Former US President Barack Obama assured during a podcast interview that aliens “are real” but he has not seen them in person and denied that there are specimens “hidden” in the enigmatic ‘Area 51’ military base in the state of Nevada.
They are real, but I have not seen them
At the end of an interview on journalist Brian Tyler Cohen’s podcast, he proposed a quick round of questions and answers and asked him if aliens are real, to which the Democrat agreed, with a brief comment: “They are real, but I haven’t seen them.”
And he added: “And they are not being hidden in… What is it called? Area 51. There is no facility underground, unless there is a huge conspiracy and they hide it from the president of the United States.”
Afterwards, the journalist asked him what was the first question he wanted to resolve when he began his presidency, in 2009, to which Obama responded with a smile, picking up the thread: “Where are the aliens?”
Obama clarifies that he has no proof of the existence of extraterrestrials
Given the repercussion of that Obama response and that he was joking about the existence of extraterrestrials, the former president clarified on Instagram that he has not seen “evidence” that “aliens have made contact with us” during his presidency, but he made an assumption “because the universe is so vast that it is likely that there is life out there.”
Area 51
In 2013, the CIA declassified documents that confirmed the existence of the ‘Area 51’ military base, created by order of US President Dwight Eisenhower in the mid-1950s for testing the U-2 spy plane, capable of flying at high altitudes and covering very long distances.
The secrecy that surrounded the base for decades generated a host of conspiracy theories, including that it housed technology of extraterrestrial origin and classified information about UFOs.
Will Trump announce the existence of aliens?
As explained in The rose of the windsDonald Trump seems to have joined the theory of the existence of extraterrestrials and according to recent reports from early 2026, British filmmaker and ufologist Mark Christopher Lee has stated that the president of the United States would be preparing a “historic speech” on the existence of extraterrestrials for July 8, 2026.
In this alleged announcement, which would coincide with the 79th anniversary of the Roswell incident, Trump would officially reveal that the United States has maintained contact with extraterrestrial beings and possesses non-human technology.
There is no confirmation from the US government
These claims arise after the premiere of the documentary ‘The Age of Disclosure’, which shows testimonies from former officials and military personnel about an alleged decades-long cover-up, but there is no confirmation from the US government about this announcement.
