President Eisenhower Meets the Aliens? (from space, not Mexico)

ufo evidence dot org ^ | 5-2009 (orig 1989) | Moore

[doug from upland]

President Eisenhower Meets the Aliens?

William L. Moore, Gazette, Hollywood, California, March 29, 1989

original source | fair use notice

Summary: The story about Eisenhower's February 1954 trip to Palm Springs for a winter holiday, and his subsequent late Saturday night disappearance, has fueled rumors that Eisenhower traveled to nearby Edwards Air Force Base to meet with aliens. One of the best recounting of this rumor was done by William Moore a prominent California researcher who traveled to the Eisenhower Library to do research and actually interviewed the wife of one of the key witnesses to the story.

UFOS...EXPLORING THE 'E.T.' PHENOMENON

By William L. Moore

One of the first conclusions an impartial observer must make about the subject of UFOs is that rumors and circumstance play far too great a role in what ought to be a more exacting quest for knowledge. It is just such an observation which once led Dr. Carl Sagan to comment dryly that UFOs "are more a matter for religion and superstition than they are for science."

While this dismissal is perhaps unscientific in its own right, the point is well taken. Attend any gathering of "UFO people" you want, and simply listen. Rumors abound. Perhaps worse, however, is that some of these rumors manage to circulate for years (even decades) without anyone making a reasonable effort to get to the bottom of them.

One of the most persistent of these is a story that President Eisenhower visited Edwards Air Force Base in early 1954, and either viewed the bodies of dead aliens and the wreckage of their craft, or met with live aliens on some sort of diplomatic mission to earth.

The story takes many forms, with the common thread being that Ike mysteriously disappeared one evening while on a vacation to Palm Springs, and that he was spirited to Edwards to view (or meet) aliens. It is said that he returned by dawn and shortly thereafter ordered absolute secrecy about anything having to do with UFOs.

No doubt one of the reasons that this particular rumor has continued to circulate for such a long time is that there are a number of verifiable facts associated with it--some of them rather curious.

For example, President Eisenhower did indeed make a trip to Palm Springs between February 17th and 24th, 1954, and on the evening of Saturday, February 20th, he did disappear! When members of the press learned that the president was not where he should be, rumors ran rampant that he had either died or was seriously ill.

The story even managed to get onto a press wire before being killed moments later. To quell the fuss, White House Press Secretary James Haggerty called an urgent late evening press conference to announce "solemnly" that the president had been enjoying fried chicken earlier that evening, had knocked a cap off a tooth, and had been taken to a local dentist for treatment.

When Ike turned up as scheduled the next morning for an early church service, the matter seemed ended. Although the Palm Springs trip was billed as a "vacation for the president", the trip appears to have come up rather suddenly.

In addition, it is a matter of record that Ike had returned from a quail shooting vacation in Georgia less than a week before leaving for Palm Springs.

While the incidence of a local dentist being called upon to treat a president of the United States is unusual enough that it should constitute a rather memorable event for those involved, the dentist's widow, in a June, 1979 interview, was curiously unable to recall any specifics relating to her husband's alleged involvement in the affair--not even the time of day it had occurred. Yet her memory appeared flawless when asked to relate details of her and her husband's attendance (by presidential invitation) at a steak fry the following evening, where her husband was introduced as "the dentist who had treated the president".

This would appear to suggest a cover story, the details of which would have easily been repeated at the time, but quite naturally forgotten 25 years later. Research at the Eisenhower Library has uncovered two other facts inconsistent with the dentist story.

The first is that while the library maintains an extensive index of records relating to the president's health, there is no record of any dental work having been performed at all during February, 1954. A file on "Dentists" contains nothing concerning any such incident either. Secondly, there is a large file containing copies of all sorts of acknowledgments which were sent by the White House to people who had something to do with the Palm Springs trip.

There are letters, for example, to people who sent flowers, people who met the airplane, people who had offered to play golf, etc. There is even a thank you letter to the minister who presided over the Sunday service Ike attended. Yet there is no record of any acknowledgment having been sent to "the dentist who treated the president."

If the matter were as routine as Haggerty attempts to make it appear, then the absence of these records seems strangely inconsistent. The rumor of the president's alleged visit to Edwards is not a new one. UFO contactee fringe writers began making unsupported claims about it less than two months after Ike's trip.

So did a bizarre fellow from the Hollywood hills named Gerald Light, who, in an April 16, 1954 letter to the head of a Southern California metaphysical organization, actually claimed to have been at Edwards where he saw Ike, the saucers and the aliens. Light's letter has been controversial for years and copies of it have turned up in all sorts of places, including the National Enquirer.

Investigation into Mr. Light's background, however, turned up the fact that he was an elderly mystic who believed that psychic "out-of-body-experiences" were a logical extension of the reality of life and should be treated as such. In the final analysis, Light's alleged visit to Edwards was just such an experience.

And so the story ends. Clearly something unusual occurred involving the president on the evening of February 20, 1954. Whether it was a trip to the dentist, a trip to see flying saucers, or something altogether different and unrelated, no one can say. It's the stuff rumors are made of.

[Vaduz]

Dr. Carl Sagan to comment dryly that UFOs “are more a matter for religion and superstition than they are for science.”

[Caramelgal]

You can make up the wildest story about what occurred in a top secret facility. However, no government entity will ever refute it because those who can are under a strict set of security measures that cannot even reveal where they work. And these UFO snake oil charmers know it.

So true.

When I was a kid (early 70’s), we lived in Frederick MD, not far from Fort Detrick.

There were among some of the locals, all sorts of wild stories about what went on there. I remember someone telling my dad that they had human-monkey hybrids, two-headed animals and captured alien beings and their space craft.

Of course none of the people making these claims had ever seen it first hand – it was always my sister’s best friend’s boyfriend’s auto mechanic’s cousin works there…..

Of course if the public really knew some the biological and chemical warfare research that was going on there….perhaps the military was very happy to let folks think it was all about two-headed goats and snakes and UFO’s.

[ASOC]

IIRC, CLinton was their ‘friend’. Goota get that ‘Hispanic’ vote after all.

[Wilhelm Tell]

Monica is a space alien? Wow, I should have guessed that.

That is not quite what I had in mind. Bubba could have disappeared for a few hour for a tryst with whomever, and instead of explaining his absense with a "I had to work late at the office" excuse he could have said he had a top secret meeting with space aliens. Since the article suggests that it is a normal thing for presidents to meet space aliens, then Bubba could have used this as an excuse. This is a poor attempt of humor on my part.

[Quix]

THANKS. WILL CHECK IT OU.

[TangoLimaSierra]

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[Quix]

THANKS MUCH.

I’ve always believed the story from the first time I read about it.

Just rang true in my ‘knower.’ LOL.

Hope you and the wife are doing well.

Love seeing your posts on about any topic and particularly this one.

[doug from upland]

Doing fine. Like most, I’m working harder than ever to survive the Obama destruction of our capitalist economy.

[Quix]

INDEED.

I sure hope he’s not . . . retired . . .

in a way that leaves Shrillery in charge.

Though . . . COULD she possibly, actually BE worse?

Yes, she could. She’s meaner and more ruthless than he is. And she has a more intense blood-lust for the power & the job.

[Quix]

PLEASE NOTE FINAL PARAGRAPH PARTICULARLY

FROM:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread468502/pg1

posted on 31/5/2009 @ 23:23

Maybe Greer is onto something

I just got this from the Disclosure Project. The last sentence, if true, may lead to something real finally being done.

“Steven M. Greer MD, founder and director of The Disclosure Project will be speaking in Denver in the Turnhalle Room at the Tivoli Student Union building on the Auraria Campus on Thursday, June 18, 2009 from 7:00 to 10:00 pm.

Dr. Greer launched the world-wide Disclosure movement to end UFO secrecy and is currently advising members of Congress, foreign heads of state, and figures very close to the Obama Administration on how to best control currently illegal classified projects related to UFOs. These projects, which are embedded within a number of military, intelligence and corporate operations, have been managed without the oversight of Congress or the President of the United States since at least the late 1950s.

At his keynote address in Denver on June 18, 2009, Dr. Greer will review past briefings with world leaders and outline current Disclosure Project initiatives to brief those in Washington and other world capitals on the UFO subject.

Dr. Greer has provided briefings for the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Director of Intelligence for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and many members of Congress, among others. For the most part, these senior leaders have been systematically denied access to projects connected to the UFO subject.

Dr. Greer states, “These projects have been managed illegally for over 50 years and as such constitute a grave threat to our US national security. The central reason for the secrecy is directly connected to the corrupting influence of special interests in the oil, energy, and financial sectors, since the Disclosure of the sciences related to UFO energy and propulsion systems would quickly end our addiction to oil and coal. This secrecy, aside from being illegal, has denied humanity wondrous new sources of energy generation that would rapidly solve the environmental and energy crises. In this sense, the reason for the secrecy is simple: old fashioned greed and lust for power...”

Recently, Dr. Greer has been working with senior members of a G7 country to initiate open contact with the extraterrestrial civilizations that are responsible for some of the UFO sightings around the world.”

[Quix]

MAY BE INTERESTING:

http://mufoncms.com/cgi-bin/manage_sighting_reports.pl?mode=view_long_desc&id=17081&rnd=153871243752837

Long Description of Sighting Report

Dear Director

This is not a Joke.

I’m an italian Lawyer, and I have evidences (proof) of Extraterrestrial Civilization hidden at the world and now exposed.

I don’t speak english very well, so I hope that in your office there is someone that could better translate this message about the evidence (satellites images from official and public source) undeniable of an Extraterrestrial civilization, their huge buildings (dozens Km. square) and more, as you can see.

I consider this the sum of the evidence as incontrovertible. Thanks for your attention.

I pray not to take to this mail like a hoax or a joke. In those days I’m try to contact inernational media to discolse this story and show a little part of what I said.

I know is not easy, and I can understand your skepticism, but the proofs are huge and publics, easy to find for all the people that could looks by themselves, even if well hidden and smuggled.

I’m not a liar in looks for of crazy publicity or visionary, but a Lawyer of Bari (Italy).

There are not Video footages or simple Ufo’s pics, but images satellites from Official source that reproduce huge buildings...and other... I know that is too big story to believe, and you have my comprehention, but it is all true.

I’m a rational person, even if I have the passion for this kind of arguments, but this to which are found forehead very goes beyond any fantasy or subjective interpretation.

This that I have learned and seen has literally astounded me, and not I hide that I have found it hard to believe in this that I was observing. At the moment, however, the task that is entrusted me is only that to try to show to the average, within a short of time, this incredible discovery and to protect professionally, under all the points of view, (personal and economic) the person who has entrusted to returned me and partecipe of this secret.

This person has entrusted me in order to disclose this that he has found and he has bound to most absolute professional reserve and the total anonymity to me. I realize of vagueness of these affirmations, but, at the moment, I cannot say other in order not to compromise or to make useless my acts.

The only indication that I can give you is that the information that I will be able to offer to you are officials, comes from public Agencies and Institutions and “are not of this world”: an irrefutable tests of an extraterrestrial civilization.

I hope to be contacted via email to clarify better all the aspects about this incredible news. I could send you some images in attachment, as “little proof” of what I claim.

For the moment, Verify only the genuineness of those images whit digital images technicians or geologists. (I do this yet!).

Thanks for your attention.

Sure of your professional reserve and the entire staff,
Sincerely yours.

Avv. Antonio Di Bello

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Qx: Sounds interesting. Will see if anything developes.

[Quix]

Some interesting videos etc. follow . . .

daylight:

ufo sighting exmouth devon uk may 2009

[use the stop function; last half most interesting part]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zLu_1BoPaY

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New swirled order (crop circle documentary 2009)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mAdrSvOgwI

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Pilots leaving Houston spot strange object
Saturday, May 30, 2009 | 7:00 PM

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=6840229

By Gene Apodaca

HOUSTON (KTRK) — A strange object was spotted Friday night by pilots of a plane that just had just taken off from Bush Intercontinental Airport. And now, federal investigators are trying to pinpoint what the flying object was.

Eyewitnesses say the object, possibly a rocket, came close to hitting the plane. The Continental Express plane, operated by Express Jet, was flying from Houston to South Carolina last night when it happened.

The plane had just left Bush Airport around 8:20pm Friday when the captain reported seeing the object about 150 feet away. According to the FAA, the incident occurred about 11,000 feet into the air above Liberty County.

On Saturday, sheriff’s officials interviewed two Hardin High School students who reported seeing the object come close to the plane.

What’s strange is that the FAA says they have no reports of any scheduled hobby rocket launches in the area.

“All we’ve been told it was bigger than a bottle rocket. It was enough of a light or big enough of an object the pilot had to call it in,” said Corporal Hugh Bishop with the Liberty County sheriff’s office. “But again, we haven’t found anything to substantiate it yet.”

The sheriff’s department is scouring a large area from the Harris County line east to Liberty between Mont Belviu and Moss Hill for any sign of what might have come close to the plane. It’s about a 24 by 12 mile area.

Officers were also on the radio today asking for witnesses. If you have any information about this, you’re being asked to call the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office at 936-336-4500.

A similar situation happened almost exactly a year ago with a Continental Airlines jet that left Bush Intercontinental. Passengers spotted a rocket-like object near the plane shortly after takeoff. The FAA investigated, and believed in was a high-power model rocket.

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Maybe more later . . .

[SunkenCiv]

Dr. Greer states, "These projects have been managed illegally for over 50 years and as such constitute a grave threat to our US national security. The central reason for the secrecy is directly connected to the corrupting influence of special interests in the oil, energy, and financial sectors, since the Disclosure of the sciences related to UFO energy and propulsion systems would quickly end our addiction to oil and coal. This secrecy, aside from being illegal, has denied humanity wondrous new sources of energy generation that would rapidly solve the environmental and energy crises. In this sense, the reason for the secrecy is simple: old fashioned greed and lust for power..."

Greer's talking out of his ass as usual.