Presidential Hopefuls and UFOs
Mike Smith
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Presidents and UFOs. It’s a subject long debated by serious UFO/Extraterrestrial researchers and one with quite a bit of history. For instance, a fleet of UFOs were seen flying over the nation’s capital, right over the White House at one point, back in 1952. Jimmy Carter claims to have seen a UFO, John F. Kennedy was supposedly assassinated over the issue of extraterrestrials according to some conspiracy theories, Bill Clinton spoke on the subject of Roswell in Belfast, Ireland, and Ronald Reagan even mentioned extraterrestrial life in several speeches.
And now we have New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson running for President. It was only a matter of time before a flying saucer would streak across his campaign path.
A few months ago, had you googled the words Bill Richardson and Roswell you most likely would have gotten matches pertaining to the Governor visiting the town, approving a project here and there, or the foreword he wrote to the book The Roswell Dig Diaries. Now google Bill Richardson and Roswell and you will likely get a bevy of blogs buzzing about his recent comments at a Round Rock, TX, Town Hall Meeting to look into the Roswell files if elected President.
At the town hall meeting a Dell employee asked Richardson about the Roswell Incident to which Richardson replied, “I've been in government a long time; I've been in the Cabinet; I've been in the Congress; and I've always felt that the government doesn't tell the truth as much as it should on a lot of issues.”
The Governor continued to relate how when he was a member of Congress he asked the Department of Defense about any data they had on the Roswell Incident to which he was told the records were classified.
“That ticked me off,” Richardson said eliciting a laugh from the crowd.
Richardson then asked the Dell employee who had asked about Roswell if he would like him to open the Roswell files one day if elected. Of course the man said yes.
Richardson’s reply? “I’ll work with you on that.”
That rather brief and vague answer generated the news story which would eventually go on to carry the headline:
I'll look into Roswell UFO files if elected president, Gov. Bill Richardson says
But, does anyone really believe Richardson would make any headway declassifying information even if he did manage to become President of the United States?
Stephen Basset, the head of X-PPAC (Extraterrestrial Phenomena Political Action Committee), thinks so. In an interview with Fox News Basset said he felt Bill Richardson and Hillary Clinton were the candidates with the best chances for bringing to light the truth behind the UFO cover-up.
Basset also said, “[Richardson] is, unequivocally, the leading candidate, in my opinion, for the Vice Presidential slot on the next democratic ticket.”
It’s also interesting to note that Basset made these comments before Richardson made his at Round Rock, TX.
Still, others remain skeptical of classified UFO information being declassified anytime soon.
Grant Cameron who runs presidentialufo.com doesn’t think Richardson is likely to win, and reminds people that Bill Clinton tried to look into the Roswell files as well to no avail. “If Bill as President couldn't get it, Richardson has no chance.” said Cameron.
UFO columnist Leslie Gunter has similar thoughts. “I don't believe he will get anything disclosed about UFOs, even if he was elected President. He may look into it, as he has promised, but he will either meet a dead end or be told a bit of the truth at which time he will clam up for National Security reasons.” said Gunter. “Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton were interested in UFOs, but none of them got the truth, or if they did they didn't disclose it to the public. I don't see Richardson being any different.”
Richardson’s campaign staff remains mum on his Roswell comments when asked. Blogger Billy Cox tried to get more information on the situation but Richardson staffer Max Feldman wrote to Cox that, “We don’t have a comment on this at this point.”
Ironically enough though it seems to be presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich who’s getting the blunt of attention for UFOs. Kucinich, who claims to have seen a UFO over, of all places, Shirley MacLaine's house nearly 25 years ago, was asked about the incident by Tim Russert at a Democratic presidential debate. After replying honestly about his sighting Kucinich would suffer a great deal of media ridicule about the subject from then on.
But a funny thing happened. Soon after that many other candidates were asked about the UFO issue. Barack Obama, luckily for him never having seen a UFO before, managed to slyly work his way out of the E.T. question. John McCain said he had never seen a UFO but, “I keep looking all the time.” And Rudy Giuliani answered an 8-year old girl who had asked about being invaded by evil aliens that the US would be prepared for anything that happened in the case of an alien invasion.
But in the end is the UFO question really a deciding factor in the 2008 election? And does anyone believe that any of the candidates take the UFO issue very seriously? Although Richardson’s comments may have gotten some excited and garnered plenty of speculation, he was more likely than not just catering to his audience in Round Rock, TX, like any normal politician would.
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