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Obama casually said aliens are real on a podcast, then had to post an Instagram correction

Ellsworth Toohey
Feb 17, 2026
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The first thing Barack Obama wanted to know when he became president was where the aliens are. He admitted this, laughing, during a lightning-round Q&A on Brian Tyler Cohen’s podcast, published Saturday. When Cohen asked, “Are aliens real?” Obama said, “They’re real.”

He kept going: “but I haven’t seen them, and they’re not being kept in Area 51. There’s…

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