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8 8 Astronauts & UFOs Astronauts & UFOs Senator John Glenn Dwight Eisenhower crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. ... If Senator John Glenn "In the counsels of Government, we Said What on must guard against the acquisition of the United States Air Force did recover alien Said What on bodies, they didn't tell me about it either, and I ‘Frazier’!?! unwarranted influence, whether sought or want to know." ‘Frazier’!?! unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. In reply to a letter from a child asking about The potential for the disastrous rise of the Roswell Incident. Continued from Page 7 Continued from Page 7 misplaced power exists, and will persist. We "If we were being attacked by space aliens must never let the weight of this combination we wouldn't be playing these kinds of games," endanger our liberties or democratic processes. Bill Clinton told educators visiting Al Worden: "And a literal translation describes very clearly We should take nothing for granted. Only an Washington D.C. . a spacecraft with the ability to land vertically alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel and take-off vertically, and it was an object that the proper meshing of the huge industrial and looked very much like the Lunar Module that military machinery of defense with our peaceful we used on the Moon; and if it's going to land methods and goals so that security and liberty vertically and take-off vertically, it had to come may prosper together." from some place and go back some place." January 1961 Worden discussed his views that Earth was probably visited in the past by extraterrestrial explorers. He began by commenting on the well known "UFO interpretation" of the vision of the prophet Ezekiel in the Bible. "In my mind the universe has to be cyclic, so that in one galaxy if there is a planet maybe that has arrived at the point of becoming unlivable, you will find in another part of a different galaxy a planet that has just formed Ronald Reagan which is perfect for habitation. I see some kind "... when you stop to think that we're all of intelligent being, like us, skipping around the God's children, wherever we may live in the universe from planet to planet as, let's say, the world, I couldn't help but say to him, just think South Pacific Indians do on the islands, where how easy his task and mine might be in these they skip from island to island. When the first meetings that we held if suddenly there was a island blows up due to a volcano, they will have threat to this world from some other species their progeny on all these other islands and they Jimmy Carter from another planet outside in the universe. will be able to continue the species. I think that's " I don't laugh at people any more when they We'd forget all the little local differences that we what the [alien] space program is all about. say they've seen UFOs. It was the darndest have between our countries and we would find "I think we may be a combination of thing I've ever seen. It was big, it was very out once and for all that we really are all human creatures that were living here on Earth some bright, it changed colors and it was about the beings here on this earth together." time in the past, and having a visitation, if you size of the moon. We watched it for ten minutes, White House transcript of "Remarks of the will, by creatures from somewhere else in the but none of us could figure out what it was. One President to Fallston High School Students and universe, and those two species getting together thing's for sure I'll never make fun of people Faculty," December 4, 1985. and having progeny. I am not at all convinced who say they've seen unidentified objects in the "In our obsession with antagonisms of the that we are not the result of that particular union sky. If I become President, I'll make every piece moment, we often forget how much unites all some many thousands of years ago. If that is the of information this country has about UFO the members of humanity. Perhaps we need case in fact, a very small group of explorers sightings available to the public and the some outside, universal threat to make us could land on a planet and create successors to scientists." recognize this common bond. I occasionally themselves that would eventually take up the At a Southern Governors Conference think how quickly our differences worldwide pursuit of, let's say, inhabiting the rest of the describing an alleged UFO sighting he had in would vanish if we were facing an alien threat universe." October of 1969 to reporters while campaigning from outside this world." Excerpts from his interview in the in 1976. “I am convinced that UFOs exist Speech to the United Nations General documentary "The Other Side of the Moon," because I have seen one." Assembly, Forty-second session, "Provisional produced by Michael G. Lemle, and broadcast Former U.S. President, , five-time nominee Verbatim Record of the Fourth Meeting", by PBS in July 1989. Al Worden was an Apollo for the Nobel Peace Prize. September 21, 1987.) 15 astronaut who later became a poet. "I occasionally think how quickly our differences, worldwide, would vanish if we These alone are impressive statements were facing an alien threat from outside this and make one wonder. However, let’s take a world." look at what some other important people have From a speech with President Mikhail said about UFOs. Gorbachev, in 1988. He made almost the same comment on many occasions. "I was in a plane last week when I looked PRESIDENTS & UFOs out the window and saw this white light. It was zigzagging around. I went up to the pilot and said, "Have you ever seen anything like that?" He was shocked and he said, "Nope." And I said to him: "Let's follow it!" We followed it for several minutes. It was a bright white light. We followed it to Bakersfield, and all of a sudden to Bill Clinton our utter amazement it went straight up into the "I want you to find the answers to two heavens. When I got off the plane I told Nancy questions for me. One, who killed JFK. And, all about it. But we didn't file a report on the Two, are there UFOs? " object because for a long time they considered From Friends in High Places, by Webster you a nut if you saw a UFO..." Hubbell, Clinton's associate attorney general. 1974, Reagan was often quoted referring to "As far as I know, an alien spacecraft did not the possibility of an alien threat.