The Clinton campaign is courting a section of the voting public that is not often addressed during presidential campaigns: voters who believe in life in outer space.
John Podesta, the Clinton campaign Chairman and former Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton, has been vocal about freedom of information regarding “UFO files.” He said in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper:
“The U.S. government could do a much better job in answering the quite legitimate questions that people have about what’s going on with unidentified aerial phenomena.”
He also tweeted, when he was the administrator for the account now run by the President’s senior advisor:
1. Finally, my biggest failure of 2014: Once again not securing the #disclosure of the UFO files. #thetruthisstilloutthere cc: @NYTimesDowd
— Brian Deese NARA (@Deese44) February 13, 2015
In January, Clinton jokingly pledged to “get to the bottom” of the American public’s questions about UFO’s. Podesta said that he intends to hold her to her commitment to uncovering all that the government may know about life in outer space. He told CNN that, if elected, Hillary Clinton will ask for all of the records that exist concerning Area 51 in Nevada.
Area 51 is an Air Force training range in a remote area of Nevada that has been the subject of countless conspiracy theories about alien life. Podesta said that the public can judge once the evidence is released if the government currently has proof of space aliens.
When asked directly about his own beliefs on life in outer space, Podesta answered:
“There are a lot of planets out there… the American people can handle the truth.”
Bill Clinton actually held an interview with Jimmy Kimmel that was focused on the existence of space aliens. The former president said that he had reviewed the information about Area 51 and Roswell. He claimed that, at the time, he saw no evidence of visitors to Earth from outer space, but that he would not be surprised by such a visitation.
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