Hollywood owns the UFO genre and has actual standards for this sort of thing. The government needs to step it up.
Now, suddenly, the U.S. government wants in. The Pentagon has gone from denying UFOs are a thing to dumping documents, photos and video concerning “anomalous” phenomena.
The Department of Defense has promised more files to come on a “rolling” basis. This follows Donald Trump teasing “very interesting” UFO revelations, and members of Congress suggesting proof of alien life is right around the corner if only they can convince nefarious deep state bureaucrats to let them release it. But if the Pentagon expects to play on Hollywood’s turf, it needs to raise its game.
Last week’s UFO series premiere was a major disappointment; a vague, grainy, redacted mess. There wasn’t a coherent plot, there weren’t any characters to root for and the effects were dreadful. This release would get an even lower Rotten Tomatoes score than Prime Video’sremake, where Ice Cube spent 90 minutes reacting to an alien invasion while on Zoom calls.
, looking like an escapee from an Atari 2600, float across the screen . Such videos were often recorded by U.S. Navy fighter jets using an AN/ASQ-228 Advanced Targeting Forward-Looking Infrared pod. This is impressively described as “a multi-sensor electro-optical device” that includes a “high-powered camera, a low-light television camera and a laser rangefinder.
” But another way to describe this device — which surely cost taxpayers a fortune — is a camera that utterly sucks at being a camera. Every video looks like a 1940s TV broadcast that somebody recorded with a Super 8 camera and then left in their attic for 70 years.
We’ve grown accustomed to newmovies somehow magically looking worse than they were decades ago, but even NASA footage from the first moon walk in 1969 is somehow clearer than the government UFO videos today. So let’s get Christopher Nolan to mount some Imax cameras on those F/A 18 Super Hornets and then maybe we’ll get out of bed to look at these zig-zagging blobs.
If the government really is hiding quality video of visitors from another world, let me reassure on this point. There’s something that nobody seems to get about so-called disclosure: Our entire concept of what might happen next if the government were to confirm alien life is based on an era of government trust that no longer exists. If Trump announces aliens are real, who is going to believe him? Not Democrats.
Not half of Republicans, at this point. Everything Trump has said about tariffs is wrong — nobody is believing him about aliens. The Pentagon could put out a 4K video of a massive-style mothership hovering over a Chick-fil-A and Americans would go, “Pfft, fake news, AI slop, distraction. ”more than helping.
The real-life disclosure buzz out there, combined with Universal’s “we’re hiding a bunch of this movie from trailers” campaign, is getting to the point where UFO buffs are starting to think the movie is going to end with Spielberg and Barack Obama walking into Area 51 and revealing a cryogenically frozen E.T. or something. , touting new previously unreleased UFO videos .
And front-line disclosure advocate Rep. Tim Burchett promises last week’s file drop is “just a drop in the bucket” and thatLola Petticrew on ‘I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning,’ Filming With Bestie Anthony Boyle and Actors Separating Art From Politics: “It’s a Disgrace”Julian SanctonThe Hollywood Reporter is a part of Penske Media Corporation. © 2026 The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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