UFO Secrets to Be Revealed: Trump Directs Government to Open Files
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he is directing the Pentagon and other government agencies to identify and release files related to extraterrestrials and UFOs, citing “tremendous interest” from the public.
The announcement came in a social media post hours after Trump accused former President Barack Obama of disclosing “classified information” when Obama recently suggested in a podcast interview that aliens were real.
“I don’t know if they’re real or not,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, adding of Obama, “I may get him out of trouble by declassifying.”
The Order
In his Thursday night post, Trump said he was directing government agencies to release 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.”
When asked about the prospect of extraterrestrial visitors, Trump said: “I don’t have an opinion on it. I never talk about it. A lot of people do. A lot of people believe it.”
Obama’s Comments
The president’s action followed remarks by Obama over the weekend in a podcast appearance. Obama later clarified that he had not seen evidence that aliens “have made contact with us,” but said, “statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there.”
Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, suggested this week that the president was ready to speak on the topic, saying on a podcast that he had a speech prepared on aliens that he would deliver at the “right time.” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded with a laugh when asked about it, telling reporters, “A speech on aliens would be news to me.”
The Renewed Interest
Public fascination with unidentified flying objects and potential government secrecy re-emerged in 2017 when a group of former Pentagon and government officials leaked Navy videos of unknown objects to The New York Times and Politico. The renewed scrutiny prompted Congress to hold the first hearings on UFOs in 50 years in May 2022, though officials testified that the objects—which appeared as green triangles floating above a Navy ship—were likely drones.
Since then, the Pentagon has promised more transparency. In July 2022, it created the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) to serve as a central repository for military UFO encounters.
What’s Actually Known
In 2023, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, then head of AARO, told reporters he had no evidence “of any program having ever existed to do any sort of reverse engineering of any sort of extraterrestrial (unidentified aerial phenomena).”
An 18-page unclassified report submitted to Congress in June 2024 said service members made 485 reports of unidentified phenomena in the past year, but 118 cases were found to be “prosaic objects such as various types of balloons, birds, and unmanned aerial systems.”
The report stressed: “It is important to underscore that, to date, AARO has discovered no evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity, or technology.”
What It Means
Trump’s directive to release files taps into decades of public speculation about what the government knows—and what it might be hiding. Whether the declassified materials will reveal anything beyond balloons, birds, and drones remains to be seen. But for those who have long believed the truth is out there, the promise of transparency is itself a form of progress.
As the process unfolds, the question will be whether the released files satisfy curiosity or simply fuel more. In the world of UFOlogy, that may be the only certainty.
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