Often, when you think of someone telling you aliens exist, you picture a middle-aged hippie who ended up next to you at a dive bar after having a few too many. And yet, over the past several years, an increasing number of people working in government have spoken out about extraterrestrials, including three former presidents.


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Don’t believe me? Here’s a list of 16 government fat cats who have spoken on the record about aliens and Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (aka UPAs, aka a fancy term for UFOs).


So next time someone looks at you funny for mentioning the impending alien invasion, you can cite some extremely well-informed sources.


Director National Intelligence John Ratcliffe (2021)

“Usually we have multiple sensors picking up these things. There are a lot more sightings than have been made public. Objects that have been seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or in satellite imagery, that engage in actions that we don’t have the technology for, or traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom. Technologies that we don’t have and, frankly, that we are not capable of defending against.”



President Barack Obama (2021)

“There is footage and records of objects in the skies. We don’t know exactly what they are. We can’t explain how they moved, their trajectory. They did not have an easily explainable pattern.”



President Bill Clinton (2021)

“There are things flying around out there that we haven’t fully identified yet.”



President Donald Trump (2024)

“There is a lot of interest in the people coming from space, you know.”



Senator Marco Rubio (2020)

“We have things flying over our military bases and places where we’re conducting military exercises and we don’t know what it is and it isn’t ours.”



Director of the Central Intelligence Agency John Brennan (2021)

“Some of the phenomena we’re seeing continues to be unexplained and might constitute a different form of life.”



Senator Chuck Schumer (2023)

“For decades, many Americans have been fascinated by objects mysterious and unexplained, and it’s long past time they get some answers. The American public has a right to learn about technologies of unknown origins, non-human intelligence and unexplainable phenomena. We are not only working to declassify what the government has previously learned about these phenomena but to create a pipeline for future research to be made public.”


Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Christopher Mellon (2021)

“So it’s not us, that’s one thing we know. I could say that with very high degree of confidence in part because of the positions I held in the department.”



Senator Martin Heinrich (2021)

“I don’t know what it is, but any time you have legitimate pilots describing something that doesn’t seem to conform to the laws of physics that govern aviation and is in U.S. airspace, I think it’s something we need to get to the bottom of. If there is a foreign government that had these kinds of capabilities, I think we would see other indications of advanced technology. I can’t imagine that what has been described or shown in some of the videos belongs to any government that I’m aware of. I have no idea what it is, but I think we should figure it out.”


Senator Mitt Romney (2021)

“Well, I don’t believe they are coming from foreign adversaries. Why if there were that would suggest they have a technology that is in a whole different sphere than anything we understand, and frankly China and Russia just aren’t there, and neither are we by the way.”


NASA Administrator Bill Nelson (2021)

“We hope it’s not an adversary here on Earth that has that kind of technology. But it’s something.”



Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (2022)

“There are so many of us now on the intel committee and armed services that we’re going to stand by the service members who documented this stuff. They have video. They have radar. They have heat sensors. They have everything.”



All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office Director Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick (2023)

“We see these [metallic orbs] all over the world, and we see these making very interesting apparent maneuvers.”





National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Officer David Grusch (2023)

“In 2019, the (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force) director tasked me to identify all Special Access Programs & Controlled Access Programs (SAPs/CAPs) we needed to satisfy our congressionally mandated mission. At the time, due to my extensive executive-level intelligence support duties, I was cleared to literally all relevant compartments and in a position of extreme trust in both my military and civilian capacities. I was informed, in the course of my official duties, of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program to which I was denied access to those additional read-ons. I made the decision based on the data I collected, to report this information to my superiors and multiple Inspectors General, and in effect become a whistleblower.“


Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley (2023)

“There is a lot of unidentified aerial phenomena out there. That’s true. And they’ve got pilot reports, there’s various other sensors out there, and some of it is difficult to explain. Some [UAP are] really kind of weird and unexplainable.”


National Security Advisor, Lt. General H.R. McMaster (2024)

“There are things that cannot be explained. I don’t know what the explanation is for those unexplainable things, but I will say there are phenomena that have been witnessed by multiple people that are just inexplicable by any kind of science — the science available to us.”