If there’s no proof of aliens, the president can blame the deep state. If there’s proof, he’s a hero. Either way, it helps his popularity, says writer Daniel Lavelle

The Pentagon's release of files might help scientists shed light on unexplained phenomena and government secrets, experts said.

The government gave no analysis of the files, suggesting it is up to Americans to draw their own conclusions.

The U.S. government has made public dozens of previously classified files about unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) — formerly known as UFOs — in what the Trump administration is calling a historic effort at transparency.

If they hadn’t finally shown themselves at the end of the movie—in a sky-filling, strobe-lit mother ship too awe-inspiring to conceal—there’s no doubt the U.S. government would have gone on hiding the truth forever.

Newly declassified UFO files from NASA's Apollo missions challenge long-running conspiracy theories that the historic Moon landings were faked in a studio.

Over the last decade, since the work of a shadowy government program called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was made public in 2017, there has been growing public pressure on the US government to release its files related to aliens. At the same time, UFOs have been rebranded as Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon, or UAP.

Fresh UFO file releases and a viral claim about 'four alien species' have pushed extraterrestrial conspiracy theories back into the centre of internet culture — but not everyone is buying it. As newly declassified government documents circulate online,

A Republican congresswoman who has leaned into conspiracy theories claimed aliens are fallen angels depicted in the Bible as President Donald Trump on Friday released the so-called UFO Files.