# Obama says aliens are real---Huh? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 15, 2026, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-says-aliens-are-real-huh/1027684 "2026-02-15T16:55:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2026, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-says-aliens-are-real-huh/1027684/61 "2026-02-16T19:15:00Z")
I’m no expert but the cite I read said 800 million years _from the time that conditions were right._ But I won’t argue the point, it’s not my expertise. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2026, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-says-aliens-are-real-huh/1027684/62 "2026-02-16T19:15:36Z")
> [@griffin1977](#): > > My reading of that (especially based on the interviewers reaction) is that is Obama saying he personally thinks there are aliens somewhere in the universe but they aren’t coming to earth. But yeah, a clarifying question would have been good. You could very much read it as “Based on my briefings, they’re all in above-ground facilities where they work when they’re not in the orbital or lunar facilities. No underground facilities were mentioned. Which would be ludicrous, right, because how are they supposed to photosynthesize underground? Lot of nutty theories out there, I can tell you that much for certain.” ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2026, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-says-aliens-are-real-huh/1027684/63 "2026-02-16T19:17:39Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > And if opinions were facts… we’d all have assholes? ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2026, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-says-aliens-are-real-huh/1027684/64 "2026-02-16T19:18:47Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > I’m no expert but the cite I read said 800 million years _from the time that conditions were right_ I guess it depends on whether you go from the formation of the first bits of crust or from the end of the late heavy bombardment. But even the former seems like it would be 600 million years not 800. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2026, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-says-aliens-are-real-huh/1027684/65 "2026-02-16T19:22:40Z")
He clarifies by saying [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9cmQGTPn01k](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9cmQGTPn01k) / . ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2026, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-says-aliens-are-real-huh/1027684/66 "2026-02-16T19:32:00Z")
Unless he signed an NDA and is continuing the conspiracy..🤫 kidding, of course ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2026, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-says-aliens-are-real-huh/1027684/67 "2026-02-16T19:42:30Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > And I wouldn’t say that there is _no_ evidence of alien life. There are now a number of things we’ve found on Mars that we are _pretty sure_ were life, we just haven’t eliminated every other possibility to a sufficient extent that we can completely confidently say so. No _conclusive_ evidence is not the same as no evidence at all. There are a number of things on Mars for which life is one hypothesis, but there are still enough things to rule out that we can’t say that we’re “pretty sure” that any of them are life. That said, the absence of evidence on Mars is also not evidence of absence. You have to look pretty thoroughly to find fossils even on Earth, and early life (the sort that might have existed on Mars) is much less likely to fossilize than life with bones, shells, or other hard mineral bits. Even if there were life on ancient Mars, it’d be no surprise not to find it. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2026, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-says-aliens-are-real-huh/1027684/68 "2026-02-16T20:05:03Z")
> [@chappachula](#): > > And Obama should have known better than to make a stupid comment.. > [@Babale](#): > > Obama’s comment wasn’t stupid; it’s entirely correct and logical. > > That said, he should have known better than to trust the American public to comprehend this. Because no matter how ~~smart~~ brilliant and educated you are, if you say ONE thing that some people think is stupid, that comment will negate anything else you ever said/did/wrote/thought, and you will be remembered for that alone. Cf. Hillary/“deplorables” * * * > [@steronz](#): > > Yes, I’m just going to add my voice to those saying his meaning was obvious and I’m surprised anyone is talking about this. Me, too. But it will be all over the interwebs shortly. 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![Ancient\_Nerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed655f/32.png) [@Ancient\_Nerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ancient_Nerd)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2026, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-says-aliens-are-real-huh/1027684/69 "2026-02-16T20:06:21Z")
Life could be single celled organisms. It could be insects or creatures with exoskeletons. It could have internal skeletons. Intelligent life could be people living in caves. It could be that after technology develops, there is always eventually someone even worse than el donald that ruins it for everyone with a nuclear war. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2026, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-says-aliens-are-real-huh/1027684/70 "2026-02-16T21:07:07Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Because no matter how ~~smart~~ brilliant and educated you are, if you say ONE thing that some people think is stupid, that comment will negate anything else you ever said/did/wrote/thought, and you will be remembered for that alone. Maybe I’m just not following the same social sites as you, but I haven’t seen people claiming everything else Obama has said in the past is stupid based on this one comment about aliens (which, by the way I don’t think was stupid, we just can’t call it definitively correct). ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2026, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-says-aliens-are-real-huh/1027684/71 "2026-02-16T22:10:00Z")
I think it was pretty obvious what he meant, even before the qualifiers. If he said ghosts are real or angels are real, no one would be thinking he has proof. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2026, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-says-aliens-are-real-huh/1027684/72 "2026-02-17T00:24:41Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > Fox news is reporting Obama’s open border policies extended to extraterrestrial aliens. I don’t think Fox News is wrong here. If an extraterrestrial showed up during the Obama Admin, I’m sure they’d let them in without even a visa. Same for the Biden Admin. I can’t say the same for the Trump Admin… ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2026, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-says-aliens-are-real-huh/1027684/73 "2026-02-17T00:33:31Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > I don’t think Fox News is wrong here. If an extraterrestrial showed up during the Obama Admin, I’m sure they’d let them in without even a visa. Same for the Biden Admin. I can’t say the same for the Trump Admin… > [@DrDeth](#): > > Of course they are. 🙄 I just want to make it clear that I was joking. I have no idea whether anyone at Fox News has commented on Obama’s musings on aliens. We live in absurd times, so I cannot blame you for taking my absurd statement at face value. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2026, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-says-aliens-are-real-huh/1027684/74 "2026-02-17T00:45:17Z")
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