Nobody quite knew whether President Obama was joking when, at the tail end of a sober 50-minute podcast with Bryan Tyler Cohen last weekend, he appeared to say, with surprising matter-of-factness, that aliens exist. “They’re real,” he said, before adding, “but I haven’t seen them.”
Not to be outdone—especially by his hated predecessor—Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he was directing “the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life.”
