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Stick with us on this. There is now a preponderance of evidence to suggest that maybe — just maybe, with an infinitesimally small chance of happening — that President Obama will suddenly release secret files proving that aliens exist.

Exhibit A:

Former Clinton Chief of Staff John Podesta is returning to the White House.

At first glance, Podesta signing on with the White House isn't terribly suggestive. Having worked as chief of staff to President Clinton from 1998 to 2001 and as head of the Obama administration transition team after 2008, he's no stranger to the executive branch.

That is, until you read this piece from Slate's Dave Weigel. "Ever since he left the White House," Weigel writes, Podesta has "wanted public disclosure of what we know about alien life." Weigel points to a speech at the National Press Club in 2002, a clip of which is at right. "It's time to find out what the truth really is, that's out there," Podesta says. "We ought to do it, quite frankly, because the American people really can handle the truth."

Again, this is a guy who was chief of staff to the president of the United States for three years. Do you think that a guy who has access to that level of information and also has an interest in UFOs isn't going to poke around a little? It reminds us of the repeated line of questioning from Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon on the NSA's surveillance activity. He knew that the NSA was hiding something and did what he could for it to come out. Until Edward Snowden, nothing happened. Now a skeptic of the official UFO story is headed back to the White House.