With the circumlocutious logic we so often find in the reasoning of the UFOlogy community, the UFO folks were in a tizzy when George W. Bush became President. They believed he had promised, and would deliver on the promise to make a full discolosure about what the government knew about UFOs and The Greys.
Another reason for Ufological optimism was a 2000 Roswell visit scheduled by Cheney. This visit followed on the heels of a now famous meeting between presidential candidate George W. Bush and Arkansas native Charles Huffer. During that July 2000 encounter Huffer asked George Bush if he were elected President would he disclose "
the truth about UFOs?" Bush in reply stated
"Sure. I will . . . It will be the first thing he [points to Cheney] will do. He’ll get right on it."When Cheney arrived in Roswell months later, many thought it was a portent of good things to come. Cheney, of course, simply made his speech with no mention of Greys, UFOs, or anything remotely close, and went back to Wyoming.
Because of Dick Cheney's high White House positions in past Ford and Bush Sr. administrations, the appearance of his name on the George W. Bush Presidential ticket led many UFOlogists to believe that Cheney might represent an attempt by the government to make a disclosure on UFOs. Because if you ever want to open up, and make full disclosure, who else would you pick?
As Secretary of Defense under George H.W. Bush, however, Cheney did not release an iota of information to researchers about UFOs. Somehow, researchers believed the Vice-President would now provide some truthful answers.
Because of his former defense position, and because more attention was being placed on candidates concerning UFOs, after the Bush UFO campaign promise in Arkansas, it was incredible that Cheney ended up on a campaign swing to Roswell, New Mexico. The visit occurred October 25, just three months after George Bush made the UFO promise to Charles Huffer that Cheney would look into the UFO situation. The Roswell trip had UFOlogists going bananas.
Roswell is the site of the most famous UFO event in history. In July 1947, there was a crash that some believe involved a flying saucer and four small grey aliens. The crash had been investigated intensely by researchers beginning in the late seventies.
Only six days before Cheney arrived in Roswell, 30 cattle were found dead under mysterious circumstances on a ranch outside of town. Papers as far away as Boston, Massachusetts covered the story of the "mysterious mass death."
Since the late sixties mysterious deaths among cattle had evolved to become a common occurrence on western ranches. These mysterious occurrences had been documented by UFO researchers and the FBI, and had become known as "cattle mutilations". Many researchers claimed the cattle mutilitations were extraterrestrial based, because many aspects of the incisions, and organ removals, appeared beyond human technology.
It was "very interesting that Cheney flew into Roswell," wrote UFO Roundup editor Joseph Trainor, "after the mysterious mass death of 24 cattle in that community. Was he on some kind of clandestine mission for the Pentagon?"
In his speech, Cheney did not even acknowledge the UFO background of the town. The vice-presidential hopeful spoke to the enthusiastic crowd of 2,500, but never mentioned the UFO subject once. He was like the secretive and calculating Cheney of old. And today.
No one asked about UFOs, and he was not asked for a comment about the mysterious death of the cattle that had occurred just prior to his arrival. He completed his speech, and left town.
Lab results on the cattle deaths determined that the deaths had been caused by poisoning. The vet suspected that the cattle had been poisoned by a weed that had found its way into the bails of hay causing nitrate poisoning.
Some, however, felt that the Cheney trip to Roswell might have been a signal. These people felt it was like Reagan making a speech in 1982 near hanger 84 at the Roswell Air Force Base, where tradition says the bodies of the dead aliens from the Roswell crash were held prior to being flown to Wright Fieldin 1982. Like Reagan, Cheney might have been giving an indirect nod that he was aware, and would if elected, deal with the UFO situation.
After their election, there was no indication that the UFO issue had been the first thing Cheney did once elected as promised by Bush in the campaign. In fact there was no indication anything had been done.
Dick Cheney was questioned on Washington D.C. Public Radio Station WAMU on April 11, 2001. Cheney spoke from the White House.
Researcher Grant Cameron: Since the statement made by George Bush last July, there is a vicious rumor circulating in the UFO community that you've been read into the UFO program. So my question to you is, in any of your government jobs, have you ever been briefed on the subject of UFOs, and if you have, when was it and what were you told?
Cheney: Well, if I had been briefed on it, I'm sure it was probably classified and I couldn't talk about it.
Rehm: Is there investigation going on within this administration, Mr. Vice President, as to UFOs?Cheney: I have not come across the subject since I've been back in government, oh like since January 20th.Rehm: All right.Cheney: I've been in a lot of meetings, but I don't recall one on UFOs.The U.S. government has claimed since December 1969 (when it shut down Project Blue Book) that nothing is classified, and who are we to doubt that government?
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