Obama clarifies the aliens’ comments that they are real, saying he saw ‘no evidence’ that they have made contact with them
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Former US president Barack Obama took to Instagram on Sunday to clarify comments he made on a podcast about aliens being real, saying he saw no evidence that aliens had ever contacted us.
This statement came after the uproar on social media following a video showing Obama’s response to a lightning-quick question with podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen, when the former US president was asked: “Are immigrants real?”
“They do exist, but I haven’t seen them, and they’re not kept in Area 51. There’s no underground facility. Except, there’s this big conspiracy, and they’re hiding it from the president of the United States,” Obama replied.
Obama’s Instagram post added more context to his response. “I was trying to stick to the spirit of the rotating speed, but since it has received attention let me clarify. According to statistics, the universe is so big that the problems are good there is life outside. But the distances between the solar systems are so great that the chances that we have been visited by aliens are low, and I did not see evidence during my presidency of communicating with us outside the world! ” Obama wrote in the post.
Area 51 and conspiracy theories
The secrecy surrounding Area 51, a secret Cold War experimental site in the Nevada desert, has long fueled conspiracy theories among UFO enthusiasts, even causing the “Storm Area 51” event in 2019. which quickly went from a viral internet meme to an official concern for local officials when two million people signed up to participate – although only about 3,000 showed up.
In 2013, the CIA acknowledged the existence of the site, but not UFO crashes, black-eyed extraterrestrials or planned moon landings.
The classified documents refer to the 20,700 square kilometer installation by name after decades of US government officials refusing to acknowledge it.
In Disclosure Period, a 2025 documentary that included claims of “80 years of concealment of non-human life,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was shown saying that there have been cases in which unknown objects have been seen at nuclear facilities, adding that “presidents have been operating under the basis of a need to know” to have denials.
But in a recent interview with Fox News, Rubio added context to what he said in the documentary, clarifying that his documentary interview was recorded several years ago, when he was in the US Senate, and that he was describing allegations he heard instead of personal experience.
“I was explaining what people said to me, not what I saw personally about that. It’s a little selective editing, but it’s okay because you’re trying to sell the show there,” Rubio said, although he also said he “doesn’t hold back” the comments he made in the documentary interview.
Obama was also asked on the podcast awith the latest video that US President Donald Trump published on his account Truth Social showing Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, their images are carved on the bodies of monkeys.
“There is this kind of clown show that happens on social media and on television, and the truth is that there doesn’t seem to be any shame about this among people who used to feel like you have to have some kind of behavior and a sense of propriety and respect for the office, right? That’s lost,” said Obama.
Trump has refused to apologize for the post – which has since been retracted – despite calls for him to do so.
