Trump Doubles Down on UFO Files Release

On April 29th 2026, President Trump hosted a press conference in the Oval Office with the Artemis II astronauts.

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Victor Glover, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen broke Apollo 13’s record for the farthest distance humans have traveled from Earth, reaching 252,756 miles, surpassing the 1970 record of 248,655 miles.

After praising the crew members, the NASA representative and talking about the future of space exploration for a short while, a reporter asked President Trump:

Do you have an update on UFO files and what might be... when are we going to see this?

President Trump replied:

‘Well ,I think we’re going to be releasing as much as we can in the near future. For some reason - and I guess it’s just a reason - it’s been in the minds of people for a long time and that is such...

(turning around to his right towards two astronauts and NASA representative) : they want to find out about the UFOs and anything having to do with UFOs or related material. I want to be releasing a lot of things from.. that we haven’t.

I think it’s going to be very interesting to a lot of people. I’ve interviewed people during my first term primarily but I’ve interviewed some pilots, huh... very solid people and they said they saw things that you wouldn’t believe, so... you’re gonna be reading about it.

And he then moved on to another unrelated question.