Planetary securityFormer lawmakers to hold hearings on aliens
Six former member of Congress have agreed to hold a congressional style hearing on the existence of aliens in space. “It’s a huge universe out there,” former Representative Roscoe Bartlett (D-Maryland) said. “You have to be kind of presumptuous and arrogant to assume we’re the only intelligent life in the universe.”
Six former member of Congress have agreed to hold a congressional style hearing on the existence of aliens in space.
The Hill reports that the hearings will take place this week at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. and will feature about thirty hours of testimony on the possibility of the existence of aliens. About three dozen researchers and academics are expected to testify and the hearings will be recorded for a documentary film.
The hearings will be sponsored by the Paradigm Research Group, which lobbies for alien research. According to the Detroit News, the group is shelling out $20,000 plus expenses for former representative Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick’s (D-Michigan) participation. The former congresswoman has said in the past that she has always been interested in alien life.
“It’s good to be here,” she told the Detroit News. “We’re excited. I’ve been reading and watching, and so I’m looking forward to the week’s activities.”
The other former members are Senator Mike Gravel (D-Alaska), and Representatives. Lynn Woolsey (D-California), Darlene Hooley (D-Oregon), Roscoe Bartlett (R-Maryland), and Merrill Cook (R-Utah).
Bartlett told the Maryland News-Post that although he has never seen evidence of a government conspiracy during his time in office, he has an open mind on the possibility.
“It’s a huge universe out there,” Bartlett told the Post. “You have to be kind of presumptuous and arrogant to assume we’re the only intelligent life in the universe.”
Last year two petitions on the government’s We the People petition Web site asked the Obama administration to disclose whether there has ever been any contact with space aliens. The White House promised to answer all petitions which gather more than 100,000 signatures.
“The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race,” Phil Larson of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy said in a statement. “In addition, there is no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public’s eye.”
