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NASA chief pulls back curtain on Trump UFO files after bizarre finds surface in buried fed records
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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said the Trump administration’s newly declassified UAP files are exposing years of strange aerial sightings that government agencies failed to seriously dig into — even if the records do not point to recovered alien remains or ships.
«What’s being surfaced isn’t crashed ships or alien bodies, but real unexplained phenomena,» Isaacman told Fox News Digital in an interview Friday.
The disclosures come after the Trump administration released two waves of declassified UAP files as part of a broader transparency effort directing agencies to search internal databases for decades-old reports involving unexplained aerial activity after years of public skepticism surrounding government secrecy and UFO investigations. Officials say additional file releases from agencies including the CIA could soon follow.
TRUMP ADMIN RELEASES HIGHLY ANTICIPATED FILES DOCUMENTING UFOS, ‘EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE’
The ongoing release of declassified files is part of Trump’s Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) program, which made a second batch of documents public on Friday. (Getty Images Creatives)
Isaacman framed the disclosures less as proof of extraterrestrial life than as a public test of unexplained evidence, saying modern cameras, military sensors and newly released government records are giving Americans more material to examine than ever before.
«Everybody’s got a camera phone, a doorbell camera. Every military aircraft flying has a million sensors,» Isaacman said. «You’re gonna pick up things. Pick up things that flew at a different angle, you know, across the lens that maybe if you had a better angle on, you’d be like, oh, that’s a balloon, or that might be a missile in a combat region. But because we caught it at an angle, it’s an unexplained phenomenon.»
Isaacman said the biggest surprise was not evidence of extraterrestrials, but how little attention federal agencies had historically given to unexplained aerial records, calling the renewed disclosure effort under the Trump administration «citizen science.»
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The newly surfaced material includes infrared footage from 2023 that appears to show a U.S. F-16 shooting down a diamond-shaped object over Lake Huron. (US Department of War via Getty Images)
«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 and going out and saying, look, this time you better go through the files, you better start searching your databases and bring things up,» said Isaacman.
«I think the president has really got government agencies now taking this seriously, to go look at the files and bring the data to light, and he’s putting it all out for everyone to analyze,» he added. «This is citizen science right now. Take a look at our files, tell us what you think.»
The newly surfaced material includes infrared footage from 2023 that appears to show a U.S. F-16 shooting down a diamond-shaped object over Lake Huron, along with reports documenting unexplained aerial objects spotted near military operations in Iran, Syria, Iraq, Greece and other parts of the Middle East. The records also include astronaut and NASA-related accounts from the Apollo and Gemini eras describing strange lights and unidentified objects observed in space.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Trump administration is directing agencies to revisit long-buried UAP records in the name of transparency, while Isaacman said additional «big file tranches» from intelligence agencies could soon become public.
«I think the president has really got government agencies now taking this seriously, to go look at the files and bring the data to light, and he’s putting it all out for everyone to analyze,» said Isaacman. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images, Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
«There’s nothing I’m aware of in terms of alien bodies or spaceships,» Isaacman said. «But observations from decades past — from some of our adversaries and potentially some of our allies — essentially saying, ‘We saw something, we documented it, and we kept it buried in a file somewhere,’ are now being made public.»
The documents also contain testimony from intelligence officers and military pilots who said they could not explain encounters they witnessed during operations and training exercises.
Isaacman said he personally believes life likely exists elsewhere in the universe and argued that searching for it remains central to NASA’s long-term mission.
«I think if we go and bring samples back from Mars, you’ve got better than a 90% chance of former microbial life,» he said.
DECLASSIFIED APOLLO MISSION UFO FILES CHALLENGE LONG-RUNNING MOON LANDING CONSPIRACY THEORIES
Isaacman also pointed to Saturn’s moon Titan and Jupiter’s moon Europa as locations scientists believe may contain conditions capable of supporting microbial life or biosignatures — chemical indicators associated with living organisms.
Officials say additional UFO and UAP files will continue to be released in future batches as part of the administration’s ongoing disclosure effort. (Guvendemir/Getty Images)
«Things that could indicate perhaps that there was microbial life there or some other form there of which it changes the whole equation from surely there is life out there somewhere to what if it’s everywhere,» said Isaacman.
Isaacman also argued that broader public disclosure could help reduce skepticism at a time when advances in artificial intelligence and digital manipulation are making it increasingly difficult for people to distinguish authentic footage from fabricated material.
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«I would say that some of the most interesting data that NASA has provided as part of the UAP disclosure was taken on the surface of the moon from Apollo 12 and 17,» he said. «You can’t be a moon landing denier and also believe that those photos captured unexplained phenomenon.»
Officials say additional UFO and UAP files will continue to be released in future batches as part of the administration’s ongoing disclosure effort.
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Trump says Senate hearing on DNI nominee is cancelled until US attorney replacement confirmed
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President Donald Trump declared in an early Wednesday morning Truth Social post that a scheduled Senate hearing on Jay Clayton’s nomination to serve as director of national intelligence would not move forward Wednesday.
The U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has a hearing on Clayton’s nomination for DNI scheduled for Wednesday afternoon.
But the president said the hearing will not take place until Jamie McDonald has been confirmed to fill the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York post.
President Trump tied the move to an ongoing dispute over renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, claiming Democrats backed away from an agreement to support the surveillance authority after Republicans agreed to move away from Bill Pulte as acting DNI. The provision allows U.S. intelligence agencies to collect communications of foreign targets located outside the U.S.
TRUMP PICKS JAMES MCDONALD TO LEAD POWERFUL SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK AFTER JAY CLAYTON’S DEPARTURE
U.S. President Donald Trump attends a morning work meeting to «revive balanced, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth for the benefit of all» in the presence of the G7 countries, partner countries, the International Monetary Fund, and the OECD, as part of the G7 summit, in Evian, eastern France, on June 17, 2026. (Ludovic MARIN / AFP via Getty Images)
The president further said he would not support renewal of FISA authorities unless Congress also advances the SAVE AMERICA ACT, a voting-security measure backed by the administration.
Clayton’s hearing had been scheduled amid a broader debate over the future of U.S. intelligence leadership and the reauthorization of key surveillance authorities.
TRUMP NOMINATES JAY CLAYTON, FORMER SEC CHAIRMAN, CURRENT US ATTORNEY, AS INTELLIGENCE DIRECTOR
«Regarding the approval of our Great Patriot, Jay Clayton, we are cancelling the Senate Hearing RE: DNI today, and will not be going forward until Jamie McDonald is approved to be U.S. Attorney. In the meantime, Bill Pulte will remain as the Acting Director of National Intelligence. Thank you for your attention to this matter!» Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Wednesday.
Pulte «will take over on June 19th,» the president declared in a post last week.
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Jay Clayton, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), during the Bloomberg Global Credit Forum in New York, US, on Wednesday, June 3, 2026. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
«The Republicans agreed with Dumocrats to remove very fair, and talented, William Pulte, from serving as Acting DNI in return for getting FISA approved by the Dumocrats. However, the Republicans moved so fast with the hearings of the Great Jay Clayton, current U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, that Pulte would be gone before the Dumocrats would vote on FISA. Now, the Dumocrats are saying they will vote against FISA — So, the Republicans wound up having fulfilled their commitment, but Dumocrats broke the Deal,» Trump said in his post on Wednesday morning.
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William Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), during a news conference at the Federal Housing Finance Association (FHFA) headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, April 22, 2026. (Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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«In addition, the newly nominated U.S. Attorney, Jamie McDonald, must be confirmed and blue slipped. Because of the ridiculous views of Republicans on blue slipping (Dumocrats are often willing to nix it), I may not be able to get the extraordinary Sullivan & Cromwell Partner, Jamie, approved, and I don’t want to take Jay Clayton away from the great job he is doing until Jamie is in place. Therefore, to add a slight bit of intrigue but, for the Good of the Nation, and the People of our Country, I will not approve FISA without THE SAVE AMERICA ACT going along with it. Not complicated, actually, the Republicans fell into a trap,» he added.
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Octavio Paz, escritor mexicano: “Sin libertad la democracia es despotismo, sin democracia la libertad es quimera”
En un presente global marcado por la polarización extrema, el auge de los populismos de todo signo y el progresivo desmantelamiento de los contrapesos institucionales desde el propio corazón de las urnas, la voz de Octavio Paz suena con lucidez: “Sin libertad la democracia es despotismo, sin democracia la libertad es quimera”. Recorramos este axioma político y filosófico que encapsula la gran obsesión teórica de un escritor que pagó altos costos por negarse a comulgar con los dogmas de su tiempo.
Corría el 23 de abril de 1981. El Paraninfo de la Universidad de Alcalá de Henares albergaba la entrega del Premio Miguel de Cervantes, el máximo galardón de las letras hispanas. Al subir al estrado, Octavio Paz no optó por el refugio seguro de la complacencia estética. En su discurso, partiendo de la etimología de la palabra “liberal” y de la figura del propio Miguel de Cervantes, desató una profunda reflexión sobre las tragedias políticas que asolaban a Occidente y, muy especialmente, a América Latina.
El contexto continental era asfixiante: la región se debatía entre el horror de las dictaduras militares de derecha —con el Cono Sur bajo el yugo de regímenes como el de Jorge Rafael Videla en Argentina o Augusto Pinochet en Chile— y la fosilización de los autoritarismos de izquierda. Si bien la frase resonó en las paredes de Alcalá de Henares, su genealogía conceptual remite de forma directa a la producción ensayística que el autor venía madurando desde los años 70.
Las actas de aquel discurso fueron publicadas de inmediato en revistas de la época, pero el pensamiento quedó inmortalizado en los volúmenes de ensayos políticos que marcaron su madurez, fundamentalmente en el libro El ogro filantrópico (1979) y, posteriormente, en las recopilaciones de Pasión crítica (1985). El ogro filantrópico es, sin lugar a dudas, un texto fundamental para entender la evolución ideológica del escritor. En esta obra, Octavio Paz desmenuza la naturaleza del Estado moderno.
El autor ce centra particularmente en el Estado mexicano, encarnado en el régimen del Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI). A este sistema de poder lo define como una maquinaria gigantesca que, bajo la promesa de la beneficencia social y el progreso, devora las iniciativas individuales y adormece la capacidad crítica de la sociedad. La importancia de este libro radica en que desmitificó el romanticismo estatista de la izquierda de la época, consolidando un espacio de pensamiento liberal-democrático.
Esta frase no es una declaración aislada; resume de manera perfecta la biografía intelectual de Octavio Paz. En su juventud, el poeta había coqueteado con el antifascismo y las causas socialistas, llegando a viajar a la España de la Guerra Civil. Sin embargo, el descubrimiento de los crímenes del estalinismo y los horrores del Gulag provocaron en él una ruptura temprana y definitiva con los totalitarismos.
Su compromiso con la libertad no fue solo de tinta. En 1968, siendo embajador de México en la India, renunció a su cargo de manera fulminante tras la matanza de estudiantes en Tlatelolco perpetrada por el gobierno de Gustavo Díaz Ordaz. Paz entendía que el intelectual debe ser el fiscal del poder, nunca su cortesano. A través de la fundación de las revistas Plural y Vuelta, se convirtió en el faro de una corriente que exigía pluralidad en tiempos de monólogos ideológicos.
En definitiva, la máxima de Octavio Paz funciona hoy como un espejo incómodo para nuestro presente. Nos recuerda que la salud de una sociedad no se mide únicamente por la frecuencia con la que acude a las urnas, sino por la vigencia real de las libertades que se respiran al día siguiente de la votación. Una lección de 1981 que el siglo XXI haria bien en no olvidar.
Octavio Paz Lozano nació en la Ciudad de México el 31 de marzo de 1914, en pleno apogeo de la Revolución Mexicana, en el seno de una familia de fuerte tradición intelectual y política. Creció rodeado por la vasta biblioteca de su abuelo paterno, lo que despertó su temprana vocación por las letras, publicando sus primeros poemas en la adolescencia. A lo largo de su vida, combinó su brillante carrera literaria con la diplomacia, representando a su país en Francia, Japón y la India.
Fundador de revistas culturales clave como Plural y Vuelta, se convirtió en un faro del pensamiento crítico y el debate ideológico en Hispanoamérica, lo que le valió el Premio Miguel de Cervantes en 1981 y el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1990. Su vasta y polifacética obra transitó con igual maestría la poesía experimental y el ensayo profundo. Entre sus títulos líricos más célebres destacan Libertad bajo palabra y el monumental poema Piedra de sol, estructurado bajo la cosmogonía azteca.
Como ensayista, transformó la comprensión de la identidad latinoamericana con El laberinto de la soledad, exploró la teoría poética en El arco y la lira y realizó una minuciosa biografía histórica en Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz o las trampas de la fe. Tras padecer un cáncer prolongado, el célebre escritor falleció el 19 de abril de 1998 en la misma ciudad que lo vio nacer, dejando un legado imperecedero como uno de los máximos referentes de la literatura universal del siglo XX.
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