Trump, The Vatican And The Market Shock: Inside The Growing Disclosure Debate
Written by Christopher Sharp - 30 May 2026
Following recent reporting that White House and defense officials have sought advice on how to prepare the public for a possible announcement regarding UFOs and non-human intelligence, Liberation Times has spoken to additional sources who believe the consequences of such a moment would extend far beyond Washington.
Those sources say any disclosure process would have to consider not only public reaction, but also religious institutions, financial markets, allied governments and America’s strategic position in the world.
The latest release of UFO files may therefore be significant not simply because of what the videos show, but because of what they may signal: a possible effort to prepare the public for a far larger announcement.
In a recent Daily Mail article, investigative journalist Jeremy Corbell said officials from the White House and Department of Defense had sought his advice on communications strategy and terminology ahead of a possible announcement concerning UAP reality and non-human intelligence. He said the preparation was real and underway.
Corbell is not alone.
NewsNation journalist Ross Coulthart said last week that the Trump Administration is seeking advice on how to tell the public that “we are not alone”, adding that he, too, has been consulted.
According to Coulthart, officials are also consulting religious leaders as they consider the potential shock such an admission could have on society.
The greater risk, Coulthart warned White House officials, may not be disclosure itself. It may be betrayal: the public being shown part of the truth, then denied the rest.
Above: Jeremy Corbell
Lue Elizondo, the former Director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), which studied Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) for the U.S. Government, told Liberation Times that the greater danger may not be information itself, but the vacuum created by withholding it.
“What creates anxiety in people on any topic, any issue, really, typically is not information, it’s a lack of information,” Elizondo said.
“Because a lack of information creates a vacuum. And in that vacuum, we allow our wildest imaginations, both our greatest hopes and our biggest fears, to manifest.”
He added that there would likely be “some level of ontological shock” when “the masses become acutely aware of the situation.”
Above: Lue Elizondo
Corbell says his advice to the White House was simple: admit what is known, admit what remains unknown, acknowledge the non-human reality, and explain the defense concerns that drove decades of secrecy.
But one huge question looms: how would Trump break such news?
Former U.S. Air Force geospatial intelligence specialist and UFO whistleblower Dylan Borland told Liberation Times:
"I would applaud President Trump for pursuing truth, the building block of the Constitution, by beginning to disclose a fundamental reality about humanity.
"I hope the international community will follow the United States’ lead by confirming that we know we are not alone.
"The truth is that this reality exists whether people believe it or not. Confirmation would allow academics, scientists, and ordinary people to rest assured that it is very real. From there, we can begin planning for the future together, as one species on a planet in a vast universe we call home."
Above: Dylan Borland
A forthcoming Preparedness Plan from uNHIdden, a non-profit examining the public health implications of non-human intelligence disclosure, sets out why this would not simply be a scientific or national security event. It could trigger mental distress, religious shock, misinformation and significant erosion of public trust in institutions.
Lue Elizondo argues that there have been some precedents set previously in humanity’s history:
“There have been numerous occasions where we have faced new paradigms and, at the time, they were very scary,” Elizondo said.
“There were people who thought the world was going to come to an end. But the reality is, it didn’t. It just helped reshape our understanding of the natural universe and the reality around us.”
For some sources, any serious disclosure process would also have to consider the Vatican.
That is not only because any confirmation of non-human intelligence would carry profound religious implications. It is also because, according to sources, the Holy See may have been part of the story from the beginning.
Those sources claim Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who appeared in the UFO disclosure documentary The Age of Disclosure and has spoken publicly about the issue, may well be aware of allegations surrounding a crashed non-human craft recovered in Italy in 1933.
Of note, Rubio visited the Vatican and met Pope Leo XIV earlier this month.
The Vatican link has also been alleged publicly by former intelligence official and UFO whistleblower David Grusch. Speaking to NewsNation, Grusch claimed the first European recovery of a non-human craft occurred in Magenta, Italy, in 1933, where authorities recovered a “partially intact vehicle”.
He said the object was held at a secure Italian airbase until the final years of World War Two, before the Pope “back-channelled” knowledge of it to the Americans.
Asked whether the Catholic Church was aware of a non-human presence on Earth, Grusch replied: “Certainly.”
The Vatican has no settled public doctrine relating to extraterrestrial life at this moment.
But it has not ignored the question either. Since 2002, an Italian think tank has held UAP conferences at the Vatican on how the Church might respond to confirmation of non-human intelligence, while senior Vatican-linked astronomers have argued that alien life would not necessarily contradict Catholic faith.
But the shock would not be confined to faith communities or public trust.
Any Black Swan disclosure event or process would not stop with the public. It could hit the markets too.
A 2026 Deloitte paper treated UFO disclosure as a possible Black Swan event, warning that it could disrupt financial markets, public trust and social stability.
Helen McCaw, a former Bank of England economist who has written on the financial risks of disclosure, told Liberation Times that central banks should already be treating UFO disclosure as an emerging threat to global financial stability.
If Trump speaks, she said, the response would need to move quickly to the G20 and the Financial Stability Board, the global body currently chaired by Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey.
Speaking to Liberation Times, McCaw stated:
“Obviously, I hope that if Trump does make a speech, that pretty quickly it will move to international engagement, perhaps via the G20, as clearly there is nothing more international than this topic. The US can lead, but other countries must engage.
“I think central banks ought to already be treating UAP disclosure as an emerging risk to global financial stability; they should already be discussing and assessing it domestically and via the Financial Stability Board (of which the G20 nations participate and are represented). And note, Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, is the current Chair of the Financial Stability Board.
“Financial markets are global, and what happens in one country can spread very quickly to other countries, which is why international engagement is critical.
“But, central banks and the FSB are not engaging on the UAP topic - UAP does not appear in any of the reports produced by central banks or their partnering institutions worldwide. So, they look exceedingly unprepared for disclosure, should it happen. This is a blind spot for them, because they are already treating the emergence of AI as a potential risk to financial stability, so why are they ignoring UAP? And central banks do respond to emergencies or crises that do not originate in financial markets, such as the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the coronavirus pandemic.
“If Trump does a disclosure speech, at a very minimum, the G7 central banks and finance ministries/treasury heads will need to be prepared with strong reassuring statements for global financial markets, and they may even need to take coordinated policy action to stem a financial crisis.
“Confirmation, or even widespread speculation, that advanced non-human technologies exist would be a shock to global financial markets. The human reaction would have immediate ramifications in these markets, whether due to speculation or new facts.
“UAP disclosure might even be the new “Minsky moment”, eponymously named after economist Hyman Minsky’s Financial Instability Hypothesis. A “Minsky moment” might happen because current asset prices and risk premia and are formed on the implicit assumption that UAP either do not exist or are not advanced non-human technology.”
Others are less convinced that disclosure would crash the markets. Matthew Tuttle, chief executive and chief investment officer of Connecticut-based Tuttle Capital Management, is sceptical that the mere announcement of alien life would trigger a sell-off.
“I can’t put two and two together: aliens are real, I’m selling my stocks. Why?” he told Liberation Times.
For Tuttle, the bigger question is not whether investors panic. It is whether disclosure exposes a hidden technological gap.
“The technologies that are the most interesting to me are energy and propulsion, because I also think those are technologies that can be unclassified,” he stated.
He added: “We’ve got computers that can think, but we’re still using the same fuel source we’ve been using for, what, 150 years? It just doesn’t make any sense.”
Liberation Times sources say support for disclosure now reaches into President Trump’s inner circle, including Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump Jr.
They believe Trump understands the scale of the moment. A president who told the world we are being visited would cement his legacy forever.
If Trump confirms that reality, my sources argue, it could reshape America’s place in the world almost overnight. A carefully handled announcement could open the door to new strategic partnerships with other nations.
More importantly, one source told Liberation Times, if Trump were able to say America had understood even part of this technology, it would send a powerful strategic message to adversaries: the U.S. may possess capabilities far beyond anything publicly acknowledged.
