Barack Obama clarifies comments after confirming aliens are real
Barack Obama has issued a statement after appearing to confirm that aliens exist.
During a recent appearance on Brian Tyler Cohen’s podcast, Obama said the words that people have wanted to hear leave the mouth of a former president forever.
“They’re real but I haven’t seen them,” he told the host, before adding, “They’re not being kept in Area 51. There’s no underground facility unless there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States.”
Frustratingly, Cohen stuck to the script and didn’t ask a follow-up question to Obama in regards to what makes him so confident in believing that aliens genuinely do exist, with the conversation quickly moving on from the jaw-dropping revelation.
After Obama’s words quickly travelled round the world, racking up millions of views on social media, the tin-foil hat-wearing brigade were gleeful about finally being proven right. However, he has now appeared to backtrack.
He wrote on social media in response to the controversy, “I was trying to stick with the spirit of the speed round, but since it’s gotten attention let me clarify.”
Obama then clarified, “Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there.”
The former president added, “But the distances between solar systems are so great that the chances we’ve been visited by aliens is low, and I saw no evidence during my presidency that extra-terrestrials have made contact with us. Really!”
Although it temporarily felt like the everlasting question mark surrounding the existence of aliens had been answered, less than 24 hours after Obama had spoken, it has re-emerged, and seemingly, we’ll never get the answer that we all crave.