The US Department of Defense released 162 files on unidentified flying objects (UFOs), following an order from President Donald Trump. The files included documents from the FBI, NASA, and the US State Department. As conspiracy theories soar all over the internet, what's really in the files, and how significant is the release?
William Neil McCasland had close ties to an Ohio base that's steeped in UFO lore, sending conspiracy theorists into a tailspin. Despite no credible evidence of foul play, the list of scientists and engineers who have died or disappeared continues to grow.
Pasulka states, 'I never wanted or desired to study the subject of UFOs, what is now called UAP. I have always worked in religious studies as an academic discipline.' This highlights her unexpected journey into the UFO phenomenon.
It says a lot about how crazy our world is these days that the former president of the United States can casually say "[aliens] are real" in a podcast, and it was a story for maybe a weekend afternoon. Part of the reason this is not a bigger revelation is that Barack Obama squashed it, putting out a statement after this answer raised some eyebrows to try to lower them and downplay what he said.
The reassurance comes courtesy of a Freedom of Information request asking TfL to disclose "any reports of alien and/or extra-terrestrial activity at Tube, DLR, London Overground, Elizabeth Line and Tram locations" between January 2020 and November 2025. After checking their records, TfL replied with a refreshingly straightforward answer: they do, in fact, hold the information - but that none of it involves little green men, flying saucers, or intergalactic commuters tapping in with a futuristic multipass.
The shocking claims were made by filmmaker and director Dan Farah, who spent four years secretly interviewing high-level members of the US government and military regarding the existence of extraterrestrials. While speaking on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast on Friday, Farah said he had learned from unnamed sources responsible for the retrieval of these UFOs that nuclear testing carried out in the 1950s was often done to secretly disable alien craft.
The footage combines still images and motion-control camera shots sourced from the published Roswell Report, as well as various magazines and books about UFOs. It opens with a shot of the book 'The Roswell Report: Fact Versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert' and ends with a stark black-and-white image that appears to show a crash site, with debris scattered across a massive crater in the ground.
