The filmmaker made the startling claim during a recent appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
Dan Farah has been in the news quite a bit recently thanks to the release of his new high-profile documentary Age of Disclosure which explores the world of UFOs, aliens and government cover-ups.
During a recent interview with Joe Rogan, Farah put forward what is perhaps one of the most ‘out there’ claims about the UFO phenomenon that we’ve heard to date.
US atomic bomb testing in the 1950s, he argues, was actually an attempt to disguise the fact that the military was using nuclear weapons to take down UFOs.
“One of the realizations early on was that atomic weapon testing, nuclear weapon testing, has a ripple effect that can down these things,” he said.
“Which is crazy on multiple levels. A, you could accidentally provoke a nuclear conflict with another party that doesn’t know what you’re doing.”
“B, you’re picking a fight with a more intelligent, superior species.”
Farah maintains that there is a global race to reverse-engineer alien technology and that if the United States doesn’t get its act together, another country will get there first.
“[Secretary of State Marco Rubio] literally says in the film, is if we don’t get our act together and take this more seriously as a country, we’re going to wake up one day, we’re going to find out the hard way that China got there,” he told Rogan.
“We won’t know when or how, but to quote him, we will be screwed. His chin buckled when he said it. He was dead serious, and he was super concerned and you could feel it.”
As things stand, however, neither Farah nor anyone he spoke to when making the documentary has been able to provide conclusive physical evidence to back up the claim that aliens are visiting us.
You can check out the full podcast episode below.