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16 Famous People Who Believe in Aliens 16 Famous People Who Ronald Reagan's Obsession a December 4, 1985, speech at the Fallston High Believe In Aliens With An Alien Invasion School in Maryland, where he spoke about his first summit with General Secretary Gorbachev Continued from Page 29 By A. Hovni in Geneva. According to a White House transcript, Reagan remarked that during his 5- Supermarket tabloids, that strange breed hour private discussions with Gorbachev, he of sensationalistic American journalism, have told [Gorbachev] to think, "how easy his task been talking for most of the decade about and mine might be in these meetings that we Ronald Reagan's fascination with things like held if suddenly there was a threat to this world astrology and space aliens. Little attention was from some other species from another planet paid to the matter ... after all, the stuff was outside in the universe. We'd forget all the little printed in the tabloids and nobody sane is local differences that we have between our supposed to believe in them. Yet truth is countries ..." becoming stranger than fiction in the case of Except for one headline or two, people Ronald Wilson Reagan and some of his more didn't pay much attention. Not then and not curious remarks. later, when Gorbachev himself confirmed the For starters, he has become the first conversation in Geneva during an important President of the United States to talk about he speech on February 17, 1987, in the Grand 2. Ronald Reagan possibility of an alien invasion from outer Kremlin Palace in Moscow, to the Central space, and he has done so not once or twice but Committee of the USSR's Communist Party. While Governor of California, Ronald in three speeches. Reagan is also the only Not a High School in Maryland, precisely! Reagan claimed to have seen a UFO on two President to my knowledge, who admitted -- in There, buried on page 7A of the 'Soviet Life separate occasions. The first happened while he a 1984 Presidential debate against Walter Supplement,' was the following statement: and Nancy were driving to actor William Mondale -- [to] having "philosophical "At our meeting in Geneva, the U.S. Holden’s house for a party. At the party he told discussions" about Armageddon in the White President said that if the earth faced an invasion Lucille Ball and Steve Allen that he had seen a House with some rather well known by extraterrestrials, the United States and the UFO. The second occurrence took place while fundamentalist preachers. Soviet Union would join forces to repel such an on a private plane. Reagan claims to have seen And then there was the explosion about invasion. I shall not dispute the hypothesis, a glowing object behind the plane so he had the astrology in the White House, triggered by Don though I think it's early yet to worry about such pilot follow it until it sped off. Reagan Regan's disclosures that Nancy had often an intrusion..." eventually became obsessed with aliens, often consulted astrologers to arrange for Notice that Gorbachev doesn't say this is mentioning them in speeches, even while appointments with the President. Everyone an incredible proposition, he just says that it's President. He even delivered a speech to the UN knows the details by now, yet we asked too early to worry about it. that said the US and USSR might be forced to Marcello Galluppi, a well-known astrologer and If Gorbachev elevated the theme from a become allies if Earth ever faced an alien host of a psychic radio and TV talk show in high school to the Kremlin [palace], Reagan invasion, this statement was also confirmed by Detroit, to give us another view. "It is very clear upped the stakes again by including the "alien Mikhail Gorbachev. to me that the politicians in Washington have threat" [again], not in a domestic speech but to their psychics and astrologers," said Marcello, a full session of the General Assembly of the "at least some of them do." Furthermore, United Nations. Towards the end of his speech continued Marcello, there is evidence that the to the Forty-second Session on September 21, Reagans have used astrology for a long time if 1987, the President said that, "in our obsession we consider that "he was sworn in at midnight with antagonisms of the moment, we often as Governor of California, based on astrology." forget how much unites all the members of The media was having a field day with humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, horoscopes at the White House when Reagan universal threat to make us recognize this talked about the possibility of Earth uniting common bond. against a threat by "a power from outer space." "I occasionally think," continued Although the idea wasn't new for the President, Reagan, "how quickly our differences as we shall soon see, this time everybody paid worldwide would vanish if we were facing an attention. More as a joke than a serious thought, alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I 1. Elvis Presley however. The AP story on the speech, for ask" -- here comes the clincher -- "is not an alien example, had the headline, "Reagan follows force ALREADY among us?" The President The King seemed to always have UFOs astrological flap with comment on space now tries to retreat from the last bold statement around him during his lifetime. Strange lights invaders." by posing a second question: "What could be were seen in the sky when Elvis Presley was There might be a deeper reason for more alien to the universal aspirations of our born and continued to do so throughout his life, Reagan's apparent interest in the idea of an alien peoples than war and the threat of war?" Unlike he was even said to have been visited by space threat. There is an unconfirmed story that before the off-the-cuff remarks to the Fallston High travelers when he was eight, who gave the boy he became Governor of California, Ron and School, we must assume that the President's a glimpse of his future, which oddly enough Nancy had a UFO sighting on a highway near speech to the General Assembly was written included his white jumpsuit. It’s even believed Hollywood. The story was broadcast last very carefully and likewise, it merits close that there was a UFO hovering over the February on Steve Allen's radio show over examination. mourners at Graceland when he was buried. WNEW-AM in New York. The comedian and Ronald Reagan has told us that he thinks Some have gone as far to hypothesize that Elvis host commented that a very well known often about this issue, yet nobody seems to be was an alien himself and was actually looking personality in the entertainment industry had paying attention. When the President mentioned down on the mourners. confided to him that many years ago, Ron and last May 4 in Chicago for the third time the Nancy were expected to a casual dinner with possibility of a threat by "a power from another COMING SOON friends in Hollywood. Except for the Reagan's, planet," the media quickly dubbed it the "space invaders" speech, relegating it to a sidebar in the all the guests had arrived. Ron and Nancy THE ‘X’ ZONE TV SHOW showed up quite upset half an hour later, saying astrology flap. The ET remark was made in the ON that they had just seen a UFO coming down the Q&A period following a speech to the National Strategy Forum in Chicago's Palmer House coast. No further details were released by Steve THE TALKSTAR TV Allen. Hotel, where he adopted a more conciliatory The President first disclosed his NETWORK recurrent thoughts about "an alien threat" during tone towards the Soviet Union. Continued on Page 33