DONALD Trump’s bombshell call to unseal the government’s top secret alien files will be “the biggest story of all time”, according to a former Ministry of Defence chief.
Nick Pope, who led the UK government’s “UFO Desk” for three years, told The Sun: “There either is or isn’t a smoking gun in the files somewhere that will prove extraterrestrial visitation.”
“From Roswell through to Rendlesham Forest to the infamous Tic-Tac encounter, it’s binary.
“If the US government is sitting on this it’s going to be the biggest story of all time.”
And with July 4, 2026 ushering in the 250th anniversary of the United States, Pope says Trump will be looking to “cement his legacy for all time in history” in his Oval Office broadcast.
He adds: “Look back at the greatest speeches in human history, whether it’s Churchill’s ‘we shall fight them on the beaches’ or Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’.
“Can you imagine ‘my fellow Americans, we are not alone’.
“That’s immortality.”
Perhaps the most renowned case for alien life on Earth, it is Roswell which Pope believes could be the smoking gun.
In 1947, the United States military recovered what many believe to be a crash extraterrestrial spacecraft in Roswell, New Mexico.
He says the physical evidence found there will have to be black-or-white.
“You can have all the pilot testimony, all the radar data, all the forward-looking infrared films and satellite data in the world, but if you don’t have an artefact it’s just data.
“But if you have an artefact you can get into a lab and test it.
“And of course people are going to say ‘show me the money‘.
“You can part the curtain and say this is what we got 1947 Roswell and it’s clearly going to be either alien or not.
“You can’t fake something like that.
“Not least because of scientific techniques like isotopic ratio analysis that call tell if something’s been exposed to cosmic rays or space, or if it’s been protected by the Earth’s atmosphere.”
Trump’s decision to release the files came after his predecessor Barack Obama sent the media into a spin by declaring that “aliens are real” on a podcast interview with Bryan Tyler Cohen.
“Are aliens real?” Cohen asked in a quickfire round of questions.
“They’re real but I haven’t seen them,” Obama replied.
“They’re not being kept in Area 51. There’s no underground facility.
Before he joked: “Unless there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States.”
Obama quickly rowed back on his shock claims in Instagram statement, clarifying that “the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there”.
Pope says he was shocked by the former leader’s decision to release a public statement explaining himself.
“Presidents don’t normally circle back and correct things they said on YouTube podcast.
“President Trump’s intervention is even more strange and it’s obviously set off some sort of presidential dogfight.”
After blasting Obama for disclosing “classified information” in an interview aboard Air Force One this morning, Trump was quick to explain that he had no definitive proof either.
Pope believes that decision revealed that even more could be under the surface.
“How can Obama expressing that opinion constitute a disclosure of classified information?
“I’m finding this the most bizarre situation I’ve ever come across in relation to this topic.”
“The whole thing is quite unprecedented in my time.
“There are obviously going to be further twists and turns ahead as all this continues to unfold.”
Pope has worked on some of the most high-profile cases and says the number of sightings is far higher than most people realise.
Once a report had been made, his team would then get to work assessing the potential impact on national security and aviation safety – with Pope estimating they received on average up to 300 a year but a peak of 700 or 800.
From mysterious shapes shadowed by fighter jets, soldiers encountering a landed “craft” in a British forest, and “flying triangles” seen by hundreds of witnesses – Pope was at the sharp end of the UK’s response to all things that could be alien.
Many cases he worked on could be explained away – but there are some which continue to haunt Pope.
Asked which case stands out, he confessed: “The file on the Rendlesham Forest incident still keeps me up at night.”
The infamous Rendlesham Forest encounter in 1980 – known as Britain’s Roswell, the answer the US’s infamous alleged spaceship crash in 1947 – remains unexplained.
And Pope revealed his investigation found radiation at the site after the “encounter” was unusually high.
Source : https://www.the-sun.com/news/15974998/trump-alien-files-biggest-story/