Obama replied “They’re real, but I haven’t seen them, and they’re not being kept in … what is it …?” “Area 51?” the interviewer responded. Then Obama said, “Area 51. There’s no underground facility. Unless there’s this enormous conspiracy, and they hid it from the president of the United States.”

Alien debate intensifies after Barack Obama’s remarks and Lara Trump’s claim about Donald Trump’s secret speech, reviving Area 51 conspiracy theories.

TV has taught us many important lessons about aliens. They are either here to observe us, replace us, eat our cats, or gently judge our emotional intelligence while wearing a bathrobe. Sometimes all four. Long before prestige sci-fi and billion-dollar ...