Barack Obama caused frenzy after saying aliens were real on a podcast – and was forced to clarify he had not seen any evidence of them in a statement posted to Instagram over the weekend.<\/p>\n
There is a long-running conspiracy theory claiming that the US government is hiding extraterrestrials at Area 51, a highly classified air force site in Nevada.<\/p>\n
Lucy Hough speaks to host of the Guardian\u2019s Science Weekly podcast, Madeleine Finlay<\/p>\n
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