Aliens and extraterrestrial life have reentered the American political spotlight, with President Donald Trump calling out former President Barack Obama over comments about aliens and subsequently directing federal agencies to begin releasing related government files.
While talking to reporters aboard Air Force One on February 19, Trump was asked about Obama's statement on aliens being "real" and if he had seen any evidence of "non-human visitors" on Earth.
"He gave classified information, he's not supposed to be doing that," Trump told the reporter while adding that it was a "big mistake." When pressed on if he also thinks aliens are real, he answered, "Well, I don't know if they're real or not."
Recently, Obama appeared on Brian Tyler Cohen's podcast, No Lie, where he was asked if aliens were "real" to which he replied positively. “They’re real, but I haven’t seen them, and they’re not being kept in, what is it? There’s no underground facility, unless there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States.”
While he later clarified that the answer was made with the "spirit of the speed round" and he saw "no evidence" of extraterrestrials during his presidency, he also stated that "statistically" the "odds are good."
In a follow-up post on Instagram, Obama, who served as US president between 2009-17, stated: "I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!"
Despite the clarification, it seems that after getting off the flight, the question had the President pondering for long as later in the day, he took to his social media platform Truth Social to make a shocking announcement.
In the post he wrote that due to the "tremendous interest shown" on the topic, he would be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant departments and agencies to begin the process of "identifying and releasing government files" related to "alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs)." He also ordered the release of "any and all" other information connected to these "highly complex, but extremely interesting and important matters."
After Obama's clarification simmered down the interest in alien evidence, the topic caught buzz once again when Trump's daughter-in-law Lara Trump claimed that her father-in-law had a speech on aliens ready, but was waiting for the right moment. Eric Trump's wife appeared on New York Post's Pod Force One podcast, hosted by Miranda Devine and said: “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.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who reshared Trump's Truth Social post with the caption "OUT OF THIS WORLD NEWS from President Trump…" with an alien emoji, on her X account was questioned about Obama's comments and Lara Trump's claims in a press conference yesterday by Newsmax's Mike Carter.
While she added that any such speech would be "news" to her, she did say that it would be of "great interest" to her "personally" along with the reporters and former President Obama. “Well, a speech on aliens would be news to me. That sounds very exciting though. I’ll have to check in with our speechwriting team. And that would be of great interest to me personally, and I’m sure all of you in this room, and apparently former President Obama too. So we’ll keep you posted on that,” she said.
