GTA Online players discover hidden UFO mission

Years and years ago, players became entranced with a mystery within Grand Theft Auto V. The mystery surrounded aliens and a bunch of weird oddities around Los Santos including UFOs. It was weird but it never seemed like there was anything more to it despite years of searching. Now, the mystery continues within GTA Online.

Buried in the new Summer Special update, GTA Online packs a hidden mission with a UFO. A group of dataminers called The Game File Gurus discovered the mission in GTA V’s files but no one knows how to activate it through actual gameplay. The UFO mission is part of one of the game’s business battles, an open-world event that anyone can engage in.

Usually, it’s just players gathering things like supplies or drugs and trying to transport it to their respective base. Other players can intercept these cargo hauls and destroy them or steal them. For this one, it tells players to go to the military base within GTA V, Fort Zancudo, and steal spaceship parts from a hanger. Inside said hangar, there’s a UFO that’s likely being stripped.

You then bring the parts to Omega, the weird hippy-like character who is obsessed with extraterrestrials. In the campaign, Omega gifts you a special car if you bring him enough collectible space parts. No one knows what the reward for completing this mission in GTA Online is, perhaps a UFO players can keep? Who knows!

No one knows how to trigger the mission and the Gurus believe that Rockstar is trying to keep these types of missions very hidden. Perhaps a special event is coming that will properly activate these missions in GTA Online.

Grand Theft Auto V is out now on Xbox One, PS4, and PC. While Grand Theft Auto 6 is reportedly in development, it won’t be the first GTA on next-gen consoles. GTA V will come to Xbox Series X and PS5 in 2021.