The former president on why those waiting for Trump to disclose the existence of aliens are sure to be disappointed, and insisting first contact "hasn't happened yet." Despite the Trump administration and some members of Congress repeatedly teasing the pending release of documents that might prove the existence of extraterrestrial life, former President Barack Obama firmly insists the government isn’t actually hiding anything of true significance on the topic. In a sitdown with Stephen Colbertfor CBS’ The Late Show, Obama sought to firmly clarify his viral comment earlier this year about aliens being “real” and threw cold water on the idea that the government is hiding any legit evidence of alien life or ships from other worlds. Colbert first told Obama “nobody believed you” when the former president tried to walk back his tantalizing original statement — clarifying that he meant aliens were real somewhere in the universe — and asked him to be honest. “Here’s the thing: For those of you who still think that we’ve gotten little green men underground somewhere, one of the things you learn as president is the government is terrible at keeping secrets,” Obama said. “This idea of conspiracy theories — if there were aliens or alien spaceships or anything under the control of the United States government that we knew about, seen, photographs, what have you … I promise you some guy guarding the installation would have taken a selfie with one of the aliens and sent it to his girlfriend to impress her. There would be leaks.” submitted by /u/silv3rbull8 [link] [comments]