“Are aliens real?” Cohen asked the former president point-blank. “They’re real,” Obama replied, before adding, “But I haven’t seen them and they’re not being kept in Area 51. There is no underground f...

In a wide ranging interview, former US president Barack Obama says aliens are real, but he's never encountered them.

"They're real but I haven't seen them," he told American podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen during an interview published on Saturday.