Barack Obama knows the truth about aliens and government UFO files

Former US president Barack Obama has revealed he “asked about” UFOs and aliens while in office, but teased that he can’t say what he knows.

The truth is out there – but former US president Barack Obama’s lips are sealed.

On Monday, the 44th commander-in-chief confirmed during an interview with Late Show host Stephen Colbert that he sought classified information on extraterrestrials during his time in the Oval Office, but refused to divulge what he learned.

“Certainly asked about it,” said Mr Obama when Colbert brought up UFOs during a wide-ranging interview to promote Obama’s new memoir A Promised Land.

“And?” pressed the TV funnyman.

“Can’t tell you,” replied Mr Obama, with an impish grin. “Sorry.”

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Colbert took that non-answer as all the confirmation he needed that we are not alone.

“All right, I’ll take that as a ‘yes,’” he cracked. “Because if there were none, you’d say there was none. You just played your hand. I thought you were a poker player. You just 100 per cent showed your river card.”

Obama, playing into the non-answer answer, did nothing to discourage Colbert’s conclusion.

“Feel free to think that,” the former president said.

Replied Colbert, “Oh, I do.”

This video grab of a ‘UFO’ was one of a number recently released by the US Department of Defence. Picture: US Department of Defence/AFP

In between laughing, both men reflected on the idea that an alleged government cover-up of alien life was once regarded as the biggest conspiracy theory going.

“It used to be that UFOs and Roswell was the biggest conspiracy. And now that seems so tame, the idea that the government might have an alien spaceship,” opined Mr Obama.

Zinged Colbert, “Now the biggest conspiracy is [that] people in Michigan vote.”

This article originally appeared on the New York Post and was reproduced with permission