George Bush hints he sneaked a look at American UFO files in Jimmy Kimmel interview
The former US President remained tight-lipped when Kimmel asked him about UFOs
UFO hunters believe George Bush knew more than he was letting on when he dodged a question about secret government alien files.
The former US President appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to plug his new book Portraits of Courage but he remained tight-lipped when Kimmel asked him about UFOs.
Kimmel said: "This is a question I think is very important to me and very important to the country.
"When you were in office - and I don't know when this ever or if it happened - did you go through the secret files, the UFO documents? Because if I was president that would be the first thing I did."
But instead of laughing off the question or branding Kimmel a crackpot, the former US leader replied: "Maybe."
He then went on to reveal his daughters Barbara and Jenna asked him the same question when he served as the 43rd President of the United States but he couldn't tell them anything.
Kimmel then asked the former Texas governor if he could do anything he wanted now he had left the Oval office.
Bush replied: "True, yeah, but I'm not telling you."
Probing deeper, Kimmel asked Bush if there were "great secrets" he couldn't talk about even if he was 90 on his death bed. Shaking his head, Bush said 'No'.
Kimmel then joked: "What if you were to get a little loopy, you know, you get old..." before Bush quips: "Start drinking again..." as Kimmel points to his co-host saying: "Let's get some tequila."
Bush, whose dad was also US president and a former director of the CIA, is one of three former presidents and a presidential hopeful to go on Kimmel to discuss the UFO topic.
Some researchers in Britain and the US believe it is part of an on-going indoctrination programme to prepare the public for an announcement about alien life by NASA or a world leader.
Gary Heseltine, a retired police detective who probed the London 7/7 bombings and is now the editor of UFO Truth ezine, told The Sun: "George Bush answered several consecutive questions about UFOs on the Kimmel show and his body language spoke volumes.
"Despite his smiles he gave short specific answers that clearly the subject was anything but a joke. He knew the truth but could not reveal it."
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Former president Barack Obama was also quizzed about aliens when he went on the talk show in 2015.
Kimmel said the first thing he would do after being sworn in as president would be to "race wherever they hold the files on Area 51 and UFOs and find out what happened and go through everything to find out what happened. Did you do that?"
Obama said: "That's why you will not be president. The aliens won't let it happen, you'll reveal all their secrets. They exercise strict control over us. I can't reveal anything."
Hillary Clinton, while campaigning to be president last year, was asked about UFOs and Area 51 on the show last March.
It followed an appearance by her husband Bill on the same show in 2014 when he confirmed he looked into the top secret Nevada airbase and the famous Roswell incident of July 1947.
However he never found files confirming the existence of extra-terrestrials but said he would tell the public if he did.
Hillary vowed to launch a probe if she made it to the White House last November but she was beaten by Republican Donald Trump.
She told Kimmel: “There’s a new name for UFOs. It’s unexplained aerial phenomena. That’s the latest nomenclature. I would like us to go into those files and hopefully make as much of that as public as possible.
“If there’s nothing there, let’s tell people there’s nothing there.
“If there is something there, unless it’s a threat to national security, I think we ought to share it with the public.”
It is not the first time the Clintons have been linked with aliens.
When Bill was president between 1993 and 1996, he was approached by billionaire Laurance Rockefeller to release UFO files as part of the ‘Rockefeller initiative’.
And Hillary’s campaign manager John Podesta, Bill’s former Chief of Staff, has called for the lid to be lifted.
In 2015 he tweeted his biggest regret after leaving his job as President Obama’s advisor was “once again not securing the #disclosure of the UFO files.”
Stephen Bassett, executive director of Paradigm Research Group and the only lobbyist on the ET/UFO issue in the US, said: "If any journalist should bother to view these segments from four extraordinary interviews of three presidents and one would-be president, they might notice they have two things in common.
"They are all with the same television talk show host, and no one gives a straight answer. Why is that?
"Why are the most powerful politicians of the past quarter century unable or unwilling to speak clearly on an issue of huge global implications?"
Russell Calka, co-founder of the Disclosure Activists, said: "Make no mistake that the NASA announcement regarding a solar system keen to host life, is part of a drip plan.
"Some president's are given some basic information and most aren't. George Bush's father was a former CIA director and president - he was read in to some extent, and therefore I believe his son knows, at the very least, that there is, and has been, an engagement by extra-terrestrial visitors."
Grant Cameron, an expert on UFOs and US presidents and author of "Managing Magic: The Government's UFO Disclosure Plan, said: "It absolutely confirms the truth. It is classified and he will never violate the security that he actually oversaw.
"In my 15 seconds of fame I asked Dick Cheney if he had been briefed. He said the same thing. "If I had been briefed on the subject it would probably be classified and I wouldn't be talking about it."
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