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Clinton's Still Talking About Aliens. Good.
Government files on UFOs are mostly still secret. Cue the conspiracy theories.
Not alone.
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Among the underappreciated oddities of the 2016 election is that Hillary Clinton keeps talking about aliens. On the radio, in newspaper interviews, on late-night TV, she and her surrogates are vowing to “go into those files” and “get to the bottom of it.” What she wants to get to the bottom of is Roswell, UFOs, Area 51 -- you know, the whole thing.
It’s a weird idea to campaign on. And no one is quite taking it seriously. (Almost no one, anyway.) But she’s right. Getting to the bottom of things is a sensible ambition for a president. And those things, those archetypes of American paranoia, have resisted analysis for too long.