The head of NASA says the UFO files expose years of unexplained encounters that government agencies failed to seriously investigate.
Jared Isaacman told FOX News that the declassified videos, photos and documents reveal strange objects captured by military sensors around the world.
‘What’s being surfaced isn’t crashed ships or alien bodies, but real unexplained phenomena,’ the NASA administrator said.
Isaacman said many of the cases remained buried inside government databases for decades until President Donald Trump ordered agencies to revisit old records, search classified archives and publicly release what they found.
The comments came after the Trump administration released two batches of previously classified UFO records under a new disclosure initiative aimed at uncovering unexplained aerial incidents hidden inside federal archives.
Officials said additional releases from agencies, including the CIA, are expected in the coming weeks as pressure grows for greater transparency surrounding UFO investigations.
For decades, many UFO-related records remained locked away due to Cold War secrecy, national security concerns and fears about exposing sensitive military technology detected by radar and surveillance systems.
Critics have long argued that successive administrations avoided publicly acknowledging unexplained cases out of concern over public backlash, institutional embarrassment and growing conspiracy theories surrounding UFO investigations.
‘I think the President has really got government agencies now taking this seriously, to go look at the files and bring the data to light, and he’s putting it all out for everyone to analyze,’ Isaacman told Fox News.
‘This is citizen science right now. Take a look at our files, tell us what you think.’
He added that he is not aware of any files containing information about alien bodies or spaceships, but ‘observations from decades past, from some of our adversaries and potentially some of our allies, essentially saying, “We saw something, we documented it, and we kept it buried in a file somewhere,’ are now being made public.”‘
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