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Someone get Barack Obama signed up for The X-Files reboot because the former President of the United States has suggested he's a believer. Leading the USA makes you privy to some pretty important secrets, and while Joe Public will likely never know the truth, we imagine Barack Obama had his eyes opened to all sorts of things as he got access to the country's top levels of intel.
Up there with Bigfoot, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and those continued claims that the Earth is flat, conspiracy theories about aliens are some of the most popular. You only have to look at people's continued obsession with Area 51 to see this in action, but is one former POTUS also a conspiracy theorist?
Barack Obama shocked the world when he appeared to confirm the existence of aliens when he told podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen: "They're real but I haven't seen them. They're not 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 has since walked this back by saying: "I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us."
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That's not good enough for some, with one supposed UFO expert saying Obama is teeing us up for a 'formal announcement'.
Speaking to Metro, Nick Pope explained why he thinks Obama's statement is leading to an official reveal. Having investigated those little green men for Britain's Ministry of Defence in the 1990s, Pope thinks Obama has only intensified theories surrounding aliens: "Much of the UFO community has taken this as quasi-official confirmation of an extraterrestrial reality."
Pope is adamant that we're galloping toward a 'disclosure’ event', where classified information on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (no longer UFOs) will be released to the world: "Obama’s comments are being seen as part of an acclimatisation campaign, readying people ahead of a definitive, formal announcement.
"Whatever the truth, Obama’s comments have reignited the debate about UFOs, extraterrestrials, and what governments might know about all this."
While Pope doesn't give us a timeframe on when we could find out more, he added: "Hang onto your hats: there are probably further twists to this tale ahead."
Another convinced that we're on the cusp of something of a big ‘twist’ is UFOlogist Mark Christopher Lee.
Lee suggests that many a POTUS has seen proof of aliens, with Ronald Reagan claiming he saw a zigzagging white light above Bakersfield when he was flying on a plane as the then-California governor in 1974.
Still, Lee says that the government will remain tight-lipped. This comes after a 2023 testimony from former intelligence official David Grusch, claiming the USA has recovered "intact and partially intact" alien vehicles and "non-human" biologics...although he's never seen an alien body.
Lee reiterated: "That’s why there may be genuinely historic developments ahead from the current administration.
"I have been informed by a reliable source close to President Trump that he has already prepared a full UFO disclosure speech and plans to deliver it on July 8."
This could be a date to mark in our diaries, although we're reminded that Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb was seemingly wrong about our contact with the supposed 'alien mothership' of 3I/ATLAS.
Loeb remains adamant that the truth is out there, concluding: "‘Perhaps one day, the State of the Union address by the US President will include an official statement on the 'State of the Universe'."
