Is A Massive Disclosure Moment Imminent?
Los Angeles, CA, Dec. 8, 2025 – Editor’s Note: The story below was transcribed from a December 3, 2025, NewsNation TV segment from the show “Elizabeth Vargas Reports.”
SUMMARY:
Journalist Michael Shellenberger recently joined “Elizabeth Vargas Reports” to discuss Secretary of State Marco Rubio's continued push for the government to disclose information about UFOs to the American public. A Rubio adviser recently told Shellenberger the Secretary of State believes the U.S. has recovered alien technology and given it to private contractors for the military.
TRANSCRIPTION:
Elizabeth Vargas: The jury is still out on just how fast and how far the bombshell Age of Disclosure documentary moved the needle on UFO Disclosure. But according to a new report, we may be closer than you think.
Journalist Michael Schellenberger published an article on December 3, quoting a senior advisor to Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio, who says, “We are headed towards a massive disclosure.”
Now, just when that might happen? It remains vague but it does reflect the sentiment of the moment. After several Congressional hearings on Capitol Hill and whistleblowers like David Grusch speaking out publicly on this show for the first time, it does feel like we’re closer than ever to our government acknowledging allegations that it has some sort of secret program trying to reverse-engineer alien spacecraft. Those allegations were examined thoroughly in the one hour and 50-minute documentary.
Rubio was by far the most senior official who went on the record, on camera, demanding answers, and the documentary wasn’t the first time he’d voiced his concern about this. He spoke to NewsNation in 2023 and said individuals with high clearances to work on this top secret program are too afraid to speak out because they fear retribution.
It is not just government employees who are in the know. Rubio believes the U.S. Government has handed over these UFOs – these spacecraft that they have found – to private military contractors. Rubio says those contractors know more about these craft than the U.S. Government. National security risk? Sure sounds like it could be!
Michael Schellenberger: It’s already an historic moment – we’ve never had anybody at Rubio’s level discuss this topic openly. I think what this all means is that the president needs to address this issue and speak directly to the American people and explain what’s going on here. There are conflicting messages – the defense department has the same line they’ve had for years which is that they have no evidence of the existence of extraterrestrials. I think the president finally needs to address this issue.
Vargas: It does feel like we’ve been building up to this. For a long time it feels like people with tinfoil hats were talking about UFOs and were dismissed as looney tunes. But slowly and surely, there have been very serious Congressional hearings with very serios whistleblowers testifying under oath. It does feel like we’re getting to a moment—Russia and China have also found spacecraft and are also reverse-engineering them. A secret arms race is happening.
Shellenberger: We should care what the Secretary of State says, the Director of the CIA, the Director of National Intelligence, the Vice President – they are all saying this is not just ridiculous. But the Department of War continues dismissing it. I think this has progressed to where we’re at a place now where the people who are running the government now have the power to tell us what it is. Today we have very conflicting messages coming from the highest levels of our government. I think they need to find a way to de-conflict that.
To view this interview in its entirety, please see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpJq8AVST-o
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