President Donald Trump says he has spoken with several U.S. Air Force pilots who claim they saw UFOs flying three times faster than their fighter jets. He also said he has no knowledge of any secret government program about UFOs.
Donald Trump discussed what he spoke to military pilots about, and whether he believes aliens have visited Earth in an interview on 60 Minutes with Ross Douthat on November 8. Trump also admitted that UFOs are one of the subjects people ask him about most often.
“I’m not too much of a believer,” Trump said, before describing several conversations he had with Air Force pilots during his first and second terms. He added that the pilots were highly trained professionals who weren’t the type of people to believe in conspiracy theories.
“These are not people that you would say are conspiracy theorists – they don’t even know what it means – but they’re great, great pilots,” Trump said, adding, “Young, handsome, they have beautiful, nice flat tops. I’d like to have a haircut just like them. They look perfect, like Tom Cruise.”
Donald Trump Claims Air Force Pilots Have Witnessed Some Very Strange UFOs
According to Donald Trump, some pilots reported encounters with unidentified objects while flying F-22 fighter jets.
“They’re flying an F-22, which is the best there is, the fastest, the best plane that anyone’s ever seen,” Trump said. “And something goes by them at three times their speed. And it’s round. It’s not aerodynamic.”
Trump said he suggested the object might have been a comet, but the pilots apparently weren’t convinced.
The president has made similar claims before, including previous accounts of objects reportedly traveling four times faster than military aircraft. It’s unclear whether those stories describe the same encounters.
Trump Says He Knows Nothing About Secret UFO Program Hidden From Presidents
Ross Douthat also asked Donald Trump about claims made by alleged whistleblowers that the government has a secret UFO investigation program so highly classified that even presidents aren’t informed about it.
“No. And I haven’t heard that,” Trump responded, adding that if such a program exists, he intended to find out about it after the interview.
UFO whistleblower David Grusch claimed in an interview last year that President Trump has been fully briefed on America’s secret UFO programs and the existence of multiple alien races here on Earth.
Trump then brought up the large number of tourists who visit Nevada hoping to catch a glimpse of anything unusual near Area 51. He described people gathering around a chain-link fence in the desert, apparently hoping to discover evidence of whatever the government might be hiding.
As anyone familiar with Area 51 knows, speculation about secret aircraft, UFOs, and alien technology has surrounded the military installation for decades.
“I don’t know if that’s true. I don’t think it’s true,” Trump said about the stories surrounding the secretive military location.
Donald Trump ended up not revealing any evidence of alien spacecraft or confirming the existence of a secret UFO program during the interview. He did, however, acknowledge that some people he considers to be credible believe there’s something unusual going on. And apparently, even the President of the United States would like to know what that is.