Our survey of 2,000 Americans asked people whether recent UFO or UAP news coverage has changed their opinion on the topic and found that 37% now believe more than they used to.
More than half (54%) say their opinion on extraterrestrials has not changed and 10% say it’s actually made them believe less, according to the research findings.
News coverage on UFOs or UAPs seems more likely to move younger generations towards belief — 54% of Gen Z have increased their belief due to recent news stories, with the impact falling with age.
During a visit to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1950, Enrico Fermi, one of the architects of the Manhattan Project, was having lunch with other physicists when the conversation turned to flying saucers. At one point during the discussion, Fermi blurted out: “Where is everybody?” – or, as another participant remembered it, “Don’t you ever wonder where everybody is?” If aliens exist, in other words, why have we never encountered them?
The episode has become famous, marking the moment when extraterrestrial life went from a theme for philosophical speculation to a serious scientific problem. For centuries, people had wondered whether life exists on the moon or Mars, but they accepted that we would never know for certain, since making contact with another planet was impossible. By the 1950s, those limits no longer seemed so fixed. In addition to space flight, researchers were developing tools to detect the radio signals that reach us from stars many light years away. These developments were still in their infancy, but it was already clear that humanity was no longer bound to Earth the way it always had been.
Washington — The Pentagon on Friday released a new batch of documents and images related to UFOs, also known as unidentified anomalous phenomena or UAP, including a military pilot’s recollection of a huge, strange triangle that blocked out the stars over Afghanistan in 2002.
The 41 new files, posted on the Pentagon’s UFO website, include a mix of documents, images and videos. The records come from the Pentagon, FBI, CIA, State Department and Executive Office of the President, with the oldest being from 1950 and the most recent being from this year.
As 17-year-old Laurie Wickens drove some friends home from a dance on a clear October 1967 night, he spotted lights in the sky.
As he travelled on Highway 3 in an isolated, coastal part of southwestern Nova Scotia, he saw four lights in the sky that flashed in sequence, then all together at the same time.
All of a sudden, the object crashed into the waters off the fishing village of Shag Harbour.
Doug Buettner’s grandfather once saw a flying saucer hovering on his farm in Portland, Ore., in 1947, or so the story goes.
The cows were acting up in the field and he went to check on them. Buettner never heard the story first-hand — his grandfather died before he was born — but his mother, who said she also saw two UFOs as a teenager in a separate incident, passed the story down.
Buettner, now deputy chief scientist at a university affiliated research centre for the Pentagon, is researching UFOs intensely.
A month ago, I was visited by a representative from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). He raised a simple question.
“Would you be willing to establish and lead a new advisory council for the US Government on the science of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena?” In other words, would I head a council on UFOs. I responded: “You had me at ‘hello.’”
There was no doubt in my mind that I should accept this role. Our goal is to advise the U.S. government on how to resolve the nature of UAP.
An Italian translator who says he was ‘fired by the Vatican’ for his interpretation of the original Hebrew Bible has revealed a radical reinterpretation of what God in scripture really is.
Mauro Biglino pointed to the word ‘Elohim,’ found 2,570 times in the Holy Book, which translates to ‘God’ or, in his opinion, ‘Gods.’
Biglino, an Italian scholar who worked as a biblical translator for Edizioni San Paolo, a major Catholic publishing house linked to the Vatican, suggested that instead of detailing encounters with one God, the Bible describes encounters with a group of mortal, alien beings armed with high technology.
NASA’s chief administrator confirmed in a bombshell interview that the space agency has taken images of objects which can only be described as UFOs.
Jared Isaacman, who took over as leader of NASA in December 2025, said real imagery captured from space could not be explained away as a comet or other natural phenomenon.
While Isaacman stopped short of calling it proof of alien life, he was confident that the ultimate conclusion would be that the universe is full of extraterrestrial life, which humans have not yet discovered.
Pols and experts claim that there’s a long-unheard secret tape of an “Invasion of Washington” UFO briefing – and they say the public could hear it very soon.
A tape recording a 1952 conversation between Air Force officials and scientists on unidentified flying objects is soon to be released, Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.) told a room of UFO transparency advocates at Disclosure Forum 2026.
Is the rest of the cosmos a pristine environment awaiting the arrival of humanity’s “post-human” descendants? Or is advanced life there already – and if so has it visited us? These questions rate as some of the most fascinating in science.
They bring to mind the theme of science-fiction classics like Steven Spielberg’s ET. Now, though, amid the fanfare surrounding his new film, Departure Day, Spielberg himself has said he believes that aliens exist.
So do I, though I’m sceptical of Spielberg’s belief that we’ve been visited here on Earth. Proclamations of UFO sightings, abductions, and so forth never seem convincing.
The Trump administration has established a new panel to try and resolve Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena sightings and encounters.
Controversial Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb will be among the new board’s advisors.
The freshly minted UAP Governance Board met for the first time Tuesday “to support the President’s directive on UAP transparency,” according to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
On June 12, 2026, Steven Spielberg publicly released his film Disclosure Day while on the same day the U.S. Government disclosed the third batch of declassified files on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) here.
I was fortunate to witness Disclosure Day on the movie screen merely a few hours after analyzing an actual UAP disclosure by the U.S. government. My conclusion is that reality is far more exciting than Hollywood scripts. Personally, I have a hard time enjoying the artistic freedom displayed in science fiction movies because their creators violate the known laws of physics. Yes, our understanding of science is incomplete, but this does not give us the freedom to abandon what we already learned. We can get pleasure by imagining a trillion dollars in our bank account but a reality check would restrain our imagination as long as we are not Elon Musk after the initial public offering (IPO) of SpaceX.
Important Announcement: I Will Be Leading A UAP Science Advisory Council to the U.S. Government pic.twitter.com/JSeT0ZDojK
A leading UFO conference is landing in Canada this summer. Featuring a keynote presentation from a former Pentagon insider, the conference aims to promote government transparency and the scientific study of what’s also known as “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” or “UAP” for short. The Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies’ conference comes as the Trump administration continues its rolling release of decades of official UFO videos, images and reports.
“There’s quite a bit of stuff that I’ve seen in the past that was not included,” former Pentagon official Christopher Mellon told CTVNews.ca. “I hope it will be. Some of it was kind of dramatic.”
Many claim that this is the best interview yet with Naval Aviator David Fravor explaining the famed Tic Tac” UFO incident.
The 1947 memo that said flying discs were ‘something real’
Declassified Air Force records reveal officials treating flying disc reports as a serious intelligence matter, not a passing curiosity.
Fewer know that just months after reports of “flying discs” swept across the country in 1947, senior Air Force intelligence officials were privately circulating memos that treated the sightings as a legitimate national security concern.
WASHINGTON — US officials have found a location in the Northeast where unexplained glowing orbs frequently appear in the night sky, bringing experts closer to solving a longstanding UFO mystery.
The site’s existence, reported to the FBI and confirmed by agents, is being disclosed Friday as part of a third tranche of UFO files released pursuant to President Trump’s February declassification order.
The location is not identified in documents, but it is described as being on a secluded pond.
