{"id":180356,"date":"2026-02-16T17:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/180356\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T17:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:49:10","slug":"obama-says-theres-no-evidence-aliens-have-made-contact-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/180356\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama says there\u2019s no evidence aliens have made contact \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former U.S. President Barack Obama<\/a> said he did not see evidence that aliens \u201chave made contact with us,\u201d after sending social media abuzz by saying aliens were real on a podcast over the weekend.<\/p>\n

During a lightning round of questions with podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen, Obama was asked, \u201cAre aliens real?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re real,\u201d he answered, continuing: \u201cBut I haven\u2019t seen them. And, they\u2019re not being kept in Area 51.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Sunday, the former president released a statement on Instagram, appearing to clarify what he meant by his comments that have since gone viral.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was trying to stick with the spirit of the speed round, but since it\u2019s gotten attention let me clarify. Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there\u2019s life out there. But the distances between solar systems are so great that the chances we\u2019ve been visited by aliens is low, and I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBarack Obama is celebrating Michelle Obama on her 62nd birthday. On Saturday, Jan. 17, the former United States President posted a sweet message to his wife for her special day.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Secrecy around Area 51, a top-secret Cold War test site in the Nevada desert, has long fueled conspiracy theories among UFO enthusiasts.<\/p>\n

In 2013, the CIA acknowledged the existence of the site, but not UFO crashes, black-eyed extraterrestrials or staged moon landings.<\/p>\n

Declassified documents referred to the 8,000-square-mile (20,700-square-kilometer) installation by name after decades of U.S. government officials refusing to acknowledge it. <\/p>\n

The base has been a testing ground for a host of top-secret aircraft, including the U-2 in the 1950s and later the B-2 stealth bomber.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAt a Congressional hearing on Wednesday, former senior intelligence official Luis Elizondo testified that Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) are in some cases “splitting aircraft formations right down the middle.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former U.S. President Barack Obama said he did not see evidence that aliens \u201chave made contact with us,\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4932,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-180356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-barack-obama","9":"tag-la","10":"tag-la-headlines","11":"tag-la-news","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","14":"tag-los-angeles-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}