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Feb 16, 2026, 12:16 p.mFeb 16, 2026, 12:24 p.m
Barack Obama is a guest on Brian Tyler Cohen’s podcast to talk about aliens. When Cohen asked whether aliens were real, Obama said succinctly: “They exist, but I haven’t seen them and they are not being held in Area 51.” He is addressing the conspiracy theory that says Area 51, a secret air base in Nevada, is supposed to be hiding extraterrestrials.
Various media picked up on these statements and caused a huge response on the Internet, which is why the former US President felt compelled to make a statement himself to clarify his statement. In it he writes:
I tried to stick to the spirit of the speed round, but since it’s gotten attention, I’d like to clarify. Statistically speaking, the universe is so huge that there is a high probability that life exists there. But the distances between solar systems are such that the likelihood that we have been visited by extraterrestrials is small, and during my presidency I have seen no evidence that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!
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According to that “Guardian” According to documents declassified in 2013, the secret airfield was actually used for flight testing of U.S. government projects, including the U-2 and Oxcart air surveillance programs.
By the way, Obama also talked about ICE, Bad Bunny, the 2028 presidential election and that racist video, that Trump posted. He says that there would be a “clown show” going on online.
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