US President Donald Trump has said he will order federal agencies to release government documents that discuss aliens, extraterrestrial life and other unexplained aerial phenomena.
“Based on the overwhelming interest shown, I will direct the Secretary of War and other relevant departments and agencies to begin the process of identifying and releasing government files related to extraterrestrial and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and all other information associated with these highly complex but extremely interesting and important matters,” Trump said in a Tru Social Post Thursday.
Obama Reveals ‘Classified Information’
Trump on Thursday accused former President Barack Obama of providing classified information when he discussed the idea of alien life during a recent podcast appearance, Bloomberg reported.
“He gave classified information, he shouldn’t have,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. The president suggested he could get Obama “out of trouble” by declassifying related information.
Asked if aliens were real, Trump said: “Well, I don’t know if they’re real or not. I can tell you he gave classified information. He (Obama) shouldn’t have done that. He made a big mistake, he took it from classified information.”
“I don’t have an opinion on that. I never talk about it, a lot of people do, a lot of people believe that,” Trump said.
In a podcast interview released last week, former President Barack Obama said he believes aliens are real, but saw no evidence of them during his 2009-2017 presidency.
“They’re real, but I haven’t seen them, and they’re not held at … Area 51,” Obama told host Brian Tyler Cohen, referring to the top-secret facility at the heart of many UFO conspiracies.
“There is no underground facility. Unless there is some huge conspiracy and they hide it from the President of the United States.”