Former President Bill Clinton revealed in a recent sit down with James Corden that he had federal agents look into whether or not there were aliens at Area 51.
Clinton, who appeared on Wednesday’s Late Late Show, said that while he was president, he sent his National Security Advisor, the late Sandy Burger, to the Nevada Air Force base. According to the former president, he and Chief of Staff John Podesta “made every attempt to find out everything about Roswell.”
The highly classified air force base has long been the center of conspiracy theories, especially those involving aliens and unidentified flying objects. But according to Clinton, it’s all just rumors.
“I said, ‘We gotta find out how we’re gonna deal with this because that’s where we do a lot of our invisibility research, in terms of technology, like how do we fly airplanes that aren’t picked up by radar and all that,'” Clinton told Cordon.
“So that’s why they’re so secretive. But there’s no aliens, as I know.”
The 42nd president shared a meeting he had with scientists while on vacation with his wife, Hillary Clinton, in Hawaii in 2018. The two toured the telescopes at the W.M. Keck Observatory. Afterward, he asked if they argued about “the likelihood of life in outer space.”
The scientist explained that it does cause arguments, but they center on the odd that there is life out there. He told Clinton that some think there is an 85 percent chance, and those who believe it is 95 percent likely. Essentially, they feel some level of certainty that life exists out there.
“There are lots of mysteries out there, which is why I think we should take good care of this planet; I think we oughta kind of hang on to it if we can,” Clinton said. “But I also think it should keep us humble. There’s a lot of stuff we don’t know.”
Just last week, NASA announced that it is launching an investigation into UFOs. A team of scientists will collect information on “events in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or known natural phenomena — from a scientific perspective.” The nine-month study is slated to begin this fall and will be open to the public.
