Lauren Boebert Expresses Concern to Congress Over Potential Underwater Alien "Bases" | Vanity Fair

Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert is at it again. No, we don’t mean vaping and getting handsy in the audience of the touring production of a Broadway musical about ghosts who are up to no good—this time, at least. On Wednesday, Boebert put in an honest day’s work in D.C. questioning UFO experts about the existence of secret underwater alien bases and the veracity of “rumors that have come up to the Hill' about government experiments creating “hybrid” humans with enhanced capabilities.

“The American people are being kept in the dark,” she said during a two-hour House Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing titled “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth.” The hearing’s focus was about government transparency regarding UAPs and UFOs, and whether there needs to be more of it. An expert panel consisted of retired Navy Rear Admiral Dr. Tim Gallaudet, former Department of Defense official Luis Elizondo, former NASA associate administrator of space policy Michael Gold, and journalist Michael Shellenberger.

Boebert went to town asking the panel about “rumors that have come up the hill”—the sources of which she did not cite—of “a secretive project within the Department of Defense involving the manipulation of human genetics with what is described as non-human genetic material for the enhancement of human capabilities, hybrids.”

“Are any of you familiar with that?” she asked. “Yes, or no?”

All four panelists answered no.

Conspiracy theories were on the congresswoman’s mind, it would seem. She opened her five-minute period of questioning by stating for the record, “I speak my mind often, so why not just keep going with it?” She dared some unknown entity to “put [her] on a list” for speaking her personal interpretation of the truth.

'May as well just go all out and say it: The Earth is flat, birds are government drones, and we've never set foot on the moon, and Joe Biden received 81 million votes in the 2020 election,' she said. (Boebert did recently appear to like a Facebook post where a mother despaired that her son had been taught that the Earth was “round like a sphere.”)

When asked by Vanity Fair if Boebert actually believes those statements, which will live forever in the Library of Congress, a spokesman for Boebert said via email that “Congresswoman Boebert’s humorous remarks in committee were highlighting the reality that mentioning certain topics the government doesn’t want exposed, like the UAP Immaculate Constellation program, could land someone on a government surveillance watch list.”

He had a little more to add: “However, it is true that the 2020 election was stolen.”

Boebert continued her allotted time during the hearing by asking the panel about underwater alien activity.

“Are there any accounts of UAPs emerging from or submerging into our waters which could indicate a base or presence between the ocean's surface?” she asked. “Are there any technological capabilities that have been observed in these oceanic UAPs to defy our current understanding of physics or human engineering capabilities?”

The experts pointed out that the oceans have been largely unmapped and that anomalies have been observed, but not explained.

Perhaps Boebert was looking to once again switch congressional districts ahead of the next election. Does anyone know the residency requirements for representing the ocean floor in the House? A little closer to home, in Boebert's terrestrial state of Colorado, there's a wealth of whackadoo mystery surrounding Denver International Airport that seems ripe for the congresswoman to dig into.

In closing, Boebert vowed that she “will not relent until we get those answers to the American people.”

This post has been updated.

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