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December 14, 2015 11:00 am PST

Meet the only lobbyist pushing for US government "disclosure" of E.T. visitation

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Stephen Bassett is the only lobbyist of his kind in Washington DC. He's working to get the government to admit that it has proof of extraterrestrials visiting our planet. I want to see disclosure by the New Hampshire primary, says Bassett who has been working the issue for nearly two decades. From the Washington Post:

...Getting appointments on Capitol Hill wasnt easy for an advocate who believed that aliens landed at Roswell in 1947 and that the nations leaders created a Truth Embargo to keep information from getting out.

Nobody there wanted to touch it, Bassett said.

In 2013, unable to get anything close to a real congressional hearing, he created a fake one. With a $1 million donation from a Canadian believer, Bassett paid former members of Congress such as Alaskan senator Mike Gravel and Maryland representative Roscoe Bartlett $20,000 to spend a week at the National Press Club listening to testimony about UFOs.

The hours of testimony from former Air Force officials who believe they saw spacecraft, or accounts of animals found dissected in pastures led to some lighthearted stories but no movement with any current members of Congress. Then came the tweet heard round the world.

The message came from Podesta, the former top aide in Bill Clintons White House, as he stepped down after 11 months as special adviser for President Obama.

My biggest failure of 2014: Once again not securing the #disclosure of the UFO files. #thetruthisstilloutthere, he tweeted on Feb. 13.

It was retweeted thousands of times and picked up by mainstream media reporters across the country most presenting it as a joke. But to Bassett and fellow believers, this didnt read like a bit of ironic Twitter humor. This was big.

"UFO truthers want to make Roswell an issue for 2016. Meet their lobbyist." (via The Anomalist)


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