Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has a blunt request for the government as the Pentagon rolls out the highly anticipated UFO files — just “show the alien!”
Tyson shared his two cents Monday on “The Fox News Rundown” while arguing the American public is more than ready for irrefutable evidence that aliens exist.
“Is it too much to ask at this point for them to just show the alien? That’s all, I don’t think I’m asking too much here,” Tyson, 67, said.
Given the century of movies and media about extraterrestrials, Tyson posits that the public’s reaction would be “anticlimactic, given our anticipation for what it could be.”
“We’ve already been told this, so to say if they rolled out an alien, we’d somehow freak out given the century of alien movies we’d been treated to and alien stories… I don’t see that we’d freak out at all,” he said.
He explained that he would only be “shocked if the alien were in fact humanoid because of just the statistics of biological variation on earth, and most life is not humanoid on Earth.”
Tyson’s new book, “Take Me to Your Leader,” is a guide for dealing with extraterrestrial visitors, which showcases what and how aliens might look, act and behave during a first encounter.
He isn’t the only voice demanding transparency from the government regarding alien life in the cosmos.
Earlier this month, former Air Force intelligence officer David Grusch accused the American intelligence agencies of absconding billions in spending related to unidentified aerial phenomena.
Grusch, like Tyson, believes that “it’s a continuum from corporeal bipedal life to, you know, what I would consider is like sentient plasma life,” he explained while speaking at a Capitol Hill event alongside members of the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets.
In February, Trump announced his mandate to agencies to begin the disclosure process for information related to UFOs and extraterrestrial life.
“Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing 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, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters,” he wrote on Truth Social.
Last Friday, the War Department released its third tranche of the UFO files.