GTA Online Dataminers Find And Play Secret UFO Mission

GTA Online Dataminers Find And Play Secret UFO Mission

Earlier this month, Grand Theft Auto Online received the big Summer Special update, which added a bunch of new cars, co-op missions, and other small quality-of-life changes. But buried in this update was a new secret mission involving a massive UFO and the theft of spaceship parts. While nobody yet knows how to actually activate it, a group of dataminers used tools to force the mission to start, giving us a look at how it works.

Well-known dataminers and modders The Game File Gurus were among the first to find a new and large UFO model hidden in the files of GTA Online after the summer update. This new UFO is visually identical to an older UFO model that has been in GTA V and GTA Online’s files for years. But this new model is much, much bigger and so the Guru team began digging and searching for why this new, big UFO was added. Was it a silly easter egg or something more?

After a few days of sifting through the files and scripts, the team found a secret business battle mission in GTA Online that used this new UFO model. Business battles are online missions that can appear in the open world of GTA Online in which any player can participate. They involve taking supplies from various locations and groups and bringing those supplies back to your nightclub warehouse, should you own one. Doing so will earn you experience and in-game cash and help you build up supplies that you can sell later.