Mrs. Clinton, a cautious candidate who often bemoans being the subject of Republican conspiracy theories, has shown surprising ease plunging into the discussion of the possibility of extraterrestrial beings.

She has said in recent interviews that as president she would release information about Area 51, the remote Air Force base in Nevada believed by some to be a secret hub where the government stores classified information about aliens and U.F.O.s.

Here’s our analysis.
In a radio interview last month, she said, “I want to open the files as much as we can.” Asked if she believed in U.F.O.s, Mrs. Clinton said: “I don’t know. I want to see what the information shows.” But she added, “There’s enough stories out there that I don’t think everybody is just sitting in their kitchen making them up.”

When asked about extraterrestrials in an interview with The Conway Daily Sun in New Hampshire last year, Mrs. Clinton promised to “get to the bottom of it.”

“I think we may have been” visited already, she said in the interview. “We don’t know for sure.”

While Americans typically point to issues like the economy and terrorism as top priorities for the next president, a desire for answers about aliens has inspired a passionate bloc of voters, who make their voices heard on social media.

Stephen Bassett, who lobbies the government on extraterrestrial issues, views a Clinton presidency as a chance to finally get the United States to disclose all it knows about life beyond Earth. Since November 2014, Mr. Bassett’s organization has sent roughly 2.5 million Twitter messages to presidential candidates, elected officials and the news media urging a serious discussion of the issue.

“That was a storm, and now it’s like a steady drip,” Mr. Bassett said.

The movement viewed Mrs. Clinton’s decision to correct Mr. Kimmel’s use of the term U.F.O., which some view as loaded and rooted more in science fiction than in science, as a breakthrough because it “suggested she’d been briefed by someone and is not just being flippant,” Mr. Buchman said.

In fact, Mrs. Clinton had been briefed. She was prepped by her campaign chairman, John D. Podesta, who is not only a well-respected Washington hand, having served as a top adviser to Mr. Obama and President Bill Clinton, but also a crusader for the disclosure of government information on unexplained phenomena that could prove the existence of intelligent life outside Earth.

New York Times: Hillary Clinton Gives U.F.O. Buffs Hope She Will Open the X-Files

turn back the spaceships!

You can bet Frank N Furter will visit this thread.

party_pants said:

turn back the spaceships!

What if they only needed to deposit sperm in specific wombs throughout history and don’t need to turn up to run things?

Postpocelipse said:

You can bet Frank N Furter will visit this thread.

I’d prefer he doesn’t

dv said:

Postpocelipse said:

You can bet Frank N Furter will visit this thread.

I’d prefer he doesn’t

And your vote stops him in what way?

Postpocelipse said:

dv said:

Postpocelipse said:

You can bet Frank N Furter will visit this thread.

I’d prefer he doesn’t

And your vote stops him in what way?

It’s not a vote. It’s an expression of a preference.

dv said:

Postpocelipse said:

dv said:

I’d prefer he doesn’t

And your vote stops him in what way?

It’s not a vote. It’s an expression of a preference.

Well he’s all about Ex-Pressi-on so preference will be noted, somewhere, probably on a napkin that gets used to wipe spew off his friends face.

Surely she could just lean across one night, give Bill a gentle cuddle, and say “go on, tell me big boy, what really is in area 51
“?

Surely that’d be a tad easier.

sibeen said:

Surely she could just lean across one night, give Bill a gentle cuddle, and say “go on, tell me big boy, what really is in area 51
“?

Surely that’d be a tad easier.

Maybe she doesn’t believe what he says

party_pants said:

turn back the spaceships!

let’s set up a detention centre on Mars.

Let’s do the Time War dv said:

Postpocelipse said:

dv said:

I’d prefer he doesn’t

And your vote stops him in what way?

It’s not a vote. It’s an expression of a preference.

Let’s do ‘The Time-Warp’ again!

Perhaps presidents aren’t privy to information about aliens, they are elected officials and can come and go quite quickly, whilst a top secret government department would be around for decades. Much easier to hide such information when those in the know aren’t public figures

dv said:

New York Times: Hillary Clinton Gives U.F.O. Buffs Hope She Will Open the X-Files

Well, I stand corrected. It appear that Australia really is the clever country after all.

If some government did have an alien craft and reverse engineering was possible then surely they’d have a massive technological advantage over everyone else, however this isn’t true. Also why would we persist with chemical rockets if some other form of propulsion was possible. Its all wishful thinking as it would be cool if aliens and their spacecrafts were present on Earth.