"On Bryan Tyler Cohen's podcast/YouTube channel, Obama answered a quickfire question about whether aliens are real or not. "They're real but I haven't seen them," he said. "They're not being kept at Area 51. There's no underground facility unless there's this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States." And because it was a quickfire question, there was no follow-up. That left a gaping void into which extraterrestrial truthers could put just about anything."
""I was trying to stick with the spirit of the speed round, but since it's gotten attention let me clarify. Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there's life out there," he wrote. "But the distances between solar systems are so great that the chances we've been visited by aliens is low, and I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!""
A brief, affirmative reply claimed aliens exist but have not been observed and are not being held at Area 51 unless an enormous conspiracy hid them. A subsequent clarification framed belief as statistical: the universe is vast, increasing the odds of life, while the great distances between solar systems make visitation unlikely. No evidence of extraterrestrial contact was seen during the presidential tenure. The short initial response lacked follow-up, leaving room for speculative interpretations and fueling extraterrestrial truther narratives.
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