The chief of NASA has revealed that newly disclosed UFO files highlight years of mysterious encounters that were not thoroughly examined by government agencies.
In an interview with FOX News, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman discussed how the declassified videos, images, and documents showcase peculiar objects detected by military sensors globally.
“What we are uncovering isn’t evidence of crashed spacecraft or alien remains, but genuinely unexplained phenomena,” Isaacman explained.
According to Isaacman, numerous cases lay dormant in government databases for years until former President Donald Trump instructed agencies to revisit historical records, delve into classified archives, and release their findings to the public.
His remarks follow the Trump administration’s release of two sets of formerly classified UFO documents as part of a new initiative to disclose unexplained aerial events concealed in federal records.
Officials have indicated that more disclosures from agencies, including the CIA, are anticipated in the upcoming weeks as the demand for transparency in UFO investigations intensifies.
For decades, many UFO-related records remained locked away due to Cold War secrecy, national security concerns and fears about exposing sensitive military technology detected by radar and surveillance systems.
Critics have long argued that successive administrations avoided publicly acknowledging unexplained cases out of concern over public backlash, institutional embarrassment and growing conspiracy theories surrounding UFO investigations.
A video released in the first wave of UFO files appeared to show a glowing object resembling an ‘eight-pointed star’ with uneven arms moving across the sky
‘I think the president has really got government agencies now taking this seriously, to go look at the files and bring the data to light, and he’s putting it all out for everyone to analyze,’ Isaacman told Fox News.
‘This is citizen science right now. Take a look at our files, tell us what you think.’
He added that he is not aware of any files containing information about alien bodies or spaceships, but ‘observations from decades past, from some of our adversaries and potentially some of our allies, essentially saying, “We saw something, we documented it, and we kept it buried in a file somewhere,’ are now being made public.”‘
Isaacman suggested the disclosures should be viewed less as evidence of extraterrestrials and more as a growing collection of unexplained incidents now open to public scrutiny, with modern cameras, military sensors and newly released records providing more data than ever before.
‘Everybody’s got a camera phone, a doorbell camera. Every military aircraft flying has a million sensors,’ he said.
‘You’re gonna pick up things. Pick up things that flew at a different angle, you know, across the lens that maybe if you had a better angle on, you’d be like, oh, that’s a balloon, or that might be a missile in a combat region.
‘But because we caught it at an angle, it’s an unexplained phenomenon.’
Former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter promised to release UFO files while in office.
Other files revealed unexplained phenomena above the lunar surface during the Apollo moon missions
During his 1976 presidential campaign, Carter famously promised the public that he would release all classified government UFO information. However, after being elected, he ultimately chose not to disclose these files, citing ‘national security concerns.’
The Clinton administration was heavily lobbied by the UFO ‘disclosure movement’ during the late 1990s.
In 1997, around the 50th anniversary of the Roswell Incident, Clinton publicly stated that he had ordered an official review of the 1947 event to see if the government was hiding the truth.
However, the subsequent findings maintained that the crash was merely a high-altitude weather balloon.
On Wednesday, President Trump held a cabinet meeting where he said: ‘We’re releasing a lot of information having to do with extraterrestrial terrestrial things and people are totally fascinated by it.
‘It’s literally trending number one, can you believe it?’
