"When it comes to aliens, there are some things I just can't tell you on air," the 44th commander-in-chief teased James Corden in a video chat on "The Late Late Show" aired early Tuesday.
"Look, the truth is that when I came into office, I asked," Obama told the British comedian with a laugh.
"I was like, 'All right, is there the lab somewhere where we're keeping the alien specimens and spaceships?'
"They did a little bit of research ... and the answer was, 'No,'" he deadpanned to laughter.
"But what is true — and I'm actually being serious here — is that there's footage and records of objects in the skies that we don't know exactly what they are," he said of growing reports of unidentified flying objects.
"We can't explain how they moved, their trajectory ... they did not have an easily explainable pattern," he said of growing reports of sights, many recorded by the Navy.
"So I think that people still take seriously trying to investigate and figure out what that is. But I have nothing to report to you today," he said, without elaborating on his own views on what the mysterious objects likely were.
Obama then joked that the show's bandleader, Reggie Watts — who had first asked him about "them aliens" — might "secretly be an alien."
"When he asks all these questions, he's deflecting," he joked, asking, "Do we know what he looks like behind those glasses?"
The former president also said life was "pretty darn good" now he has "less stress, less burden" of not being blamed for "every single story" in the news.
"I get a lot more time with Michelle," he said of his wife, saying they also had the "blessing" of spending lockdown with their college-age daughters.
"Michelle thinks I'm a little cuter now, a little sexier," he said with a smile.
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Maybe when Kissinger is dragged up from the crypt again to 'head a taskforce' we'll be absolutely sure...
Practically confirmation of Project Blue Beam
Just came back from camping in southern New Mexico after stopping by Trinidad, Colorado. [Link] On 09 May at about 9:15 PM my son and I were sitting facing west in Baca Campground [Link] north of Lincoln when we saw a chain of lights moving from north to south at a speed no manmade object could achieve--our stop in Trinidad wasn't the cause. This went on for some minutes then the lights disappeared. The next day we went to Three Rivers Petroglyph site where we saw a mask petroglyph similar to the one on the bottom right of this photo [Link] The next day two large white dogs showed up at our campsite and the female was white but had a face mask exactly like what we saw at the petroglyph site. My dog and the other dogs in the campground hated these dogs even though they were retriever types. The way they acted too was really strange. I think they were aliens.
Just came back from camping in southern New Mexico after stopping by Trinidad, Colorado. [Link] On 09 May at about 9:15 PM my son and I were sitting facing west in Baca Campground [Link] north of Lincoln when we saw a chain of lights moving from north to south at a speed no manmade object could achieve--our stop in Trinidad wasn't the cause. This went on for some minutes then the lights disappeared. The next day we went to Three Rivers Petroglyph site where we saw a mask petroglyph similar to the one in this photo [Link] The next day two large white dogs showed up at our campsite and the female was white but had a face mask exactly like what we saw at the petroglyph site. My dog and the other dogs in the campground hated these dogs even though they were retriever types. The way they acted too was really strange. I think they were aliens.