Is there new info in Dan Farah’s Shane Smith (SSHQ) interview?
The question: does Dan Farah’s 2026-06-18 long-form interview with Shane Smith ( SSHQ) contain anything new, against what the base already holds on The Age of Disclosure? Filed 2026-06-18.
Short answer
Almost nothing new in evidence. It is a promotional restatement of the documentary’s existing claims (now that the film is on Amazon Prime), and the specific recent items Farah cites as fresh are mostly already in the base. No new physical evidence, no new named witnesses, no falsifiable specifics. The one genuinely useful thing is a process admission, not a discovery: Farah states plainly that the film was built as the coordinated vehicle for disclosure and that he was told in advance a presidential action would follow its release.
Restatement (already in the base)
All of the following are the documentary’s load-bearing claims, already captured on the AoD page and the credibility roster: the legacy-program org chart (CIA operational control, Air Force field retrieval, Department of Energy classification shield via the Atomic Energy Act, defense contractors doing reverse engineering); Rubio’s “defense contractors captured the program” overseer-dies/contractor-stays story and his Eisenhower military-industrial-complex framing; the “Manhattan Project on steroids” China/Russia reverse-engineering race; the 34-officials-in-sync aggregation; the Vandenberg football-field matte-black craft; Gallaudet’s ocean-concealment point; Clapper’s on-camera Air Force-UAP-program and Area 51 admission; the Stratton/Lazsky triangle-craft origin of OAP → AATIP; orbs since WWII; the warp-bubble propulsion theory; and the CIA-manufactured-stigma disinformation thesis.
Items he frames as new — but the base already tracks
- The May-June 2026 declassification dumps. The Colorado Springs / Cheyenne Mountain sighting and an FBI Colorado Springs UAP report are already captured in PURSUE Release 03 (ica-uap-d001 and fbi-uap-d002). The 1948 Navy memo (CNO directing UAP reports to the Air Force, not up the naval chain) is already captured as sharp-1948-navy-flying-discs-memo-2026-06-12. The Feb 19 2026 Trump declassification directive and the amnesty push are tracked across the base (whistleblower-disclosure-pathways-and-amnesty-debate).
- The 1972 Apollo lunar-module triangle image. Farah already discussed this in the May 14 DOAC roundtable that the base holds.
- Puthoff’s “some craft were gifts, left outside bases, not crashes” and the “four types of NHI” — already on puthoff-network-physicist, flagged there as his secondhand register.
The few things not already in the base (all unverifiable Farah assertions)
- A second triangle in the Apollo frame, visible only when the contrast is adjusted, which he says was not released and which he learned from “the people who analyzed the photo.” Secondhand, unreleased, uncheckable.
- A standing rationalization for why no clear phone footage exists: the warp bubble distorts photography (the fish-from-above-water analogy), and clear classified footage exists from moments when “the bubble was turned off.” A theory that explains away the absence of the evidence that would matter.
- An active FBI investigation at an unnamed recurring-UAP site with agents filming daily from a command post, which he says he separately confirms through his “own relationships within the FBI.” Unnamed site, secondhand.
- A specific amnesty mechanism: a possible future presidential directive for blanket amnesty with a six-month clock (come forward and face no punishment; stay silent and be held accountable if later found out), which he attributes to cabinet-level messaging to the intelligence community.
The one item with analytical value
Farah’s own account of the film’s function. He says “my doc became the plan for disclosure” — that Rubio’s circle decided participating in the documentary was how Rubio would bring disclosure about — and that “I was told early on that the release of the doc would be followed within a few months by a presidential action,” which then happened (the Feb 19 2026 directive). Taken at face value, this is Farah stating that the documentary was a coordinated instrument of a government disclosure effort, with advance knowledge of the executive action timed to it. That does not substantiate any UAP claim; it strengthens the base’s existing read of the project as managed-image production rather than neutral journalism — now in the director’s own words, on top of the undisclosed Farah-Elizondo agent relationship.
Net
No evidentiary update. The interview adds reach (a mainstream VICE host endorsing the film) and one self-description that reinforces the managed-pipeline framing already on the AoD page. Everything presented as new evidence is either already in the base via the document dumps and the May 14 roundtable, or is a secondhand, unreleased, or unfalsifiable assertion. It does not move the documentary’s standing.