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Barack Obama says aliens ‘are real’, but not in Area 51 (www.newsweek.com)

submitted 4 hours ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] flemtone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

I wonder what they are distracting us from this time around?

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 13 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Plot twist: The aliens are among us, and are in the Epstein files - that's why such a small portion have been released.

[–] epicthundercat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah and they eat babies, evidently. Lizard people, aliens, billionaires... Same thing

[–] terraborra@lemmy.nz 7 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

That conspiracy is old news.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptilian_conspiracy_theory

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 points 2 hours ago

That reptilians conspiracy is mildly frustrating to me. I, for one, would love to learn that there's a race of reptilians secretly running things. In fact, if you're out there, reptilian overlords, come find me. I love reptiles.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

they are in the white house.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 hours ago

One is wearing a bad hair job,. Paints itself orange. It can hardly string together a coherent sentence. Stumbles about on 'human' legs.
It's the worst alien disguise I've ever seen!

There's even a rumour it needs to rape children...to keep itself alive, or something!!

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 hours ago

Obviously, they wouldn't keep them in the base everyone knows about

[–] n0respect@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Good interview. Give it a listen or read. Aliens don't pop up 'til the end.

Kinda wild the interviewer just let "they're real" slide by with no follow up.

[–] jedibob5@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Was he not just being facetious?

[–] n0respect@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

He probably meant some mundane explanation, but it'd be nice to have clarity as to exactly why. I guess it was a lightning round though.

[–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 3 points 1 hour ago

Probably Obama, like most people, figures there's life on another planet somewhere in the universe, but that tge aliens haven't visited Earth.

[–] murmelade@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

Yes, it's like saying ghosts are real.