I worked with NASA. Total UFO disclosure is finally happening… but it’s not coming from the White House

By CHRIS MELORE, US DEPUTY SCIENCE EDITOR

Published: 11:06 EDT, 19 October 2026 | Updated: 11:09 EDT, 19 October 2026

The White House made a promise to release every file connected to UFOs and extraterrestrials, leading many to believe they would finally know if aliens are real or just science fiction.

But months of releases filled with blurry photos, artists’ drawings and no confirmation about what may really be flying over America’s skies have left the public thinking the president’s promise was nothing more than a cosmic bait and switch.

NASA filmmaker Simon Holland, however, insisted to the Daily Mail that a historic UFO disclosure is coming, and it will come from America’s global adversaries rather than President Donald Trump.

Holland claimed that a source tied to Earth’s search for intelligent life in space had learned that Russia and China will be making their own public UFO announcement ‘very soon’ in order to ’embarrass’ the US.

His source, a European radio telescope specialist, said that Russia’s main telescope for messaging extraterrestrial intelligence (METI) was based in Crimea before being destroyed in August 2025. According to Holland, the source also claimed that the Russian effort to detect intelligent signals from space has now moved to China, which has ‘excellent radio telescopes and are willing to share data,’ thus saving the alleged alien communication project.

Holland, a science communicator who worked on NASA-funded films for its asteroid-tracking project, claimed that his source learned of this new partnership between Russia and China while working in the Far East.

‘Does this mean we are in an ET arms race? Possibly,’ Holland said, noting that Russia and China would use the announcement to highlight their own technological superiority over the US, but no precise date has been set.

While there has been no confirmation that such a deal exists, and no proof that intelligent signals from space have ever been detected, US officials are publicly voicing their fears that Russia and China will soon hijack the UFO disclosure conversation.

US officials reportedly feel America is running out of time to release what it knows about UFOs before other world powers make the historic announcement first

A radio telescope specialist has alleged that Russia and China have formed a partnership which send and detect signals from deep space

Congressman Eric Burlison of Missouri recently sounded the alarm on the ‘arms race’ to control the narrative over the existence of alien life.

Specifically, Burlison said in a recent interview that Russia and China could use the historic event of alien disclosure to paint America as a nation that hides the truth from its people.

‘We’re supposed to be the most transparent country in the world to its citizenry and if another country is able to be more transparent than the United States on this topic it would be a blemish on our otherwise pristine legacy on transparency,’ the congressman told The New York Post.

On February 19, President Trump ordered the release of all information the US government has on UFOs and the search for alien life. And, since the Pentagon’s disclosure campaign began on May 8, there have been six giant batches of data released to the public, containing files, images and videos of unexplained phenomena.

But the rollout has been widely met with criticism and claims that what is being shown to the American people contains none of the more definitive proof some lawmakers have allegedly seen in classified briefings.

The vast majority of the data released on the Department of War’s UFO website has focused on videos of non-descript glowing objects flying across the screen, vague or heavily redacted witness reports and decades-old documents from government projects that never declared if aliens had been encountered.

Some in Congress have even claimed that the most concrete evidence of alien life has been kept from multiple presidents by the nation’s intelligence community.

Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett told the Daily Mail in April: ‘I’m in a meeting with some little punk bureaucrat with a man bun telling me that “the president’s on a need-to-know basis.” That, to me, sends a very chilling message for what’s really going on out there.’

Congressman Eric Burlison (pictured) has been a member of the House Oversight Committee investigating claims that the US government has not been truthful about the existence of UFOs

The Russian radio telescope RT-70 in Crimea was used for sending messages to space until it was destroyed by a Ukrainian drone strike

Television film editor and independent science filmmaker Simon Holland

As for what might be delaying Russia and China from sharing what they have learned from their own UFO investigations, Holland said the nations may not have been able to decode the signals they have allegedly detected from deep space.

Before the alleged deal with China, Holland’s contact claimed Russia had been using its Yevpatoria RT-70 radio telescope complex in Crimea for METI projects.

The 230-foot dish, built in the 1970s by the Soviet Union, had a documented history of beaming powerful signals into space.

Between 1999 and 2008, RT-70 transmitted four sets of interstellar messages to nearby stars and planets in the hope of contacting intelligent life. Holland claims they succeeded.

‘After fitting the quantum communication device to a Russian radio telescope based in the Crimea, they confirmed that there were signals coming from a distant source,’ he said.

The idea dates back to the 1990s: Use a process called quantum tunneling to send messages across vast distances almost instantly.

Claims that it could carry information faster than light remain unproven.

German physicist Günter Nimtz published laboratory findings in 2001, but there is no public evidence that Russia built a working device or used one to send messages into space.

If such a device was housed at Russia’s RT-70 telescope, it may have been destroyed in the drone strike announced by Ukraine’s military on August 31, 2025.

Holland’s source claimed Russia then moved the signaling project to China’s FAST telescope, the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope, in the southwestern province of Guizhou.

Along with the US, Russia and China, Holland claimed that France also knew ‘we are not alone in the universe,’ and alleged that these governments kept large amounts of evidence to prove it – including biological remains and crashed UFO debris.

The Daily Mail has reached out to Burlison for comment.