Former U.S. President Barack Obama said he did not see evidence that aliens “have made contact with us,” after sending social media abuzz by saying aliens were real on a podcast over the weekend. During a lightning round of questions with podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen, Obama was asked, “Are aliens real?”

Former President Barack Obama is back in the spotlight with a podcast appearance that quickly went viral. While most people focused on a playful extraterrestrial exchange, the conversation itself centered on how movies and television — especially streaming — shape culture today.