Increasing Number of Politicians Admit Belief in UFOs

Increasing Number of Politicians Admit Belief in UFOs

In 2017, Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera, Miami Republican congressional candidate for the state senate in Florida was ostracized for admitting eight years earlier that she had been abducted by aliens. Perhaps the public just wasn’t ready for what seemed like such a bold and crazy admission to many voters.

Or maybe the general public is unwilling to admit what they secretly believe. In any case, more and more politicians are now coming out of the closet, so to speak, joining the millions who believe we are not alone in the universe, including a number of candidates currently running, or who recently ran for president.

More than a third of all Americans believe aliens have visited our planet, according to a poll conducted by the most famous of all pollsters — Gallup. Newsweek reported that demographic groups more likely to believe in visiting extraterrestrial spaceships include the young (18-29), non-college graduates, and the irreligious — with respondents in those categories trending toward 40 percent. Even with variation across demographic groups, no category fell below 27 percent of respondents describing some UFOs as alien spacecraft.

At this point in time, Newsweek reported, the extraterrestrial explanation for the UFO aerial phenomena represents a minority of US citizens. However, a large majority agrees that the government knows “more about UFOs than it is telling us.”

Disclosure Goes Mainstream

Politicians, UFOs, and Alien Abductions

In a 2009 television interview, political candidate Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera said three blond, big-bodied beings — two females, one male — visited her when she was seven years old. The aliens, she said, communicated telepathically with her several times in her life. Aguilera told the Miami Herald,  “I went in. There were some round seats that were there, and some quartz rocks that controlled the ship — not like airplanes.”

Aguilera said that politicians, including presidents Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter, as well as astronauts, have publicly claimed to have seen unidentified flying objects. Scientists, including Stephen Hawking, and institutions like the Vatican have stated that there are billions of galaxies in the universe and we are probably not alone.

“I personally am a Christian and have a strong belief in God, I join the majority of Americans who believe that there must be intelligent life in the billions of planets and galaxies in the universe,” Aguilera said. Regardless of being in good company, she was laughed out of public service, thanks to South Florida’s local media that garnered national attention.

US Politicians Admit Seeing UFOs

Here we are, only a few years after Aguilera’s media debacle, and even the big hitters on the American political scene are fessing up to their feelings and experiences with UFOs. A number of political candidates running for the 2020 election, and politicians in general, have been commenting on the possibility of UFOs and alien visitations. Among them are Amy Klobuchar, William Weld, Michael Bennet, Eric Swalwell, and Pete Buttigieg (to name a few).

Three videos, including one from 2004 and two from 2015, show incursions into US military-training ranges by “unidentified aerial phenomena” (the new official term for UFO).  When asked about the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier’s UFO incident in 2004, presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg defended the right and responsibility of military personnel to be able to report strange incidents without fear of ridicule or reprisal. This isn’t quite an admission of belief in UFOs, but it is certainly a refreshing change from what the government has been covering up for decades.

Last summer, presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders said he will release any information about ETs and UFOs if he is elected in 2020. The last time we heard this promise was by Hillary Clinton, who ran for president in 2016. She said she would “get to the bottom” of the UFO phenomenon, and she added that aliens may have already visited Earth, but “we don’t know for sure.” The New York Times reported Clinton’s vow that, barring any threats to national security, she would open up government files on the subject. Her position sat well with UFO enthusiasts, who called her the first “ET candidate.”

A month before Sanders revealed his intentions on the Joe Rogan podcast, candidate Andrew Yang told CBS News that as a “huge fan of transparency,” he’d “love” to declassify information on alien life forms and UFOs. “If I become privy to any information about aliens or Area 51 or anything that I am able to share, I will share it,” Yang said.

On Jan. 2, 2020, New York magazine online reported that Minnesota senator and presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar hinted at disclosing UFO information if elected. She told a New Hampshire Daily Sun reporter, “I think we don’t know enough … I don’t know what’s happened, not just with that sighting, but with others,” she said. “And I think one of the things a president could do is to look into what’s there in terms of what does the science say; what does our military say.”

While the newest crop of politicians seems to treat the UFO — and US government cover-ups — as serious topics, few are willing to openly admit to close encounters. 

Back in 2008, Ohio congressman and presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich were outed by Shirley MacLaine that he had seen a UFO and felt “a connection in his heart and heard directions in his mind.” In a Democratic presidential debate, Kucinich acknowledged seeing something airborne that he couldn’t identify, but he quickly followed up with a joke about opening a campaign office in Roswell. After keeping quiet about the UFO encounter for 25 years, two of the people who were with Kucinich that evening, at MacLaine’s home in Graham, WA, described the event. The Wall Street Journal reported that MacLaine’s bodyguard, Paul Costanzo, said, “I sensed that I was in the presence of greater technology and intelligence.”

UFOs Into the Mainstream

With so many Americans climbing on board the alien spacecraft belief, we’re about to see whether the tipping point is now happening. As more and more official records are revealed to show that the old weather balloon explanation just doesn’t fly any longer, perhaps the next generation of politicians will take the nervous giggles out of discussions of alien abductions and UFO sightings. Meanwhile, the fact that so many mainstream politicians are openly answering questions and calling for disclosure is a good sign not only for UFO enthusiasts but also for those who have been ridiculed for decades merely for witnessing something that is beyond the understanding of modern science.

Nazi UFO Technology: Foo Fighters Exposed

It was just before Christmas in 1944. An American Air Force pilot was flying over enemy territory, carefully looking out for a German war plane, when he and his radio operator both saw round glowing objects approaching. The unidentified flying objects (UFOs) got behind the U.S. military plane and began following it. The American pilot tried several maneuvers in an attempt to lose the mysterious objects, but even a steep dive or sharp turns could not lose them. Suddenly, the objects disappeared. Surprisingly, during the entire encounter, neither the American pilot nor the mysterious objects fired any shots.

This is just one example of many similar incidents that occurred over the skies of Germany during the last few months of World War II. Sometimes, the objects showed up on radar screens. Other times, more than one person observed the objects but they did not show up on radar. What were the mysterious objects? Were they UFOs from extraterrestrials? Or were they some sort of Nazi Ufo experiment? No one can be sure, but there are a variety of theories.

The Foo Fighters

Toward the end of the war, U.S. pilots frequently reported nighttime sightings of these UFOs. The objects always traveled at great speeds and were able to make maneuvers to keep up with American planes. The Allies worried that Germany had created a new weapon even though no shots were ever fired.

The objects received the nickname “foo fighters” after a popular cartoon of the time called “Smoky Stover.” In the cartoon, the Smoky character often said, “Where there’s foo there’s fire.” The term caught on and even radar operators used the term “foo fighter” to alert pilots of sightings.

Although most of the encounters occurred over Europe, there were a few similar incidents that occurred over the Indian Ocean. Interestingly, after the war was over, the Allies discovered that the Axis powers had also seen the objects, and feared that the Allies had developed a secret weapon.

Also after the war ended, Rudolf Lusar, a major from the German Army, wrote a book about secret weapons used by Germany during the war. He described two types of golden ball-shaped objects the Allied pilots identified during the war. One version he referred to as the “Feuerball.” The other was the “Kugelblitz.”

According to Lusar, the devices were jet-propelled and guided automatically. Their purpose was to emit electrostatic discharges from Klystron tubes to disrupt the electrical systems of the Air Force bombers’ engines and prevent them from dropping bombs.

Although Lusar’s description seems plausible, researchers disagree about the validity of his account. For instance, not a single Allied plane ever reported complications from an encounter with a foo fighter. So, it seems that if the Germans had developed such a weapon, they would have been able to replace the ineffective klystron tubes with a substance that would have accomplished their goal.

To date, no conclusive explanation for the foo fighters have ever been found. So the question remains, what technology was available to the Germans and how did they use it?

German Development of Technology and Exploration of Antarctica

Maria Orsic and the Vril Society

It’s no secret that the Germans used all their available resources in an attempt to be the greatest nation in the world. One of their great pursuits at the time was space travel. To reach their goal, they used the information provided by psychic Maria Orsic and the Vril Society to assist them. When Orsic channeled the blueprints and instructions for building a circular flying machine, the Vril Society began paying for and assimilating parts from other industrial sources.

Maria Orsic and other Vril Society members met with Hitler, Himmler and others in January 1944 to discuss the circular flying machine project. There was at least one test flight late in the year which did not end as all had hoped for. The machine returned more damaged than expected after its flight to another planet.

Instead of continuing work on the project and channeling helpful information, Orsic disappeared. She was last seen in early 1945. On March 11, 1945, she sent a letter to members of her organization that ended with the statement, “niemand bleibt heir,” or “no man stays here.”

No Vril member, including Maria, was ever seen or heard from again. Did they escape to outer space? Meanwhile, did Germany continue its experimentation with circular spacecraft?

Viktor Schauberger and German UFOs

Viktor Schauberger was an Austrian physicist and inventor who rose to prominence in Nazi Germany. He was widely known for his vortex experiments using water and fish. He then developed turbines that could create anti-gravity propulsion.

In 1939, Hitler summoned Schauberger to Berlin for a meeting. At first, Hitler greeted Schauberger warmly and said he called the meeting to discuss Schauberger’s work. However, the meeting lasted for approximately 11 hours before Schauberger could leave.

In 1943, Schauberger was 58 years old and suffering from war wounds. Even so, he was drafted into the German Waffen-SS and placed under the direct control of Heinrich Himmler. Himmler forced Schauberger to research and develop a new secret weapon and threatened to kill him if he did not cooperate. Schauberger was then housed at Schloss Schoenbrunn so that engineers imprisoned nearby could assist him with his work.

Schauberger was not an easy pushover. Despite receiving death threats, he refused to work unless he could personally select the engineers to be on his team. He further demanded that his engineers gain freedom from the concentration camp, were properly clothed in civilian clothes, given adequate food, and were housed in civilian accommodations. He argued that if his workers feared for their lives, it would stifle their creativity and make them unproductive.

Surprisingly, the SS agreed to his demands. He chose approximately 30 engineers and other workers to leave the concentration camp and be housed in civilian housing exactly as he had demanded. When he first assembled his group, he lectured them about how important it was for them to work hard and never try to escape. He told them if any one of them tried to escape, he himself would face execution. They did what Schauberger told them to do and developed two machines. At the end of the war, the Allies confiscated the top secret information, forever concealing this technology from the public.

1930s German Exploration of Antarctica

In the late 1930s, Germany dedicated substantial resources to exploring Antarctica. In 1943, German Grand Admiral Donitz proudly proclaimed, “The German submarine fleet is proud of having built for the Fuhrer, in another part of the world, a Shangri-la land, an impregnable fortress.” During the 1938-39 expedition, the Germans claimed to find ice-free lakes with warm water and surrounding vegetation. The Germans named their new Antarctica colony “Neuschwabanland.”

There were reports that when the Nazis faced defeat, some scientists actually escaped in U-boats filled with mercury to head to their Antarctica fortress. Two of the boats had mechanical difficulties and surrendered in Argentina. One U-boat wrecked in Indonesia and another sank in a Norwegian fjord. Meanwhile, a large number of U-boats were never found. Could they have made it to their Antarctica destination?

Did Germany have more resources than the Allies believed? Where did the mercury come from, and what did the Germans plan to use it for?

Operation Paperclip Confirms Germans Had Brilliant Scientists And Advanced Technology

As the war came to an end, the United States recognized that Germany had technology that might be helpful to the U.S. As a result, General Patton captured German factories in Silesia that housed proprietary technology and weapons. There was substantial evidence that Germany was working on circular aircraft that could work not just in the Earth’s atmosphere, but also outside of it. It seemed obvious that the Germans had the technology and scientists but not the resources (such as oil, electricity and the necessary facilities) to produce such an advanced aircraft. For this reason, the U.S. attempted to extricate scientists from Germany and bring them to America. The program had a codename of Operation Paperclip.

The scientists, who specialized in aerodynamics, rocketry and chemical weapons, were of particular interest. They were silently and secretly relocated within the U.S. without going through the State Department’s strict approval process. Most notably among them was Wernher von Braun.

Before and during the war, von Braun was head of the Germans’ rocket development program. After coming to the U.S. by way of Operation Paperclip, he became a naturalized citizen and eventually became the director of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He is considered the father of the American space program.

Operation Highjump

Even as they were basking in the glory of the win, the Allies had suspicions that something was amiss.

In response to interrogations, some Germans revealed that there was a secret German base in Antarctica. The government decided to send famed Admiral Richard Byrd to investigate a concern that there still may be weapons stashed in the secret hideout.

In the late summer of 1946, Byrd headed to Antarctica with about 4,700 military personnel along with naval support ships. They had at least one aircraft carrier as they embarked on “Task Force 68,” nicknamed Operation Highjump. The expedition had several months to complete its mission, but ended after only about eight weeks due to heavy casualties.

On the way to their destination, Byrd and his crew reported experiencing a “mysterious UFO force” that destroyed several of their airplanes and ships and killed several crew members. Was this perhaps the “first known historical incident involving a battle between U.S. naval forces and an unknown UFO force stationed in Antarctica?”

Byrd continued onward. He found Neuschwabenland, which featured underground caverns flowing with warm water and signs of vegetation. But, he and his men could not stay long nor could they do any major exploration. They were continually bombarded by aircraft and forced to leave. Had they perhaps found a post-war hiding place for Nazis who had actually been able to escape?

On their way home, Byrd and his group stopped briefly in Santiago, Chile, where Byrd was interviewed while still aboard the expedition’s command ship. Byrd warned that although he was not trying to scare anyone, it was clear to him that if there was a new war, the U.S. could face attack via planes flying over one or both of the poles. He noted that with the “fantastic speed with which the world is shrinking” the U.S. would no longer be safe. After that interview, Byrd rarely spoke about his Operation Highjump experience.

In 2006, a Russian intelligence report included the testimony of two U.S. Navy Seamen who had been on Admiral Byrd’s Operation Highjump expedition. Both seaman recounted seeing brightly lit UFOs appear dramatically out of the ocean. They watched them soar into the sky and disappear. The troops fired at the UFOs, but the UFOs never fired back. Some on the expedition concluded that the UFOs had a mission to deter them and send them away, not to harm them.

Were the UFOs encountered by Admiral Byrd protecting Nazis hiding out in Antarctica? Were they exclusively built by German scientists to deter its earthly enemies or did they come from the Vril Society’s mysterious planet? The question still stands today, but there’s always more to learn.

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