"On Thursday U.S. president Donald Trump announced on his social media platform Truth Social that he would direct the Department of Defense and other federal agencies to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters."
"Sean Kirkpatrick, who served as the first director of the Pentagon's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) from 2022 to 2023, tells Scientific American that Obama said nothing classified and, in fact, said nothing that hasn't been said in many forumsincluding in congressional testimony. Trump's announcement also comes hot on the heels of the contentious release of other government documentsa vast, heavily redacted database of materials derived from federal investigations into disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, with whom Trump and many other powerful world figures had been associated."
President Trump announced a directive via Truth Social instructing the Department of Defense and other federal agencies to identify and release government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs). The directive followed a podcast in which former president Barack Obama said he believed aliens were real but had not seen evidence during his presidency. Trump criticized those remarks, alleging disclosure of classified information and suggesting the declassification order could help [Obama]. Sean Kirkpatrick stated that Obama said nothing classified and nothing beyond prior public and congressional statements. The announcement followed a recent release of heavily redacted materials from Jeffrey Epstein investigations. Obama has since clarified his views.
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