Clinton: Aliens may have visited us already

[HerbChestnut]

Can't make this one up.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/264650-clinton-aliens-may-have-visited-us-already

Hillary Clinton says that aliens may have already visited humanity.
"I think we may have been [visited already]. We don't know for sure," the Democratic presidential front-runner told The Conway Daily Sun during a campaign stop in New Hampshire last week.

Her comment came after being asked about her husband Bill Clinton's comments during an appearance on late-night show "Jimmy Kimmel Live" in 2014, when he suggested that extraterrestrial life could exist.

"I just hope it's not like 'Independence Day,'" said Clinton, referring to the film where aliens attack earth.

[NCTraveler]

1. Read that this morning. Love the Big Dog quote. nt.

[freshwest]

36. When that flick came out, I said that's exactly what I'd expect. ET my ass. n/t

[riversedge]

2. ha ha. Hillary having some fun. She has a great sense of humor

[HerbChestnut]

6. Except...

If this were anyone else they'd be ripped apart for it and painted as a tinfoil hat wearing loony. I remember watching one of the Democratic debates in 2008 and the very first question the moderator asked Dennis Kucinich was about his "UFO encounter". He was practically laughed off the stage and not asked another question for the better part of a half an hour.

[riversedge]

17. Well Dennis did persist as I recall.

[HerbChestnut]

20. So you think Hillary would back down from this or change her tune?

I hope she gets asked about it during the next debate. First question.

[Hortensis]

22. Except over 10,000 galaxies have been identified

in just this ultra-deep photograph taken of a quiet region of the night sky. There may be as many as a trillion galaxies (not planets!) in the universe.



I don't think she was just having fun. At least briefly planning, or becoming updated on existing plans for, potential responses to alien contact, and considering the forms that might take, is something all presidential administrations should have on their to-do lists.

Stephen Hawking feels overall we may be very fortunate that we apparently have not been contacted, but that hasn't kept him from supporting efforts to identify extraterrestrial civilizations.

[Warren DeMontague]

24. It is doubtful we have been visited, but it is nearly certain there is other life in the Universe.

Seeing as space science needs to be a priority for the 21st century, I hope Hillary's "understanding" of the size and scope of the cosmos is better than her apparent grasp of encryption.

[peacebird]

3. And it is NOT the onion....

[HerbChestnut]

11. I had to do a double take

This seems like an awfully weird thing to say so close to the start of the primary.

[global1]

4. She Goes On To Say - In Fact I Believe Bernie Sanders Is An Alien.....

because no politician can be that honest. (tongue in cheek)

[AJH032]

5. I believe they have

The great mysteries of our existence are beyond human comprehension.

[Anansi1171]

7. What do they derisively call it here - woo. To believe we have been...

...are now and forever will be completely alone in all the universe. Now THAT is a human sentiment if ever there was one. Right up there with the Earth being the center of the universe.

Never mind the Drake Equation.

[3catwoman3]

8. When I watched the first...

...Men In Black movie, it seemed very possible -

[jonno99]

13. Chuckles...nt

[Anansi1171]

15. Well, truth is stranger than fiction. -nt

[Maedhros]

9. It's entirely possible.

I can't find the energy to be at all concerned about what Hillary may have said on the Jimmy Kimmel show about extraterrestrials.

[bvf]

10. When I remember the absolute drubbing

Kucinich took just for his UFO comment, I can easily imagine what the right wing would do with this.

[anigbrowl]

21. Nah

Kucinich gave off the air of someone who might actually think this was a top priority.

I sorta wish Clinton had suggested that it was a good thing the anti-government militants didn't know the truth about area 51 though. It would be entertaining to see them swarming the area in search of a clue.

[bvf]

23. I won't budge on your first point

Kucinich was mayor of Cleveland when I lived there, and did some good things (saving Muni Light, among others).

I think the air you speak of was more of a consequence of the media's portrait of him, not to mention that he pissed off the right institutions during his tenure there, and while in Congress. Big banks deeply loathed him, which was a big point in his favor. (This was when the era of bank consolidation was only a gleam in Wall Street's eye.)

I phone-banked for him in his congressional run, and was a proud Dad when my daughter interned for him.

As to the Area 51/militants thing (thanks for not calling them "militia" btw), that would have been funny as hell.

[anigbrowl]

29. I'm not basing my opinion on the media, but on personal experience

He's a nice person and a good one, but he made a poor impression on me within minutes of meeting him. But this thread isn't about him and it's not my intention to trash him or change your opinion. I'll just say he didn't inspire confidence in me.

[bvf]

31. Fair enough.

My larger point was that the media clearly can destroy anyone it has a problem with.

And consider the media.

[HerbChestnut]

14. Reread the title, carefully.

[uppityperson]

18. How is it an "OP fail"?

She didn't say they have

She said they may have.

OP fail.

[HerbChestnut]

19. ...exactly.

I just copied the title of the article and used it as my OP title.

[demwing]

27. please be clear

What is your point?

[leftofcool]

25. DU launches aliengate in 3, 2, 1

[freshwest]

37. The year of CT begins. Who knew? n/t

[whatthehey]

26. Well for a given value of 'may' I suppose that's true

After all, panspermia is a reasonable enough although unverified, like all the others, theory of the origin of life.

Just moved the question somewhere else though.

[zazen]

28. after John Podesta tweeted about "disclosure" this past year I read NYT reporter's book

on the subject. It was from 2010, by Leslie Kean (Podesta wrote the Forward). It's a very reasoned, rational book.

I must say, I was really surprised (as an automatic dismisser of these claims until now) that there are lots of very credible witnesses from the Air Force and NASA (not to mention other country's agencies) to something going on. Most of reported cases have obvious natural explanations, but apparently some remaining small percent does raise questions. Whether that's a huge black ops (black budget, as in 8 trillion?) thing where trillions go missing from DOD to work on stealth technology and it's covered up with a huge disinformation campaign . . well, that's entirely possible too. (And angering, since it means there's some non-fuel based energy source in which billions are being invested that would greatly help our planet and economy).

What struck me the most and for the first time when reading Kean's book was how, if as an agency you were charged with absolutely silencing all serious research and conversation about an issue, then you'd make any mention of it an immediate career killer that subjects the person raising the subject to endless ridicule and isolation. If there had been something in the late 40s that someone wanted to cover up, and/or that moved into the private sector, the level of ridicule aimed at a lot of very credible people would be exactly what you'd do to hush them up.

Doesn't mean aliens have visited or not, but if we are truly skeptical (truly scientific), we should keep an open mind. Medieval people would have thought our world was 'magic' and utterly inconceivable. It's entirely possible there's mind-blowing information out there that we find inconceivable that may be plausible.

I hope if Clinton is elected she will follow-through on this. Apparently, past presidents haven't had as much luck. There's an anecdote about Carter trying and being visibly upset after learning something . . . who knows.

[vi5]

30. Aliens must have polled high this week. (N/T)

[Kalidurga]

32. Well they might have

Probably took one look at our planet and got out of dodge.

[ismnotwasm]

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[Agschmid]

34. It's funny.

And that about it.

[Motown_Johnny]

35. "We don't know for sure" is the only reasonable response

It can be followed up by voicing your opinion on the likelihood of that happening, but Hillary admitting there is something she doesn't know is very encouraging to me.

[postatomic]

38. Jimmy Carter claimed to witness a UFO

And promised to investigate the possibility of extraterrestrial life if elected, which he did. Problem was that NASA said there was no scientific basis for investigating it. End of story.

If you get past the wild claims from the bayou, there are definitely some unusual things that have gone on in this world.