Trump On Roswell UFO: President Says He Knows 'Interesting" Details of 1947 Crash

In a Father’s Day-themed video made Thursday (June 18) described as lighthearted by Fox News, President Donald Trump hinted that he knew “interesting” information about Roswell, New Mexico. The town is the site of a 1947 crash that some think was of an alien spacecraft.

The Roswell crash has been the fodder for conspiracy theorists since it occurred 73 years ago. Here are some important highlights:

• Sometime between June 14 and June 6 in 1947, a man named William Brazel discovered the wreckage.
• By July 8, the Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) public information officer Walter Haut issued a press release stating that personnel from the field's 509th Operations Group had recovered a "flying disc.”
• That same day Col. William H. Blanchard, commanding officer of the 509th, ordered that the object be flown to Fort Worth Army Air Field. At the base, the object was confirmed as being a weather balloon that quelled any further interest until more than 30 years later.
• In 1978, the story was revived leading to many more years of speculation in books, articles, documentaries, and TV programs about a government cover-up and remains of extra-terrestrial beings being housed at “Area 51,” a highly classified Air Force base in Nevada.
• Earlier this year, The Pentagon released unclassified footage from a separate incident showing "unidentified aerial phenomena" of military encounters with other aircraft that behaved "like nothing I've ever seen,” according to one pilot who spoke to the New York Times.

The questions to Trump on the Thursday interview were asked by the president’s eldest son Donald Trump Jr. who asked, "Before you leave office, will you let us know if there's aliens? Because this is the only thing I really want to know. I want to know what's going on. Would you ever open up Roswell and let us know what's going on there?"

Trump replied, "So many people ask me that question. There are millions and millions of people that want to go there, that want to see it. I won't talk to you about what I know about it but it's very interesting. But Roswell is a very interesting place with a lot of people that would like to know what's going on."

Trump Jr. also asked his father about declassifying details about Roswell to which Trump Sr. replied, "I'll have to think about that one."

One comment made to the Fox News report implied that this was a sly campaign stunt to make a promise to reveal secrets if Trump wins a second term.

Interestingly, a Department of Defense (DOD) spokesperson had commented on the footage released by the Pentagon, "DOD is releasing the videos in order to clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not there is more to the videos. The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as ‘unidentified.’”