U.S. Representative Anna Paulina Luna offered an update on the Trump administration’s plans to release government information relating to aliens and unidentified flying objects (UFOs) during a recent podcast appearance.
Why It Matters
A 2021 survey by the Pew Research Center found that 65 percent of Americans believed intelligent life may exist on other planets.
What To Know
Speaking to media personality Jillian Michaels on Keeping It Real, Luna, who chairs the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, said, “I think they’re very serious about doing it” when asked about President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s announcement that they would be declassifying information.
“There has been […] instances of footage we cannot explain… As soon as we get the official on-paper declassification order, I want to do a press conference with all the information that we are told and shown,” she said.
Luna added: “I think you’re going to get a lot of cool stuff, but I don’t think that there’s going to be ever the full admission… the Federal government telling you what to believe. They’ll release it, but they’re not going to tell you what to make of it.”
Newsweek reached out to Luna’s office for comment via email on Saturday.
The interview comes after Trump announced in February he would be directing Hegseth to start locating and making public government files pertaining to unidentified flying objects and potential extraterrestrial life.
Luna previously recounted her experience with a UFO while serving in the Air Force on The Joe Rogan Experience. Luna told Rogan that while working as an airfield manager at the Portland Air National Guard, she encountered a UAP. She said a pilot later told her they were not permitted to discuss the incident.
What People Are Saying
Donald Trump wrote in a February post on Truth Social: “Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters.”
What Happens Next
Newsweek reported on Wednesday that Trump’s administration had registered the federal domain aliens.gov amid the renewed public interest in UFOs, also referred to as unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs).
Federal registry data, first reported by 404 Media, showed the domain was registered by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which manages .gov domains.