Obama believes that aliens “are real,” however that they aren’t hidden by the Government | Science | EUROtoday

Former US President Barack Obama mentioned throughout a podcast interview that aliens “are real”, however he has not seen them in particular person and denied that there are specimens “hidden” within the enigmatic ‘Area 51’ army base within the state of Nevada.
At the top of an interview on journalist Brian Tyler Cohen’s podcast, he provides him a fast spherical of questions and solutions and asks him if aliens are actual, to which the Democrat agrees, with a quick remark: “They are real, but I haven’t seen them.”
And he provides, with out going into extra particulars: “And they are not being hidden in… What is it called? Area 51. There are no underground facilities, unless there is a huge conspiracy and they hide it from the president of the United States.”
The journalist then asks him what was the primary query he wished to resolve when he started his presidency, in 2009, to which Obama responds with a smile, choosing up the thread: “Where are the aliens?”
The clarification
Obama, this Sunday, confronted with the repercussion of that response, clarified on Instagram that he noticed “no evidence” that “aliens have made contact with us” throughout his presidency, however he made an assumption primarily based on statistics “because the universe is so gigantic that it is likely that there is life out there.”
In 2013, the CIA declassified paperwork that confirmed the existence of the ‘Area 51’ army base, created by order of US President Dwight Eisenhower within the mid-Fifties for testing the U-2 spy airplane, able to flying at excessive altitudes and overlaying very lengthy distances.
The secrecy that surrounded the bottom for many years generated a bunch of conspiracy theories, together with that it housed expertise of extraterrestrial origin and categorized details about UFOs.
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