Donald Trump has mentioned he’ll direct the Pentagon and different US companies to launch “authorities information associated to alien and extraterrestrial life”.
In a put up on Reality Social, the US president claimed his resolution was “primarily based on the great curiosity proven” and referred to as the matter “extraordinarily attention-grabbing and necessary”.
He wrote: “Primarily based on the great curiosity proven, I will likely be directing the Secretary of Struggle, and different related Departments and Companies, to start the method of figuring out and releasing authorities information associated to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all different info related to those extremely complicated, however extraordinarily attention-grabbing and necessary, issues.”
The announcement got here simply hours after Mr Trump accused Barack Obama of showing labeled info throughout an interview launched on Saturday through which the former president said he believes aliens are real.
Showing on Brian Tyler Cohen’s podcast, Mr Obama mentioned: “They’re actual, however I have not seen them, they usually’re not being stored in Space 51.
“There is not any underground facility except there’s this monumental conspiracy they usually hid it from the president of the US.”
Mr Obama showing on Brian Tyler Cohen’s podcast. Pic: Brian Tyler Cohen
In an Instagram put up, the 64-year-old clarified that he meant “the chances are good there’s life on the market” and mentioned he had seen “no proof” of alien existence throughout his time period in workplace”.
When requested about Mr Obama’s remarks on Thursday, Mr Trump mentioned: “He isn’t speculated to be doing that.
“He made an enormous mistake.”
Requested if he additionally thinks aliens are actual, Mr Trump responded: “I do not know in the event that they’re actual or not.
“I haven’t got an opinion on it. I by no means discuss it. Lots of people do. Lots of people imagine it.”
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Earlier this week, Mr Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, counsel on the New York Submit’s Pod Power One podcast that the president had a speech ready on aliens that he would ship on the “proper time”.
Nonetheless, White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt laughed off any suggestion such a pre-planned speech existed.
“A speech on aliens could be information to me,” she mentioned.
