Clinton’s ‘E.T.’ raid

Sent feds to Roswell

Former President Bill Clinton admitted in a new interview that he sent federal agents to find out if aliens were hiding out at Nevada’s so-called Area 51.

Clinton, in a Wednesday appearance on “The Late Late Show With James Corden” said while he was president he and chief of staff John Podesta “made every attempt to find out everything about Roswell,” and even “sent people to Area 51 to make sure there were no aliens.”

The ex-presi- dent (inset) said he sent his national security adviser at the time, the late Sandy Burger, to the mysterious Nevada Air Force base, whose legacy of secrecy has spawned conspiracy theories about aliens that have made the site the center of American UFO folklore.

“I said we got to find out how we’re going to deal with this because that’s where we do a lot of our invisibility research in terms of technology, like how we fly airplanes that aren’t picked up by radar and all that,” Clinton said. “So that’s why they’re so secretive.

“But there’s no aliens that I know,” he added.

The world’s leading astronomers, however, told the president a few years ago that there’s up to a 95% chance that we are not alone in the universe.

“On the other hand, Hillary and I went to Hawaii in 2018 to the Big Island where all the telescopes are on top of the mountain, including the Keck telescope, the largest in the world, and several countries have scientific teams there,” the 42nd president said. “So after we toured the telescope we went down and met with them. “I said ‘Do you guys argue about the likelihood of life in outer space?’ He said ‘We have huge arguments,’ ” Clinton continued.

“He said, ‘There are those of us who think it’s 85% likely and those of us who think it’s 95% likely.’ And these are people who spend their lives doing this,” Clinton said.

“He said ‘We think, in other words, it’s very unlikely that there is not life. There are a billion, not a billion planets, but a billion solar systems.”

Clinton, 75, said the question of life beyond Earth should inspire us to take care of the planet.