In a Truth Social post, the U.S. president said his move was based on the "tremendous interest" in the subject, without providing additional details.

Trump’s order to release secret UFO files has reignited interest in Baba Vanga’s alleged predictions about alien contact and future global events.

On Thursday the U.S. president ordered the release of federal files related to UFOs and aliens, although no evidence of extraterrestrials visiting Earth is known to exist

Donald Trump said Thursday that he’s directing the Pentagon and other government agencies to identify and release files related to extraterrestrials and UFOs because of “tremendous interest.” Trump made the announcement in a social media post hours after he accused former Barack Obama of disclosing “classified information” when Obama recently suggested in a podcast interview that aliens were real.