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posted by takyon on Sunday January 10 2016, @11:30AM   Printer-friendly
from the the-truth-is-out-there dept.

Although many U.S. presidential candidates are discussing "aliens," the Daily Mail has a story about a candidate talking about aliens from potentially much farther away. According to the Daily Mail, Hillary Clinton has made a campaign promise to 'get to the bottom' of Area 51 if she should be elected President of the United States of America. Specifically, Clinton said that she would reveal the UFO truth:

"one way or another. Maybe we could have, like, a task force to go to Area 51."

"I think we may have been [visited already]. We don't know for sure."

The Daily Mail story is based on the report of an interview with the candidate published in the Conway Daily Sun newspaper of Conway, New Hampshire.

Do the contributors here think that extraterrestrials are a promising and important campaign topic? Or is there skepticism?


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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2016, @12:02AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2016, @12:02AM (#287876)

    Has anyone here seen a UFO? and I don't mean just an object that seems to be flying or soaring across the sky that you couldn't identify. I mean an impressive object that hovers, moves, stops, goes, moves down, stops, hovers, then moves up and away and changes courses abruptly with impressive characteristics, speed, and acceleration, and made no noise whatsoever that you couldn't think of a man made craft that can do such a thing that looks like such an object?

    I have. Twice. The first time I was with a friend and we both saw the same thing. It was a disk with red lights around it and the red lights spun around. The disk hovered in one place for a while then moved in circles across the sky at very high velocity making no noise whatsoever. It went around and around, was quite a distance and so it was traveling very fast. In the matter of seconds it would be from one end of the sky to another and hovered back around. It stopped at will, continued at will, changed courses and directions abruptly at will, zigzagged at will, etc... My friend and I both saw the same thing.

    The second time I was with a relative. This egg large shaped object was hovering over our house, it wasn't very high at all and was much larger than our house. It was a pale gray, almost the color of the sky, but pulsated to a glowing yellow and back. Didn't make a sound. We both saw the same thing. Not long after like five or so helicopters started chasing it and as they approached it it started moving up to get away from them then stopped and hovered again. As the helicopters begin to recover their distance towards it it moved up again. It did that for a while before just suddenly zooming away in a fraction of a second. Later on there were reports all over the local news that many others were seeing the same thing. I think the news tried to possibly discard it as some type of balloon but ... no.

    Unless me and others were experiencing mass hallucinations I know what I saw. Those two times were the only times in my entire life I've ever seen anything so impressive. I guess such an observation is a once in a lifetime event if you're lucky but I can't disregard what I saw. Even though I tend to be very skeptical of UFO sightings and whatnot if it weren't for these two sightings that I've encountered before I would be a lot more skeptical. Some things I just can't explain.

    Both encounters occurred in the nineties.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2016, @01:48AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2016, @01:48AM (#287896)

    Its strange that as camera have improved in quality and become more prevalent (most people carry a decent one in their pockets/handbags these days), that we still don't have any good videos of UFOs. Why would that be?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2016, @06:24AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2016, @06:24AM (#288007)

      Its strange that as camera have improved in quality and become more prevalent...that we still don't have any good videos of UFOs. Why would that be?

      If there are "visitors" and they want to stay semi-hidden, they may stay at the edge of detection and photography. More cameras just means they have to be more careful not turn on the funny glowy lights as often to run the abduction equipment, etc.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2016, @11:47AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2016, @11:47AM (#288082)

      Maybe the UFOs are sending VEIL signals [wikipedia.org] to disable digital cameras? :-)

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2016, @06:19AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2016, @06:19AM (#288006)

    I know two people personally who saw something really strange and were freaked out by it. Separate events. I won't speculate, for I wasn't there.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2016, @06:28AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2016, @06:28AM (#288010)

    oh my god, how could I have been so blind. if Anonymous Coward talks about it on the internet, it's obviously true.
    even if you were telling the truth, what could possibly make someone believe you? an abundance of details is not a proof, and neither is a bigger amount of weird in your story.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2016, @08:56AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2016, @08:56AM (#288045)

      I have seen the more boring variety (object hovering in the distance) on a couple occasions.

      I think the first one turned out to be a marker light that I mis-judged the distance of (because it was so dim). (Did not move with the stars over hours.)

      I think the ball(s) of multi-coloured lights I see on cold nights is just extreme star twinkling. (But have not carefully tracked movement over hours to confirm that)

  • (Score: 1) by radu on Monday January 11 2016, @08:55AM

    by radu (1919) on Monday January 11 2016, @08:55AM (#288044)

    ... and was much larger than ...

    ... to a glowing yellow ...

    That was the Vogons - see, I identified it right away, not an UFO.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2016, @01:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2016, @01:53PM (#288108)

    Thank you for sharing your experiences. I too have seen similar things, but with different colored lights and such. Also had black helicopters with search beams come snooping around the edge of the trees right where the crafts had passed over as well as military jets show up in the same flight path but higher. My biggest sightings were towards the end of 1994 with some smaller sightings many years before and some since.

    In the biggest sighting, which was at night while I was standing outside watching meteor showers, there were 3 craft in this particular grouping which all came from different directions at very high speed then "locked" together into a tight formation then flew in one direction (directly towards Mt. Rainier) very slowly, leisurely almost as if sight-seeing. One of the craft, which formed the front-west corner of the perfect backwards-triangular formation, flew very slowly directly over me, perhaps 50 feet high. It was absolutely silent until it's center got directly over me then I felt a powerful deep thrumming vibration which was so strong that I could practically hear it. Then it quickly faded away as it continued on its way. Each of the front two craft had three large rectangular panels that would change colors (mostly white and red from what I recall), but the rear centered craft had a pattern of square/rectangular panels facing directly down with a central square panel parallel to the ground and the other panels connecting to it angling upwards at an angle kind of like the bottom of a very simple disco ball.

    I have no idea who/what was piloting them, I only know that I witnessed the use of technology that no Nation or Company claimed to have, both back then and now. I had no camera available back then when it happened but god I wish I did.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2016, @01:56PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2016, @01:56PM (#288111)

      My mistake; it was the Front-East corner craft, not the Front-West one. The Front-West one was flying over the edge of the tree-line whereas the Front-East one was flying over the row of houses where I was standing.