The truth is out there.
Former President Barack Obama said that aliens are real but he has no idea where they are during a podcast appearance released Saturday.
“They’re real, but I haven’t seen them,” Obama told YouTuber Brian Tyler Cowen after he asked him about extraterrestrials.
The former president did not offer any further details on what he mean by “real” — and no follow-up questions on the topic were asked — but he used the appearance to cast doubt on several longtime theories as to where they might be.
“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,” Obama said.
Area 51 refers to a highly secretive Air Force base in Groom Lake, Nevada. It has long been the subject of fascination for conspiracy theorists who believe the government is hiding alien aircraft and bodies on the premises.
Interest in potential alien contact with Earth has spiked in recent years after a series of government documents revealed several mysterious aircraft sightings.
Leaked radar footage taken by United States Airforce reaper drones 13 years ago purported to show Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs), the government’s new term for UFOs, flying in the Middle East.
The footage was shared by reporters and prominent UFO researchers George Knapp and Jeremy Corbell in early February.
The Pentagon released three unclassified Navy videos in 2021 that showed bizarre objects tearing through the sky as US servicemen reacted with awe, one UAP was seen rotating against the wind.
This is not the first time Obama has commented on the existence of little green men and UFOs.
“When it comes to aliens, there are some things I just can’t tell you on air,” he teased to “The Late Late Show” host James Corden in a 2021 interview.
The 44th Commander in Chief went on to confirm that the UAP sightings were legitimate, and that the government could not explain the aircrafts’ origin or their unusual flight patterns.
“But what is true — and I’m actually being serious here — is that there’s footage and records of objects in the skies that we don’t know exactly what they are,” he said.
With additional reporting from Shane Galvin.