UFOs soar from taboo to presidential: 'Time has come to inject UAPs into the ... elections,' institute says

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The next president of the United States should be asked if he will release UFO-related documents, the New Paradigm Institute says.

A once-taboo subject that essentially forced whistleblowers like Bob Lazar into exile is the topic of a social media campaign applying heat to debate moderators to question each 2024 candidate about his willingness to declassify the files.

"The next president of the United States will make critical decisions about UAP disclosure and government transparency," New Paradigm Institute Chief Counsel Daniel Sheehan said in a June 12 statement.

"It’s time for all presidential candidates — Joe Biden, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Donald Trump — to commit to UFOs/UAP disclosure and transparency. … Regardless of political affiliation, the time has come to inject UAP into the political discourse of our elections."

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Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., told Fox News Digital in a previous interview that documents relating to UFOs, or UAPs (unidentified anomalous phenomena), are "so compartmentalized that we'll never get to the bottom of it."

It will take a "commander-in-chief who says enough is enough," to declassify everything.

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That's why the New Paradigm Institute, an organization dedicated to securing the public