Nick Baumgardner

What I wanted to find out when I became president was where are the aliens?

And so this, of course, went viral because it's a former president talking about aliens.

And this is what Obama said as he posted that clip that we just played you on his Instagram page.

The caption goes like this.

I was trying to stick with the spirit of the speed round, but since it's gotten attention, let me clarify.

Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there's life out there, but the distance between solar systems are so great, the chances we've been visited by aliens is low, and I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us.

really and i said really like that because it had an exclamation point at the end you're buying what obama's selling you i figure i figure that he would say i was in jest but man i'm not rolling i'm not rolling that he it was just all a joke russ dorsey hiding hiding in plain sight do you believe in aliens

Do I believe that there are things that we don't have on the Earth that are in outer space?

Sure.

Organic life forms.

Do you know how big the galaxy is?

Spacious.

Massive.

We're just one galaxy.

Spec.

There are other galaxies.

Yes.

So I don't know what's out there.

You saw Men in Black.

I get it.