Presidents and UFO’s
Let’s be clear, by UFO I don’t mean interstellar aliens. The “U” stands for Unidentified. I also do not necessarily subscribe to the information below. I am passing it on as a Freeper service to those who don’t follow this stuff. I am fascinated by it, but I take it all with a HUGH grain of salt.
Truman was the first President who had to deal with the issue. He formed Majestic 12 - and the modern national intelligence agencies - as a response. He was in the loop.
Eisenhower was read in because, at that point, the default was to read the President in. There are reports that Eisenhower met with aliens. As he was leaving office Ike warned about the Military Industrial Complex and “keeping secrets from Americans” and his vague references are taken by the UFO investigating community to be a reference to the new “shadow government” that sprung up in response to the UFO “threat”. It is fair to say at this point that Nixon knew because he was VP to Ike.
Kennedy, it is said, was poised to announce a joint effort with the Soviets to explore space and share info on UFOs. There is speculation that he was going to announce this in Dallas the day he was assassinated.
Johnson was hip deep in the military/NASA sphere (Johnson Space Center) and as Kennedy’s VP was probably read in on the UFO situation. Some say that the Shadow Government wasn’t too happy with the “civilian” space program (NASA) continuing to draw attention to space and thought that Nixon could pull things back.
Nixon did cut funding for NASA and the Apollo program was halted on his watch. Nixon did a strange thing - he apparently brought his good friend Jackie Gleason to Homestead Air Force Base and showed him the corpses of dead aliens. It was at this point that the concept of “need to know” was applied to Presidents.
Ford may have been read in, but he wasn’t in office long enough to have an effect one way or another. He did make Rockefeller his VP and there is much speculation on the Rockefeller ties to the shadow government.
Carter had spoken of seeing UFOs and was considered untrustworthy. Kept in the dark.
Reagan shows all the signs of being in the loop - SDI, the speech at the UN of the hypothetical “alien threat” and his VP was Bush Sr., former head of the CIA and connected to the military industrial complex for many years.
Bush Sr. as stated above, was in the loop before he became president.
Clinton made noise about declassifying UFO files and, even though there is evidence that people in his administration tried to find out, he was likely kept in the dark.
Bush the younger was likely in the know due to his father.
Obama was almost certainly not fully briefed.
Which brings us to President Trump and his recent statement.
Over the past few decades it seems that “need to know” falls along party lines. Some speculate that the government is hiding technologies that would change the world and that those who live to shake things up - Democrats - would use the information to destroy the existing world economy. Republicans are seen as friends of existing energy and industrial companies and would see these new technologies only released sparingly.
Do I believe all of this? Not particularly. I have family members who have worked for the government and have alluded to, but not confirmed, projects that they have worked on that are not public knowledge. There is stuff that we are not being told - probably for very good reasons - that would likely shock a lot of people.