Trump directs launch of presidency information ‘related to alien and extraterrestrial life’ | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump is directing the discharge of presidency information “related to alien and extraterrestrial life” and different comparable matters.

Trump introduced Thursday evening on Truth Social that he’s directing high officers, together with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, to start figuring out and releasing “Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters.”

Trump stated the transfer is “based on the tremendous interest shown” within the subject. The Independent has contacted the White House for extra data.

Just hours earlier than his announcement, Trump accused former President Barack Obama of constructing a “big mistake” and sharing “classified information” after he urged aliens are actual on Brian Tyler Cohen’s podcast on the weekend.

“They’re real, but I haven’t seen them, and they’re not being kept in … Area 51. There’s no underground facility unless there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States,” Obama instructed the podcaster.

Obama later clarified his reply on Instagram, telling his followers he noticed “no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us.”

“I was trying to stick with the spirit of the speed round, but since it’s gotten attention let me clarify. Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there,” he wrote.

The Independent has contacted the Obama Foundation for remark.

Officials have been fast to react to Trump’s announcement.

Hegseth re-shared Trump’s assertion on X, accompanied by an alien emoji and a salute emoji. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote: “OUT OF THIS WORLD NEWS from President Trump.”

Senator John Fetterman, a Democrat, mentioned the transfer with Fox News host Jesse Watters on Thursday evening.

“If he’s going to release all of the X-Files, I think that could be a bipartisan thing,” Fetterman stated, referring to the Nineties TV collection, which follows two authorities brokers as they examine aliens and different unexplained phenomena.

Representative Nancy Mace, a Republican from South Carolina, stated she had beforehand demanded the Defense Department and different businesses launch comparable data.

“Tonight, President Trump is directing full disclosure of UAP and UFO files. In October, I wrote to DoD, CIA, NSA, and DNI demanding exactly that. The truth belongs to the American people,” she wrote on X.

Others reacted with skepticism, together with Republican Representative Thomas Massie, who urged Trump’s announcement might be a “distraction” from the discharge of information associated to Jeffrey Epstein.

“They’ve deployed the ultimate weapon of mass distraction, but the Epstein files aren’t going away… even for aliens,” he posted on X.

Adam Kinzinger, a former Republican congressman, additionally wrote: “What about the 2 million unreleased Epstein files tho.”

This announcement comes a day after Trump’s daughter-in-law urged the president has ready a speech associated to extraterrestrial life.

“I have just heard kind of around that he’s actually said, my father-in-law has actually said it, that there is some speech that he has, that I guess at the right time…I don’t know what the right time is…that he is going to break out and talk about, and it has to do with maybe some sort of extraterrestrial life, so to speak,” Lara Trump instructed the New York Post’s Pod Force One podcast.