Obama says aliens are real but they’re not in Area 51
Former US President Barack Obama has addressed whether aliens exist – but debunked a long-running rumour that they’re hidden in Area 51.
Speaking with interviewer Brian Tyler Cohen, who asked Obama point-blank if aliens were real, the former leader was candid.
”Uh, they’re real, but I haven’t seen them,’ he said.
‘And they’re not being kept in uh what is it? 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’s remarks, which appeared to be said in jest, addressed the conspiracy that the US government has been keeping and researching alien activity in the secretive Area 51.
Area 51 is a United States Air Force base in the Nevada desert, which the Air Force has had since 1955. It’s classified as a Military Operating Area.
While Area 51, officially called Groom Lake or Homey Airport, has never been declared a secret base, its existence was only publicly confirmed by the CIA in 2013, and all the research conducted there is classified as Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information.
The secrecy which surrounds the base has given rise to a number of conspiracy theories, many of which revolve around the existence of aliens.
Interestingly, President Clinton signed an order back in 1995 protecting the area from environmental legislation around the control of hazardous waste, as it would require the disclosure of classified information concerning that operating location to any unauthorised person.
Obama isn’t the only US leader to speculate – even jokingly – that aliens are real.
In 2019, Trump appeared on Fox News and spoke to Tucker Carlson, whose wildly popular show previously claimed the US Government had stored the wreckage of a UFO in some secret location.
When Tucker asked the President if he believed in UFOs, Trump responded: ‘I don’t want to get into it too much, but personally I doubt it.
‘You have people that swear by it, right, pilots have come in and they have said … and these are not pilots that are into that particular world… we have had people saying they have seen things.
‘I’m not a believer, but I guess anything is possible.’
The US government previously released a comprehensive report on documented cases of what it calls ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomena’ (UAP) – more commonly known as UFOs.
The 9-page report reviewed 120 incidents recorded by the US military and government and has sent shockwaves through the alien-hunting online community.
Congress has received the classified version of the report, but the release of the unclassified, public report marks the first time the American government has fully admitted there are things in the sky it can’t explain.
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