US President Donald Trump has said he will instruct the Department of Defence, renamed by Trump as the Department of War, to publish government documents on extraterrestrial life and UFOs.
“I will … Begin the process of identifying and publishing government documents on alien and extraterrestrial life, unknown aerial phenomena and unknown flying objects, as well as any other information related to these extremely complex but extremely interesting and important issues,” Trump wrote in his social network Truth.
The day before, he accused former US President Barack Obama of divulging “classified information” after his comments on Brian Tyler Cohen’s podcast.
Responding to a question about whether aliens really exist, Obama said: “They exist, but I haven’t seen them … They’re not being held in … Area 51. There are no underground facilities there, unless there’s some grand conspiracy, and that has not been hidden from the president of the United States,” Obama said.
He later clarified that he had seen no evidence that aliens had “made contact with us.” Obama added that “the universe is so vast that, statistically, the probability of life existing somewhere out there is high.”
In the 2024 report, the Pentagon said there was “no evidence” that U.S. government officials had encountered samples of alien life. Most of the objects that were thought to be UFOs were ordinary earthly developments.
The document noted that the surge of interest in UFOs in 1950-1960 was attributed to test flights of U.S. reconnaissance aircraft and the testing of some space technology.