From: "Remy C." To: "endsecrecy list" Subject: [endsecrecy] Gleason Jetson Date: Monday, August 21, 2000 9:22 AM From: SHnSASSY1 @aol.com Even though I went to the site mentioned at the bottom on Jackie Gleason's encounter, but I could not pull the page up, but you can also connect to http://www.worldofthestrange.com/Archives/101899.htm to read of his encounter... Love & Light Louise http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal081401.html One candidate down, one to go August 14, 2000 As the Democratic National Convention opens this week in California, ufologists will likely be watching for candidate Al Gore to mimic his opponent George W. Bush who, as Republicans convened in Philadelphia July 28, pledged to tell the American public the truth about UFOs. The next President will join a long line of predecessors who apparently either believed in UFOs or encountered the phenomenon sometime in their lives, but, to a man, never revealed what the government knows. Bush was whistle-stopping through Springdale, Arkansas on his way to the Republican Convention July 28, when Charles A. Huffer, Mutual UFO Network's state director, asked him if he would "finally tell the American people the truth about unidentified flying objects." Bush's reply, reported by CNN, ABC's Nightline, and the Washington Post, replied, "Sure. I will." Will Gore made the same promise? Would either of them be likely to change course from the men who served before them? Take President John F. Kennedy, for example. One of the stewards aboard Air Force One (Bill Holden), is reported to have asked the President on one flight, "what do you think about UFOs?" Kennedy is said to have replied, "I'd like to tell the public about the alien situation, but my hands are tied." Kennedy also shows up in a document entitled "Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit Summary," written in 1947 following the celebrated Roswell, New Mexico crash of an alien vessel (denied by the government), and describing then-congressman Kennedy as having received information on the Roswell "recovery operation." Even more intriguing is a declassified memorandum President Kennedy wrote to the CIA 10 days before his assassination in 1963. The memorandum, a "classification review of all UFO intelligence files affecting national security" discussed cooperating with the USSR for the purpose of joint space exploration program, and specifically referenced "high threat cases," presumably relating to UFOs. If Kennedy suspected alien threats to Earth from other life forms, he never told the American people about it. Then there's Jimmy Carter, who in 1976 at the Southern Governor's Conference said "I don't laugh at people anymore when they say they've seen UFOs. I've seen one myself. It was the darndest thing I've ever seen. It was big, it was very bright, it changed colors and was about the size of the moon." And, he added, "if I become president, I'll make every piece of information that this country has about UFO sightings available to the public." Whether a promise forgotten, or reconsidered in the White House, President Carter never did. President Gerald Ford once said publicly "the American public deserves a better explanation than that thus far given by the U.S. Air Force. I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena. I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment on the subject." The enlightenment Ford once sought wasnot forthcoming during his tenure in the White House. President Ronald Reagan also believes he saw a UFO during his tenure as the governor of California. "I was in a plane last week when I looked out the window and saw this white light. It was zigzagging around." He asked the pilot of the Citation if he had ever seen anything similar to the light, and said Reagan, "he was shocked and said 'nope.' We followed it for several minutes, to Bakersfield, and all of a sudden to our utter amazement it went straight up into the heavens." Reagan said that "when I got off the plane I told Nancy about it, 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." And while he was enjoying a private screening of the Steven Spielberg film, "ET," Reagan reportedly leaned over to Spielberg and said, "there are only a handful of people who know the truth about this." If Reagan explored the UFO issue out of concern or curiosity while he was President, he never told the public about it. Webster Hubbell, a long-time associate of President Bill Clinton and an assistant attorney general, wrote in his biography, "Friends in High Places," that the president told him, "I want you to find the answers to two questions for me: One, who killed JFK; and two, are there UFOs?" Says Hubbell: Clinton was dead serious. I had looked into both but he wasn't satisfied with the answers." And in Ireland just last year, Clinton responded to a UFO question from a youth: "No, as far as I know, and alien spacecraft did not crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. f the US. Air Force did recover alien bodies, they didn't tell me about it, either, and I want to know." But perhaps the most unusual story about our modern presidents and UFOs comes from the widow of Jackie Gleason, the famed "Great One" of television and film, who reportedly met President Richard Nixon and took a wild ride with the President to Homestead Air Force Base in Florida. Gleason was an avid collector of UFO literature, and a frequent golfing partner with Nixon when the President traveled to Florida. Gleason reportedly confided in an airman who witnessed the well-reported UFO incident at Bentwaters Air Force Base in England in 1980. He told Airman Larry Warren that he'd been playing golf with the President in Florida, when the topic of UFOs came up at the 15th hole. Later that night, President Nixon appeared at Gleason's home--alone--and told Gleason, "I want to take you someplace and show you something." They drove to Homestead, where, Gleason reportedly said, "we went into an inner chamber where there were six or eight of what looked like glass-topped Coke freezers. Inside them were the remains of what I took to be children. Then--on closer examination--I saw that some of the figures looked quite old. Most of them were terribly mangled as if they had been in an accident." Each had three or four fingers, and Gleason described them as "not human." For three weeks after his late-night trip, the comedian could not sleep nor eat, said the airman. "He just couldn't understand why our government wouldn't tell the public all they know about UFOs and space visitors," said Warren. Perhaps if Nixon had served out his second term, he might have disclosed the presence of aliens in military laboratories. But he never did. Time will tell whether Bush or Gore will change UFO disclosure history. (The full story of Jackie Gleason and the Nixon aliens is reported by Tim Beckley at www.skywatch-international.org/gleason. The other tales of our presidents and UFOs were reported in the January, 2000 issue of UFO Magazine. Jim Marrs, of www.earthradiotv.com researched President Kennedy's connection with UFOs.) Staff Writer Sally Suddock End Secrecy List http://www.endsecrecy.com