The first batch of secret documents on UFOs has been submitted for publication, as expectations grow in the US for greater transparency over what the government knows about unidentified flying objects.
FBI Director Kash Patel said Tuesday that the first wave of documents the US government has kept on alleged UFO cases has been sent to an interagency committee set up by the White House. According to him, these materials are expected to be made public "in the very near future."
On the “Hang Out with Sean Hannity” podcast, Patel said the FBI has already turned over the first set of information and that the committee will release it soon. He stressed that there is nothing in this case that, according to him, the agency does not want to be made public.
Patel added that the process is being led by the US Department of War and Secretary Pete Hegseth, following President Donald Trump's February 19 order to release information the intelligence community has gathered on extraterrestrial life.
However, the FBI director said he personally has no information on whether the US has ever recovered extraterrestrial bodies from alleged UFO crashes.
"The American public wants the documents. We have submitted the documents. They will come out. That's it," Patel said.
As expectations for the release of the files grow, former Air Force officer and well-known UFO whistleblower David Grusch claims that there are still efforts within the US government to control or restrict information before release.
In an interview with Judicial Watch, Grusch said he is seeing "power plays" and attempts by some agencies to place people in key positions, with the aim of controlling how information will be released.
The Pentagon has already been criticized by Congress for failing to meet a strict deadline to release dozens of videos that allegedly contain UFO footage. Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna sent a letter to Secretary Hegseth on April 1, demanding that the Pentagon hand over 46 specific videos by April 14, 2026.
Lawmakers have argued that the footage could help identify patterns of activity near sensitive military areas and assess whether the facilities pose a threat to national security. It is not yet known whether the videos have been submitted.
Despite the maneuvers he describes as setbacks, Grusch believes the issue of transparency about UFOs could reach a turning point within the next 60 to 90 days.
Grusch, who currently serves as an advisor to Congressman Eric Burlison, spent 14 years in the Air Force and then worked as an intelligence officer at the National Reconnaissance Office, the agency that builds and launches surveillance satellites for the Pentagon.
He became a public whistleblower in 2023, when he testified before Congress that, according to his claims, elements of the US government had been hiding programs for decades to recover and analyze alleged extraterrestrial technologies.
Speculation about the contents of the first batch of documents has also sparked reactions among some religious leaders. Several Christian pastors have claimed to have been contacted by US government representatives to prepare for the release of information on UFOs.
Bishop Alan DiDio, of Revival Nation Church, said in a podcast on March 7 that he was one of six Christian pastors invited to a secret meeting with U.S. intelligence officials. According to him and several other religious leaders, authorities were concerned that releasing the information could shake the faith of some Christians.
Congresswoman Luna, who chairs the House Committee on Declassification of Government Secrets, has publicly demanded that Bishop DiDio reveal which intelligence officials attended that meeting.
Although President Trump has publicly expressed skepticism about the existence of extraterrestrial life, he recently said that the UFO files would contain “very interesting” things for the public. During a meeting with the crew of NASA’s Artemis II lunar mission, Trump said he had spoken to military pilots who had told him about incidents with objects they believed were not human.
So far, the US government and the Pentagon have maintained that there is no physical evidence proving the existence of UFOs of extraterrestrial origin or alien life. /GazetaExpress/
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