GETTY UFO hunters hope NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is close to leaking explosive UFO files

Hopes have been raised among the "UFO disclosure" community after Snowdon said aliens are probably trying to contact us right now from Russia where he remains in hiding. The American, who is on the run after dishing the dirt on how the US National Security Agency (NSA) keeps tabs on civilians across the globe, made the claims during a scientific podcast called StarTalk hosted by Neil de Grasse. He said even if aliens are sending us electronic messages, we probably can't tell what they are sending us. In short, because of the internet security encryption here on earth, he believes any aliens would likely do the same, and so if they do send anything we won't understand what it is.

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Finally we hear Snowden talking about UFOs and aliens, its what we have all been waiting for. Snowden is a hero. I hope some of his documents will reveal some alien info soon. Scott C Waring

Secret space programme conspiracy theorist Corey Goode has suggested documents that were taken by Snowden that have "been decrypted" and will "soon be released in a massive document dump". GaianEye posted on UFO Sightings Daily: "Hopefully Corey Goode is correct in saying that the data dumps of UFO docs will be coming from Snowden soon." Snowden earlier said on the podcast: "So if you have an an alien civilisation trying to listen for other civilisations, or our civilisation trying to listen for aliens, there's only one small period in the development of their society when all of their communication will be sent via the most primitive and most unprotected means.

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"So when we think about everything that we're hearing through our satellites or everything that they're hearing from our civilisation, if there are indeed aliens out there, all of their communications are encrypted by default. "So what we are hearing, that's actually an alien television show or you know a phone call is indistinguishable to us from cosmic microwave background radiation." Snowden's leaks were originally published by the Guardian newspaper in the UK. He went into hiding in 2013 and was granted asylum in Russia. Back home he faces charges of espionage and theft of government property.

GETTY If the truth IS out there Edward Snowden may be able to help, claim conspiracists