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FBI Director Kash Patel said this week during an interview with Sean Hannity that the long-promised “UFO files” have been prepared for release to the public.
“Every other president before President Trump coulda said, let’s look at that and get the American people the information.’ What did he do? He stood up and [organized] an interagency process, [the] Department of War leading that effort, to get out the documentation related to everything that you’re talking about,” Patel said, regarding the conversation about extraterrestrial life and UFO data.
Patel said that a bevy of information has already been reviewed and prepped for a series of releases “literally happening in the very near future.”
“We are all for it,” he added. “There’s nothing in this subject that we’re talking about, that we don’t want released.”
The mysterious aura linked to UFO sightings and reports of potential extraterrestrial or celestial life beyond the human realm has piqued Americans’ interests for decades, especially in the wake of the infamous Roswell, New Mexico incident in 1947.
At that time, witnesses in the area reported seeing a “flying disc” that was “hexagonal in shape” and “suspended from a balloon by a cable.” Shortly after, the U.S. military closed off the Roswell area, seized the debris from the supposed crash site, and, in doing so, sparked conspiratorial theories surrounding the situation. In 1994, the U.S. Air Force provided an official explanation for the incident: a government balloon-borne research project, code-named MOGUL, had simply gone wrong.
There have been countless UFO and UAP sightings over the years. According to the National UFO Reporting Center, they have processed more than 180,000 UFO reports since 1974.
To add to UFO fervor, recent congressional testimony over the past few years regarding UFOs and UAPs has raised serious questions about the validity of these sightings: are they real? Are these sightings simply secret military equipment? Is it a sign of extraterrestrial life? Or something else entirely?
The official government attention on the subject has brought the topic of UFOs and “aliens” to the forefront of cultural discourse.
“I interviewed people, [in] my first term, primarily, I interviewed some pilots, very solid people – they said they saw things you wouldn’t believe,” President Trump remarked in April.
Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., has investigated UAP reports and activity. She told “The Grant Mitt Podcast” that, based on her experience, she believed there “are advanced technologies not of human origin” and would prefer to describe aliens as “interdimensional beings.”
Vice President J.D. Vance told Benny Johnson this spring that he was “obsessed” with the UFO files. “I don’t think they’re aliens,” he remarked. “I think they’re demons, anyway, but that’s a long discussion!”
According to a report from the Daily Mail, some influential American pastors were allegedly invited to a “secret meeting with US intelligence officials to prepare for the release of secret files on extraterrestrials.”
This claim originated with televangelist Perry Stone, who posted it on his YouTube channel. The video has since gone viral and stirred up interest online.
On X, Revival Nation Church leader Alan DiDio claimed that he, too, had been part of such a meeting: “The news is true. I was brought into a private meeting with other pastors. Phones off. No recordings. We were warned: Disclosure is coming… and many will be unprepared for what follows. Pastors must begin preparing their people now.”
Lakepointe Church Pastor Josh Howerton – who was not part of this alleged “secret” meeting – offered a more pragmatic view on social media.
“Some outlandish claims about aliens/UFOs are being made right now. Practice discernment, stay prayed up,” he remarked.
