Do not shout ‘alien!’” Amid surge of public interest in UFOs or UAP, one group updated its rules for how news of extraterrestrials should be revealed.

The latest developments in UAP disclosure have seen the US government publish additional files on unidentified anomalous phenomena, even as whistleblowers assert knowledge of multiple alien species. The third tranche of records appeared on 12 June 2026 under the PURSUE programme,

For generations, the search for life beyond Earth has focused on avoiding one of science’s biggest mistakes: claiming a discovery that turns out not to be real. Researchers have built entire frameworks around preventing these so-called false positives,

The SETI Institute is the latest to confirm what scientists have long suspected: the interstellar 3I/ATLAS comet is not an alien spaceship.

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life.

Fire In the Sky was based on the 1978 book The Walton Experience from real-life logger Travis Walton. In it, Walton details his own alleged experience with an alien abduction on November 5, 1975, a tale which he first sold to The National Enquirer.

Newly declassified Pentagon UFO files have reignited debate over a possible alien presence on the Moon after a previously secret NASA Apollo 16 briefing surfaced online. The recording references a mysterious "big hole" near the Van de Graaff crater and includes a startling remark that it "could be an alien star base.

Maybe we did not create life in the biological sense, but maybe we created something stranger: an alien form of intelligence.​