Donald Trump has come tantalizingly close to revealing what he was told about UFOs while the president, when he divulged that fighter jet pilots told him they “saw things that were very strange.”
Trump, who was the 45th president of the United States between 2017 and 2021 and is seeking re-election, also refused to rule out that there may be life on Mars or other planets ‘that we don’t know about’.
The 78-year-old politician shared his thoughts on aliens with podcaster Joe Rogan, in an interesting interview that also covered the unopened files of the assassination of JFK and Martin Luther King, as well as his recent encounter with a possible assassin.
Speaking of ‘people who come from space,’ while looking up and pointing, Trump said it hadn’t been something of specific interest to him, but he became intrigued after speaking to pilots who claimed to have witnessed UFOs over the United States.
He said during Friday night’s podcast: “I interviewed a few people, it’s never been my thing, I have to be honest.” I have never been a believer.
Donald Trump has come tantalizingly close to revealing what he was told about UFOs while the president, when he divulged that fighter jet pilots told him they “saw things that were very strange.”
The 78-year-old politician shared his opinion on aliens with podcaster Joe Rogan, in an interesting interview broadcast on Friday night.
When Rogan told Trump that scientists had not yet found any evidence of life on Mars or any other planet in the solar system, Trump said he believes there still could be. “Well, maybe it’s life we don’t know,” he replied.
‘So I interviewed airplane pilots who say they saw something. If you saw them, you would love to have them (on your show)… that they were solid, perfect people, great drivers, everything.
And they said: ‘we saw things, sir, that were very strange, like a round ball that was not a comet or a meteorite, it was something and it was going four times faster than an F22, which is a very fast plane.’
“And it was round, which in theory is a great shape (for flying).”
Rogan, 57, then asked Trump if he had spoken to the pilots because he felt “obliged” to do so because of a “personal interest” in the issue.
Trump admitted: “A little bit, it’s not a big interest to me, but it’s still an interest.”
Then he added that the question they asked him “The biggest question, like almost any other,” is whether there are aliens visiting Earth.
‘What do you think?’ —Rogan pressed.
“There are reasons not to think that Mars and all these planets (do not) have life,” he responded.
When Rogan said scientists had yet to find any evidence of life on Mars or any other planet in the solar system, Trump revealed that he believes there still could be.
“Well, maybe it’s life we don’t know,” he replied.
Trump added that while the UFO sightings “could be” drones or spy balloons, he was still influenced by the eyewitness accounts of the fighter pilots he spoke to.
And he added: (They are) solid and beautiful people. (They said) this is something sir, this is something. They are not conspiratorial types.
A screenshot from video of a Navy pilot tracking the spacecraft over the Pacific. US military personnel in California believe they saw UFOs off the coast on November 14, 2004.
The ‘Tic-Tac’ UFOs disappeared from view about 60 miles north of Guadalupe Island off the coast of Mexico, according to witnesses who spoke to DailyMail.com
The couple went on to discuss an infamous 2004 UFO incident in which top Navy pilots saw ‘Tic-Tacs’ flying at incredible speed off the coast of California, which were also picked up by rapidly moving sonar underwater.
On November 14, 2004, Top Gun fighter pilot David Fravor was conducting a training exercise near San Diego when he was diverted to investigate a strange object detected on radar by warships protecting his aircraft carrier, the USS Nimitz.
What he found was an approximately 40-foot white object with no windows or wings, shaped like a Tic-Tac, hovering above the churning sea below, disturbed by something large submerged beneath the surface.
Commander Fravor told Congress in 2023 that as he circled the object, it rotated to mirror his movements, then passed him at thousands of miles per hour, somehow stopping a second later at a previously designated secret rendezvous point. 60 miles away that only he and a handful of Navy personnel on his ship received instructions before their training exercise.
Fellow F-18 pilot, Lt. Chad Underwood, flew and captured the object on video, footage that was published by the New York Times in 2017igniting a storm of intrigue over the government’s knowledge of UFOs.
Kevin Day, who was senior chief operations specialist aboard the USS Princeton at the time in charge of monitoring the skies with radar to protect the Nimitz, said that in the 10 days before the incident he saw similar objects on his radar behaving inexplicably. .
Day said groups of about 10 objects were repeatedly detected 80,000 feet above them, where Earth’s atmosphere turns into space, descending to 20,000 feet in less than a second, then following the craft flying through the air at a relatively slow speed of 115 mph, before approaching. towards Guadalupe Island off the coast of Mexico, where they seemed to disappear under the sea.
Kevin Day, who was the chief operations specialist aboard the USS Princeton at the time, says he witnessed the Tic-Tac UFO incident in 2004.
Warships guarding the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and a submarine in the area detected a strange object on radar in the Pacific in November 2004.
Sean Cahill was the Princeton’s chief weapons master, and from his deck he says he saw lights in the sky that matched the movements of objects Day saw on his radar.
‘They originated in a subterrestrial orbit. They came in groups of five to ten at a time. If you added up all the groups, it was about 100 contacts,” Day said.
‘The first group had 10 objects. They were at approximately 80,000 feet, off the east coast of Catalina Island. They sat there for a while.
“They would then descend as a group, instantly, between 20,000 and 28,000 feet off the coast of Catalina Island, about 10 miles east of it.
“The really strange thing was that a single object would leave that group and travel very slowly above us, between 20 and 28,000 feet at about 100 knots, which was really slow.
“It would just keep going over us, and then the next one would go, and the next one would go,” he added. ‘All the groups did that.
‘All 100 of them, as far as I know, disappeared in the same place in the sky. And that place was about 60 miles north of an island off the coast of Mexico called Isla Guadalupe.
Retired Navy Commander David Fravor testifies before a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing on UFOs at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, DC in 2023.
‘Everyone was looking at me like, what is this? And I didn’t have good answers.’
Sean Cahill, who was Princeton’s chief weapons master, said he saw lights in the sky that matched the movements of the objects Day saw on his radar.
Rogan said he invited Fravor on his show to talk about his experience, mentioning that he had described seeing “this thing go from below sea level to 50,000 feet in a second.”
“That’s something you have to get over,” Trump smiled.
Rogan continued: “They don’t know what it is, they saw something causing a disturbance in the water, they got video evidence of this, two different fighter planes with pilots saw it, there’s visual evidence, photographic evidence, video, radar.” .
“Whatever it is, it would turn a human being to jelly if you were inside it.”
Trump nodded as Rogan spoke, but did not elaborate on the episode.
Speaking about the capabilities of American fighter jets, he said: “When you fly these planes, the pilots have to be in excellent shape.”
“When you fly some of these things it’s amazing, you have to be special (to be a pilot).”
