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We now know our government hid UFO evidence for decades.

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This is where the cover-up began,

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to keep the truth about UFOs from the public.

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But did that conspiracy reach all the way to our presidents?

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UFOs were flying over the Capitol and the White House,

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which is an entirely restricted airspace.

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What did FDR know about the battle with UFOs over Los Angeles?

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1600 rounds were used, many of them a direct hit,

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and nothing happened to the object.

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Were Truman and Eisenhower aware of the military value of UFO technology?

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It's the single most important secret they've got.

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And is it possible that a JFK plan to share UFO secrets with the Russians

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led to tragedy in Dallas?

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February 25, 1942, Los Angeles, California.

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Following the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor,

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The city is gripped by fear that Los Angeles could be next.

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Suddenly, just after 3 a.m., powerful arc lamps light up the night sky,

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and the city erupts with the sound of anti-aircraft guns.

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It seems everyone's worst fears have come true.

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The Battle of LA took place about three months after Pearl Harbor.

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So many people thought that this was some sort of Japanese attack.

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There was an object that was tracked on radar, and it was then seen visually.

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And then the U.S. military fired 1,430 rounds of artillery.

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Lots of ground witnesses, lots of military witnesses.

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There were witnesses who said there were more than one of these objects.

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We have to put ourselves in that time frame to really understand the mindset.

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This is World War II, and there's all these fears, and people were on edge.

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But what makes the event so strange is that the Army's anti-aircraft barrage

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is unable to bring down any flying objects.

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Clearly, there were no Japanese planes in the air.

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There were no aircraft carriers in the area.

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And yet, this was a real thing.

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If this had been a conventional aircraft, I mean, logic suggests that it would have been shot down.

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So the fact that this object was seemingly impervious to this ground fire does raise the question,

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if this wasn't an aircraft, what was it?

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Nobody seems to know, not even the military.

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And photos making front-page news the following day only deepen the mystery.

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Bob Spearing, a field investigator and visual analysis expert for the Mutual UFO Network, studied the pictures.

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This is the original photograph that was taken the night of the Battle of LA.

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We see bright spotlights shining up to an object.

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There is definitely a solid object there of immense size between 100 and 330 feet.

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This was a time-exposure photo, so it showed seven explosions of the artillery used,

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many of them a direct hit, and nothing happened to the object. It was impenetrable.

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Despite these facts, in Washington, D.C.,

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President Franklin Roosevelt's Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox,

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announces that the Battle of LA had been a false alarm, adding there were no planes in the sky over Los Angeles.

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But decades later, researchers discover incredible written evidence that the military misled the public.

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It appears that eight days after the infamous LA night, Army Chief of Staff George Marshall

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writes to President Roosevelt to report shocking news.

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This headquarters has come to the determination that the mystery airplanes are in fact not earthly,

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and according to secret intelligence sources, they are in all probability of interplanetary origin.

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That particular memo from Marshall to President Roosevelt has been disputed ever since it appeared,

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but according to these documents, there were multiple events over LA and over by San Bernardino,

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where objects were retrieved, that were not from our civilization.

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The Roosevelt administration chose to keep things a secret. Many feel it was to avoid hysteria.

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But some people would say, this is where the cover-up began.

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The silence from the government was the beginning of a conspiracy to keep the truth about UFOs from the public.

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For most, the Battle of LA is quickly forgotten in the urgency of World War II.

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But why did Roosevelt choose to cover up the facts?

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UFO investigators believe the president's thinking is made clear in yet another astonishing memo

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never before seen on national television that he wrote just two days after the Battle of LA.

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It speaks about atomic secrets learned from study of celestial devices

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and material in possession of the army that may be of great significance toward the development of a super weapon of war.

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The phrase that Roosevelt used in that memo where he describes the necessity or the value in creating a super weapon of war,

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of course we were developing the atomic bomb at that very time.

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When we're talking about material possession by the army, we're talking about possession of non-human technology.

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Did President Roosevelt keep the truth about UFO encounters from the American people in the name of national security?

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Researchers say yes and point to perhaps the most important evidence yet uncovered.

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A classified memo written by Roosevelt in February 1944, two years after the LA events,

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addressed to previously unknown committee on non-terrestrial science and technology,

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in which he agrees that non-terrestrial know-how in atomic energy must be used in perfecting super weapons of war

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to affect the complete defeat of Germany and Japan.

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Roosevelt also wrote that we should take every advantage of such wonders that have come to us,

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and he acknowledges the reality that our planet is not the only one harboring intelligent life in the universe.

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The double top secret memo in which he explicitly refers to this as not from our civilization has been disputed,

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but these documents were obtained in such a way that makes me think that they're legitimate, that they're real.

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Now when we come to the Roosevelt document that talks about acquiring technology and trying to come to grips with the concept

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that we might not be alone in the universe, there's no doubt that technology acquisition is something that governments

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and perhaps presidents have thought about in relation to UFOs.

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The president's memo to a committee devoted to science and technology not of this earth suggests that our government was, in fact,

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in possession of otherworldly technology, and that Roosevelt knew far more about UFOs than he ever let on in public.

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Throughout Roosevelt's administration, we know that Roosevelt employed very high security to keep the UFO phenomenon under wraps,

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because it was as classified as the atomic bomb.

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The trail of uncovered documents proves to researchers the shocking reality that recovered alien technology helped the U.S. build an atomic super weapon of war.

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But what will the next president do with this incredible government secret?

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It was the U.S. military that said we've recovered a flying disk.

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The evidence is in the form of some leaked documents called the MJ-12 documents.

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Under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the first official government reports of UFO activity became top secret,

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including one about the interplanetary origin of aircraft in the Battle of L.A.

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and another about a super weapon of war being developed with non-terrestrial know-how.

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When FDR dies in April 1945, those secrets were passed to Vice President Harry Truman, who assumes the presidency.

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And just four months later, Truman orders the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan.

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A new super weapon of unearthly power that documents revealed was developed with technology not of this earth.

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The modern UFO phenomenon really began during and in the few years immediately after the Second World War.

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Why, if there are extraterrestrial intelligences out there, did they suddenly show up during and just after the war?

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Firstly, we developed and used in-anger nuclear weapons.

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And that would be very visible from space. So actually, if nothing else, it's an attention-getter.

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I think it's definitely likely that mastering nuclear technology is a milestone that would very likely get the attention of any observing intelligence that has the ability to watch us.

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I mean, a nuclear explosion is a kind of mimicking of the sun, particularly nuclear fusion.

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And that's an important threshold. So there definitely seems to be a connection there.

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And I think the explosions in Japan in 1945 could be said to have initiated this new level of interest.

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And perhaps because of this new interest, after the war, the UFO phenomenon steadily grows and Truman becomes the first U.S. president who must deal with the resulting public relations problem.

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Like the big one that occurs on July 8, 1947, when reports from Roswell, New Mexico, that a flying saucer crashed on the ranch of Mac-Brizele, appear in newspapers around the world.

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Even worse, officials speaking off the cuff to the press lose control of the narrative.

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It was the U.S. military that said we've recovered a flying disk.

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Within a 24-hour period, the story went from a UFO to a weather balloon. That just really doesn't seem credible.

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Roswell is the event that doesn't go away because of the amount of evidence.

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We've had actual military officers and participants that were there that have come forward and told us exactly what happened.

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That they picked up debris and all this metal, and then it goes back to the base and the people that are working that day, they know something's going on. This was a huge event.

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Soon, the U.S. military will be able to see the world.

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And they, too, make front-page, worldwide news. Though the government refuses to publicly acknowledge what is known, Lieutenant General Twinning of the Air Material Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base arrives at a stunning conclusion.

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The phenomenon is something real. The objects are as large as man-made aircraft and are metallic in appearance.

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At the White House, President Truman continues receiving briefings on UFO contact.

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His Air Force liaison, Robert Landry, briefed Harry Truman quarterly on UFOs in coordination with the CIA from the summer of 1947 to the end of the year.

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President of the United States is a busy man, and yet he found the time every three months to get a briefing on these UFOs. That's quite significant, in my opinion.

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Three weeks after the reported Roswell UFO crash, Truman initiated a new investigation into the U.S. military.

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The U.S. military has been working on the U.S. military since the beginning of the war.

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Every three months to get a briefing on these UFOs, that's quite significant, in my opinion.

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Three weeks after the reported Roswell UFO crash, Truman initiates the largest restructuring in history of our military and intelligence agencies, and signs the National Security Act of 1947, which made it easier to control and keep secret the government's most highly sensitive information.

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The National Security Act totally reorganized the U.S. government, and particularly the military and the intelligence community.

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The question arises, is there a connection between Roswell and might the National Security Act be designed not just perhaps with the Soviets in mind, but with the whole UFO and extraterrestrial issue?

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By the time the National Security Act became in effect in the summer of 47, a separate organizational structure would have to be created to deal specifically with the UFO phenomenon.

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Questions about Truman's motives for the National Security Act have been debated for decades.

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UFO investigators say some answers came 37 years later, in 1984, when leaked documents revealed that at the time, Truman had also created a highly classified study group by presidential executive order.

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Truman set up what has been called Majestic 12 or MJ 12, and this was high-ranking military offices, and scientists charged with investigating this flying saucer UFO question, and it was to be handled in greatest security.

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I think there's an overwhelming amount of logic to it. You've got a phenomenon, you need to find a way to deal with it. That would, in theory, require the creation of some kind of secret group to manage it.

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Now, what's the evidence? Well, the evidence is in the form of some leaked documents that have been argued about to the present day. They're called the MJ 12 documents.

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MJ 12 papers really details a group that were selected to basically keep the secrets, get the information, and control the narrative of the UFO phenomena.

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Researchers argue that, like Roosevelt, President Truman believed in the extraordinary military value of UFO technology and the government's secret policy to conceal all such information from the public.

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But how do you keep UFO secrets when actual UFOs are seen flying over our nation's capital?

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One of the pilots radioed that they seemed to be surrounding him, and they saw it all right.

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For two weekends in a row, there were UFOs over Washington, DC. It was out of control.

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Following World War II, reports of UFO sightings spike across America. In Washington, DC, President Truman works diligently to keep official government knowledge about UFOs hidden in secrecy.

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But that plan takes a devastating blow when something extraordinary happens.

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July 19, 1952, Saturday night at 11.40 p.m. Air traffic controllers at what is now the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport spots seven unidentified objects on radar.

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15 miles southwest of the capital and approaching fast.

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The government could no longer conceal what they knew about UFOs because they were seen from the ground, from the control towers, and even by other pilots.

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They were flying over the capital. They were flying over the White House, both of which have extremely restricted airspace.

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This is filmed footage shot in July 1952 that reportedly captures this incredible event.

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Air traffic controllers at the time were seeing the same objects that were seen in this film. The film's been colorized, causing the objects to appear blue.

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I see about nine objects piercing the Capitol building and we know that these objects did go into restricted airspace around the Capitol and the White House, and the event was corroborated on radar.

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The Washington DC incident is of immense importance. Firstly, of course, you have UFOs over the capital city.

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So it becomes in and of itself a defense and national security issue.

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The UFOs literally over Washington DC has got to be of concern, and it was.

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People describe the movement of the objects as being very different than normal aircraft.

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And though the military has no idea who the intruders are or where they came from, they're quick to respond in a show of force.

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There was talk back and forth between Andrews Air Force Base and the Tower at Washington National. They wanted to know what these objects were.

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So they scrambled jets and when the jets arrived, the UFOs took off.

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But they didn't leave. And every time Air Force pilots try to intercept them and lock on with their radar, the UFOs play a game of cat and mouse until they disappear completely.

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But incredibly, one week later, the UFOs return.

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And the jets tried to chase. At one point, one of the pilots radioed that they seemed to be surrounding him.

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And they saw it on radar that these objects were closing in on him to the point that he called in a panic.

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What do you want me to do? Nobody in the Tower knew what to tell him.

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That's because the unknown objects once again display aerodynamic maneuverability far beyond the most advanced technology of the Air Force.

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Then, like before, they vanish.

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It was out of control. For two weekends in a row, there were reports of UFOs over Washington, D.C., over our nation's capital.

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As for the government, after weeks of silence, a military spokesman reads a statement for the press.

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Since 1947, we have received and analyzed between one and two thousand reports.

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We have been able adequately to explain the great bulk of them.

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We have been able to explain them as hoaxes, as erroneously identified friendly aircraft, as meteorological or electronic phenomena, or as light aberrations.

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It was the largest press conference since the end of the Second World War.

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General Sanford stated that it was his belief, and he had been told by some of his science people, that these were temperature inversions.

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General Sanford tried to explain to the public, we got this under control.

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A couple of mistakes, a little bit of weather phenomenon that confused the radar operators.

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I mean, for the record, none of the radar operators agreed with that, but they weren't allowed to talk to the press.

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Is it possible, as researchers believe, that President Truman and his military advisors knew the unknown craft flying over D.C. were extraterrestrial in origin, yet refused to admit this to the American public?

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Tellingly, six weeks later in September 1952, Truman authorizes the creation of Project Blue Book, an ultra-top secret military study of the UFO phenomenon.

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The Washington, D.C. wave of sightings was really the point at which Project Blue Book came into its own.

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Got the resources, got maybe the respect within government to go out and look at these cases and say, what are we dealing with here?

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Even President Truman admits his concern about UFOs shortly before leaving office in a candid moment.

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Oh yes, we discussed it at every conference that we had with the military, that flying saucers and that had other things to know.

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Still, Truman avoids saying publicly what exactly he and the military know.

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It makes perfect sense that Truman would need to hide the reality of this phenomenon from the public.

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It's the single most important secret they've got, right?

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Other beings, not from here, are here, with technology that's not supposed to exist but does exist.

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That would revolutionize our world, that would revolutionize our society, and these people clearly have felt the need to maintain total control over this narrative.

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Was Truman unwilling to admit publicly that the military was powerless against UFOs?

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Or that off-world technology had become a powerful engine behind the Pentagon and its defense industry?

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Area 51 makes absolute sense from a security point of view. If you're going to have a UFO tech program.

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Eisenhower may have even threatened to send in the military to Area 51 to take control of what was going on there.

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The question is, why?

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Before any president takes office, they must be briefed on all the top strategic issues that poses a threat to the United States.

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And so, if any of this is real, it's inconceivable to me that the president, any president, every president, wouldn't be briefed on UFOs.

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UFO investigators believe this highly controversial briefing paper, seen here for the first time on national television, was presented to President-elect Dwight Eisenhower in 1952.

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It was prepared by Majestic 12, the same group of high-ranking military officers and scientists, created by President Truman to safeguard UFO secrets.

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The paper details UFO encounters in the western United States, including the crash in Roswell, New Mexico.

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It also describes four human-like bodies believed to have been onboard the crashed UFO.

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These are referred to as extraterrestrial biological entities.

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If that document's valid, it says a lot about the Roswell crash retrieval.

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It goes into the fact that beings were found on the craft, into the UFO issue, into the flying saucer issue.

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For researchers, the MJ-12 briefing paper is also persuasive evidence that soon-to-be President Eisenhower was aware of UFO secrets our government held, and that the UFOs were of interstellar origin.

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If an alien spacecraft really did crash at Roswell and the US government got its hands on this technology and then seeded it out into the US industry, this would have been the biggest secret in the history of the human race.

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And as secrets go, researchers believe this one becomes a top priority for MJ-12, the CIA, and the US defense industry.

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During the Eisenhower administration, this issue of UFOs was gaining a great deal of traction. The CIA was growing by leaps and bounds.

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So too was Lockheed's elite aerospace division, whose executives were flying over the barren Nevada desert, when they spot a remote area called Groom Lake, surrounded by mountains and shielded from the public.

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Based on a grid map of the parcel of land, they called the site Area 51.

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The choice of Area 51 makes absolute sense from a security point of view. If you're going to have a UFO tech program, and the CIA was deeply involved in everything going on at Area 51.

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Alan Dulles, who became director of the CIA under Eisenhower, knew all about this. So one question we can ask is to what extent they tried to shield Eisenhower from information. And I think it's probably true that they would.

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Over the years, there's been an unspoken agreement that the president doesn't need to know everything that covertly goes on in the intelligence community, and that allows the president deniability.

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Presidents have to respond to reporters' questions, and you don't want to put them in a position where they have to lie.

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It could have been that Dulles said, boss, we'll take care of this. And maybe Eisenhower might have said initially, sure, okay.

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I think after a while, presidents who allow that to go on might wind up a little bit out of the loop.

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And so it goes. Researchers believe that CIA director Alan Dulles begins working closely with MJ-12 and leaving Eisenhower in the dark about what really went on at Area 51.

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Eisenhower may have even found out that towards the end of his administration that he was no longer getting answers about the UFO phenomenon. That's entirely possible.

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What we have to keep in mind is during the 50s, the president increasingly found himself like dealing with this massive militarized bureaucracy.

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And we have to ask ourselves, like, how much power can a president have over such a sprawling, powerful bureaucracy as the American military-industrial complex?

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And if there's any doubt about how the president felt about being left behind by the CIA and MJ-12, we only need to look at Eisenhower's farewell address at the end of his presidency.

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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

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The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic process.

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Toward the end of his presidency, it is very clear that Eisenhower started to have misgivings about this massive military complex that he himself helped to create. And so it does fit that he would have had misgivings about the UFO program as well.

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Many people in the UFO community feel that Eisenhower's remarks were directly related to the UFO issue and the unaccountability of groups like Majestic-12.

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It appears that he was concerned that there were potentially some very dark forces at work.

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We may never know what was shared between departing President Eisenhower and President-elect Kennedy about the UFO issue.

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But UFO experts believe Majestic-12 was more determined than ever to control all information about UFOs and otherworldly technology and do so by whatever means necessary.

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Kennedy started asking about aliens, grays, UFOs, the whole thing.

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Wetwork, that's an old Soviet phrase. It means that's when you kill people covertly.

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It's a very kind of careful way of describing if Kennedy doesn't play ball, real soon, he's got to be taken out.

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In 1960, John F. Kennedy becomes the 35th President of the United States.

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As the country celebrates this rising star of politics, few outside Washington D.C.'s inner circle know the extent to which Kennedy quietly deals with the danger that Eisenhower had vaguely described it is farewell address.

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Danger that some say related to government secrets about UFO technology, Area 51, and extraterrestrial bodies.

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Having a warning from a president that's walking out the door, he came out swinging. He was not a fan of the intelligence community.

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I think that there was a definite problem that was going on in the interpretation of the UFO phenomenon and had to deal with it.

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Kennedy's main problem was that he was perceived as unreliable to the national security establishment on a whole array of fronts, including the UFO issue.

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A year and a half later, the Cuban Missile Crisis takes the United States to the brink of nuclear war with Russia's Soviet Union.

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And despite Kennedy's secret negotiation with Moscow to avert war, tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union remain high.

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Kennedy understood that this could never happen again, that he had to develop a new relationship with Soviet Russia to keep these two countries from coming literally to the brink of World War III ever again.

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To achieve this goal, Kennedy secretly issues a memorandum, requesting that NASA initiate broader cooperation between the United States and the USSR in outer space, including cooperation in lunar landing programs.

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The memo is dated November 12, 1963.

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He felt that the differences between America and the Soviet Union could be resolved in a peaceful way, and he felt the strongest way to show that to everyone was to cooperate in an area where they had unique capabilities and mutual interest, which was exploring the moon together.

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But the fine print in Kennedy's bold initiative also means sharing classified UFO secrets.

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This idea of collaboration in the space program clearly set off alarm bells with MJ-12 and some parts of the administration.

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And the concern was, look, we have alien technology here. We don't want to share it with the Soviets.

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And that was the last straw. That was the thing that the National Security State, the CIA, Allen Dulles, MJ-12 absolutely could not tolerate.

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I mean, my goodness, the idea of sharing UFO data with the Russians, no, I don't think that they were on board with this.

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And for MJ-12, sharing UFO secrets was a big problem. Their response may have been pulled from a fire, when and where nobody knows.

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Like all MJ-12 documents, the authenticity of this burned memo is considered suspect by mainstream historians.

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But for UFO researchers, this nine-page document is explosive new evidence never before seen on national television.

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Page one refers directly to the president. As you must know, Lancer has made some inquiries regarding our activities, which we cannot allow.

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Each president is given a nickname of sorts, and this is for security reasons. And Lancer is absolutely John F. Kennedy.

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This was a classic conflict between the president and the intelligence community, and it was showing to be beyond the control of any president.

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And perhaps the most chilling page of the burned memo states, when conditions become non-condusive for growth in our environment and Washington cannot be influenced any further, the weather is lacking any precipitation. It should be wet.

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That's an old Soviet phrase. Wet work means that's when you kill people covertly.

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It's a very kind of careful way of describing if Kennedy doesn't play ball, real soon he's got to be taken out.

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So obviously what must have happened is Kennedy started asking about aliens, grays, UFOs, the whole thing, and MJ-12 took a vote and decided we have to get rid of this guy.

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If the burned memo is authentic, as believed by UFO experts, the conflict between JFK and those in possession of UFO secrets within our government were on a collision course.

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According to UFO investigators, since World War II, the U.S. government has known of countless UFO sightings and encounters that were probably caused by extraterrestrial beings.

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Yet every president has barred disclosure, except for one, John F. Kennedy. Might his desire to divulge secrets related to the UFO phenomenon set the stage for a dire confrontation?

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Kennedy was pursuing policies that really were at odds with the National Security Establishment. You're sticking his nose into the UFO subject and that's the final straw. Can't let that happen.

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President Kennedy had expressed the view that the U.S. government should be sharing technology and if there was alien technology in the mix, that would have been on the table too. Some people might have gone to any lengths to prevent it.

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Though the authenticity of the burned memo was hotly debated, UFO researchers say there are telltale signs that prove it is genuine.

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Now the burn marks can be manufactured. There are ways that you can simulate a fire. But if you look at the patterns on the burn marks on these documents, you can see that they look like they were in a series on a pile that was saved from a fire.

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Also, an analysis was done that shows that the red ink on these documents was made from a pigment that was prevalent in the 1960s. The other thing is that the paper was the predominant type of paper used by the U.S. government in the 1960s.

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My conclusion is that these documents are legit.

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Adding to the mystery, the burned memo is claimed to have been mailed to a UFO investigator in 1999 by an unknown CIA agent who included a note saying he had worked for James Jesus Angleton, who in 1963 was the chief of CIA counterintelligence.

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James Angleton was one of the most powerful people in the agency for about 20 years. And he seems to be the one who authored this particular memo.

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And as head of counterintelligence, you've got to neutralize perceived threats coming at you from any direction. The Soviets, of course, but also, if need be, the president himself.

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This was a classic conflict between the U.S. president and the deep state. This was a creation that had gone way out of control.

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At out of control battle between the president and the deep state over UFO secrets, is it possible then that the events of November 22nd, 1963 were the deep state's solution to bringing this conflict to an end?

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Today, many believe the CIA was involved, if only indirectly, in a conspiracy to kill Kennedy.

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In fact, in 1978, the House Select Committee on Assassinations publishes their findings in the reinvestigation of JFK's murder that includes two bombshells.

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One, scientific acoustical evidence establishes a high probability that two gunmen fired at the president. And two, the committee believes that President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated as the result of a conspiracy.

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President Kennedy had a desire to share with the American people some of the most highly classified information that we have about UFOs and extraterrestrials.

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As wild as it sounds, there are theories that the government may have been involved in Kennedy's assassination. And if that's the case, that would be very heartbreaking.

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If these documents are authentic, and I think they are, then the implications are really profound. It's that the people who are managing the secret of UFOs and extraterrestrials have deemed it so important they must not ever lose control over that narrative and over that information.

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Nothing can get in that way. Everything that threatens it must be eliminated.

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It's as if there are two separate histories. There's the official history, and then there's the secret history. What's really been going on? Dating from the Second World War, through the Cold War, and to the present day.

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And the only way to resolve these two separate histories is by the government finally disclosing all the information that it has about the UFO phenomenon.

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For UFO researchers, the evidence is overwhelming that a policy to keep secret all government knowledge of unidentified flying objects and extraterrestrials played a decisive role for presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy.

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But the story of UFOs and the presidents doesn't end with JFK. It continued with the presidents who succeeded him. And those stories will be told on a future episode of UFOs, The Lost Evidence.