Obama Says Aliens Are Real, But They’re Not At Area 51

Former President Barack Obama admitted that there are aliens.

Brian Tyler Cohen, a liberal influencer, asked the former president if aliens were real during a lightning round portion of his interview with Obama on Cohen’s YouTube channel.

“They’re real, but I haven’t seen them,” Obama answered in the interview published on Saturday. “And they’re not being kept in Area 51. There’s no underground facility unless there’s this enormous conspiracy, and they hid it from the president of the United States.”

“Where are the aliens,” Obama said, laughing.

On Instagram, Obama clarified his statement on aliens being real, saying, “Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there.”

“But the distances between solar systems are so great that the chances we’ve been visited by aliens is low, and I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really,” the former president wrote Sunday on Instagram.

Conspiracy theorists have believed since the ’80s that Area 51, the Air Force facility in Nevada, has been where the government has kept aliens. Then in 2019, millions of people online jokingly agreed to storm Area 51 to “see them aliens.”

Former President Bill Clinton told Jimmy Kimmel in 2014 that after he became president, he had his aides research Area 51, adding it’s “unlikely that we’re alone.”

In 2021, Obama played with the idea that aliens are real, saying on a podcast with The New York Times that his politics wouldn’t change if humans knew aliens were real “because my entire politics is premised on the fact that we are these tiny organisms on this little speck floating out in space.”

Obama’s discussion about aliens during his interview with Cohen was short. Elsewhere in the interview, Obama addressed the racist video President Donald Trump posted of Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes.

“It’s important to recognise that the majority of the American people find this behaviour deeply troubling,” Obama said.

He continued: “It’s true that it’s a distraction. But, you know, as I’m travelling around the country, as you’re traveling around the country, you meet people — they still believe in decency, courtesy, kindness, and there’s this sort of clown show that’s happening in social media and on television.

“And what is true is that there doesn’t seem to be any shame about this among people who used to feel like you had to have some sort of decorum and a sense of propriety and respect for the office, right? So that’s been lost.”

Obama also spoke about the differences in the Democratic party, saying they are “exaggerated” and “magnified in the media,” adding that all Democrats believe in the same core issues, like equality and regulation of the market.