Hillary Clinton with U.S. Shuttle Commander Eileen Collins during a space and science discussion when she was first lady. JAMAL A. WILSON / AFP / Getty Images
Here’s an article from the 538 web site that follows the typical mass media and mainstream science thinking when it comes to aliens and UFOs. It’s time to get all snarky, and that’s especially true when it comes to a political candidate for president making such comments.
If the author had gotten past her tongue-in-cheek – ‘look at this silly idea’ – mode of reporting to do some research, she would’ve found out that Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta is serious about getting the federal government to de-classify UFO files. And why not? If the aliens and UFOs don’t exist – as implied in the article below, why wouldn’t all related files be declassified? Typically, when it comes to UFOs, mainstream journalists tend to get all giddy and lose their sense of accountability.
Since writing the above, I’ve seen more coverage of Hillary and the aliens that includes Podesta. In addition to the giddiness response, there are also some writers taking the subject seriously who sound baffled by the whole thing.
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Hillary Clinton Wants More Transparency (About Aliens)
Most Americans aren’t as curious.
Hillary Clinton does not think enough of the truth is out there. As The New York Times reported Tuesday, she thinks there may be something to all those reports of UFO activity.
“There’s enough stories out there that I don’t think everybody is just sitting in their kitchen making them up,” she said when asked if she believed in UFOs during an interview in April with “The Breakfast Club” on radio station Power 105.1 FM. She has pledged to declassify government files on aliens, if they exist, provided that there’s no national security risk.1
Clinton is not the first presidential candidate to indulge in extraterrestrial conspiracies. Shirley MacLaine said that former Rep. Dennis Kucinich shared a UFO sighting with her, but you’d have to believe in something a lot less plausible than aliens to think he had a chance of prevailing in his 2004 or 2008 presidential campaigns and getting the chance to open the books.
A decade ago, about one in four Americans believed there was something to reveal. In a 2005 poll by Gallup, 24 percent of Americans believed that “extra-terrestrial beings have visited Earth.” In an earlier, 1997 ABC News Poll,2 only 16 percent of Americans thought that UFO sightings were caused by real alien spacecraft, as opposed to weather balloons, odd weather, or, in the case of noted skeptic Michael Shermer, a too-long-bike trek.
Americans have been a little more optimistic that we’ll meet aliens eventually. In the Pew Research Center’s 1999 Millennium Survey, 27 percent of Americans thought we would probably or definitely make contact with alien life in the next 50 years. (Pew didn’t ask if people expected the government would ’fess up when that finally happened.)
If Clinton wants to make a play for voters with beliefs in unproven phenomena, there are larger constituencies than the Roswell truthers. That 2005 Gallup poll found that over half of Americans (55 percent) believed in the power to heal people mentally, and other psychic powers also are rated as more believable than aliens (ESP: 41 percent, telepathy: 31 percent).
To win these voters’ support, Clinton might need to go through the military’s files on psychic experiments in the 1980s as part of the Stargate Project, where recruits tried to influence or kill animals by concentrating. If there’s anything revelatory and still classified, she can suggest a stare-goats-to-death duel be added to the presidential debate calendar.
Take a look at Hillary’s body language in the photo. She is turned totally and completely AWAY from Collins. Study it. Not only are her legs crossed in the opposite direction, but almost her entire back is turned away from Collins. Her left arm and hand, as well as her left shoulder, are turned away from Collins and her arm and hand are crossing her own body, away from Collins. Her head is turned away from Collins. Body language is a very “telling” science in terms of our interactions with others. This photo is a great demonstration of a person who is not at all aligned with the person sitting next to her. Collins, contrarily, is “closed off”. Her legs are tightly together; her left arm,with its hand cupping her ear and not holding the mike, is being held close to her chest. These two women don’t like each other, and Collins’s body language indicates possible “fear” of Clinton, or even defensiveness. Body language experts state that when two people are in tune with each other, the body language is “mirrored” between them. Interesting picture, this.
Their hands R towards their ears C. J… listening from ALL directions
some things will never be divulged, no matter the promise, no matter by whom.
Then they get into the oval office and disclosure never happens.