Showing posts with label Ronald Reagan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ronald Reagan. Show all posts

Monday, July 23, 2018

President Reagan was Concerned About Aliens

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President Reagan was Concerned About Aliens

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During an interview with Charlie Rose in 2009, Reagan’s Secretary of State, George Shultz was asked what the two
By Alex Hollings
sofrep.com
7-20-18
leaders discussed as they walked and talked in private, but Shultz was interrupted.

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Before he could go on, Shultz was cut off by Gorbachev himself, also participating in the interview.
From the fireside house, President Reagan suddenly said to me,

"What would you do if the United States were suddenly attacked by someone from outer space? Would you help us?"

Monday, December 07, 2015

President Ronald Reagan Visited Star Trek

President Ronald Reagan Visited Star Trek

By Tyler Rogoway
foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com
12-5-15

     Ronald Reagan was a fan of Star Trek—and even a critic of it sometimes. In his diary he talks about watching Star Trek III in the White House theater and how he thought it sucked. In his post-presidential years apparently this interest in the franchise continued, and in 1991 he visited the then-highly popular Next Generation Set.

The Gipper’s attendance at Paramount Studios Stage 8 came as the cast and crew were filming the season four Klingon-centric two-part finale, Redemption. There were Klingons running around everywhere, to which Reagan supposedly noted “I like them, they remind me of Congress.” [...]

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Fargo’s UFO Theme & Ronald Reagan’s Obsession with Aliens

Fargo’s UFO Theme & Ronald Reagan’s Obsession with Aliens

By Olivia Armstrong
decider.com
11-9-15

      If you’ve been following Season Two of Fargo on FX, you’re probably aware of two overarching themes that seem bigger than the snowy towns of Luverne, Minnesota and Sioux Falls, South Dakota: aliens and Ronald Reagan. What you may not have realized, however, is that the two were related long before Noah Hawley adapted the Coen Brothers’ film of the same name to the small screen.

Before we delve into a Reagan-era mystery that has remained under the radar for the last 35 years, it might be worth noting Hawley’s accidental timeliness regarding discussion of extraterrestrial life. It’s as if the showrunner had an inkling UFOs would come zooming back into the zeitgeist upon his series’ Season Two return. Since Fargo‘s October 12, UFO-filled premiere, researchers have discovered a mysterious star emitting a bizarre light pattern — potentially caused by an alien structure — between constellations Cygnus and Lyra [...]

Saturday, April 05, 2014

Clinton Echoes President Ronald Reagan’s 'Alien Invasion Speech'


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Clinton Echoes President Ronald Reagan’s Alien Invasion Speech

By Frank Warren
The UFO Chronicles
© 4-4-14


     During football’s preseason last year I made a prediction that the Seattle Seahawks would not only make it to the Super Bowl, but they’d win it! Throughout the season I would remind my wife of that prophecy, and told her, remember—“you heard it here first!” She laughed . . . right up until the 49er’s game that is, then she thought I might be on to something and of course the rest is history.

Thursday morning I made another prediction—no sixth sense required and that was that the video interview of former President Bill Clinton by late night talk show host, Jimmy Kimmel (via the formers’ appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Wednesday night [4-2-14]) would soon go viral.

Why you ask? Although Bill Clinton is no stranger to the UFO topic, he hit all the UFO cylinders Wednesday night, traversing through “secret UFO files”, “Area 51,” “Roswell,” “aliens,” and something that rang familiar to me which was an (or the) alien invasion scenario.

On September 21, 1987 then President Ronald Wilson Reagan addressed the Forty-second Session of the United Nations General Assembly and in part stated:
“I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside of this world.”
Like Clinton, this was not the first time he talked aliens and specifically an “alien invasion.”

Curiously, in a very similar narrative, Clinton relayed to Kimmel:
“If we were visited some day, I wouldn't be surprised; I just hope that eh . . . it's not like Independence Day. That it's uh . . . you know uh, a conflict. It may be the only way to unite this incredibly divided world of ours. They're out there we better . . .. Think of how all the differences among people on earth would seem small if we felt threatened by a space invader, that's the whole theory of Independence Day; everybody gets together and makes nice . . ..”

Of course Clinton wasn’t sitting in a formal newsroom, with a sober news anchor asking serious questions. As one might surmise—for those that haven’t seen the video, the discourse was light-hearted and had quips threaded throughout. That said, Clinton did make point of fact statements re his actions pertaining to UFOs during his tenure at the White House and talk of the revelations are rippling through the mainstream media & social media alike. UFO enthusiasts are giddy and self-proclaimed skeptics are taking aim.

Watch the respective videos below:

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Shirley MacLaine Says (Then) Actor Ronald Reagan Had a Close Encounter with an Alien | UFO NEWS

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Was an ALIEN responsible for Reagan's presidency? Screen legend Shirley MacLaine says the actor turned politician spotted a UFO in the 1950s... and the extra terrestrial being told him to switch careers

By Daily Mail Reporter
9-18-12

     An alien may have been behind Ronald Reagan's becoming president, according to screen legend Shirley MacLaine.

Reagan had a close encounter of the third kind back in the 1950s when he was still an actor, MacLaine says, and the extra terrestrial being told him to ditch Hollywood for politics.

The 78-year-old, who claims to have seen many UFOs from the front porch of her New Mexico home, says the 40th President of the United States was a fellow believer.

According to MacLaine, Reagan confided in 'I Love Lucy' star Lucille Ball about the eerie encounter, which took place when he was on his way to a party in Los Angeles with wife Nancy.

Ball told her that a UFO landed and the alien emerged telling Reagan to quit acting and take up politics. . . .

Sunday, February 06, 2011

Ronald Reagan Cared More About UFOs Than AIDS

Ronald Reagan
          

     
By Alex Pareene
www.salon.com
2-4-11
He often dreamed of the world coming together to battle spacemen, but never gave much thought to an actual killer

     Ronald Reagan claimed to have seen UFOs on at least two occasions, according to reports from sources as disparate as the Wall Street Journal, Lucille Ball and the National Enquirer. He alerted the Navy to one of his sightings, and he and Nancy believed that Egyptian hieroglyphics referenced extraterrestrial flying crafts.

In 1985, at the first summit meeting between Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Reagan surprised the Soviet premier with this odd line of questioning:
"From the fireside house, President Reagan suddenly said to me, 'What would you do if the United States were suddenly attacked by someone from outer space? Would you help us?'

"I said, 'No doubt about it.'"

"He said, 'We too.'"

"So that's interesting," Gorbachev said to much laughter.
That hypothetical space invaders scenario -- a sort of "this island Earth" fantasy that sounds profound to either the screenwriter of a 1950s B picture or a very high college freshman -- was so compelling to Reagan that he repeated it in public speeches, on multiple occasions, while president.

Monday, November 05, 2007

'Kucinich is Not The First Presidential Aspirant to Report Seeing a UFO'

Presidents & UFOs
UFO discussions aren’t completely alien to politics

By ROBIN ABCARIAN
LA Times
11-3-07

     Presidential candidates have flip-flopped on taxes, on abortion, on gun control and on the war.

But rarely has one flip-flopped on flying saucers.

Until now.

In September, a spokeswoman for Rep. Dennis Kucinich dismissed a report that the Ohio Democrat had a close encounter with a UFO.

“If you have a serious question, just ask me,” Kucinich staffer Natalie Laber told a Washington Post reporter who inquired about Kucinich’s knowledge of UFOs. “If not, then just keep your silly comments to yourself.”

But Tuesday night, Kucinich had no wiggle room when debate moderator Tim Russert posed this question:

“The godmother of your daughter, Shirley MacLaine, writes in her new book that you’ve sighted a UFO over her home in Washington state, that you found the encounter extremely moving, that it was a triangular craft silent and hovering, that you felt a connection to your heart and heard direction in your mind. Now, did you see a UFO?”

Kucinich replied: “I did.”

Kucinich did not elaborate much. He joked about moving his campaign headquarters to Roswell, N.M., the site of the country’s most famous alleged UFO crash.

This, in fact, is why a second presidential candidate, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, was drawn into the fray.

When MSNBC’s Chris Matthews asked Richardson after the debate what he thought of Kucinich’s UFO response, Richardson smiled, giggled a little and explained that as governor of a state that depends on the UFO-enthralled tourist dollar, he was not in a position to criticize.

Although, Richardson hastened to add, he has never seen a UFO.

He also said it was time for the government to “come clean” on the Roswell matter.

Matthews began to sputter in disbelief, but as it happens, Richardson was not boldly going where no one (including his own self) had gone before. He has said many times that the mystery surrounding the 1947 crash in Roswell has never been adequately explained.

“Clearly,” he wrote in a foreword to a 2004 book about the crash, “it would help everyone if the U.S. government disclosed everything it knows.”

Kucinich is not the first presidential aspirant to report seeing a UFO.

According to many news accounts, when Jimmy Carter was governor of Georgia in 1973, he filed a report with the International UFO Bureau in Oklahoma City, saying that he had seen an unidentified glowing object four years earlier in Leary, Ga. Carter said later that he did not believe the object to be an alien craft, and some “ufologists,” as specialists call themselves, think he saw a halo around the planet Venus.

Ronald Reagan thought he had seen UFOs at least twice — once on the West Coast while driving to Hollywood with his wife, Nancy Reagan, and once, as governor of California, on a plane flying near Bakersfield.

In Landslide, their 1988 book about Reagan’s second term as president, journalists Doyle McManus, the Los Angeles Times Washington bureau chief, and Jane Mayer, now of The New Yorker, wrote that Reagan’s staff worked hard to keep the UFO sighting stories under wraps.

That’s easy to understand, because, as Alejandro Rojas, who handles media relations for the Mutual UFO Network, pointed out, “It’s typically an issue used on politicians to make them look bad.”

But, added Rojas, whose group investigates UFO sightings as well as reports of alien abductions, he was happy to see the issue raised in a presidential forum: “It’s great because the debate highlighted it.”