Amid the political spectacle surrounding the election, former President Donald Trump made headlines on Joe Rogan’s podcast by discussing UFOs, reports thehill.com.

Trump recounted how Air Force pilots described mysterious spherical objects outmaneuvering America’s most advanced fighter jets, a claim echoing accounts dating back to the 1940s. Recent military encounters with such unidentified crafts have generated significant media attention.

Last month, Kirk McConnell, a retired congressional staff member with 37 years of experience, publicly confirmed that whistleblowers had provided firsthand testimony to Congress about ultra-secret programs aimed at retrieving and reverse-engineering advanced crafts of unknown or non-human origin.

He is joined by notable figures, including Senator Marco Rubio and ex-intelligence official David Grusch, who have corroborated the existence of these efforts to Congress.

These revelations have set the stage for the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act, introduced by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Mike Rounds.

This bipartisan legislation seeks to define terms like “non-human intelligence” and mandate government possession of any recovered UFOs or biological evidence of non-human entities.