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Regardless of what one thinks about extraterrestrial life and politics, UFO motorcades would do wonders for D.C. traffc.
Photo: Mandel
Ngan/AFP/Getty Images (White House); Shutterstock (UFO)

Former Obama aide and well-knownX-FilesobsessiveJohn Podestatweetedthis month that his

"biggest failure of 2014" was "Once again not securing the #disclosure of the UFO fles."
Many assume that Podesta will soon sign up for the still-hypothetical

Hillary Clinton presidential

campaign, which means that the UFO lobby might just endorse Clinton for a second time if decides
to run.
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Stephen Bassett,head of the Paradigm Research Group (which runs a blog about presidential UFO
newsand hosted an off-brand hearingfor ex-members of Congress on government transparency in
matters extraterrestrial), toldthe Huffngton Post in 2007thatHillary

Clinton "knows this issue is

not trivial." Nearly eight years later, Bassett is still trying to access any government documents on
UFOs, and still hoping that Clinton will reach out to constituents like him.
Roll Call published
a story about Bassett's efforts on Monday morning, which ended with the

lobbyist's
thoughts on the 2016 election. He doesn't see a path to victory for Hillary Clinton that does not
involve discussing the potential of celestial circumnavigation.
As far as Im concerned Hillary Clinton is not going to become the president of the United States
without going through

the extraterrestrial issue," Bassett told Roll Call. "Period."

Clinton could always outsource discussions of aliens to another high-profle space expert on her
team. Bill Clinton recentlydisclosedthat he did not fnd any evidence of extraterrestrial life at
Roswell or Area 51 during his presidency.

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Bassettalso suggestedthat

Republican candidates should also support a pro-transparency UFO

agenda, before Russian President Vladimir Putin beats them to it."If Bassett wants to reach out to

the GOP, 2016 hopeful and noted Putin hater Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), who heads the Senate
Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness, might be a good person to start with. "
Life beyond Earth has been a reliable recurring feature of presidential coverage. In 2012, Newt
Gingrich, who had an uncredited appearance as an alien in Men in Black, vowed to build a
permanent base on the moon. During a 2008 presidential debate, Dennis Kucinich discussed
his
UFO sighting, and Sen. Barack Obama said that he did not know if there was life out there. During a
1992 presidential debate, Independent

candidate Ross Perot managed

to bring extraterrestrial life
into a discussion about gridlock. "It's not the Republicans' fault, of course, and it's not the
Democrats' fault. Somewhere out there there's an extraterrestrial that's doing this

to us, I guess."
In 1997, CNN found that 80 percent of Americans thought the government was hiding information
about aliens. Ninety-three percent of respondents had never been abducted by aliens or known
someone who had been kidnapped and taken to another universe.
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wgalison

3 days ago

Credit

to New York Magazine for covering this topic, but apparently we still have to wait for snarky, obsequious reporters
to cover it with the gravity it deserves.
John Podesta is not merely a "Former Obama aide and well-knownX-FilesobsessiveJohn

Podesta". Unless the author

isignorant of Podesta'sposition as President Clinton's Chief of Staff, and his deadly serious arguments for disclosure of
UFO related fles, then she is simply trying to look clever bydenigrating a person of far moreintegrity and intelligence
than she possesses.

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