Marjorie Taylor Greene says UFO Files is ‘Shiny Objects Propaganda,’ and it’s to Divert Attention from all These Burning Issues
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) called the Pentagon’s release of documents related to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) and UFOs “shiny object propaganda” as the Trump administration wages “foreign wars,” The Hill reported. The Pentagon released 162 files earlier Friday morning amid President Trump’s push for greater transparency on the issue. The Defense Department shared a new webpage, war.gov/UFO, for the public to visit and access documents as they are released.
Greene, a former Trump ally, said she “really” does not “care about the UFO files.” She took to X to voice her frustration, making it clear that she thinks there are much bigger fish to fry. “I’m so sick of the ‘look at the shiny object’ propaganda while they wage foreign wars, let rapist and pedophiles run free, and ruin the value of our dollar. Unless they roll out live aliens and test demo UFOs or actually admit what we know this really is then I have way better things to do on this Friday.”
The Georgia Republican also blasted the administration in a separate X post less than an hour later, which she ended with “Happy Friday everyone!” In that post, she didn’t pull any punches regarding the timing of the release. “The most transparent administration in history still hasn’t released all the Epstein files or arrested anyone, but rolled out some UFO files today so you would get so excited that you forgot you are paying over $4.50/gallon because they are fighting another foreign war they said they would no longer fight,” Greene wrote.
Greene was among the few House Republicans who backed a vote to compel the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release its documents on the disgraced financier. The DOJ conducted a slow rollout of the files, starting on the date that all of the documents were expected to drop as required under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Files were released over the next month with many heavily redacted. Her second post also referred to the U.S.-Israeli conflict in Iran, which has caused gas prices to skyrocket over the last two months since the conflict began.
Despite the criticism, the administration is moving forward with its transparency initiative. Trump previously ordered the Defense Department and other government agencies and departments to review their information on UAPs and extraterrestrial life before releasing the information to the public. Given the scope of reviewing “tens of millions” of records, the Pentagon stated it would release new materials “on a rolling basis as they are discovered and declassified, with tranches posted every few weeks.” (Read more from “Marjorie Taylor Greene says UFO Files is ‘Shiny Objects Propaganda,’ and it’s to Divert Attention from all These Burning Issues” HERE)
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