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Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said Thurs­day that he’s di­rect­ing the Pen­ta­gon and oth­er gov­ern­ment agen­cies to iden­ti­fy and re­lease files re­lat­ed to ex­trater­res­tri­als and UFOs be­cause of “tremen­dous in­ter­est.”

Trump made the an­nounce­ment in a so­cial me­dia post hours af­ter he ac­cused for­mer Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma of dis­clos­ing “clas­si­fied in­for­ma­tion” when Oba­ma re­cent­ly sug­gest­ed in a pod­cast in­ter­view that aliens were re­al.

Trump told re­porters aboard Air Force One, “I don’t know if they’re re­al or not,” and said of Oba­ma, “I may get him out of trou­ble by de­clas­si­fy­ing.”