Director of Groundbreaking UFO Doc Says What He Learned Left Him 'Rattled': 'Things Could Get Really Bad, Really Fast'

By his own calculation, Dan Farah watched Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial close to "a thousand times" before he turned 15. So it’s hardly surprising that the 45-year-old Hollywood producer yearned to one day create a film that picked up where Spielberg’s two fictional movies about alien visitations and government coverups left off.

“I wanted to make a movie,” says Farah, “that I always wished existed, a documentary that did an unprecedented job at seriously and credibly exploring what is actually known about UAPs [Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, aka UFOs]  and non-human intelligence by people who have direct knowledge of it as a result of working with the U.S. government.”