The unusual object was captured making unusual movements. However, people on Reddit wrote that the information on the “chandelier UFO” was released before, although what it was is far from clear. The video was recorded in the Middle East in 2013 and is listed as “unresolved.”

Perspective: As things stand, the files say implicitly what officials won't explicitly. For now, it's all aboard the intergalactic hype train.

Over the last decade, since the work of a shadowy government program called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was made public in 2017, there has been growing public pressure on the US government to release its files related to aliens. At the same time, UFOs have been rebranded as Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon, or UAP.

A famous 'alien' photo, recently circulated as declassified material, has been traced back to a 1950 hoax, fuelling scepticism about the alien claims the Pentagon had been teasing for release.