The president announced that he would begin the process of releasing government files “related to alien and extraterrestrial life.”

President Donald Trump on Thursday said that he was directing agencies to release files pertaining to “alien and extraterrestrial life.”Trump wrote on Truth Social that “based on the tremendous interest shown,

In a Truth Social post, the U.S. president said his move was based on the "tremendous interest" in the subject, without providing additional details.

MAGA influencer Benny Johnson voiced excitement for the release of the what he called the “Alien files,” according to the Daily Beast. However, a number of other online users, including at least one Republican lawmaker, expressed skepticism, claiming that the timing was suspicious.

DONALD Trump’s bombshell call to unseal the government’s top secret alien files will be “the biggest story of all time”, according to a former Ministry of Defence chief.