Contact?

Left to Right: Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes; President Elect, Barack Obama; Alien; Former President, Bill Clinton; Former White House Chief of Staff & co-chair of Barack Obama’s transition team, John Podesta.

It seems UFO/space-alien stories rise to the surface of our popular culture about once a decade. Perhaps we are simply at the crest of this decade’s wave. The new spin is in the number of voices coming from inside the establishment.

In the past year several former NASA Astronauts have come forward to rather adamantly insist that alien spacecraft have visited Earth and various governments have been covering this up. Most outspokenly, Apollo 14 Astronaut, Edgar Mitchell (see video below), and Mercury-Atlas 9 / Gemini 5 Astronaut, C. Gordon Cooper (see video below).

NASA Astronaut, Gordon Cooper		NASA Astronaut, Edgar Mitchell

In May of this year Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory stated that the existence of extra terrestrial life “doesn’t contradict our faith” in an article for the Vatican paper titled “The extraterrestrial is my brother.” What does the Vatican know? or What is the Vatican preparing itself for?

President Elect, Barack Obama has tapped John Podesta to head his transition team. Podesta, the former Chief of Staff from the Clinton administration, is a known UFO buff. In October, 2002, acting as a lobbyist for the Sci-Fi channel, Podesta held a press conference to announce a freedom of information lawsuit where he stated, “It is time for the government to declassify records that are more than 25 years old and to provide scientists with data that will assist in determining the true nature of the phenomena.” Some dismissed it as a publicity stunt.

But it is worth pointing out that John Podesta was previously a member of Bill Clinton’s administration. Clinton’s Executive Order 12958 declassified many national security related materials including some documents related to UFO investigations (Edit: while blocking others) to satisfy Clinton’s own interest in events like the Roswell incident, and yet no shaking hands with the alien photo-op ever transpired… or did it?