Are Aliens Coming to Earth This Year? Baba Vanga's Prophecy Resurfaces After Donald Trump UFO Order

At 35,000 feet, amid the usual hum of Air Force One and a blur of half-answered questions, Donald Trump managed to do what American presidents do best: turn a national-security curiosity into a cultural event. He told reporters he might 'get [Barack Obama] out of trouble' by declassifying information about aliens then, hours later, put his own version of 'disclosure' in writing.

Here is what is clear so far: Trump says he is directing federal agencies to begin identifying and releasing government records tied to 'alien and extraterrestrial life' and UFOs (often labelled UAP, for 'unidentified aerial phenomena'); he has also accused Obama of sharing 'classified information' following a viral podcast exchange; and, on the internet's more mystical side, the name Baba Vanga has resurfaced, with believers insisting that 2026 will bring 'first contact,' possibly as soon as November.

A Prophecy Finds Its News Peg

Trump's post published on Truth Social, his preferred platform, frames the move as a response to 'tremendous interest' in a topic he calls 'highly complex, but extremely interesting and important.' The wording is broad: UFOs, UAP, 'alien and extraterrestrial life,' plus 'any and all other information' connected to them — either a maximalist promise or the kind of sweeping language that leaves ample room for redactions later.

He has also emphasised the grievance angle. Speaking to journalists aboard Air Force One, Trump said he did not know whether aliens are real, but suggested declassification could help Obama after accusing him of leaking 'classified information.' That accusation traces back to Obama's appearance on Brian Tyler Cohen's No Lie podcast, where the former president quipped, 'They're real, but I haven't seen them,' before later stepping back from any literal interpretation.

Obama's clarification was, in effect, the adult in the room: 'Statistically, the universe is so vast' that life elsewhere is plausible, he said, but he saw 'no evidence' of extraterrestrial contact during his presidency. It was an attempt to drag a viral clip back toward probability and away from certainties — an exercise in tone that does not always survive on social media.

The Odd 'Secretary of War' Detail

Then there is the phrase that made historians wince and conspiracy forums purr. In some versions of Trump's circulating text, he says he is directing the 'Secretary of War' — a title the US government abolished in 1947 under the National Security Act, with responsibilities folded into the modern Department of Defense. Mainstream coverage of Trump's announcement describes the instruction as aimed at the Pentagon and the Secretary of Defense, but the 'Secretary of War' wording has been repeated widely enough to take on a life of its own.

That matters because 'release the files' is not, by itself, a clean promise. Declassification is a process, not a vibe: documents are reviewed, sections are blacked out, sources and methods are protected, and the public usually receives a curated slice rather than the entire vault. Without a published timetable or a clear description of what is being reviewed, Trump's order functions more like a starting gun than a finish line.

Into that gap between intrigue and paperwork walks Baba Vanga. The late Bulgarian mystic, who died in 1996, has long had predictions attributed to her in tabloid roundups and viral lists, and one recurring claim pinned to 2026 is that humans will make contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, sometimes specified as happening in November. Versions of the prophecy also describe a 'large spacecraft' entering Earth's atmosphere and raise the more unnerving suggestion that an unknown civilization could already be here, waiting.

Even in the more credulous compilations, the Vanga 'checklist' sprawls beyond aliens: geopolitical upheaval, climate strain and accelerating AI all appear in the same grab-bag of foreboding. This is precisely why such material endures: it is elastic enough to accommodate whatever anxieties are already present.

And right now, the room is crowded: a president promising files, a former president forced to clarify a joke, and a prophecy that keeps resurfacing because it flattered the idea that history has a secret schedule — and that the date stamped on it is finally approaching.