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.”

 The directive came after a podcast interview last week in which former president Barack Obama said that he believed aliens were “real” but that he hadn’t seen evidence of them during his presidency.

Speaking to reporters onboard Air Force One on Thursday, Trump criticized Obama’s remarks, alleging that the former president’s comments had disclosed “classified information.” (Trump himself has previously faced charges for improper handling of classified materials.) Trump’s declassification order, the current president said, “may get [Obama] out of trouble.”

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 forums—including in congressional testimony.”

 Trump’s announcement also comes hot on the heels of the contentious release of other government documents—a 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.

Scientific American has become such a pathetic leftist shit rag.

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