Hillary Clinton Promises Reporter She’ll ‘Get To The Bottom’ Of UFOs

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton smiles as she greets people in the audience as she arrives at a town hall style campaign event Sunday, Jan. 3, 2016, in Derry, N.H. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton recently told a New Hampshire newspaper reporter that she would “get to the bottom” of UFOs and Area 51.

Daymond Steer, of The Conway Daily Sun, had asked Clinton about UFOs in 2007, when he worked for a different local paper in New Hampshire. Clinton remembered the exchange when she interviewed with the editorial board of the Daily Sun in December.

“Yes, I’m going to get to the bottom of it,” Clinton reportedly told Steer.

Clinton had told that reporter in 2007 that her husband, former President Bill Clinton, received the most freedom-of-information requests at his library on the subject of UFOs.

She also told Steer in the December interview that her campaign chairman, John Podesta, was big fan of UFO lore.

“He has made me personally pledge we are going to get the information out. One way or another. Maybe we could have, like, a task force to go to Area 51,” Clinton was quoted as saying, referring to the secretive Nevada military base.

h/t: The Huffington Post

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  1. Why do I get the feeling she’s just humoring him?

  2. I really really wish Trump got that question. Or Carly F.

  3. Avatar for meta meta says:

    This story has LEGS.

  4. Just for even more fun, I wish she would have told him that after exhaustive research and investigation, it has been determined that Area 51 is located between Area 50 and Area 52.

    But she may need his vote in NH, so she had to tactfully tell him he was nuts in such a way that he did not realize she was doing it.

  5. No, see that’s the creepy thing - Area 51 is ACTUALLY located between Area 48 and Area 54! Now if THAT doesn’t set off your government conspiracy alarm bells I don’t know WHAT will!

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