In a recent interview with Lou Dobbs for Fox Business, President Trump promised the commentator “total transparency” on the UFO phenomenon.

"Your administration, you promised would be transparent and you’ve done your level best to do that, despite the deep state’s efforts to bury everything about as deeply as they could, but I’ve got one question as we conclude here," Dobbs asked at the end of the interview. "Actually, because a lot of my friends are very concerned about what the federal government is doing when it comes to UFOs. If I could just ask you: are we going to commit—are you going to commit—more resources to exploring UFOs and open the documents to the public?"

Dobbs’ question may have been prompted by a recent bill introduced by the Senate Intelligence Committee, led by chairman Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), which included a directive ordering the Director of National Intelligence (DNI)—in consultation with the Secretary of Defense—to create a report regarding “unidentified aerial phenomena,” which is the current government nomenclature for UFOs.

Sen. Rubio later told CBS Miami’s Jim DeFede during a July 16th interview that the UFO phenomenon represents a "national security risk, and one that we should be looking into,” because “we don’t know what it is and it isn’t ours.”

“Well, I think you're the—probably in this country—you're the UFO expert, so I'm going to be totally guided by the great Lou Dobbs,” President Trump responded. “And I will tell you, I'll do whatever you ask me to do, including total transparency. I’ve got to tell you, there’s probably some really good transparency needed there. There’s no doubt about that.”

This interview follows one in June, in which the president was interviewed by his son, Donald Trump Jr., and asked about the alleged UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.

"There are millions and millions of people who want to go [to Roswell], who want to see it," Trump said during the interview. "I won't talk to you about what I know about it, but it's very interesting. Roswell is a very interesting place with a lot people who would like to know what's going on."

President Trump said at the time that he would "have to think about that one" when asked if he would consider declassifying information regarding the event.

In a May 2020 interview with Reuters, President Trump commented on the recent Pentagon UFO video release of three unclassified videos that have been circulating within the UFO community for years.

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.”

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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