{"id":288464,"date":"2026-02-17T15:49:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T15:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/288464\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T15:49:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T15:49:15","slug":"why-did-obama-say-aliens-are-real-the-latest-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/288464\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Obama say aliens are real? \u2013 The Latest | Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama has caused a frenzy after saying he thinks aliens are real during a podcast interview. The former US president was forced to release a statement clarifying he had not seen any evidence of extraterrestrials. There is a long-running conspiracy theory claiming the US government is hiding extraterrestrials at Area 51, a highly classified air force site in Nevada.<br \/>Lucy Hough speaks to the host of the Guardian\u2019s Science Weekly podcast, Madeleine Finlay \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@todayinfocuspodcast\" data-link-name=\"in standfirst link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">watch on YouTube<\/a> &#8212; Listen to the Science Weekly podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/series\/science\" data-link-name=\"in standfirst link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barack Obama has caused a frenzy after saying he thinks aliens are real during a podcast interview. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-288464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}