Trump to order U.S. agencies to release documents on aliens, extraterrestrial life
Man and boy sitting on asphalt pavement and drawing alien faces.
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US President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will direct the Department of Defense and other agencies to prepare public dossiers on alien and extraterrestrial life.
Trump said the files that will be identified and released will also cover unidentified weather phenomena and unidentified flying objects, as well as “any other information related to these extremely complex but extremely interesting and important issues.”
Inside A Real Social postThe US president said his move was based on “tremendous interest” in the issue, without providing further details. This comes after he accused former US President Barack Obama of leaking “secret information” about aliens.
Speaking to reporters on Air Force One, Trump said, “I don’t know if these are real or not, but I can say that he gave classified information.”
Obama said on Saturday: on a podcast He said the aliens were real, “but I haven’t seen them, and they… are not being held at Area 51.”
“Unless there is a conspiracy this big and they are hiding it from the president of the United States, there is no underground facility,” Obama added.
Area 51 refers to a secret US Air Force facility in Nevada and has been the center of conspiracy theories that say the US government is conducting research and using the facility to store extraterrestrial materials and technology.
When Obama became president, the first question he wanted answered was “Where are the aliens?” He said it was.
Former US president after Sunday’s podcast He explained his stance in a post They say on Instagram that the universe is so vast that there is a high probability of life there.
But he also said he had seen “no evidence” of alien contact with Earth during his presidency.”
By late 2024, Pentagon said There were 757 new reports of unidentified anomalous events, or UAPs, between May 2023 and June 2024, NBC News reported.
The report said 21 of these were “worthy of further analysis” due to “anomalous properties and/or behavior”, adding that so far there was no evidence to prove that life from another planet had interfered with these observations.
