Here they are — the US government documents on UFOs, now unclassified. At last, the conspiracy to hide them is unmasked!

Okay. We would not wish to be persecuted by the Conscience Fairy for deceiving anyone in this matter so let the articulate University of Rochester astrophysicist Adam Frank speak for us about what that really means:

I get up early and starting pouring through them. I click. I read. I watch videos. I click again. And then I realize…

There’s nothing here.

This highly touted disclosure amounts to just an endless parade of fuzzy images (or videos) and unverifiable personal testimony. Some of the documents go back 70 years but it’s all basically the same. Taken as a whole, it’s the kind of thing we’ve seen for decades: fuzzy images; unverifiable personal testimony; no hard evidence. There’s even a laughable image of flashing “orb‘ in a wheat field made by photoshopping a bad cartoon onto to a photo. It was an FBI technician’s attempt to illustrate someone’s account of a sighting.

“The End of UFOs?,” Everyman’s Universe, May 13, 2026

He goes on to complain, “Given the explosive congressional hearings we seen where witness claim the government has lots in crashed alien spaceships and dead alien bodies, I was kinda hoping for a whole lot more. It was all just so… boring.”

The US government probably made a wise call in this matter because almost all of the conspiracy nonsense revolved around the word “classified.” Not any more. Now, if you want to wade through pages of fuzzy nothing, nothing other than your sense of the value of your time is stopping you.

In the US edition of Spectator, David Whitehouse has it right about what secrecy does:

It launched the careers of a new wave of UFO celebrities who fed the growing number of UFO YouTube channels and conferences. There were speaking tours, TV spots and book deals. They fueled the decades old suspicion that there is a cover-up, a conspiracy hiding our contact with so-called non-human intelligence and retrieved crashed spaceships. The key word was disclosure. Stephen Spielberg caught the zeitgeist and his new film, “Disclosure Day,” is out soon.

“The only thing out there is the UFO industrial complex,” May 11, 2026

For all some of the rest of us know, it was pressure from various actors to keep their profitable gigs going that kept the UFO secrecy in place all these years.

Call that a conspiracy theory if you want. But remember, it does not involve any aliens. Just speculations about the hard business calculations from known earthly actors. I could be wrong but it is definitely not weird.

Look, maybe we are alone in the universe. Or maybe not. But real space exploration, the tough stuff, is the only way we can hope to find out.