My friend Steve Bassett had placed question on youtube with his UFO question for the democratic devbate taking place at the Citadel in Charleston, S.C. on July 23, 2007 at 7pm EST.

Steve writes, "This question to all the candidates requests their intentions as president regarding their being fully briefed on the ET/UFO issue by the military and civilian intelligence agencies and regarding their calling for open, comprehensive congressional hearings to take the testimony of scores of former government employees ready to come before the Congress now."

Steve Bassett, the lone Washington UFO Lobbyist and Executive Director of  the Paradigm Research Group Extraterrestrial Phenomena Political Action Committee has now posted questions that can be asked of the various 2008 Election Campaign. This is one of Steve's main ideas to get the ET issue into the discussion of issues of the 2008 election.

However, in 2004 General Wesley Clark was a forerunner in the Democratic primaries. He stood up in the New Hampshire primary and told voters that he believed we could exceed the speed of light, which led to an e-mail message to me that General Clark had been briefed on the crash saucer program. When I asked some of the top ufologists in various states to ask Clark if he had been briefed on UFOs, I was told by some that they did not want to “embarrass” the candidate or "ruin his chance" to win.

Hopefully, times have changed and ufologists believe it is important enough to stand up to the plate. If not ufology will remain a hobby style interest for the general public.