UFOs and aliens: What presidents know, but won’t say, about them
Strange & Suspicious: What US presidents know about UFOs
Is Donald Trump scared to talk about UFOs for fear he’ll be killed? Every president since Eisenhower has been briefed on unidentified phenomena. Why the secrecy? TMZ takes a look in this Strange & Suspicious segment.
For decades, presidents have presumably been privy to whatever information exists about UFOs and the existence of extraterrestrial life collected by the government. But so far, none of them have actually spilled the beans once they left office.
When asked about Roswell and whether he would ever “open up” about aliens and UFOs, former president Donald Trump replied, “So many people ask me that question. I won’t talk to you about what I know about it, but it’s very interesting. But Roswell is a very interesting place with a lot of people that would like to know what’s going on.”
One journalist, Ross Coulthart, went so far as to say that Trump was “scared” to reveal what he may or may not know about them.
In recent years, renewed interest in UFOs (unidentified flying objects) or UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena) jumped after a report released by the U.S. government in 2021 which detailed 144 sightings of aircraft or other devices flying in the sky.
“AARO (the Defense Department’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) recognizes that many people sincerely hold versions of these beliefs which are based on their perception of past experiences, the experiences of others whom they trust, or media and online outlets they believe to be sources of credible and verifiable information,” according to a report released in March.
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David Grusch, 36, the Pentagon “whistleblower” who claimed the U.S. had collected alien UFOs over the years, claimed that the Vatican was involved in the first-ever mission of America’s alleged top-secret UFO retrieval program.
While the DoD shot down any of Gruscn’s allegations, it has long been scrutinized whether ancient civilizations had “encounters” with life outside our home planet. Could some of these encounters have been captured in paintings?
Renaissance paintings depicting what appear to be UFOs in the sky are believed to be one of the earliest recordings of people seeing strange flying objects, during a time when flying wasn’t even invented yet.
Another painting, “The Annunciation with Saint Emidius,” shows what could be interpreted as a cloud with a ray of sun shining down on Mary’s forehead, or a UFO shining a beam of light.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. This story was reported from Los Angeles.
