Area 51 Secrets? Trump Responds to Claims of Hidden UFO Programme Even Presidents Don't Know About

US President Donald Trump denied claims that a secret government program investigating unidentified flying objects could operate without presidential knowledge. Speaking in an interview broadcast on 8 November 2026 with Ross Douthat, Trump said he had neither seen evidence of such an operation nor heard that it existed, and that he would look into the suggestion after their conversation. The remarks addressed allegations of a hidden program, not specific confirmation about Area 51. Trump also described meeting Air Force pilots in the Oval Office during his first term and, to a lesser extent, his second, saying they recounted events they could not easily explain. However, he said he is “not too much of a believer.”