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Astronomer Carl Sagan believes that there is a strong probability that there
are about a million other stars with planets housing advanced civilizations, even
though he thinks the odds that extraterrestrials are currently visiting our planet
are fairly slim. Astronauts Buzz Aldrin and others have reportedly seen UFOs
while in space, and Aldrin even photographed one on the center rim of a moon
crater, according to the Roswell Incident, but NASA would not release the
photos. Conservative Senator Barry Goldwater, of Arizona, who was also an Air
Force General, reportedly went to Wright-Patterson Air Base to see his friend
General Curtis Le May, asking to view the “Blue Room” where UFO artifacts
were kept. Gen. Le May’s response, according to Goldwater’s statements in The
Roswell Incident, was “hell no, I can’t go, you can’t go, and don’t ever ask me
again.” President Eisenhower was rumored to have visited Muroc to examine the
alien bodies on February 20, 1954, but this story is unsubstantiated and may be
incorrect. The Majestic 12 document pertaining to Eisenhower has been exposed
as a fake. But apparently Eisenhower did disappear from his press corps and
entourage on that date. Press Secretary James Haggerty was hastily summoned
to make a statement. Merriman Smith of the United Press reported that the
President had been taken for “medical treatment,” and the Associated Press even
flashed on their wire that President Eisenhower was dead, only to retract it
moments later. When Haggerty showed up he denounced it as “a demonstration
of journalistic mob hysteria,” and announced he’d merely knocked a cap off of
his tooth. But did he really sneak off to view alien bodies?
President Carter announced he had once seen a UFO, and promised to
release all government documents pertaining to UFOs, only to renege on his
pledge once he took office. In April 1977 the U.S. News and World Report said
before the year was out “the government—perhaps the President—is expected to
make what are described as ‘unsettling disclosures’ about UFOs. Such
revelations, based on information from the CIA would be a reversal of official
policy that in the past has downgraded UFO incidents.” The Day After Roswell,
a book written by Philip J. Corso, a retired Army-intelligence officer, and
former member of Strom Thurmond’s staff, claims that Ronald Reagan’s whole
“Star Wars” Strategic Defense Initiative was not really concerned with the
Soviets, but really designed to protect us from alien space invaders.
This certainly sounds far-fetched, but there may be more substance to
Corso’s claim than one would think. Reagan’s press secretary, Marlin Fitzwater,
included in his memoirs (Fitzwater, 2000) the astonishing (but almost
completely ignored) comment that in speaking on SDI, Reagan had wanted to
refer to the “prospect of an alien force threatening earth from space.” On two
separate occasions, Fitzwater revealed, Reagan’s staff had to excise such
references from the president’s written speeches. Fitzwater noted that Reagan
had a vision of all countries on earth joining together to defeat alien invaders.
President Reagan was thus either less grounded in reality than even his critics
thought, or more visionary and perceptive than even his most ardent adherents
knew!