From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The White House is mocking the idea of the U.S. retaining secrets involving alien encounters by launching a space-themed website that touts the arrests of immigrants unauthorized to live in the U.S.

The White House has launched a website that tells the reader aliens "walk among us". Despite appearing to be a site about extraterrestrials, it highlights the work of the US Immigration and Customs ...

On May 22, 2026, the Pentagon released a second batch of previously classified photos and videos showing what appear to be unexplained flying objects. These file dumps were the culmination of a ...

Videos in this batch show unidentified aerial phenomena but offer few clues to existence of alien life Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email The Pentagon on Friday released a second ...

In mid-May 2026, a claim circulated online that President Donald Trump posted an image of himself walking alongside a tall, grey alien with shackles on its hands and feet. For example, one Instagram ...

The US has recovered four distinct species of extraterrestrial life from crashed UFOs, a former CIA-funded government researcher sensationally claimed this week. Dr. Hal Puthoff, former Advanced ...

Earlier this year, President Trump directed agencies to begin the process of identifying and releasing files related to alien and extraterrestrial life. The first files were released May 8 at ...

Do aliens exist? Could Earth really be the only planet hosting intelligent life? Debates over the existence of extraterrestrials date back to the earliest Indigenous and western thought. The tools ...

Steven Spielberg is disclosing more about his mysterious UFO project at CinemaCon. The Jaws filmmaker shared new footage of his new sci-fi thriller Disclosure Day during Universal's presentation in ...

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