Donald Trump sparked wild speculation after sharing an apparently AI-generated image of himself walking alongside an alien at Area 51, as claims emerge he has been briefed on a secret UAP retrieval program.

Something happens to a news cycle when a 89-year-old physicist sits down on a podcast and says, in the same unhurried tone you’d use to describe the weather, that the U.S. government has recovered at least four distinct species of non-human life from crashed spacecraft.