Key figures in the UFO disclosure movement are intensifying their demands that the president reveal what the US government supposedly knows about nonhuman life.
One influential entrepreneur claims to have recently met with President Donald Trump on the issue, and another UFO enthusiast believes that more figures in the movement are now descending on Washington, DC, fueling speculation of an ‘imminent’ announcement from the White House.
Billionaire businessman Robert Bigelow, who has spent years funding UFO research, claimed that he met with Trump in the Oval Office and urged him to make a declaration about nonhuman life.
He told KLAS 8 News Now on Tuesday that he gave the president a statement to read to journalists on 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 he advised Trump to pause at the aircraft door, turn toward the assembled reporters and deliver that single confirmation without elaborating further. The statement, he said, would achieve both disclosure and official confirmation in one sentence, something he said no previous president has been willing to provide.
Filmmaker Mark Christopher Lee, who previously claimed Trump has a disclosure speech ‘written and ready,’ told the Daily Mail on Tuesday that he believes an announcement will come ‘potentially within the next 48 hours.’
White House officials, however, told the Daily Mail that no presidential speech on the subject is planned.
According to Lee, any such address would likely amount to a ‘soft disclosure,’ potentially acknowledging that some UFO incidents involved spacecrafts and possibly beings of nonhuman origin. He also claimed that the speech could reference historic UFO cases and call for greater transparency on the issue.
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.
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.
