'Nobody cares': Marjorie Taylor Greene slams new UFO videos as useless amid high cost of living

Former GOP Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene was in no mood to entertain the newly released tranche of files related to unidentified flying objects (UFOs), characterizing them as useless at a time when Americans face rising costs. "The newly released videos do not lower people's health insurance premiums, does not stop Social Security and Medicare from going bankrupt in 2032, do not lower inflation or gas, do not help people afford to buy a home, or end the Iran war that Americans did not sign up for. Nobody cares," she wrote on X.

Greene's post refers to the Pentagon dropping a new batch on its UFO website, which includes a total of 40 files—14 documents, 19 videos, 4 audio files, and 3 images, CBS News reported. Multiple agencies supplied these files, including NASA, CIA, FBI, and the Energy Department. The disclosure is more or less along the lines of previous releases, which is to say it mostly contains unredacted documents and videos along with a few files of more recent events.

Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell said that this marked the fourth such release of declassified and historical Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) files undertaken as part of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE). "The collection continues to be housed on WAR.GOV/UFO, and the Department will release additional files on a rolling basis," he said.

Among the notable releases is an Energy Department file containing imagery and a report documenting the circumstances surrounding a September 1, 2015, incident involving an unidentified object intruding into the airspace above a nuclear plant near Amarillo, Texas. It said that an unknown object flew in a non-threatening manner west of the Pantex plant in a northerly trajectory.

This is not the first time Greene, who served as the House representative from Georgia's 14th congressional district, has admonished the Trump administration over its priorities. She previously called the UFO release "shiny object" propaganda meant to distract Americans from "unnecessary wars," a lack of arrests in the Jeffrey Epstein case, and a devalued dollar, quipping that the government may need to "roll out live aliens" and "test demo UFOs" for her to stop and take notice.

The post came after the Defense Department released the first batch of files related to UAP in May this year. The 162 files, apart from providing additional insight into several previously reported UFO encounters and sightings, included high-resolution images and videos, among them a historic image from the Apollo 17 mission, taken in December 1972, that the Pentagon says it is analyzing again.