You could say the Trump administration did a huge favor to “Disclosure Day” by releasing a trove of America’s UFO files — excuse me, UAP files — just last month. The timing was a coincidence, but it felt like the perfect piece of publicity to drum up anticipation for Steven Spielberg’s epic thriller about a rogue attempt to disclose U.S. government evidence of alien visitations. Of course, it doesn’t take rocket science to see why Trump released those files (can you say…distraction?). And the grand irony is that the effect of them may not be to set up “Disclosure Day” in quite the ideal way one assumed.
The UAP files show a lot of things we’ve seen before — in grainy U.S. military surveillance videos that were officially released in 2020, and in the wealth of amateur UFO video that has flooded the web for decades. And maybe that’s why the reaction to Trump’s document dump has been surprisingly quiet. The hovering craft are real; it’s just not clear that they’re from anywhere but Earth. And then there’s all the footage you can now see on X of extraterrestrials (in U.S. military compounds, in operating theaters), which to my eyes is clearly not real, yet it’s all become part of the mythology.
