Donald Trump has travel tantalisingly adjacent to revealing what he was told astir UFOs while President, arsenic he divulged combatant pitchy pilots told him 'they saw things that were very strange'.
Trump, who served arsenic nan 45th President of nan United States betwixt 2017 to 2021 and is seeking re-election, besides refused to norm retired location could beryllium life connected Mars aliases different planets 'that we don't know'.
The 78-year-old leader shared his thoughts connected extra-terrestrials pinch podcaster Josh Rogan, in an engaging question and reply that besides covered nan unopened JFK and Martin Luther King assassination files, arsenic good arsenic his ain caller brushwood pinch a would-be killer.
Speaking astir 'the group coming from space', while looking upwards and pointing, Trump said it had not been thing of circumstantial liking to him, but he was near intrigued aft speaking to pilots claiming to person witnessed UFOs complete America.
He said during Friday night's podcast: 'I interviewed a fewer people, it's ne'er been my thing, I person to beryllium honest. I person ne'er been a believer.
Donald Trump has travel tantalisingly adjacent to revealing what he was told astir UFOs while President, arsenic he divulged combatant pitchy pilots told him 'they saw things that were very strange'
The 78-year-old leader shared his thoughts connected extra-terrestrials pinch podcaster Josh Rogan, successful an engaging question and reply broadcast connected Friday night
When Rogan told Trump scientists had arsenic yet not recovered immoderate grounds of life connected Mars aliases immoderate different satellite successful nan star system, Trump said he believes location still could be. 'Well possibly its life that we don't know,' he replied
'So I interviewed pitchy pilots that opportunity they saw something. If you saw them you'd emotion to person them [on your show]...that were coagulated people, perfect, awesome pilots, everything.
'And they said, 'we saw things sir that were very strange, for illustration a information shot that wasn't a comet aliases meteor, it was thing and it was going 4 times faster than an F22, which is simply a very accelerated plane.
'And it was round, which successful mentation is simply a awesome style [for flying].'
Rogan, 57, past asked Trump if he said to nan pilots because he felt 'compelled' to do truthful because of a 'personal interest' successful nan issue.
Trump admitted: 'A small bit, its not a awesome liking for me, but its still an interest.'
He past added that nan mobility he is asked 'as overmuch arsenic almost immoderate question' is whether location are aliens visiting nan earth.
'What do you think?' pressed Rogan.
'There's logic not to deliberation Mars and each these planets [don't] person life,' he replied.
When Rogan said scientists had arsenic yet not recovered immoderate grounds of life connected Mars aliases immoderate different satellite successful nan star system, Trump revealed that he believes location still could be.
'Well possibly its life that we don't know,' he replied.
Trump added that while nan sighted UFOs 'could be' drones aliases spy balloons, he remained swayed by nan eyewitness accounts of nan combatant pilots he said to.
He added: [They are] solid, beautiful people. [They said] this is thing sir, this is something. They're not conspiracy guys.'
A screenshot from nan video of a Navy aviator search nan abstraction trade complete nan Pacific. US subject unit successful California judge they saw UFOs disconnected nan seashore connected November 14, 2004
The 'Tic-Tac' UFOs vanished from show astir 60 miles northbound of Guadalupe Island disconnected nan seashore of Mexico, according to witnesses who said pinch DailyMail.com
The brace went connected to talk an infamous 2004 UFO incident successful which apical Navy pilots spotted 'Tic-Tacs' flying astatine unthinkable velocity disconnected nan California coast, which were besides picked up connected sonar moving swiftly underwater.
On November 14 2004, Top Gun combatant aviator David Fravor was flying a training workout adjacent to San Diego erstwhile he was re-routed to analyse a unusual entity spotted connected radar by warships protecting his craft bearer nan USS Nimitz.
What he recovered was a astir 40ft achromatic entity pinch nary windows aliases wings, shaped for illustration a Tic-Tac, flitting astir supra nan oversea that was roiling beneath it, disturbed by thing ample submerged beneath nan surface.
Commander Fravor told Congress in 2023 that arsenic he circled nan object, it turned to reflector his movements, past changeable disconnected past him astatine thousands of miles per hour, someway stopping a 2nd later astatine a concealed pre-designated rendezvous constituent 60 miles distant that only he and a fistful of Navy unit connected his vessel were fixed up of their training exercise.
Fellow F-18 aviator Lieutenant Chad Underwood past flew retired and caught nan entity connected video – footage that was published by nan New York Times successful 2017, igniting a firestorm of intrigue astir nan government's knowledge of UFOs.
Kevin Day, who was Senior Chief Operations Specialist aboard nan USS Princeton astatine nan clip successful complaint of monitoring nan skies pinch radar to protect nan Nimitz, said that successful nan 10 days anterior to nan incident he saw akin objects connected his radar behaving inexplicably.
Day said groups of astir 10 objects were many times detected 80,000ft supra them, wherever nan Earth's ambiance becomes space, dropping down to 20,000ft successful little than a second, past pursuing nan ships by flying done nan aerial astatine a comparatively leisurely 115mph, earlier zooming disconnected towards Guadalupe Island disconnected nan seashore of Mexico wherever they seemed to vanish nether nan sea.
Kevin Day, who was Senior Chief Operations Specialist aboard nan USS Princeton astatine nan time, says his witnessed nan 2004 Tic-Tac UFO incident
Warships guarding nan craft bearer USS Nimitz arsenic good arsenic a submarine successful nan area spotted a unusual entity connected radar successful nan Pacific successful November 2004
Sean Cahill was a Chief Master-At-Arms connected nan Princeton and from its platform he says he saw lights successful nan entity matching nan movements of nan objects Day saw connected his radar
'They originated from sub-earth orbit. They came successful groups of 5 to 10 astatine a time. If you added up each nan groups, it was astir 100 contacts,' Day said.
'The very first group had 10 objects. They sat correct astir 80,000ft aliases so, disconnected nan eastbound seashore of Catalina Island. They conscionable sat location for a time.
'Then they would driblet down arsenic a group, instantly, down to betwixt 20,000 and 28,000ft disconnected nan seashore of Catalina Island, astir 10 miles eastbound of it.
'The really weird point was, a azygous entity would time off that group and recreation very slow correct complete nan apical of us, astatine betwixt 20-28,000ft astatine astir 100 knots, which was really slow.
'It would conscionable way supra us, and past nan adjacent 1 would depart, and nan adjacent one,' he added. 'All nan groups did that.
'All 100 of them, to nan champion of my knowledge, vanished successful nan aforesaid spot successful nan sky. And that spot was astir 60 miles northbound of an land disconnected nan seashore of Mexico called Guadalupe Island.
Retired Navy Commander David Fravor testifies earlier a House Oversight and Accountability Committee proceeding astir UFOs successful nan Rayburn House Office Building successful Washington, DC successful 2023
'Everyone was looking astatine maine like, what is this? And I didn't person bully answers.'
Sean Cahill, who was a Chief Master-At-Arms connected nan Princeton, said he saw lights successful nan entity matching nan movements of nan objects Day saw connected his radar.
Rogan said that he invited Fravor onto his show to speak astir his experience, mentioning that he had described seeing 'this point spell from beneath oversea level to 50,000ft successful a second'.
'That's worldly to beat,' smiled Trump.
Rogan continued: 'They don't cognize what it is, they saw thing making a disturbance successful nan water, they sewage video grounds of this thing, 2 different combatant jets pinch pilots saw it, there's ocular evidence, photographic evidence, video, radar.
'Whatever nan hellhole it is would move a quality being into jello if you were wrong of it.'
Trump nodded arsenic Rogan spoke, but did not elaborate further connected nan episode.
Speaking astir US combatant pitchy capabilities he said: 'When you alert successful these jets, nan pilots person to beryllium successful awesome shape.
'When you alert successful immoderate of these things its amazing, you've sewage to beryllium typical [to beryllium a pilot].'