Colbert then asked if Obama wished aliens were real, which led the former president to make a job pitch to Colbert. Obama explained that he would be a good first point-of-contact for aliens. “I actually do,” Obama said.

The former president on why those waiting for Trump to disclose the existence of aliens are sure to be disappointed, and insisting first contact "hasn't happened yet."

The former president swore that if the U.S. government knew about — or possessed — aliens, the information would have already leaked.

Do aliens exist? Could Earth really be the only planet hosting intelligent life? Debates over the existence of extraterrestrials date back to the earliest Indigenous and western thought. The tools generating the evidence within western science,