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The President of the United States, Donald Trump, announced this Friday (17) that the government will start releasing files related to UFOs and unidentified aerial phenomena “very, very soon.” The statement was made during the Turning Point USA conference in Phoenix, Arizona, to an audience that reacted with enthusiasm to the promise of transparency on one of the most debated topics in the world.
Trump told the audience that the first releases will come soon and that it will be up to the people to assess whether the phenomena are real. “We will start releasing government files related to UFOs and unexplained aerial phenomena. You are very interested in this. I don’t know if I am”, Trump said, eliciting laughter from the audience. The president added that the analysis of the documents revealed materials considered “interesting,” but did not provide details about the content.
The order for release was originally given by Trump in February 2026, when he instructed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other federal agencies to identify and make available all files on extraterrestrial life, UAPs (unidentified anomalous phenomena), and UFOs, according to UOL. The decision came after former President Barack Obama stated in a podcast that extraterrestrials “are real,” a statement that caused global uproar before being clarified as a reference to the statistical probability of life beyond Earth. Obama later explained that he saw no evidence of extraterrestrial contact during his term.
Why have the files not been released yet?
Despite the presidential order being two months old, the Pentagon has yet to fulfill the commitment.
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A Republican congresswoman from Florida, Anna Paulina Luna, publicly called out the Department of Defense after the deadline to deliver more than 45 videos of military encounters with UAPs expired without compliance.
The letter, signed on March 31, requested recordings that allegedly include spherical, cigar-shaped, and “Tic Tac” shaped objects recorded by U.S. military platforms in war zones, oceans, and restricted airspace, with incidents reported near Iran, Syria, and American bases.
The secretary Hegseth himself admitted in February that he did not have a defined schedule for the release. “I don’t want to exaggerate how long it will take.
We are investigating. We will comply with the executive order,” he said at the time.
Experts point out that the delay is due to the fact that the classification of documents often does not protect what was sighted, but rather the military technological capabilities used in detection, such as satellite sensors, advanced radars, and equipment positioning.
The former director of the Pentagon’s UFO investigation office (AARO), Sean Kirkpatrick, warned that many people will be frustrated with the content of the files.
During his tenure at the AARO, investigators found no evidence of extraterrestrial life or alien technology on Earth.
Kirkpatrick told CBS News that the likelihood of intelligent extraterrestrials being on Earth is “very little or none,” although he believes that life likely exists at other points in the universe.
Even without concrete revelations so far, public interest is real.
The federal government registered the domains alien.gov and aliens.gov, California leads the ranking of reported sightings with over 17 thousand records in the database of the National UFO Reporting Center, and the topic gained even more traction with the launch of NASA’s Artemis II mission, which took astronauts for a flyby of the Moon in March.
The first files are expected to be released in the coming weeks, according to Trump. Comment below: what do you think the US government is hiding about UFOs?
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