Did President Obama Admit the US is Controlled by Space Aliens?
Obama UFO joke on Jimmy Kimmel Live throws conspiracy theorists into a frenzy.


Did President Obama admit the U.S. is controlled by space aliens on his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night? No, it was a joke. But Poe's Law applies. Space conspiracy theory website Exopolitics.com reports:
A recent disclosure about UFO secrecy by John Podesta, Obama's former White House Counselor for Climate Change and Energy Policy, suggests that Obama was serious about a situation he had no control over.
Here is what Obama said in response to Kimmel according to the LA Times:
[Kimmel] wanted to know whether Obama had tried to get to the bottom of the "UFO files" about the mysterious desert region known as Area 51. "The aliens won't let it happen," Obama joked. "You'd reveal all their secrets. They exercise strict control over us."
But President Clinton once said he'd checked on the matter and found nothing, Kimmel protested. "That's what we're instructed to say," Obama responded.
Obama's comments come only one month after Podesta claimed that his biggest failure for 2014 was: "Once again not securing the #disclosure of the UFO files."
UFO disclosures have been relatively popular in recent years, though they've contained no smoking guns. The CIA's admitted to being responsible for many of the UFO sightings reported in the 50s and 60 that helped drive the UFOlogy craze into the mainstream.
Watch the portion of Obama's appearance on Kimmel below:
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Look, there's no way some Harvard-educated genius could be this incompetent, right? He's desperately trying to signal to the rest of us that we're being run by aliens.
ProLib, your overconfidence in moldering cultural institutions is your weakness.
What, you think the Ivy League is a fraud? Don't be silly, that's a plot of the space aliens. How could institutions populated by humanity's most brilliant possible people produce such morons? It's clear evidence of the aliens subtle machinations.
The Birthers were right?
8% of them were
It could only be an improvement.
And I for one welcome our new alien mean-tweeters.
Look, the sexbots are the only chance we have against the lizard people in the hollow moon. We have to build them now.
I LOVE that UFOs are one of John Podesta's hobbies. LOVE IT.
Just like I love that Al Gore is the poster child for global warming. It truly is a gift.
Finally some real transparency!
That's the beauty of it. Obama can be completely honest, and most people will assume he's just joking.
The Obama selfies, Youtube celebrity videos, the Jimmy Kimmel "mean tweets" reading...all of it reeks of desperation. It's pathetic.
I was in Universal City when the flying motorcade passed overhead on Friday. 3 Marine One helicopters, 5 Ospreys, and a whole bunch of support helicopters. It cost taxpayers, literally, millions and millions of dollars for him to fly out here and read (hand picked) mean tweets.
Oh, and Michelle Obama flew out to CA on the same day, but on a completely different plane.
It's good to be the king, amirite?
Hump, death, hump, death, hump, death--
Oh, and Michelle Obama flew out to CA on the same day, but on a completely different plane.
I can't entirely blame Bumbles for that. If you were married to that harpy, wouldn't you want to fly on a completely different plane too?
If she flew coach on United, I would be completely OK with it
Coach? You're kidding right. She's too good for Coach purses, let alone coach airfare.
Coach? You're kidding right. She's too good for Coach purses, let alone coach airfare.
Fuck that, put her on the cattle car, Southwest, in the back of the plane. I hope she sits next to some senile old lady that hasn't bathed in a week and is a died in the wool SoCon. "Hey aren't you that Michelle Obama? I don't like your husband, he's ugly and was borned in that Kenya! I never voted for him!"
I like Southwest. In my neck of the woods, United has the reputation for being the worst airline. Huh.
I like Southwest too, I pretty much use it for all domestic flights.
American Airlines are the worst. They are the fucking Comcast of the skies.
No - put her on passenger rail. Lefties love themselves some trains. Let's see how much love there is when it takes her a month to get from LA to DC.
I'm sure Obumbles is working on getting Harrison Ford hired as her personal pilot...
Isn't anyone afraid one of the Ospreys will have a malfunction and crash into the select Marine One?
The word on the street is that his Secret Service detail doesn't much care for him.
Okay, isn't anyone afraid two of the Ospreys will have malfunctions and crash into two Marine Ones?
7 Osprey crashes in 21 years. Not exactly the death trap it's made out to be.
Yes, yes, I mostly kid.
Still, the failure modes of the Osprey are, shall we say, unforgiving.
More to go wrong, I guess.
When I looked that up I also looked up F-16 crashes, for comparison. Back in the 90s they averaged between 1 and 2 a month. And that was just US F-16s.
Well, we can do serious comparisons when we have rates per hour of operation, really.
The V-22 has a Class A flight mishap rate of 1.28 per 100,000 flight hours over the last 10 years, compared to a Class A flight mishap rate of 2.6 per 100,000 flight hours for all Marine aircraft over the same period.
F-16 3.5 per 100,000 flight hours.
Or a more credible source:
The rate of Class A accidents this year _ 3.18 per 100,000 hours flown _ was the highest since 2001, when it was 3.85 because of a rash of engine failures.
Wow, you make a little joke... I guess I need to get new material.
Nothin against you. It's a pet peeve of mine. I flew the B-1. I used to hear shit about the jet 15 years after the issue was fixed.
The media never tells the population that the problems get fixed and it's doing well. Just the shit.
Pet peeves are good. Much better than feral peeves.
But there have only been about 200 or so Ospreys ever built. That's a pretty poor percentage with you look at it that way. I don't want to get on a vehicle when 3.5%, of all that have ever been made have crashed, even though they're flown by what are presumably some of the most expert pilots in the world on a relatively low number of flights.
For comparison: there have been 73 Boeing 737 crashes. About 8385 produced, in service for 46 years, hundreds of flights per day and 0nly 0.8% have ever crashed.
I see Francisco d'Anconia has the relevant info, so I withdraw my complaint. Military aircraft crash a lot.
Who, Lord Kinbote?
In a recent interview, David Cameron said Obama has told him "you don't know how lucky you are" to have a ban on political television ads in the UK.
Our president, ladies and gentlemen.
Shit. I know shit's bad right now, with all that starving bullshit, and the dust storms, and we are running out of french fries and burrito coverings. But I got a solution.
And here I was thinking that was about the future.
That's what you said last time, dipshit!
GO AWAY, BATIN'!!!!!!
Please do not disause the UFO theorists of their illusions, they are too amusing to watch.
I don't care what you say, it's ancient fucking aliens!
Ancient fucking aliens!
Jesse Walker's gonna break your legs for trying to steal his beat, Krayewski.
I'd put my money on Ed 'Kray-Kray' Krayewski in that fight.
See what I'm saying is that we need to organize vale tudo cock-fights between the Reason contributors. Can you imagine a bare-knuckles KWM-ENB brawl? Scott 'Love Shack' Shackford versus 2-Chilli? This needs to be basis for the next donation drive.
$200 on Welch over The Jacket.
Make it $400 and you're on.
Welch is more spry, but the Jacket has the reach and hits harder. Plus he has heart...look at his face.
See, you're all thinking small picture here. I want to see commentators in on this stuff too. Fifty bucks says John rips out Sheldon Richman's heart and eats it.
What The Jacket has over all its competition is that The Jacket cares nothing for its host.
Sleep deprivation, starvation, pain - The Jacket feels none of this. If the host is too badly damaged, The Jacket will simply choose another.
Can you imagine a bare-knuckles KWM-ENB brawl?
I'd rather imagine Emily Ekins and Tracy Oppenheimer Jell-O wresting...
...wrestling...
This is why we can't have nice things. I mean, nice things other than that particular jello wrestling match. Damn.
And why there still are not ten women libertarians in the country. We frighten them.
And why there still are not ten women libertarians in the country. We frighten them.
Fucking squirrels, that's twice today!
I will pay to see that.
Just sayin' Reason, but if you start some kind of weekly writer Fight Club I think your donations would substantially improve.
First rule of Reason Fight Club - do whatever's necessary to secure donations.
Completely off topic but I just discovered that there is a woman who lives in my town whose name is Kelly Cockwell Jung
She gets the nomination for either having the best sense of humor in the town or for being the most oblivious person in the town, I haven't decided which yet.
She also has kids in high school (I know because she posted to our towns facebook page asking when the last day of high school was) which makes me really wonder how cruel she was to her child(ren)
there is a woman who lives in my town whose name is Kelly Cockwell Jung
Wow! What's the name of the woman?
Your going to have to.get Obama drunk if you want the truth. The Keepers cannot hold their liquor.
Slightly on-topic:
I stopped at Alien Fresh Jerky this weekend. Twice. Their Whiskey Jerky is so good that I had to stop and get another bag on my way back from Vegas.
Thank you, I will look into this.
Still not as bad as when he said he'd uphold the constitution.
At least he's finally found someone else to blame other than BOOOOOSSSSSHHHH.
Distraction. Misdirection. Obfuscation. We all know government is controlled by little red Marxians.
ayy lmao...
Some random bright should make a binaural recording of an alien munching on a bowl of human fingers while eviscerating a human starfish with a bright-tipped probe. This would be an ecstatic startle.
The spoken word is powerful vehicle for riddles.
There's always an Alien Battle Cruiser...or
a Korlian Death Ray, or...an intergalactic
plague about to wipe out life on this
planet, and the only thing that lets people
get on with their hopeful little lives is
that they don't know about it.
Yes, that thing called the imagination vortex has impaled Warren and yet within that vortex lies the seeds of spaceship reality. Alien Battle Cruisers, however, are typically incapable of wiping out lives on planets mainly because they are fucking full of people and creatures who love a strange mushroom on quadrant 3.45 in the loneliest sector; so-called because it was literally pulverized by a dying dwarf a billion years ago and the only people and things that would visit that fucking sector were adventurous drug fiends. These people and things are normally far too timid and utterly wasted to wipe out entire planets... the Korlian Death Ray, however, is a far different and mysterious tale.
I'm sure Warren just got fucking abducted and this alien shit was accidentally projected/injected into his ass tissue where it all filtered up into his glorious brain nethers but I have some firsthand knowledge unless Warren is a fucking transuniversal parallelist. Google seems to struggle with a lot of these terms.... The Korlian Death Ray does exist. However, it is a parallel dimension unit and not a parallel universe unit. The Korlians somehow slipped into existence on a dimensional plane from a pi-squared time ratio. Time doesn't exist for them and they crush planets for fun. It isn't an eternity thing it is more of a I have a billion gazillion universes to travel in why not just fucking use our Korlian Death Ray to vaporize shit and then go to that fucking quadrant 3.45 in the loneliest sector and get fucked up on those strange mushrooms. Korlians are hyper-dimensional narcissists.
Well, that just proves to me that O has a sense of humor but has NO idea about how or when to use it... Those are great comments, but in today's 'world,' enough loons are going to latch on to it and be just as loony as they were.
Well, we know who the aliens who conduct the painful rectal examinations got to....