Of the latest actions carried out by the president of the United States, Donald Trump, perhaps this is the one that may arouse the most excitement. Instead of bombing countries, kidnapping a president or causing economic chaos in markets around the world, what the United States War Department announced this Friday is, neither more nor less, that the declassification of government files on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena. Something expected after this process.
According to the official statement, the collection of documents on unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and “possible extraterrestrial life forms” can be consulted on the official website where the US administration “will publish additional files on a continuous basis.”
The declassification involves the White House, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Department of Energy (DOE), the War Department’s All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) – established in 2022 -, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and other intelligence agencies.
The initial catalog brings together 162 files, including photographs, reports and videos, which will be progressively expanded with new declassifications. “These files, hidden behind classifications, have long fueled justified speculation and it is time for the American people to see it for themselves,” said Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth during the presentation of the initiative.
The measure has also received the support of NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, who defended the importance of space exploration and the search for answers to the mysteries of the universe.
The publication of these documents comes months after Donald Trump announced in February his intention to make public government files related to the UFO phenomenon. The announcement came after statements by former President Barack Obama on journalist Brian Tyler Cohen’s podcast, where he answered questions about extraterrestrial life.
When asked about the existence of extraterrestrials, Obama assured that there are no secret underground facilities and joked: “They are real, but I haven’t seen them”. Trump reacted by accusing him of revealing “classified information” and making a “serious mistake.”
Later, Obama qualified his words and explained that during his term he had no evidence of contact with extraterrestrial beings, although he acknowledged that, given the immensity of the universe, the existence of life beyond Earth cannot be ruled out.
Given this situation, many They remember the declassification carried out by the CIA in 2013when he officially recognized the existence of Area 51, the military base created in the 1950s to test the U-2 spy plane and which for decades has been surrounded by theories about the alleged concealment of evidence related to extraterrestrials.
