Director: Blake Cousins
Government secrecy around unidentified aerial phenomena has produced decades of rumor, but director Blake Cousins builds his 2024 documentary Battle for Disclosure around the people who tried to force the subject into daylight.
What is Battle For Disclosure about?
The film tracks the long, often frustrating campaign to pry official UFO records loose from U.S. agencies, weaving together congressional testimony, archival footage, and interviews with researchers who spent careers chasing an admission from Washington. Dr. Steven Greer appears as one of the movement's most persistent voices, describing meetings with military and intelligence figures who allegedly confirmed programs the public was never told about. Former Congressman Tim Burchett offers a lawmaker's view of how the issue moves, or stalls, inside committee rooms and closed briefings. Rather than chasing dramatic sightings, the documentary stays close to the paper trail: hearings, leaked memos, and the shifting official language used to describe what the government will and won't confirm. It builds toward the idea that disclosure, if it comes, will arrive slowly and bureaucratically rather than in a single dramatic reveal.
Cast & crew
Dr. Steven Greer, a longtime UFO researcher and founder of the Disclosure Project, anchors much of the film's argument with firsthand accounts of his meetings with government insiders. Tim Burchett, who has publicly pushed for hearings on the topic during his time in Congress, adds an insider's read on how Capitol Hill actually handles the subject.
Context & significance
Battle for Disclosure arrives after several years of unusually open Pentagon acknowledgment of unidentified aerial phenomena, including televised congressional hearings that would have been unthinkable a decade earlier. The film positions itself within that shift, treating the recent hearings less as a conclusion than as evidence that pressure campaigns like the ones it documents can move institutions, however slowly. It leans on public record rather than speculation, which sets it apart from more sensational entries in the same genre.
Where & how to watch
Battle for Disclosure is available to stream on K-Time with a free account login. The platform's Farsi-language interface makes it easy for Persian-speaking viewers to browse and queue documentaries like this one alongside the rest of the catalog, no separate app or extra step required.