Barack Obama clarifies he’s seen ‘no evidence’ of aliens after saying they’re real

Former President Barack Obama has clarified that during his term, he saw “no evidence” that aliens are real, after declaring the existence of extraterrestrials in a podcast clip that blew up over the weekend.

Obama sat down with podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen for an interview that was released Saturday.

Toward the end of the interview, Cohen asked Obama a series of questions in what he called a “lightning round” — starting off strong with the question most Americans want the answer to: “Are aliens real?”

“They’re real, but I haven’t seen them, and they’re not being kept in 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 responded nonchalantly.

Cohen then went straight to his second question, asking the former president what the first question was that he wanted answered when he took office in 2008.

With a laugh, Obama replied: “Where are the aliens?”