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r/aliensNSFW

A community dedicated to discussing alien life through news, experiences, speculation and investigation. Please keep content related to extra-terrestrials or non-human intelligence behind the UAP phenomenon. Founded 2008 · 1.6M members

1.6M members. The best post we have captured here reached 68.2K upvotes, which works out to 43 per 1,000 members.

43peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.6Mmembers
68.2Kbest post
10.6Kmost comments
909posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

28% 21% 19% 16% 11%
Video 28% Text 21% Link 19% Image 16% Question 11% Gallery 5%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Discussion :table: 205 Video 149 Image 📷 79 Evidence :upvote: 67 News :illuminati: 59 Historical 54 Speculation 40 Serious 39 Question :snoo_thoughtful: 30 Experience 17

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

FBI: We are releasing the alien files. The files:

↑ 68.2K 💬 692 image 2026

The State of Earth.

↑ 61.2K 💬 676 image 2025

Made my own Peru Alien mummy. Began working on it in 2018 (after the news about the mummies came out) and finished three days ago. What do you think?…

↑ 58.7K 💬 2.3K image 2023

That's definitely a true believer

↑ 53.7K 💬 342 video 2025

Sick graphitti by Nego.

↑ 51.4K 💬 414 image 2026

More Photos from Mexico UFO Hearings

↑ 45.5K 💬 10.6K gallery 2023

Pretty much sums it up

↑ 40.2K 💬 3.3K image 2023

Caught by my friend off her cruise ship balcony last night in the Gulf of Mexico

↑ 25.3K 💬 5.9K video 2025

Remember this guy

↑ 23.4K 💬 985 image 2025

Caught this on my quadcopter while filming a distant storm

↑ 22.7K 💬 3.1K video 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/aliens, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/aliens?
r/aliens describes itself this way: A community dedicated to discussing alien life through news, experiences, speculation and investigation. Please keep content related to extra-terrestrials or non-human intelligence behind the UAP phenomenon. It was founded in 2008 and has 1.6M members.
How many members does r/aliens have?
r/aliens has about 1.6M members. ViralHunt has tracked 909 of its posts; the biggest reached 68.2K upvotes, which is 43 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/aliens?
"FBI: We are releasing the alien files. The files:" reached 68.2K upvotes and 692 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/aliens.
What subreddits are similar to r/aliens?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/alberta, r/goodnews, r/AnarchyChess, r/minnesota, r/Amazing.
What kind of posts do best on r/aliens?
Of the posts we hold, 28% are video posts and 21% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/aliens?
Across 909 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 09:00 UTC (22.8K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 17:00 UTC (21.5K avg upvotes), Monday at 01:00 UTC (13.5K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Saturday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/aliens?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/aliens has 15.3K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 304 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/aliens, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.