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In an even more dramatic twist to the previous rivalry, the US President Donald Trump alleged that the former President Barack Obama was leaking secret information by publicly claiming that aliens are real. The assertion was made on February 19, 2026, hours after Trump addressed newspeople on Air Force One.

In one of the episodes of the Brian Tyler Cohen podcast (which he released earlier in February), Obama was questioned about whether there are aliens. He responded, saying that they are real, but he has not observed them, and they are not contained in Area 51. His initial remark was later explained by him on social media, stating that he perceived no evidence that during his presidency, extraterrestrials have made contact with us, which he referred to as statistical probability, due to the enormity of the universe.

Trump took the opportunity of the viral video, informing journalists: He released classified information. That is something he is not supposed to do. He made a big mistake. He stole it out of classified information. Trump responded to the question on the question of aliens being real by saying that he does not know whether they are real or not, but he might declassify the information to put Obama out of trouble.

Trump posted that evening on Truth Social to give an order to the Pentagon, the Department of Defense, and other agencies to initiate the procedures to identify and declassify government files pertaining to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information relating to these very complicated, yet highly important and intriguing, issues.

The release of the announcement with the mention of the tremendous interest develops years of the popular interest in UFOs/UAPs, involving congressional hearings and Pentagon reports. There is no way to substantiate the situation described by Trump that Obama was talking about classified information—the words of Obama were rather speculative and vague.

The shift has revitalized the arguments on transparency in the government, aliens, and political animosity. Though multiple times the Pentagon has claimed that there is no evidence of alien contact or secret programs, the directive issued by Trump might result in new documents. You must have a close look as this controversy in space with interstellar unfolds!