Former senior adviser to President Obama, John Podesta, says that the one thing he regrets the most is not securing the disclosure of the UFO files. I'm sorry, what?

1. Finally, my biggest failure of 2014: Once again not securing the #disclosure of the UFO files. #thetruthisstilloutthere cc: @NYTimesDowd
— John Podesta (@Podesta44) February 13, 2015

Courtesy of Yahoo News:  

Podesta’s longtime fascination with UFOs is well-documented, as his brief political hiatus following four years as President Bill Clinton’s chief of staff freed him up to pursue his otherworldly passion. 

At a 2002 press conference organized by the Coalition for Freedom of Information, Podesta spoke on the importance of disclosing government UFO investigations to the public. 

“It’s time to find out what the truth really is that’s out there,” he said. “We ought to do it, really, because it’s right. We ought to do it, quite frankly, because the American people can handle the truth. And we ought to do it because it’s the law.”

As some of you may, or may not be aware, the Air Force recently declassified 130,000 pages of UFO records.

However before anybody gets TOO excited you should know that conclusion by the Air Force is that they have not seen any evidence suggesting the sightings "represent technological developments or principles beyond the range of present-day scientific knowledge."

I know. That would have broken 13 year old me's heart completely.  But these days I am more of a realist.

As you all know I kind of have a reputation for skepticism and  that holds true in my private life as well.

I remember somebody once asked me if I believed in UFO's, and I answered "Yes, absolutely."

After that person finished running around the room telling everybody that I was a big phony and that I was just as gullible as the next guy, he came back to me to rub my nose in my "superstition."

At that time I calmly pointed out that the term "UFO" does NOT refer to a flying saucer from another planet, but rather an unidentified flying object, and reason dictated that there must have been thousands of those that nobody ever gathered enough data to completely explain.

I then went on to say that if he was asking me if I found the possibility that there was life on other planets, and that those lifeforms might have developed the ability to travel in space, then yes I did indeed think that possibility might exist.

As for having visitors here on earth I remain a hopeful agnostic.

Like I said the 13 year old that lives inside of me would be incredibly excited to learn that we had been visited by aliens, however the grownup in charge of this body today needs more than what has been offered so far to be convinced that such is the case.

So if John Podesta is correct, and there IS evidence to support the fact that we have had visitors from space, than I think the information should be declassified and the people of this planet should get the chance to examine and discuss it.

13 year old me awaits the information with bated breath.

Guy in charge of public relations after the Roswell crash leaves note, "Yep they were aliens all right." I am going to file this one under "cool".

Lieutenant Walter Haut was the public relations officer at the base in 1947 and was the man who issued the original and subsequent press releases after the crash on the orders of the base commander, Colonel William Blanchard.

Haut died last year but left a sworn affidavit to be opened only after his death.

Last week, the text was released and asserts that the weather balloon claim was a cover story and that the real object had been recovered by the military and stored in a hangar.

He described seeing not just the craft, but alien bodies.

He saw two bodies on the floor, partially covered by a tarpaulin.

They are described in his statement as about 1.2m tall, with disproportionately large heads.

Towards the end of the affidavit, Haut concludes: "I am convinced that what I personally observed was some kind of craft and its crew from outer space".

Now I have a small confession to make, I love the idea of visitors from outer space!

I think perhaps one of the best things that could happen to our planet, and its occupants, would be to discover that we are not alone in the universe. It would make us re-examine everything that we accept about ourselves, and open the doors to some amazing self discovery.

Religions would crumble, politics would be altered forever, our minds would be expanded overnight. We would all finally realize that there is more to our reality then this beautiful rock that we call home.

My only fear is that we would act like assholes to the first visitors and forever make them fear or dislike us. In fact that may have already happened and we just don't know it.

But just imagine the possibilities.