Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said she believes space aliens may exist and acknowledged that the U.S. government holds classified information on the subject. She pledged to share disclosures from ongoing investigations into UFOs.
Meanwhile, public interest in mysterious sightings shows no signs of waning.
“I have my own views and opinions,” she told host Miranda Devine when asked whether aliens could exist. “In this role, I have to be careful with what I share.”
When pressed for a clear answer on whether she thought aliens exist, Gabbard replied, “Yes.”
While stressing that she had no new revelations, Gabbard pledged transparency when the intelligence community has findings it can disclose.
“We’re continuing to look for the truth and share that truth with the American people,” she said.
“I just personally still have a lot of questions that are unanswered, because it wasn’t just New Jersey. It was happening in different parts of the country.”
The remarks by Gabbard come amid renewed discussion of UFOs at the highest levels of government.
“Oh yeah, sure, I’ll do that. I would do that. I’d love to do that,” Trump said, noting public pressure to disclose records similar to that surrounding the John F. Kennedy assassination.
Appearing on Logan Paul’s “Impaulsive” podcast in June last year, Trump struck a skeptical but open tone.
“Am I a believer? No, I can’t say I am,” he said. “But I have met with people, serious people, that say there’s some really strange things flying around out there.”
He said that given the size of the universe, “why wouldn’t there be something, somebody?”
“What’s actually going on? What were those videos all about? What’s actually happening?” Vance said, joking that part of his upcoming congressional recess would be spent trying to “dive to the bottom of the whole UFO thing” and quipping that he might take the show’s hosts to Area 51 once he gets “to the bottom of it.”
Public appetite for UFO disclosures remains high as the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) continues to investigate more than 1,600 reports of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), a term that has largely replaced “unidentified flying objects” (UFOs).
In one unsolved case, two government contractors reported seeing a stationary metallic cylinder “the size of a commercial airplane” that mysteriously disappeared after 20 seconds. In another, a law enforcement officer described a black orb that tilted upward and shot vertically into the sky without a sound, later emitting bright red and blue lights that illuminated his vehicle.
Kosloski said that while most sightings likely involve birds, balloons, or conventional drones, “we do have some very anomalous objects—it’s just the nature of resolution.”
