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Such was the level of security, it was claimed, that each week Tom was taken to a special room and injected with sodium pentothal, hypnotized, then “interrogated about every aspect of his life for the past week.”
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Another apocryphal story, of course. But in view of the additional accompanying
hearsay evidence, such stories should not be dismissed arbitrarily.

Robert F. Dorr, a former senior diplomat and leading aviation authority who served in the U.S. Air Force, claims that the 49th state was the center of a “UFO war” in the 1970s. He cites, for instance, a case in June 1975 involving a Lockheed T-33 two-seat trainer repeatedly buzzed by a circular craft estimated to be 150 feet in diameter. All attempts at avoiding the craft failed. Indeed, the pilots were convinced the craft was attempting to ram them. Fortunately, the craft suddenly “vanished.” Furthermore, bizarre weather conditions were frequently encountered by pilots. “Radios and electronic instruments don't work the way they're supposed to,” said an experienced air charter pilot. “Thunderstorms, tornadoes, and lightning appear when there's no meteorological reason to expect them. Even when the weatherman predicts CAVU [ceiling and visibility unlimited], you sometimes get storms. And you get these weird cloud formations where the whole sky suddenly turns a milky, amber color. It's terrifying.”
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Such deliberately induced manipulations of weather by aliens were verified for me by the Washington source—and by the distinguished Brazilian explorer and researcher Dr. Rubens J. Villela (see
Unearthly Disclosure
).

John B. Alexander is a retired U.S. Army colonel who served as a project manager at Los Alamos National Laboratory and worked with the National Research Council, the Council on Foreign Relations, and as a consultant to the National Intelligence Council, the CIA, the U.S. Special Operations Command, and the Army Science Board. In his book
UFOs
he concedes the reality thereof, per se, but dismisses an alien interpretation. In the late 1980s, an unnamed friend in the Inspector General's Office came across a stack of reports that had accumulated in a battalion command center in Alaska. “There were eighteen reports of events in January 1987 near St. Lawrence Island, which lies in the Bering Sea well west of the Alaska mainland,” writes Alexander. “This rather large island is home to just more than a thousand people, mostly Yupik, who are among those who hunt for survival purposes.” Of the reports described to Alexander, the following is interesting:

“At picture A is a replica of the drawing submitted…. The large domed object on the right side of the picture was described as far larger than a Boeing 747 aircraft. It was followed by two smaller discs. All were very
dark on the underside and were traveling toward the north trailing smoke. The observers then noticed that the large craft appeared to generate a cloud that engulfed it. The UFO, shrouded in the cloud, was then seen to fly against [the] direction from which the wind was blowing.”
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Perhaps of relevance here is the well-known case involving the extraordinary radar-confirmed encounter with a giant craft reported by the crew of a Japan Airlines Boeing 747 on its approach to Anchorage Airport on November 17, 1986, to which I alluded briefly in Chapter 15.

Presidential Involvement

A number of U.S. presidents have been exposed to the alien situation. According to Bruno Sammaciccia of the Amicizia W56 group, even George Washington was contacted. No details are provided, other than that in addition to “W56”—referring to the group's starting date in 1956—it was also meant as a form of homage to the nation's first president.
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Chapter 4 describes several meetings with aliens said to have been arranged with President Eisenhower. And according to the comedian and musician Jackie Gleason, who had a great interest in the subject, one night in 1973 he was taken by his friend President Richard M. Nixon to a top-secret repository at Homestead Air Force Base, Florida, where bodies of aliens were stored. Beverly McKittrick, Gleason's wife, confirmed that her husband had returned from the trip visibly shaken by the experience.
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In Chapter 15, I cited evidence from Captain Bill Uhouse, a former U.S. Marine Corps fighter pilot who claims to have worked on a top-secret program relating to the avionics of simulators built for the reproduction of alien vehicles. In an interview with Glenn Campbell, using the pseudonym “Jarod-2,” Uhouse stated that to protect what was found at the disc crash sites, “those in charge at the time scrambled for a position and a decision as to whom in the government would carry the responsibility:

“This included security, material, personnel, documents, and military and civilian intelligence. It was not decided until the Eisenhower administration in the early part of 1953. A group was formed by the president, and the chairman of the group was Vice President Richard Nixon. Around June of 1953, the final decision was made to set up a ‘satellite government.' This separate government would interface with the U.S. government for
support only.”

Personnel involved in any part of the disc retrievals were reassigned to this satellite government, new security requirements were established, and new clearances were assigned. “Think what you would do to maintain a level of secrecy of something inherently totally bizarre in nature,” Uhouse explained. “Nixon did it right by establishing the satellite government. This provided cover for the visitors plus a totally new concept for protecting all information relating to this subject.”
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President Ronald Reagan took a considerable interest in the subject of aliens, having had two sightings. One of these occurred in 1974 when he was the governor of California. “We were near Bakersfield when Governor Reagan and [his security personnel] called my attention to a big light flying a bit behind my plane,” reported Reagan's pilot, Bill Paynter. “It was a fairly steady light until it began to accelerate, then it appeared to elongate. Then the light took off … from a normal cruise speed to a fantastic speed instantly.”

Reagan himself described the incident to Norman Miller, then Washington bureau chief for
The
Wall Street Journal
. According to Miller, Reagan ordered his pilot to follow the object. “All of a sudden, to our utter amazement it went straight up into the heavens,” said Reagan. “When I got off the plane, I told Nancy all about it. And we read up on the long history of UFOs.”
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On the evening of June 27, 1982, Reagan hosted Steven Spielberg in the White House at a special screening for thirty or so guests of the soon-to-be-released movie,
E.T.—The Extraterrestrial
. In an interview with “Quint” (Eric Vespe of Ain't It Cool News) in 2011, Spielberg finally addressed the question of what Reagan was rumored to have said about the subject matter following the showing.

“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….”
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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.”
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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.”
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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….'”
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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!
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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.
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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….”
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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