'We The People' Petition Seeks Truth Of Alien Visits From Obama Administration

UFO hunters are now turning to an Obama administration initiative in the hopes of revealing what the government really knows about extraterrestrials.

Under the White House's "We the People" program, citizens can appeal to officials "to take action on a range of important issues facing our country."

"If a petition gets enough support," the government website promises, "White House staff will review it, ensure it's sent to the appropriate policy experts and issue an official response."

Gentlemen, start your intergalactic engines . . .

WATCH THIS OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE PETITION PROMO:

By "enough support," the administration means a petition has to receive just 5,000 signatures within 30 days to warrant an official White House response. That's a low enough threshold to get a lot of conspiracy theorists licking their suspicious chops.

As soon as the White House announced its We the People program, UFO/ET proponent Stephen Bassett wasted no time penning the first alien disclosure petition which reads:

We, the undersigned, strongly urge the president of the United States to formally acknowledge an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race and immediately release into the public domain all files from all agencies and military services relevant to this phenomenon.

Bassett is executive director of Paradigm Research Group which advocates for the truth about UFOs.

"In 1996, when I launched the Paradigm Research Group, I registered as a lobbyist on behalf of a number of organizations on this particular subject -- the idea of total disclosure of an ET presence on Earth by the world governments," Bassett told The Huffington Post.

"Everything PRG does, including World Disclosure Day -- all of it contributes to this process."

And now the die is cast, because within just four days of Bassett's petition being registered, it amassed more than the necessary 5,000 signatures to warrant an official White House response.

And that just delighted arch UFO skeptic Robert Sheaffer. "Well, now we've got something to look forward to!" he said sarcastically.

"It would be one thing if what it were asking is, 'Please reveal all that you know about extraterrestrials.' But this wording pre-supposes that the contact is already going on," Sheaffer told HuffPost. "It doesn't allow the possibility that there isn't an extraterrestrial presence already engaging the human race."

Sheaffer, author of the new book, "Psychic Vibrations," suggests President Obama made a mistake by offering to respond to any petition with a relatively modest number of signatures, "because there's no shortage of bizarre and marginal groups and beliefs that can raise 5,000 signatures."

As Alejandro Rojas pointed out in his recent HuffPost blog, there are examples of prior American presidents -- such as Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter -- who tried to obtain information about UFOs. Even John F. Kennedy asked his staff to provide him with UFO materials.

So now, both alien believers and skeptics are playing a mutual waiting game as they anticipate someone at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington to tell us who's right.

"The response from the White House could be utterly trivial," said Bassett. "They could just blow it off by saying something like, 'Our policy is that we don't investigate this phenomenon anymore' -- which is a lie -- 'and whatever this phenomenon is, it doesn't pose a threat' -- which they don't know for sure."

And a White House spokesman told HuffPost, "It's not going to be practical for us to start commenting on each individual petition ahead of their getting officlal responses."

But when that official response about extraterrestrials on Earth comes -- as it must -- will you believe it?

CHECK OUT THE FOLLOWING UFO ITEMS:

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• UFO Over Mojave Desert Sept. 9, 1985

  This cigar-shaped UFO was photographed by general aviation pilot David Hastings as he piloted a Cessna Skymaster plane over the Mojave Desert on Sept. 9, 1985. There has never been an indication of hoax in this case, which remains unexplained to this day.

• UFO Over Holloman Base

  An unidentified flying object was photographed by a government employee over the Holloman Air Development Center in New Mexico in 1964. Conspiracy theorists have claimed the photo is proof that the U.S. government has been in contact with aliens.

• Strange objects over France

  While descending an Austrian mountain in 1954, photographer Erich Kaiser captured an image of what he called mysterious silvery-white flying objects.

• Mexican Air Force Pilots Video

  Mexican Air Force pilots filmed strange, brightly lit objects that moved quickly in the skies on March 5, 2004. Some scientists said the phenomenon could have been caused by gases in the atmosphere.

• Roswell

  America's most infamous UFO case centers in Roswell, N.M. Some people claimed an alien spacecraft crashed there in 1947; the military said it was a weather balloon.

• Roswell dummies

  The Air Force issued "The Roswell Report" in 1997. Countering claims that aliens were recovered at the New Mexico site, the report said military officials picked up 200-pound dummies, above, that were used in an experiment.

• Alien in Brazil

  Video grab close up. What looks like an alien creature with visible head, neck, arms and body standing in the Brazilian rainforest in Manaus, Brazil. In this Amaz-alien footage, a lone unidentified being appears to stand in the jungle of Brazil -- even arching its back -- just feet away from a bright flashing blue light. In what some allege as proof that Earth is being visited by aliens from another planet, the video was obtained by paranormal writer Mike Cohen who says the video was taken by two British tourists visiting the Manaus region of the Amazon jungle.

• Crop Circle in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

  A large circle and geometric pattern local residents say were created by a UFO appeared in a rice field in Krasakan hamlet in Sleman, Yogyakarta, on the morning of Jan. 23, 2011.

• Stan Romanek film

  Stan Romanek claimed that this still image from a three-minute video he shot in 2003 shows an alien looking into his home in Nebraska. In the film, a strange face appears to be popping up and down outside Romanek's window.

• Sketch of UFO sighting

  This eyewitness drawing of an alleged UFO sighting is in one of 19 once-secret files posted to the British National Archives website. The files cover sightings reported between 1986 and 1992. Although many of the reports were debunked, some remain unexplained.

• France field markings

  An investigator in 1989 measures markings that some said were left behind by a UFO in Normandy, France. France began releasing its "X-Files" on UFO sightings in 2007.

• President Jimmy Carter

  President Jimmy Carter, shown here in 1971, reported that he saw a UFO above Leary, Ga., in 1969. He filed a report about the sighting to the International UFO Bureau in 1973.

• Astronaut Gordon Cooper

  Astronaut Gordon Cooper, who piloted Mercury and Gemini space missions in the 1960s, once said he saw a "typical saucer shape, double-cylindrical shape, metallic" UFO. He was also outspoken on the idea that some UFOs were interplanetary vehicles visiting Earth.

Comments

[Ramiro Guzman]

11:49 PM on 12/02/2011

..What makes you think that the US goverment will come clean with this..they haven't revealed the 911fiasco, the two world wars, the invasion of the Middle East, the economic and housing crisis, the rigged elections and so forth and so forth...do we honestly believe they will tell us the truth about ANYTHING?....

[fmazoman51]

07:35 PM on 12/02/2011

Remember reading when the "world is flat" people heard about someone saying it is actually round, people scoffed at that idea too. I have seen a couple of things that I couldn't explain, one of them being in the White House. That statement is for the previous entries about "Tea Partiers from Outer Space. The Occupier videos are what the Russians show their populace, to show them that living in the US is worse than where they live, not TP vids. Nothing to see there...
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[ccsysglf]

07:13 PM on 12/02/2011

i have never seen one, but any thing the government totaly denies most likely would be true....

[gregmilton]

11:52 PM on 11/06/2011

Any human with reasonable intelligence knows there is life outside our world. Can't prove it, though. Just like no one can prove that Jesus walked 2,000 years ago. Many people believe one or the other, or both...but neither has been proven.

[Wildee7]

05:55 PM on 11/06/2011

It was a lame answer. I am disappointed that Obama chose to continue to allow citizens around the world to be called stupid, nuts, and seeing things. We have a right to know the truth. I guess when some nasty galactic neighbor attacks us, we will finally be told the truth and we will have no time to prepare.

[Kiri the Unicorn]

01:58 PM on 11/06/2011

(ahem)

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/response/searching-et-no-evidence-yet

Of course, this will in no way change anybody's mind on this subject.

[rzr2012]

03:50 PM on 11/02/2011

turkeyufocase.blogspot.com

[argolid]

01:10 AM on 11/02/2011

2 years ago, rhe Vatican prepared a strategy document, that outlined what Disclosure would mean to the Catholic faith and church. O ba;ma knows, and is the guy who will be president when it occurs. Disclosure will be an event precipitated by our off world brothers themselves, we wont get all the answers about the past from the government. At that point it doest really matter, anyways. The shift that we are witnessing in the global human collective is preparing the way for the Disclosure event, that will on that one day, will unite the collective consciousness of all humans with the wonder of it all, and a new sense that we are all Earthlings, and a star family. I've got no problem with the sceptics on this thread, just watch the NASA films themselves, and really research with an open mind.....now about the final takedown of the i;llumina'ti, more on that soon, as well

[Andygt1]

11:42 PM on 10/18/2011

They have raised the threshold from 5000 to 25,000. Its currently at 10,572 so we need alot more signatures, but something tells me if we get to that number the threshold will go up again probably to 50,000.

Here is the link. www.whiteh­ouse.gov/g­KC

[gregmilton]

02:25 AM on 10/17/2011

U.F.O. does not mean 'Alien'. It simply means unidentified flying object. If people in general had the capacity to understand distance and time and the mechanisms that promote functioning higher life then they would, at least, have a miniscule grasp of the fact that interstellar travel for organic lifeforms is virtually impossible. Think about it. We humans, as a pseudo intelligent species, send machines into space before we send people. Why is that? Because the human body is so delicate and it cannot tolerate the stressors of space travel for more than a few months. A machine can. So wouldn't it stand to reason that if we are ever visited by extra-terrestrials that we would be visited by their machines first? Other civilizations would have to evolve much the same way that we are evolving. And as advanced as they may be, they would have to go through the same steps that we are currently going through. I am a firm believer in 'life among the stars' but given the reality of distance between potential civilizations, organic life is limited in what it can do and how far it can travel...that's just known terrestrial physics. There is life outside our little solar system, but whoever made this thing we call the universe was smart enough to construct it in such a way as to keep us from meeting our 'neighbors'.

[CannabisRex]

10:53 PM on 10/17/2011

Every one of your assumptions is based on nothing but guesswork and not on evidence. What makes you think that we humans, not long ago an agricultural society and recently able to fly at all, have the total grasp on science and math and physics? Scientists today cannot explain or agree on what gravity is, for Pete's sake! Astronomers bound to the gravitational hypothesis of the universe cannot explain many or most of the observations confidently and the electic model is far more sensible.

And why would another species, even if remotely humanoid, have to develop the same way and at the same rate as us? What if they have been doing their thing for a million years ahead of us...or 100,000? unless stagnancy is the rule then development is bounded only by imagination and COMPREHENDINg true physics. We are just sorting out things that aliens no doubt comnsider old hat, and your assumptions are belied by the evidence...there is too much to dismiss now..too late for denial.

[Andygt1]

12:22 AM on 10/17/2011

These people who say that because their holy book says something or doesn't say something it either is or isn't. Guess what? There isn't any direct mention of aliens in the bible by god...because it was thought out and written by MEN. If you people had your way we would all still be living in the tyranny of all of your dogma and in the same manner that people in Islamic countries are still living today. Keep your creation museum non-science and whatever else your pastor said to you in tongues to yourself. There are thousands upon thousands of reports and many of them are from credible people and professionals who take a great risk personally and professionally by speaking out.

Most people know what a plane, or a helicopter, or most other type of aircraft look like and they make SOUND. The things people are reporting are not aircraft that we've made, we simply don't have the technology to make them. They hover silently just a few feet above the ground then shoot off to 10,000mph in an instant and turn on a dime at the same speed. We can't do that even with unmanned vehicles...our alloys wouldn't stand up to those types of G-forces let alone a frail human body.

[gregmilton]

02:32 AM on 10/17/2011

I agree with you on most points but we only know what the media tells us. We may have aircraft that can do these unbelievable maneuvers (unmanned of course) but we'll probably never know...not in our lifetime.

[CannabisRex]

04:11 PM on 10/15/2011

So, the 9-11 Commission and NIST could ASSUME that no explosives were used, and thererfore no need to teat for them despite the obvious evidence of explosions, but someone trying to get the truth out of the government cannot assume that ET activity has occurred and been noted by the very same government?

UFO skeptics are people who can look at video's and photo's and read testimonies from reliable witnesses and pretend that it is all somehow a glitch, an " anomalie " and sweep the facts under the rug. No amount of evidence will convince them, if they saw one personally they would believe that they are hallucinating rather than accept the plain truth. Denial is a terrible thing; it makes blind those who can see, who should act, and who keep humanity from progressing in order to insure that their comfy personal paradigms are not violated...some people cannot take the truth.

[Greg Oropeza]

03:45 PM on 10/17/2011

Give us skeptics one piece of tangible evidence, not testimony or "photo's" and we will believe. Skepticism is a method, not a position. Skeptics do not go into an investigation closed to the possibility that a phenomenon might be real or that a claim might be true. When we say we are “skeptical,” we mean that we must see compelling evidence before we believe.
And I believe that intelligent life exists countless times in our universe. I do not believe we have been visited yet. When we are, I expect we will first detect radio waves and/or probes etc.

[CannabisRex]

03:56 PM on 10/17/2011

In other words, make one land in MY yard and I will believe...ignore all but the most far fetched possibilities and insist that it be the standard..skepticism is one thing, stubborn denial is another. If you do not believe the testimony of the japan Airlines pilots and the FAA boss that backed him up, and if you do not believe the thousands of clear photo's and what physical trace evidence that HAS been found, you would not believe it if it DID land in your yard...you would think you were delusional, or it was a hoax..or anything else that allowed the safety net in your psyche to keep protecting your limits and your comfort zone.

Your expectations have nothing to do with the evidence; you have pictures and reliable testimony that UFO's are real and here, yet you think that SETI will come thru some day with radio messages or " probes" whatever that means. I alwasy wonder what skeptics will do and say when the big day comes and denial will be ridiculous...will they still deny? Will they break down? will they lie and say they never really denied it? We will see...soon.

[chergoyle3]

12:40 PM on 10/15/2011

All you need is a mole in the archives with a link to Julian Assange and Wikileaks. We'll have the "truth" in no time.

[Worrierking]

07:33 PM on 10/14/2011

In this day and age it's difficult to understand how the government is still hiding the proof that we have been visited by aliens.

How else can you explain the teabaggers?

[Areyoukiddingg]

06:01 PM on 10/14/2011

Gotta say once again, with about 1,000 worldwide sightings of unusual craft in the skies and tens of thousands of unexplained photos, why is this filed under "weird" news? If we ever learn the answer to what's behind these craft it will be the biggest news story of all time. Will it be filed under "weird" then?