Aliens are real. Or maybe not.
The possibility of mystical beings watching over us or even walking among us is not just the ramblings of the fringe and Reddit users, but a key political and societal debate in the U.S.
President Donald Trump, on Thursday, February 19, 2026, announced that he was directing the Pentagon to review and release all government files related to “alien and extra-terrestrial life,” and Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs), earlier known as UFOs or Unidentified Flying Objects.
This was triggered after former President Barack Obama said on a podcast that “aliens are real,” then clarified that he only meant the odds of there being aliens out there is very real -- just as the distances between worlds are vast, which could be why they have yet to make contact with earth.
Mr Trump accused Mr Obama of revealing “classified information” and said that he would get him out of trouble by “declassifying” documents.
