President Trump Calls Recent Pentagon UFO Release "a Hell of a Video."

In an interview last month with Reuters, President Trump commented on the recent Pentagon UFO video release.

According to the news agency, the president "offered lighthearted remarks about a newly released Navy video purportedly showing an unidentified flying object."

“I just wonder if it’s real,” he said. “That’s a hell of a video.”

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) issued a statement in April authorizing the release of three unclassified videos that have been circulating within the UFO community for years.

The videos have been labeled as FLIR, GIMBAL, and GOFAST.

The video labeled FLIR reportedly came from an incident that occurred between approximately November 10th and 16th, 2004. The USS Princeton "on several occasions detected multiple Anomalous Aerial Vehicles (AAVs) operating in and around the vicinity of the CSG" as the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group (CSG) was preparing for deployment, according to a report acquired by journalist George Knapp in early 2019. Servicemen from both the Princeton and the Nimitz have since come forward to corroborate the incident.

GIMBAL and GOFAST both reportedly came from a series of encounters had by Navy pilots who were part of the VFA-11 "Red Rippers" squadron out of Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia. The pilots said that incidents involving unidentified flying objects were an “almost daily” occurrence from the summer of 2014 through March 2015.

In June of last year, President Trump told George Stephanopoulos in an interview for ABC News that he does “not particularly” believe that Navy pilots are seeing UFOs.

During the interview, Stephanopoulos asked President Trump if he’d been briefed on the recent reports released by Navy pilots who say they’ve seen UFOs while serving in the military.

“I have,” the president responded. “I think it’s probably…I want them to think whatever they think. They do say, I mean I’ve seen and I’ve read and I’ve heard, and I did have one very brief meeting on it, but people are saying they’re seeing UFOs. Do I believe it? Not particularly.”

When asked if he’d know whether or not there was evidence of extraterrestrials, President Trump responded “I think my great…our great pilots would know.”

“Some of them see things that are a little bit different than in the past,” he continued. “So we’re gonna see. But we’ll watch it; you’ll be the first to know.”

The following month, President Trump was interviewed by Fox News correspondent Tucker Carlson.

When asked by Carlson if he thought UFOs were real, the president expressed skepticism.

"Well, I don’t really want to get into it too much, but personally, I tend to doubt it," President Trump said. "I mean, you have people that swear by it, right? And pilots have come in and they said, and these are pilots that are, not pilots that are into that particular world, but we have had people, saying that they’ve seen things."

"I’m not a believer, but, you know, I guess anything’s possible," he added.

Carlson mentioned that he had spoken to a credible person within the U.S. government who claimed that UFO wreckage had been recovered, but President Trump said that he had no knowledge of any recovered materials.

"I haven’t heard that, no. I haven’t heard that. It has not been, within government, it has not been a big thing, but I have seen it. I’ve seen it on your show, but I have seen it. I don’t assume it’s correct, but, you know, I have an open mind, Tucker," he said.

It is unclear at this time if the president’s statements reflect anything other than a general disinterest in the subject.

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