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Apr. 22, 2008
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Clinton urged to reveal what she knows of UFOs

By SARA SPIVEY
STEPHENS WASHINGTON BUREAU

WASHINGTON

UFO researchers say Hillary Clinton knows whether extraterrestrials have contacted Earth, and they want her to come clean about it.

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Sen. Clinton has been aware of the "extraterrestrial presence issue" since 1993 when her husband was president, according to Stephen Bassett, lobbyist and director of the Paradigm Research Group, an organization that focuses on UFO "exopolitics."

"She is connected to this issue and there is nothing she can do about it," Bassett insisted Monday at a news conference wrapping up a weekend "X-Conference" at a suburban Maryland hotel.

On the day before the Pennsylvania primary, Clinton's campaign did not return a call regarding her knowledge of E.T.s on earth.

But Canadian researcher Grant Cameron maintained that the Clintons obtained information about UFOs and key landmarks in UFO folklore such as Area 51 in Nevada and Roswell, N.M.

Trying to shed light on a Clinton-UFO connection, Cameron said he pored through 991 pages of documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act from the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Clinton library.

About 450 pages were related to Area 51 at Groom Lake in Nevada where the government conducted tests of advanced aircraft and weaponry. But, he said, one document that appeared related to the UFO issue was largely blacked out.

"It was full of black bars," Cameron said.

At the X-Conference, attendees listened to "ufologists" discussing UFO sightings, alien technology and the government's challenge of disclosing "the UFO issue" to the general public. They were also treated to several alien-encounter documentaries.

Although ufologists at times have been ridiculed as conspiracy theorists, one candidate for U.S. Congress stepped forward at Monday's news conference in support of their work.

Joseph Buchman, a Libertarian running in Utah's 1st District that includes part of Salt Lake City, called on Congress to hold open hearings on the government's extraterrestrial-related activities.

He also wants new laws allowing officials to waive their security oaths in order to talk freely about their experiences hunting extraterrestrials.

"Once Congress would pass such legislation they would be free to talk about an issue they would surely love to share with their families, their wives and others," Buchman said.

Bassett urged Clinton also to talk openly about her knowledge of UFOs.

Basset said he is not trying to lose Clinton votes. Rather, she may gain votes by acknowledging what he said "50 percent" of voters already believe -- that Earth has been contacted from outer space.

Clinton "is absolutely pinned between her ambition to be the next president, or whatever her ambition might be, and this issue, and there is no way out -- period," Bassett said.

Clinton is not the only presidential candidate to be pressed about alien encounters.

At an Oct. 30, 2007 presidential debate for Democrats in Philadelphia, candidate Rep. Dennis Kucinich was asked by moderator Tim Russert if he had ever seen a UFO, and he said yes.

Russert then asked Sen. Barack Obama whether he believed in life beyond Earth.

"You know, I don't know and I don't presume to know," Obama responded.

Bassett said he is determined to make sure "the UFO question" comes up again -- and this time gets asked to the right person. Meaning Hillary Clinton.

"There are many debates to come," Bassett said Monday. "This is not over."

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Please enter your name Name: Please enter your email Email: Please enter a comment COMMENTS : (word count limit is 300) You have reached the maximum number of words allowed Current Word Count: Note: Comments made by reporters and editors of the Las Vegas Review-Journal are presented with a yellow background. Grant Cameron wrote on April 26, 2008 09:33 AM: A surprizingly straight article on what was said at the conference. Also very glad to see you phoned Hillary's people. David Johann wrote on April 22, 2008 10:55 PM: It's almost too funny (while at the same time pathetic). Rather than attack Clinton's policies, oldawdoggie goes after her daughter. You hear that ladies. Where have you heard this kind of stuff before? Oldlawdoggie. What a man. David Johann wrote on April 22, 2008 10:33 PM: Oldlawdoggie sez: "Hillary will see to it that we are all lead to the 'mothership' with her far left-wing, radical Saul Alenskey-style policies designed to make us all conform to her vision." Oldlawdawg: can you base that statement upon case law precedent? If not, it's invalid. Besides, how dare you insult the integrity of another (albeit far more successful) lawyer. Ooh. oldlawdawg wrote on April 22, 2008 07:31 PM: Anybody who does not believe the Clintons are aliens haven't seen a recent picture of Chelsea! She even looks like Jimmy Carter, for crissakes! And none of this "don't pick on Chelsea," stuff -- she is out campaigning for mommy and deciding whether she might not want her own political career. Just wait and see -- Hillary will see to it that we are all lead to the "mothership" with her far left-wing, radical Saul Alenskey-style policies designed to make us all conform to her vision. If ever there was an individual bent upon domination of political and social individualism, it is Hillary Clinton, who makes her race-baiting husband look like a Republican. Just look at her health care/insurance plan -- we must all buy insurance or be heavily penalized, while doctors everywhere must conform to certain socialistic requirements, in order for the program to work at all. Hillary and her clan are as alien as it gets. No Hillary wrote on April 22, 2008 04:25 PM: Hillary saw UFOs circling the oval orifice in short skirts and blue dresses while Bill was President. politik wrote on April 22, 2008 03:47 PM: Its a ploy to get more votes out of Nevada oldlawdawg wrote on April 22, 2008 10:23 AM: Hell, everybody knows the Clintons ARE aliens! Just Weird wrote on April 22, 2008 09:00 AM: Hillary can't say what she knows any more than Jimmy Carter could. The Bilderbergers, et al, won't let her. And that's if there is anything to know. You don't think there's any group like the Bilderbergers? Why else would Hillary, Harry Reid and the whole gang have voted for the war in Iraq? Go ahead and ask Harry why he voted yes, and he'll hand you some lame nonsense about WMD's. But, I disgress. A sure sign that you're dealing with yahoos is if they bring up Roswell. That has been thoroughly discredited. There are many other sightings and incidents that are far more disturbing than Roswell. I have to somewhat disagree with John Kraft. There are plenty of Earths out there. Life will be there whenever the conditions are right...every time. Sentient life is another question. I have to think it's pretty unusual to get to our point, TV, moon landings, etc. We've only been around a short while and anything from a virus to an asteroid could wipe us out at any time. John Kraft wrote on April 22, 2008 08:27 AM: Mister Bassett can pore over all the documents he wants. But, the mathematical odds against a planet being just far enough from its sun, with an atmosphere and abundant water to support sentient life, are astronomical (no pun intended). When you add in a factor of such sentient beings traveling through distances encompassing millions of light years to "visit" us, then you have a "point spread" that no bookie would touch. The reality is that we are completely alone in the universe. It's hard to swallow, not filled with much hope and flies in the face of the "conventional wisdom" put forth by Mister Bassett and those who believe othewise. But, that's reality. David Johann wrote on April 22, 2008 07:22 AM: I remember a huge photo on the cover of "Weekly World News" featuring then presidential candidate Bill Clinton shaking hands with an alien. That's proof enough for me. Come to think of it, running stories like this, the "R-J" has much in common with the "Weekly World News" found in the supermarket checkout aisle. Also, I heard that when George W. Bush used to do cocaine, and when he got arrested for drunk driving in Kennebunkport, Maine, both times he was mentioning something about UFO aliens.