Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Mike Redmond | News | February 16, 2026
Lainey briefly touched this topic in last night's Pajiba Love, but there's already been an update thanks to former President Barack Obama deciding to make a quip about aliens during a recent podcast appearance. He should not have done that, and I'll tell you exactly why: The internet. Have you ever been on this thing? I don't recommend it. In fact, everyone should stop using it right now. Knock it off.
Anyway, here's the exchange with Brian Tyler Cohen that turned everyone into Fox Mulder because it turns out people still love Obama and multiply that by a billion when he's talking about aliens. Via PEOPLE:
"They're real, but I haven't seen them," Obama responded before going a step further and shutting down a longstanding rumor about Area 51, the classified United States Air Force facility in the Nevada desert."And they're not being kept in ... what is it? Area 51," the former president continued. "There's no underground facility, unless there's this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States."
When asked, "What was the first question you wanted answered when you became president?" Obama jested about Cohen's previous inquiry.
"Where are the aliens?" he said with a laugh.
Naturally, this moment launched an avalanche of headlines because nothing gets those clicks like "Barack Obama Says Aliens Are Real." I'm not writing this post for my health! Well, Obama saw all that, and he decided to make a rare Instagram post after accurately reading social media for filth during the same interview. A "clown show" he called it, and truer words were never spoken.
"I was trying to stick with the spirit of the speed round," Obama wrote, "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!"
I'm not the first person to make this observation nor will I be the last, but the greatest proof that the U.S. government doesn't have aliens and/or a flying saucer in a bunker somewhere is it would be the perfect distraction for the current menace occupying the White House. There's no way he wouldn't have spammed that button 15 scandals ago.
"The files said what now? Show them the alien. Wheel it out. -- What do you mean it's already loose and calls itself Ariana Grande? STEPHEN."
You can watch America's coolest president talk little green men below:
