Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick was the U.S.Representative for Michigan’s 13th congressional district from 1997 to 2011,when she lost out partially due tocorruption scandals involving her family,in particular her son Kwame Kilpatrick, who was mayor of Detroit until 2008. Well, she reappeared inthe news in 2013, as a participant in theCitizen Hearing on Disclosure,a panel onalien visitations, together with luminaries likeMike Gravel.“Evidence has been mounting forthe last 65 years,” said Stephen Bassett, who organizedthe event; “we’re going to be holding thehearing that Congress should be holding.”

Perhaps one may try to explain awayKilpatrick’s participation with the $20,000 payment, but it is hard not tonotice the crazy in her own justification for being there. In particular,Kilpatrick said she doesn’t like that “this country makes jokes about(UFOs), but in other countries, it’s a spiritual kind of thing, so I’m reallylooking forward to seeing exactly what it is.” Apparently she always had aninterest in UFOs as a member of the congressional Appropriations Committee andArmed Service Committee, and at the citizen hearingshe wants “to hear thefactual information and I’m taking it very seriously. I don’t want to beambivalent. I don’t want it to be a joke. It’s too serious. If we bury ourheads in the sand and say there's nothing there, we lose, our country loses.”Both Kilpatrick and Gravel called for a real congressional investigation intoUFOs, and for the issue to be brought up again at the United Nations.

To top it off, Kilpatrick used theoccasion to introduceLouis Farrakhan,whomshe called “one of the leaders in our nation on thistopic” (Farrakhan has publicly talked about his own UFO experiences), anattribution that on its own would earn Kilpatrick an entry in our Encyclopedia.