The head of NASA says the UFO files expose years of unexplained encounters that government agencies failed to seriously investigate.
Jared Isaacman told FOX News that the declassified videos, photos and documents reveal strange objects captured by military sensors around the world.
‘What’s being surfaced isn’t crashed ships or alien bodies, but real unexplained phenomena,’ the NASA administrator said.
Isaacman said many of the cases remained buried inside government databases for decades until President Donald Trump ordered agencies to revisit old records, search classified archives and publicly release what they found.
The comments came after the Trump administration released two batches of previously classified UFO records under a new disclosure initiative aimed at uncovering unexplained aerial incidents hidden inside federal archives.
Officials said additional releases from agencies, including the CIA, are expected in the coming weeks as pressure grows for greater transparency surrounding UFO investigations.
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.’
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?’
