A couple of months ago, US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton made what was perhaps the most peculiar campaign promise in a presidential race defined by its peculiarities.

Speaking on Jimmy Kimmel’s popular late night program, Clinton promised that if elected, she would do everything in her power to open up the military’s UFO files.

Although one might argue that Hillary was pandering to the UFO vote, a previous interview summed up the leading candidate for our Presidency’s views on whether or not we’ve been visited, in her own words: “I think we may have been. We don’t know for sure.”

At least in this, I’m with Hillary. Up until a year ago, I didn’t believe in UFOs. I consider myself a pretty rational person, and I come from a family of scientists.

Although I think the math pretty much guarantees that life exists on other planets- a nearly infinite number of stars, new earth-like objects being found every other day, the prolific amount of potential chemical building blocks throughout the universe- the idea of flying saucers being real just seemed too silly to contemplate seriously.

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