The long-awaited moment of UFO disclosure may finally be approaching, and one veteran lobbyist believes three powerful forces are driving it forward. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that 'it is going to be interesting' when the UFOs are released 'in the near future.'
Three Forces Driving Disclosure
Stephen Bassett, one of America's longest-serving UFO disclosure advocates, told the Daily Mail that mounting pressure from the public, political turmoil and growing fears of global conflict are pushing the United States toward what he believes could be a historic revelation. According to Bassett, those forces have converged at a moment of rising international tension that he fears could spiral into catastrophic conflict.
Nearly 80 years after the first flying saucer reports stunned the world, he believes the momentum behind disclosure is now impossible to ignore. Public fascination with UFOs has surged into the mainstream, while political crises and global instability have intensified scrutiny of government secrecy.
Public Pressure
The first of the three forces driving disclosure, he said, is growing public pressure. Over the past decade, UFOs have moved from fringe fascination to mainstream conversation, fueled by viral footage, government briefings and a surge of media coverage. More than 10,000 articles about UFOs have been published in mainstream media outlets over the past nine years, Bassett noted, describing the shift as evidence that public awareness has reached unprecedented levels.
'Not only is it credible, but it's also massive, and we are now in a position 80 years on where enough has been put in place, enough of a platform has been built that the President could step out tomorrow on that platform and confirm the non-human presence that we have the tech, we have the bodies, we have the craft,' said Bassett. 'And I don't think anybody would be particularly shocked.'
Political Turmoil
The second force, Bassett argued, involves political turmoil and scandals that dominate the public conversation. Republican representative Thomas Massie described the push to release UFO files in starkly different terms, calling it 'the ultimate weapon of mass distraction.' 'The Epstein files aren't going away... even for aliens,' Massie shared in a statement. Bassett, however, insisted that disclosure momentum has been building across administrations for decades, regardless of shifting political controversies.
Multiple presidents were aware of extraterrestrial activity but chose not to publicly acknowledge it. Jimmy Carter reported seeing a UFO in 1969, and as a candidate, he promised to release all US information on UFOs, but once in office, he refused, citing potential defense implications. Former President Barack Obama said that when he took office, he asked about the existence of aliens and was told there was no evidence of extraterrestrial contact, later clarifying on a podcast that unidentified aerial phenomena are real but that he had not seen proof of a government cover-up. Trump himself, according to Bassett, may not have initially been drawn to the UFO issue, but growing pressure from within government has made it increasingly difficult to ignore.
Global Instability and Nuclear Threat
The third and most alarming force, Bassett believes, is rising global instability and the growing threat of nuclear conflict. He argued that humanity's long history with nuclear weapons may be closely tied to the extraterrestrial phenomenon itself. Bassett said: 'It's not a coincidence that the engagement of this planet by these non-humans and their technology, which may have happened in the past various times, literally explodes after the bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.'
'They have hovered over bases and turned off ICBMs on a number of occasions in the US and in Russia. The evidence for that is finally coming.' 'I have concluded, not casually, that that is at the centre of the engagement right now. We've been heading for another nuclear weapons use that will probably trigger an absolute cataclysm.' The growing risk of nuclear weapons use, he said, appears to be at the center of what he views as current activity, warning that another detonation could trigger catastrophic consequences.
Historic Revelation
Bassett believes these forces are converging at a uniquely dangerous moment in history, creating what he views as the perfect conditions for disclosure. The push toward transparency, he suggested, may not be driven solely by human forces. 'It will be the greatest paradigm shift in world view, in human history. It is not an accident that, as we approach disclosure, which I believe the extraterrestrials have been leaning towards for some time,' Bassett said. 'In other words, they're not opposing it. They've been kind of helping to advance it under their own agenda.'
The potential impact of disclosure, he believes, would unfold gradually but with enormous consequences. To illustrate the scale of change, Bassett compared the revelation to a ripple spreading across water, growing larger and more powerful over time. 'This is the equivalent of dropping a pebble into that pond, and the waves that start are small, not large, but as they get further and further from the impact point, they get larger and larger and larger until they're almost synonymic proportion at some point down the line, that is how disclosure is going to impact the world,' he said.
