A similar situation happened back in 2017 with a secret mission involving an alien egg and crashed ship. It was brute-force activated by team Guru using different variables before players later found out how to trigger the mission legitimately. A member of The Game File Gurus explained to Kotaku that this time around the mission was much harder to activate because of how Rockstar now handles hidden missions. Before, for the egg mission, only one variable in the game’s programming needed to be changed. Now over 40 different online and local scripts had to be changed to get the new UFO mission to trigger. The team believes Rockstar is trying harder to hide these missions from dataminers.

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Some of the code connected to this new secret mission.
Some of the code connected to this new secret mission.
Screenshot: The Game File Gurus

This new, secret GTA Online business battle involves players entering Fort Zancudo, the military base found outside Los Santos, and then fighting their way into a large aircraft hangar. Inside this hangar is the new, massive UFO model that The Game File Gurus found. Also inside are spaceship parts. Players need to steal and collect these parts and then bring them to Omega, a character who has appeared in GTA V before and who is obsessed with UFOs and aliens.

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For players who aren’t able to modify GTA Online and want to try this mission legitimately, nobody is yet sure how to trigger it. In fact, TGFGurus aren’t even sure if the mission is actually active in-game yet, or buried deep in the code and waiting for Rockstar to eventually activate it. The last alien secret mission forced players to complete 600 gunrunning supply missions before they could access the alien egg event. So I expect this mission will also come with similarly tough prerequisites. 600+ completed business battles, maybe?

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Team Guru, along with other players and dataminers, are continuing to dig around GTA Online and hope to figure out how this secret mission activates, and also what reward players will receive once they jump through the correct hoops to access and complete it.

Maybe, finally, players will get their very own UFO to fly around in? Unlikely, but not impossible. GTA Online is a weird game these days and I could definitely see Rockstar adding an actual UFO to the list of drivable aircraft.

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