{"id":66803,"date":"2026-02-19T21:57:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T02:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/trump-says-hes-directing-the-pentagon-to-release-files-related-to-ufos-and-aliens\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T21:57:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T02:57:53","slug":"trump-says-hes-directing-the-pentagon-to-release-files-related-to-ufos-and-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/trump-says-hes-directing-the-pentagon-to-release-files-related-to-ufos-and-aliens\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he&#8217;s directing the Pentagon to release files related to UFOs and aliens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump said Thursday that he was directing agencies to release files pertaining to \u201calien and extraterrestrial life.\u201dTrump wrote on Truth Social that \u201cbased on the tremendous interest shown,\u201d he would be directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and officials at other relevant agencies \u201cto begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs),<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump said Thursday that he was directing agencies to release files pertaining to \u201calien and extraterrestrial life.\u201dTrump wrote on Truth Social that \u201cbased on the tremendous interest shown,\u201d he would be directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and officials at other relevant agencies \u201cto begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related &#8230; <a title=\"Trump says he&#8217;s directing the Pentagon to release files related to UFOs and aliens\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/trump-says-hes-directing-the-pentagon-to-release-files-related-to-ufos-and-aliens\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump says he&#8217;s directing the Pentagon to release files related to UFOs and aliens\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}