UFO truthers want to make Roswell an issue for 2016. Meet their lobbyist.

The WshingtonPost ^ | December 11 at 9:23 AM | Ben Terris

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Bassett, a balding man with expressive eyes that seem to go from blue to green, has long had one goal: Get the government to admit it has been covering up proof of alien visits....

"I want to see disclosure by the New Hampshire primary," he said brushing crumbs off his black dress shirt and purple tie during lunch at the National Press Club this month. "And I can make the case that it's going to happen."

...Then came the tweet heard 'round the world.

The message came from Podesta, the former top aide in Bill Clinton's 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 didn't read like a bit of ironic Twitter humor. This was big.

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"I believe Clinton's team has calculated that they cannot make it out of the election without first dealing with the ET issue," he said. "But what are her options? If she calls a press conference and gives it too much gravitas, she'll still have to deal with the fundamental question of why she hasn't talked about it in the last 23 years. The alternative is to trigger the press to ask her about it....Then she can measure exactly the amount of gravitas she wants to give it."

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