Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson wants the US government to ‘Show the alien!’ after the latest UFO disclosure from the Trump administration.
Tyson, 67, joined The Fox News Rundown on Monday, explaining how the overwhelming amount of irrefutable evidence should finally be topped off with a picture of an extraterrestrial being.
‘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 said.
The astrophysicist’s request comes after the Trump administration released a third tranche of previously classified UAP files on Friday.
The materials were uploaded to the Department of War’s website that morning and include a series of cases that investigators were unable to explain, leaving the nature of the phenomena unresolved.
‘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,’ Tyson said.
‘It might even be anticlimactic, given our anticipation for what it could be.’
The astrophysicist continued to explain: ‘I would only be shocked if the alien were in fact humanoid because of just the statistics of biological variation on Earth, where we have DNA in common with all other life, and most life is not humanoid on Earth.’
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, 67, joined The Fox News Rundown on Monday, demanding the US government to ‘Show the alien!’ after the latest UFO disclosure from the Trump administration
One video released on Friday shows what officials described as a ‘plasma-like sphere’ hovering above a pond at an undisclosed location in the US, appearing to shift shape and brightness as it moved. The incident was captured in 2025
He argued that any alien visitor from another planet would likely look very different from humans and may not even share the same DNA structure.
‘So I would be shocked if it was humanoid,’ Tyson said. ‘But otherwise, I think we’re ready for it. Of course, we’re ready. We’ve been ready.’
Among the newly released records is a 2025 FBI report describing a video captured by a citizen in the northeastern US.
According to the witness, a bright object hovered over their backyard as a ‘brilliant red sphere’ roughly the size of a basketball.
Another never-before-seen video shows what officials described as a ‘plasma-like sphere’ hovering above a pond at an undisclosed location in the US, appearing to shift shape and brightness as it moved.
Friday’s release also includes dozens of long-hidden CIA files about mysterious sightings, revealing that the agency assembled a panel of top scientists to investigate ‘flying saucers’ amid fears the reports could clog military warning systems and spark mass hysteria.
The materials were quietly uploaded to the Department of War’s website on Friday morning and include a series of cases that investigators were unable to definitively explain, leaving the nature of the phenomena unresolved
This image is an artistic interpretation of a reported incident near a sensitive national security site in the western US involving unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) over a period of two days in October 2023
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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said in a statement: ‘The Department of War is in lockstep with President Trump to bring unprecedented transparency regarding our government’s understanding of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).
‘These files, hidden behind classifications, have long fueled justified speculation, and it’s time the American people see it for themselves. This release of declassified documents demonstrates the Trump Administration’s earnest commitment to unprecedented transparency.’
According to the Pentagon, there have been ‘unprecedented levels of interest’ in the UFO files, and the Department of War’s website has received over 1.7 billion hits worldwide since its launch on May 8.
A second release took place two weeks later.
Many of the images and videos in today’s release were submitted by American citizens, with officials noting that footage was captured using iPhones.
