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SUBJECT: REAGAN: " I SAW UFO !" FILE: UFO1174
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REAGAN: I SAW UFO...and ordered pilot to follow
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Ronald Reagan once spotted a UFO during an airplane flight and ordered his personal pilot to chase the mysterious object as it streaked across the sky!
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Reagan's close encounter with space aliens took place in 1974 when he was governor of California.
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His former pilot, Bull Paynter, reveals details of the shocking incident:
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"I was the pilot of the plane when we saw the UFO. Also on board were Governor Reagan and a couple of his security people.
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"We were flying a Cessna Citation. It was maybe 9 or 10 o'clock at night.
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"We were near Bakersfield, California when Governor Reagan and the others called my attention to a big light flying a bit behind my plane.
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SPEED
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"It appeared to be several hundred yards away. It was a fairly steady light until it began to accelerate, then it appeared to elongate.
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"Then the light took off. It went up at a 45-degree angle-at a high rate of speed.
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"Everyone on the plane was surprised.
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"Governor Reagan expressed amazement. I told the others I didn't know what it was."
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Paynter, who's logged thousands of hours in the sky, says the object definitely wasn't another airplane.
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"The UFO went from a normal cruise speed to a fantastic speed instantly," he says.
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"If you give an airplane power it will accelerate-but not like a hot rod, and that's what this was like," he adds.
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Reagan described the UFO sighting one week later to veteran newsman Norman C. Miller, then Washington bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal.
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According to author Doyle McManus, Reagan told Miller:
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"I was ina a plane last week when I looked out the window and saw this white light. It was zigzagging around.
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FOLLOWED IT
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"I went up to the pilot and said, "Have you ever seen anything like that?" He was shocked and he said, "Nope." And I said to him: "Let's follow it!"
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"We followed it for several minutes. It was a bright white light.
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"We followed it to Bakersfield, and all of a sudden to our utter amazement it went straight up into the heavens.
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"When I got off the plane I told Nancy all about it."
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After the eerie UFO encounter, the Reagans reportedly read as much as they could about UFOs.
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But later when Reagan was asked if he believed in UFOs, the astute politician with plans for the White House sheepishly said he was neither a believer nor a non-believer.
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REPORT
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Pilot Paynter, who now owns a freight airplane in Sacramento, California, says he and Reagan discussed their UFO sighting "from time to time" after it happened.
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"But we didn't file a report on the object because for a long time they considered you a nut if you saw a UFO," he says.
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KEN O'HARA
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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