The former American president Barack Obama said during a podcast interview that aliens “they are real” but he has not seen them in person and denied that there are specimens “hidden” in the enigmatic military base ‘Area 51’ in the state of Nevada.
At the end of an interview on journalist Brian Tyler Cohen’s podcast, he offers him a quick round of questions and answers and asks him if aliens are real, to which the Democrat agrees, with a brief comment: “They are real, but I have not seen them”.
And he adds, without going into more details: “And they are not being hidden in… What is it called? Area 51. There is no underground facility, unless there is a huge conspiracy and they are hiding 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, this Sunday, faced with the repercussion of that response, clarified on Instagram that he saw “no 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.”
The INC In 2013, he 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.