Neil deGrasse Tyson calls on the government to just show the alien, saying Americans are ready for disclosure after years of hearings and UAP files.

Every few months, someone announces we’re on the verge of finding alien life, and the headlines go predictably insane. What rarely makes it into those stories is what the actual scientific community thinks—as opposed to the two or three researchers who picked up the phone.

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.

The White House launched aliens.gov, a space-themed site with live illegal immigrant arrest data, ICE heat maps and a tip line to report aliens.

Did Donald Trump post a fake photo of himself walking with an alien? Yes, that's true: The president shared the photo of him walking next to an alien on his Truth Social account on May 17, 2026. An

Trump shared the AI-generated images on Truth Social on May 17, just one week after the Department of War released UFO files, photos, videos.

Trump wrote no caption to shed light on the meaning of the image, triggering speculation online.

So, are we any closer to the government revealing knowledge of nonhuman intelligence? James doesn't think so.