Prediction markets are wagering on whether the United States will confirm the existence of extraterrestrial life by 2027.

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

Former President Barack Obama is confirming that aliens are, in fact, real. “They’re real,” Obama, 64, told political podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen on Friday, February 13, adding that while he knows extraterrestrial life is real he has not personally seen evidence proving their existence.