Former U.S. President Barack Obama ignited a firestorm over the weekend when he joined a popular left-leaning podcast host and seemingly admitted that aliens were "real."

Former president reacts to Trump administration’s monkey video and likens its crackdown in Minnesota to behaviour of ‘dictatorships’

When asked if aliens are real by Brian Tyler Cohen, the former president said: "They’re real, but I haven’t seen them, and they’re not being kept in, what is it... "Area 51. There’s no underground fac...