{"id":65693,"date":"2026-02-16T12:57:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T12:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/obama-odds-are-aliens-are-real-but-i-saw-no-evidence-of-contact-while-president\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:57:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T12:57:30","slug":"obama-odds-are-aliens-are-real-but-i-saw-no-evidence-of-contact-while-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/obama-odds-are-aliens-are-real-but-i-saw-no-evidence-of-contact-while-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama: Odds are aliens are real but I saw no evidence of contact while president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>After setting social media abuzz by saying on a podcast over the weekend that aliens were real, former President Barack Obama said he didn&#8217;t see evidence that aliens &#8220;have made contact with us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During a lightning round of questions with podcast host Brian Tylor Cohen, Obama was asked, &#8220;Are aliens real?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re real,&#8221; he answered, continuing, &#8220;But I haven&#8217;t seen them. And, they&#8217;re not being kept in Area 51. There&#8217;s no underground facility &#8212; unless there&#8217;s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When asked what the first question was that he wanted answered when he became president, Obama joked: &#8220;Where are the aliens?&#8221; And he and Cohen laughed.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday night, the former president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUy9E_UD9RR\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">released a statement on Instagram<\/a>, appearing to clarify what he meant by his comments that have since gone viral. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was trying to stick with the spirit of the speed round, but since it&#8217;s gotten attention let me clarify. Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there&#8217;s life out there. But the distances between solar systems are so great that the chances we&#8217;ve been visited by aliens is low, and I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Secrecy around Area 51, a top-secret Cold War test site in the Nevada desert, has long fueled conspiracy theories among UFO enthusiasts. <\/p>\n<p>In 2013, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/cia-finally-acknowledges-area-51s-existence\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">the CIA acknowledged the existence of the site<\/a><\/span> but not UFO crashes, black-eyed extraterrestrials or staged moon landings. <\/p>\n<p>Declassified documents referred to the 8,000-square-mile installation by name after decades of U.S. government officials refusing to acknowledge it.  <\/p>\n<p>The base has been a testing ground for a host of top-secret aircraft including the U-2 in the 1950s, and later, the B-2 stealth bomber.<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation  \">\n<p><h3 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