Obama talks about 'aliens': "They are real."
In an interview published on 14 February 2026 on Brian Tyler Cohen's channel, the former US President shared his thoughts on the presence of aliens on Earth.
They’re real but I haven’t seen them, and 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 United States.
When asked what the first question he had asked when becoming president had been, he replied:
Where are the aliens?
Source : Bryan Tyler Cohen
This is not the first time that former President Obama has spoken about this subject.
During an interview with James Corden on The Late Late Show in 2021, he stated:
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.
This contrasts sharply with the very cautious statements he made in 2015.
These statements should also be viewed alongside those made by President Donald Trump. In an interview with Logan Paul in 2024, Trump said:
“I have met with pilots...they are not conspiratorial, they are not crazy, and they tell me stories that they’ve seen things that you wouldn’t believe. Am I a believer? No, I can’t say I am. But I have met with people, serious people, that say there are some really strange things flying around out there.”
Obama’s remark on this long-standing subject of conspiracy theories is also noteworthy. The fact that he mentions the possibility of a conspiracy to prevent US presidents from being briefed on potential underground alien locations could fuel rumours.
In a recent Time article, Brianne Suldovsky, an associate professor in the Department of Communications at Portland State University and co-author of a white paper titled Communicating Discoveries in the Search for Life in the Universe, stated:
The concept of aliens is deeply embedded into our popular culture and in our imagination
And so people are likely to already have preexisting fears about those things based on the things they’ve seen in the media, the things they’ve read, other conspiracy beliefs they might have.
When asked about the fact that 51% of Americans believe that UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin, she replied:
Astrobiologists could not comprehend why the public would believe that…
They said they were flabbergasted.
We saw this in COVID.
When you’re communicating about a risk, it’s important to communicate what we know and, more importantly, what we don’t know and the steps that are being taken to protect the public interest. With intelligent life you’re talking about planetary protection. Managing public fear is going to be incredibly challenging, however it is possible to communicate in a way that at least gives the public information about how afraid they should be and what they can do to protect themselves.
With the statements made by Trump and Obama, will politicians exceed the communication capacity of science?’