U.S. President Directs Government to Prepare Release of Aliens and UFOs Files

BBC

U.S. President Donald Trump.

U.S. President Donald Trump says he will direct U.S. agencies, including the Department of War, to "begin the process of identifying and releasing" government files on aliens and extraterrestrial life.

President Trump made the declaration in a post on Truth Social, after he accused Barack Obama earlier in the day of revealing classified information when the former president said "aliens are real" on a podcast last week.

"He's not supposed to be doing that," President Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, adding: "He made a big mistake."

Asked if he also thinks aliens are real, President Trump answered: "Well, I don't know if they're real or not."

Former U.S. President Obama told podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen that he thinks aliens are real in an interview released last Saturday.

"They're real, but I haven't seen them, and they're not being kept in Area 51," Obama said. "There's no underground facility unless there's this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States."

After the comment made headlines, Obama sought to clarify he thinks it's statistically likely life exists beyond Earth, given the vastness of the universe.

In a follow-up post on Instagram, Obama, who served as U.S. president between 2009-17, clarified: "I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!"

Obama's initial comments were made during a quickfire "lightning" round of questions on the podcast.

For his part, President Trump said on Thursday on Air Force One that while a lot of people believe in the existence of aliens, he never talks about it, and "doesn't have an opinion on it".

Then a few hours later, he posted on Truth Social that "based on the tremendous interest shown" he will seek the release of files "related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters".

In a 2024 report, the Pentagon said there was "no evidence" that the U.S. government had encountered alien life, and that most UFO sightings were just ordinary objects. In 2023, the U.S. House of Representatives held a panel on unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAPs), known more colloquially as UFOs.

The hearing produced no major bombshells or confirmation of alien life.

Source: BBC



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