United Kingdom, Feb. 16 -- Barack Obama believes in aliens but did not discover any evidence of their existence during his time in the White House.

The former US President - who served two terms between 2009 and 2017 - has opened up about his beliefs in an new interview confessing the first question he asked following his election victory was related to beings from outer space.

During appearance on the No Lie With Brian Tyler Cohen podcast, Obama said: "They're real. But I haven't seen them. They're not being kept at ... Area 51. There's no underground facility - unless there's this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the President of the United States."

Cohen then asked the former politician: "What was the first question you want...