The search
for intelligent life beyond the stars has landed on President Obama's desk.
More than
7,500 people have signed a petition asking the White House 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.'
It's a move
that UFO conspiracy theorists and true believers hope will lend some legitimacy
to their cause.
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| Unidentified: Conspiracy theorists hope the White House will acknowledge their petition for information about UFOs |
If the
petition gets 17,000 more signatures by Oct. 22, the White House has promised
to respond.
An Obama
Administration initiative called 'We the People' will enlist White House
staffers to research and consider taking action on any issue that receives at
least 25,000 online signatures.
The
threshold was originally just 5,000 signatures, a number that the UFO petition
reached in four days, but the White House increased that number Monday.
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The
petition was created by Stephen Bassett, who has been lobbying Washington on
the UFO issue for 15 years.
He said the
few thousand signatures he has collected so far will mean relatively little.
'I knew
we’d get at least 5,000. That’s easy. The question now is, can it go viral? If
it goes viral and we start rolling in some really big numbers, who knows
what’ll happen,' he told the Herald-Tribune in Sarasota, Fla.
On his
website, Bassett urges web masters and social media users to post links to the
petition that say, 'Make it go mega-viral.'
The
petition says hundreds of officials have publicly confirmed human contact with
alien life. It also claims half of Americans believe in UFOs and
extraterrestrials.
'The people
have a right to know. The people can handle the truth,' the petition says.
The We the
People project has dozens of active petition. The one with the most signatures,
51,000, asks to legalise marijuana and regulate it like alcohol. Other popular
petitions include requests to abolish the Transportation Security
Administration and investigate the federal prosecution of the former CEO of the
country's largest Kosher meat processing facility.
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| True believers: More than 7,500 people have already signed up to request information from the White House |
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