MAY 27, 2026
NASA Administrator says Trump UAP declassification reveals unexplained sightings but no evidence of alien craft or bodies
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said in a Friday interview that two waves of declassified UAP files released by the Trump administration document decades of unexplained aerial sightings but contain no evidence of recovered alien craft or remains. The disclosures are part of the Trump administration's Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) program. Officials say additional file releases from agencies including the CIA are expected.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman described the Trump administration's ongoing UAP disclosure effort as surfacing long-neglected government records rather than confirming extraterrestrial contact. "What's being surfaced isn't crashed ships or alien bodies, but real unexplained phenomena," Isaacman told Fox News Digital. He said the effort's most significant finding so far is not evidence of alien life but the extent to which federal agencies historically failed to seriously examine unexplained aerial reports.
The PURSUE program, initiated by a directive from President Trump, has produced two public batches of declassified documents and is expected to yield additional releases. Isaacman credited Trump's instruction to agencies with driving the renewed review. "Government agencies really didn't take this quite as seriously in the past until President Trump put out the tweet, basically giving an order to government agencies," Isaacman said, describing the current process as "citizen science" — making the raw material available for public analysis.
Among the newly surfaced records, Fox News reported, is infrared footage from 2023 that appears to show a U.S. F-16 shooting down a diamond-shaped object over Lake Huron. The documents also include reports of unexplained aerial objects near military operations in Iran, Syria, Iraq, and Greece, as well as astronaut accounts from the Apollo and Gemini eras describing strange lights and unidentified objects observed in space. Testimony from intelligence officers and military pilots who said they could not explain encounters they witnessed during operations and training is also included.