The October Surprise in the 2004 Presidential Election was a video released by Bin Laden where he took responsibility for 9/11. (Aw!) This tape bolstered the popularity of Bush to a six point lead over Kerry.

I'm here to predict that the October Surprise for 2008 will be aliens. I'm serious.

Scenario Number One:
Should Bush want to stay in office beyond his term limits he will declare Martial Law (military rule) on account of the fact that aliens are determined to strike America, or that they're already here. He will be President for life or King or dictator because it's going to take an unknowable amount of time to deal with the aliens.

Scenario Number Two: (through Ten)
All of the years of public fascination with UFOs and alien abduction will be taken seriously by officials. There will be great intimation that aliens do exist. Are aliens planning to come here? We do not know the intentions of aliens. Are aliens on the side of Al-Qaeda? What if aliens are even scarier than Al-Qaeda? What if aliens hate Jesus and our freedom? Who can protect us? Why, only the Republicans can protect us! You don’t want a woman President if aliens attack America, do you? She'll just cry or worse try to dress the alien up in cute outfits! You don’t want a black guy President when aliens America, do you? He'll just scream and run in the other direction.

It's already happening. Remember when Kucinich said in a recent Democratic debate that he'd seen a UFO? He was ribbed for that. What a wacko! But look closely. This is going to be spun in even another direction. Kucinich and the Democrats are giggly elves when it comes to UFO's compared to Giuliani the tough guy who reassured a child at a recent Republican debate.

Former Arizona Governor Fife Symington moderated an event on November 12th, 2007 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Credible experts from all over the world met to discuss what once were classified documents on well-documented cases of UFO sightings. Symington is very outspoken about his UFO sighting, the famous Phoenix Lights. He believes the military has consistently given flimsy explanations for sightings.

Anderson Cooper briefly covered this event on 360 the other night. Former Air France captain Jean-Charles Duboc saw a UFO over a thousand feet long. Retired Iranian Air Force pilot General Parviz Jafari believes that alien life caused his plane's missile system to become inoperative.



Even though it makes great television and gets our imaginations going, this new wave of UFO mania doesn’t seem to be catching on at the government level.

The FAA isn't investigating new reports of UFOs.

However Reuters reported that the international panel is trying to urge the U.S. government to re-open it's UFO investigation through the Air Force or NASA in the name of national security.

What was that? Did somebody say the attacks of 9/11? Now, they're talking. (Admittedly, in an age of terrorism, I think it's a smart idea to investigate anything unusual in the sky.) I predict that the government will reopen its investigation of UFO's. I predict that the investigation will be half-assed and slightly falsified but a good excuse to keep invoking 9/11 and introduce a new intergalactic fear.

Republicans will use the public's renewed interest in UFOs and the subsequent investigation to their advantage. Fox News will begin reporting things like, "Aliens. Are they all cute like E.T. or could this be the beginning of a War of the Worlds?" The Democrats will try to appear as likeable and sane as possible as they try to explain away what they saw in the sky.

The Republicans will accuse the Democrats of wanting to offer therapy to the aliens in order to deal with them. Al Gore will have his Nobel Prize taken away after he tries to talk to the aliens about their sustainability technology. Somehow France will be made fun of. Every captured UFO at Roswell will be re-named an "Unidentified Freedom Object." We'll scare the aliens away with our childish behavior and they'll fly off vowing never to visit Earth again. Oh, and Bush will be President for life because of all of this mass distraction. Mark my words.

SleepyLady wants you to mark her words.