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Kimmel asked the former president whether he would tell the audience if he'd found proof of alien life.
Since then rumors have swirled that the balloon was actually an alien spacecraft. He added that he also looked at the files related to the Roswell Incident in 1947, when a US Air Force surveillance balloon crashed in Rosewell, New Mexico. 'First I had people go looking through the records of Area 51, to make sure there was no alien down there,' he said, going on to say that stealth technology is developed in the base, 'but there were no aliens there.' No aliens: Bill Clinton told Jimmy Kimmel (pictured) that when he became president he looked at documents related to Area 51 'to make sure there was no alien down there'īill Clinton has also broached the topic on various occasions, including a conversation on The Jimmy Kimmel show in 2014, when he said that during his time as President he had made enquiries about Area 51 itself. Several current and former White House officials said Podesta - regarded by many as an elder statesman - quickly injected more depth into strategy discussions and would often play devil’s advocate, pushing the team to consider things not on their radar. Obama brought on Podesta after the disastrous rollout of his health care law. That Podesta would use his position as Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman to press her to look into the files is no surprise - he has been campaigning for declassification of secret documents, especially UFO-related ones, for decades.Īs White House Chief of Staff for Bill Clinton, Podesta declassified hundreds of millions of documents himself, but was never able to get to the UFO documents.Īnd in 2014, as he left his position of counselor to Barack Obama, he tweeted: 'Finally, my biggest failure of 2014: Once again not securing the #disclosure of the UFO files.' He concluded with the hashtag '#thetruthisstilloutthere,' a reference to popular sci-fi conspiracy show The X-Files. Two years before, Rockefeller had started up an initiative requesting that then-President Bill Clinton release information about UFOs. Voyage into the unknown: Laurance Rockefeller (pictured right, with Clinton in 1995) tried to get Bill Clinton's administration to declassify UFO-related documents She has been linked to UFOs since 1995, when a photograph was taken of her and businessman Laurance Rockefeller in which she can be seen holding a copy of the book Are We Alone: Philosophical Implications of the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life by Paul Davies. She was described as 'recalling the conversation with a smile' and 'having fun with the topic.'Ī later CNN report characterised the remarks as 'tongue-in-cheek,' a descriptor not used in the Daily Sun's report. We don't know for sure.'Ĭlinton's remarks emerged in conversation with a Conway Daily Sun reporter who had questioned her on the topic in 2007. She also said, 'I think we may have been. Maybe we could have, like, a task force to go to Area 51.'Īrea 51 is an infamous US military base in Nevada which is ostensibly used to test stealth technology, but has long been linked to UFOs by conspiracy theorists, who say that the base was used to imprison and perform tests on aliens. She added that Podesta 'has made me personally pledge we are going to get the information out, one way or another. In December of last year, Clinton said much the same at a meeting with The Conway Daily Sun, in which she 'enthusiastically' told the editorial board, 'Yes, I'm going to get to the bottom of. Podesta continued: 'More attention and more discussion about unexplained aerial phenomena can happen without people - who are in public life, who are serious about this - being ridiculed.'