Former Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (D., Mich.) called Monday for an international probe into the existence of extraterrestrial aliens, the Detroit News reports:
"It's important that we work with foreign governments," an impassioned Kilpatrick said after she and five other former members of Congress heard nearly eight hours of testimony. "There's been 10 or 15 already identified who have acknowledged this existence. I want to be part of that."
Cheers for Kilpatrick rocketed across the room as the first day ended of a week of hearings aimed at exposing a government cover-up of proof of extraterrestrials.
Sponsored by Paradigm Research Group, a private extraterrestrial lobbying organization, Kilpatrick and the other ex-lawmakers are being paid $20,000 each to listen to about 30 hours of testimony that will be the basis for a documentary on UFOs.
Kilpatrick deemed the alien situation "too serious" to be the subject of jokes.
"I want to hear the factual information and I'm taking it very seriously," she told the Huffington Post. "I don't want to be ambivalent. I don't want it to be a joke. It's too serious. If we bury our heads in the sand and say there's nothing there, we lose, our country loses."
Kilpatrick, the mother of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, served for more than a decade in the U.S. House of Representatives before losing to a primary challenger in 2010.