Barack Obama On Aliens: ‘They’re Real’

Former President Barack Obama said over the weekend that aliens are “real,” though he admitted he “hasn’t seen them.”

Obama confirmed the existence of extraterrestrial life during an interview with podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen that aired on Saturday. At the beginning of a “lightning round” of questions, Cohen asked the president directly about the existence of aliens.

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

Obama also jokingly said that the question on extraterrestrial life was the first question he wanted answered when he became president.

Saturday’s interview is not the first time Obama has spoken about issues related to extraterrestrials. In 2021, the former president confirmed the existence of UFOs, or unidentified flying objects. UFOs are commonly associated with aliens, though they could have more earthly explanations as well.

“What is true, and I’m actually being serious here, is that there is footage and records of objects in the skies that we don’t know exactly what they are,” he said during an appearance on CBS’ “The Late Late Show with James Corden.”

“We can’t explain how they move, their trajectory,” he said. “They did not have an easily explainable pattern. And so, I think that people still take seriously trying to investigate and figure out what that is.”

Obama also addressed the issue of aliens in 2021, though at the time he declined to say whether or not they exist.

“When it comes to aliens, there are some things I just can’t tell you on air,” Obama said at the time.

“Look, the truth is that when I came into office, I asked,” he continued. “I was like, ‘All right, is there the lab somewhere where we’re keeping the alien specimens and spaceships?’”

“They did a little bit of research … and the answer was, ‘no,’” he said.