Trump says he's been informed of UFO sightings by the Navy

President Donald Trump said he had received information about the pilots of the Navy reporting more and more sightings of unidentified flying objects, adding that he did not particularly believe to UFOs.

Speaking with George Stephanopoulos of ABC News in an interview published on Saturday, Trump raised his eyebrows and smiled incredulously when asked what he had been reporting.

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"I want them to think what they think," Trump said of the navy pilots. "I had a very brief meeting about it, but people say they see UFOs, do not I think so?"

The Navy recently drafted new guidelines on how to report contacts with "unidentified aircraft" in response to reports of sophisticated ship intrusions into navy strike groups, POLITICO reported. April. According to the New York Times, pilots reported seeing objects flying at an altitude of 30,000 feet with no exhaust plume and supersonic speed.

The Pentagon has quietly set up an UFO research program more than 10 years ago under the leadership of the Congress. The advanced aviation threat identification program was largely encouraged by former Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev.) And has been exploited only to a very limited extent, although it is not of a classified program.

Trump did not seem so eager to act on the reports, telling Stephanopoulos that "we'll see".

When asked if Trump would be aware of an extraterrestrial life, he dropped out and said, "I think our great pilots would know it." Some people see things a little different from the rest of the world. We are watching, and you'll be the first to know. "