Donald Trump may or may not be using UFOs as a distraction from his unpopular policies, but there’s something else that’s distracting him from UFOs.
In a new interview with the CBS News show 60 Minutes, the US president was asked if he had seen anything in the reams of documents released by his administration that has struck him as too strange to explain.
But instead, Trump quickly veered into newly familiar territory – talking about how sexy the US Air Force’s pilots are.
He told host Ross Douthat: ‘I’m not too much of a believer, but I sat in the Oval Office, first term and a little bit second term, meeting with Air Force pilots that are really good, solid people.
‘These are not people that you would say are conspiracy theorists. They don’t even know what it means.
‘But they’re great, great pilots. Young, handsome. They have beautiful, nice flat tops. I’d like to have a haircut just like them. They look perfect, like Tom Cruise.
‘They’re thin, you know, very thin and very everything, but they’re the real deal.’
These gorgeous military men have told him about ‘things that are very strange’, he said, such as round objects that fly past their F-22 jets at three times the speed.
Trump’s focus on male physiques during speeches at his campaign rallies drew plenty of attention ahead of last week’s midterm elections.
Among the targets for his hot-blooded comments was incumbent Ohio senator Jon Husted, a Republican who was running for reelection in the November 3 vote.
At a campaign event a few weeks before polling day, Trump told the crowd:’I started examining his body because I didn’t know he was a great athlete.
‘And I looked and I watched up and down. I looked at his ass, and I looked at the whole thing.’
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In Georgia several days later, Trump called Republican candidate for governor Rick Jackson a ‘very handsome, distinguished, beautiful-looking guy’.
He also declared his joy that the US was ‘allowed to have big, strong, handsome soldiers now’, adding: ‘There are some reasons to be president.’
Husted and Jackson both ultimately failed in their election bids, losing to Democrats Sherrod Brown and Keisha Lance Bottoms respectively.
New documents released last month by the Defense Department provided more recollections from federal agents who said they encountered UFOs – officially called unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP.
Included in the release was a story about a ‘substantial, nonreflective, dark black triangular object’ with a wingspan of between nine and 15 feet.
The report said the agents watched the craft ‘executing a slow, controlled, perfectly vertical ascent’ which ‘occurred in absolute acoustic silence’, before it stopped moving ‘instantaneously’.
In his 60 Minutes interview, Trump said the existence of UFOs is ‘one of the questions in private I get asked about’ most by people he meets.
Asked about claims from whistleblowers that there is a programme studying the phenomena that is even hidden from the president, Trump said: ‘I haven’t heard that.
‘But if there is, I’m going to find out about it right after this interview.’
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