One pilot's offhand description in 1947 started a national obsession that never quit.

A polarizing Harvard astronomer known for splashy theories about alien visits has been tapped by the Trump administration to ...

Avi Loeb, a Harvard astronomer who has made headlines with his theories about alien encounters, will lead a White House ...

Vanity Fair reports from the Capitol Hill conference, where members of a sprawling community of national security experts and ...

But the reviews for ‘Disclosure Day’ among the experts on UAP—unidentified aerial phenomena—are decidedly mixed.

Since August 2025, a UFO-reporting app has recorded more than 9,000 sightings of mysterious unidentified objects close to U.S. coastlines and major bodies of water, according to Marine Technology News ...

Whether he meant to or not, Steven Spielberg has been trying to convince the world of alien existence for over 40 years. He’s donated money to research programs. He’s discussed the issue with ...

UFO movies look to real-life experts to make their films feel authentic. In the half century that has elapsed since the release of Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and ...

Half a century after "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," the director returns to the subject of UFOs with "Disclosure Day." His science fiction films are informed by his fascination with alien encou ...

With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination with extraterrestrials.

What Roy Mauritsen remembers about seeing Steven Spielberg’s "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" as a boy is the looming shape of Devils Tower. For a kid growing up in Suffolk County, the peculiarly ...