Key figures within the UFO disclosure movement have intensified their calls for President Donald Trump to reveal U.S. government knowledge about nonhuman intelligence, claiming recent meetings with the president and suggesting an imminent announcement.
Billionaire businessman Robert Bigelow, who has funded UFO research, stated he met with Trump in the Oval Office and proposed a specific declaration for the president to read to journalists. Bigelow suggested Trump announce, "A non-human intelligent presence has been on Earth for a very long time using spacecraft and with performances completely beyond our capabilities and our human physics." Bigelow advised Trump to deliver this statement on Air Force One as a concise, single-sentence confirmation.
Filmmaker Mark Christopher Lee, who previously asserted Trump had a disclosure speech prepared, told the Daily Mail that an announcement could potentially occur within the next 48 hours. White House officials, however, informed the Daily Mail that no such presidential speech is planned.
Lee described any potential address as a "soft disclosure," possibly acknowledging that some unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) incidents might involve nonhuman craft or beings. He also claimed that the speech could reference historical UAP cases and advocate for increased transparency.
Lee further alleged that a draft of Trump's speech mentioned significant UAP encounters, including the 2004 Navy encounter with the "Tic Tac" craft and unexplained objects observed by fighter pilots off the East Coast in 2015. He also claimed one version of the speech referenced forensic tests on purported recovered alien material, suggesting non-Earth origins, though publicly available evidence for these claims is lacking, and the Daily Mail could not independently verify them.
The U.S. government has consistently stated that no verifiable evidence of extraterrestrial visitation or alien spacecraft has been found.
This is not the first time Lee has predicted a presidential announcement. In early July, he suggested Trump might deliver an address during the NATO summit, coinciding with the 79th anniversary of the Roswell incident. The 1947 event in Roswell, New Mexico, initially described as a "flying disc," has fueled decades of extraterrestrial conspiracy theories. Government explanations have evolved from a high-altitude weather balloon to debris from a spy balloon, while enthusiasts maintain these are cover-ups.
In February, Trump directed the Pentagon to declassify government materials related to UAPs, leading to the release of several batches of documents. None of the released files have provided definitive proof of alien visitation or government possession of alien technology. White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly stated in May that the administration's focus is on providing maximum disclosure to the public, contrasting with previous administrations' alleged efforts to discredit or dissuade the public.
Trump himself has expressed openness to greater transparency on UAPs, though he has stopped short of identifying as a believer in extraterrestrial life. "Am I a believer? No, I probably can't say I am. But I have met with people who are serious people who say there are some really strange things that they see flying around out there," Trump said in a podcast appearance.
