Barack Obama’s dropping of an alien bombshell – he said “they’re real” in a podcast interview – set the pulses of millions of “believers” racing at the weekend. But the former US president has since qualified his response.
In a statement on Instagram, he said his comment had been made in the heat of the moment. He had simply meant that, given the vastness of the universe, we’re unlikely to be alone. He added: “I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!” Case closed? Maybe not.
For much of the early 1990s I was posted to the Ministry of Defence’s so-called “UFO Desk”. While most of our cases turned out to be misidentifications of known objects or phenomena, a small but statistically significant proportion appeared to defy conventional explanation.
The author of the piece above is Nick Pope, one of the good guys. He was just diagnosed with terminal cancer as he explains here.
I hope he follows through …
“Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and… pic.twitter.com/3fKQ7wrSvi
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) February 20, 2026
Instantaneous Acceleration – Military-Filmed UFO Footage
h/t Mauser
