US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, if elected, is ready to declassify materials on unidentified flying objects (UFOs). This was stated by the head of her campaign headquarters John Podesta. He explained that he discussed this issue with Clinton and was able to convince her to share the secrets of UFOs with fellow citizens, since people "must know the truth."
Podesta is the chairman and advisor of the Center for American Progress (CAP) human rights organization. He is known as a supporter of the disclosure of classified information about UFOs and called for this back in the 1990s, when he served as the chief of staff of the US President under Bill Clinton.
This statement was not impromptu. Podesta previously encouraged journalists to ask their candidate about UFOs, and some have already done so. So, Hillary Clinton told The New Hampshire newspaper that she intends to get to the archives related to UFOs, because, perhaps, humanity has already encountered other civilizations.
The presidential candidate considers it necessary to create a working group to investigate everything related to "Area 51" in Nevada, which became known due to numerous reports of unidentified flying objects. Some media outlets interpreted Clinton's statement as a joke, but Podesta made it clear that his candidate was being serious.
“I think I convinced her that we need to make an effort to move on and declassify as much data as we can, since people have valid questions,” the head of the campaign headquarters said.
Podesta expressed regret that people who believe aliens are real are being ridiculed.
I must say that the Clintons are familiar with this problem not by hearsay. As the first lady of the United States, Hillary Clinton made the covers of tabloids with headlines related to "strangers." In the mid-1990s, billionaire Lawrence Rockefeller persuaded the Clintons to uncover the UFO mystery. And Bill Clinton on the Jimmy Kimmer show said that he tried to get to the heart of the matter when he was in the Oval Office.
“The first thing I did was try to send people to Area 51 to see if there were aliens there,” he said.
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It is believed that the US government's interest in ufology faded after the closure of the Blue Book project in 1969, but media outlets have raised suspicions that the national security services are still looking into encounters with the unexplained. Earlier this year, the CIA declassified some research data on encounters with unidentified flying objects around the world. Most of the published documents concern observations made in the late 1940s and 1950s. The publication coincided with the premiere of the new season of The X-Files, a television series dedicated to finding answers to seemingly intractable mysteries.
Several US presidents, including Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, have at one time acknowledged the existence of UFO data, but the current presidential race is the first in which one of the leading candidates is in favor of declassifying archives.