Former president Barack Obama this weekend appeared to drop an otherworldly bombshell: extraterrestrials exist. “They’re real, but I haven’t seen them,” Obama said in a podcast released Saturday. “Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there,” Obama wrote on Instagram. “I don’t know, and I don’t presume to know,” Obama responded, quickly pivoting from the question. It’s a “legitimate question now,” former president Bill Clinton said in a 2022 appearance on “The Late Late Show with James Corden.”That curiosity is bipartisan.

Source: Washington Post February 16, 2026 19:25 UTC