It hasn’t been long since Congress was shaken by a testimony about Aliens and now Obama says they are real

Former President Barack Obama just dropped a statement that made my inner nerd super curious. I am sure every alien conspiracy enthusiast is excited, too. In an interview with journalist Brian Tyler Cohen, he was asked, “Are aliens real?” Obama’s response was immediate: “They’re real, but I haven’t seen them, and they’re not being kept in, what is it—” he replied, before Cohen quickly interjected with “Area 51?”

Obama confirmed the location, but he swiftly debunked the long-standing conspiracy theories about the infamous site. He stated there’s “no underground facility” at Area 51, “unless there’s this enormous conspiracy, and they hid it from the president of the United States.” It sounds like if anything big was going on there, he would’ve definitely known about it.

This exchange happened during a “lightning round” portion of the interview, but it clearly wasn’t a throwaway subject for the former president. Per Newsweek, when Cohen asked what the first question Obama wanted answered when he first became president, Obama didn’t hesitate. He immediately replied: “Where are the aliens?” 

A clear hint that the former president is a Nerd too

Obama’s remarks are timely, coinciding with dramatic testimony that has recently shaken Congress. Just last September 2025, military veterans appeared before the House Oversight and Government Reform Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets to describe mysterious unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs.

The stories they shared were absolutely wild, and they suggest a severe lack of transparency from the government. Air Force veteran Dylan Borland, for instance, testified about a triangular aircraft that completely defied conventional aviation physics. He claimed that the 2012 Langley encounter was dismissed by the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). After that, his security clearance was manipulated, and he was blacklisted from federal intelligence employment.

The task force itself has struggled to get information. Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, who chairs the UAP task force, accused both the Defense Department and the intelligence community of a “lack of transparency.” She claims the task force has been denied access to essential video footage and files related to several UAP incidents. “The American people are not fragile and do not need to be shielded like children from reality,” she stated.

Republican Rep. Eric Burlison also presented video footage that he said showed an MQ-9 Reaper drone striking an unidentified orb off the coast of Yemen in October 2024, which apparently continued flying without issue even after being hit by a Hellfire missile. Rep. Burlison expressed frustration, asking, “I’m not going to speculate what it is. But the question is, why are we being blocked from this information?”

AARO maintains that it has yet to find any verifiable evidence of extraterrestrial activity. However, Aliens have always been part of conspiracy theories and speculations thanks to stories of UFOs. It doesn’t help that when larger questions are asked, we sometimes get results that look like cover-ups.