DISCLOSURE WATCH
President Says He Is 'Looking' Into UFOs, Though Subject Ranks Low on His List
In an Oct. 15 interview, Mr. Trump relayed secondhand tales of pilots and a round object said to outpace an F-22, while promising no new timetable for disclosure.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump told a television interviewer on Oct. 15, 2026, that his administration is continuing to release government records on unidentified flying objects, but conceded that the matter is not among his foremost concerns, according to a report published by Unknown Country.
Asked at the White House by Newsmax host Rob Finnerty whether he would be the president to disclose what the government knows about extraterrestrial life, alleged visitation and reverse-engineering programs, Mr. Trump replied, in part, "I'm looking." He added that the subject was not high on his list. No new disclosure initiative or release schedule was announced.
The president did describe conversations with military aviators. He said he had personally spoken with some five or six Air Force pilots about sightings they could not explain. One of them, he said, described a round object travelling roughly four times faster than an F-22 fighter. Mr. Trump recalled asking whether it might have been a comet, and the pilot, he said, rejected the idea.
Unknown Country notes the account's limits. The president did not name the pilots, nor give dates or places, nor offer radar records, flight telemetry or sensor data. The reported speed therefore remains, in the publication's words, a secondhand claim rather than an established measurement.
Mr. Trump also asserted that the administration is releasing documents, saying it was releasing everything. The publication observes that the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office keeps a public collection of records and papers, and points researchers to historical material being digitized through the National Archives. Such mechanisms, it adds, do not show that every classified record has been released.
The article closes on a question for those seeking transparency: whether the continuing releases will yield verifiable evidence and accountability, or leave the weightiest questions unanswered.