Aliens.gov Website Goes Live: Your Tax Dollars Are Now Funding A Cosmic Hotline
The federal government has launched aliens.gov, a taxpayer-funded portal that lets you report UFO sightings directly to the Department of Defense. While the site is meant to increase transparency, consumer advocates warn that your wallet is already paying for this interstellar initiative through the annual $44 billion military budget. Worse, the site’s database could be a privacy nightmare—your phone number and location data might be logged by a system with no clear opt-out. Before you upload that blurry video of a drone, consider that the government could use this to justify new surveillance spending, which always hits your wallet as higher taxes or inflation. So, unless you want aliens.gov to be your new bill collector, think twice before clicking “submit.”