Forget the JFK Files. This is Why Trump Needs to Open up Everything the U.S. Knows About UFOs

There’s a saying about God: “It doesn’t matter if you believe in God. What matters is if God believes in you.” The same can be said about UFOs (also known as unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP) and their impact on the current political landscape. It doesn’t matter whether you personally believe in these objects. What matters is that some of the nation’s most influential people do. These people are in the halls of government. They’re writing legislation. Some of them are architects of the current regime; some are opposed to it. As in every battle, there are multiple sides. The stakes in this battle are, potentially, as consequential as any in history.

Some names: Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA Director John Ratcliffe; Senators Chuck Schumer, Mike Rounds and Kirsten Gillibrand—and of course former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid; Representatives Anna Paulina Luna, Tim Burchett, Eric Burlingame and Jared Moskowitz; shiny billionaire Peter Thiel and less shiny billionaire Robert Bigelow; former presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter. (President Donald Trump and former President George W. Bush have both spoken somewhat cryptically about the subject.)

These are just some among the American political class who have expressed public belief, interest and/or at least expressed caution about the subject of UAPs and UFOs. Many of those who stated interest did so in the framework of “national security.”

It’s easy to understand why.

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For decades, reports of unidentified craft, usually airborne, often over sensitive military and nuclear facilities across the United States (and around the world) have bedeviled officials. The recent drone incursions over military installations in New Jersey, Virginia, and other locations highlight the problem.

To date, the Pentagon says it does not know who is controlling these objects. We do not from where they are being launched or on whose behalf. More worryingly, there appears to be a “capability gap” between what our drones can do and what these still-unidentified objects can do.

Last Sunday, 60 Minutes ran a segment on the drones. Amazingly, the mightiest military in the world appears impotent against these objects, to the point where NORAD’s top commander stated that he is hoping to have a fix “within a year.”

This is not a new problem.

The American military’s interest in UFOs probably began during World War II, with the appearance of so-called “foo fighters.” (The term “flying saucer” was coined in 1947, after a sighting of UFOs flying at incomprehensible speeds around Mount Rainier in Washington state.) During the war, both Allied and Axis powers reported mysterious balls of light chasing, and sometimes appearing to interact with, military airplanes. Both sides believed these mysterious objects were secret weapons being deployed by their opposition. Although various possible meteorological and technological explanations were offered, the problem was never resolved.

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Mainstream interest in UFOs has ballooned—but not necessarily weather balloon-ed—in recent years, in particular following a 2017 bombshell New York Times story detailing “The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program.” Several military and civilian witnesses have since testified to Congress regarding their own sightings and observations, including startling claims provided in 2023 by David Grusch, a former high-ranking intelligence official with the National Geospace-Intelligence Agency, who asserts the US government is in possession of an unknown number of crashed and retrieved extraterrestrial craft, including “nonhuman biologics.”

(In his testimony, Grusch also claimed that much of the material from these craft is in the hands of private aerospace companies—in order that they attempt to reverse engineer them. Grusch is not the first to make these claims.)

Though the Pentagon has long claimed they have “not discovered any verifiable evidence of extraterrestrial beings,” the American public isn’t buying it. According to a 2024 Yougov poll, “60% of Americans believe the U.S. government is concealing information about Unidentified Flying Objects.”

In 2024, Sens. Schumer and Rounds introduced the “UAP Disclosure Act,” which would have mandated the release of nearly all relevant classified materials. When introducing the legislation, Schumer said, “The American public has a right to learn about technologies of unknown origins, non-human intelligence, and unexplainable phenomena.”

The bill, perhaps unsurprisingly, failed to make it out of Committee.

Which catches us up to the current state of play, but doesn’t address why any of this matters. To answer that question, consider the stirrup. Invented in China around the 4th century, the stirrup revolutionized warfare, allowing mounted soldiers to wield their weaponry far more effectively, shifting the balance of power from infantry to cavalry and creating a massive military advantage for those who could deploy this new technology.

Now, consider if the stirrup were an object that could travel far faster than any current aircraft, with no visible means of propulsion, stop on a dime, and traverse the waters and space as easily as the air. It used to be said that whoever controls the seas controls the world: What if one could simultaneously control the sea, air and outer space? Any nation with such a technology would have an instant, unassailable military advantage. The civilian applications would be worth trillions.

That’s only the (potential) technological aspect of the story. There’s also the sociological aspect. What would it mean for the nation and the planet if, say, Lockheed Martin were to wheel out a craft of unknown origin? What if they had a body? In that moment, the world changes.

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Nandika Chatterjee

I don’t know what Presidents or members of Congress have been told about the issue. I know that I once asked Rep. Burchett whether what he’s learned as a congressman has increased his belief in UFOs. He looked at me for a long moment and said, “Yes.”

Does that mean he knows? I don’t know! I don’t know anything—except that world governments remain intensely interested in this topic. Which is why, amidst the current American chaos in which so much is in flux, I remain attuned to this issue which has the potential to reshape our world in incalculable ways.

So as Rep. Luna’s “Taskforce on the Declassifcation of Federal Secrets” releases the remaining JFK files (and perhaps more Epstein files too), it’s worth turning our attention for a moment to another promise from the committee—and from President Trump himself: to share all U.S. intel regarding UFOs.