A surprising amount of military secrets have been leaked onto boring internet forums. While a majority of users on places like 4chan are either LARPing, 15 years old or some combination of the two, some actually have connections to high places. For example, sensitive documents pertaining to the ongoing war in Ukraine were leaked to a Discord server for fans of a “Filipino YouTube celebrity.” 

Curiously, the game War Thunder has been a continual thorn in the side of U.S. military intelligence, with numerous documented cases of people with access to secret documents getting mad about inaccuracies in the game and leaking classified files to show how things should really be done.

The point is, if you see something appearing to be official government intelligence on a random internet forum, chances are it’s fake. However, there’s always a slight chance that it’s the real deal.

Earlier this year, a user on 4chan claimed to “have intimate knowledge of what the U.S. currently knows about UFOs minus the last two years.” This includes information like “UFOs are primarily unmanned drones,” “UFOs are created by a mobile construction facility that hides in the ocean” and the “U.S. believes the facility has been active on earth for at least 100 years or much longer.” Also, every time we try to get near one of these so-called construction facilities, they disappear.

Quickly, users pelted the poster with questions. For example, what do the aliens want? According to the poster, “They mostly want very little to do with us until we start to talk about war and nuclear options. It’s one of the reasons why you see them so often at critical events.” The poster later compared their role to that of zookeepers simply doing their jobs minding the enclosures, while we are the lowly animals within those enclosures. Fun!

Many were curious about the attempts to approach the alien bases. The poster says it doesn’t usually go too well. “The last unit we saw approach the facility didn’t even have time to communicate they were being attacked before it was over,” the user wrote. He later elaborated: “Normal approach details, pilot responsive and actively talking. The feed cuts out pilot still talking suddenly nothing. Poor guy likely had no idea it was likely a suicide mission.”

For those who are curious, yes, the man claims to have seen aliens in person, and yes, the aliens are also apparently “very humanoid.”

And this whole time we thought aliens would attack us from space. We had no idea that the call was actually coming from inside the house, or in this case, from the bottom of the ocean.