{"id":73591,"date":"2026-05-16T03:00:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T08:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/the-release-of-the-ufo-files-wont-satisfy-conspiracy-theorists-but-it-certainly-serves-trumps-agenda-daniel-lavelle\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T03:00:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T08:00:47","slug":"the-release-of-the-ufo-files-wont-satisfy-conspiracy-theorists-but-it-certainly-serves-trumps-agenda-daniel-lavelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/the-release-of-the-ufo-files-wont-satisfy-conspiracy-theorists-but-it-certainly-serves-trumps-agenda-daniel-lavelle\/","title":{"rendered":"The release of the UFO files won\u2019t satisfy conspiracy theorists \u2013 but it certainly serves Trump\u2019s agenda | Daniel Lavelle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there\u2019s no proof of aliens, the president can blame the deep state. If there\u2019s proof, he\u2019s a hero. Either way, it helps his popularity<\/p>\n<p>The US Department of Defense released the first batch of its UFO files last week at the direction of the president, Donald Trump, who promised to make them public \u201cbased on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c1m2epkey44o\">tremendous interest shown<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s right, of course. Nearly half of Americans believe <a href=\"https:\/\/yougov.com\/en-us\/articles\/53486-half-of-americans-believe-aliens-have-visited-earth\">aliens have visited Earth<\/a>, and many believe that the government is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7ZDZGLaWEak\">hoarding the evidence<\/a> in some shadowy laboratory or military base. This conspiracy began in 1947 at Roswell, New Mexico, when the Roswell army airfield issued a news release about the crash of a<em><strong> <\/strong><\/em>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/theguardian\/2010\/jun\/25\/archive-where-no-mannequin-has-been-before-1997\">flying disc<\/a>\u201d, and has never truly gone away.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/may\/16\/ufo-files-donald-trump-us-conspiracy-theorists-aliens\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there\u2019s no proof of aliens, the president can blame the deep state. If there\u2019s proof, he\u2019s a hero. Either way, it helps his popularity The US Department of Defense released the first batch of its UFO files last week at the direction of the president, Donald Trump, who promised to make them public \u201cbased &#8230; <a title=\"The release of the UFO files won\u2019t satisfy conspiracy theorists \u2013 but it certainly serves Trump\u2019s agenda | Daniel Lavelle\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/the-release-of-the-ufo-files-wont-satisfy-conspiracy-theorists-but-it-certainly-serves-trumps-agenda-daniel-lavelle\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The release of the UFO files won\u2019t satisfy conspiracy theorists \u2013 but it certainly serves Trump\u2019s agenda | Daniel Lavelle\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}