"Disclosure" Special Post: Obama, Trump, & the Year of Hype
And a Call for an Ask Me Anything
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Hype > Critical Reasoning
What’s Happened This Week
The last few days have been crazy. First, former President Barack Obama was on a February 14 podcast doing a “lightning round” of questions. When the topic of aliens came up, Obama said, “They’re real but I haven’t seen them. They’re not being kept in Area 51. There’s no underground facility unless there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States.”
This created a buzz, which in turn led to President Donald Trump on February 19 to accuse Obama of leaking classified information.
This statement led to a fever pitch of interest. President Trump capitalized on it by instructing his administration via a Truth Social post to release all files on aliens. Disclosure is now.
But That’s Not What Really Happened: Understanding the Background
None of this is out of the blue, though. There are several streams feeding into the current hype.
First, we have the Disclosure movement, which has been pushing hard since 2017 with claims the United States is actively suppressing information about aliens. However, some evidence like Go Fast have been explained as an optical illusion - something those familiar with FMV drone footage could tell right away - while key leaders like Lue Elizondo have had embarrassing debunkings such as his belief a chandelier in a window was a UFO mother ship and center pivot irrigation was a massive alien craft. There are even those who oppose the Disclosure movement yet believe all their claims. Supporters of the “Aliens are Demons” hypothesis will latch on to the Disclosure movement’s allegations as true but instead state they are demonic deceptions. The streams have cores of diehards, and their claims get more press than the debunkings.
Next, we have Steven Spielberg’s movie Disclosure Day. The movie is Spielberg’s third about aliens, yet this time some people are thinking this particular movie is a real disclosure event. I haven’t seen such fiction-non-fiction confusion in people’s minds since The Da Vinci Code.
Finally, we have the genesis of the current wave: UFO documentary maker Mark Christopher Lee stated Trump is preparing a speech on the anniversary of Roswell to announce the existence of extraterrestrial life to the world. How a British filmmaker could leak this information and not the legion of Washington DC leakers and everyone else between him and the source isn’t thought about. This story got new legs on February 18th when Lara Trump, President Trump’s daughter-in-law, on a podcast said the president played coy when she and her husband Eric have asked about the existence of UFO’s and aliens. She further said, “I’ve heard kind of around, I think my father-in-law has actually said it, that there is some speech that he has, that I guess at the right time, I don’t know when the right time is, he’s going to break out and talk about and it has to do with maybe some sort of extraterrestrial life.” That’s a weak statement of knowledge. The press twisted this into the headline “Trump has prepared speech on extraterrestrial life, Lara Trump says” on February 19.
As the headline shows, the press has been feeding into this hype frenzy.
But That’s Not What Really Happened: What They Said Before
Prior to the current hype, both presidents have discussed aliens and UFOs before. Insight into what they said can help understand current events.
Former President Obama was asked during a 2015 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel if he had investigated Area 51 or UFO files upon taking office. He joked that he “can’t reveal anything” and added aliens “exercise strict control over us,” also saying that presidents are “instructed to say” they found nothing. He did not say his opinion on if aliens were real or not. Later, on a 2021 appearance on The Late Late Show, Obama claimed that one of his first questions upon entering office was whether there was a secret lab “keeping the alien specimens and spaceship,” but after some research, he found out there were no alien bodies or tech in American hands. He claimed, however, that there is “footage and records of objects in the skies that we don’t know exactly what they are; we can’t explain how they moved, their trajectory... they did not have an easily explainable pattern.” He noted that investigations into these continue but stopped short of linking them to aliens.
During his first term, President Trump several times discussed the topic and has been much more negative in his opinion. He said things including, “I did have one very brief meeting on it. But people are saying they’re seeing UFOs. Do I believe it? Not particularly,” and “Well, I don’t want to really get into it too much. But personally, I tend to doubt it. I’m not a believer, but you know, I guess anything is possible.” During his October 2024 podcast with Joe Rogan, Trump stated “I’ve never been a believer.”
And as a side note, on-off Trump friend and space exploration driver Elon Musk has repeatedly said he does not believe aliens have visited Earth because all our equipment haven’t seen craft coming.
None of them seized the opportunity to reveal their belief in aliens.
But That’s Not What Really Happened: What They Said This Week
So let’s look at what was really said this week. On the original interview, Obama said aliens were real, but that the major conspiracy elements of recovered crashed vehicles were false. He later clarified he was just stating his opinion based on the law of averages.
But what about Trump being angry when he accused Obama of leaking classified information? Was he upset? Australian SkyNews reported he was joking.
Watch the video again and look at the faces. Listen to Trump’s words about how he doesn’t know if aliens are real or not.
We’re in a year of hype. The same madness that latched onto 3I/Atlas - note how no one talks about that anymore - is now latching onto politician statements. What a wonderful distraction and media attention it gives them. Meanwhile, grifters will hype this up to convince people to believe their ideas. It is only going to get crazier, with Disclosure Day coming out and various government files describing what collectors were told, not necessarily what happened, being released. Keep in mind, the JFK, RFK, MLK, and even Epstein Files gave more understanding of events but nothing that proved a criminal conspiracy.
I will leave you with this 2008 sketch from the Whitest Kids You Know. There is one F-word in it, but its relevance today is right on point.
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