India, April 19 -- Holding on to a fragile ceasefire amid an increasingly unpredictable war with Iran, US President Donald Trump has opened another front far removed from the Hormuz Strait and talks in Pakistan. The subject is familiar, though, as he announced over the past three days that his government has uncovered "very interesting documents" on UFOs, with their release coming "very, very soon".

He also ordered a probe by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) into deaths and disappearances that social media chatter has long interlinked and related to unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and "unexplained phenomena".

Trump's announcement on UFOs - a favourite subject of alien-conspiracy theorists - came in Phoenix on Friday, at an e...