Recently I made a thread entitled
'We Have Been Warned' which presented examples of
high ranking officials and respected scientists giving, perhaps, warnings of alien existence, corrupt monetary systems and other alternative
subjects.
Recently i was reminded of another such possible warning. This warning comes from one of the most widely recognized and respected (cough, cough)
positions in world politics......the President of the United States of America
*Excerpted from UFO Universe, the September 1988 issue, is this article on Ronald Reagan's reputed UFO encounter, and how that encounter may serve
to explain his continued interest in UFOlogy and EBEs*
Source
Ronald Reagan was no ordinary President......
en.wikipedia.org...
Born in Tampico, Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s. He began a career as an actor, first in films and later
television, appearing in 52 movie productions and gaining enough success to become a household name. Though often described as a B film actor, he
starred in both Knute Rockne, All American and Kings Row. Reagan served as president of the Screen Actors Guild, and later spokesman for General
Electric (GE); his start in politics occurred during his work for GE. Originally a member of the Democratic Party, he switched to the Republican Party
in 1962. After delivering a rousing speech in support of Barry Goldwater's presidential candidacy in 1964, he was persuaded to seek the California
governorship, winning two years later and again in 1970. He was defeated in his run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968 as well as
1976, but won both the nomination and election in 1980.
Reagan was well known for his 'alternative thinking' and was different to most other politicians in that he would often discuss them publicly. He
was known to have a keen interest in astrology, even using it when tackling important issues.
But what would provoke the President of the United States to publicly discuss alien invasion, something far more 'out there'?
There is an unconfirmed story that before he became Governor of California, Ron and Nancy had a UFO sighting on a highway near Hollywood. The
story was broadcast last February on Steve Allen's radio show over WNEW-AM in New York. The comedian and host commented that a very well known
personality in the entertainment industry had confided to him that many years ago, Ron and Nancy were expected to a casual dinner with friends in
Hollywood. Except for the Reagan's, all the guests had arrived. Ron and Nancy showed up quite upset half an hour later, saying that they had just
seen a UFO coming down the coast. No further details were released by Steve Allen.
So could Reagan have just been using a personal experience when referencing the 'alien threat'? Maybe, but lets see what it was he said
exactly......
The President first disclosed his recurrent thoughts about "an alien threat" during a December 4, 1985, speech at the Fallston High School in
Maryland, where he spoke about his first summit with General Secretary Gorbachev in Geneva. According to a White House transcript, Reagan remarked
that during his 5-hour private discussions with Gorbachev, he told [Gorbachev] to think, "how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings
that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from some other species from another planet outside in the universe. We'd forget all the
little local differences that we have between our countries ..."
Except for one headline or two, people didn't pay much attention. Not then and not later, when Gorbachev himself confirmed the conversation in Geneva
during an important speech on February 17, 1987, in the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, to the Central Committee of the USSR's Communist Party. Not a
High School in Maryland, precisely! There, buried on page 7A of the 'Soviet Life Supplement,' was the following statement:
"At our meeting in Geneva, the U.S. President said that if the earth faced an invasion by extraterrestrials, the United States and the Soviet
Union would join forces to repel such an invasion. I shall not dispute the hypothesis, though I think it's early yet to worry about such an
intrusion..."
Notice that Gorbachev doesn't say this is an incredible proposition, he just says that it's too early to worry about it.
I find Gorbachevs response in particular highly interesting.
But he didn't stop there......
If Gorbachev elevated the theme from a high school to the Kremlin [palace], Reagan upped the stakes again by including the "alien threat"
[again], not in a domestic speech but to a full session of the General Assembly of the United Nations. Towards the end of his speech to the
Forty-second Session on September 21, 1987, the President said that, "in our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much
unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond.
"I occasionally think," continued Reagan, "how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from
outside this world. And yet, I ask" -- here comes the clincher -- "is not an alien force ALREADY among us?" The President now
tries to retreat from the last bold statement by posing a second question: "What could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than
war and the threat of war?" Unlike the off-the-cuff remarks to the Fallston High School, we must assume that the President's speech to the General
Assembly was written very carefully and likewise, it merits close examination.
What an intriguing addition to his original 'alien threat' statement. Almost as if he had been testing the waters of what he could and could not say
and decided to take more of a risk this time around.
Its the use of the word 'force' that perplexes me. Especially considering the follow up statement he uses to justify it. Surely 'is not an alien
idea already among us?' would make more sense.
Yet, there is more......
Ronald Reagan has told us that he thinks often about this issue, yet nobody seems to be paying attention. When the President mentioned last May 4
in Chicago for the third time the possibility of a threat by "a power from another planet," the media quickly dubbed it the "space invaders"
speech, relegating it to a sidebar in the astrology flap. The ET remark was made in the Q&A period following a speech to the National Strategy Forum
in Chicago's Palmer House Hotel, where he adopted a more conciliatory tone towards the Soviet Union.
Significantly, Reagan's remark was made during his response to the question, "What do you consider to be the most important need in
international relations?
"
"I've often wondered," the President told us once again, "what if all of us in the world discovered that we were threatened by an outer
-- a power from outer space, from another planet." And then he emphasized his theme that this would erase all the differences, and that the
"citizens of the world" would "come together to fight that particular threat..."
Interesting difference here.
At first this 'alien threat' merely serves as a 'for instance'. A way all of humanity could put aside their differences, realize that we are one,
and unite as such.
However now Reagan explicitly mentions the idea of fighting this new 'alien threat'. Things have most definitely escalated.
