Donald Trump announcedThat he orders the Department of Defence and another agencies to disclose any file concerning the search for alien life.
In a post on his social platform Trump announced that he would ask the Secretary of defence and others "to start the process of identifying and sharing government papers on abroad and extraterrestrial life, unidentified air phenomena (UAP) and unidentified flying objects (UFOs)."
Comments predecessor Trump, Barack Obama, They became a viral last weekend after Podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen asked the erstwhile president if aliens were "real".
"They're real, but I haven't seen them," Obama replied.
"And they're not kept inside, what is it?
Area 51.
There is no underground object unless there is simply a immense conspiracy that he hides from the president of the United States."
Thursday Trump accused Obama of revealing "secret information".
The president told reporters aboard Air Force One: "I don't know if they're real or not,"and Obama said, "Maybe I can get him out of problem by declassifying them."
Obama explained at the beginning of this week that he saw no evidence that the alien "they've made contact with us," But he added that "statistically, the universe is so vast that the chances of life are great."
Trump told reporters on Thursday that as regards the possible of extraterrestrial guests: "I have no opinion on this. I never talk about it. quite a few people do. Many people believe that."
Trump's daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, suggested this week that he was willing to talk about it erstwhile she said in a podcast that the president had prepared a speech about the aliens he would deliver in "the right time."
It was fresh to the White House. The press secretary Carolina Leavitt responded laughing erstwhile asked on Wednesday, and told reporters: "Speaking about strangers would be fresh to me."
Social interest in UFOs and the anticipation of government concealing extraterrestrial life secrets again emerged after a group of erstwhile Pentagon officials and government leaked to American media videos with unknown Navy objects to American media in 2017. Resumed control prompted legislature to conduct its first interrogations on UFOs in May 2022, although officials claimed that objects that looked like green triangles hovering over a Navy ship were most likely drones.
Since then, the Pentagon promised greater transparency on this issue.
The information that has been made public shows that the vast majority of UFO applications submitted by the military remains unresolved, but those that have been identified are mostly natural.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/20/trump-aliens-ufos-pentagon-files-release
















