President Trump orders release of government files on aliens and UFOs
President Donald Trump says he will order the release of alien and UFO files after comments by Barack Obama sparked renewed interest.
If there is truth about unexplained phenomena in the sky, Vice President J.D. Vance doesn’t think it’s aliens from outer space.
Asked by podcaster Benny Johnson about the release of the so-called UFO files, the vice president pivoted to the idea that supernatural forces were at work rather than visitors from another planet.
“I don’t think they’re aliens. I think they’re demons,” Vance said on the March 27 episode.
Vance expressed a strong interest in UAPs, an unidentified aerial phenomenon, before being selected as President Donald Trump’s running mate, and his administration has promised to release more government files on the subject. While he stressed the importance of open inquiry, he cautioned against drawing premature conclusions about what he called “weird things” with more religious views.
“The Christian understanding that there is a lot of good in the world, but there is also a lot of evil. I think one of the devil’s great tricks is to make people believe he never existed.”
The debate over the existence of aliens has been an undercurrent of the second Trump administration, but the interest is not new. For example, in 2023, Congress passed legislation requiring the National Archives and Records Administration to establish a collection of government documents related to UAPs.
But this year, the issue has been brought back to the public eye thanks in part to former President Barack Obama, who said in a February interview with podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen that aliens are real, but “I’ve never seen them.”
The former president quickly clarified that his response was in the “speed round spirit” that was part of the interview, and that it was “unlikely” that aliens had visited Earth. He said he had not seen “evidence” of them during his time in office. About a month later, the Trump administration made headlines when federal agencies acquired two website domains, Alien.gov and Aliens.gov, spurring speculation after Trump said he would order the release of government files related to aliens and extraterrestrial life.
