Barack Obama says aliens are real.

The former president sat down for a chat with podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen and one of the questions Brian asked is about extraterrestrials.

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They’re real, but I haven’t seen them,” he said, before noting that they aren’t being kept in 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 added.

From there, Brian asked: “What was the first question you wanted answered when you became president?”

And the 64-year-old politician joked, “Where are the aliens?”

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