Joe Roganshared a theory behind PresidentDonald Trumpplanning to release previously unseen fileshe saidare “related to Alien and Extraterrestrial Life,” which the Department of Defensebegan doing Friday, arguing one aspect doesn’t “make sense.”
Rogan discussed the matter Thursday on his “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast with Rep.Tim Burchett(R-Tenn.), and while the stand-up comedian has frequently talked abouthis lifelong interest in UFOs, he argued that the timing of this disclosure is rather curious.
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“What doesn’t totally make sense is, why now disclosure?”Rogan said.
“Other than, I mean, this is being cynical — the Iran war is not going very well. The American public’s very upset. A lot of people don’t think we should have ever been involved in that in the first place. And we need some good news. We need something to distract us.”
The Iran war has already costat least 13 U.S. service membersandmore than 3,000 Iranianstheir lives. It has also led Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s oil passes, resulting inhigh gas pricesandfears of a global energy crisis.
Trump has beenteasing the release of UFO filessince February. The Pentagon on Fridaysaiddocuments will be shared on a rolling basis “in the interest of total transparency.” Burchett agreed that the effort could serve as a distraction but also wondered if Trump “even cares.”
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“If I was going to do it, now would be the time I’d do it,” Burchett said. “But I don’t think Trump really even cares … about trying to get everybody off-target by disclosing UFOs. … I just think he genuinely sees that America needs to know this stuff.”
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The files published Fridayinclude government documents dating to the 1940s:moon landing images, astronauttranscripts, footage ofunexplained moving objects, copies ofeyewitness reportsandrenderingsdepicting what people claimed to have seen in the skies.
Catch the bulk of the UFO exchange around 1:07:30:
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“Well, he also realizes America wants to know it,” Rogan told Burchett. “And, he’s an outsider. I mean, even though he’s the president, he is in a lot of ways, he’s an outsider. And I mean, this is his last term, right? So it’s like, if someone’s going to do it — do it.
“You want to leave a legacy, be the guy who releases all these files.”
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Former Rep.Marjorie Taylor Greene(R-Ga.) appears far less enthused, as the former Trump ally has spent monthspushing for a different kind of disclosurefrom him: his ties to late *** offenderJeffrey Epsteinand the full release of any remaining government files on the case.
“I really don’t care about the UFO files,”Greene wrote Friday on X. “I just don’t. I’m so sick of the ‘look at the shiny object’ propaganda while they wage foreign wars, let rapist and pedophiles run free, and ruin the value of our dollar.”
She concluded, “Unless they roll out live aliens and test demo UFOs or actually admit what we know this really is then I have way better things to do on this Friday.”
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