Former President Barack Obama has walked back his claims he made in a recent interview where he claimed aliens are real. On Saturday, Obama, in an interview, shared that aliens are real, but they are not in Area 51. In case you missed it, watch here: Barack Obama on aliens: “They’re real” “But I haven’t seen them. They’re not being kept at Area 51. There’s no underground facility — unless there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the President of the United States.” pic.twitter.com/c6t0DYxewU — UAP James (@UAPJames) February 14, 2026 After his claims went viral, Obama soon watered down his comments are whether aliens exist. The Hill reported more on Obama walking back his statement on aliens: Former President Obama has clarified recent comments he made about aliens being real, saying that he “saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us.” “I was trying to stick with the spirit of the speed round, 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,” Obama said in a Sunday post on Instagram featuring his earlier comments. “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!” he added. In an interview released Saturday, liberal media personality Brian Tyler Cohen asked Obama about the existence of aliens, to which the president responded in the affirmative. “Are aliens real?” Cohen asked. “They’re real, but I haven’t seen them, and they’re not being kept in — what is it —” Obama said. “Area 51?” Cohen responded. “Area 51. There’s no underground facility. Unless, there’s this enormous conspiracy, and they hid it from the president of the United States,” Obama said. Read his full statement here: Obama Clarifies his remarks about aliens..https://t.co/ObqfOWylyN pic.twitter.com/jy2oJvyv7i — Hidden Underbelly (@Underbelly2_0) February 16, 2026 This isn’t the first time Obama has commented on aliens. Vice reported more on Obama’s previous comments on Aliens back in 2021: Former President Barack Obama appeared on the The Late Show with James Corden on Monday night to crack wise with the comedian and his band. Corden hit the President—who appeared via satellite—with a number of questions. When Corden turned over control of the interview to bandleader Reggie Watts, the conversation got extraterrestrial. “All this talk about them aliens,” Watts said. “I was wondering if you have a theory about that.” Obama fidgeted in his seat. “When it comes to aliens, there are some things I just can’t tell you on air,” Obama said. “The truth is that when I came into office I asked ‘Is there a lab somewhere where we’re keeping the alien specimens and spaceships?’ They did a little bit of research and the answer was ‘No.’” “But what is true is that there is footage and records of objects in the sky that we don’t know exactly what they are. How they move, their trajectory,” Obama continued. “They did not have an easily explainable pattern. So I think that people still take that seriously and try to figure out what that is. But I have nothing to report to you today.”