Trump to release secret government files on aliens and UFOs after Obama addressed their existence

Donald Trump has announced the US government will be releasing the files it has which cover the possibility of alien life and extraterrestrial phenomena such as UFOs.

You might think the US government ought to be busy releasing files they have on another pressing matter.

The US justice department claims the latest release of the Epstein files was pretty much job done on that front, though Democrats have argued that as many as two-and-a-half million files remain unreleased.

Then there’s the concerns that a ramping up of American military presence in the Middle East might lead to escalation with Iran, but the US president took to social media to declare there was ‘tremendous interest’ in alien life and he’s ordered his government to start looking at files which could be released.

He wrote: "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. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”

Donald Trump claims he's ordering the release of files on aliens (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

You really didn’t need that extra comma before ‘matters’, Donald.

One of his predecessors, Barack Obama, recently spoke about whether or not aliens were real and being kept in Area 51.

He said: “They’re real, but I haven’t seen them, and they’re not being kept in, what is it...

"Area 51. There’s no underground facility, unless there’s this enormous conspiracy, and they hid it from the president of the United States."

Obama once joked that the first question he asked when he got the job and settled into the White House was ‘where are the aliens’, but if they really do exist and the US have them locked away then it’s not a secret he’s willing to share.

Former US President Barack Obama said he believes in aliens, but later clarified he didn't think they'd actually visited us (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

He later clarified his comments about his belief in aliens by saying he was ‘trying to stick with the spirit of the speed round’.

The former US president then said that while he thought the chances of there being alien life out in the universe he reckoned the odds of them ever actually visiting Earth were ‘low’.

"Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there. But the distances between solar systems are so great that the chances we’ve been visited by aliens is low,” Obama later said.