No, Barack Obama did not just reveal the existence of E.T.

As The Daily Beast’s (self-appointed) UFO beat reporter, I took special notice when the former president declared that “aliens are real” during an interview with podcaster and political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen. During a “lightning round” exchange, Cohen asked “Are aliens real?” to which Obama responded, “They’re real but I haven’t seen them.”

After a predictable kerfuffle—did he just announce the existence of extraterrestrials???—Obama clarified his remarks: “Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there,” he said. “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!”

Bro totally wussed out. But I believe him.

The remarks come on the heel of a cryptic allusion Lara Trump recently made, stating of her father-in-law, President Trump, that she has “just heard kind of around that… there is some speech that he has” ready to go on the topic of aliens. “I guess at the right time… he is going to break out and talk about, and it has to do with maybe some sort of extraterrestrial life,” she continued.

She’s........

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