In a recent podcast interview, formerUS President Barack Obamaignited a row on the internet by calling the aliens “real". He quickly went on to add that “they are not being kept in Area 51".
As the conspiracy theories went viral, Obama issued a clarification saying the clip “did not capture his actual assessment of whether aliens exist, due to the speed of the questions".
Alies to secrets, why Area 51 remains mired in conspiracy theories, explained
During a rapid-fire question-and-answer segment as a guest on left-wing political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen’s programme, which was released on Saturday, Obama was asked whether he believes extraterrestrials are real.
“They’re real, but I haven’t seen them," the 44th president of the US responded. “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," he saod.
Obama’s remark fuelled the conspiracy theory claiming that the US government was hidingaliens at Area 51, a highly classified air force site in Nevada.
On Sunday evening, Obama said in a post on Instagram that the viral clip did not capture his actual assessment of whether aliens exist, due to the speed of the questions. “Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there," he stated.
“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!"
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Area 51 is a highly classified United States Air Force (USAF) facility located within the Nevada Test and Training Range, about 83 miles north-northwest of Las Vegas. Officially known as Homey Airport or Groom Lake, the site has been used since 1955 primarily for the development and testing of experimental aircraft and weapons systems.
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