“Are aliens real?” Cohen had asked, to which Obama replied, “They’re real, but I haven’t seen them.” “They’re not being kept in Area 51,” Obama said. “There’s no underground facility — unless there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States.” Obama’s comments, understandably, set the Internet aflame.

Lara Trump recently claimed the president already has a speech prepared on UFOs.

Former President Barack Obama says aliens are real, but a famous conspiracy theory about them is wrong. Obama spoke about extraterrestrials in a new interview with podcast host Brian Taylor Cohen, who asked “Are aliens real?”

Barack Obama is setting the record straight on extraterrestrials after his podcast comments went viral recently.

Obama replied “They’re real, but I haven’t seen them, and they’re not being kept in … what is it …?” “Area 51?” the interviewer responded. Then Obama said, “Area 51. There’s no underground facility. Unless there’s this enormous conspiracy, and they hid it from the president of the United States.”

The former president made headlines after a recent rapid-fire interview in which he said aliens were "real, but I haven't seen them"