The former President of theUnited StatesBarack Obamahas issued a clarification after comments he made on a podcast went viral.
The 44thPresident was being interviewed by podcast hostBrian Tyler Cohenwhen the pair engaged in a quick fire question round.
When Obama, 64, was asked “Are aliens real?”, he replied: “They’re real but I haven’t seen them”, the world went into a frenzy.
Obama added: “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."
Within hours, headlines around the world were abuzz with talk that aliens might actually be real and that, if they were on earth, they weren’t at Area 51. In response, Obama has since issued a statement onInstagram.
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Writing on the social media network alongside the now famous interview clip, he clarified what he had actually meant to say during the questioning.
He said: "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.
“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!”
Source: Daily Express :: World Feed
