Dan Farah

I've got my wheels spinning on what that might be.

And I was actually doing research for a scripted project a couple years after Ready Player One came out.

And in doing research,

I was trying to learn how real the situation around this topic was.

And so I got connected to some senior intelligence officials that had worked on this topic for the US government and started having just private conversations, meals with those guys, trying to understand the lay of the land.

And I quickly realized how real the situation actually is.

And these ideas that were put in our heads when we were kids with movies like Close Encounters and E.T.

weren't far off from the truth.

There has, in fact, been a massive cover-up of non-human intelligent life.

And the government does take it very serious and does know a lot more than the public does.

So in those conversations...

that originally were research for a scripted project, like I said, I started to realize that these people that I form relationships with would be great interview subjects for that documentary that I always wish existed.

And then I kind of shifted my focus to no longer doing research for a scripted project.

And I was like, okay, I'm

I'm going to make the definitive documentary on this topic that I always wish existed.

And this will be that thing that I direct to.

And so, um, sort of like the, the origin.

And then, um,

From there, I started socializing with these intelligence officials I had met and their colleagues that I wanted to make a film that would bring the truth out about what is known that can legally be shared.

All these people are privy to classified information,