Trump Pushes Declassification of UFO and Alien Files Amid UAP Debate
Trump said he will direct the Department of Defense and other agencies to begin releasing government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and related information, citing tremendous public interest. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt described the development as “out of this world news.” The announcement followed Trump’s criticism of Obama for allegedly revealing classified information about alien life, with Trump saying he may declassify and telling Fox News that he does not know if such entities are real. Obama had previously stated that extraterrestrial life is real but has not seen them, later clarifying his remarks as lighthearted and noting that statistically the vast universe makes life elsewhere likely. Lara Trump mentioned a prepared speech on extraterrestrial life and spaceships, a notion Leavitt said was news to her. The topic intersects longstanding congressional interest: in 2023, former military intelligence officer David Grusch testified about a purported multi-decade program to reverse engineer nonhuman technology from crash sites—a claim the Pentagon denies; in 2022, a House Intelligence subcommittee held the first UFO hearing in more than 50 years, with officials overseeing a Pentagon task force investigating UAP, though no conclusive evidence of life has been found.
Source: aol.com
