.

[For listeners: This episode is a highly informed, irreverent, and at times absurdly funny crash course in how UFO media twists culture and vice versa. If you’re tired of “any day now” promises—or just want actual recommendations for UFO docs worth your time—this is essential listening.]