New documentary claims Bush 41 was informed aliens made contact

OPINION:

It’s official: The aliens are here. And one U.S. president knew it for sure.

The latest cinematic masterpiece to tackle this cosmic question is “The Age of Disclosure,” a new documentary that promises to blow the lid off an 80-year government cover-up. It features a parade of very serious men in suits — quite a few who are or were government officials — who claim, with very serious faces, that we are not alone. Spoiler alert: They don’t actually provide any new, you know, evidence. But they do have some spine-tingling stories.

Take the tale from astrophysicist Eric Davis, who claims President George H.W. Bush casually confirmed to him that aliens made contact back in 1964. Apparently, a spaceship landed at Holloman Air Force Base, a “non-human entity” hopped out for a chat with Air Force and CIA officials and then presumably headed back off into outer space.

When Bush asked for more details, he was told he “did not have a need to know.” Let that sink in. The former head of the CIA and president of the United States didn’t have the security clearance to hear about a coffee date with E.T. at a New Mexico air base.

This bombshell documentary, which you can now conveniently stream on Amazon Prime, is the brainchild of filmmaker Dan Farah. He hopes the film will set “the table for a president to step to the microphone and more comfortably tell all of humanity that we’re not alone in the universe.”

A noble goal, to be sure, though the current administration might have a few more pressing items on the agenda, like figuring out what to do with the terrestrial beings we already have — and maybe, you know, fixing the economy that is quickly slipping into the dumper.

Of course, no up-to-date UFO discourse is complete without mentioning David Grusch, the former intelligence officer who set Congress abuzz over the summer. Mr. Grusch testified that the U.S. government has been secretly hoarding crashed alien spacecraft for decades.

Then there’s Luis Elizondo, a member of the government’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, who said the alleged cover-up amounts to “the most successful disinformation campaign in the history of the U.S. government” (which is really saying something; just Google COINTELPRO). He also said the government has engaged in “80 years of lies and deception.”

Just when you thought things couldn’t get any weirder, a couple of researchers from Harvard University and Montana Technological University have thrown their tinfoil hats into the ring. In a recent paper, they posited the existence of “cryptoterrestrials.” That’s right, not extraterrestrials, but secret, Earth-dwelling advanced beings.

Their theories include a remnant of an ancient, highly advanced human civilization and “intelligent dinosaurs” that survived extinction and are now hiding from us. The paper is peppered with phrases such as “epistemic humility” and “highly exotic hypothesis,” which is academic speak for, “Look, we know this sounds nuts, but hear us out.”

They even suggest these cryptoterrestrials might be living among us, disguised as humans. So, that weird neighbor who mows his lawn at 3 a.m.? Probably a velociraptor in a skin suit. And remember, these guys are from Harvard.

It’s all wonderfully entertaining. We have former presidents in on the secret, whistleblowers claiming 80 years of lies, and Ivy League academics theorizing about stealth dinosaurs. It’s a spectacular, sprawling narrative that would make a Hollywood screenwriter blush.

And yet, for all the dramatic testimony and breathless claims, we’re still left with exactly zero tangible proof. No alien bodies, no spacecraft debris, not even a blurry selfie with a Grey.

The truth may be out there, but for now, it seems determined to remain just beyond our grasp, conveniently tucked away in classified files and top-secret programs. And perhaps that’s for the best. It gives us something to talk about, something to speculate on — and it provides a distraction from all the horrible things that go on day after day.

• Joseph Curl covered the White House and politics for a decade for The Washington Times. He can be reached at josephcurl@gmail.com and on Twitter @josephcurl.