First contact with aliens in 2027? Every prediction, who said what, and how past forecasts did

Search "aliens 2027" and two sources dominate. The first is "Bashar," an entity the American Darryl Anka says has spoken through him since the 1980s. As early as 2018 Anka's organization released a session called "2027, The Contact Fulcrum," and in May 2025 it advertised an event called "2027: The Year Everything Changes," where Bashar would talk about "how it will look when extraterrestrials arrive in 2027, which is how the probabilities are set now."

The second is people in the UFO world who say they've heard the date. John Ramirez, presented as a former CIA officer, said on a podcast in February 2023: "I've heard 2027 in kind of an official capacity I can't reveal," and "the word got out within the government that they're showing up in 2027 and we better be prepared." He produced no document. The skeptic Mick West suspects the date really comes from the "Davidson window": US Admiral Philip Davidson's warning in March 2021 that China might try to take Taiwan within six years, that is, by 2027.

Bashar is the most detailed source for the date, so the track record matters. Anka himself said on Mayim Bialik's podcast in March 2026 that "probably in 2027, we will be introduced to, literally to extraterrestrials by an official report." But Bashar's dates have a history:

The people who testified to Congress about UFOs use words like "soon" but almost never dates. Former Pentagon official Lue Elizondo titled his book Imminent (August 2024) and wrote in it: "I leave it up to you, the reader, to decide what imminent means to you." In November 2024 he testified that "the U.S. is in possession of UAP technologies, as are some of our adversaries." In a February 2026 interview with Glenn Beck, according to a published transcript, he said, "I've heard 2027. I also heard 2036," adding that to him it "seemed more anecdotal."

David Grusch has named no date. In July 2023 he testified that he had been told of a decades-long crash-retrieval program, and asked whether the government is in contact with aliens he said, "It is something I cannot discuss in a public setting." Steven Greer, who called for congressional hearings back in 2001, said in March 2025 that "disclosure is going to happen in the next year or two." And the documentary The Age of Disclosure (2025) gives no date either, only director Dan Farah's assurance that it is "only a matter of time" before a president tells the world we are not alone.

Some predictions have already come due. In December 2020 Haim Eshed, the former head of Israel's defense space program, said "Trump was on the verge of revealing" contact with a "Galactic Federation." Trump revealed nothing in his first term, and in February 2026, while ordering UFO files released, he said, "I don't know if they're real or not."

Baba Vanga has been credited with an alien "spacecraft" in November 2026, but she was earlier credited with contact in 2023 and 2025, and there is no written source for any of it (full fact check). British ufologist Mark Christopher Lee claimed Trump would give a speech on aliens on July 8, 2026, the Roswell anniversary, and that his source would hold a press conference in Washington on May 1, 2026; none of it happened. And in July 2025 Avi Loeb wrote, in a paper he called "largely a pedagogical exercise," that 3I/ATLAS "could be technological, and possibly hostile," with an optimal approach to Earth in late November or early December 2025. The comet passed, radio searches found nothing, and by December 2025 Loeb himself called it "most likely natural."

Channelers aren't the only ones naming dates. But scientists' forecasts are almost always about simple life or a signal, not spaceships:

Some of the best-known dated predictions of contact or disclosure. Every one has reached its date:

Prediction markets put real money on the question. On October 29, 2026, Polymarket's "Will the US confirm that aliens exist before 2027?" traded around 3.9%, down from a peak of about 20% in April, just before the UFO files began to come out. On Kalshi, the contract "before January 1, 2028," meaning by the end of 2027, traded around 15%. Both set a strict bar: a "definitive" statement by the president, a cabinet member or a federal agency that extraterrestrial life or technology exists.

A market price is not evidence. It reflects what traders think, and they react to rumors too. Every earlier yearly market, for 2023, 2024 and 2025, resolved No. Details are in our prediction markets guide, and what officials have actually said is in our tracker.

When a new prediction appears, four questions do most of the work: