The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will release the first batch of UFO and alien files in a few days.
The documents on the possible UFO encounters were sent to the interagency committee assembled by the White House for review and will be made public “in the near future.”
In an interview with Sean Hannity’s podcast, FBI Director Kash Patel said: “We’ve already given our first tranche of information to that committee and very soon they will make this information public. We’re all for it. There’s nothing about this issue that we’re talking about that we don’t want to be made public.”
He added that since the War Department, under the leadership of Secretary Pete Hegseth, was overseeing the release of the files, the FBI turned over the documents to the appropriate team at the Pentagon.
Patel said he had no information on whether the US government had ever recovered alleged extraterrestrial bodies from downed UFOs, adding: “Public documents sought, we handed them over to the relevant authorities and they are coming out.”
US President Donald Trump ordered government agencies to declassify the files by February 2026.
In a Truth Social post, President Trump said: “Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will direct the Secretary of War and other relevant departments and agencies to begin the process of identifying and releasing government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life.”
