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One official within President Trump’s Cabinet, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, recently made headlines after acknowledging in a podcast interview that she believes extraterrestrial life could exist.
Speaking on the New York Post’s Pod Force One, Gabbard responded “Yes” when asked directly if aliens might be real.
She added, “I have my own views and opinions, and in this role I have to be careful with what I share.”
While unable to go into further detail in her official capacity, she emphasised that her office remains committed to “continuing to look for the truth and share that truth with the American people.”
When asked whether Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s new task force - the Director’s Initiatives Group, established to restore trust in the Intelligence Community through targeted declassification - might also extend its work to UAP, Burlison expressed cautious optimism:
“I do. From what I hear and see with Tulsi, she’s not messing around—she’s trying to right the wrongs.
Based on everything I’ve seen, I’m excited about her in this position [as Director of National Intelligence], because I think she truly supports disclosure.
“We’ve already seen amazing releases, like documents related to the JFK assassination.
Some of those were really damning for the CIA—events from 60 years ago, yes, but still things the Agency clearly didn’t want out. Yet under Tulsi’s leadership, they were released.”
Burlison also revealed that UAP whistleblower Dave Grusch has been working with Gabbard’s office to regain his full security clearances, explaining:
“He [Dave Grusch] is in communication with Tulsi Gabbard’s office. What we’ve been trying to track down is the obstacle to him getting full Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information clearance.
“I think it has something to do with the rules of the House Sergeant at Arms, so we’re going to try to follow up on that.”
Yet even with whistleblowers engaging the administration, doubts remain about how effectively the White House is handling unexplained incidents.
Between November 2023 and January 2024, U.S. and allied forces in Europe and the United States reported a wave of mysterious so-called drone incursions over sensitive defense installations.
The incidents triggered security alerts and prompted questions over whether the vehicles were linked to foreign adversaries - and there have been documented instances when the U.S. military could not detect or jam such mysterious objects.
The fact that U.S. forces could not always detect or counter these craft has only fueled speculation about their origin
The White House, however, later downplayed the events, suggesting many of the sightings were misidentified aircraft and insisting there was no evidence of a national security threat.
Burlison took a different view. While defending President Trump, he argued the real problem was bureaucratic failure rather than concealment:
“Never underestimate the ineptitude of government employees and their inability to act. I think we’re often overly confident about our government’s capabilities.
In my view, the most likely scenario is that they don’t know [what the so-called drones were], and they’re embarrassed that they don’t.”
With a potentially landmark hearing expected next month, Burlison struck an optimistic tone about what could be achieved on the UAP topic in the coming months and years:
“Hopefully, we can get the White House’s support and a briefing on this topic for members, and that they won’t hold back information.
Ideally, they would push the intelligence community to be fully transparent - to ‘open the kimono,’ so to speak.”
Whether that optimism proves justified may hinge on Congress’s ability to force the government’s most closely guarded secrets into the light.
The coming months will reveal whether the next hearing and the full inclusion of the UAPDA can succeed - bolstered by parallel efforts from Gabbard’s office and, potentially, the White House itself.
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