They probably gave him documents on it, but he's borderline illiterate so he wouldn't have touched them.

Yeah I'd be pretty sure the team around him would have been very careful about what information they gave him.

In order to learn anything about it, Trump would have had to have been curious about it, and since the subject is Area 51 and not Donald Trump you can be certain that it didn't cross his mind even once.

First thing I thought of too. Love that movie.

The Roswell Incident was declassified as well. It was a weather balloon with a microphone attachment that was meant to listen to a certain layer of the atmosphere where nukes are loudest. I don't have the link as I'm on mobile.

I don't think the government would deny any extraterrestrial claims by the news during the cold war because it would scare the commies shitless if they thought the United States had alien technology.

Pretty sure they just work on go-fast shit

And that's where aliens come from.

When a mommy alien and a daddy alien love each other,

And if we're being really honest, the government probably doesn't mind the alien conspiracy theories at all because by having a fake reason to hate the government you're distracted from the real reasons to hate them. People that focus on the fact that the government might be withholding information about aliens from them have a higher chance of forgetting about the government withholding things like healthcare, food security, student debt relief, public transportation, consumer rights, survivable minimum wages, etc etc.

The aliens were using an inflatable probe to monitor Earth's weather conditions.

This I can absolutely believe. You really think the entrenched MICC is going to give him access?

Correct, Truman was not allowed to know about the Manhattan project until it was already viable and needed to be known.

This. I bet half of his security briefings were just bullshit to make him feel important.

Did it need it?

At least alien life is a statistical near certainty. Intelligence, FTL, and a general willingness to be sneaky assholes about existing, not so much, but it's probably somewhere out there, compared to a prophet that makes 100 predictions and gets 1 right.

torture techniques, war crimes,

Wouldn't that be Guantanamo Bay?

The reason that people belived it was aliens is that people are stupid. Area 51 was a secret but not so much anymore. Now we know it was useful for secret projects like A-12. It's a convenient place to do test flights of secret shit.

Penny arcade is apparently also around, I saw something about them a couple months ago. And questionable content. Can't say I like the way any of their art styles developed but I'm impressed they kept any sort of readership for this long.