When Cohen asked Obama if aliens were 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.”
"Where are the aliens?"
You can hear what he said in the video below.
Almost immediately after Cohen's interview with Obama was published, conspiracies swirled that the news that aliens are "real" was being swept under the rug or was being used as a distraction from the scandal surrounding the Epstein files.
Obama—who laughed during the interview when he made his remark—took to Instagram to set the record straight, writing:
"I was trying to stick with the spirit of the speed round, but since it’s gotten attention let me clarify."
"Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there. But the distances between solar systems are so great that the chances we’ve been visited by aliens is low, and I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!"
You can see his post below.
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In 2013, the CIA formally acknowledged the existence of Area 51—though not the UFO crashes, extraterrestrials, or staged moon landings long associated with it.
Declassified documents referred to the 20,700-square-kilometre installation by name after decades of U.S. officials refusing to confirm it publicly.
In The Age of Disclosure, a 2025 documentary that alleges an “80-year cover-up of non-human intelligent life,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio is shown saying unidentified objects have been observed over nuclear facilities, adding that presidents have sometimes operated on a “need-to-know basis” to preserve deniability.
But Rubio offered additional context in an interview with Fox News, noting that his comments in the film were recorded years earlier while he was still in the Senate and reflected allegations he had heard, rather than firsthand knowledge.
In a recent episode of her Good Game podcast, Spain revealed she sat near Vance at a women’s hockey game and got satanic vibes off the VP.
Spain shared:
"When I see JD Vance’s eyeliner face, I literally feel ill. I feel like I just looked at a demon, like the devil, and I don’t even believe in that."
"My body felt like when you have been spooked and you have a little tingle that feels like, ‘Ooh, something’s not right.'"
"Or like when you get in a situation and you feel like, ‘Oh, some of the energy’s bad, something could go wrong here, maybe I should get out of here,’ or something’s dangerous."
Spain later shared:
"This human being, allegedly with demon energy, is slandering a dead man who was shot in the back while helping a woman and was not fighting and was not dangerous."
Conservative media quickly picked up their latest outrage fodder.
They began sharing Spain's podcast or excerpts from it in their broadcasts and online. As expected, the MAGA minions—or their bots—began attacking Spain on social media with comments about her appearance and with ableist and misogynistic slurs.
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On Saturday, Spain responded to her haters—or their bots—with a video message on Instagram captioned:
"Hey Sarah, why are zero-follower count troll accounts posting comments about how fat and ugly you are on your posts all of a sudden?"
"GREAT QUESTION"
Spain shared:
"Just wanted to give you a heads up that if you see some weird comments on my Instagram that I haven’t had a chance to delete yet, it’s because I got called out for criticizing a pedophile-protecting, American-who-was-executed-by-ICE-slandering person."
Spain's description included Vance’s inaction on the Epstein files and failure to condemn pedophiles, as well as his misinformation and character assassination of American citizens shot and killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
Of the MAGA minions, Spain said:
"Some of the people that are so cotton-headed, that would defend literally anything done by this person, are sliding into my mentions to call me fat, tell me they hope I die and get cancer."
She added:
"So, if you see one of those, don't be confused. It's just people who are currently in favor of what this administration are doing in this country."
"I couldn't give two sh*ts about their opinion of me. Especially when I am here living the dream."
Spain concluded:
"Let's care more about people [Vance] who are protecting those who rape kids and murder American citizens than the journalists who call them out for it."
People outside the MAGAsphere appreciated Spain's candor.
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Vance’s appearance at the Winter Olympics has been met with loud, continuous boos.
It got so bad that IOC officials even had to begin asking crowds not to boo VP Vance at events he attended.
