TRUMP NOT BRIEFED ON ROSWELL AND UFO RECOVERY, INVESTIGATION REVEALS
FEBRUARY/MARCH 2026
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President Donald J. Trump has very likely been kept in the dark about the truth surrounding the Roswell, NM 1947 crash incident and on all things related to government UFO retrieval. A deep investigation shows that there is little chance that he has been read into the matter by those with a need to know. It is now clear that such UFO disclosure will not be made to the public by Trump because the truth has never been disclosed to him.
This conclusion is based upon:
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Statements on the subject of UFO recovery and presidential access made by a former US President, a US Secretary of State, a Wright-Patterson Air Force Base General, and other uniquely positioned individuals.
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Comments made by intelligence community members expressing grave concern about Trump's behavior related to security, admitting that they have purposely withheld "big secrets" from him.
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An analysis of the single instance in which Trump publicly discussed the Roswell matter.
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An official, little-discussed Act of Congress from the 1940s that may have unwittingly prevented presidential knowledge of extraterrestrial technologies.
SECRETARY OF STATE SAYS TRUMP NOT INFORMED ON UFO RETRIEVAL
November 21, 2025 marked the general release of a major documentary directed by Dan Farah titled "The Age of Disclosure". The film was received favorably and featured former and current military and government officials discussing the topic of UFO information release. Among these officials was current Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Rubio was also the former Vice Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and had sponsored UFO disclosure amendments like the 2023 Schumer-Rounds bill. Rubio, himself a one-time presidential candidate, participated in the documentary when he was a US Senator from Florida.
In Age of Disclosure, Rubio implies that elite programs tighten information flow so much that top officials, including the commander-in-chief, remain out-of-the-loop on UFO recoveries. He indicates that access to such programs is restricted from presidents, stating: "Even presidents have been operating on a need-to-know basis" and that "there appears to be a ramp up of control" on the matter. The clear suggestion is that escalating security protocols on the subject prioritize program integrity over presidential authority.
Not surprisingly, Rubio, now part of the administration, has somewhat
distanced himself from the testimony he offered in the documentary. In a December 2025 appearance on Fox News, Rubio was asked about this, and stated that what he had said was "like two or three years ago" (as if that would negate what he stated), and deflected that the real concern should be over "adversarial technology" like balloons and drones.
FORMER US PRESIDENT SPEAKS ABOUT NOT BEING BRIEFED ABOUT UFO RECOVERY
It can be inferred that if one President lamented that he could not get to the truth of Roswell and UFO retrieval, that neither could President Trump. Bill Clinton was the 42nd president, serving from 1993-2001. Clinton has an acknowledged interest in the subject of UFOs and Roswell. He expressed his frustration at gaining information about Roswell during a November 30, 1995 address that he gave at the Belfast City Hall in Ireland at 7:00 PM local time. He was reading aloud letters that he had received and recounts: "I got a letter from 13 year old Ryan from Belfast asking about the Roswell UFO crash." He continued, "Ryan, if you are out there in the crowd, here is your answer: If the US Air Force did recover alien bodies they didn't tell me about it either–and I want to know." The audience applauded.
What makes this particularly noteworthy is that the year prior, the US Air Force had already released its Roswell debunking paper, "The Roswell Report: Fact Versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert". The report concluded that the Roswell crash was actually that of a "Project Mogul" secret spy balloon train. If this was so, why did Clinton make the statement that he did in Ireland? Why did he not repeat the Air Force's conclusion? A thorough review of all known statements by Clinton on the subject show that he has never directly commented on the report that his own Air Force composed on Roswell. It is evident that he did not accept or trust the Air Force's conclusions.
Another example of President Clinton's frustration about not being read into such programs is testimony from his former Associate Attorney General, Webster Hubbell. In his 1997 memoir "Friends in High Places", Hubbell describes how Clinton directed him to try to get to the bottom of the UFO and Roswell question. Clinton enlisted Hubbell to contact and question key members of the CIA, the US Air Force, and the FBI. Hubbell said that he could make no breakthrough discoveries on the matter. He said that he was stonewalled by very senior military and intelligence, even though he possessed presidential authorization to investigate. He attributed this to "compartmentalized secrets that were beyond presidential reach." His belief is that there is a select element that knows, but that they do not tell Presidents.
It has been reported that the late independent White House reporter Sarah McClendon once asked Clinton why he did not do something about UFO disclosure. He replied to her: "Sarah, there's a government inside the government and I don't control it."
WHAT INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS SAY ABOUT WITHHOLDING "BIG SECRETS" FROM TRUMP
A Politico website article appearing on August 12, 2022 quotes an unnamed "former senior intelligence official who briefed Trump on numerous occasions" who stated: "Trump was known to be widely disrespectful of classification rules. If a General came to him and briefed him on something, 'Mr. President, this is really, really important and can absolutely not get out to enemies', he might have taken it with a grain of salt, saying 'those damn Generals, they are too damn cautious. I know better."
Apparently not fearful of reprisal by allowing his name to be used is former CIA counter-terrorism official Douglas London. On an ABC newscast, he noted that intelligence officers had admitted to purposely limiting briefings to
Trump out of fears that he might leak details or cause damage by sharing these publicly. He says: "What damage could he do if he blurted this or that out–like tweeting classified imagery such as in 2019 when he showed a secret Iranian facility?"
In 2021, at his Bedminster, NJ golf course, Trump waved a highly confidential Pentagon report during a private function in front of non-cleared individuals (including an author). He boasted about how important the document was. It related to potential plans for the military invasion of Iran. Though there were expressions of outrage, including from former Generals, Trump was not prosecuted.
Trump appointed as his Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Hegseth was a former co-host on Fox TV's "Fox and Friends" and a former infantryman with the US Army National Guard. He was widely considered unqualified to lead the country's largest government agency. This was borne out when in 2025 Hegseth compromised national and world security in an egregious way. He used an encrypted messaging app on his non-secure personal phone. On it, he shared Top Secret operational details about planned US air strikes against Yemen. In his incompetence, he shared the message publicly to non-cleared individuals including his wife, an Atlantic magazine reporter, and his personal attorney. Trump had touted Hegseth for the Secretary role and continued to support him after the security breach. Former CIA operatives such as Darrell Blocker publicly expressed concern. Blocker also said that his information is that long-time intelligence professionals question just how much can be entrusted to Trump. This potential withholding of secret intelligence, he says, extends to Hegseth and others in Trump's orbit.
It is inconceivable that with the kind of cavalier history about security that Trump has demonstrated in both of his administrations, that he would ever have been read into a secret like UFO retrieval–a secret no doubt greater than that of the workings of the nuclear bomb.
THE ONE AGENCY THAT COULD HOLD THE DEBRIS THAT WOULD DENY TRUMP ACCESS
It is little known that the President's supposed unique access to things that are secret has one key limitation: Nuclear and atomic-related technology secrets are governed by federal statute (under the Atomic Energy Act) and not by executive powers. The President cannot universally access technology secrets that are under the auspice of the Department of Energy (DOE), which is the successor organization to the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). If UFO crash debris related in any way to material engineered at the atomic level, or that provided energy, or that emitted wavelength, it could rightly be placed under DOE management (such as at a National Laboratory) making presidential access very difficult.
Similarly, if UFO debris is stored and being studied by private sector defense contractors, Trump's ability to access such technology becomes limited. Battelle Memorial Institute, for instance, is a private organization that runs many of our
National Laboratories through the DOE. Interestingly, Battelle provided analysis to the government's UFO study Project Blue Book and they have been implicated in the development of shape recovery alloys inspired by the memory metal found as debris at Roswell.
WHAT A WRIGHT-PATTERSON BASE COMMANDER SAID ABOUT PRESIDENTS AND UFO RECOVERY
The late Brigadier General Arthur Exon was the Base Commander of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, OH in the 1960s. Wright was the base to which the Roswell debris was flown, and which was engaged in the government's UFO sightings study, Project Blue Book, from 1952-1969. First interviewed in the 1970s by UFO researcher Leonard Stringfield, and later by authors Kevin Randle and Don Schmitt, Exon stated that he understood from his close trusted sources in the military that Roswell represented the recovery of an extraterrestrial vehicle and bodies. He further stated that Wright had lab analysis conducted on the debris.
Exon explained to researchers that President Truman was a member of a group formed after the Roswell crash that he called "The Unholy 13", who controlled access to the bodies, wreckage, and information about the crash. Other than Truman (who was President at the time of the Roswell incident), Exon said, "Elected officials were excluded from knowing."
It is likely that prior, senior-level association with Defense or Intelligence agencies is a requirement for being "let in" on the revelation of Roswell. The concern is that those elected who do not have prior ties to defense or intelligence have political agendas, not agendas about how to handle such momentous things. Politicians "come and go" within a few short years, whereas those who function at high levels in intelligence
essentially do so for life. They reason that a secret of such extreme scientific, strategic, and cultural importance as extraterrestrial recovery cannot be revealed to someone who does not have an appropriate underpinning.
THE ONE TIME THAT TRUMP ADDRESSED THE ROSWELL INCIDENT
Two days before Father's Day in 2020, Trump appeared on his son Donald Jr.'s podcast, Triggered. At a certain point in the interview, Don Jr. asks his father about the subject of the Roswell UFO crash. He asks the Chief Executive if he could "let us know what's really going on about the Roswell incident." The President then replies, "I won't talk to you about what I know about it, but it's very interesting." He adds that he has "been asked this question many times" and that "many people go to Roswell wanting to find out the answer."
After his father offered this, Don Jr. then asked him if he might declassify information on Roswell someday, to which the President replied, "Well, I'll have to think about that one." Don Jr. then moves on to another subject.
The statements made in the podcast are coming from a man known to lie or embellish constantly about many matters, and who has done so over a very long time. To boast of possessing secret knowledge that others do not is in
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itself indicative that Trump does not have that knowledge. The official position of the US government–then and now–is that the Roswell event was the crash of a secret Soviet spy balloon project. For Trump to say that he would have to "think about" declassification of the information contradicts the Air Force's balloon solution and the document declassification on Roswell already done in the 1990s. It is clear that Trump was trying to elevate himself with his reply without having any genuine insight into the matter. He has a documented history of "teasing" and "hinting" and of confidently claiming knowledge of facts that are found to be wrong, exaggerated, or unsupported.
After the podcast aired, comedian Jimmy Kimmel, on his "The Jimmy Kimmel Show", performed a monologue about it. Kimmel pointed out what is perhaps the most convincing argument that Trump knows nothing. He said, "I am more likely to believe in aliens than that Donald Trump kept quiet about them crashing. If he really knew, he would be firing off tweets about it like phaser guns. At the very least he would have danced around the topic because he's always dying to brag about something that he knows that we don't know."