A few members of Congress and media figures like Tucker Carlson have been hinting for the past few years that the US government knows a lot more about the UFO phenomenon than they’re telling us. This seems pretty obvious to most of us, so it is especially annoying that the government doesn’t just come out and tell us what it knows. While some congressmen have been fighting for more disclosure, we really haven’t learned anything new in recent years. President Donald Trump is now promising to disclose all the so-called “X-files” once he wins reelection and gets back into office in January.

President Trump has been doing a lot of long-form podcast interviews this year as a way to continue speaking around the media and directly to the American people. During an interview with podcaster Lex Fridman, Trump was asked whether he would consider releasing the government’s UFO files to the public.

“Oh yeah, sure, I’ll do that,” promised Trump. “I would do that. I’d love to do that. I have to do that.”

President Trump now admits that he felt a lot of pressure from people to declassify the government’s UFO files during his first term in office. He resisted doing so during that term, but now he understands that most people want answers. Trump adds that he will pressure the Pentagon to publicly reveal the X-files very early in his next administration.

Congress forced the Pentagon to set up a new federal entity in 2022 known as the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). The AARO is a government office where military employees are now allowed to report UFO sightings and encounters without fear of retaliation from the government. For decades, military pilots have been spotting “things” darting around in the skies but have been afraid to report them, out of fear that it would end their careers.

The Pentagon is supposed to be compiling documents and disclosing more UFO encounters to Congress. Sightings are believed to be extremely common around nuclear facilities and US Navy ships. So far, the Pentagon has been dragging its feet and the little information that has been publicly disclosed can only be described as “nothing new.”

Congressman Tim Burchett (Republican, Tennessee) is one of the leading House members who has been calling for more disclosures related to the UFO phenomenon. Burchett has stated in interviews that the US government has been retrieving crashed UFOs for many decades, possibly as far back as 1897.

That was the year when the first alleged UFO crash in America happened in the town of Aurora, Texas. A newspaper report from the time described a low-flying object that was emitting smoke that crashed into a windmill on a local farm. The Wright brothers’ first successful airplane flight didn’t happen until six years later, so the object obviously couldn’t have been an airplane.

Locals in Aurora, including credible eyewitnesses who lived into the 1990s, maintained that the craft had a “non-human” pilot who was buried in the local cemetery. Representative Burchett has hinted that wreckage from that crash and the alleged alien pilot were later recovered by the government, which then launched a disinformation campaign to “debunk” the whole thing, much like the alleged crash in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.

President Trump says he does not personally believe that UFOs are being piloted by space aliens. He has, however, spoken with many credible pilots who have seen odd things. If they aren’t alien craft, then what are they? We may finally start to get some answers if Donald Trump is reelected this November.