Former President Barack Obama said during a late-night TV appearance that unidentified flying objects are real and “we don’t know exactly what they are” after videos captured by the U.S. military were made public.
Appearing Monday on CBS’ “The Late Late Show with James Corden,” Mr. Obama was asked by house band leader Reggie Watts to share his theory about UFOs, or what the Pentagon describes as unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP).
“Well, when it comes to aliens, there’s some things I just can’t tell you on air,” the former Democratic president joked. “But the truth is that when I came into office, I asked, right? I was like, ‘All right, is there a lab somewhere where we’re keeping the alien specimens and spaceship?’ And you know, they did a little bit of research and the answer was no.”
Then, taking a more serious tone, Mr. Obama said the U.S. government can’t explain the UAP sightings.
“But what is true, and I’m actually being serious here, is that there are, there’s footage and records of objects in the skies that we don’t know exactly what they are,” he said. “We can’t explain how they moved, their trajectory. They did not have an easily explainable pattern. And so, you know I think that people still take seriously trying to investigate and figure out what that is.”
Last April, the Pentagon declassified three videos taken by U.S. Navy pilots that apparently showed UAP. On Monday, a newly leaked Navy video taken in July 2019 appeared to show an unidentified flying object disappearing into the ocean off California.
The Senate Intelligence Committee has asked the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to work with the Defense Department to provide a public accounting on the sightings by next month.
