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Nixon resigned because he saw a UFO by

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Charles Lear throughout the history of

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UFOs there are stories that become well

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known throughout the UFO community and

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Beyond and more often than not their

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Origins can be found in archives

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available online sometimes a story that

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becomes popular and accepted as

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plausible can be found to have had

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dubious Origins if enough people choose

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to believe it and trusted researchers

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Champion it a story can become so

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embedded in the Mythos that it will

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repeatedly rise from the dead no matter

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how many knives get stuck in it then

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there are stories that never go beyond

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their original report and remain as a

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single mention in the records tucked

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away in the archives for The Unexplained

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collection is a March 1st 1974 edition

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of UFO potpourri a collection of news

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clippings put out by John schussler in

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cooperation with the mutual UFO Network

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Inc mofon and the UFO study group of

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Greater St Louis Inc shusler was one of

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the founding members of mufon in 1969

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and was a principal investigator of the

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Cash Land room case in the 1980s he

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became the international director of

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mufon in 2000 among the news clippings

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in that issue of UFO potpourri is an

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article from the September 22nd 1974

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edition of the Tabloid news extra it's

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headlined UFO lands at White House

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scares Nixon into quitting the

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subheading explains further UFO landed

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at White House just before Nixon

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resigned citing was last straw for

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troubled ex-president the story was

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written by Barney Magruder and doesn't

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seem to have gone any further Beyond

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this one report this might be because

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Magruder made the story up from the

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first indication of this is that

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Magruder cites a highly placed

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individual a trusted aide and a White

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House guard as a sources but fails to

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name them even so this writer finds it

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interesting that it hasn't shown up in

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the literature regarding UFOs and U.S

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residents for this sort of alternate

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history abounds according to Magruder in

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mid-july of 1974 a UFO was seen flying

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towards Washington by a United Airlines

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pilot and was tracked by civilian and

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Military radar Nixon was working late

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and at around 2 am he saw a glowing red

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light outside the Oval Office window

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according to a White House Source the

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site scared the hell out of him and

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caused him to drop to the floor and

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crawl across the office to telephone the

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Secret Service Guard according to

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Magruder the guards were already aware

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of the UFO having seen it seconds before

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Nixon saw it Magruder presents the

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testimony of a White House guard as a

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detailed witness account according to

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the account the incident only lasted

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about 10 seconds the UFO came in slowly

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low from the West it hovered over the

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White House and then dropped light as a

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feather to the lawn the guard reportedly

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said he drew his pistol but didn't know

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if he should shoot it or not according

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to the description the UFO was silver

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with portals that glowed red all around

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it it was about 30 feet in diameter and

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10 feet thick it sat silent on the

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ground for three to four seconds it then

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made a whining sound glowed more

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brightly and went straight up just as

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fast as Lightning another indication

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that Magruder made the story up is that

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a UFO and restricted airspace in

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Washington DC is a national security

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issue and if he was able to find sources

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for such a story it's more than likely

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that others would have found them as

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well in 1952 over two weekends in July

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UFOs were seen visually on radar and

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were chased by military jets the

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incident was carried by papers all over

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the country reporters got the story at

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the largest Press Conference held in the

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United States since World War II that

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being said this writer couldn't find any

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mention of the in incident involving

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Nixon in newspapers or in Publications

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put out by The prominent UFO

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investigators of the day there were

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however two other cases from the

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1973 news extra described in the October

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the USA section of its World Roundup

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this shows that news extra stories

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weren't routinely ignored by flying

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saucerer View and it's noteworthy that

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the one about Nixon from that same

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September was arguably the most

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prominent UFO organization in the United

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States in 1974 was the aerial phenomena

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research organization Jim lawrenson was

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the director at the time and Magruder

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uses quotes from a speech lawrenson gave

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at a symposium in Littleton Colorado he

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makes note of a statement lawrenson made

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that a landing at the White House might

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be an overt act by extraterrestrials

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seeking official recognition lawrenson

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references the Symposium and the

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inaccuracies in the reporting on his

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speech in the July August 1974 April

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bulletin he wrote that it was reported

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that he had predicted a government

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turnaround on the UFO question he

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predicting a government announcement of

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a policy reversal this I did not do I

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expect a policy reversal to be

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implemented quietly through gradual

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release of UFO information Magruder

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without directly quoting lawrenson

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caps in original has hard evidence that

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flying saucers exist knows where they

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are from and why they are here

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considering lawrenson's record of making

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statements about UFOs only when he had

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evidence to support them this seems

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highly unlikely a UFO story that has

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Nixon taking his golfing buddy Jackie

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Gleason to Homestead Air Force Base in

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Florida to show him some alien bodies

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has stuck around as it saw course was

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Gleason's ex-wife Beverly Gleason it

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1983 National Enquirer she is attributed

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as the author of the article and wrote

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that at 11 30 PM One Night in 1973 my

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famous husband came home slumped

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white-faced in an armchair and Spilled

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Out The Incredible story to me according

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to her she had been worried about where

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he'd been and his story was his

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explanation she wrote that he told her

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of seeing four tables each supporting a

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two feet tall dead alien with a small

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bald head and disproportionately large

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ears in 2003 Kenny young interviewed

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Beverly and she told him that she began

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to wonder over the years whether Jackie

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might have made up the story because

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he'd actually been out with someone

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according to her their marriage was

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pretty much over by then an article on

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snopes.com looks into a more recent

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claim that Nixon hit a document proving

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the existence of alien life the claim

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originated with Robert Merritt who was

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according to the Snopes article a

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sometime police informant and according

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to him covert domestic intelligence

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operative for the Nixon Administration

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in a phone interview with a writer for

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the dark journalist website Merit

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described meaning with Nixon three times

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in a deep underground location beneath

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the White House according to Merit

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during the first meeting Nixon read him

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a letter stating that a live alien was

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being kept at Los Alamos and that

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scientists there had learned to

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communicate with it he said that in

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another meeting Nixon gave him the

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letter told him to deliver it to Henry

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Kissinger and then taped the letter to

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merit's stomach according to the Snopes

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article which also brings up the Gleason

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tale Nixon Confidant Frank Gannon who

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interviewed Nixon extensively while

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helping him with his Memoirs reported

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that at one point during our labors in

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San Clemente I asked RN if he believed

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in UFOs and if there was anything to the

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whole Roswell Area 51 business

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he raised his eyebrows and rolled his

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eyes and I moved right on to the next