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Did Jackie Gleason view UFO bodies?
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NEW YORK - The clamorous cry To the moon. ALice" frequently delivered on the
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"Honeymooners" by the late, great Jackie Gleason, may have been inspired in
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part by the comic's fascination with outer space.
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Gleason was an avowed believer in UFOs and, according to his ex-wife
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Beverly McKittrick, he even got involved in some spaced-out exploits with his
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friend Richard Nixon.
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Beverly was 37-year-old divorcee with a great golf game when Jackie
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met her at Miami country club. Their four year marriage ended in 1974
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In her unpublished biography of the funnyman entitled "The Great
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One,"Beverly, Gleason's second spouse, describes a bizarre trip Jackie took with
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the then President in 1973 to Homestead AFB in Florida to see what see says
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were bodies of four dead space aliens recovered by the Air Force.
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The aliens were supposedly embalmed and displayed on operating tables
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and classified as top-secret material. Gleason and Nixon visited the base under
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extremely tight security, she says.
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"The significance of the information is tremendous," said Mike
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Luckman, director of the UFO research Center in New York. "The four bodies that
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Gleason saw were probably the same ones the the Army recovered in 1947 at
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Roswell, N.M. We want to establish that link."
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Gleason had a lifelong interest in the supernatural and accumulated one
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of the largest private libraries of esoteric and psychic literature in the
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country.
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He even named his Peekskill N.Y. home "The Mothership" and had
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architects build everything in the round to resemble a flying saucer.
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Said Luckman: "Most of the furniture was circular. So was the garage,
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which he called the Scout Ship."
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Source: MUFON Journal February 1988 Number 238
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