Barack Obama Sets the Record Straight on Aliens After Viral Comments Grace GalanteMon, February 16, 2026 at 2:58 AM UTC 0 (Photo by Bloomberg on Getty Images) Former President Barack Obama is clarifying his stance on aliens. On Friday, February 13, Obama appeared to confirm the existence of aliens during a podcast conversation with Brian Tyler Cohen. "They're real, but I haven't seen them," Obama said. "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.
Barack Obama Sets the Record Straight on Aliens After Viral Comments
Grace GalanteMon, February 16, 2026 at 2:58 AM UTC
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Former President Barack Obama is clarifying his stance on aliens.
On Friday, February 13, Obama appeared to confirm the existence of aliens during a podcast conversation with Brian Tyler Cohen.
"They're real, but I haven't seen them," Obama said. "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."
Obama, who was in office from 2009 to 2017, noted that the "first question he wanted answered" when he became president was: "Where are the aliens?"
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After the former president's comments went viral online, he took to Instagram on Sunday, Feb. 15 to set the record straight.
"I was trying to stick with the spirit of the speed round, but since it's gotten attention let me clarify," Obama captioned his post, which featured a video of the viral remarks. "Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there's life out there. 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 extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!"
This isn't the first time Obama has said he believes aliens may exist, either. During a 2021 appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden, he made similar comments about wanting to know about the truth about aliens when he first assumed the presidency.
"The truth is, that when I came into office, I asked, 'Is there a lab somewhere where we're keeping the alien specimens and spaceship?'" he said at the time.
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