America Is Finally Taking Extraterrestrials Seriously

https://time.com/article/2026/08/06/america-taking-extraterrestrials-seriously/

After decades of secrecy, stigma, and sometimes silliness—like the conspiratorial tales about recovered spacecraft and alien remains at a place known as Area 51 in Nevada—the government has at long last begun taking things seriously. What used to be called UFOs and now go by the more decorous handle of UAPs—or unidentified anomalous phenomena—are being given the full investigatory treatment.

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crispbacon99@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 32d (3 replies)

This is just the GOPs desperate distraction attempt

Wren@lemmy.today · -5 pts · 32d (2 replies)

This started under Biden.

Congressional hearings into the origins of the sightings were held in 2022 and 2023. In 2022, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) was established “to detect, identify and attribute objects of interest.” In December 2023, then President Joe Biden signed into law the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act, requiring the collection, review, and public disclosure of all sightings and encounters.

crispbacon99@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 31d (1 reply)

You make it sound like Republicans didn't exist during the Biden administration or that Biden himself made these claims of extraterrestrial evidence

Wren@lemmy.today · -2 pts · 31d

No, I'm just quoting the article.

notsosure@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 31d

I’ve been tracking the field for about 50 years, and I can only conclude: there is no credible evidence whatsoever that extraterrestrials have ever visited Earth.

roteradler@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 31d

The maybe dumbest American government ever. That must be a great idea, definitely based on facts not ideologies. Or an attempt to establish a new topic to distract the dumb masses from problems line ice.