Neil deGrasse Tyson dares government to 'just show the alien,' as disclosure fervor continues to grow

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is calling on the government to just "show the alien," arguing that after years of whistleblower hearings and Pentagon file dumps, the American public is ready to see the actual proof.

Speaking on "The Fox News Rundown," the director of the Hayden Planetarium argued that if the government has proof aliens are real, the American public is fully prepared to handle the truth.

"Is it too much to ask at this point for them to just show the alien? That's all, I don’t think I'm asking too much here," Tyson told Fox News Radio’s Jessica Rosenthal.

He noted that in recent years, there have been multiple people who have testified under oath in front of Congress regarding crashed saucers and "non-human biologics."

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"We've already been told this, so to say if they rolled out an alien, we'd somehow freak out given the century of alien movies we'd been treated to and alien stories… I don't see that we'd freak out at all," he said. "It might even be anticlimactic, given our anticipation for what it could be."

Late last week, the Department of War released its latest batch of records related to suspected unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) encounters. This latest release included documents and images from a range of government agencies, including the CIA, FBI and NASA, with some files detailing orb-like objects in the sky.

The War Department noted the release is part of the Trump administration’s "historic transparency effort," revealing that the official tracking page has captured over 1.7 billion hits worldwide since launching in early May.

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Tyson added that what would surprise him most about a potential alien disclosure would be if the creatures actually appeared humanoid. He argued that an extraterrestrial being from a distant world would likely look nothing like mankind.

"I would only be shocked if the alien were in fact humanoid because of just the statistics of biological variation on Earth, where we have DNA in common with all other life, and most life is not humanoid on Earth," he said.

"So you're [going to] have a visiting alien from another planet that has no DNA in common with us at all, or no DNA at all. And somehow it's [going to] walk on two legs with a head, eyes, nose, mouth. So I would be shocked if it was humanoid," Tyson said, adding, "But otherwise, I think we're ready for it. Of course, we're ready. We've been ready."

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Tyson's new book, "Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter," explores what a potential first contact scenario would look like while breaking down humanity's centuries-long obsession with the cosmos.

The latest batch of UAP files likely won’t be the last, as the War Department has confirmed it is preparing the next release. Previous files have included details from the Apollo 12 and Apollo 17 space missions, as well as images of oddly shaped objects captured on film.

In February, Trump posted about his directive to agencies to begin the disclosure process for information related to UAPs and extraterrestrial life. Trump wrote on Truth Social:

"Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters. GOD BLESS AMERICA!"