Trump orders declassification of files on UFOs and aliens
President of the United States Donald Trump said that he would instruct the Ministry of Defence and other agencies to begin the process of disclosing government documents related to UFOs and possible extraterrestrial phenomena.
What Trump said
According to the head of the White House, the decision is due to the great public interest in the topic.
«I will direct the Secretary of Defence and the relevant departments to begin the process of identifying and disclosing documents because of the enormous interest in this issue,» Trump said.
The President did not specify the timing of the publication and the scope of the materials that could be made public.
What documents can be disclosed
We are talking about the US government's materials on:
Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP);
military observations of UFOs;
possible Pentagon investigations;
historical archives of the special services.
The US authorities have not previously provided official confirmation of the existence of extraterrestrial life.
Context.
The topic of UFOs in the United States has again become the subject of active discussion in recent years following a series of hearings in Congress and the publication of videos of unidentified objects recorded by military pilots.
At the same time, the Pentagon has repeatedly stated that There is no evidence of extraterrestrial origin of such objects, Although some of the incidents remain unexplained.
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