White House Candidates Battle Aliens

I met Governor and Presidential candidate Bill Richardson a couple of weeks ago, on a Manhattan rooftop. Nice guy. Smart guy. Down-to-earth guy. Not at all the type you'd expect to, say, indulge fantasies about a massive government conspiracy to hide the existence of aliens here on Earth.

Nevertheless, the AP is reporting that Richardson is now pledging to get to the bottom of the 60-year-old Roswell UFO mystery.

Answering questions at a townhall meeting Friday, a Dell employee asked Richardson about the
1947 incident in which many people still believe a flying saucer landed near the eastern New Mexico town.

"I've been in government a long time, I've been in the cabinet, I've been in the Congress and I've always felt that the government doesn't tell the truth as much as it should on a lot of issues," said Richardson, who is governor of New
Mexico.

"When I was in Congress I said (to the) Department of Defense ... 'What is the data? What is the data you have?' "

He was told that the records were classified.

"That ticked me off," he said, as the crowd laughed.

"What do you want me to do? You want me to open up all those files?" he asked the alien enthusiast, who answered that he did.

"I'll work with you on that."

Roswell has become a Mecca for conspiracy theorists in the years since a July
8, 1947, press release sent from Roswell Army Air Base disclosed the recovery of "a flying disk" at a ranch near Roswell.

And, as the Carpetbagger Report notes, Richardson isn't the only Oval Office applicant who has expressed an interest in life Out There.

A New Hampshire kid recently asked Rudy Guiliani, "If (there's) something living on another planet and it's bad and it comes over here, what would you do?"

Rudy smiled -- but didn't blow off the question.

"Well if we're properly prepared for all the different things that can happen to us, we'll be prepared for that, as well," he said.

In Shirley MacLaine's new book,* TPM* observes, the actress and longtime friend of
Dennis Kucinich makes an interesting claim: During a visit to her home in Washington state, Kucinich said he saw a UFO and heard messages from it.

And then of course, there's this flashback...

Maybe all the attention from politicos is working. "In a victory for UFO enthusiasts, NASA has agreed to search for documents related to a mysterious incident that the government has tried to downplay -- or, some would say, cover up -- for decades," according to WiSci.

Meanwhile, David Hambling points us to an Italian investigation "into a series of unexplained fires in fridges, televisions and mobile phones" that is blaming aliens" for the conflagrations, according to Ananova.

It concluded that the responsibility for the fires in Canneto di Caronia on
Sicily may lie with "aliens testing secret weapons".

The village was the centre of world attention three years ago after residents reported everyday household objects bursting into flames.

Dozens of experts including scientists, electrical engineers and military experts, arrived in the village to investigate. One scientist reported seeing an unplugged electrical cable burst into flames.

Arson was ruled out while locals blamed supernatural forces and the
Vatican's chief exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth suggested it was Satan's work.

The report, by the Civil Protection Department, was ordered by the Italian government and brought together dozens of experts including a Nasa scientist.

According to leaked copies, the fires were "caused by high -power electromagnetic emissions which were not man-made and reached a power of between 12 and 15 gigawatts"..

Francesco Mantegna Venerando, Sicily's Civil Protection chief who co-ordinated the report, said: "We are not saying little green men from Mars started the fires, but that unnatural forces capable of creating a large amount of electromagnetic energy were responsible.

"This is just one possibility. We are also looking at another one which involves the testing of top-secret weapons by an unknown power which are also capable of producing an enormous amount of energy."

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