In general, I don't put a lot of stock in things that Barack Obama has to say.
But he did say something outside of politics that has a lot of people talking.
He was asked during Brian Tyler Cohen's podcast if aliens were real. As a former president, you would think he would have had access to all the possible information that anyone could have had on the issue. His answer was interesting.
Barack Obama on aliens: “They’re real”
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“But I haven’t seen them. They’re not being kept at Area 51. There’s no underground facility — unless there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the President of the United States.” pic.twitter.com/c6t0DYxewU
“They’re real," Obama asserted.
"But I haven’t seen them. They’re not being kept at Area 51. There’s no underground facility — unless there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the President of the United States.”
He said the first question he asked when he got into office was, "Where are the aliens?"
Now, the logical thing to do at that point might have been to ask a follow-up question: how do you know they are real? Because that's a pretty big statement to make without any qualification. But the podcaster didn't do a follow-up question, and that's why being a liberal propagandist doesn't make you a journalist.
He has a couple of prior interviews where he expounds on the subject.
There was this one in 2020, Stephen Colbert asks him about UFOs, and he says, "Can't tell you."
2. November 30, 2020: Appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert :
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"Certainly asked about it [UFOs]... And can't tell you. Sorry." He alluded to times when information came "slower than I wanted" but denied direct knowledge of aliens.pic.twitter.com/QG8VGsLOne
Then there was an interview with James Corden in 2021, where he appears to say there are no bodies or spaceships in a lab somewhere.
Obama says no bodies & no UFOs are in a lab. This part of the Obama interview doesn’t usually get shared, because it isn’t what the UFO community wants to hear. Was Obama lying, was he being lied to or is this the truth? pic.twitter.com/haaVH8nA44
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However, there was another part to that interview.
3. May 17, 2021: The Late Late Show with James Corden
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"What is true, and I'm actually being serious here, is that there's footage and records of objects in the skies that we don't know exactly what they are. We can't explain how they moved..."
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"What is true, and I'm actually being serious here, is that there are, there's footage and records of objects in the skies that we don't know exactly what they are. We can't explain how they moved, their trajectory. They did not have an easily explainable pattern."
So I'm kind of curious as to what it was that he thought he couldn't tell Stephen Colbert.
Perhaps he meant by "they are real" that one might logically conclude they are, based on the unexplainable movement of things that people have seen. But then he should have put that qualifier on it, because if you say "they are real," that's going to excite questions, and it has.
President Donald Trump must have been told similar things. Here's what he said.
Pressed on whether he had access to files about aliens and UAPs, Trump added: “I have access...and I speak to people about it, I’ve had actually meetings on it,” also saying he had heard of aircraft “round in form, going like four times faster than my super jet fighter plane.”
We've written on the subject before, including when Congress had hearings, and we heard some interesting testimony, including from David Grusch, who spoke about "non-human biologics" and ships, but was speaking about what he had been told by whistleblowers.
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It would be interesting to see if Congress ever followed up with any of those people Grusch said had information.
You would think that if anyone would have the unvarnished truth, it would be the president, but perhaps that's a wrong assumption.
So someone might want to press Obama on just what he meant with that response.
