During Monday's White House press briefing, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre actually had to tell the Beltway press that there were no aliens or extraterrestrial activity found in the recent takedowns by military forces of unidentified flying objects.

This is the state of things in this country when the Beltway press takes its cues from right-wing media.

"I just wanted to make sure we address this from the White House," Jean-Pierre said. "I know there have been questions and concerns about this."

Not from people that have a brain.

“There is no, again, no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent takedowns,” she stressed. "Again, there is no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent takedowns."

“Wanted to make sure the American people knew that, all of you knew that, and it was important for us to say that from here, because we’ve been hearing about that.”

The gallery started to laugh..

"I loved E.T., the movie, but I'm just gonna leave it there."

So did I.

I guess this puts to rest the Alex Jones/Charlie Kirk conspiracy theories that these recent takedowns are a deep state false flag alien invasion operation to distract people from the secret cabal that is running the world and acquiring more power invisibly.

UPDATE: Newsmax demanded a clarification of the Alien threat.