In an interview posted on February 14, 2026, political podcaster Bryan Tyler Cohen asked former President Barack Obama, "Are aliens real?" Obama responded: "They're real, but I haven't seen them, and 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." ( https://youtu.be/uI-hgSE5QIw?t=2643 ) Many people took this to be a thinly veiled admission that the US Governme

Recently, a kind and generous reader by the name of Amy Collins (who maintains an excellent website about the Soviet space program ) and...