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February 20th, 1954.

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Palm Springs, California.

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President Dwight D. Eisenhower is in town.

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But his visit is both unscheduled and unexpected.

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On the evening of February 20th, 1954,

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President Eisenhower is vacationing in Palm Springs.

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President just gets back from a quail hunting trip for five days,

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and then he takes off for Palm Springs for no reason.

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Nobody knew he was going there.

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Then, at around 10 p.m.,

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President Eisenhower disappears.

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The president did disappear for a period of 12 hours.

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In fact, one reporter was actually putting a wire story up

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that the president had died of a heart attack.

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The following day, Eisenhower shows up 100 miles away in Los Angeles

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at a church service, and he claims he had to undergo

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emergency dental surgery for a chipped tooth.

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A number of reports surface indicating that the president

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was actually at Murroc Airfield, also known as Edwards Air Force Base.

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Only a two-and-a-half-hour drive from Palm Springs.

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There are documents that show Murroc Airfield,

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which is now known as Edwards Air Force Base,

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was shut down for three days to all incoming air traffic

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and all non-essential personnel from February 19, 1954 to February 21.

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Coincidentally, this is the exact same time as President Eisenhower's disappearance.

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But what would Eisenhower be doing at Murroc?

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Rumors immediately came out, within like a week or two,

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that Eisenhower had had a meeting with aliens.

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This actually leaked out on the radio show of a man named Frank Edwards.

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Millions of people listened to him, and he was really into flying saucers and UFOs.

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Move on, files suggest that there are eyewitnesses to this meeting.

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We have numerous eyewitness accounts in our files of President Eisenhower

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striking a secret deal with these extraterrestrials.

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There are claims that there was an agreement made, again, is it true or not,

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that they would provide America with certain types of technologies

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in exchange to have a kind of permanent presence, a permanent base?

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After the alleged first contact meeting, Eisenhower enacts a policy of total secrecy

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concerning UFOs and extraterrestrials.

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No less than two months after the Murroc meeting took place,

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a secret policy was adopted that stated that any information on the matter

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of extraterrestrials was a matter of national security and therefore classified.

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Under no circumstances is the general public or public press to learn of the existence of these entities.

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The official government policy is that such creatures do not exist.

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Is it possible that Eisenhower met with extraterrestrials?

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If so, it would rank as one of the most important presidential events in our history.

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And yet, this is not the first or last time that a U.S. president contends with the UFO phenomenon.

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What do our leaders know about UFOs and extraterrestrials?

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And what information are they hiding from the public?

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MUFON investigators open their files to find the answers... right now.

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The mutual UFO network, known as MUFON, is an independent organization not bound to any government.

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They investigate reports of UFO sightings from around the world.

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Over the past five decades, they have collected more than 70,000 files

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secured at a location known as Hangar One.

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Now, for the first time, MUFON is granting access to their fast archive.

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These are the files of Hangar One.

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One of MUFON's most controversial case files deals with the possibility

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that President Dwight D. Eisenhower may have made first contact with an extraterrestrial race at a secret meeting in 1954.

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And yet, according to MUFON, Eisenhower is not the first modern-day president to confront the UFO phenomenon.

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That distinction belongs to President Harry S. Truman.

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When you look back through all the files, you really clearly see that America's UFO secrets begin with President Truman.

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Harry Truman was vice president for only 82 days before he took over as the president upon the death of Franklin Roosevelt.

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And these were very trying times.

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Within a few months, he had to make a very difficult decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan.

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It's a time of global unrest.

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And suddenly, Truman is forced to deal with an incident right here at home.

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In the summer of 1947, a UFO crashed on the Forrester Ranch just outside of Roswell.

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And people all over the world know this as the Roswell Incident.

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Roswell makes Truman the first president to have to publicly deal with the UFO phenomenon.

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On July 8, the newspapers report that the Air Force had found a flying saucer.

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On July 9, they retract the story and say it was nothing more than a weather balloon, an Air Force weather balloon.

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For the press, that was the end of the story.

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For ufologists, it was the beginning of a government UFO conspiracy.

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With our nation in the middle of serious challenges, Truman decides to keep this incident from the public.

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We're in the early stages of the Cold War.

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World War II was only two years behind and the entire world was lying flat on its back and now this drops into your lap.

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You don't know who the other beings are. You don't know what their intentions are.

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You really don't know anything about them except that they're not us, so it's this tremendous unknown.

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UFO sightings continue throughout Truman's presidency.

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In July 1952, he is forced to address the subject.

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Head on.

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Just a couple of months before Truman left office, there was a series of UFO sightings that took place in Washington, D.C.

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and it was known as the Washington UFO Flap.

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The Joint Chiefs of Staff talked to you or concerned you about the unknown and the unidentified flying out.

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You can speak no more.

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Oh yes, we discussed it at every conference that we had with the military and they never had been able to make me a concrete report on it.

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This was such a big thing that it actually made the front page of the New York Times.

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It actually bumped the Democratic National Convention off the front page.

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Multiple UFO sightings around the White House lead Truman to take extreme measures.

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Air Force fighters were sent to intercept and it was said that Truman issued a shoot them down order.

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This was an extremely major event in the UFO phenomenon history.

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Mufon files reveal that the large number of witnesses to the Washington Flap forced Truman to put together a special review panel on UFOs.

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Truman set up what was known as the Robertson Panel.

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It was a CIA group that was tasked to look into the UFO situation to find out how to handle the situation.

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As a result, the Robertson Panel recommended a public education campaign to reduce interest in the subject matter

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and they also recommended that civilian UFO groups be monitored.

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The Robertson Panel signals a choice made by the government to manage the public's perception of UFOs.

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So really what the Robertson Panel did is it provided the justification within the classified world to screw the lid down a little tighter.

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At the same time, the presidency of Harry Truman was winding down to a close.

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The last important thing that Truman White House did was related to UFOs.

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Fearing a devastating public crisis, President Truman and Eisenhower's experiences with UFOs lead them to policies of secrecy.

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But President John F. Kennedy takes a very different approach when UFOs nearly threatened World War III.

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Hanger 1 files reveal Kennedy's mandate, the one he never lives to carry out.

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Inside Hanger 1, MUFON, the mutual UFO network, is opening their 70,000 files hoping to uncover a pattern

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that may finally reveal what America's presidents really know about UFOs and extraterrestrials.

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Truman and Eisenhower build a wall of secrecy and it isn't long before subsequent presidents experience difficulties in challenging this system.

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John F. Kennedy could be the linchpin for UFO secrecy. His experiences may be why current presidents don't reveal UFO secrets today.

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John F. Kennedy was president at the height of the Cold War and faced off against the Soviet Union in the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Space Race.

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November 5, 1961. President Kennedy learns that Soviet radar systems are unable to identify some objects within their airspace, including possible UFOs.

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Could this failure trigger an accidental war?

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This appears to be a conversation he had as early as 1961 with CIA Director Alan Dulles.

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Dulles approaches President Kennedy and informs him that the CIA has been sending decoy devices into Soviet airspace to test Soviet radar capabilities.

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From the test, Dulles fears that the Soviets can't tell the difference between UFOs and other aircraft or ballistic missiles,

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and he's afraid that the Soviets might mistake an extraterrestrial UFO for an American missile and initiate a nuclear strike.

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President Kennedy decides to reach out to our Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union.

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He absolutely was adamant that we're going to try to have a dialogue here. You know, we're not going to be allies with the Soviets,

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but we need to work with them to be able to understand this phenomenon so that we don't accidentally start a war.

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We're not really sure what Kennedy discussed with the Soviets between 1961 and 1963, but in 1963 something very interesting occurred.

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November 11, 1963. The Soviets launch an unmanned spacecraft, but it never makes it out of Earth's orbit.

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On November 11, the Soviets launch an unmanned spacecraft known as Cosmos 21. Its true mission is unknown today.

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The craft never made it out of Earth's orbit, and we don't know why. There's a lot of mystery surrounding this launch.

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The day after the failed launch, Kennedy issued a National Security Action Memorandum asking NASA to work with the Soviet space program.

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He also sent a memo to the CIA, ordering them to share secret documents and exchange information with the Soviets regarding UFOs.

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We may never know the truth behind the failed Cosmos mission, but we do know that Kennedy's orders are never carried out when tragedy intervenes.

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President Kennedy's CIA memo was issued on November 12, 1963. Just 10 days later, Kennedy was assassinated.

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Some claim that one possible explanation for Kennedy's assassination might be related to his desire to share UFO secrets with the Soviets.

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Kennedy was kind of a renegade in many ways against the National Security Elite in a whole array of policies, including UFOs.

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The death of President Kennedy puts an end to his plan to exchange UFO secrets with the Soviets.

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And yet, MUFON files reveal that UFOs continue to wreak havoc throughout the Cold War, causing more close calls for both the U.S. and Soviet Union.

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March 16, 1967, Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana.

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One significant case took place in March 1967 at Malmstrom Air Force Base up in Montana.

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Now this is an area that has a large number of nuclear Minuteman missiles spread out over hundreds of square miles.

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So what you would have would be these launch control centers.

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On this particular day, as March 16, you have a case where a number of above-ground personnel are seeing what they describe as this glowing, red-glowing object coming very, very low.

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They call the Underground Command Center. They get a lieutenant named Robert Salis on the phone.

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And Salis, as he was going to talk to his superior officer, all of the missiles start going offline. They see the lights. Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing.

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But you have this case where you've got these above-ground witnesses are seeing a UFO. The missiles go offline.

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I think it's reasonable to infer that there's a connection. And this isn't the only case.

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It appears UFOs continue to disrupt both Soviet and American nuclear missile bases well into the presidency of Richard Nixon.

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And like Kennedy, Nixon fears these incidents might lead to an accidental enemy missile launch.

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1971. Nixon and Soviet President Brezhnev sign an international agreement addressing the matter.

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There was a treaty that was signed September 30, 1971.

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There was a treaty essentially designed to protect the country from the enemy.

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The United States has signed a treaty that was signed in the 1970s.

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The United States has signed a treaty that was signed in the 1970s.

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There was a treaty that was signed September 30, 1971.

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There was a treaty essentially designed to minimize the outbreak of nuclear war.

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One of the elements in that treaty explicitly dealt with measures to let the other side know when one of these unknown objects wasn't hours.

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The Nixon-Breznev agreement may have prevented an accidental nuclear confrontation during the Cold War.

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But there are reports that this isn't Nixon's only exposure to UFOs.

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And he may have even shared secret evidence with a celebrity friend.

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Richard Nixon was fascinated with UFOs.

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He would have gained a lot of information having been the vice president under President Eisenhower in the 1950s.

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And in 1974, he's rumored to have shared that secret with his buddy and UFO enthusiast, the entertainer Jackie Gleason.

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Richard Nixon and Gleason are golfing. They talk about UFOs.

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That evening, Richard Nixon shows up at Jackie Gleason's home south of Miami in a car by himself.

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No secret service. And he says, I want to take you and show you something.

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Reports go on to say that President Nixon had south of Miami and drives to Homestead Air Force Base.

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Gleason recalls that when the two drove up to Homestead Air Force Base, an MP came to the vehicle, looked inside, and his jaw dropped to the floor.

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He couldn't believe who was driving. It was Nixon. He just kind of pointed and the two drove inside.

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Nixon took Jackie Gleason to a secure place on the base.

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A place where crash material was kept.

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The two walk into what Gleason called the inner chamber, where he describes seeing six to eight glass top freezers.

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And when Gleason looked inside, at first he thought he was looking at children. But on close for inspection, he realized he was looking at alien bodies.

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Gleason is flabbergasted. He goes home and he tells his wife at the time what he had seen.

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His wife relates the story. It says for three weeks Gleason couldn't eat. He was beside himself as to why they would not reveal the truth to the public about extraterrestrials.

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While there is no official record of this event, if true, this incident suggests that Nixon was highly knowledgeable of UFOs.

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And yet, the files also indicate that not every president has such full access.

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During Bill Clinton's presidency, it appears his search for the truth about America's UFO history is repeatedly stonewalled.

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When Clinton became president, he made his friend Webster Hubble number two at the Department of Justice.

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Web Hubble wrote in his own book that Bill Clinton wanted him to personally to investigate two things. Who really killed JFK and are UFOs real?

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I was told that either Bill and Hillary, or very close friends to them, had had a UFO sighting.

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So both Bill and Hillary were interested in UFO phenomena.

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In an effort to gain more information about UFOs, Clinton uses the anniversary of the Roswell incident to reopen the case.

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Bill Clinton green-lighted a reinvestigation of the Roswell crash in 1993.

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The Air Force came back with a report in 1994 stating that it was a balloon, there was no cover-up, and so Clinton hit a dead end.

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Clinton goes back to the Air Force asking specifically about the bodies that were supposedly found at the scene.

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The Air Force issues a final report that they actually call Roswell Case Closed that says the only bodies found at the scene were crash test dummies.

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If the United States Air Force did recover alien bodies, they didn't tell me about it either, and I want to know.

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Despite Clinton's efforts, his Roswell investigation fails to unlock any additional information regarding UFOs.

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Many wonder if there are secrets even the President does not know.

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I have it from a gentleman who spoke with Bill Clinton, a very, very brilliant scientist who has very strong interest in the UFO topic.

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And what I was told by this scientist is that President Clinton said, in effect, yes, it's a very interesting and important topic, and unfortunately my hands are tied.

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So here you have it again. The US President has some power, has certainly a lot of prestige, but how much power does he really have on this topic?

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I would suggest not as much as the American people would assume and certainly not as much as he would like.

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I did attempt to find out if there were any secret government documents that reveal things, and if there were, they were concealed from me too.

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There may be some career person sitting around somewhere hiding these dark secrets even from elected presidents, but if so, they successfully eluded me.

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Hanger One File suggests that some presidents may have the inside track to our UFO and extraterrestrial secrets, while others are left in the dark.

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And yet, two recent presidents had their own UFO encounters, experiences they both admitted.

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What do our presidents really know about UFOs and extraterrestrials?

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Inside Hanger One, Mufan files point to a possible pattern, one in which some presidents, like Richard Nixon, might have extraordinary access to UFO information,

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while other presidents, like Bill Clinton, may be left in the cold.

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But at least two recent presidents have their own UFO encounters before taking office, and President Jimmy Carter publicly admits his sighting.

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Maybe Jimmy Carter is possibly the most interesting U.S. president to discuss in relation to UFOs. There's certainly a lot to say about him.

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Jimmy Carter was the first American presidential candidate ever to admit that he saw a UFO.

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Leary, Georgia, October 1969. While campaigning for governor, Jimmy Carter prepares for a speech.

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In 1969, when running for governor in Georgia, Jimmy Carter had a speech at the Lions Club in Leary, Georgia. They're standing outside, the crowd's gathering, and then someone in the crowd points to UFO in the sky.

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I never had a try to identify what I saw. It was a light in the west, and it was very unique. I never seen it before. I said, there were about 20 of us who saw it.

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In 1973, while governor, Jimmy Carter is asked by the International UFO Bureau to fill out a UFO report. He does, making him the only president to have an official record of a UFO sighting.

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Carter has told the story many times. He's never waived in his story. This experience made him sympathetic to UFO witnesses around the world.

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And as a result of his openness about this topic, a number of people kind of latched onto that, and I said, hey, good. So if you become president, are you going to release the official records of the investigation into UFOs?

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And what Jimmy Carter said as a candidate was, yes, I will absolutely work to do that.

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What I would make information we have about the sightings available to the public is that they decide.

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But does President Carter deliver on UFO disclosure?

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So he becomes elected president in November 1976. And we have, I think, on very good authority, an account of Jimmy Carter's encounter with the director of the CIA, George Herbert Walker Bush.

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When President Carter was elected, he was given a presidential briefing by the former CIA director, George Bush.

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During that briefing, Jimmy Carter asked for the UFO files. And George Bush told him, I can't give them to you. It is need to know.

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And curiosity on the part of the president isn't sufficient need to know.

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The whole story in 1977, after Carter becomes president, it's a very interesting year because the White House, Jimmy Carter White House was flooded with thousands of letters from American citizens who were really excited about the possibility that this might be, let's say, the disclosure president.

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Some wonder if President Carter can fulfill his campaign promise.

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When Carter got into office, he actually tried to release the UFO information. He used high-level officials in his administration to contact three different agencies, the FBI, the CIA, and NASA.

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He was basically stonewalled. The FBI claimed they didn't really have anything. NASA received a letter from the CIA which basically told them not to cooperate.

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So all through the summer of 1977, this dialogue is going back and forth between the Carter White House and NASA.

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And what you really find is that NASA was saying absolutely no way we don't want to do this. And what we now know is that behind NASA was the CIA saying, no, no, no, no, no. You're not going to do this.

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Jimmy Carter appears frustrated in his attempts to get to the bottom of the whole UFO story. And yet in spite of this, the Carter presidency is still considered a golden age of UFO research.

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There have been thousands of UFO documents released under the Freedom of Information Act over the years. Over half of the documents released were released during the four years of the Jimmy Carter presidency.

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President Jimmy Carter admitted having his own UFO experience. And he is not the only president to do so.

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Ronald Reagan also had a UFO encounter of his own.

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Summer, 1974. Governor Ronald Reagan is traveling home after a campaign event.

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During the summer of 1974, he was governor of California and in fact he was in a small Cessna aircraft during a campaign tour.

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He was on the plane with the pilot and I believe two other individuals. And they saw outside this white object zigzagging toward their direction.

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Now nothing that we know is zig-zags, especially not in the 1970s.

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The pilot of the plane, Bill Painter, gives his own statement of the event.

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It appeared to be several hundred yards away and it was a fairly steady light until it began to accelerate. Then it appeared to a lung and the light took off.

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I went up at a 45 degree angle, very high rate of speed and everyone on the plane was surprised. The UFO went from a normal cruise speed to a fantastic speed instantly.

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A week after that encounter, Reagan was on another flight sitting next to a journalist named Miller of the Wall Street Journal and they're just chatting.

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And Reagan has still really worked up over this sighting. He's obviously enthusiastic and excited. So he starts telling Miller about his experience.

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The funny part is Miller recounted it later. He said, you know, as Reagan's telling me this, I looked at him and I said,

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Governor, are you telling me that you believe in UFOs? And according to Miller, Reagan at that moment realized that he had stepped into it.

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He really should not go like one step further because this is a political nightmare. And so at that point he sort of backed away and said,

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well, I don't really know what we saw, but it sure was interesting.

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Hanger 1 files indicate that by the time Ronald Reagan is sworn in as president, he is profoundly influenced by his UFO experience.

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And his selection of running mate is someone who many believe holds the keys to America's UFO secrets. George Herbert Walker Bush.

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Bush was director of the CIA during that last year of Gerald Ford's presidency. You look at the Bush family from Prescott Bush all the way through.

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The CIA connections are intense and profound. So you have to wonder if Reagan got at least some of his UFO information through Vice President George Bush.

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I think it's a real possibility.

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Yet for someone who may be one of the most informed men in the world, he is also one of the most secretive when it comes to information regarding UFOs.

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I find it interesting that during the presidency of George H.W. Bush that only one UFO document is released. And based on all of our research, it is George H.W. Bush who's the gatekeeper of the UFO information.

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Probably of all of the recent presidents, I would say George Bush Sr. is the one that most people look at. They think this is a guy who is in with the in crowd.

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You know, it's not just that he had been the director of the CIA for a year under Gerald Ford. He was. It's very likely that he had been connected with the CIA for years before that.

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UFO researchers have always believed that George Bush is one of the key players in the UFO game. He's rumored to be part of what is known as MJ-12, the control group for the UFO phenomena, the UFO cover-up.

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Most people firmly believe George Bush was a member of that group.

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He's trusted by both the military and the intelligence communities, and he wields a lot of power through his oil money connections and political connections.

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As former director of the CIA and a rumored member of MJ-12, President Bush would certainly protect UFO secrets. But on one rare occasion, he slips, divulging a clue to the information that he may possess.

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March 7th, 1988. Rogers, Arkansas. George Bush is on a campaign tour while running for president.

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When Bush was running for president, he was giving a speech in Arkansas, and Charles Huffer, with a tape recorder, said to him the question he asked every person running for president,

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if you get elected, are you going to release the UFO secret? George Bush Sr. said, yeah, I'll do it. And he said, send me what you've got.

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And Charles Huffer said, come on, you were CIA director, you know what's going on. And at that point, George Bush Sr. said, yes, I know some, I know a lot.

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Still waters run deep, and somewhere hidden in this thin Bush file we suspect is a wealth of UFO information.

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Like Bush, no other president to date has provided UFO disclosure. But recent events throughout the world signal a change may be coming. Is Barack Obama the president who will finally provide full UFO disclosure?

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Move on files indicate that for the past seven decades, every United States president has had to deal with the UFO phenomenon. And yet, it appears that there are still classified files pertaining to this issue, which remain locked away from the public eye.

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When President Obama first takes office, there is a resurgence of hope among many. That full UFO disclosure may be on the horizon.

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After Barack Obama was elected president November 2008, the head of his transition team for the White House was John Podesta. And that was significant in the mind of a number of UFO researchers because John Podesta had been Bill Clinton's chief of staff, and John Podesta had gone public, actually, more than once now, to talk about how he thought UFOs were a valid topic, worthy of genuine, sophisticated public discourse.

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John Podesta actually spoke about disclosure at the National Press Club in 2002. He said,

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I think it's time to open the books on questions that have remained in the dark on the question of government investigations of UFOs. We ought to do it because the American people, quite frankly, can handle the truth.

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Was the appointment of Podesta to Obama's transition team a sign that we were finally going to get disclosure? We certainly thought it was. But here we are in Obama's second term, and we're still waiting.

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And there were actually many, many predictions speculating that Barack Obama would be the disclosure president, the man who would finally end years and decades and generations of secrecy on UFOs and actually just come out with the truth on it.

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In fact, what you see with Barack Obama is that he has been as dismissive of the UFO phenomenon as any president that we have had in the last 50 years.

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President Obama forms the We the People petition site, where any group can go in, ask a question, and they will get a reply from the White House.

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When they eventually gave a response to the extraterrestrial question, their answer was that there is no evidence that this planet has ever been visited by extraterrestrials and there is no evidence that there is intelligent life anywhere in the universe.

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How can they make that statement when there are so many documents, so many witnesses, and so much evidence to the contrary?

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The White House response to the petition leads to serious doubts that disclosure is forthcoming. This again raises the question of what presidents really know.

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What information might they learn once they take office that makes them adhere to a policy of UFO secrecy?

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I personally received an account from a very exceptionally well-placed individual with CIA who told me explicitly that in June of 1977, Jimmy Carter received an official UFO briefing.

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At the end of that briefing, President Jimmy Carter was seen at his desk, very deeply upset with his elbows on his desk and his head in his hands and that he was sobbing.

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So whatever was told, Jimmy Carter upset him deeply.

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Is it possible that what is revealed to presidents about UFOs leads them to decide that disclosure is a bad idea and a risk they just can't take?

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It is my impression from my 20 years of research working on presidential files that the president doesn't know what's going on.

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Every president has gone along with the cover-up, which indicates to me that when the president is elected, it's fine to be running for president to say that you're going to get this stuff disclosed,

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but once you get into the presidency, they give you the briefing and they start describing to you why the cover-up is taking place and it suddenly makes sense.

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The problem with disclosure is that it's just too messy. It's too messy. It opens up too much of a can of worms for any political establishment to deal with.

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You see all the things that could go wrong. Stock market could melt down. The panic, having to explain alien abductions, having to face all these questions that you really don't want to face.

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I wonder when a person gets elected president, if they have this idea that they're going to do all the things that they dreamed about as a kid, you know, go in and you make this country a better place.

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But of course, when they get into that position, what I think really happens is that increasingly, I think they're really not able to do the kinds of things that they thought that they could,

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and increasingly that they feel helpless, particularly in the face of this awe-inspiring, mysterious problem of UFOs and the presence of these others that are here on planet Earth interacting with humanity.

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It doesn't mean it'll never happen. Disclosure is going to happen, but it'll only happen when it's shoved down the throats of the political leadership when they have no other alternative but to admit to something.

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An investigation of Hangar One files reveals a pattern when it comes to America's presidents and UFOs. Every president since Harry Truman has had to deal with the phenomenon.

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Some presidents have admitted their own personal experiences with UFOs, but they all seem to embrace a policy of secrecy. Perhaps these UFO secrets are destined to remain forever, locked away.

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