{"id":216276,"date":"2026-03-30T18:49:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T18:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=216276"},"modified":"2026-03-30T18:49:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T18:49:04","slug":"trump-opens-the-alien-files-why-americans-lean-into-conspiracies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=216276","title":{"rendered":"Trump opens the alien files: Why Americans lean into conspiracies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump vowed this week to release the government&#8217;s files on aliens and UFOs, the latest instance of declassifying records that have fueled Americans&#8217; fascination with conspiracies for decades.Why it matters: Beliefs about extraterrestrials and suspicion of government secrecy run deep for some, and researchers tell Axios that conspiracy theories often signal entrenched political or social notions.Driving the news: Last year&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/02\/21\/alien-files-conspiracy-theories-usa\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump vowed this week to release the government&#8217;s files on aliens and UFOs, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216276-trump-opens-the-alien-files-why-americans-lean-into-conspiracies.jpg",128,128,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216276-trump-opens-the-alien-files-why-americans-lean-into-conspiracies.jpg",128,128,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216276-trump-opens-the-alien-files-why-americans-lean-into-conspiracies.jpg",128,128,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216276-trump-opens-the-alien-files-why-americans-lean-into-conspiracies.jpg",128,128,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216276-trump-opens-the-alien-files-why-americans-lean-into-conspiracies.jpg",128,128,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216276-trump-opens-the-alien-files-why-americans-lean-into-conspiracies.jpg",128,128,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216276-trump-opens-the-alien-files-why-americans-lean-into-conspiracies.jpg",128,128,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216276-trump-opens-the-alien-files-why-americans-lean-into-conspiracies.jpg",128,128,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216276-trump-opens-the-alien-files-why-americans-lean-into-conspiracies.jpg",128,128,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216276-trump-opens-the-alien-files-why-americans-lean-into-conspiracies.jpg",128,128,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/216277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}