The Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert has kicked off her run for a fourth term in the US House by pledging to pursue “the truth about UFOs”, said an email from the Colorado politician’s re-election campaign to potential donors.
“For decades, our government has shrouded the truth about UFOs in a veil of secrecy,” the Boebert campaign’s message on the topic read. “Strange crafts have been spotted soaring through our skies, defying the laws of physics, and yet the bureaucrats in Washington act like we’re too NAIVE to handle the facts.”
It continued: “They tell us we’re crazy like we can’t see these things flying through the air with our own eyes.”
“I SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! The American people aren’t children to be spoon-fed half-truths or dismissed with vague excuses. We deserved to know what’s really going on up there.”
In an interview with the Colorado news station KDVR, the Democratic political analyst Andy Boian interpreted the bizarre message to be “almost a cry for help … to be honest,” as Boebert vied to retain her seat during the November 2026 midterms.
Boain told the outlet he believed Boebert would be better off facilitating ways to get the federal government to reopen after shutting down on 1 October, when Senate Democrats demanding concessions on healthcare and other spending priorities refused to provide the votes necessary to ratify a Republican-backed funding bill.
But Boian said to KDVR that outlandish ads are often used when candidates are desperate for money or voter support – “neither of which I am seeing right now”.
KDVR reported that Boebert’s campaign shrugged off Boain’s commentary, claiming the message was performing extremely well among prospective donors because people want answers.
Boebert has demonstrated her focus on aliens and UFOs – also referred to as unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) – in public before.
At a congressional hearing on UAPs on 13 November 2024, Boebert asked if there was evidence aliens had ever erected a secret underwater base on earth.
“I think it’s about 5% of our ocean that’s actually been studied by man,” Boebert, who has occasionally adhered to the QAnon conspiracy theory, asserted during the hearing. “Are there any accounts of UAPs emerging from or submerging into our water which could indicate a base or presence beneath the ocean’s surface?”
Michael Shellenberger, a journalist and founder of the news site Public who has reported that the Pentagon runs a secret UFO retrieval program, replied to Boebert that he had never heard of an underwater alien base, but did recount hearing from a source who described an “orb coming out of the ocean and being met by another orb”.
In 2022, Boebert won her second term in Congress by defeating Democratic challenger Adam Frisch by just 546 votes. She moved to a more solidly conservative district in 2024 to duck a congressional rematch with Frisch and clinched a third House term by defeating first-time Democratic candidate Trisha Calvarese.
