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UFO hunters are feeling out of this world - thanks to Hillary Clinton.

She has announced that she will release government-held UFO files to the public if she is elected president.

The Democratic candidate spoke out on Jimmy Kimmel Live as she leads the race against Bernie Sanders for the party's nomination for November's election.

She has followed in the footsteps of her husband Bill, who appeared on the show in 2014 and was asked if he ever looked into UFOs or Area 51 - a top secret airbase rumoured to "back engineer" alien craft.

Bill said "sort of" but added there were no dead aliens there.

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Now Hillary has vowed to dig deeper if she makes it to the White House.

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Speaking for the first time on TV about the issue, she told Kimmel: “I’m going to do it again. There’s a new name for UFOs. It’s unexplained aerial phenomena. That's the new 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.”

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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 the late billionaire philanthropist Laurance Rockefeller to release UFO files as part of the ‘Rockefeller initiative’.

Hillary was also involved in the talks.

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Her campaign manager John Podesta, Bill’s former Chief of Staff, admitted he had convinced Hillary to declassify UFO files in a TV interview last month.

Stephen Bassett, America's only registered lobbyist on ET/UFOs and founder of Paradigm Research Group, hopes the issue will be broached in upcoming Democratic debates.

He told Mirror.co.uk: “The only circumstance under which a leading presidential candidate, her president husband and their common advisor would repeatedly speak to the ET issue during a campaign is when their collective brain is fully aware the ET presence is fact."

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Britain’s leading UFO hunter, former police detective Gary Heseltine, who edits UFO Truth Magazine, believes Hillary knows more than she is letting on.

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He said: “I think Hillary is playing clever on the subject of UFOs.

"At the moment interviewers are stopping short of asking her the real question that needs to be asked - What was your role in the Rockefeller Initiative?

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"If that direct question is asked the American public will realise the depth of her involvement and her detailed knowledge of the subject, providing she tells the truth."

Bookies have now slashed the odds of finding ET life from 1000/1 to 100/1.

A William Hill spokesman said: "Should Hillary utter the unthinkable words then we are facing a monster payout."