Prominent voices in the UFO disclosure campaign are stepping up pressure on the president to publicly reveal what they believe the US government knows about nonhuman intelligence.
The renewed push has been fueled by claims from one well-known entrepreneur who says he recently raised the matter directly with President Donald Trump, while another figure in the UFO community says activists and insiders are increasingly converging on Washington, DC, amid speculation that a White House announcement could be close.
Robert Bigelow, the billionaire businessman long associated with privately funded UFO research, said he met with Trump in the Oval Office and encouraged him to issue a formal statement about nonhuman life.
Speaking to KLAS 8 News Now on Tuesday, Bigelow said he handed the president wording he wanted him to read to reporters aboard Air Force One: ‘A non-human intelligent presence has been on Earth for a very long time using spacecraft and with performances completely beyond our capabilities and our human physics.’
Bigelow said his suggestion was simple: Trump should stop at the aircraft door, face the press corps and deliver the line without offering additional details. In Bigelow’s view, that single sentence would amount to both disclosure and official confirmation — a step he argued no previous president has been prepared to take.
Filmmaker Mark Christopher Lee, who has previously claimed Trump already has a disclosure speech ‘written and ready,’ told the Daily Mail on Tuesday that he believes an announcement could arrive ‘potentially within the next 48 hours.’
White House officials pushed back on that speculation, telling the Daily Mail that no presidential address on UFOs or nonhuman life is currently scheduled.
Lee said that if Trump were to speak on the subject, the message would probably be a form of ‘soft disclosure’ — potentially recognizing that some UFO cases involved spacecraft and possibly beings of nonhuman origin. He also suggested such remarks could cite historic UFO incidents and call for broader government transparency.
In February, Trump called on the Pentagon to release government files related to UFOs
Filmmaker Mark Christopher Lee, who previously claimed Trump has a disclosure speech ‘written and ready,’ told the Daily Mail on Tuesday that he believes a speech will come ‘potentially within the next 48 hours’
‘Whether President Trump will go as far as explicitly acknowledging recovered craft or biological material remains to be seen,’ Lee said.
‘My sources have always indicated there would be significant pushback from certain private and institutional interests, so I expect the final version to be carefully worded.’
Lee previously claimed to the Daily Mail that a supposed draft of Trump’s speech referred to several of the most closely scrutinized UFO encounters of the past 80 years, including the US Navy’s 2004 encounter with the so-called Tic Tac craft and a series of unexplained objects pursued by fighter pilots along the East Coast in 2015.
Lee also claimed that one version of the speech referred to forensic tests performed on entities purportedly recovered from crashed UFOs, with the results supposedly indicating that the beings did not originate on Earth.
There is no publicly available evidence supporting that claim, and the Daily Mail could not independently verify it.
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The US government has maintained that it has found no verifiable evidence that UFO sightings represent extraterrestrial life or that aliens have visited Earth.
Lee’s latest claims come after past predictions that never materialized.
In early July, he suggested Trump could deliver the alleged address during the NATO summit in Turkey on July 8, the 79th anniversary of the Roswell UFO incident.
The 1947 event in Roswell, New Mexico, involved the crash and recovery of what was said at the time to be a US Air Force high-altitude weather balloon, but was initially identified as a ‘flying disc,’ sparking conspiracy theories of extraterrestrial life and ‘flying saucers.’
Almost 50 years later, the government said that it was actually debris from a US spy balloon used to try to search for evidence of Soviet Union nuclear testing, though UFO enthusiasts claimed such explanations were a cover-up.
The anniversary of the Roswell incident last month passed without an announcement from Trump.
Billionaire businessman Robert Bigelow, who has spent years funding UFO research, said he met with Trump in the Oval Office and urged him to make a declaration about nonhuman life
The White House has released four batches of UFO files since May. Above is a still from a video taken in 2020 over the Atlantic Ocean, which was released in the latest tranche in July
The president’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump said in February this year that she was given reason to believe that an address had been prepared and was ready to be delivered publicly.
Trump has supported greater transparency around UFOs, although he has stopped short of describing himself as a believer in extraterrestrial visitation.
‘Am I a believer? No, I probably can’t say I am. But I have met with people who are serious people who say there are some really strange things that they see flying around out there,’ Trump said during a 2024 appearance on YouTuber-turned-WWE star Logan Paul’s podcast.
In February, Trump directed the Pentagon to declassify government materials on UFOs, resulting in the publication of multiple tranches of materials – a move that Lee had predicted in January.
None of the files released so far, however, have provided definitive evidence that extraterrestrial beings have visited Earth or that the US government possesses alien spacecraft.
‘While past administrations have sought to discredit or dissuade the American people, the president is focused on providing maximum disclosure to the public,’ White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said in a statement in May.
