by Timothy Good
“The story I heard,” began Quint, “is that when Reagan saw it, he started talking about how close to reality it was, and he was quickly ushered out of the room. Is that true?”
“No, he wasn’t,” replied Spielberg. “He was the President of the United States. Nobody could usher Ronald Reagan out the room! It was in the White House screening room, and Reagan got up to thank me for bringing the film to show the president, the First Lady, and all of their guests, who included Sandra Day O’Connor in her first week as a Justice of the Supreme Court, and it included some astronauts. I think Neil Armstrong was there—I’m not a hundred percent certain. But it was an amazing, amazing evening.
“He just stood up and he looked around the room, almost like he was doing a head count, and he said, ‘I wanted to thank you for bringing E.T. to the White House. We really enjoyed your movie.’ And then he looked around the room and said, ‘And there are a number of people in this room who know that everything on that screen is absolutely true.’ And he said it without smiling. But everybody laughed—the whole room laughed because he presented it like a joke. But he wasn’t smiling as he said it….”17
Leading Canadian researcher Grant Cameron points out that, coincidentally, on the morning following the E.T. screening, a meeting took place in the Oval Office of the White House between President Reagan and James A. Baker III, Chief of Staff; Edwin Meese III, Counselor; and Michael K. Deaver, Deputy Chief of Staff. “From there,” reports Grant, “the four men went to the highly secure White House Situation Room, where the president participated in a briefing of the U.S. Space Program. Participants included six members of the National Security Council or National Security Affairs and no one from NASA.
“The absence of anyone from NASA for a briefing of the U.S. Space Program is unheard of. The absence of any NASA people is even more unusual, in light of the fact that a couple of days later, President Reagan attended the landing of the U.S. Space Shuttle at Edwards Air Force Base.”18
President Mikhail Gorbachev has confirmed officially that during the Geneva Summit in 1985 with Reagan, the question of collaboration on the alien problem was discussed. “The U.S. President said that, if the Earth faced an invasion by extraterrestrials,” he stated at the Kremlin in 1987, “the United States and the Soviet Union would join forces to repel such an invasion. I shall not dispute the hypothesis, though I think it’s early yet to worry about such an intrusion.”19 During an interview by Fabio Fazio with Gorbachev on Italian television in 2006, the former Russian president confirmed his discussion with Reagan:
“… At that time it was a very difficult dialogue because we could not meet each other halfway. And I remember during a walk by the villa garden where we met, President Reagan stopped and said, ‘But listen to me, President Gorbachev: If we were attacked from space, would we come together? Would we unite?’ I answered him, ‘I do not know what you think about it but I propose to come together, that we join forces….’”20
Was an alien responsible for Reagan’s presidency? According to I Love Lucy star Lucille Ball, Reagan confided in her that in the 1950s, while still an actor, he had a close encounter of the third kind. Ball told screen legend Shirley MacLaine about the encounter, which supposedly took place when Reagan and his wife Nancy were on their way to a party in Los Angeles. Apparently a UFO landed and the alien emerged, telling Reagan to quit acting and take up politics!21
In Need to Know, I referenced a leak of information provided to Anthony L. Kimery, an award-winning editor and journalist specializing in global security, defense, and intelligence issues. In 1989, an Executive Branch employer revealed to Kimery that he had seen a top-secret National Security Council report prepared as a briefing paper for the new administration of President George H. W. Bush. The report referenced the operation of a deep underground government facility dealing specifically with the alien situation somewhere along the northern New Mexico border.22 As mentioned in Chapter 15, I learned that the facility was located in the nuclear-weapons storage area within the Manzano Mountains, which are actually in central New Mexico.
In 2003 I wrote to former president George H. W. Bush (a former U.S. Navy pilot and Director of Central Intelligence), requesting a dialogue to discuss “these delicate matters.” “Mr. Bush appreciated hearing from you,” responded his assistant, “and while he appreciates the spirit of your request, he must respectfully decline [owing to] the many requests he receives for personal appointments….”23
As for President George W. Bush (a former Air National Guard jet pilot who flew the F-102 Delta Dagger jet among others, on several occasions), a friend of mine who had known President Bush Jr. for many years queried him about the subject during a visit to the White House. “Ask Cheney,” came the terse reply, referring to Vice-President Dick Cheney.
The Kennedy Connection
In Need to Know, I revealed for the first time that in 1961/62, President John F. Kennedy requested to be shown the alien bodies associated with a certain crash site. A former White House Staff source told me that the request had been granted, and JFK, along with “top brass” headed by General Godfrey T. McHugh, was flown in Air Force One to Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, where the bodies had been preserved at a medical facility. The visit remains highly classified.24
As a military aide, McHugh also accompanied JFK during the trip to Dallas on November 22, 1963, and was present at Bethesda Naval Hospital, Maryland, during Kennedy’s autopsy, as Colonel Fletcher Prouty reports.25
In George Adamski: The Untold Story and in Alien Base, Lou Zinsstag described the sometimes difficult period she spent with Adamski as one of his co-workers: my section analyzed critically the numerous claims he made over the years. Some of these claims seem ludicrous. However, despite his reputation among many researchers as a charlatan, it is a fact that Adamski was consulted by a number of people at high levels of the U.S. government. According to Dr. Jacques Vallee, Adamski carried a passport bearing special privileges, and several of his associates assured me that he also possessed a U.S. Government Ordnance pass which gave him access to all U.S. military bases and to certain restricted areas—including the White House.
In 1963, President Kennedy met Adamski at the Willard Hotel in Washington, close to the White House, according to my late friend Madeleine Rodeffer, who looked after Adamski at her house in Silver Spring, Maryland, a Washington suburb, for several months prior to his death in 1965. (On February 26 that year, Adamski had taken color movie footage of a classic “scoutcraft” describing maneuvers outside the house, in the presence of Madeleine and some U.S. government personnel. The 8mm film was authenticated by William Sherwood, an optical physicist and former senior project engineer at Eastman-Kodak, Rochester, who also introduced Adamski to other Kodak specialists.)26
On May 5, 1963, after arriving in Denmark during his European tour, Adamski revealed to his Danish representative Major Hans C. Petersen, Senior Air Traffic Control Officer in the Royal Danish Air Force (1949–1976), that shortly before leaving for Europe he had had a secret meeting with Kennedy. Adamski also revealed to the press some details of his visit to a “U.S. government office” (without mentioning Kennedy). The following day, reports Ragnvald A. Carlsen, a Danish researcher who, together with Hans Petersen, helped arrange the Adamski visit, a large billboard for the Fredericia Dagblad displayed the following headline: “ADAMSKI: Venus-mand advarede mig om Cuba-krisen” (“Man from Venus warned me about Cuba crisis”).
“Despite his seventy-two years he is still supple and gives the impression of being a well-balanced person,” wrote the reporter. “One cannot demand that people believe in flying saucers,” Adamski was quoted as saying. “They want proof; it’s human nature. But those who have seen these objects have become convinced…. I expect even less that people should believe that I have been contacted many times by men from Venus, [but] a year ago I was contacted by [such] a man who said that, before long, there would be a crisis ove
r Cuba, which could perhaps mean a Third World War. That was three months before the Cuba crisis started. At that time I happened to be in Washington, D.C., and I went along to a government office where I passed on the information.”
During a visit to Washington in 1995, following a lecture he had given to a group of interested delegates at the United Nations in New York, Major Petersen made some interesting comments, including reference to a trip to another planet claimed by Adamski in early March 1962, specifically in relation to what eventually turned out to be the Cuban missile crisis in October that year. On his return, Adamski called Petersen, explaining that he had to go to Washington to deliver a message for the president. “I cannot tell you what this message is,” said Adamski, “but if you follow the political situation on Earth, you will be able to see for yourself what the message contains.” Had Kennedy not solved the Cuba crisis the way he did, Petersen pointed out, there would have been a Third World War.27 As General Anatoly Gribkov, former Soviet Army chief of operations, admitted: “Nuclear catastrophe was hanging by a thread … and we weren’t counting days or hours—but minutes.”28
I learned from Lou Zinsstag that, on an unknown date, Adamski had been entrusted with a written invitation for President Kennedy to visit one of the aliens’ huge motherships at a secret airbase in Desert Hot Springs, California, for a few days. In order to keep this visit absolutely secret, Adamski was to take the invitation directly to the White House through a side door, where a man he knew was ready to let him in. Adamski later learned that Kennedy had spent several hours at the airbase, after having canceled an important trip to New York, and that he had had a long talk with the ship’s crew, but that he had not been invited for a flight.29
Emily Crewe, the British researcher cited in Chapter 16, has related to me that on June 6, 1963, Adamski was invited for a meeting at Desmond Leslie’s home in St. John’s Wood, London. Those present included Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia during World War II and appointed Chief of the Defence Staff in 1965; Lord Dowding, former Commander-in-Chief of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain in 1940; the Earl of Clancarty (Brinsley Le Poer Trench), and Emily. The group (minus Emily, not in the best of health at the time) was later invited by Mountbatten for discussions at Broadlands, his estate in Hampshire.
During the London meeting, Adamski revealed further details about the Kennedy contact. The alien craft had landed in the small hours on the tarmac at the end of one of the airbase runways. “When Kennedy arrived,” Emily reports, “his car was stopped and he was advised to get out and walk to the ship that awaited him. He was to come alone. JFK obeyed the summons and he was seen entering the alien vessel and stayed for some time before he came out at last, later refusing to speak about the incident.”30
According to Henry Dohan, previously referenced in Chapter 7, many years prior to becoming president, Kennedy met with Adamski on several occasions at the latter’s home in Vista, California, where he was introduced to several of the aliens living among us. “Since the space people know the past, present, and future of every one of us,” claimed Dohan, “they told Kennedy that he would become the president of the U.S. Kennedy thought it was ludicrous, since he was Catholic, and the space [people] told him, ‘No, you go for it and you will get it.’ Kennedy kept in touch with Adamski and had clandestine meetings with him, even when he was president.
“Kennedy had one weakness, and that was that he loved too many women. I believe he was intimate with Marilyn Monroe and confided in her about his extraterrestrial knowledge. Also, he was the first U.S. president to invest one billion dollars of the U.S. budget in space research. He became a threat to our oil and industrial magnates, which led to his Mafia assassination and that of Marilyn Monroe.”31 If there’s any truth in the Lucille Ball/Reagan story mentioned earlier, it seems Kennedy wasn’t alone in being encouraged to push for the presidency.
Regarding Monroe, a putative CIA document dated August 3, 1962, is possibly revealing.32 Classified Top Secret, it references the FBI wiretapping of a conversation between the noted reporter Dorothy Kilgallen and Monroe’s friend Howard Rothberg, in which the latter reveals to the reporter that Monroe kept a “diary of secrets” relating to her trysts with President Kennedy and his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy.
The memo also cites Rothberg as saying that Marilyn had “secrets to tell,” including “the visit by the president at a secret air base for the purpose of inspecting things from outer space…. In the mid-fifties, Kilgallen learned of secret efforts by the U.S. and U.K. governments to identify the origin of crashed spacecraft and dead bodies, from a British government official.” (Almost certainly, the visit cited was the one JFK made to Tyndall Air Force Base, described earlier.) The CIA memorandum goes on to cite a number of threats made by Monroe, including holding a press conference in which she would “tell all.”33
President Carter
In 1969, President-to-be Jimmy Carter had a UFO sighting in Georgia, which he spoke about publicly on several occasions. Skeptics claimed he had merely spotted the planet Venus, a ridiculous explanation given Carter’s background as a U.S. Navy submarine line officer—thus familiar with planets and stars. Harvey Jack McGeorge II, formerly in the Special Forces Reserve, Green Berets, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, later worked in the U.S. Secret Service (Technical Security Division) at the White House as adviser on national and international terrorism. Having struck up a friendship with Carter, he is said to have been the first member of the Secret Service, outside of its chief, to have witnessed a presidential briefing on UFOs. The following report originates from an account which McGeorge gave to a friend in the 1980s, which was then passed on to Harry Lebelson of OMNI magazine.
“Upon Carter’s insistence, and in spite of protestations from the National Security Agency,” states a transcript of the report, “McGeorge was allowed to attend [a] briefing session…. There were two briefings given to Carter. McGeorge attended at least the initial briefing.
“Once the president was in the room, seated at a table, Jack McGeorge at another table, a member of the NSA gave an overall briefing on the phenomenon, stating its historical characteristics and bringing it up to the present time. At that point, a number of documents describing the evolutionary habits of the beings, the reasons they were here, and other matters of that consequence were shown…. The next thing to be shown to Jimmy Carter was a fifteen-minute [color] film taken at Holloman AFB in which UFO inhabitants and military personnel made physical contact….
“After that there were more briefings by national security people—and basically that was the end of the briefing. McGeorge, being a very observant person, noticed that on re-entering Carter’s office about half an hour after the briefing—and I know this is going to be hard to believe—but he stated that Carter had tears in his eyes….”34
President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, former president (1993–2010) of the southwestern Russian region of Kalmykia (the only Buddhist region in Europe)—a multimillionaire businessman and current president of the World Chess Federation (FIDE)—made the newswires in 2006 when he claimed to have been taken on board an alien spacecraft while on a business trip in 1997. “It happened on the 17th of September,” he told a British journalist. “I was taken from my apartment in Moscow and taken to this spaceship, and we went to some star. I asked, ‘Please bring me back,’ because the next day I had to be back in Kalmykia—in Elista—to go to the Ukraine. ‘No problem,’ they said, ‘you have time.’”
“How much of that experience do you recall?” asked the journalist.
Ilyumzhinov’s responses were somewhat brief. “They are people like us,” he replied. “They have the same mind, the same vision, and so on. I talked with them. I understood that we are not alone—we are not unique. I am not a crazy man. But after that, when I gave the first interview to Radio Freedom in Russia five years ago, thousands o
f people wrote me letters or called by phone, saying, ‘Kirsan, you are a politician and you are not afraid to talk about it.’” Which, at least, is more than can be said for any other president or national leader—apart, perhaps, from the current Russian Prime Minister and former President Dmitry Medvedev (see later).
In another interview, on a Russian talk show on April 26, 2010, Ilyumzhinov revealed that the experience had begun with the appearance of a “semi-transparent half tube” on the balcony of his apartment. He then entered it and met “human-like creatures in yellow spacesuits,” the Moscow Times reported. “I am often asked which language I used to talk to them. Perhaps it was on a level of the exchange of the ideas,” he explained to the program host. “They put a spacesuit on me, told me many things, and showed me around. They wanted to demonstrate that UFOs do exist.”
“What has gotten his Russian political peers suddenly agitated after all this time,” reports Glenda Kwek, “is whether he let slip any state secrets and whether there is a proper procedure for dealing with aliens. Andrei Lebedev, a State Duma deputy, was apparently moved by ‘holy terror’ at Mr. Ilyumzhinov’s claims, and yesterday wrote to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev asking him to launch an investigation, the Times said. He was concerned about whether Mr. Ilyumzhinov’s brush with the spacemen affected his ruling of Kalmykia and whether they might have tried to get him to divulge state secrets to them.”35
President Obama
During a live interview with Chris Moyles on BBC Radio 1 in May 2012, actor Will Smith (of Men in Black fame) said that during a recent private tour of the White House with President Obama, Smith’s thirteen-year-old son Jayden (himself a Hollywood star) asked Obama for his view on aliens.
“The aliens, right?” responded Obama. “Okay. I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of extraterrestrials, but I can tell you that if there had been a top-secret meeting and if there would have had to have been a discussion about it, it would have taken place in this room.”36
