Diary - Recently, the US government has been

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This is an entry from my diary. Please check it and correct any mistakes.

Recently, the US government has been releasing some UFO videos and pictures. I'm very excited about it because I hope one day I can go on an interstellar travel. Maybe 10 year later, posting which planet to visit will be a trend on Instagram. However, what most I'm expecting to is that there will be no illnesses in the world or everyone can be cured in one second.
 
Recently, the US government has been releasing some [ 1] UFO videos and pictures about UFOs. I'm very excited about it that because I hope one day I can go on an interstellar travel in space. Maybe 10 years from now, later, posting about which planet to visit will be a trend on Instagram.
[ 1]: Your phrasing suggests that UFOs actually exist.
However, what most I'm expecting to is that there will be no illnesses in the world or everyone can be cured in one second.
That's ungrammatical, badly phrased, and does not fit with the previous part. Change/omit it.
 
However, one thing that I most expect is that there will be no illnesses in the world or everyone can be cured in one second.
 
No. That's still ungrammatical, unrealistic, and more importantly, unconnected thematically to what preceded it.

To fix those problems, try instead:

Who knows! Perhaps we'll also be so advanced that we will have found cures for most, if not all, diseases. Let's hope.
 
I'm slightly skeptical that we'll have achieved interstellar travel in ten years since the nearest star is over four light years away!
 
[ 1]: Your phrasing suggests that UFOs actually exist.
Well, that's what the government says anyway, although they've made a clever decision to distance themselves from interpreting the phenomenon as extraterrestrial aliens and the surrounding science woo. Instead of calling them UFOs, they now refer to them as UAPs.
 
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Don't UFOs exist? They exist in the sense that they are flying objects, and we don't know what they are. We just don't know.
 
@Maybo I meant to say, "Do UFOs exist?" 🤔
 

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