Donald Trump has just revealed that his administration has found “many interesting documents” in relation to UFOs, because the POTUS will do anything — and I mean anything — to distract from the Iran blunder. After weeks of back-and-forth with Iran where he threatened to annihilate their civilization in one stroke, then pleaded with them to open the Strait of Hormuz in another, and even a weird, impromptu press conference by Melania Trump denying that she had ties with Jeffrey Epstein, Trump is now considering playing the UFO card to distract the taxpaying public from the soaring gas prices, the soaring food prices, and the soaring prices of practically everything else. Which, sure, might sound like a landmark moment for transparency, but only if you’d somehow forgotten that we’re in the middle of a war, that American service members are constantly under threat, and that the administration had no exit strategy for a conflict that’s ruining the global economy. But look, shiny thing. To be fair, the UFO files had already been gaining momentum in Congress. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna sent a letter to Pete Hegseth requesting over 45 video files reportedly containing footage of spherical “Tic Tac”-like objects recorded by the U.S. military over war zones. Interestingly, some of these sightings have taken place near Iran and Syria. Not everyone is dazzled by the cosmic sleight of hand. Sean Kirkpatrick, the first director of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office and the physicist who spent over a year actually investigating UFO reports, called Trump’s order (per CBS News) a “distraction for the administration” and said what his office found ranged from military hazing incidents to deliberate deceptions designed to conceal classified defense programs. In other words: don’t hold your breath for little green men. Hold it for heavily redacted PDFs and a lot of “we cannot confirm nor deny.” Republican Rep. Thomas Massie put it more bluntly, posting that the administration had “deployed the ultimate weapon of mass distraction,” while adding that “the Epstein files aren’t going away… even for aliens.” Well, you can now add Iran to that list too. Aliens might exist. The U.S. Department of Defense might know something about it. But for Trump, all of this probably amounts to a get-out-of-jail-free card now that his gambit has failed in Iran. The findings will dominate the news cycle for a few days, but no amount of grainy Pentagon footage of UFOs will bring down gas prices.