| Shirley MacLaine had some things to say about Dennis | | | | unable to provide any particulars about the president's |
| Kucinich and UFOs in her new book, Sage-ing While | | | | visit to the dentist's office that was located in their |
| Age-ing. According to Ms MacLaine, Dennis Kucinich | | | | home. Instead, a number of stories have surfaced |
| had a UFO sighting while he was visiting her home in | | | | about a late night trip that President Eisenhower made |
| Graham, Washington, about fifteen years ago. She | | | | to Edwards Air Force Base. |
| writes, "And then the smell of roses drew him out to | | | | Eisenhower's alleged visit to Edwards has always |
| my balcony, where he looked up. He saw a gigantic, | | | | been a point of conspiratorial contention. Some say it |
| triangular craft, silent and observing him. He said it | | | | had to do with an invitation to view some new super |
| hovered, soundless, for ten minutes or so and sped | | | | weapon or secret military aircraft. Others claim that |
| away with a speed he couldn't comprehend." Kucinich | | | | Eisenhower actually met and signed agreements with |
| was later asked if he really did see a UFO by Tim | | | | some type of Aliens. Personally, I believe he was |
| Russert of NBC News during a debate involving the | | | | shown what remained of a crashed UFO and its |
| 2008 Democratic presidential candidate hopefuls and | | | | occupants from any one of several crashes that may |
| replied, "I did...you have to keep in mind that Jimmy | | | | have taken place in the Southwest USA during the |
| Carter saw a UFO." I'm guessing that the | | | | late 1940s or early 1950s. |
| Congressman felt a need to play the Carter card to | | | | President Harry Truman has become an enigmatic |
| add credibility to his answer. | | | | figure within UFO research thanks to a series of |
| There are a number of important politicians and | | | | documents that tell the tale of a quickly-formed |
| celebrities connected to the UFO subject in one way | | | | scientific advisory committee known as Majestic |
| or another. Former U.S. Presidents Reagan and Carter | | | | Twelve. The committee was ordered into existence |
| have openly talked about experiencing UFO sightings, | | | | by Truman in 1947 and consisted of twelve people |
| while President John F. Kennedy had a close | | | | which included prominent scientists, members of the |
| encounter that was a little too close for comfort. | | | | military and elected officials. Originally created to study |
| Carter saw a classic nocturnal light while standing | | | | all available evidence that UFOs might be |
| around waiting for a meeting to begin with ten | | | | extraterrestrial crafts and offer advice to the |
| members of the Lion's Club of Leary, Georgia in | | | | President, the group may have evolved into a |
| October of 1969. The object appeared to change | | | | government within a government to deal with UFOs |
| color and shape during the roughly ten to twelve | | | | and Aliens in a manner that was completely separate |
| minutes they watched it. | | | | from other U.S. Government departments or agencies. |
| During the 1976 Presidential Campaign, Jimmy Carter | | | | John Lennon's UFO experiences are among the most |
| talked about his sighting and promised to reveal | | | | popular and controversial celebrity UFO events ever |
| anything he could find out about UFOs if elected. | | | | discussed and all are said to have occurred in New |
| Although a former Navy Officer, he was considered a | | | | York City. Most people have heard about the August, |
| dove by members of the military hierarchy. They didn't | | | | 1974 sighting, so I will relate that story first. It began with |
| trust him and believed Carter was trying to starve | | | | the return of Lennon and May Pang from a long day |
| them down into smaller and less influential departments | | | | at the Record Plant East where Lennon was working |
| through funding cuts. It's assumed that he was never | | | | on tracks for his upcoming Walls and Bridges album. |
| told anything of substance about UFOs by military | | | | The two were staying at his 52nd Street Apartment |
| insiders. | | | | which had a commanding view of the East River and |
| While many historians choose to paint Carter as | | | | the sky. |
| having a cozy relationship with intelligence gathering | | | | Sometime after 8:30pm, May was taking a shower |
| agencies because of his less threatening assessment | | | | while Lennon went up to the roof. After a few |
| of the Soviet Union's military abilities that agreed with | | | | minutes, he began yelling for her to come up there. |
| some of theirs, this doesn't mix well with the facts. | | | | May rushed to the roof and found John pointing to |
| During his first briefing by then CIA Director George | | | | what looked like a classic disc-shaped UFO that was |
| H.W. Bush, President Elect Carter asked to see | | | | silently hovering about 100 feet from them. The object |
| documents related to UFOs. Bush told him that any | | | | seemed to change shape as it rotated and moved |
| documents which might exist about such things were | | | | slowly towards the United Nations Building and out |
| classified above his immediate need to know. If he | | | | over the East River. Before it moved away, May ran |
| wanted to see any, he would have to ask the | | | | and retrieved a 35mm camera from the apartment. |
| appropriate congressional committee to declassify | | | | She was able to get back to the roof in time to snap |
| them. As president, Carter sought to dismantle the CIA | | | | off a few photos of the object. |
| superstructure into smaller agencies, but failed. | | | | After the disc moved away, Lennon and May returned |
| Ronald Reagan was a completely different story. As | | | | to the apartment. John made arrangements to have |
| a member of Army Air Force Intelligence during World | | | | the film developed immediately by a photographer |
| War II, a supporter of military modernization and a | | | | who was also a friend. Bob Gruen came and picked |
| president with a vice president that once served as | | | | up the film. He returned to his studio and developed the |
| CIA Director, we assume he was told more about | | | | film along with two rolls of his own. Gruen's film |
| UFOs than most elected officials. Reagan's own | | | | developed perfectly, but he said that Lennon's was |
| interest in and experience with the phenomenon is well | | | | blank. Fortunately, Lennon started making sketches of |
| known. His daughter, Patti Davis, said he was | | | | what he and May saw while it was all still fresh in his |
| "fascinated with stories about unidentified flying objects | | | | mind. |
| and the possibility of life on other worlds." | | | | Another story about Lennon and a possible UFO |
| Ronald Reagan had two UFO sightings that we know | | | | experience comes from Uri Geller. He met Lennon in |
| about. The first occurred while he was still acting in | | | | November of 1974 during a concert that Elton John |
| films sometime during the 1950s. After showing up late | | | | was giving at Madison Square Garden. Geller was a |
| for a dinner party attended by other Hollywood | | | | kind of mystic to the Stars in those days and Lennon |
| celebrities, Ronald and Nancy Reagan said they saw a | | | | was in need of any help he could find. Distraught over |
| UFO. This story was later confirmed by the Kitty Kelly, | | | | his separation from Yoko, he wanted her back and |
| Lucille Ball and Steve Allen. The second sighting | | | | asked Geller to use his alleged psychic powers to help. |
| occurred in 1974 while he was Governor of California. | | | | Yoko phoned John within thirty-six hours, the lovers |
| Less than a month after leaving the presidency in 1989, | | | | reunited and John and Uri became friends. |
| Ronald Reagan reiterated a story he first told to a | | | | Sometime after their reconciliation, Geller was eating |
| Bureau Chief for the Wall Street Journal in 1974: | | | | with John and Yoko in a New York City restaurant. |
| "I was in a plane last week when I looked out the | | | | Yoko was pregnant, so it had to be sometime before |
| window and saw this white light. It was zigzagging | | | | Sean Lennon was born in October of 1975. Geller |
| around. I went up to the pilot and said, 'Have you seen | | | | says that John became very serious and asked him to |
| anything like that before?' He was shocked and said, | | | | step over to a smaller table in a quiet corner of the |
| 'Nope.' And I said to him: 'Let's follow it!' | | | | restaurant. Once seated, Lennon spoke in discreet |
| We followed it for several minutes. It was a bright | | | | tones and told Uri about an incident that happened six |
| greenish-white light. We followed it to Bakersfield, and | | | | months before. He and Yoko were asleep in bed |
| all of a sudden to our utter amazement it went straight | | | | when John suddenly woke up and noticed a blazing |
| up into the heavens. When we got off the plane, I told | | | | light shining through the cracks and keyhole of their |
| Nancy all about it." | | | | bedroom door. |
| During his first summer as President, John F. Kennedy | | | | Thinking there was a fire or someone with a powerful |
| retreated to the Kennedy compound along the | | | | flashlight trying to get into the room; he jumped out of |
| Nantucket Sound in Hyannis, Massachusetts, for some | | | | their bed and opened the door. He was confronted by |
| rest and relaxation. While cruising around in one of the | | | | four beings. Lennon said, "They were, like, little. Bug-like. |
| Kennedy motor boats, the president and a few guests | | | | Big bug eyes and little bug mouths and they were |
| reportedly saw a classic disc-shaped object suddenly | | | | scuttling at me like roaches." He tried to resist the |
| appear at a low altitude near their vessel. At one point, | | | | beings, but they kept coming at him. Lennon said that |
| the disc may have been as close as one hundred feet | | | | his next memory was of being back in bed with Yoko. |
| away. This sent secret service agents in nearby | | | | Yoko didn't wake up during the incident, but later when |
| launches scrambling to get the president's boat to | | | | she did it was obvious that John was very upset and |
| safety. After the object vanished and the motor boat | | | | confused. He couldn't tell her what happened right |
| was back on shore, the president told his guests not to | | | | away and waited for an unspecified period of time |
| talk about what happened. | | | | before he did. Exclaiming that he was sober and |
| While Carter, Reagan and Kennedy saw unidentified | | | | wasn't doing any drugs at that time, Lennon said it |
| flying objects and George H.W. Bush probably knew all | | | | wasn't some sort of hallucination or lucid dream. |
| about them, UFO stories involving Presidents Truman | | | | According to Geller, John's assertion about the reality |
| and Eisenhower have become legendary. The story | | | | of what happened was backed up by physical |
| of an alleged meeting between Alien dignitaries and | | | | evidence. |
| President Dwight D. Eisenhower is one that refuses to | | | | When Lennon woke up, he claimed to be holding a |
| die. It stems from a report that the president | | | | small egg-shaped object in his hand. After eventually |
| disappeared briefly during a trip to a Palm Springs | | | | telling Yoko about the incident, he showed it to her. He |
| resort which occurred in February of 1954. | | | | also showed it to Geller. None of them had ever seen |
| On Saturday, February 20, 1954, some members of | | | | anything like it. However, apart from the golden color |
| the white house press corps noticed that President | | | | and egg shape, little is none about the object and it |
| Eisenhower missed a planned event. They contacted | | | | would be up to Geller to proceed with any investigation |
| his spokesperson who seemed unable to provide an | | | | of its properties. Many abductees have told stories of |
| immediate explanation for the absence. After it | | | | being given various objects by their Alien abductors, |
| became obvious that the president was no longer at | | | | only to have them taken back later |
| the Palm Springs resort, rumors flew that he might | | | | Having met many celebrities over the years, I can |
| have become seriously ill and been moved to a military | | | | appreciate their need to weigh any statement they |
| infirmary or hospital for treatment. Finally, a besieged | | | | might consider making about anything carefully in the |
| spokesperson told the press that the president chipped | | | | balances before speaking or writing it for public |
| a tooth during a meal and was taken to visit a nearby | | | | consumption. A fickle public and press can easily turn |
| dentist. | | | | on someone famous for the smallest indiscretion. |
| A steak barbeque was held a few days later and the | | | | Imagine how they might react to news that a famous |
| dentist who allegedly treated Eisenhower was | | | | celebrity or important politician has had a UFO or other |
| introduced to the press. The man seemed | | | | paranormal experience. |
| embarrassed and nervous. Years later his widow was | | | | |