RFK Jr. said a group had figured out how to call the ships: UFO retrieval came up in a health podcast
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. Secretary of Health, told Republican Representative Anna Paulina Luna on his own podcast that a group, including a senior NASA scientist and former special forces soldiers, had claimed to him that they know how to call UFOs, and that they had orders to destroy them and then collect the remains. Kennedy did not present any evidence.
In a health podcast
The conversation did not take place at a UFO hearing but in a health policy podcast. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. Secretary of Health, has hosted his own podcast titled "The Secretary Kennedy Podcast" since spring 2026, which is also published on the department's website. The guest of episode 12 was Anna Paulina Luna, a Republican representative from Florida, and the official topic was nutrition, food additives and the congressional goals of the "MAHA" (Make America Healthy Again) movement.
Luna, however, is one of the best-known UFO-focused politicians in the U.S. House of Representatives. She leads the House task force on the declassification of federal secrets and has repeatedly pushed for public hearings on the subject. So at one point the conversation turned to UFOs. The segment began circulating on social media in a short video on October 8.
What Kennedy said
According to Kennedy, during the transition period after the 2024 presidential election, when he was living in Palm Beach, a group approached him to talk with him about UFOs:
Kennedy said there was a very senior NASA scientist, along with a bunch of Navy SEALs and Green Berets who had served on retrieval teams.
Luna immediately asked whether these were programs aimed at retrieving crashed objects. Kennedy said yes. According to him, the group claimed:
Kennedy said they had really figured out how to call the ships, and that they had orders to destroy the UFOs and then collect the remains.
Kennedy also said that the group wanted him to make all of this public, but he did not, partly because many people were already criticizing him at the time for spreading conspiracy theories. He added that as secretary he has himself received briefings, and said that a lot of it is really crazy, but he did not talk about their content.
According to Cybernews' report, Luna also asked him whether he could prove it. Kennedy did not present any evidence.
The reaction
The video quickly became popular on Reddit's UFO forum, but opinions were divided. Some said such a statement from a member of the government deserves a thorough investigation, while others said Kennedy's statement is just a distraction, or that it simply reflects his known tendency toward unproven theories. Some also pointed out that the claim that they can call the ships is very similar to those spread in recent years by a private California company, Skywatcher, and one of its executives, Jake Barber.
The sober take
Kennedy's statement comes from a member of the government, which is why many people feel it carries more weight than it actually does. It is worth separating what he himself claims from what others claim.
- A secondhand claim. Kennedy did not say that he had seen a UFO or remains. He said that a group told him this. He did not say who they were, how he checked their background, or whether they worked as part of an official program.
- He does not know it through his office. Kennedy is the Secretary of Health, not a defense or intelligence official. He heard the story before he became a member of the government, as a private individual.
- A familiar story. The claim that they can call them has appeared several times over the past two years on American UFO podcasts and in a private company's presentations, but not a single verifiable piece of evidence has backed it up.
- The official finding. The U.S. government's UFO investigation office, AARO, and the PURSUE document release program launched in 2026 have so far made records public in six batches. These include many unresolved cases, but not a single verifiable piece of evidence of extraterrestrial technology or UFO retrieval programs.
In summary: the news is real in the sense that a member of the government really did say these things. The content of the claim, however, is unverified, comes from anonymous sources, and Kennedy himself did not claim to have evidence for it.
Sources
- Cybernews: RFK Jr. UFO crash retrieval claims spark Reddit frenzy (2026. október 9.)
- Unidentified Phenomena: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Reveals NASA Scientist and Special Forces Summoned, Destroyed, and Recovered UFOs (2026. október 9.)
- Reddit post