Trump’s right-hand man says UFOs are flying over US nuclear bases | World | News
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a close ally of former President Donald Trump, has claimed that unidentified flying objects (UFOs) have been observed over restricted US nuclear facilities and that the details are so sensitive that even presidents are briefed only on a need-to-know basis.
Mr. Rubio made his surprising admission in the trailer for the documentary The Age of Disclosed, which will air on Prime Video on November 21, 2025, with award-winning theatrical releases. The film, produced by Emmy-winning director Dan Farah, claims that non-human intelligence has been covered up globally for 80 years. “There were reports of something in the airspace operating on non-American-made, restricted nuclear facilities,” Mr. Rubio says in the clip.
He adds that intelligence “keeps me up at night” and that whistleblowers risk their lives to speak out.
Such claims point to a long history of UFO sightings linked to nuclear sites, dating back to the beginning of the atomic age. During World War II, Allied pilots reported “foo fighters,” mysterious glowing orbs that followed aircraft over Europe and the Pacific, defying conventional explanations and fueling early suspicions of advanced surveillance technology.
The Roswell incident in 1947, when a so-called “flying disc” crashed near New Mexico Army Air Field, sparked modern conspiracy theories: The Army initially announced the recovery of the “flying saucer” before towing it back as a weather balloon.
Theorists, from writers like Stanton Friedman to online forums, have since argued that Roswell was ground zero for decades of distrust of official denials and government cover-ups of alien craft and bodies.
Mr. Rubio’s statement also recalls the infamous incident at Montana’s Malmstrom Air Force Base in 1967, when UFOs allegedly disabled U.S. nuclear missiles. Captain Robert Salas, who was overseeing an underground silo at the time, received a report of a glowing disk flying overhead. A few minutes later, all 10 Minuteman missiles inexplicably shut down despite unnecessary safety precautions.
Later made public, Robert Salas described it as an extraterrestrial signal beyond human technology, possibly against nuclear weapons.
The film includes declassified Pentagon videos from 2004 and 2015 that show Navy pilots reacting to objects moving at impossible speeds. Says one Navy pilot: “There’s a squadron of them… Oh my God, they’re all going against the wind.” The Defense Department confirmed the footage this week but described the incident as “unidentified” and unrelated to US programs.
This dovetails with official concerns: In 2019, a Pentagon task force detected “unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft” in military areas, leading to easier Navy reporting. The defunct Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which Luis Elizondo led until his resignation for secrecy reasons in 2017, also investigated similar attacks.
“There is very convincing evidence that we are not alone,” Luis Elizondo told CNN.
Mr. Rubio, a former member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, urges attention to this issue. “This is a very important issue,” he says, pointing to potential threats from advanced or alien sources.
With the Age of Disclosure involving senior officials, debates over the skies over America’s nuclear arsenal intensify.
Evidence points to possibilities such as foreign enemies, drones, or other advanced technologies. Details that were once buried now require examination.
