“They’re real, but I haven’t seen them,” the former president said. Former President Barack Obama admitted that there are aliens. Brian Tyler Cohen, a liberal influencer, asked the former president if aliens were real during a lightning round portion of his interview with Obama on Cohen’s YouTube channel. “They’re real, but I haven’t seen them,” Obama answered in the interview published Saturday. “And they’re not being kept in Area 51. There’s no underground facility unless there’s this