Overview
- In a rapid-fire segment on The Brian Tyler Cohen Show, Barack Obama said, “They’re real,” referring to extraterrestrials, before stressing he has never seen them.
- He dismissed long-running conspiracies that aliens are stored at Area 51 or in underground U.S. facilities, joking that only an enormous plot could hide such secrets from a president.
- Obama said his access to related classified material was constrained by strict security protocols and recalled asking early in his tenure, “Where are the aliens?”
- He acknowledged images and records of objects in the sky that U.S. agencies cannot fully explain, consistent with ongoing UAP inquiries.
- U.S. officials report hundreds of UAP cases under review, with AARO receiving more than 1,600 reports since 2022 and the Pentagon stating no verifiable extraterrestrial evidence, and Obama suggested any definitive proof would likely be tightly controlled and disclosed gradually.