In an interview posted on February 14, 2026, political podcaster Bryan Tyler Cohen asked former President Barack Obama, "Are aliens real?" Obama responded: "They're real, but I haven't seen them, and they're not being kept in Area 51. There's no underground facility, unless there's this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the President of the United States." ( https://youtu.be/uI-hgSE5QIw?t=2643 ) Many people took this to be a thinly veiled admission that the US Governme

Many adherents of the UFO coverup/Disclosure/recovered technology story believe that the alien spacecraft supposedly being concealed by the government and/or its aerospace contractor partners possess the key to human emancipation via "free energy". I suggest that this technofantasy is a way of parlaying or at least feigning social conscience with anti-government sentiment that is core to the libertarian world outlook, an outlook that is at least partially held by multitudes o

Some recent items in the world of ufology: AARO released its Historical Record Report Volume 1 reviewing the US government's historical interactions with the UAP/UFO topic, going back to 1945 (the impetus for 1945 as the starting point harks back to the completely debunked Trinity story pushed by Jacques Vallee and Paola Harris in their book "Trinity: The Best Kept Secret" ). An observation in the report was that UFO crash retrieval/reverse-engineering narratives are likely

Recently, a kind and generous reader by the name of Amy Collins (who maintains an excellent website about the Soviet space program ) and...

This article contains an extensive but by no means comprehensive list of reasons why Bob Lazar's story is crap. It was compiled over a period of some two years or so through ongoing incremental contributions by me and other people on YouTube (including "Robert Dillahuntsville", "FlipMode", "planetcheck", Peter Wikvist and others). There are many links and resources in this article. Please let me know if you encounter a broken link and/or know of a replacement. On element 115