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Are aliens real? Here’s what US ex-President Barack Obama said in podcast

Are aliens real? Here's what US ex-President Barack Obama said in podcast

Former US President Barack Obama said aliens were real but added that he had not seen them, during an appearance Saturday on Brian Tyler Cohen’s podcast, where he was asked directly if aliens existed.”They’re real, but I haven’t seen them,” Obama answered.Obama also said aliens were not being kept at the Nevada Air Force base known as Area 51, Fox News reported.

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“There’s no underground facility, unless there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States,” Obama continued.Cohen then asked what Obama’s first question was after becoming President, and Obama again referred to aliens.”Uh, where are the aliens?” he joked.Saturday’s interview was not the first time Obama talked about the possible existence of extraterrestrial life.During a 2021 appearance on “The Late Late Show with James Corden,” Obama said that after taking office, he sought information on aliens and whether they were being studied in a secret lab. He was told the answer was “no.”Obama also noted that officials were seriously investigating aircraft that behaved in seemingly unexplainable ways. “There is footage and records of objects in the skies that we don’t know exactly what they are,” he said. “We can’t explain how they moved, their trajectory. They did not have an easily explainable pattern. I think people still take seriously trying to investigate and figure out what that is.”Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy later asked President Joe Biden about Obama’s comments, referring to unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP).”What do you think that it is?”Biden replied, “I would ask (Obama) again.”UAPs gained attention in recent years, including from the federal govt.

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