It must be a lot of fun being a former President of the United States . You require to verbalize bequest and how your successors are doing , and all anybody get a line you as is the person who knows all the alien secret .
Barrack Obama has been asked about extraterrestrial quite a lot lately , belike due to increase sake now that the CIA is about to be forced to relinquish file onunidentified flying objects(UFOs ) to Congress in the very skinny future . Last week , in an interview with theLate Late Show , the former president was asked by bandleader Reggie Watts if he had any theory about UFOs or , as they are officially know , unknown aeriform phenomena ( UAPs ) .
“ When it comes to alien , there are some thing I just ca n’t tell you on air , ” he reply . “ The truth is that when I came into berth , I ask . I was like , ‘ Is there a lab somewhere where we ’re maintain the foreign specimens and space ships ? ' ”
“ They did a little bit of research and the answer was no . "
“ But what is truthful , and I ’m really being serious here … there ’s footage and records of objects in the sky that we do n’t know exactly what they are , we ca n’t explain how they moved , their trajectory . They did not have an easily explainable pattern . "
This hebdomad he speculated more on what would happenifaliens were to make contact , or else we found out they exist and had visited us already . In an consultation withthe New York Times ' Ezra Kleinpodcast , he said he believed it would n’t change his outlook on the world much , but that there would be change in guild .
" It ’s interesting . It would n’t commute my political relation at all . Because my entire government is premised on the fact that we are these tiny organisms on this short atom float in the middle of space,“he say .
" When we were live on through tough political prison term , and I ’d try out to cheer up my staff up , I ’d secernate them a statistic that John Holdren , my science adviser , told me , which was that there are more sensation in the known creation than there are grain of gumption on the major planet Earth . "
Well , sometimes it cheered them up ; sometimes they ’d just roll their eye and say , oh , there he goes again , " he add together .
He explained that he hoped that discovering aliens – in the scenario lay out to him , they have send a probe but we can not lecture back – would make us realize how much we all have in common on Earth , and that it ’s more important than our differences .
" But no doubtfulness there would be immediate argument about like , well , we need to spend a lot more money on weapon scheme to defend ourselves , " he said . " unexampled religions would pop up . And who knows what kind of arguments we get into . We ’re near at manufacturing argument for each other . "
