President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he plans to make public all government files related to UFOs, alien life, and unidentified aerial phenomena.
He shared the news on his Truth Social account, writing that he will direct the Secretary of War and other relevant agencies to begin identifying and releasing government records on these matters, calling them “highly complex, but extremely interesting and important.”
Trump’s announcement came after he criticized former President Barack Obama for claiming that aliens are real a comment Obama later clarified. “He gave classified information he wasn’t supposed to. That was a big mistake,” Trump said. “I don’t know if they’re real or not, but I can tell you he shared classified information. I never talk about it. Many people believe different things.”
Obama had said in a recent podcast that aliens are “real, but I haven’t seen them,” adding that there are no extraterrestrials hidden at Area 51. “There’s no underground facility, unless there’s an enormous conspiracy keeping it from the president,” he said. He later walked back his remarks, clarifying that he found no evidence during his presidency that aliens had contacted Earth.
“I was trying to stick with the spirit of the speed round,” Obama added, “but statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there.”
Trump’s approach shows a commitment to transparency and letting the American people see what the government knows something Democrats have often resisted when it comes to national security and classified information.
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