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 categorised data.”
“He’s not imagined 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 categorised data. He’s not imagined to be doing that. He made a giant mistake. He took it out of categorised data.”
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 information associated to extraterrestrial life.
“I’ll get [Obama] out of hassle by declassifying,” Trump informed Fox Information.
Later taking to social media, Trump once more claimed he supposed to declassify data surrounding the potential existence of aliens.
“Primarily based on the super curiosity proven, I can be directing the Secretary of Warfare, and different related Departments and Businesses, 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 data related to those extremely advanced, however extraordinarily attention-grabbing and essential, 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 and so they hid it from the President of america.”
Barack Obama and Donald Trump. (Picture 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 methods are so nice that the probabilities 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 wherein Home members questioned 5 witnesses — together with former navy members — about their alleged encounters with “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena,” or UAPs.
“I’m right here to supply 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 according to typical plane or drones.”
Showing on The Late Late Present with James Corden in 2021, Obama stated he needed to learn about aliens when he turned president of america.
“The reality is, that after I got here into workplace, I requested, ‘Is there a lab someplace the place we’re preserving the alien specimens and spaceship?’” he stated on the discuss present.
