More than 50 years ago — on September 18, 1973 — then Governor of Georgia Jimmy Carter filed a report with the International UFO Bureau stating that he, along with about a dozen other people, had seen an unidentified flying object (UFO) some four years earlier in Leary, Georgia. He called it “the darndest [sic] thing I’ve ever seen . . . very bright [with] changing colors and about the size of the moon.” He said that “the object hovered about 30 degrees above the horizon and moved in toward the earth and away before disappearing into the distance.” [“This Day in History,” History.com, September 18, 2026.]

During his presidential campaign in 1976, Carter promised that, if elected, he would encourage the government to release “every piece of [available] information” to the public.

We’re still waiting.

On September 21, 2023, I offered some thoughts on the subject in a post titled “UFOs: Friends or Foes?” This was followed up by about a half dozen later articles, including one on May 9th of this year, following Donald Trump’s sudden and inexplicable direction to the Pentagon to release certain “never-before-seen files” on its investigations over the past several decades.

That was hardly the first reported sighting of a UFO; the Roswell, New Mexico incident in 1947 had touched off a frenzy of such reports. But it was unusual, to say the least, to hear it from such a well-known, reliable source. And while interest seemed to wane over the ensuing decades, numerous alleged sightings have been reported during the last few years, leading to renewed speculation as to what, if anything, the government has been hiding from the public.

To this day, I wonder why the subject was raised in the first place, whether there actually are files we haven’t seen, and why the matter once again seems to have been dropped. Here again, as a reminder, is my article from June 4th of this year:

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6/4/26: ABOUT THOSE ALIEN ENCOUNTERS

On May 9th, I wrote about the U.S. government’s sudden willingness to grant public access to the long-hidden files on UFOs — which are now called UAPs, or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. At that time, the Defense Department posted on X:

“The American people can now access the federal government’s declassified UAP files instantly. The latest UAP videos, photos, and original source documents from across the entire United States government are all in one place — no clearance rqeuired.” [Kaanita Iyer, Michael Williams and Marshall Cohen, CNN, May 8, 2026.]

Note that they specified “declassified” files. We have no way of knowing what may still be classified.

Then they went on to say that the DoD would be “releasing new materials on a rolling basis as they are discovered and declassified, with tranches posted every few weeks.” [Id.]

But they added disclaimers that the “descriptive and estimative language . . . [reflected the] subjective interpretation” of the person who wrote the report, and therefore “should not be interpreted as a conclusive indication” of actual events. [Id.]

In other words, we should be aware that what they were feeding us was most likely just a pile of

So what ever happened to those forthcoming tranches to be posted every few weeks? Well, last week the new website — Aliens.gov — debuted. I didn’t see any fanfare, or even an announcement of its launch. But luckily, CNN did. And here is what they have to say about it.

It started with: a big, neon green header:

“THEY WALK AMONG US”

Then a text scroll began:

“For 60 years, the U.S. government has kept a closely guarded secret. Aliens have been walking among us, living in our neighborhoods, and interacting with us in our daily lives.” [Harmeet Kaur, CNN, June 3, 2026.]

Wait . . . it sounds like they’re talking about Russian spies. But no, because the CNN report continues:

“Along with fake ‘declassified’ labels and a clunky reference to ‘The X-Files,’ the website also features an interactive map tracking ‘alien encounters,’ or purported arrests of immigrants and asks users to report ‘suspicious aliens.’” [Id.]

And there was this AI-generated animation, showing an immigrant earthling — not an outer-space “alien” — being beamed up over the southern U.S. border wall:

So the DoD seems to be conflating extraterrestrial “aliens” with the more down-to-earth definition, which is — according to Black’s Law Dictionary — “a person who resides within the borders of a country but is not a citizen or subject of that country.” [Id.]

Use of the term “alien” to describe migrants goes back to Colonial times, whereas the science-fiction version dates to around the 1930s. As explained by historian Mai Ngai, author of “Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America”:

“When people spoke of beings from outer space, they likened them to foreigners. It’s not like people saw an immigrant and said they look like they’re from outer space. They saw an image of a being from outer space and said they look like a foreigner.” [Id.]

But, as Ngai goes on to say:

“What the White House did was an ultimate association of immigrants with not being human. To say that they came from a spaceship means they’re not human beings.” [Id.]

Attempts have been made over the years to differentiate between a migrant and an extraterrestrial, including President Joe Biden’s directive that the country’s immigration enforcement agencies use the terms “non-citizen” and “migrant” in place of “alien” and “illegal aliens.”

But the Trump White House says otherwise. According to spokeswoman Abigail Jackson:

“Identifying an individual as an ‘illegal alien,’ is not demeaning, it’s factual. The Trump Administration will continue deporting illegal aliens without apology.” [Id.]

So it would seem as though the whole “let’s release the UFO files” thing was nothing but another attempt to attack our immigrant population — and an incredibly infantile one at that.

What . . . you expected something different?

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So the questions remain: Is this just the product of Trump’s overactive imagination? Did he confuse the term “aliens,” as sometimes applied to immigrants, with visitors from outer space?

Or was it yet another attempted distraction from those other files they’ve been promising us forever? Perhaps, with the greater diversions of a war-that-isn’t-really-a-war in Iran, the threatened destruction of the Kennedy Center, the attempts to take possession of Greenland, and Trump’s sons playing footsie with Russian oligarchs and the Tate brothers . . . well, the UFO/UAP thing just wasn’t needed any longer.

What do you think? Is it all still about Epstein?

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
9/20/26