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There are some very important files sitting in a US government building right now, full of shocking details that certain entities would prefer to keep hidden. For far too long the public has been kept in the dark but, thanks to the self-proclaimed “most transparent administration in history”, the truth could be about to be revealed.
Obviously I’m not talking about the Epstein files. I’ve got a funny feeling we’re never going to see the rest of those. FBI agents have been paid nearly $1m in overtime to work on the “Epstein Transparency Project”, also referred to as the “Special Redaction Project”, but even with all that special redacting, more than 2m documents have reportedly not been released. No, I’m talking about proof of alien life – which is far less fanciful than the idea that powerful people might actually face accountability.
Last week the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency registered the alien.gov and aliens.gov web domains, setting off speculation as to whether the president was going to make good on his promise to publish documents related to extraterrestrials. In case you missed that (there have been a couple of other things going on), Trump announced in February that he’d asked “the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life … and unidentified flying objects (UFOs)”.
Since the Trump administration loves referring to migrants as aliens, there was a little confusion about the proposed content of aliens.gov. Were the edgelords in the White House going to dangle extraterrestrials in front of us all then actually set up a dehumanising registry of migrants? There hasn’t been much clarification on this but the White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly did post an alien emoji and urge people to “stay tuned”.
God, it would be nice to think that there was some sort of intelligent life circling around the universe keeping watch on us all, ready to swoop in if things start to go nuclear. The way the world is going, extraterrestrial saviours are about the best chance we’ve all got. International law has been shown to be toothless and our leaders are largely spineless.
Still, I wouldn’t hold your breath that anything interesting about UFOs is going to materialise from the White House any time soon. I’m not sure there’s any evidence of aliens in Washington DC; there’s just a government full of trolls.
Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist
