Is UFO Disclosure Day coming? Obama doesn’t seem to think so

Barack Obama has cast doubt on alien disclosure. The former president is questioning the government's timeline to reveal UFO footage, saying that any first contact with aliens “hasn’t happened yet.”

Speaking on The Colbert Report, Obama doubted whether there would be any release, full stop, as “the government is terrible at keeping secrets,” stating that if there were “little green men underground somewhere,” then we would know about it.

And, on the possibility of the US accommodating extraterrestrials in secret sites, Obama quipped that “some guy guarding the installation would have taken a selfie with one of the aliens and sent it to his girlfriend to impress her.”

🚨Government not sitting on space alien evidence, Obama reiterates

During an interview with 'Late Show' host Stephen Colbert, Obama said:

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Obama’s wry tone is consistent with comments he made in February, in which he said he believes aliens are real but didn’t see any evidence of it during his presidency.

President Donald Trump pushed back at the time, claiming Obama had made a big mistake in commenting on such confidential matters.

Trump's message, meanwhile, has been persistent, with his “coming soon” overtones reaffirmed as he welcomed the Artemis II crew into the Oval Office in late April.

When Trump leaned into the mystery by saying, "I think some of it’s going to be very interesting to people," it at least sustained the suspense around the release of UFO evidence.

Trying to make sense of it all

At other times, though, proceedings can feel a little cryptic, especially when UFO advocates like Christopher Mellon come out sounding jumbled by describing the situation as “not a nothingburger.”

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As is so often the case, the UFO community tries to wrap its head around who is in control of the disclosure process.

Following Obama’s comments, on one of the threads in the Reddit r/UFOs community, one poster suggested that burying the evidence could be a corporate guise (though they didn’t elaborate).

Another, meanwhile, suggested a mix of politics also in that “everything is compartmentalized for the purpose of keeping things secret.”

One contributor unpacked Obama's words and added context, pointing out that he is not in office and has no ulterior motive, asking, “Why would he go onto a talkshow and just spill the beans?

Comment
by u/silv3rbull8 from discussion
in UFOs

As the disclosure narrative enters the mainstream – especially with the release of Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day on June 12th – it feels like the conversation is at a critical crossroads.

Either we’ll carry on straight and approach some clarity, or turn a sharp left, hang a few rights, and keep on going for spaghetti junction.