The former US President has rushed to clarify his remarks after he said aliens were “real but I haven’t seen them” during a bombshell interview with Brian Tyler Cohen.
Barack Obama has rushed to clarify his position on aliens – saying he’s not seen any “evidence” of little green men despite claiming they were “real”.
Hours after the former president caused a frenzy on Brian Tyler Cohen’s American podcast, he backtracked. On the podcast, after he was asked: “Are aliens real?” Obama said: “They’re real but I haven’t seen them.”
He added: “They’re not being kept at Area 51. There’s no underground facility unless there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States.” A former world leader hinting at the existence of extra-terrestrials sent news sites into a spin.
Perhaps feeling that it’d all gotten a bit out of hand, Obama quickly released a statement on Instagram on Sunday evening.
“I was trying to stick with the spirit of the speed round, but since it’s gotten attention let me clarify. Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there,” he said. “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 extra-terrestrials have made contact with us. Really!”
A persistent conspiracy theory exists alleging that the US authorities are concealing extra-terrestrials at Area 51, a top-secret air force facility in Nevada.
In 2019, following 1.5 million people registering to “storm” the location, 150 social media personalities assembled near the runway. The incident concluded without drama, resulting in just a handful of detentions and eventually becoming a music festival.
Classified papers made public in 2013 disclosed that the clandestine airfield was actually utilised for aviation trials of US government initiatives including the U-2 and Oxcart aerial reconnaissance programmes.
“High-altitude testing of the U-2 soon led to an unexpected side-effect – a tremendous increase in reports of unidentified flying objects (UFOs),” the documents said.
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