Obama shuts down alien buzz and says there's no evidence they've made contact

Former U.S. President Barack Obama said helium did not spot grounds that aliens "have made interaction with us," aft sending societal media abuzz by saying aliens were existent connected a podcast implicit the weekend.

During a lightning circular of questions with podcast big Brian Tyler Cohen, Obama was asked, "Are aliens real?"

"They're real," helium answered, continuing: "But I haven't seen them. And, they're not being kept successful Area 51."

On Sunday, the erstwhile president released a connection connected Instagram, appearing to clarify what helium meant by his comments that person since gone viral.

"I was trying to instrumentality with the tone of the velocity round, but since it's gotten attraction fto maine clarify. Statistically, the beingness is truthful immense that the likelihood are bully there's beingness retired there. But the distances betwixt star systems are truthful large that the chances we've been visited by aliens is low, and I saw nary grounds during my presidency that extraterrestrials person made interaction with us. Really!"

Secrecy astir Area 51, a top-secret Cold War trial tract successful the Nevada desert, has agelong fueled conspiracy theories among UFO enthusiasts.

In 2013, the CIA acknowledged the beingness of the site, but not UFO crashes, black-eyed extraterrestrials oregon staged satellite landings.

Declassified documents referred to the 8,000-square-mile (20,700-square-kilometer) installation by sanction aft decades of U.S. authorities officials refusing to admit it.

The basal has been a investigating crushed for a big of top-secret aircraft, including the U-2 successful the 1950s and aboriginal the B-2 stealth bomber.