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[Excerpted from UFO Universe, the September 1988 issue, is this article
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on Ronald Reagan's reputed UFO encounter, and how that encounter may
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serve to explain his continued interest in UFOlogy and EBEs.]
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THE SHOCKING TRUTH
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Ronald Reagan's Obsession With
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An Alien Invasion
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By A. Hovni
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Supermarket tabloids, that strange breed of sensationalistic
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American journalism, have been talking for most of the decade about
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Ronald Reagan's fascination with things like astrology and space aliens.
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Little attention was paid to the matter ... after all, the stuff was
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printed in the tabloids and nobody sane is supposed to believe in them.
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Yet truth is becoming stranger than fiction in the case of Ronald Wilson
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Reagan and some of his more curious remarks.
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For starters, he has become the first President of the United
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States to talk about he possibility of an alien invasion from outer
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space, and he has done so not once or twice but in three speeches.
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Reagan is also the only President to my knowledge, who admitted -- in a
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1984 Presidential debate against Walter Mondale -- [to] having
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"philosophical discussions" about Armageddon in the White House with
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some rather well known fundamentalist preachers.
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And then there was the explosion about astrology in the White
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House, triggered by Don Regan's disclosures that Nancy had often
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consulted astrologers to arrange for appointments with the President.
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Everyone knows the details by now, yet we asked Marcello Galluppi, a
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well-known astrologer and host of a psychic radio and TV talk show in
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Detroit, to give us another view. "It is very clear to me that the
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politicians in Washington have their psychics and astrologers," said
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Marcello, "at least some of them do." Furthermore, continued Marcello,
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there is evidence that the Reagans have used astrology for a long time
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if we consider that "he was sworn in at midnight as Governor of
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California, based on astrology."
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The media was having a field day with horoscopes at the White House
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when Reagan talked about the possibility of Earth uniting against a
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threat by "a power from outer space." Although the idea wasn't new for
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the President, as we shall soon see, this time everybody paid attention.
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More as a joke than a serious thought, however. The AP story on the
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speech, for example, had the headline, "Reagan follows astrological flap
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with comment on space invaders."
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There might be a deeper reason for Reagan's apparent interest in
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the idea of an alien threat. There is an unconfirmed story that before
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he became Governor of California, Ron and Nancy had a UFO sighting on a
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highway near Hollywood. The story was broadcast last February on Steve
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Allen's radio show over WNEW-AM in New York. The comedian and host
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commented that a very well known personality in the entertainment
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industry had confided to him that many years ago, Ron and Nancy were
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expected to a casual dinner with friends in Hollywood. Except for the
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Reagans, all the guests had arrived. Ron and Nancy showed up quite
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upset half an hour later, saying that they had just seen a UFO coming
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down the coast. No further details were released by Steve Allen.
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The President first disclosed his recurrent thoughts about "an
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alien threat" during a December 4, 1985, speech at the Fallston High
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School in Maryland, where he spoke about his first summit with General
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Secretary Gorbachev in Geneva. According to a White House transcript,
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Reagan remarked that during his 5-hour private discussions with
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Gorbachev, he told [Gorbachev] to think, "how easy his task and mine
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might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat
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to this world from some other species from another planet outside in the
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universe. We'd forget all the little local differences that we have
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between our countries ..."
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Except for one headline or two, people didn't pay much attention.
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Not then and not later, when Gorbachev himself confirmed the
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conversation in Geneva during an important speech on February 17, 1987,
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in the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, to the Central Committee of the
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USSR's Communist Party. Not a High School in Maryland, precisely!
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There, buried on page 7A of the 'Soviet Life Supplement,' was the
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following statement:
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"At our meeting in Geneva, the U.S. President said that if
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the earth faced an invasion by extraterrestials, the United
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States and the Soviet Union would join forces to repel such
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an invasion. I shall not dispute the hypothesis, though I
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think it's early yet to worry about such an intrusion..."
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Notice that Gorbachev doesn't say this is an incredible proposition, he
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just says that it's too early to worry about it.
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If Gorbachev elevated the theme from a high school to the Kremlin
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[palace], Reagan upped the stakes again by including the "alien threat"
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[again], not in a domestic speech but to a full session of the General
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Assembly of the United Nations. Towards the end of his speech to the
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Forty-second Session on September 21, 1987, the President said that, "in
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our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much
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unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside,
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universal threat to make us recognize this common bond.
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"I occasionally think," continued Reagan, "how quickly our
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differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat
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from outside this world. And yet, I ask" -- here comes the clincher --
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"is not an alien force ALREADY among us?" The President now tries to
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retreat from the last bold statement by posing a second question: "What
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could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war
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and the threat of war?" Unlike the off-the-cuff remarks to the Fallston
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High School, we must assume that the President's speech to the General
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Assembly was written very carefully and likewise, it merits close
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examination.
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Ronald Reagan has told us that he thinks often about this issue,
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yet nobody seems to be paying attention. When the President mentioned
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last May 4 in Chicago for the third time the possibility of a threat by
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"a power from another planet," the media quickly dubbed it the "space
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invaders" speech, relegating it to a sidebar in the astrology flap. The
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ET remark was made in the Q&A period following a speech to the National
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Strategy Forum in Chicago's Palmer House Hotel, where he adopted a more
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conciliatory tone towards the Soviet Union.
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Significantly, Reagan's remark was made during his response to the
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question, "What do you consider to be the most important need in
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international relations?"
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"I've often wondered," the President told us once again, "what if
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all of us in the world discovered that we were threatened by an outer --
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a power from outer space, from another planet." And then he emphasized
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his theme that this would erase all the differences, and that the
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"citizens of the world" would "come together to fight that particular
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threat..."
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There is a fourth, unofficial, similar statement from Ronald Reagan
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about this particular subject. It was reported in the New Republic by
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senior editor Fred Barnes. The article described a luncheon in the
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White House between the President and Eduard Shevardnatze, during the
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Foreign Minister's visit to Washington to sign the INF Treaty on
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September 15, 1987. "Near the end of his lunch with Shevardnadze,"
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wrote Barnes, "Reagan wondered aloud what would happen if the world
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faced an 'alien threat' from outer space. 'Don't you think the United
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States and the Soviet Union would be together?' he asked. Shevardnadze
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said yes, absolutely. "And we wouldn't need our defense ministers to
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meet,' he added."
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The fact that there are so many references in important speeches,
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off-the-cuff remarks, and just plain conversations, means that -- for
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whatever reason or knowledge about deep UFO secrets that he may have as
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President -- Ronald Reagan does think often about the possibility of an
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alien invasion, and how this event could become a catalyst for world
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unity. Talking about these UFO secrets, there is also an unconfirmed
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story of a special story of a special screening in the White House of
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the movie "ET" at few years ago, with director Steven Spielberg and a
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few selected guests. Right after the movie, Reagan supposedly turned to
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Spielberg and whispered something to the effect, "There are only a
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handful of people who know the truth about this."
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Indeed, more than one ufologist has even suggested that the real
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target behind "Star Wars" -- another of Reagan's cosmic obsessions -- is
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the projected ET invasion and not the Russians. Others talk of wild
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"deals" between the U.S. Government and race of gray dwarfs, better
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known for the appetite for abducting humans ... Stop! We're entering
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the forbidden terrain of tabloid revelations, like the SUN's screaming
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headline that "Reagan will end his presidency by adding several planets
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as states." Just think about it.
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