Alien Lore 62 - two encounters between President Ronald Reagan and UFOs

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1. Steve Allen took one of Ronald Reagan's UFO sightings public on his WNEW-AM radio show in New York. Allen related a story that "a well-known personality in the entertainment industry" had confided to him years ago.

For years, the story had made the rounds in the press-politico rumor mill and everyone knew Allen was talking about Governor Ronald and Nancy Reagan. The Reagans were expected at a dinner party with Hollywood friends. The guests had arrived except for the Reagans. Ron and Nancy showed up thirty minutes late and were very upset because, they said, they had seen a UFO coming down the coast.

2. Another sighting happened in 1974 while Reagan was still Governor. The future President related the story to Norman C. Millar, who was Washington Bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal: "I was in a plane last week when I looked out the window and saw this white light. It was zigzagging around."

"I went up to the pilot and said, Have you seen anything like that before? He was shocked and said, Nope. And I said to him: Let's follow it! We followed it for several minutes. It was a bright white light."

"We followed it to Bakersfield, and all of a sudden to our utter amazement, it went straight up into the heavens."

"When we got off the plane, I told Nancy all about it." Reagan, in his discussion with Millar added that he had told Nancy about the UFO he had seen, and that they had done personal research on UFOs. This research had uncovered the facts that there were references to UFOs in Egyptian hieroglyphics.

The reporter suddenly realized that Reagan actually believed in UFOs. "Are you telling me that you saw a UFO?"

Suddenly, according to Millar, Reagan realized that he was talking to the press. "This look crossed his face," recalled Millar, "and he said let's just say that I'm an agnostic."

The speech draft reprinted above shows that UFOs were never far from the President's mind. He mentioned UFOs and aliens publicly numerous times during his Presidency, most famously in a speech at the United Nations.

No wonder that, toward the end of his administration, the British tabloid, The Sun, published a huge headline

"Reagan will end his presidency by adding several planets as states."

Links to selected earlier posts on President Ronald Reagan in All This Is That:

http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/2005/11/president-ronald-reagan-glances-out.html
http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/2005/11/alien-lore-no-39-presidents-and-near.html
http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/2005/07/president-ronald-reagan-on-war-and.html
http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/2005/03/potus-40-pres-ronald-dutch-reagan-b.html
http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/2004/12/three-by-ronald-reagan.html
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