Alien Lore No. 61 - Ronald Reagan, Steven Spielberg, UFOs and aliens

On June 27, 1982, Ronald Reagan brought Steven Spielberg to the White House to screen ET: The Extraterrestrial.

After the screening, The President put his hand on Spielberg's shoulder and said "You know, there aren't six people in this room who know how true this really is."

At the time, the conspiracy nuts/UFOlogists discussed how the original E.T. had changed into a cartoon-like creature, unlike the Greys most contactees and abductees reported. In the end, the model for E.T. alien was based on a snapping turtle embryo with Albert Einstein's eyes. A government insider allegedly told Spielberg that the alien model was too close to the truth, and had to be changed. Obviously, this was never proved and Spielberg refuses to comment on the matter.

Spielberg told the story of Reagan's "how true this is" comment to Hollywood television producer Jamie Shandera while Shandera was helping a Japanese film crew shoot a documentary on Spielberg.

Since then Spielberg has refused to talk to reporters or researchers about his conversation with Reagan, according to several sources. Either he's been muzzled (the popular theory, of course), or he's sick of talking to nutjob UFO researchers. . .

James A. Baker III, Chief of Staff, Edwin Meese III, Counselor, and Michael K. Deaver, Deputy Chief of Staff, met in the White House Situation Room where the President participated in a briefing of the U.S. Space Program. Participants included six members of the National Security Council or National Security Affairs and no one from NASA. The absence of NASA from a Space Program briefing is highly unusual, especially since President Reagan would attend a U.S. Space Shuttle landing at Edwards Air Force Base just a few days later.

A couple months later, President Reagan showed up in Roswell, New Mexico to give a speech for the re-election of Harrison (Jack) Schmitt. Schmitt, the Republican Senator (and Apollo 17 astronaut) from New Mexico was the last man to walk on the moon.

Schmitt said, "If the government has any information on UFO's, it should be released to the public -- barring anything that might affect national security. We ought to be involved in a search to find out if there's any good evidence that UFOs really are spacecraft that are being piloted by extraterrestrial beings."

He went on to qualify that somewhat: "The existence of intelligent life elsewhere in our universe is highly probable. . .that such life would visit our star and planet, however, is unlikely, but not impossible given the large number of choices it would have for such a visit. Further, the so-called UFOs have not done a very good job of communicating for life (that's) intelligent enough to travel between stars."

President Reagan in his speech at Roswell said "It feels good to be here in the land of enchantment and far away from a place of disenchantment on the banks of the Potomac. Jack (Schmitt), are you sure you want to go back there? [Laughter] Of course, having once been an astronaut, Jack Schmitt is probably the only one who feels at home there; because Washington is in orbit most of the time about one thing or another."

President Reagan's speech at The Roswell Industrial Air Center was made just outside Hanger 84, the rumored repository for the UFO wreckage and bodies found near Roswell in July 1947.
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