Trump says he’ll declassify US Government data on “extraterrestrial life” and “UFOs” | International | EUROtoday

In additional proof that something is feasible in Donald Trump’s Washington, the president of the United States introduced this Thursday evening (native time; six extra in mainland Spain) his dedication to forcing federal businesses to publish labeled authorities paperwork on “extraterrestrial life” and “UFOs.”

He did it with a message in Truth. “In view of the great interest shown, I will order the Secretary of War [de Defensa, Pete Hegseth] and to other relevant departments and agencies to begin the process of identifying and publishing government files related to extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena [UAP son sus siglas en inglés] and unidentified flying objects [UFOs, en su denominación más clásica]as well as any other information related to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important issues,” the Republican wrote on his social network.

Hours earlier, Trump had accused former President Barack Obama of revealing classified information when he took the existence of aliens for granted during a recent interview on a famous podcast. “They’re real, but I haven’t seen them,” Obama said Saturday. “There is no underground facility,” he continued, referring to the famous Area 51 in the Nevada desert, “unless there is a huge conspiracy, and they also hid it from the president of the United States.”

These comments caused commotion on social networks and satisfaction among those who have spent decades defending that there is life out there, as well as the publication of a justification by the former Democratic president. “Statistically,” he wrote in a statement reproducing a more reasonable hypothesis, “the universe is so huge that there’s a good likelihood that it accommodates different types of life. But the distances between photo voltaic techniques are so nice that the likelihood that now we have been visited by extraterrestrials is low, and through my presidency I noticed no proof that extraterrestrials have contacted us. Really!”

Classified information

“[Obama] Provided classified information; and he’s not supposed to do it,” Trump told reporters this Thursday aboard the Air Force One. The reporter then asked him if that meant that aliens exist. Trump evaded a direct response, suggesting he could bail out his predecessor by declassifying related information, as he promised at the end of the day he would do.

As usual with him, it is not possible to know if he will keep that promise, or how he intends to do so. Nor, how much of a smokescreen is there in that announcement to divert attention from issues such as Epstein’s papers, which had the news cycle hijacked during the day.

It is clear that the expression of this purpose comes after years in which American society has become fond of the idea that extraterrestrial life exists. To the point that 56% of the country assumes that “aliens have visited Earth,” in keeping with a YouGov survey final November.

In this course of, Washington’s political class has had lots to do with it. The United States Congress has hosted a number of hearings on the subject, however above all one, in the summertime of 2023, to listen to testimonies from witnesses (“brave,” representatives of each events known as them) about their experiences with unidentified objects. They have been David Grusch, a former Air Force intelligence officer who maintained that the Pentagon has components of alien spacecraft and “non-human remains” in its possession; David Fravor, retired Navy commander; and Ryan Graves, former Navy pilot.

The objective of that look was to power the Pentagon to launch the labeled data they’ve as a part of a mission that some members of the Capitol, corresponding to Tennessee Representative Tim Burchett, have taken to coronary heart as a matter of nationwide safety. These politicians insist on remembering that the UAP class consists of ships of extraterrestrial origin, sure, but in addition spy, climate or different kinds of balloons, threats within the type of supersonic units from rival powers corresponding to China and Russia, aerospace scrap, Elon Musk’s satellites or the illusions created by sure optical results.

America’s fascination with UFOs is just not new; It comes from way back to 1947, the 12 months during which a pilot named Kenneth Arnold described a series of 9 shiny unidentified objects flying at monumental pace over Mount Rainier, south of Seattle. Its description launched the expression “flying saucer” into well-liked speech.

Exactly 70 years later, the publication in 2017 of an article in The New York Times marked the best way again from the margins of the difficulty. The textual content revealed the existence of a confidential Pentagon program that since 2007 has been learning UAP navy sightings. As a consequence of that revelation, the Department of Defense determined in 2020 to launch a sequence of movies from 2004 and 2015 of navy pilots’ encounters with unidentified flying objects since they have been already circulating freely on the web.

Trump’s announcement and the latest resurgence of Washington’s curiosity in aliens additionally should do with the discharge final November of a documentary titled The Age of Disclosure. It differs from different cinematographic non-fiction forays into ufology for its beneficiant finances, its cautious craftsmanship and its casting: More than marginal activists of alien life, the movie consists of the testimonies of dozens of high-ranking officers, high-ranking navy personnel, scientists and influential Washington politicians. “We are not alone,” they repeat again and again. Among them, stands out the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who affirms that the UAP sightings “are not science fiction.”