What is true, and I’m actually being serious here, is that there are, there’s footage and records of objects in the skies, that 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. And so, you know, I think that people still take seriously trying to investigate and figure out what that is.
— Barack ObamaUS President (D)
Quotes about
The UFO Phenomenon
Authoritative quotes from astronauts, military pilots, presidents, intelligence officials, scientists, politicians and more.
2021
2020
I won’t talk to you about what I know about [Roswell], but it’s very interesting… [Asked by his son to declassify it]… Well, I’ll have to think about that one.
— Donald TrumpUS President (R)
2014
I did attempt to discover if there were any secret government documents that reveal things, and if there were, they were concealed from me too. I wouldn’t be the first president that underlings had lied to or career bureaucrats have waited out. There may be some career person sitting around somewhere hiding these dark secrets even from elected presidents, but if so they successfully eluded me and I am almost embarrassed to tell you I did try to find out.
— Bill ClintonUS President (D)
1990
The phenomenon of UFOs is real. I know that there are scientific organizations which study the problem. It must be treated seriously.
— Mikhail GorbachevSoviet President
1976
I don’t laugh at people any more when they say they’ve seen UFOs. It was the darndest thing I’ve ever seen. It was big, it was very bright, it changed colors and it was about the size of the moon. We watched it for ten minutes, but none of us could figure out what it was. One thing’s for sure I’ll never make fun of people who say they’ve seen unidentified objects in the sky. If I become President, I’ll make every piece of information this country has about UFO sightings available to the public and the scientists.
— Jimmy CarterUS President
1974
I looked out the window and saw this white light. It was zigzagging around. I went up to the pilot and said, have you ever seen anything like that? He was shocked and he said, “Nope.” And I said to him: “Let’s follow it!” We followed it for several minutes. It was a bright white light. We followed it to Bakersfield, and all of a sudden to our utter amazement it went straight up into the heavens. When I got off the plane I told Nancy all about it.
— Ronald ReaganUS President
1966
…I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena. I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment on this subject.
— Gerald FordUS President
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2008
I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomenon is real. It has been covered up by governments for quite some time now.
— Edgar MitchellApollo 14 Astronaut -
2023
On a clear, sunny day in April 2014, two F/A-18s took off for an air combat training mission off the coast of Virginia. The jets, part of my Navy fighter squadron, climbed to an altitude of 12,000 and steered towards Warning Area W-72, an exclusive block of airspace ten miles east of Virginia Beach. All traffic into the training area goes through a single GPS point at a set altitude — almost like a doorway into a massive room where military jets can operate without running into other aircraft. Just at the moment the two jets crossed the threshold, one of the pilots saw a dark gray cube inside of a clear sphere — motionless against the wind, fixed directly at the entry point. The jets, only 100 feet apart, zipped past the object on either side. The pilots had come so dangerously close to something they couldn’t identify that they terminated the training mission immediately and returned to base.
— Ryan GravesLieutenant, US Navy
F/A-18 Pilot -
2021
What is true, and I’m actually being serious here, is that there are, there’s footage and records of objects in the skies, that 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. And so, you know, I think that people still take seriously trying to investigate and figure out what that is.
— Barack ObamaUS President (D) -
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.
— Mark MilleyChairman Joint Chiefs of Staff -
2023
A number of these [whistleblowers] believe and have stated — and we believe them now — that they have seen something. And we are investigating.
— Dr. Sean KirkpatrickDirector, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office -
2023
The creation of a whistleblowers program specifically, that allows people from within – and I’m going to say this – who have been working on the reverse-engineering programs, reverse engineering of objects, so that they can come in and break their oaths, but specifically just to talk to congress and give that information in classified settings. The most recent one that happened was just last weekend and it created quite a hornets nest in Washington.
— Garry NolanStanford Professor -
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. I am honored to carry on the legacy of my mentor and dear friend, Harry Reid and fight for the transparency that the public has long demanded surround these unexplained phenomena.
— Chuck SchumerUS Senator (D)
Senate Majority Leader -
2023
I don’t believe we’re alone in the universe[…] There is something going on that is not being disclosed to us.
— Steven SpielbergAmerican Film Director
