U.S. President Donald Trump accused his predecessor, Barack Obama, on Thursday (February 19, 2026) of disclosing “classified” information in his recent viral remarks about the existence of extraterrestrial life.
Mr. Obama, in a podcast interview released last week, declared that he believed aliens were real but that he had not seen any evidence of it during his 2009-2017 presidency.
Obama shuts down alien buzz and says there's no evidence they've made contact
“They’re real, but I haven’t seen them and they’re not being kept in... Area 51,” he told host Brian Tyler Cohen, referring to the top-secret facility at the heart of many UFO conspiracies.
“There’s no underground facility. Unless, there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States.”
