Trump accuses Obama of releasing classified information on aliens: ‘Big mistake’ – National
US President Donald Trump on Thursday accused former President Barack Obama of disclosing classified information when he recently claimed that aliens are real, but Trump did not present any evidence to support the allegations.
“He took it out of classified information … He shouldn’t have done that,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One en route to Georgia. “You made a big mistake.”
During an interview with podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen that aired Saturday, Obama was asked if aliens are real.
“They’re really there, but I haven’t seen them, and they’re not kept in … Area 51. There’s no underground area unless there’s this big conspiracy and they’re hiding it from the president of the United States,” Obama said.
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Area 51 is an Air Force base in Nevada where fringe theorists speculate that there are unidentified bodies and a crashed spaceship. CIA archives released in 2013 said it was a top-secret military aviation test site.
There was no indication in his words that the former president relied on confidential information.
I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have contacted us. Obama said this in an Instagram post on Sunday.
In the post, Obama explained his belief that aliens exist by saying that the odds of life beyond Earth are high because space is so big. He added that the chances of extraterrestrial life visiting Earth are slim given the distance.
On Thursday, Trump said, “I don’t know if they’re real or not” when asked if he had seen evidence that aliens exist.
The White House said it had nothing to add to what the president said. Obama’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Pentagon in recent years has launched a campaign to investigate reports of unidentified flying objects, and top military leaders say in 2022 they have found no evidence that aliens have visited Earth or crashed here.
A 2024 Pentagon report said that US government investigations since the end of World War II had found no evidence of extraterrestrial technology and that most of the sightings were familiar and unfamiliar.
