No extraterrestrial specimens are kept at Area 51, a secretive military base, though, according to the former US president<\/p>\n
Former US President Barack Obama has said he believes that aliens are \u201creal\u201d but dismissed longstanding conspiracy theories that the US is concealing proof of extraterrestrial life at a secretive military facility called Area 51.
\nObama made the remarks on the No Lie podcast with Brian Tyler Cohen released on Saturday. Asked whether aliens \u201care real,\u201d the ex-president replied in the affirmative, adding \u201cI haven’t seen them, and they\u2019re not being kept in Area 51.\u201d\u00a0
\n\u201cThere\u2019s no underground facility, unless there\u2019s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
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No evidence aliens have visited Earth \u2013 Pentagon<\/p>\n
When asked what question he most wanted answered upon becoming president, Obama joked that it was: \u201cwhere are the aliens?\u201d
\nArea 51 is a highly classified US Air Force facility at Groom Lake in southern Nevada. The CIA officially acknowledged the site\u2019s existence in 2013, when declassified documents revealed it had been used since 1955 to test the U-2 spy plane and other experimental aircraft.
\nThe facility\u2019s secrecy sparked decades of speculation about extraterrestrial research, including theories that crashed alien spacecraft were stored there and that it was a venue for meetings with extraterrestrials. There have been a few UFO sightings in the area, but the CIA claimed they were test flights of the U-2 spy plane.
\nHowever, conspiracy theories have also been fueled by hundreds of alleged UFO sightings elsewhere. Pentagon officials told Congress in May 2022 that there were nearly 400 reports of unidentified aerial phenomena by military personnel, up from 144 tracked between 2004 and 2021. In 2024, the Pentagon stressed, however, that it had \u201cno evidence to indicate extraterrestrial life has visited the planet.\u201d
\nMeanwhile, US President Donald Trump said that he was not a \u201cbeliever\u201d in extraterrestrial life, adding, though, that he had met with \u201cserious people that say there\u2019s some really strange things that they see flying around out there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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