
By: J.J. Hitt
To: George Mooth
Re: Our Daily Alien

THE SHOCKING TRUTH
Ronald Reagan's Obsession With An Alien Invasion

By A.  Hovni

Supermarket tabloids, that strange breed of sensationalistic American
journalism, have been talking for most of the decade about Ronald
Reagan's fascination with things like astrology and space aliens.
Little attention was paid to the matter ...  after all, the stuff was
printed in the tabloids and nobody sane is supposed to believe in
them. Yet truth is becoming stranger than fiction in the case of
Ronald Wilson Reagan and some of his more curious remarks.

   For starters, he has become the first President of the United
   States to talk about he possibility of an alien invasion from
   outer space, and he has done so not once or twice but in three
   speeches.
   Reagan is also the only President to my knowledge, who admitted --
   in a 1984 Presidential debate against Walter Mondale -- [to]
   having "philosophical discussions" about Armageddon in the White
   House with some rather well known fundamentalist preachers.

   And then there was the explosion about astrology in the White
   House, triggered by Don Regan's disclosures that Nancy had often
   consulted astrologers to arrange for appointments with the
   President.
   Everyone knows the details by now, yet we asked Marcello Galluppi,
   a well-known astrologer and host of a psychic radio and TV talk
   show in Detroit, to give us another view.  "It is very clear to
   me that the politicians in Washington have their psychics and
   astrologers," said Marcello, "at least some of them do."
   Furthermore, continued Marcello, there is evidence that the
   Reagans have used astrology for a long time if we consider that
   "he was sworn in at midnight as Governor of California, based on
   astrology."

        The media was having a field day with horoscopes at the White
   House when Reagan talked about the possibility of Earth uniting
   against a threat by "a power from outer space."  Although the idea
   wasn't new for the President, as we shall soon see, this time
   everybody paid attention. More as a joke than a serious thought,
   however.  The AP story on the speech, for example, had the
   headline, "Reagan follows astrological flap with comment on space
   invaders."

   There might be a deeper reason for Reagan's apparent interest in
   the idea of an alien threat.  There is an unconfirmed story that
   before he became Governor of California, Ron and Nancy had a UFO
   sighting on a highway near Hollywood.  The story was broadcast
   last February on Steve Allen's radio show over WNEW-AM in New
   York.  The comedian and host commented that a very well known
   personality in the entertainment industry had confided to him
   that many years ago, Ron and Nancy were expected to a casual
   dinner with friends in Hollywood. Except for the Reagans, all the
   guests had arrived.  Ron and Nancy showed up quite upset half an
   hour later, saying that they had just seen a UFO coming down the
   coast.  No further details were released by Steve Allen.

   The President first disclosed his recurrent thoughts about "an
   alien threat" during a December 4, 1985, speech at the Fallston High
   School in Maryland, where he spoke about his first summit with
   General Secretary Gorbachev in Geneva.  According to a White House
   transcript, Reagan remarked that during his 5-hour private
   discussions with Gorbachev, he told [Gorbachev] to think, "how easy
   his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly
   there was a threat to this world from some other species from another
   planet outside in the universe.  We'd forget all the little local
   differences that we have between our countries ..."

   Except for one headline or two, people didn't pay much attention.
   Not then and not later, when Gorbachev himself confirmed the
   conversation in Geneva during an important speech on February 17,
   1987, in the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, to the Central
   Committee of the USSR's Communist Party.  Not a High School in
   Maryland, precisely! There, buried on page 7A of the 'Soviet Life
   Supplement,' was the following statement:

       "At our meeting in Geneva, the U.S. President said that if the
        earth faced an invasion by extraterrestials, the United States
        and the Soviet Union would join forces to repel such an
        invasion.  I shall not dispute the hypothesis, though I think
        it's early yet to worry about such an intrusion..."

   Notice that Gorbachev doesn't say this is an incredible proposition,
   he just says that it's too early to worry about it.

If Gorbachev elevated the theme from a high school to the Kremlin
[palace], Reagan upped the stakes again by including the "alien threat"
[again], not in a domestic speech but to a full session of the General
Assembly of the United Nations.  Towards the end of his speech to the
Forty-second Session on September 21, 1987, the President said that, "in
our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much
unites all the members of humanity.  Perhaps we need some outside,
universal threat to make us recognize this common bond.

"I occasionally think," continued Reagan, "how quickly our differences
worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside
this world.  And yet, I ask" -- here comes the clincher -- "is not an
alien force ALREADY among us?" The President now tries to retreat from
the last bold statement by posing a second question: "What could be more
alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the
threat of war?" Unlike the off-the-cuff remarks to the Fallston High
School, we must assume that the President's speech to the General
Assembly was written very carefully and likewise, it merits close
examination.

Ronald Reagan has told us that he thinks often about this issue, yet
nobody seems to be paying attention.  When the President mentioned last
May 4 in Chicago for the third time the possibility of a threat by "a
power from another planet," the media quickly dubbed it the "space
invaders" speech, relegating it to a sidebar in the astrology flap.  The
ET remark was made in the Q&A period following a speech to the National
Strategy Forum in Chicago's Palmer House Hotel, where he adopted a more
conciliatory tone towards the Soviet Union.

Significantly, Reagan's remark was made during his response to the
question, "What do you consider to be the most important need in
international relations?"

"I've often wondered," the President told us once again, "what if all of
us in the world discovered that we were threatened by an outer -- a
power from outer space, from another planet." And then he emphasized his
theme that this would erase all the differences, and that the "citizens
of the world" would "come together to fight that particular threat..."

There is a fourth, unofficial, similar statement from Ronald Reagan
about this particular subject.  It was reported in the New Republic by
senior editor Fred Barnes.  The article described a luncheon in the
White House between the President and Eduard Shevardnatze, during the
Foreign Minister's visit to Washington to sign the INF Treaty on
September 15, 1987.  "Near the end of his lunch with Shevardnadze,"
wrote Barnes, "Reagan wondered aloud what would happen if the world
faced an 'alien threat' from outer space.  'Don't you think the United
States and the Soviet Union would be together?' he asked.  Shevardnadze
said yes, absolutely.  "And we wouldn't need our defense ministers to
meet,' he added."

The fact that there are so many references in important speeches,
off-the-cuff remarks, and just plain conversations, means that -- for
whatever reason or knowledge about deep UFO secrets that he may have as
President -- Ronald Reagan does think often about the possibility of an
alien invasion, and how this event could become a catalyst for world
unity.  Talking about these UFO secrets, there is also an unconfirmed
story of a special story of a special screening in the White House of
the movie "ET" at few years ago, with director Steven Spielberg and a
few selected guests.  Right after the movie, Reagan supposedly turned to
Spielberg and whispered something to the effect, "There are only a
handful of people who know the truth about this."

Indeed, more than one ufologist has even suggested that the real
target behind "Star Wars" -- another of Reagan's cosmic obsessions -- is the
projected ET invasion and not the Russians.  Others talk of wild "deals"
between the U.S. Government and race of gray dwarfs, better known for the
appetite for abducting humans ...  Stop!  We're entering the forbidden terrain
of tabloid revelations, like the SUN's screaming headline that "Reagan will end
his presidency by adding several planets as states." Just think about it.


    Hostes alienigeni me abduxerunt.
--- Msgedsq 2.2e
 * Origin: Saint Elmo's Fire Hydrant (Houston) (1:106/9788.2)

