Liberal influencer Brian Tyler Cohen interviewed Obama for a video that was published Feb. 14, touching on a variety of topics, from racism to ICE raids. But it was a lightning round at the end that got the most attention, with Cohen asking, “Are aliens real?”

Podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen defended his questioning of Barack Obama on Monday, and said he asked the former president to make a statement to clarify his alien remarks.

While idea may violate Occam’s razor, “it remains a speculative but logically open alternative,” says biologist Robert Endres.

Former US President Barack Obama drew global attention after joking about aliens during a podcast interview released on February 14. In a rapid-fire segment, he said aliens were “real” but added he had seen no evidence of extraterrestrial contact and that none were being held at Area 51.

It’s been a big month for people who spend wild amounts of time online, in their self-dug bunkers, sporting tinfoil hats and wearing T-shirts bearing the words, “I IDENTIFY AS A CONSPIRACY THEORIST,