Man and boy sit on a paved sidewalk and draw alien faces. Annie Otzen | Digitalvision | Getty Images U. S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he would direct the Department of Defense and other agencies to make public government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life.

Trump has discussed the possibility of extraterrestrial life in various interviews, expressing openness to releasing more footage of unidentified aerial phenomena and stating that there is no reason to think other planets do not have life.