Former President Barack Obama says aliens are real, but a famous conspiracy theory about them is wrong. Obama spoke about extraterrestrials in a new interview with podcast host Brian Taylor Cohen, who asked “Are aliens real?”

You may have heard that former President Barack Obama stated how aliens are real. And indeed, he did. But he later clarified what he meant. BBC reports that Obama was answering a lightning round of questions during an appearance on political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen’s podcast when this statement was made.

Obama replied “They’re real, but I haven’t seen them, and they’re not being kept in … what is it …?” “Area 51?” the interviewer responded. Then Obama said, “Area 51. There’s no underground facility. Unless there’s this enormous conspiracy, and they hid it from the president of the United States.”

WASHINGTON — He needed more space and time. Former President Barack Obama has clarified his casual but dramatic claim that aliens are “real,” caveating that he never came across solid evidence of extraterrestrial life during his presidency.

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics—researchers have discovered more than 5,000 exoplanets ...

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