Obama signals to look to the skies

THERE'S a definite buzz going around this month about aliens from other worlds, or hadn't you noticed?

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Former US President Obama kicked things off a couple of weeks ago with his startling admission that, personally, he reckons there's definitely something out there.

Whoa. Let's just stand back from that a little. This is Barack Obama: a considered, sober, thoughtful man. Not Donald Trump, who shoots crazy from the lip practically every time he boards Air Force One. (Maybe it’s the altitude).

So if someone like Obama says he thinks aliens are no figment of our imagination, you have to listen - and wonder how and why he's come to that conclusion.

What does this ex-president know that we don’t?

Trump meanwhile has promised to release all government files on UFO sightings. But UFOs are simply that: unidentified flying objects.