President Donald Trump has reacted to Barack Obama’s feedback that aliens are actual.
Claiming his presidential predecessor overstepped nationwide safety guidelines, Trump, 79, informed Fox Information on Thursday, February 19 that Obama “gave labeled info.”
“He’s not presupposed to be doing that,” Trump added. “I don’t know in the event that they’re actual or not. I can inform you he gave labeled info. He’s not presupposed to be doing that. He made a giant mistake. He took it out of labeled info.”
Trump stated he didn’t “have an opinion” on whether or not extraterrestrial life exists, noting, “I by no means discuss it. Lots of people do. Lots of people consider it.”
Talking to reporters, Trump then hinted that he deliberate to launch any authorities recordsdata associated to extraterrestrial life.
“I could get (Obama) out of bother by declassifying,” Trump informed Fox Information.
Later taking to social media, Trump once more claimed he meant to declassify info surrounding the potential existence of aliens.
“Primarily based on the great curiosity proven, I will likely be directing the Secretary of Conflict, and different related Departments and Businesses, to start the method of figuring out and releasing Authorities recordsdata associated to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all different info linked to those extremely complicated, however extraordinarily fascinating and necessary, issues,” Trump stated within the social media put up.
Referencing aliens whereas chatting with political podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen on February 13, Obama, who served because the forty fourth President of the U.S. from 2009 to 2017, claimed, “They’re actual.”
Obama acknowledged that though he believes extraterrestrial life exists, he has not personally encountered any proof that confirms it.
“However I haven’t seen them,” he continued. “They’re not being saved at Space 51. There’s no underground facility — except there’s this huge conspiracy they usually hid it from the President of the USA.”
Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
(Photograph by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)Two days later, Obama clarified his remarks by way of an Instagram put up after the feedback had been broadly reported on.
“I used to be attempting to stay with the spirit of (Cohen’s) pace spherical, however because it’s gotten consideration let me make clear,” he wrote. “Statistically, the universe is so huge that the percentages are good there’s life on the market. However the distances between photo voltaic techniques are so nice that the possibilities we’ve been visited by aliens is low.”
Obama concluded, “I noticed no proof throughout my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Actually!”
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In September 2025, Congress held a listening to during which Home members questioned 5 witnesses — together with former army members — about their alleged encounters with “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena,” or UAPs.
“I’m right here to offer a first-hand account of what I noticed,” Alexandro Wiggins, a member of the U.S. Navy, testified on the time, alleging he noticed a UAP on February 15, 2023, whereas aboard the usJackson off the southern California coast.
Wiggins insisted that what he witnessed flying overhead was “not per standard plane or drones.”
Showing on The Late Late Present with James Corden in 2021, Obama stated he needed to find out about aliens when he turned president of the USA.
“The reality is, that once I got here into workplace, I requested, ‘Is there a lab someplace the place we’re protecting the alien specimens and spaceship?’” he stated on the speak present.