Trump Leaves Door Open to UFO Disclosure Announcement: “I’m Looking”
Written by Christopher Sharp - 16 October 2026
President Donald Trump has left the door open to a UFO disclosure announcement, responding “I’m looking” when asked whether he would reveal the truth about alleged alien visits to Earth and U.S. efforts to reverse-engineer non-human technology.
Speaking to Newsmax host Rob Finnerty in a White House interview on 15 October, Trump recounted conversations with military pilots who described objects they could not explain.
His remarks come after months of efforts by disclosure advocates to persuade him to make a public statement confirming that a non-human presence is interacting with humanity.
Finnerty put the issue directly to the President:
“No president has ever been willing to step to the microphone and finally disclose the truth. Are aliens real? Have we been visited? Are we reverse engineering their technology? Will you do that?”
Trump replied:
“Well, let me just tell you, it’s very interesting. I wasn’t much of a believer. I have friends that are like, that’s all they can talk about.”
He added:
“I do know we see some pretty strange things.”
Trump then described speaking to approximately five or six Air Force pilots about their encounters, emphasising that he considered them credible witnesses.
“These are solid people. These aren’t conspiracy theorists or anything else.”
According to Trump, the pilots told him they had seen things while flying that they had never encountered before. He described one account involving an object apparently outperforming an American fighter jet:
“In one case he saw a round object, which is not an ideal shape for going fast, that went faster by four times than an F-22.”
Trump said he had asked whether the object could have been a comet or something else, and that the pilot rejected that explanation.
Finnerty then returned to his original question, asking whether Trump would be the president to take the step he had described.
Trump responded:
“I’m looking.”
He continued:
“Again, I’m not high on the list of that particular subject.”
He gave no timetable for a presidential announcement and did not directly answer whether aliens had visited Earth or whether the United States was reverse-engineering their technology.
However, Trump could not rule out providing such a speech.
On 21 July, Liberation Times reported, citing multiple sources, that a presidential speech confirming that some UFOs are of non-human origin was understood to have been prepared.
In August, Liberation Times reported that advocates were seeking to persuade Trump to deliver some form of disclosure speech before the 3 November midterm elections.
That effort included public appeals from former Air Force intelligence officer David Grusch and other whistleblowers.
Businessman and Trump donor Robert Bigelow also said he had advised the President on how to address the nation about a non-human presence.
His comments come amid successive tranches of UAP files being released under PURSUE, the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters.
Overseen by the Department of War with support from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the initiative began publishing records in May 2026 following Trump’s directive to identify and release government material relating to UFOs and UAP.
The release program followed a February exchange involving former President Barack Obama.
As Liberation Times previously reported, Obama sparked international attention when, during an interview with Brian Tyler Cohen released on 14 February, he said of aliens:
“They’re real, but I haven’t seen them.”
He subsequently clarified that he had seen no evidence during his presidency that extraterrestrials had made contact with humanity.
Asked about those remarks by Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy aboard Air Force One on 19 February, Trump accused Obama of revealing classified information, without specifying what information was supposedly classified.
“He gave classified information. He’s not supposed to be doing that.”
Although Trump said he did not know whether aliens were real, he suggested he could resolve his predecessor’s supposed indiscretion through declassification:
“I may get him out of trouble by declassifying.”
Later that day, Trump announced that he would direct the Department of War and other relevant agencies to identify and release government files concerning extraterrestrial life, UAP and UFOs. The first tranche of records under PURSUE followed on 8 May.
