Trump and the ETS Mental illness is not new, and it likely will be around for a long time. UFOs are just a manifestation of mental illness. -The rumored UFO briefer to Donald Trump Hi Julia. My intention was limited to either cause Grant to stop posting fake stories about me that he extracts (painfully) from Dan Smith or give his readers enough information so they could understand that he is dissembling. - The rumored UFO briefer to Donald Trump They may be anticipating some action. I have been waiting for President-Elect Trump to take office before taking more serious actions. He is very "pro-disclosure" and very anti "disinformation." -Dr. Ronald Pandolfi, who ran the UFO weird desk at the CIA in January 2017 We have a phenomenology problem. -Ron Pandolfi, answering Dan Smith's question about UFOs in 1991 Before the 2016 election, it appeared that Hillary Clinton was going to attempt to end UFO secrecy after she promised to get to the bottom of the UFO story. Her claims were supported by John Podesta, her campaign manager and former Chief of Staff to President Obama. As soon as Hillary lost, researchers who were aware of the Clinton disclosure plan figured that we would return to the dark world of UFO denials by Washington officials. Then, just two weeks before Trump took office, there was a message posted on the Facebook page of Robert Collins, a former physicist at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Collins had been a long-time friend of Ron Pandolfi and had gotten a job interview at the CIA with Pandolfi's help. He had received the message from Pandolfi, who was identified in the 1990s by one newspaper as the CIA's leading scientist. More importantly, to the UFO community, Pandolfi was rumored to be the head of the weird desk at the CIA (a term he is not fond of). This desk was rumored to be the CIA unit in charge of UFOs and other paranormal phenomena. More importantly, Pandolfi's close friend, Dan Smith, reported that Pandolfi, former Clinton CIA director James Woolsey, and China policy expert Mike Pillsbury were the UFO briefing team for the newly elected President. Pandolfi hinted in the message Collins posted that some sort of UFO disclosure might be planned under Trump: "They may be anticipating some action," Pandolfi wrote. "I have been waiting for President-Elect Trump to take office before taking more serious actions. He is very 'pro-disclosure' and very anti-disinformation.'" At the same time, a second disclosure initiative seemed to be forming. This movement centered around Blink-182 lead singer Tom DeLonge. He had been exposed in the leak of Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, John Podesta's, emails to WikiLeaks, as being involved in some official UFO disclosure effort. When Trump won the election, many figured the DeLonge initiative was over. However, I checked and was told that the DeLonge initiative was still alive. I asked whether the light was still green or had turned red. I was told it was still green and bigger than ever, with big names and big money behind it. This turned out to be true. On October 11, 2017, DeLonge held a news conference to announce the To the Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences (TTSA). A number of former high-level government officials on stage with him claimed to be a part of this effort to bring UFO disclosure to the American people. One of the officials on stage was Jim Semivan, a former high-level CIA official. In at least two conversations with researcher Melinda Leslie, Semivan confirmed that the TTSA effort was a constitutional process greenlit by the Pentagon. Later, Semivan confirmed that, before the New York Times's UFO page-one bombshell story that the government was studying UFOs, Semivan had gone to top officials in the three-letter agencies. He told them they had a chance to get the story out, but they couldn't. He stated that "we" are going to get it out. We will not reveal classified information, but we are disclosing. That was just before the New York Times article when Disclosure took off in the public. The Semivan connection was linked strangely to Pandolfi's view of TTSA and Semivan. He stated that "it is all fake. Just loons, crooks, and worse moving up the chain. Believe, Fear, and Give." I had known about Semivan before Hillary lost the election. I made my Disclosure of what I knew in my 2017 book, Managing Magic. I had been told that when Semivan experienced entities in his bedroom in the early 1990s, he went directly to Pandolfi and asked him what had happened. Pandolfi indicated that he was not cleared and would need additional tickets. In later interviews, Semivan confirmed that he received at least two briefings, including one that lasted 7 hours. It rattled him so much that he walked around in a daze for three months. He didn't get into what he was told, other than to say they had made no progress back-engineering UFOs and that all the psi stuff was real. When TTSA was announced, I asked someone in contact with Pandolfi, and strangely, even though both men had worked at high levels in the CIA, Pandolfi claimed he did not know who Semivan was. Later, that story was changed to say he does exist, but his name is not Semivan. This denial was strange, and the only explanation I could come up with was that Semivan was working for Pandolfi, or with him on the DeLonge UFO affair, and that giving away that association would kill the program and what they were trying to achieve. As to Trump's role in all the disclosure talk, I was told that Pandolfi had met with Trump many times in December 2016. I was approached to help prepare a briefing for Trump's first chief of staff, Reince Priebus. This briefing was the subject of an FOIA to the Trump library, and they have identified hundreds of pages of material. Time will tell what they release. I told the people talking to me about the Priebus briefing that if Trump appointed his people and they didn't know, or lied to the President, who would be to blame? I told the researcher who contacted me that there was little I could do to help. I certainly don't know where the alien bodies are kept. Trump had expressed no interest in UFOs at any of the times the subject had been brought up to him. A 31-second clip posted on YouTube shows Trump being yelled at about Disclosure while he signs hats and posters. Trump totally ignores the man confronting him. Then, when Hillary was talking about Disclosure in May 2016, Maureen Dowd at the New York Times confronted Trump on the subject. When asked about what Hillary had said, he again indicated no interest, saying, "They are talking about aliens, I assume. I'm not a big fan." So, what would happen about UFO disclosure under Trump? It appeared not much. We knew this because Trump got dragged into an admission by the War Department that they were investigating UFOs. That led to pressure from the House and the Senate to interview witnesses and receive briefings from the Navy and the Defense Intelligence Agency. When Trump was finally asked, however, he stated he did not care and did not believe. As this pressure built, Trump's favorite news network, Fox, started asking questions about UFOs. When ABC News finally asked Trump, he stated, "I want them to think whatever they think. I had one really brief meeting on it." When Fox host Tucker Carlson asked, a second time, Trump repeated what he had told ABC: "Well, I don't want to really get into it too much. But personally, I tend to doubt it. I'm not a believer, but you know, I guess anything is possible." The fact that Trump did not suddenly come forward to announce the ET presence indicated that perhaps the United States knows much less about UFOs than we have been led to believe. The facts seemed to spell out that the Navy showed Trump three Navy videos that had been leaked to the public and told him that they believed these were real UFOs. Beyond that, they really did not know anything. If they had back-engineered crafts, they would have told the President, and he would not have talked the way he did. There may be another classified dark section of government that does have absolute proof that UFOs are ET or inter-dimensional. It appears the Navy did not have the need to know about this. If that group does exist and has the information, it is running an insubordinate illegal operation – because it seems clear that they have kept it from the President, who is the civilian commander-in-chief of the military, the head of state that would oversee negotiating with off-world beings, the Chief Executive of the Government, and the head of all the United States intelligence agencies. The 2025 Transition: Meeting Rumors, Denials, and a Dinner On January 20, 2025, Donald Trump became the 47th President of the United States. His election and move into the Oval Office were seen as a good thing for UFO disclosure advocates because most disclosure proponents believe there is a deep state inside the government that is operating UFO programs illegally and off the books. Those conspiracy assessments were a big part of the Trump campaign. Trump and many elected Republicans, especially in the House, believed that somewhere in the swamp, UFOs and their potential threat to Americans were being hidden from elected officials – an idea that went back to Ronald Reagan's inaugural address: "Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." The past record showed something different. During the first Trump term, Lue Elizondo left his government job. Ron Pandolfi, who worked in intelligence at the time, insisted to me twice that Elizondo was a contractor in 2017 and did not work for the government. After Elizondo quit, he received threats from Trump Pentagon officials who, Elizondo stated, were "trying to nail him to the floor." He filed a complaint with the Pentagon inspector general, but his case was dismissed. Only when Biden came in did his top man in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, introduce an approved plan, giving people like Elizondo and Chris Mellon an indication they might see Disclosure. The Biden plan called for complete Disclosure over six years and proposed a nine-member panel under the President with subpoena power to force testimony. Three Republicans in the House and one in the Senate killed that proposal two years later. As soon as Trump was elected, some indications and rumors suggested advisor Dr. Ron Pandolfi would be doing something to encourage the new administration to act on UFOs. In November 2024, rumors circulated about a meeting with Trump to address the UFO mystery. Pandolfi denied it but still posted the rumor under the name RealRon. When I raised this on Facebook, Pandolfi confronted me, saying he was not RealRon and that an intern at his Kasmir Foundation was writing it. I replied that he had a very distinctive writing style and was attacking UFO advocates. One example of what RealRon was saying: Mental illness is not new, and it likely will be around for a long time. UFOs are just a manifestation of mental illness. Priests, Rabbis, Ministers, and Cult Leaders have been pushing. The reply came from his best friend, who referred to Ron's wife and the claim that she is not from around here, coming into the world through a portal: But then again, I'm not totally sure that drunken priests can totally explain the presence of three (Aliyah Pandolfi). RealRon immediately replied, basically confirming the extraordinary background of his wife: Three (Aliyah) can be present or not at her preference, not based on any physical constraints of this tiny world. The Pandolfi story was always weird, and it is getting weirder. At times, things that Ron was claiming were right in line with the people he was describing as loons, crooks, and worse. The first account of a UFO meeting came from Dan Smith on January 9, 2025. He insisted the meeting had been suggested by Jim Angleton, whose name was closely linked to UFO documents called the "New Majestic-12 Documents" leaked into the UFO community in the 1990s: I'm hearing that several known ufologists will be meeting with Donny, perhaps before the Inauguration. It will focus on the ETH… perhaps exclusively. The next day, Smith posted again: I do understand that although two (Ron Pandolfi) did not draw up the original list of attendees... he did have veto power over individuals. Then a correction: It seems that we have some corrections... I understood that two had vetoed some of the names. Wrong. He vetoed all the names. The second account – that there would be a meeting with Trump and researchers set up by Trump – came on January 16, posted by Dan Smith: So, we'll take another shot at this... There is going to be a UFO meeting this weekend. Besides Donny (Trump), it will include Jack Sarfatti... it will also include John Warner (son of Senator John Warner) and Chris Mellon. Leading the meeting will be three (Aliyah), and two (Ron Pandolfi) will also be in attendance. The purpose of the meeting will not be Disclosure. But now I can only speculate... The purpose of the meeting is to disclose the proximity of three to Donny. The purpose of Jack will be to spread the word. Donny will offer a glimpse behind the portal... it may be mostly implicit... either at the meeting and/or beyond. Otherwise, it will be lights in the sky. I am one of the few people who read the Open Minds Forum. I saw what Dan posted and reposted it on Facebook. At that point, all hell broke loose. Ron quickly made a denial: I don't mind all the psycho babble pseudo-philosophy, but I do mind all the false claims. Why harass everyone with false claims about meetings that are not going to occur and were never scheduled? Stick to psycho babble pseudo-philosophy. It can never be proven wrong. The problem is that Dan got the story of the meeting – along with the names of the participants – from Ron. Evidence: even though Ron denied there was a meeting, Dan reported that on Sunday, he was invited to Washington and had dinner with two of the people he mentioned as being in the Trump meeting – John Warner and Jack Sarfatti. What occurred to me was that Open Minds Forum has no audience. No one reads it, and only about five people post anything. By giving the story to Dan, Ron would have known that I would repost it, and between Facebook and Twitter, I have over 50,000 followers. The next thing that happened: John Warner wrote me an email which simply read "F*CK YOU AND NICOLE." It appeared he had found out that his involvement in a rumored UFO meeting with the President-elect was now public. He did not seem happy. As soon as I received this, I warned Nicole that she had been drawn into the controversy even though she had nothing to do with it (I had not even talked to her in a month). I contacted Ron and demanded that Warner apologize to Nicole. Eventually, she got one second-hand, where John said he was having a bad day. I contacted Jack Sarfatti, whom I had been talking to about his claim that he might get to brief Trump on what the New Jersey drones were and how their propulsion worked (though he thought it would be after Trump took office). I asked him to confirm or deny the story that he and four others had a meeting on the day before the Inauguration. That led him to demand that I remove every mention of the meeting, claiming it was for national security. I reminded him that I was a Canadian and did not give a damn about his national security. Ron weighed in with a Facebook message to me: "Hi Grant. You are not just a Crook; you are an Idiot." I assume he thought I should just let Sarfatti order me around. Sarfatti's defense was strange, given an email Pandolfi had sent him around the same time, effectively cutting him off from further communication for posting photos of the New Jersey drones. Sarfatti had written on his e-mail list that he was going to brief Trump: Trump already told Susan Wiles to have me come to WH sometime after January 20 to brief him on how I think the "drones" work and if they are a threat, etc. This is not the first time Trump was told about me by more than one person close to him. The issue now is if there will be a drone attack on D.C. on January 20. I will be there... I was asked by a member of Trump's team to submit this White Paper below on Conscious AI. He got in touch with me out of the blue and said he had tracked my work for thirty years and commented "awesome" on the "white paper" attached after he read it. Then, because he was posting material on the NJ drones that Pandolfi said did not exist, he was cut off. That is why it seemed very strange that Pandolfi, Warner, and Sarfatti – who had been pushing for Disclosure under Biden – were now covering up the meeting with Trump and secretly having dinner with Dan Smith, who originally mentioned the meeting and reposted it. The end of this bizarre story indicates a tour of the Naval Observatory and a dinner in D.C. the day before the Inauguration with Warner, Sarfatti, and Dan Smith (it is assumed Smith repeated something Ron told him). Mellon wasn't at the meeting, which makes sense since he is not a Trump supporter. Trump's Drone Report Promise – and What Actually Happened In front of a group of Republican governors, Trump made the following promise: I'm going to give you a report on drones about one day into the administration because I think it's ridiculous that they are not telling you about what is going on with the drones. Nobody is reporting it. I don't know why. Nobody knows why they don't want to talk about it. Nobody wants to talk about it. It could be us sending drones. I hope that is the case. Trump reaffirmed this promise near the end of Day 1 when he took a drone question from a reporter: I would like to find out what it is and tell the people. Could we find out what that was, Susie (Wiles, Chief of Staff)? Why don't we find out immediately? Days went by without a drone report from the President. He did, however, produce an executive order that declassified the John and Robert Kennedy assassination files, plus the Martin Luther King files held by the government. I posted every day how many hours it had been since the report was promised. Eventually, Pandolfi posted the following replies on my Facebook wall: January 24 – "There are no drones, so Pres. Trump's report is complete. Stop stirring up the Loons with your fake news." January 25 – "I said the Drone Report was complete and on time. The best way to address a non-issue is with a non-report." Eight days after the report was supposed to come out, there was a statement from President Trump: Update on the New Jersey drones. After research and study, the drones that were flying over New Jersey in large numbers were authorized to be flown by the FAA for research and various other reasons. Many of these drones were also hobbyists, recreational, and private individuals that enjoy flying drones, and in time it got worse due to curiosity. This was not the enemy. Donald Trump Jr. Weighs In The remaining story of how the Trump administration will handle Disclosure will have to be the subject of another book. The issue is a big issue in Congress, and the President's son is very interested and pushing for openness. Here is what he stated in one interview on a Rumble stream: It should not surprise us that we can now say fairly definitively it seems that there's evidence of non-human intelligence out there engaging with our planet. It's also almost so shocking. It's hard to digest. I mean, this would be one of the biggest questions, perhaps of eternity. In an interview with Ross Coulthart, he hypothesized how someone like Elon Musk could be used to solve the UFO mystery: Obviously, I've spent a lot more time with Elon Musk in the last few months during the transition. I've been down to see SpaceX launch and the technology that he's been able to create. You would think that they'd want to read in individuals like that... Obviously, they'd have to go through whatever clearance processes, but wouldn't we want to allow perhaps our greatest geniuses? I'm sure he and his top scientists are probably far more competent than anyone we have in government as it relates to propulsion systems, et cetera. Coulthart encouraged him to bring it up with his father: I'm definitely going to do that. Like I said, you know that I'm interested. It was the one – if I had one question, that was the one I wanted to know. So maybe we'll finally get to the bottom of it. I'm working on it. We're working on it. Promise. Update with Latest Information (as of late March / early April 2026) In March 2026, a rumor circulated in the UFO community that President Trump had prepared (or was planning) a major disclosure speech confirming alien contact, reportedly tied to the Roswell anniversary around July 8, 2026. UK filmmaker Mark Christopher Lee publicly claimed insider knowledge and cited a private message from billionaire UFO researcher Robert Bigelow as his source. Here is the message from February 2, 2026. Veteran UFO journalist George Knapp quickly debunked the story on X (Twitter). On March 27, 2026, Knapp posted: This is bullshit. I spoke to Robert Bigelow less than 30 minutes ago. He says he has never met, spoken to, or emailed Mr. Lee. Anyone who knows Mr. B is aware he would NEVER share private, sensitive info with some random UFO guy in a foreign country. It is not only false but preposterous." Bigelow confirmed the denial directly to Knapp. Lee later admitted he had not properly verified the information, apologized, and the claim collapsed entirely. Vice President JD Vance and the "Demons" Adding another layer to the Trump administration's evolving public stance on UFOs/UAPs, Vice President JD Vance addressed the topic directly in a March 27, 2026, interview on the conservative podcast The Benny Show hosted by Benny Johnson. Vance described himself as "obsessed" with UFO files and vowed to use his access to the highest levels of classification to "get to the bottom of the UFO files." He said unexplained phenomena fit better within a Christian worldview of supernatural forces than extraterrestrials. The remarks drew immediate and widespread press coverage. Mainstream media quotes include: Fox News: "I don't think they're aliens. I think they're demons anyway," Vance noted. He later elaborated, framing unexplained phenomena through a Christian lens of good and evil. The Hill: "I don't think they're aliens, I think they're demons anyway, but that's a longer discussion," Vance said. The Guardian (comment piece titled "JD Vance thinks space aliens are 'demons'. Who can blame him?" ): The article offered a tongue-in-cheek take, suggesting earthly troubles might make demonic explanations appealing. Entertainment Weekly: "I don't think they're aliens. I think they're demons," he said on a recent podcast. Vance is the latest politician to wade into little-green-man discourse. On X (Twitter), reactions were polarized and highly viral. Comment quotes from posters include: "JD Vance says aliens are just demons in disguise, causing mischief around our planet." "VANCE'S 'DEMON' DECREE: VP JD Vance: 'I don't think they're aliens... I think they're demons.' As Artemis II heads to the Moon, the 'Spiritual Disclosure' is moving faster than the rocket." As soon as I heard Vance had rambled about demons and claimed he had a "tippy top" security clearance, I contacted the man who, from 1983 to 2025, I believe is the keeper of the security keys and a possible subject-matter expert on UFOs for President Trump: Ron Pandolfi. Keep in mind that the biggest question in ufology is not "what are UFOs?" It is "What the hell is Ron Pandolfi up to?" He is a secretive and elusive figure. The important question is: Is Pandolfi the President's UFO expert? In addition, an important email from December 17, 2017, clearly shows that Pandolfi is the subject-matter expert on UFOs. That date is significant because it is the same day the New York Times published its major front-page story about the U.S. government studying UFOs, including the claim that billionaire Robert Bigelow was constructing facilities in Las Vegas to handle recovered UFO hardware. The email was a conversation between Hal Puthoff (chief physicist for the Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Application Program, AAWSAP), physicist Robert Collins, former "Weird Desk" director Dr. Kit Green, and Pandolfi. The discussion focused on the security measures that would have been involved in the AAWSAP program. Robert Collins was critical of Senator Harry Reid, writing to Hal Puthoff: A secret Pentagon UFO program? Another case of the Left lying to the Right: what conventional lies and thinking with multi-millions wasted: Obviously, Reid wasn't 'read in' like Hillary... – Rmc On the same day, a reply came from Kit Green (codename Blue Jay in the Aviary): Actually, he was. That makes total sense, as Reid would have been one of the Gang of Eight who got a limited briefing on waived, unacknowledged special access programs like UFOs. Ten years later, this was confirmed by Dr. James Lacatski, who stated on the record that in 2011 he was providing a briefing in a congressional facility where he described, among other things, that the U.S. government had recovered a flying saucer and that they had managed to breach the craft (indicating that up until then they had been unable to get in). Lacatski confirmed that a Senator (later identified as Reid) had been in the briefing. Thirty minutes later, on December 17, Pandolfi spelled out to the group how classified briefings are done and his role in briefing curious politicians on UFOs: The problem with being 'read in' is that it does not include any information, just a key to a place where information might be accessible and a warning that accessing that location could be associated with significant risk. Politicians are extremely risk-averse, and accessing the location where the key might have value is extremely difficult. I keep a handful of keys in my pocket for just such an occasion when a politician might demand access. 'Here you are, sir or madam; you now have a key; use it at great personal risk, or leave that to me.' Next, Pandolfi pointed out to everyone on the email chain that the list of 20 names "is a pretty good list of the other poker players in the tournament. They include Rick Doty under many names (Doty had five different emails), so the list is nearly as long as it appears. – Ron" The last item that indicated Pandolfi was probably the subject-matter expert on UFOs: Ron told me in 2025 that he had been close friends with Trump for over 10 years. This was backed up by a friend of Ron's named Ryan, who told me in March 2026 that Pandolfi was actually President Trump's favorite CIA officer. With 90% certainty that Pandolfi is the President's subject matter expert, I contacted Pandolfi about the claims being made by Vance that UFO occupants are demons and asked: What the hell are you briefing these clowns on? Surprisingly, he replied: The VP does not receive briefings. That reminded me of something Pandolfi's friend, Dan Smith, posted on the Open Minds Forum. Smith talked about trying to get Pandolfi to brief then-President-Elect George Bush. Smith reported that when he made the suggestion, Pandolfi said: The Presidents cannot be players. I made the joke that maybe that is why the Iranians said they wanted Vance to lead negotiations – Vance believes in demons, and the Iranians think the United States is the Great Satan. They would get along great. Not sure if Pandolfi said that, but I got another e-mail from Pandolfi saying: And Iran does not want the gay friek leading negotiations. The two negotiators assigned were Special Envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the President's son-in-law. I looked but could not see that either of them was gay, so I am still confused about what Pandolfi was referring to. Going back to the briefing where the VP is not briefed and then runs around talking about demons, I said, "You'd better change that. This is embarrassing." Then, seemingly confirming that he briefed the subject, Ron wrote back: That has been a standing policy for over 50 years. Should the gay freak become President, he will receive briefings, but not by me. The final point worth making is this: if the Vice President truly believes we are dealing with demons, then Semivan's warning – that we understand very little about what we're actually confronting – may be far more accurate than most people want to admit. Finally, U.S. Congressman Eric Burlison (R-Mo.) has claimed that the Trump White House has authorized him to access classified facilities linked to UAPs, directing the Department of Defense to facilitate these visits. Serving on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee—the congressional committee investigating Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena—Burlison has already toured one such site. While he declined to name the location publicly, subsequent reporting suggests his first visit was to Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland, long rumored to be tied to UAP reverse-engineering and storage. At Patuxent River, Burlison reportedly found no physical hardware or biological remains. Sources indicate he verified the existence of a specialized hangar built to transfer advanced material, but the hangar was empty because the CIA blocked the alleged transfer. Burlison has framed the visit as a success in providing contextual evidence—such as purpose-built infrastructure—that corroborates whistleblowers' narratives. He has stated that he hopes to visit at least four more domestic sites, though one foreign location (rumored to be South Korea) that houses an "immovable" object remains a future goal. Footnotes