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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk does not think UFOs seen in the US sky are alien spacecraft. In an interview with Tucker Carlson, he alleged that these UFOs people claim to see are likely just the US government’s highly classified "new weapons programmes".

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Musk stated that as in charge of his Space Exploration company, he has “not seen any evidence of aliens” ever. 

Talking about humanity and the universe, he admitted that “there’s a lot we don’t know". 

“Where did we come from? Where are the aliens?” Musk said to Carlson.

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He cited the satellites in space to explain that aliens can't possibly exist. Musk stated that there are over "6,000 satellites" in orbit but we have “not once had to manoeuvre around an alien spacecraft.”

Carlson asked Musk why is the US military doing "a lot of manoeuvring around objects they can’t explain." To this, Musk responded, "Well, unidentified flying objects are one thing, but there are always a bunch of classified programs that are underway."

He believes that the US government is regularly testing "new aircraft, new missiles, and things" and all of them are classified, which is why it is going around these topics. He claimed that the programmes are so secret that several people high up in the chain of command in the US military are also not aware of them.

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“Some pilot sees something moving fast and says, ‘Hey, I saw a UFO!'” But he says it might just be a new weapons programme that is being experimented on a need-to-know basis.

Musk says he will tell all if he ever encounters aliens

Meanwhile, Musk promised to make a full revelation to the general public if he ever comes across evidence of aliens. "The split second I see any evidence of aliens, I will immediately post that on the X platform,” he said. “It will probably be our number one post of all time."

Earlier in 2023, Musk said that he doesn't think the government is hiding the existence of aliens. He admitted that he hoped the aliens were real and friendly.

Musk went on to claim that if aliens existed, the government would turn them into villains to gain more military spending. 

Several UFO sightings have been reported in the US over the years, however, none have been confirmed to belong to extra-terrestrial life. Reports suggest that Congress wants the Pentagon to look into its UFO files from the time World War II ended.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence went through 366 fresh sightings of "unidentified aerial phenomena", and found that 26 of them were drones, 163 were "balloon or balloon-like entities", and six were “attributed to clutter” in the air.