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President Trump Discusses Area 51, UFOs, and Aliens in Interview With Joe Rogan

President Trump sat down with America’s number one podcaster, Joe Rogan, in an interview that has already amassed nearly 10 million views in less than 10 hours.

In the interview, Trump and Rogan discussed a plethora of topics, such as the assassination attempt against his life, the FBI, Kamala Harris, the JFK files, RFK Jr., and much more.

Toward the end of the three-hour interview, Trump and Rogan switched gears to discuss Area 51, UFO reports, and aliens.

The topic was raised when Trump said, “There’s a lot of interest in people coming from space.”

Trump continued, “I interviewed a few people, but it’s never been my thing. I have to be honest. I have never been a believer. Area 51 is the number one tourist attraction in the whole country.”

”So anyway, I interviewed jet pilots that say they saw something,” added Trump.

Rogan responded, “I had a couple of them here.”

The 45th president added that the pilots said, “We saw things, sir, that was very strange, like a round ball, but it wasn’t a comet or meteor, and it was going four times faster than an F-22, and it was round.”

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The Midwest is flyover country — even for UFO sightings

The Midwest is used to hearing flyover jokes, but when it comes to unidentified flying objects in the sky, we really seem to be missing out.

Driving the news: Enigma Labs is a startup that developed an app where users can upload videos of odd sightings in the sky to share with others.

  • While the West and Southwest are hotbeds of strange activity, the Midwest has some of the fewest reports per capita, Alejandro Rojas, a UFO researcher, tells Axios.

How it works: An AI program on Enigma Labs app generates a score to help determine whether an uploaded user video captures something truly unidentifiable or just a plane, satellite or other known object.

  • Because the government typically doesn’t have enough data to study these anomalies, the app’s goal is to crowdsource as much information as possible, Rojas says.

Zoom in: Since the app started in 2023, Iowa users have submitted 118 sightings.

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Police reveal 10 years of Wiltshire UFO sightings first time

Police have revealed all the UFO sightings in Wiltshire over the last 10 years for the first time.

Following a freedom of information request, Wiltshire Police published all the reports they have received mentioning UFOs, UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena), aliens and more.

The results are both bizarre and intriguing, telling of mysterious and largely unreported experiences of the unknown.

As well as your common and garden UFO sightings there are alleged physical interactions with aliens, even inside people’s own homes.

The first log from September 11, 2016, describes a UFO in the sky and an alien in someone’s living room in Swindon.

Further information on why an alien would visit a living room in Swindon is not known, as the logs provided in the FOI are brief.

Down in Salisbury, a woman reported she was abducted by aliens the very same month.

There were a quiet three years with no incidents before another abduction was reported in Chippenham on April 5, 2019 – this time a man, naked.

Six months later a UFO was sighted in Trowbridge.

The last log is from January 17, 2021, again in Chippenham, and is not so much a sighting as a hearing. It simply states: “Ex-friend talking about aliens”.

Wiltshire Police’s slogan is “Keeping Wiltshire safe”, but it is not known what actions the local force take to tackle extraterrestrial tampering.

Wiltshire is not alien to unexplained phenomena as the county is famed for its crop circles which some people think are the result of otherworldly interference.

It had the most crop circles in England in 2023 and Honey Street, near Pewsey, is the home of the Crop Circle Centre.

Until 2009 the British government published an annual report on UFO sightings.

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The Chicago O’Hare UAP Incident: Physics Team’s Analysis Offers a Fresh Look at This Famous 2006 Case

Shortly after 4:15 pm CST on November 7, 2006, it might have seemed like any ordinary overcast winter afternoon for United Airlines employees outside Gate C17 at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (ORD). Ordinary, except for what looked like a hole in the sky above one of the country’s busiest hubs for international air travel.  

Visible in the 1,900 ft cloud base was an almost perfect hole, the apparent footprint left by a round unidentified object that had been seen hovering there just moments earlier before it rapidly ascended, punching through the clouds on its departure.   

What unfolded over Chicago that afternoon would become one of the most talked about UAP incidents of the new millennium. Today, what is remembered as the 2006 O’Hare International Airport UAP incident also remains a stark reminder of the potential hazards that aviators face amidst reports involving unrecognized objects that seemingly invade America’s most sensitive airspace with utter disregard for federal aviation ordinances.  

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said nothing had been detected on radar that afternoon. Still, several employees—and possibly even a few of the pilots and crew aboard outgoing flights—all observed something in the skies above O’Hare.  

One of the earliest witnesses was a United Airlines employee assisting the pushback of a Boeing 737-500 from gate C17. As the witness would later tell investigators, he was “compelled to look straight up for some reason and was startled to see the craft hovering silently.” Upon seeing the object, the employee radioed to notify the United Airlines Zone 5 control coordinator, then alerted the cockpit crew in the plane next to him about the object, who reportedly opened their windows to observe the object.  

Meanwhile, another employee that would soon become a witness learned of the hovering object after hearing his coworkers discussing it over company radios.   

“I’m a management employee for a major airline and was sitting in my office at around 1630 on Nov. 7th when an employee made a radio call to our station operations center concerning an object hovering over gate C17,” read a report the witness later anonymously filed with the Seattle, Washington-based National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC). 

“I ran out of my office and saw a relatively small object hovering in place over C17,” the employee’s account read. “The METAR was reporting OVC 1900 and I initially estimated the object hovering at about 1000 feet.” 

“After about a minute, I saw the aircraft zip to the east and disappeared.” 

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Did a US F-22 shoot down a UFO? Photo of aerial object adds to mystery

Remember February 2023? It was a wild time. There were cocaine-addled bears, mushroom zombies and Air Force fighters shooting sketchy, inflatable objects out of the sky left and right.

That month began with a Chinese balloon — the U.S. said it was loaded with spy equipment; Beijing claimed it was just a weather balloon blown off course — drifting across much of the contiguous United States and igniting a furor. That was before it was blowed up real good — the technical terminology — by an F-22 off the coast of South Carolina.

But February’s bizarre occurrences didn’t stop there. U.S. pilots soon shot down three more mystery objects over Alaska, Canada’s Yukon territory and Lake Huron in as many days.

None of those subsequent objects were ever recovered, with the official line indicating they were probably hobbyist or research balloons.

But one grainy image — it’s always a grainy image, isn’t it? — of the object shot down over the Yukon has now emerged, and it’s giving significant “I want to believe” vibes.

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Image released of mysterious object shot down over Yukon in 2023

An image of the unidentified object shot down over Canada’s Yukon territory in February 2023 has been obtained by CTVNews.ca.

Released through a Canadian freedom of information request, the grainy image appears to be a photocopy of an email printout.

Heavily redacted documents show how the image was approved for public distribution within days of the headline-grabbing incident, but then held back after a public affairs official expressed concerns that releasing it “may create more questions/confusion.”

CTVNews.ca has requested a higher resolution copy.

A U.S. F-22 fighter jet shot down the object on Feb. 11, 2023, shortly after it entered Canadian airspace in the Yukon territory, which borders Alaska. It was one of three unidentified aerial objects(opens in a new tab) blasted out of the sky that month following the high-profile Feb. 4, 2023 downing of an apparent Chinese surveillance balloon(opens in a new tab). Shot down over Alaska, Yukon and Lake Huron between Feb. 10 and 12, 2023, the three objects were reportedly much smaller than the towering Chinese balloon.

At the time, officials described the Yukon object(opens in a new tab) as a “suspected balloon” that was “cylindrical” in shape. A reported Pentagon memo(opens in a new tab) said it appeared to be a “small, metallic balloon with a tethered payload below it.”

Released as part of the freedom of information request package, an email from a Canadian brigadier-general offered what they described as the “best description that we have” of the Yukon object.

“Visual – a cylindrical object,” they wrote in an Feb. 11, 2023, email. “Top quarter is metallic, remainder white. 20-foot wire hanging below with a package of some sort suspended from it.”

The image appears to have been taken from an aircraft below it, although that has not been confirmed.

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Donald Trump Reveals He Interviewed U.S. Military Pilots Who Encountered Round UFO “They Cannot Explain”

Donald Trump reportedly interviewed several U.S. military pilots about their firsthand UFO encounters while in office, the former President recently revealed.

Trump, the 45th U.S. President and a current contender in the heated 2024 election, made the revelations on Thursday during an appearance on Fox News’ Gutfeld! in response to a question from panelist Kat Timpf.

Timpf asked Trump whether aliens were being kept at a classified U.S. Air Force facility in Nevada known as Area 51, popularly associated with claims involving secret government dealings with UFOs, which the Pentagon now calls unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP).

“You know, I’ll tell ya, it’s a funny thing because, I think that might be a question that I get more than any question,” the former President said. “It is the craziest thing.”

“I will say this. I don’t think I’m a believer, but I’ve interviewed pilots that look—I like Tom Cruise—but better than Tom Cruise,” Trump said as Timpf and other panelists listened with stunned expressions.

“They were in the Oval Office, three or four pilots,” Trump continued. “These are not people that make up stories.”

“They said, all I know sir is there was a round object that was going four times faster than my F-22, which is a very fast plane,” he added.

“And it wasn’t—it shouldn’t have been—it was round sir,” Trump recalled of the descriptions the pilots reportedly provided him of the unidentified object.

“I mean, four or five guys I’ve interviewed, solid people, great pilots for the U.S. Air Force… they’ve seen things that they cannot explain,” Trump said.

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Police Chiefs Focus on UAP in New Official Handbook

Police chiefs across the US have released the first law enforcement handbook on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). The 11-page guide, issued by the Major Cities Chiefs Association, compiles firsthand accounts of UAP and provides a framework for reporting these phenomena.

Among the noted encounters is a 2023 sighting by an officer in Georgia who described seeing a “triangle craft with green lights” gliding through the night sky. Another report details how officers in Michigan witnessed three strange flying objects that vanished abruptly. “The objects appeared to drift towards the east, maintaining equal distance,” the linked report stated. “As we watched the objects, they appeared to ‘blink out’ of our vision.”

The document also includes testimony from government whistleblowers, such as US Air Force officer David Grusch, who spoke about aircraft of “nonhuman” origins during last year’s highly publicized congressional hearings on UAP. According to the handbook, these unknown crafts may pose “significant safety risks” to law enforcement, especially helicopter units.

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I witnessed a UFO crash and aliens flee the ship – and I have a piece of the craft to prove it

A man from Los Angeles claims that he witnessed aliens fleeing from a UFO after it crashed landed in the desert – and he has a piece of the spacecraft to prove it.

Jose Padilla was just a nine-year-old boy growing up in San Antonio, New Mexico, when he and his friend discovered the ‘avocado-shaped’ UFO.

To this day, he swears that what he witnessed was real. 

The encounter occurred that very same year, and at first, Padilla thought the sound of the crash was just another bomb test, he told CBS News Los Angeles. 

‘I told my friend, ‘it must be another test from the bomb’ and he said, ‘no, it’s not a bomb, look at the smoke coming out of the ground,” Padilla said.

Upon closer inspection, the smoke appeared to be coming from a crashed aircraft.

Then, all of a sudden, three extraterrestrials emerged from the aircraft and began ‘sashaying and running in circles,’ he said. 

But Padilla wasn’t afraid of these creatures. 

‘They had crashed at my father’s ranch, and they needed help,’ he said. 

Over the next ten days, the military cleaned up the wreckage while Padilla and his friend watched from a nearby ridge, despite being warned to stay away.

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Multiple California Residents Spot UFOs Floating Above Their Homes

On Friday night, numerous California residents reported that they spotted and filmed a grouping of UFOs flying through the night sky in a zigzag pattern. 

That evening, multiple ring camera owners shared reports of sightings across Palmdale and Lancaster, towns to the north of Los Angeles, with one video showing bright lights zipping across the horizon. 

“Reports are emerging on various social media platforms of a suspected UFO sighting in the night sky,” wrote community page 661 Lasd And Lacofd calls on X. “Multiple individuals have shared their accounts, describing a bright light, a hovercraft-like aircraft, and unusual flight patterns, including abrupt stops and zigzag movements followed by a northerly trajectory.”

“We invite anyone who may have witnessed this phenomenon to share their observations in the comments section below. Your firsthand accounts will contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of this incident,” they added.

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