During an interview with podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen released on Saturday, Obama was asked if aliens were real. There’s no underground facility unless there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States,” Obama said. Area 51 is a classified Air Force facility in Nevada that fringe theorists have speculated holds alien bodies and a crashed spaceship. Pentagon investigationsThere was no indication in Obama’s remarks that the former president released classified information. The website of the National Archives and Records Administration says it has records related to UFOs across numerous collections.

Source: The Patriot February 20, 2026 12:29 UTC