Part 4 Eisenhower's Close Encounters ... Two Free Shows ...The Light Letter and The Omega Secret

Eisenhower's Close Encounters 

By Paul Blake Smith

Chapter 8 

Two Free Shows 

“The UFO dematerialized before their eyes.” 

— author Frank Stranges 

The time for small talk had ended - at least for a while - when it was decided by someone, probably within the alien contingent, to put on a free air show for the humans at Muroc/Edwards, this according to eyewitness Jerry Flier. “They demonstrated their spacecraft for the president,” he remembered to Lord Clancarty, and the subsequent flying airship display suitably bedazzled all in attendance, even Jerry, who said he was specifically imported for this aspect of the meeting. “He had been called in as a technical adviser,” the Dary Matera 1982 article highlighted, as Jerry possessed great “reputation and abilities as a test pilot.” 

How many of the five unique spaceships actually lifted off the ground and zipped about in the crisp California night air is not known, nor the number of extraordinary visitors who piloted those vehicles, but openly demonstrate the awesome aerial abilities they did. It proved to be yet another reason why the summit had to be set up in a rural, remote location. This could hardly have been accomplished unnoticed at a major airport in or near a large American city. It was one fantastic aerial circus, too, very much worth the undercover trip from Palm Springs for the president. While possibly some of the original ET landing party remained on the ground with the enraptured American audience, providing an informed narrative, the visitors exhibited their superior hardware in ways that likely made experienced pilots like Jerry drool.

We can effectively speculate at this point that the alien crafts soared at speeds our Air Force jets could not match, as has been alleged in countless other UFO sightings over the last half-century. One can conceive of the soaring extraterrestrial crafts likely turning on a dime in mid-air; stopping and restarting; banking, darting, and circling; accelerating and slowing; then zigzagging and rotating about, until finally making quiet, soft landings without the benefit of noticeable engines, wings, struts, flaps, or even exhaust pipes and vapor trails. Any cameraman trying to record the radiant, fast-paced display likely had difficulty keeping his lens on the flitting, speeding objects, at least until they resettled on the runway before them, and the celestial pilots stepped back outside. 

To that end, an online UFO discussion site featured a forum message in 2009 that read: “My friend said that Sam also told her about viewing a black and white movie of the meeting between President Eisenhower and human ETs which I assume was the alleged 1954 meeting. My friend says that it showed the three craft coming down over the runway doing some flight demonstrations and one craft landed and human-like ETs came out.”

Covering the Vatican beat, an Italian reporter and author whom we'll get to later has claimed this startling, supportive information: “The meeting was filmed by the U.S. military with three 16mm cameras, placed at different points, loaded with color film and spring drive motors; that is because each camera operator had to change the film every 3 minutes and because in the presence of the aliens, electric motors did not work. In total, they shot 20 minutes of film in 7 rolls, each of them 30 meters in length.” Wow! What a detailed, knowledgeable-sounding piece of insight! Seemingly someone who was quite in the know spilled the beans in a tantalizing way, but who? And if this tale is true, it again indicates a well-prepared Muroc/Edwards operation, with multiple cameramen carefully spread out in advance, around the runway/hangar encounter site, recording it for posterity and security. But if so, where's the footage today? Why have only a few supposed eyewitnesses viewed it? Again, top military classifications appear to remain in effect for overall secrecy. 

{We can also see that one allegation herein claims a “black-and white film” was taken of the event, and the other mentions “color film,” yet both sound reasonably believable. If there were three or more cameramen present, likely not all footage would be in one mode, and b/w film stock was cheaper and more widespread in '54.} 

To learn more about the ET ships present, let's check with the April 1954 Army “Special Operations Manual.” Under the heading “Description of Craft” there are some tasty samples of alien technology. For instance, “Elliptical, or disc shape. This type of craft is of metallic construction and dull aluminum in color,” and “may have a raised dome on the top or bottom.” They are “one-piece construction,” about “50 to 300 feet in diameter,” some with “windows or ports, and lights on the top or bottom, which are not visible when the craft is at rest. Landing gear consists of three extendible legs ending in circular landing pads. A rectangular hatch is located along the equator or the lower surface of the disc.”

In other words, about what people of Earth already think would be your average alien flying saucer. “Fuselage or cigar shape” ships were also mentioned in the manual. One of them was described as a whopping “approximately two thousand feet long and ninety-five feet thick, and apparently, do not operate in lower atmospheres.” If so, how did the U.S. Army find out such specific data? “Radar reports” suggest such an elongated craft soared along at “7,000 miles per hour,” far faster than any jet plane then, or now.

“Ovoid or circular shape” ET airships were also described in the 1954 instruction manual for intelligence officers. They are “approximately thirty to forty feet long” with “an extremely bright light at the pointed end.”

And finally, the April 1954 Army “S.O.M.” claimed that a fourth shape was possible: “Airfoil or triangular shape.” Such unusual designs – reported more in UFO sightings of the early 1990s – were “nearly three hundred feet in length, capable of high speeds and abrupt maneuvers.” The triangular craft mention brings to mind the Eisenhower White House stationary doodles, possibly showing a landed triangular ship and another one “flying” overhead on his notepaper.

The ETs permitted the men assembled with President Eisenhower to touch at least one of them, possibly to enter one or two grounded vehicles for a brief, up-close inspection. The metal ships proved to be amazingly lightweight, and one was supposedly dragged easily into a nearby hangar, one investigative UFO author – Dr. Frank E. Stranges, Ph.D. (1927-2008) - said he was told. At one point, as the president watched, “two individuals were able to tip it upside down.” None of this appeared to concern the visiting alien ambassadors. “The craft was about thirty feet in diameter,” Dr. Stranges recalled learning. {The highly-educated Stranges was the author of “Stranger in the Pentagon,” about an alleged human-type “Venusian” named “Valiant Thor.” The “alien” allegedly lived for three years in the Pentagon (1957-1960), supposedly offering President Eisenhower “a gift that would heal the world and end all disease and poverty” - but was turned down as, “It would ruin the economy.” The “Valiant Thor” saga has since been debunked. 

Yes, the humanoids offered to help their earthly cousins with great gifts of knowledge and machinery, if not energy and medicine. The 2009 forum poster stated: “They said that they were willing to cooperate and give mankind technology to cure disease, and cheap non-polluting energy technology if we would make concessions in regard to warfare and other things. But Eisenhower said the government was not ready for that, and that cheap energy technology would severely disrupt the economy.” Once again, for a conservative president, fears of a damaged national economy were a very real, down-to-earth worry and might explain why business/financial experts like Edwin Nourse, George Allen, and Paul Hoffman might have been brought in for an assessment of the situation. Again, no one wanted another stock market disaster and global economic depression. But to turn down environmentally friendly “cheap energy technology” gifted on a virtual silver platter from advanced beings who just wanted to help? Eisenhower was tempted and soon conjured up a somewhat lesser deal, being a stout Cold Warrior who knew the value of finding ways of staying one step ahead of the Russians and Chinese. 

“Claims of an agreement were made with the president exchanging technology” handed over by the visitors “for a permanent base on earth.” This was boldly alleged in the 2014 “MUFON Hangar 1” television program, and the 1989 DIA document seemed to support that notion, referring to an airbase in very rural Nevada for possible ET use. But late that 2/19/54 night any sort of formal or informal treaty had to be carefully crafted with considerable thought and clear wording and then signed by the president at some point, and this would have taken some time. Perhaps days, or weeks, or months? Maybe even a full year? At least until that July.

Pacing a bit on the apron of the well-lit Edwards hangar, the great leader Eisenhower had to have scratched his bald head with a combination of amazement, delight, and utter dread. But the alien exhibition of very advanced ways was not yet over. The best was yet to come, as in any good show put on for an appreciative, mature audience. According to Lord Clancarty's “retired colonel,” it was time for the big finish. A second free show to dazzle all... 

Precisely how many extraterrestrial humanoids at this point were standing near their re-settled airships on the desert runway was not detailed by Jerry Flier, or at least not recalled by Lord Clancarty, but the retired test pilot related an amazing coup. Something that allegedly caused the patient president of the United States, Flier remembered, to worry greatly.

The aliens made themselves disappear! They became completely unseen... and then, came back into view again on the runway.

Yes, the otherworldly friends just seemed to vanish in front of their very eyes, Jerry Flier asserted. “They showed Ike their ability to make themselves invisible,” the aviator told the earl.

Were the aliens able to make their entire molecular structure – and perhaps that of their airships – somehow physically move from the scene in an instant, into the ether? Or were they quite present, standing still, yet “cloaked” from view somehow? Either way, it was quite a shock to behold. 

In a rare television interview in mid-1982 with popular BBC reporter Sir Michael Terrence Wogan (1938-2016), Lord Clancarty sat in his home's comfortable living room and recalled on camera learning from the confessing pilot-source that “These extraterrestrials demonstrated their paranormal powers – which are normal to them – and they went visible... invisible... visible!” The earl was serious, but the TV show's audience audibly chuckled, watching the video clip in a studio. Terry Wogan had little response to what seemed a little “bonkers,” as he put it at the end of his televised report. 

The aforementioned Frank Stranges - who was also a theologian - alleged he too gathered information mentioning “dematerialization” - for lack of a better term - going on at Muroc/Edwards and was even undertaken to the thirty-foot-long gifted spacecraft on the ground, the one that was allowed to be dragged about and tipped upside-down by the excited men. “The UFO dematerialized before their eyes,” Frank recalled learning, then it came back, and as for proof, “there was motion picture footage of this event.” 

Film footage presumably classified. Again it seems obvious the military wanted to obtain proof of the historic presidential meeting just in case something went wrong and they needed to explain matters to the American people... and... they also would have needed evidence of the wild-sounding event for qualified military, aviation, and scientific leaders to study and learn from. Plus, the U.S. government would have the cold hard facts to air in public most indisputably someday when the time for full ET/UFO disclosure was at hand. 

Alien people and their solid, metallic spaceships just disappearing. And then reappearing... over and over. It was beyond startling. It was unlike anything any human being had ever seen. This must have been even more shocking to witness than the sight of the humanoids and their five shapes of ships in the first place. Where exactly did the vanished ETs go? The humanoids had not actually “gone” anywhere, Colonel Flier recalled of the staggering event. To him they simply had given every man there the appearance of invisibility, possibly utilizing something like a “cloaking device” or method on the popular television/movie series “Star Trek.” {American scientific minds are just now making inroads into such technology, in the news of late.} The airbase space brothers (or cousins) were present on the runway, and to prove it may have made a little noise on purpose while invisible, to show the befuddled homo sapiens the visitors were still there, just unseen. 

The ET vanishing act brings to mind the strange case of UFO contactee/author George Washington Van Tassel (1910-1978), the subject of contemporary scrutiny five decades after his death. George wrote of his own otherworldly experiences that eerily mirror Ike's at Edwards. For instance, Mr. Van Tassel lived about forty miles north of Palm Springs (but still dozens of miles from Muroc/Edwards). He was apparently once an aviator affiliated with Howard Hughes' Aircraft, but in the 1950s was operating a crude desert airfield (that had no telephone) next to Giant Rock, near Landers, California. That's where Van Tassel said he was on the night of August 24, 1953, when awakened “around 2:00 a.m.” He was sleeping just outside his cave-like home in the calm, moonlit desert when extraterrestrials showed up. George was soon led by a congenial human-like alien named “Solgonda” over to a “glittering, glowing spaceship” hovering about eight-to-ten feet over the nearby runway. It was disc-like, “about 36 feet in diameter and 19 feet high.” Solgonda introduced himself and spoke to Van Tassel in English. Taken up inside the ship in a powerful light beam, George met three other smiling but speechless aliens, all about five-and-a-half-feet tall. They looked so much like tanned Caucasian males in their mid twenties that the extraterrestrials could likely walk down any American street and draw no attention to them, Van Tassel recalled later. During his twenty-minute visit, Solgonda showed George his ship's vertical, hieroglyphic-symbol instrument panels (unlike any airplane's cockpit, he said), along with some retractable seats. George was then led into a power generating room, according to his esoteric 1958 book “Council of Seven Lights.” In September of 1963, one of the aliens returned to Van Tassel, expressing impressive technical knowledge, and in front of nearly twenty eyewitnesses displayed his amazing ability to vanish from sight, and then reappear – three times! Sound familiar? 

Were these the very same aliens that landed at Edwards AFB on 2/19/54 and met with President Eisenhower? 

There are enough startling comparisons here to the Eisenhower ET case at Edwards to create a Top Ten List again... 

#1.) Van Tassel was a balding, devoutly Christian ex-serviceman from WWII whose family by the mid-1950s was grown and gone from home. Eisenhower the same. 

#2.) Van Tassel saw a landed, circular alien ship in the Mohave Desert, in 1953, and supposedly other alien craft at other times. Eisenhower the same. 

#3.) Van Tassel saw and spoke in English with friendly aliens in direct face-to-face verbal contact. Eisenhower the same. 

#4.) Van Tassel's ETs were human-like, about five feet tall, and were peaceful and unarmed. Eisenhower the same. 

#5.) Van Tassel witnessed the aliens demonstrate their ability to vanish from sight, yet still be there, cloaking. Eisenhower the same. 

#6.) Van Tassel said the landed ETs discussed their worries about atomic bomb testing fallout (in automatic writing). For Eisenhower the same (verbally). 

#7.) Van Tassel said the U.S. Air Force has suppressed UFO/ET information, keeping alien contact a huge secret. Eisenhower (and the USAF) did the same. 

#8.) Van Tassel said in speeches the U.S. government could not allow open contact with citizens, it was too dangerous as it would cause a panic and social disorder. Eisenhower said the same. 

#9.) Van Tassel said applied new ET technology would collapse the fragile U.S. and world economy, with automation jobs lost. Eisenhower apparently came to the same conclusion. 

#10.) Van Tassel worried in speeches that U.S. and world citizens would drop their religious beliefs to worship the aliens. Eisenhower very likely worried the same. 

Other eyebrow-raising details of Van Tassel's story are linked here. He said he received telepathic messages - “thought communication” - from aliens back in 1952, including technical data and an assurance from his celestial friends that Dwight D. Eisenhower was destined to become the next president of the United States, and that he needed to be informed as such. So George dutifully wrote to General Eisenhower, via his wife Mamie, with this claim early that critical election year. And in July of '52, Van Tassel wrote Eisenhower again, this time to warn him that “saucers were going to buzz the Pentagon” - and did five days later. “Everything in that letter came true, exactly as stated; the letter is now a matter of public record,” housed in New York City, George asserted in a recorded 1958 public lecture. Two other similar letters were allegedly sent to Washington D.C., he said, presumably for and/or about Dwight Eisenhower. 

Furthermore, in a recorded 1957 radio interview in New York City, Mr. Van Tassel let slip that he was “close enough to him {President Eisenhower} the time he came to Palm Springs to know what was going on.” 

In a recorded 1956 local Rotary Club lecture, Van Tassel spoke confidently that President Truman first spoke to friendly aliens (Setimus?), then-current President Eisenhower “flew out here to Palm Springs two years ago, specifically to be taken from Palm Springs over to March Air Force Base, {then} to Muroc Air Force Base, to converse with these people, at their request, when they landed there. Yet the public was never told of that. We know this happened as Ike was supposed to come up to our place to talk to us, and the night before his landing in Palm Springs, there was a GI sixwheeler truck with about forty M.P.s on it, ready to set up provide security for the president.” Was Van Tassel referring with genuine inside knowledge to Eisenhower's Palm Springs arrival? If so, why did he need Military Police for protection there? Or did Van Tassel misspeak and meant in preparation at Muroc/Edwards? Or did George wildly imply that the president was originally supposed to arrive at his Giant Rock Airport, to be remarkably well-guarded, to be covertly transported out to Edwards AFB? Or was Van Tassel simply mistaken, exaggerating, or just plain lying? 

Considered by some in his day as “eccentric,” married Mr. Van Tassel was at the least a very bright and erudite high school dropout who hosted a yearly UFO convention at his Giant Rock airport, including one on April 4, 1954. He also wrote to the president that spring to inform him he would meet with Eisenhower at the White House on June 22, 1954, but George received no reply and apparently there is no particular evidence that he ever personally huddled with the nation's 34th president. 

In returning to our 2/19/54 narrative... the landed alien beings completely vanished, to the naked human eye anyway. “This caused the president a lot of discomfort because none of us could see them, even though we knew they were there,” pilot Jerry Flier recollected from the shocking Edwards AFB event, noting the landed alien beings then soon calmly reappeared before the assembled men, likely with impish smiles. Dwight's, however, was decidedly gone. Fretful President Eisenhower could picture in his mind what this cloaking achievement would do to various people and institutions if ETs displayed this technique with or without warning. Human-like aliens could move about undetected in our society, turning up in all sorts of places unannounced, giving citizens quite a surprise, an emotional jolt, or even heart attacks. To the faint of heart and poorly prepared, vanishing/reappearing space people and objects would be enough to make them “freak out.” Mental meltdowns by already on the-edge citizens seemed likely then, in reacting to such staggering displays. 

“I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem and that is: is it good for America?” Eisenhower was once quoted saying, and as he applied that standard here the imagined results came up short. 

Within the 1989 summary leaked in 2017, we get confirmation of this worrisome point of view as far back as the 1948 Aztec UFO crash, feeling that a government policy of openness with the public would be “causing a panic situation based upon fear of undetectable aliens among them. The thought of riots and murders was on everyone's mind.” Dwight likely knew this attitude, if not read such briefing papers during the Setimus situation back then but perhaps from witnessing it in person with Setimus '48-'49. He realized his handling of the humanoid landing party on 2/19/54 was most critical. Botching it, or not properly containing it, could lead to the sum of all fears. 

Esteemed American author and former syndicated newspaper reporter/columnist Ruth Shick Montgomery (1912-2001) was friends with many a political bigwig in 1950s' Washington, including the Eisenhower’s. Low-key but highly educated Ruth touched upon the presidential Edwards Airbase legend in her popular 1985 book “Aliens Among Us.” As readers of metaphysics are quite aware, Mrs. Montgomery would produce some of the material for her series of classic, best-selling tomes in a most unusual manner: “automatic writing,” which stemmed from her so-called “Spirit Guides.” These high-minded deceased souls would allegedly type through conservative Christian Ruth at her desk for ten minutes every morning after meditation. They'd pass along uplifting spiritual messages that included predictions for the future and the reasons why aliens have been visiting our planet over the past thousands of years, stepped up in recent decades. On the topic of the Eisenhower-ET rumor, Mrs. Montgomery relayed: “Ike saw and spoke to the space aliens. He saw the spaceships as well. He should have released that fact before he died.” 

The socially-active, well-bred Mrs. Montgomery told this author a few years before her death in 2001 that, alas, she was not with Mr. Eisenhower and the Washington press corps on that particular ’54 California trip and thus completely unaware of what was going on in secret at the time. However, three decades later she researched the Edwards Airbase affair and came to believe in it, including the vanishing/reappearing alien angle, which her “Guides” say is done by mental processes currently beyond human abilities, in manipulating the molecular structure within all physical forms. {On top of that, Ruth passed along a spine-tingling nonfiction tale of a friendly extraterrestrial “highly developed master” from another star system, in human form, who visited a startled man in the wooded mountains of Vermont!} 

Truly, the airbase-visiting aliens represented tremendous change, if not total social upheaval for sleepy 1954. Mr. Eisenhower was a cautious senior citizen, and they don't often embrace change swiftly, if at all. It had been a long day, now a long night. Dwight was determined he would not go down in the history books as the president who unleashed complete chaos across the land if some sort of open alien program went forward. Maybe, he figured, he could instead work out a secretive deal, to be set in print, to throw the ETs a bone while enriching America, but accomplished from the shadows, on government-guarded land in isolated Nevada.

Jerry Flier recalled that the anxious president informed the visitors that the human race “needed more time to get ready for this.” His negative, fearful reaction had to have been a huge disappointment for all at this summit, especially if it had been quietly planned for over a year in advance. Nothing much was going to come of it all, seemingly. 

Another specific topic was raised, one deeply important to the nature-loving visitors (see next chapter). The president listened but balked again. Afterward, things seemed to wind down. Perhaps more than an hour had passed. Evidently, Eisenhower felt that the ETs at Edwards AFB now needed to be gently persuaded to take their enticing airships and techniques elsewhere, and not attempt to “educate” our planet's people with it all again, at least not for a long, long time. Their technology was over our heads (literally). Their unexpected invisibility cloaking was downright dangerous and scary to contemplate. 

Perhaps taking a deep breath, President Eisenhower screwed up his courage and verbally rejected the humanoids once more that night, firmly but fairly, according to Jerry Flier. Dwight took the time to courteously explain some of his reasoning behind why the open ET presence was ultimately unsatisfactory and had to be erased. The visitors listened attentively. The ex-pilot recalled they surprisingly accepted Dwight's decision, remaining calm, to everyone’s great relief. The visiting ETs seemed to understand all of the overriding reasons spelled out for them by the sage commander-in-chief. 

This was a key moment in “UFO history,” as it were. If not human history. The highest-ranking, most respected government official on earth told the friendly aliens they could not show themselves openly, that at best they could visit here only fleetingly and keep their business undercover. The humanoids signed off on this official policy (see the 1989 DIA report). And a further decision was later made – perhaps by Eisenhower himself – to deny, undermine, and dismiss UFO reports, and perhaps even harass American eyewitnesses – in order to keep the overall peace and tranquility of the nation, if not the world. Thus the monumental Muroc/Edwards summit conference and its presidential decision reverberate to this day. 

In the cool, still desert night air, President Eisenhower realized that folks back at the Smoke Tree Ranch – including the potentially restless press – might begin to wonder aloud where he was. And that perhaps George E. Allen was waiting for him with his car back at the intermediate airfield, outside Palm Springs/Indio/La Quinta, or at least back at his upscale home. Thus the clock was ticking to get back there and keep a lid on all of the stupefying events of that Friday night/Saturday morning, by the time weary, worried Eisenhower got back to his ranch quarters – hopefully undetected - and went to bed. 

Yes, the time for farewells had come. “The aliens then boarded their ships and departed,” Clancarty quoted Colonel Flier summing up. All eyes at the Edwards hangar entrance were on the physical reality of liftoff and exit from airbase airspace. Just as they had come in, apparently, the five amazing crafts soared out of sight, silently and sleekly into the night sky. The sagging humans probably breathed a sigh of relief, yet were also sorry to see their amazing new friends leave. The assembled men encircling President Eisenhower, the “Secret Six,” stared at the sky... then looked back down and at each other... back and forth, still overcome with emotion and unsure what to think, emotionally spent. 

It was just after this aerial departure, Jerry Flier allegedly told the Irish-British Earl of Clancarty, that the men at the base were gathered around for the president to solemnly swear them all to complete secrecy. Even the nearby protective six, so trusted, were asked to raise their hands for a rather quick, informal but military style loyalty oath to repeat. None of what they just witnessed and learned could be allowed out of the dusty Edwards hangar that night for reasons of national security. The same went for any welcoming committee; soldiers or M.P.s on guard along the outer perimeter; or cameramen. The event had to stay bottled up inside, at least until some point in time where the president felt it reasonable and acceptable to admit it publicly in some manner. No one ever seemed to break this sworn allegiance, apparently, until the aging (or even dying?) pilot spoke up to the UFO-curious parliamentary lord sometime in perhaps mid-1982. 

It's possible the president at this point agreed to pose for a commemorative but private photograph at this time with his special protection squad, quite possibly troopers from Georgia (see Chapter Ten), not USAF or Secret Service officials at all. The distant alien ships had disappeared into the dark upper atmosphere, lost in a jumble of memories and emotions now. A sad emptiness must have settled in for all concerned. The event of a lifetime was all over. “They” were really gone. 

Or were they

CHAPTER NINE 

The Light Letter and The Omega Secret 

“Eisenhower was spirited over to Muroc one night during his visit to Palm Springs recently...” 

— author Gerald Light 

Jerry Flier's amazing story, as told to Lord Clancarty, has effectively ended. From this point on we have to fill in the Eisenhower-ET encounter blanks with tidbits of indisputable truths, plus some informed and reasonable conjecture. And then later in this chapter, we'll utilize a stunning near-“smoking gun” letter, typed up nice and neat for posterity. First, let's cover some sensible supposition mixed with firm facts... 

The helicopter or airplane that imported Dwight and his entourage to Edwards was undoubtedly fueled and prepped for a return flight while resting on a nearby runway, perhaps General Harold Bartron standing by. The president meanwhile undoubtedly met with the base commander, Brigadier General Stan Holtoner, and perhaps some well-decorated Edwards AFB officers who were quite curious as to how the private outdoor meeting went. Dwight needed their help in clamping the lid down and keeping it there. General orders were issued to maintain great silence and security at the base, and to be prepared for any sort of further otherworldly developments. All soldiers out on leave were ordered kept out, with gates locked, until “the dust cleared,” so to speak, for what if these or other adventurous humanoids came back? Possibly classified reports were hastily typed, sealed, and locked away by a trusted base secretary or stenographer (who then had to be sworn to secrecy also). Any possible photographs or film footage taken at the encounter had to be confiscated, sealed, and classified “above top secret.” The hangar – if it had a gifted ET ship within - had to be guarded with MPs and kept isolated until further notice. Everyone on the base had to be lectured on not spreading rumors. Nothing could be left to chance, to leak out someday and conceivably start a public panic. The heart of the matter was kept on a strict “need-to-know” basis. 

Probably after nearly an hour or so of hammering out these details and instructions, Dwight hopped his flight back to the intermediate airfield near Palm Springs, taking along whomever it was he brought with him, including Secret Service agents. It might have been getting close to midnight. All of the excited men involved would have experienced great difficulty calming and sleeping, wondering how they could just go back to dull, day-to-day duties - but that was reality. Life went on. 

At the Palm Springs-area airfield in the valley, Eisenhower was driven back home, perhaps stopping at George E. Allen's home first. If ex-President Truman was at Allen's place, he'd get a quick briefing on how it all went, and how he apparently would not be needed further. Mr. Allen probably learned little. Then it was time for the drive back to the Smoke Tree Ranch, the streets nearly empty and quite dark. Dwight couldn't help but ponder all that had just taken place while idle in the passenger seat, still numb. 

Upon his later arrival back at the Smoke Tree Ranch home of Paul Helms, likely now after midnight, uninformed Mamie Eisenhower and any aides (some feeling a bit loose from drinks at the hotel party) may have quizzed him innocently on the latest lowdown: “Where have you been? Is everything all right?” Dwight in all likelihood said little in response. Loose lips sink (space)ships. His cover story was probably that he and chatty George Allen had a few drinks, played some bridge (Dwight's favorite), watched TV, and let the hours slip away without notice that night. 

Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday... the days slipped by at the Smoke Tree Ranch and the local country club golf courses without a word or deed out of place, no one the wiser. No reports of any return of alien entities, at Muroc/Edwards, or anywhere else in America. By Tuesday night the 23rd , after sundown, it was time for the president and his traveling party to climb back on Columbine II at the Palm Springs airport and fly home to Washington D.C. The international skies were quiet, few UFO incidents were reported in the past few days. It was felt safe, without perceived repercussions for telling ETs to “please leave and stay aloof.” 

At 7:45 a.m. Eastern Time, the president's plane landed at Washington's National Airport on Wednesday, February 24th . The somewhat tanned and rested commander-in-chief was back in his executive mansion by 8:00 a.m. Congressional Republican leadership hustled over to the White House early, to huddle in private in the West Wing with the president at 8:30, something was so important. What was discussed likely had to do  with legislation, domestic issues, and McCarthyism, a growing problem in the press and halls of congress. It seems very unlikely that the president talked to mere congressmen or low-to-mid-level aides even a mere sliver about his riveting top-secret encounter in California. 

All the press knew was that the golf-obsessed president was seen on the lawn of the White House a bit later that Wednesday morning, hitting a few chip shots with an iron. Subsequent biographers learned that Dwight Eisenhower purposely smacked golf balls on the grass of the executive mansion to project a clear public image of serenity and normalcy for the American public, its allies, and its enemies (in particular the Soviets). Was that the same public facade he purposely projected by golfing in Palm Springs on Saturday, 2/20/54, after the ET summit the night before? 

Minus the press-obsessed issue of the congressional Army McCarthy hearings, the rest of February passed quietly, and March of '54 seemed uneventful as well. We do know that President Eisenhower dictated a letter sent on March 9 th to his Palm Springs host Paul Helms (the bakery executive), complaining of the “plateful of problems and headaches” he was struggling with once he got back from southern California. The president mentioned “the many grave problems” the country was facing later in the same missive, nothing specific. 

Was there nothing of substance taking place at the carefully selected ET landing site? One source claimed that by either late March or early April, plenty was up at Edwards Airbase - because he was there, soaking it all in, possibly interacting with the very same humanoids the president had supposedly dismissed and watched depart some fifty days earlier! 

And that's where we dig into a most extraordinary letter... 

Gerald Light was an aging metaphysical researcher, writer, and lecturer of some renown in Southern California in 1954. He was also artistic and crafted paintings reflecting his spiritualist beliefs. Gerald once lived in England but in '54 resided in Los Angeles (10545 Scenario Lane), sporting a reputation as something of a mystic or psychic in his own right, keenly interested in any rumored tales with a supernatural bent. To this end, he did some work for “Borderland Sciences Research Associates,” a metaphysical laboratory located in San Diego (3524 Adams Avenue) since 1945. The unique lab was created for studying various aspects of the occult, a very rare bird in the button-down 1950s. Gerald also at times wrote paranormal essays for a Borderland publication under the name “Dr. Kappa,” and claimed to have had his own, personal encounter with “Etherians,” alien visitors who allegedly arrived in his presence in 1950. 

The educated but esoteric Mr. Light carefully composed and typed up his neat one-page letter just after the second weekend of April 1954; it was all about his first-hand knowledge of Edwards Airbase goings-on with aliens. The information relayed was for “Mr. Meade Layne,” his Borderland contact and the director of that laboratory, and likely took two days for the postal service to get it down the coast, from L.A. to S.D., ASAP. 

Newton Meade Layne (1882-1961) was the founder and director of this paranormal research institute, back in 1945, and acted as the editor of their bi-monthly magazine in the 1950s. He was a graduate of USC and later the University of Oregon in 1926, then became an educator at various schools around the nation. He penned a great deal of philosophy, poetry, and paranormal papers in his day, and described his friend Gerald Light as “a man of rare gifts and unquestionable integrity.” Mr. Layne also stated in a Borderlands publication that Mr. Light’s 1950 alien contact was, intriguingly, “a singular and unhappy adventure.” Meade – who retired on June 1, 1959, at age 77, was a regular correspondent with Gerald, sharing his proclivity for typing up his experiences in letter form. {Director Layne was also pen-pals, evidence shows, with UFO writer Desmond Leslie, mentioned in Chapter One, and once typed a detailed description of alien craft to the FBI in 1947, now viewable on the internet.} Why Meade and Gerald didn't telephone each other with their thoughts seems odd, but not everyone owned a phone in those days. 

In one riveting letter passage, erudite Mr. Light pecked out the following statement on his manual typewriter: “President Eisenhower, as you may already know, was spirited over to Muroc one night during his visit to Palm Springs recently.” 

Wow! This statement certainly indicates that Gerald had recently learned the stupefying alien secret and that he also suspected his paranormal investigative colleague Meade had too. Gerald excitedly affirmed it as true for us all. But his marvelous missive revealed much more, some of it confirming precisely what “Jerry Flier” and “Sergeant X” claimed in later years, as we'll see, giving the overall tale more credence. 

When precisely the startling document surfaced decades after its construction is not entirely clear, but it first made its way into the public record by its inclusion within the pages of the Berlitz and Moore 1980 Roswell book. It has become rather legendary in alien government conspiracy circles ever since, and popular on the internet. The document turned up in the estate of the late Mr. Layne's family, following Meade’s death at age 78 in a San Diego rest home, in May of 1961. It certainly seems to be quite authentic; included also are the apparent handwritten notes of Meade Layne in the open upper area of the paper, partially to record when he received the mailing on an April Friday (“4/16/54”). Meade also curiously scribbled the name of two San Diego area airbases: “Huramon Airfield / Gillespie Airfield.” A simple “5” rests atop this printed remark, and a line across the page connects the inexplicable airfield statement to a rather chaotic doodled design on the left side of the upper part of the paper, with a circle around it. Strange! Was this to represent the five alien ships that had arrived and landed? 

Gerald Light’s birth and death dates are unknown; he remains largely a mysterious, highly intelligent but eccentric figure. He was described by one researcher as “elderly” in '54 and died long before the contents of his typed revelations became public knowledge, and the same can be said of Meade Layne. The specific people Mr. Light mentioned within the letter were also all deceased by the time it surfaced. {Was this why someone waited so long to release the letter?} Frustratingly, Gerald's other writings for Borderland Sciences are hopelessly muddled, rife with strange terms and mystical claims that make almost no sense, and are not worth repeating here, frankly. They're still found today online, at  borderlandsciences.org

What private paranormal researcher Layne found in the body of Light’s letter likely caused the hair on the back of his neck to stand up. Gerald's exciting account of “those forty-eight hours at Muroc” later in the neatly typed paragraphs seem to indicate he was likely physically there, probably over the weekend of April 10th-11th , '54. Then we can reasonably assume he arrived home to quickly put together his thoughts down on paper, at his desk, before eagerly mailing it to his pal in San Diego by the 12th or 13th . Gerald was a writer, by golly, quite used to pecking away on a typewriter to express his thoughts. We can be deeply grateful today he did. Light's opening remarks to Director Layne certainly help make a case for the Eisenhower encounter allegations. To wit {italicizing added}: 

“My dear friend: I have just returned from Muroc. The report is true - - devastatingly true!” 

Here again, we logically assume that both Gerald Light and Meade Layne had recently heard the ET landing gossip in the southern California area - “the report” - sometime before Light's trip to Muroc/Edwards, likely via Frank Edwards' popular Mutual Radio show, mentioned in Chapter One. Based upon first-hand experience Gerald learned it was all quite thrillingly genuine. He was chosen by someone within the federal government and/or the military, perhaps selecting Gerald due to his public claim of possessing previous experience in fathoming both dematerialization and extraterrestrials. Oh, and that he also lived in L.A., for the group car ride to the isolated airbase: 

“I made the journey in company with Franklin Allen of the Hearst papers and Edwin Nourse of the Brookings Institute (Truman's erstwhile financial advisor) and Bishop McIntyre of L.A. (confidential names, for the present, please.)” 

Here we have a brief description of an apparent sociological “study group,” one likely appointed in a careful, deliberate way. The unusual foursome was allowed to not just enter Muroc/Edwards for the intention of looking over gifted alien hardware, but to survey the ongoing actions and reactions of both humans and aliens in a hangar there. And once again, right off, the name “Edwin Nourse” flares up, much as in August of '49, during the Truman Oval Office meetings while handling the Vermont “Setimus” episode (see Chapter Three). 

Gerald Light, the “student of occultism” (his words) who had written essays and even a previous copyrighted book (well, a 28- page mimeographed pamphlet) on the subject of visiting interdimensional space beings and their ships, was therefore quite naturally selected to participate. It may well be that someone in charge of handling the Edwards alien visitors contacted the rare parapsychological “Borderland Science Research Associates” and asked specifically for this man. 

In 1953, Light boldly wrote for Borderland Sciences' publication: “The flying saucers are real, truth-in-action. The skies are literally teeming with beings from other worlds; swarming with instruments and machines carrying living beings as real and vital as ourselves (and in some cases a thousand times more vital). We must be prepared to meet them at once!” Remember, this was a year before the Edwards Airbase landing, typewritten by an old man who felt he was in occasional telepathic contact with entities from “Etheria,” the astral dimension beyond the physical world where he felt beings existed and/or possibly traveled through, to arrive in our planet’s atmosphere. 

Let's now take a closer look at the three named men allegedly traveling with Gerald Light to Muroc/Edwards... 

First, there was Winthrop Franklin Allen (1874-19??). In early 1954 he was age 80, a retired Hearst newspaper reporter (and book author) who had covered the sometimes-secretive actions of the U.S. government in Washington D.C. for many years. Mr. Allen's reputation was solid, serious, and studious; he could have given President Eisenhower and his top aides his view of the sustained alien contact situation in regards to its potential impact on congress and the national media, and governments around the world when dropping such a huge bombshell. {One wonders if Winthrop F. Allen was related to lawyer/businessman George E. Allen. Answer unknown.} 

The aforementioned Dr. Edwin Griswold Nourse, Ph.D. (1883- 1974) was age 71 at the time, retired from the fields of economics, agriculture, and commerce. He served President Truman as the first Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. A 1972 taped interview with Dr. Nourse explored his past actions in government but also revealed he was good friends with Eisenhower's Smoke Tree Ranch co-host, Paul Hoffman. Dr. Nourse was a Cornell educated, worldly gentleman and a consultant for the Brookings Institute, the famous and reputable private think-tank in Washington D.C. Ed Nourse could have given President Eisenhower advice on how the news of the alien contact would potentially have influenced global financial markets and more specifically Wall Street, and thus the American economy overall. 

Important note: Nourse's Brookings Institute produced a special study for NASA in 1960, carefully constructed during the Eisenhower era. It discussed the potential impact of extraterrestrial visitation upon the largely unprepared public. Such a coincidence! The report stated that contact between ETs and humanity “could happen at any time,” and that some scholars felt that “the earth may already be under closed scrutiny by advanced space races.” The $96,000 study's author concluded it was better for the American government to keep the lid on all evidence for alien visitation, that any “discovery of extraterrestrial artifacts should be covered up for fear of paralyzing research and development enterprises” already underway. 

Cardinal James Francis Aloysius McIntyre (1886-1979) was age 68 in early 1954, the rabidly anti-communist Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church of the Los Angeles diocese from 1948 to 1970. The future Bishop McIntyre was the highly-influential spiritual leader of a particular organized worldwide religion that would have been knocked for quite a loop if the ET revelations had gone forward en masse. In fact, McIntyre was based out of New York City in much of 1948, just like Dwight Eisenhower at Columbia University that year; did the cardinal and the general become friends during this time-frame? 

Interestingly – and quite suspiciously – J. F. McIntyre's various saved written correspondences over the years “just happened” to have been abruptly closed to UFO researchers in the 1980s and beyond. McIntyre might have been casually selected for the Edwards study group simply because he was already available in the Los Angeles area... or... he was very carefully selected to give his own trusted secret report to the Vatican in Rome. He also could have given President Eisenhower and his top advisers some Catholic based Christian counsel on what the news of sustained alien contact would have had on American (and the world’s) citizens’ religious faiths, beliefs, and passions. 

{Side notes: in Chapter One, we learned of some insight by prominent Los Angeles journalist Frank Scully, whose real name was Francis Joseph Xavier Scully, a devoted Catholic who was once knighted by the “Order of the St. Gregory” in 1956. Was he in tight with His Eminence, Cardinal McIntyre of L.A.? According to data online, it was Archbishop McIntyre who created the “St. Gregory The Great Parish” in 1951, and the award wasn't just for anyone. Plus... President Eisenhower was never a Catholic but was baptized a Presbyterian Christian in D.C. just weeks after being sworn into office. Nonetheless, on December 6, 1959, he became nearly the only American president by that point in history to have met with a sitting pope when he conferred in Vatican City with Pope John XXIII; only Woodrow Wilson (in 1919) had ever previously done so as a seated U.S. president. Every American chief executive since Eisenhower has met with a pope, who also nowadays oversees Catholic astronomical observatories and the search for alien life!} 

Let's recall that William Brophy (mentioned in Chapter One) expressed that his father, a B-29 Bomber pilot, told him that it was his understanding President Eisenhower met with peaceful aliens at Edwards Airbase in February of 1954... and that James F. McIntyre was there then too. Did Brophy refer to the Gerald Light claim, of McIntyre being imported in the summit's aftermath, in early April of '54, to learn more information from the visiting ETs? Either way, Cardinal McIntyre was already informed on the subject of ETs on earth, Brophy claimed, as the Italian government had once recovered a crashed alien craft in June of 1933 and subsequently contacted the Vatican about the matter. The pope told this shocking story to his American representative, McIntyre; how Eisenhower or one of his aides discovered that McIntyre knew all of this remains a mystery. Did Dwight contact the pope before, or after his airbase encounter? If Edwards AFB contact was prearranged well before Friday, February 19th , a notified pope might have recommended that his man McIntyre be included, as his emissary. But... if such an airbase visit by the cardinal was undertaken only in April, then McIntyre presumably had not yet seen any ETs previously. 

Now we come to another fascinating facet of this scintillating saga, straight from Vatican City... 

A dedicated UFO/ET buff and magazine writer named Cristoforo Barbato (1972-) has claimed that from 2001 to 2005 he received sensitive insider information from a Jesuit priest working inside the Vatican. Much of the resulting shocking data accumulated led to Barbato's controversial 2006 article (available online) “The Omega Secret,” highlighting the lowdown from high up in the Vatican. The unnamed secret source supposedly told Chris that it was his understanding that Cardinal James F. McIntyre from California did indeed go to Edwards Airbase and witness extraterrestrial beings for himself, right alongside President Eisenhower on 2/19/54. And further that McIntyre was so moved by the dramatic experience he quickly flew to Rome, Italy, to speak directly to Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli, 1876-1958), briefing him about the shocking ET situation, despite being sworn to secrecy. In fact, along the way, McIntyre was stopped and warned by nervous U.S. government officials to keep his mouth shut but refused the order. According to Barbato's information, the cardinal was part of a 2/19/54 “delegation with the president.” This again indicates a prearranged landing event with a “welcoming committee” on hand, waiting patiently perhaps for days at the base, hoping that aliens would land as promised and that also the president would arrive to help greet them. {Recall the MUFON allegation that air traffic at Edwards was restricted in advance, for the 19th, 20th, and 21st.} 

Supposedly Cardinal McIntyre quickly arranged for a private tellall with the pope, just days after 2/19/54. The trusted Jesuit found this out from existing records within the Vatican and further informed Barbato that the intrigued Pius XII in '54 decided in response to form his own high-level intelligence committee called “Vatican Information Services.” This unit would inform the papal see of future major secrets, whatever they may be, somewhat like the Vatican creating its own CIA. Two major American information coordinators for this intel group, Mr. Barbato alleged, would have been James Francis McIntyre and also the Archbishop of Detroit, Edward Aloysius Mooney (1882-1958). 

{Interestingly, Archbishop Mooney was chosen to deliver the benediction at President Eisenhower's second inauguration in January of 1957. In October of '58, he was attending a papal conclave in Vatican City when he suddenly collapsed and died of a heart attack. Cardinal McIntyre was present and granted Edward Mooney absolution before James left the secretive conclave, which was held to select a replacement for the late Pope Pius XII, who had just died of heart failure, in bed, after serving as pope since 1939.} 

The risk-taking Jesuit source for Barbato wasn’t finished with his Eisenhower–ET inside scoops. He told the Italian UFO magazine writer/editor in communique and secret meetings that three different 16-millimeter cameras were utilized at Edwards Airbase by military operators during the big runway ET event (see the previous chapter). The mechanical power systems of the alien spaceships were said to have overwhelmed at least one large film camera and inadvertently disabled it. But other resulting footage taken showed the famous American leader with a few other people around him for protection greeting the human-like entities stepping from their landed high-tech ships. 

Is there any precedent or history of Dwight David Eisenhower getting involved in a UFO matter with a Catholic inspection/opinion afterward? Oddly enough, there is. 

As shown in a later-leaked 6/30/47 memorandum revealed within www.majesticdocuments.com, President Truman's Army Chief of Staff, General Eisenhower, ordered a colonel to look after U.S. East Coast Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman (1889-1967) on a tour of New Mexico military installations around the time of the Roswell UFO crash recovery. Cardinal Spellman was referred to in this paperwork as “Military Vicar of the Armed Forces,” set to enjoy “complete security at all times and that his presence at any airfield will not be disclosed.” Was McIntyre with Spellman? It's unknown, but wouldn't be surprising. The delicate, secret alien retrieval/cover up was to be undertaken “at the personal direction the President of the United States,” Dwight's memo stated. So it was Truman's call in '47, not Eisenhower's, but it was something “Ike” obviously took note of. 

Catholic or not, all three selected “wise men” with Gerald Light that spring of 1954 were very respected and successful in their chosen fields, evidently issued passes and given a brief thumbnail sketch of what they were to study at the airbase upon arrival. Perhaps they took turns driving the few hours necessary to reach their destination until they finally passed through the guarded checkpoint gates of Edwards AFB. It was probably a little taxing for the old men, but that was nothing compared to the endurance test that came next: 

“When we were allowed to enter the restricted section (after about six hours in which we were checked on every possible item, event, incident, and aspect of our personal and public lives), I had the distinct feeling that the world had come to an end with fantastic realism.” 

Certainly, the security precautions at Muroc/Edwards would have been substantial, but it seems the military operatives in charge of “protecting” the secret alien visitors were a little over the top (if writer Light described events accurately). Nearly six long hours for highly regarded professional men - all of them senior citizens – invited to the base, to endure constant questioning and background checks? And not just about their jobs and their home lives, but their own deeply-held personal beliefs? The grilling the foursome received by security agents must have seemed interminable and perhaps a bit outrageous. But once inside the base hangars that day, what they eventually experienced after the intense security check was a total, mind-blowing surprise, well worth the trip. They were allowed inside the so-called “restricted section” to absorb what had to have been the most impressive sight and exciting highlight of metaphysical Gerald Light's long and colorful life. The friendly humanoids who had landed in February were back! 

Thus there had to have been a “second landing event” at Edwards, perhaps in late March of 1954, it is clear from Gerald's letter. Apparently, he took it fairly calmly, but others did not: 

“For I have never seen so many human beings in a state of complete collapse and confusion as they realized that their world had indeed ended with such finality as to beggar description." 

The fearful, stunned responses had to have been both amusing and unsettling to observe. 

“The reality of “other plane” aeroforms is now and forever removed from the realms of speculation and made a rather painful part of the consciousness of every responsible scientific and political group.” 

Seven months later, a riveting statement at a press conference held by Dr. Hermann Julius Oberth (1894-1989), one of the fathers of rocket science, caught the attention of some alert Americans. Esteemed physics Professor Oberth stunned the attending media with some seemingly-knowledgeable statements about advanced extraterrestrial visitation to Earth. He declared that he knew quite well that aliens had not only come to our planet but that they were working with scientists in various fields to advance various technologies. The German scientist also claimed to know how ET crafts worked, via “distorting the gravitational field and converting gravity into usable energy.” {See more of his eyebrow-raising quotes in the October 24, 1954 edition of The American Weekly, the article entitled, “Flying Saucers Come from a Distant World.”} Where in the world did Dr. Oberth get such staggering claims? Could he have been among those great brains allegedly called into Edwards Airbase after the late March second landing? 

“During my two days visit, I saw five separate and distinct 

types of spaceships being studied and handled by our air force officials - with the assistance and permission of the Etherians!” 

None of these pilots or USAF “officials” - minus “Jerry Flier” - evidently ever came forward with such surprising first-hand tales. But at least we have further confirmation one more time of Flier's and Sergeant X's allegation of five alien ships landing at Muroc/Edwards. Even Mr. Light said he saw this specific number, lending even more credence to his letter's genuineness and believability. 

1980 UFO book co-authors Berlitz and Moore, mentioned earlier, once interviewed Mr. Reilly Hansard Crabb (1912-1994), a paranormal researcher/lecturer/writer and one-time head (from 1959 to 1985) of the same Borderland Sciences Research Foundation that Light and Layne labored at. Crabb alleged that an unnamed Air Force sergeant blabbed to him in 1971 that he was stationed at Edwards AFB back in 1967 when he saw something quite out of this world. The sergeant claimed he had struck up a conversation with a trusted test pilot at the base, and the subject of UFOs and life beyond earth came up. The helpful, knowledgeable pilot then allegedly took the curious sergeant into his confidence by leading him to one of the well-guarded airplane hangars. The pilot - who remained unidentified - supposedly had full access inside the vast structure, and allowed his guest, the sergeant, a long look behind a parted curtain. Together they peered at a saucer-shaped craft “sitting on high landing gear” of some sort on the pavement. This highly unusual flying machine was said by the sergeant to have been “completely circular” and featured “sharp edges sloping up to a domed cockpit area” at the disc's center. The apparent alien spaceship was in very good shape but seemed to be capable of only holding two or three human-sized persons. The vehicle was estimated to be “twenty-five to thirty-five feet in diameter.” {Sound familiar?} Edwards AFB personnel in coveralls were allegedly moving about the parked ship quite nonchalantly, working on something, the anonymous sergeant told R. H. Crabb. After seeing all of this, the pilot was shipped out to Vietnam, where he subsequently died in combat. The sergeant revealed the friendly pilot warned him that day in 1967 upon leaving the hangar that complete secrecy on what he had just witnessed was required. The sergeant also disclosed to Crabb that Edwards Airbase guards he later became acquainted with stated unequivocally that there had been extraterrestrial contact made at the airbase in years past. The odd saucer was left over from that cosmic exchange era. 

In 1980, Reilly Crabb went on to pen a 44-page pamphlet, stapled together, on the 1954 aliens at Muroc/Edwards, entitled “Flying Saucers at Edwards AFB” (not read by this author). In this obscure booklet, Mr. Crabb apparently raised an intriguing notion: “It is quite likely that similar landings, and warnings, were made at secret military bases in China and Russia at the same time.” Was this inside information, or just speculation? Did Eisenhower's ETs give equal time to leaders of the communist nations, after he essentially turned them away? 

On October 28th , 2016, a caller named “Robert from Ohio” (then 65 years old) contacted “The Mary Joyce Show” podcast, to tell of his life as a USAF machinist with top-secret security clearance, in service for four years total. {The program was placed on YouTube on November 7 th , 2016.} Robert said he worked at Edwards AFB in 1971, and it was the site of many “black ops” projects. One day, he saw a large, empty hangar in the distance “at the main base,” with people walking into it, but strangely not out of it. This was a special test base hangar for new technology, he said, so he went over to it and boldly entered too. Robert looked around, then headed down a stairwell, to an elevator. He got in, went down fast, and soon discovered underground roads and tunnels, working spaces and offices... and a saucer-shaped metal spacecraft with windows and thin tripod legs. Security guards quickly jumped Robert with M16 rifles and escorted him out, with an electronic device held to head. He eventually passed out. Upon awakening later, intimidated Robert was threatened with recriminations if he talked – which he did, now and then, he said. For instance, an Air Force doctor he once spoke with told him that he had discovered that President Eisenhower once met with aliens at Edwards AFB and even signed a treaty with them, in 1954. “Eisenhower was one of the first ones that were allowed on the alien crafts,” the physician asserted, and that he personally saw photographs of ETs “shaking hands with Eisenhower.” Robert also learned that the Brookings Institute was involved with the alien direct communication project, but members in the know are instructed to deny everything. 

Keeping all of that in mind, let's now return to Gerald Light's remarkable letter from mid-April of '54...

“I have no words to express my reactions. It has finally happened. It is now a matter of history.” 

Yet, official history does not record or acknowledge this amazing incident, only scattered hints and allegations remain. But let's ask ourselves now an important question: what was so urgently critical on Earth that could have caused advanced extraterrestrials to send repeated messages; doggedly negotiate for a landing site and date, and then set down as prearranged at Muroc/Edwards on February 19th for a meeting with the most powerful and influential person on earth... and then come back to that very site just a month and a half later? 

In short, here is the likely answer, described within a modern website on the “explosive” subject: 

“A hydrogen bomb is, by far, the most destructive weapon that mankind has ever invented. It is the most powerful type of nuclear bomb, in some cases reaching more than 2,000 times the yield of the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.” 

Let's chew on that two-word phrase for a sec: “two thousand times” - than the worst devastation ever seen (in 1945). It's a mind boggling figure, and it was being tried out, experimentally, as dangerous, recklessly destructive, and insane as that sounds today. 

Since just after he took office in January of 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered a whole series of these hydrogen bombs to be test-detonated, between late February and mid-May of 1954. The biggest of them all was due to be touched off March 1 st of '54. It proved to be an enormous mistake, a gigantic atmospheric explosion, and a subsequent environmental calamity for much of the Pacific Ocean and its inhabitants - human, plant, and animal - spreading radiation across the sea, land, and atmosphere, far and wide. And it was only one of several controversial nuclear bomb tests that were rocking and rolling the planet that spring. 

Guess who warned against detonating this monumental 3/1/54 calamity days in advance while at Muroc/Edwards on 2/19/54? And were pretty unhappy about it when they were ignored... so they came back to complain again in late March/early April before the environmentally disastrous program was to be concluded? American military scientists were meddling with high-yield atomic forces that they didn't fully understand, it is clear in hindsight, dangerous matters that affected our so-called “outer space,” not just our planet's lower, breathable atmosphere. Human beings in positions of power weren't just acting like foolish little boys playing with matches, they were playing with dynamite. Lots of it. And some sources have alleged that the humanoids who landed and spoke on the runway to Eisenhower expressed their serious misgivings on the subject. It might have been the whole point of setting up the conference in the first place. 

Should President Eisenhower go ahead and discuss the alien warning - or even the hushed landing event - in a public speech to the world? If Gerald Light's eye-popping letter was an accurate overview of the situation, the startling notion of a public declaration was being bandied about – and opposed in some powerful quarters: 

“And it is my conviction that he will ignore the terrific conflict between the various “authorities” and go directly to the people via radio and television if the impasse continues much longer.” 

Such an astonishing statement, apparently based on the scuttlebutt Gerald heard in early April at Edwards AFB, perhaps even from the very military officers who represented at least some of the “authorities” he mentioned in seemingly sarcastic quotes. Such a televised delivery would undoubtedly shock the entire planet. Perhaps held at the United Nations? Or from the Oval Office? Or even at Edwards Airbase, possibly alongside some of the peaceful alien beings? At least it was pondered if Gerald is to be believed. 

Air Force chief Nathan F. Twining might have been there, at Edwards, perhaps in February and but more likely in either late March or early April of '54, for the apparent second landing. Which side did he lean on regarding going public? In mid-May of 1954, General Twining gave a speech in Texas, after which he was asked about the validity of UFOs, as reported in “European Stars and Stripes,” among other publications. “The best brains in the Air Force are working on the problem of Unidentified Flying Objects, trying to solve this mystery,” Twining was quoted by a reporter as telling his audience. Was this a direct reference to Gerald Light’s claim of a covert Edwards examination of ETs by military officials? Trying to make sense of their high-tech spaceships and mysterious vanishings? Twining then tried to backtrack by adding, “No facts have been uncovered to show that there is anything to flying saucers,” but there are “very reliable people” who have reported seeing them. So the general was all over the map in his response for the public, but at least he was talking to the press. Perhaps he realized he had said too much on a top-secret, classified subject. 

Another prestigious figure at Edwards was likely President Eisenhower's Secretary of the Air Force, Harold Elstner Talbott, Jr. (1888-1957). He served Dwight from February of '53 to August of '55. He showed up with his family in Palm Springs in late March, as recorded in the Desert Sun 3/29/54 edition, and they stayed at the Smoke Tree Ranch. The Talbotts hobnobbed with Dwight's pal Paul Helms, according to a gossip columnist, making one wonder if they stayed in the very same Helms guest facilities that the First Couple occupied a month earlier. The esteemed Talbott family settled in for a week, but Secretary Talbott didn't stay too long, leaving to supposedly “tour southern California airbases.” Like Edwards AFB, no doubt. Recall that Gerald Light said he saw “Air Force officials” working with the aliens, and you can't get any more “official” than Secretary Talbott. 

Incredibly, Harold Talbott had his own UFO sighting while flying as a passenger over the Fresno, California, area on March 24, 1954! The “metallic ship” allegedly followed his plane “about 1,000 yards below and behind,” easily keeping up. Others on board also witnessed the startling, extended sight. At one point, the flummoxed pilot was ordered – by Secretary Talbott himself? - to turn the plane around, “but the UFO outmaneuvered them and raced off.” {Source: Loren Gross, UFOs: A History, Jan.-May 1954.} Officially, Talbott later denied the story - what else would he say? - but the incident was tellingly scratched from official flight records, which showed his aerial journey that day as having ended with a landing in Palm Springs. 

The U.S. Army Intelligence “Special Operations Manual 1-01” (readied in March, for an April '54 release) repeatedly emphasized the need for secrecy on all UFO/ET matters and even the steps to be undertaken to discredit or destroy the reputations of those who came forward with credible stories for the American media. It read at one point: “Any encounter with entities known to be of extraterrestrial origin is to be considered a matter of national security and therefore classified TOP SECRET. Under no circumstances is the general public or the public press to learn of the existence of these entities. The official government policy is that such creatures do not exist, and that no agency of the federal government is now engaged in any study of ETs or their artifacts. Any deviation from this stated policy is forbidden.” 

If that wasn't harsh enough, let's not forget that uncovered government documents reveal that on March 1 st , 1954, the U.S. Department of Defense issued a stern directive demanding silence on alien beings. “Under no circumstances are the general public or public press to learn more about the evidence for these entities,” the report declared of alien entities. This was considered “new classified policy (MANDATE 0463) in regard to extraterrestrial encounters.” The staggering memo was sent out “to all departments and military service branches.” It is nearly a smoking gun for revealing Eisenhower's reaction to his memories of the 2/19/54 summit, and how he originally wanted their extraordinary presence and abilities kept completely rejected and covered up, lest it trigger a national (or global) panic. The DoD directive relayed “the official government policy that such creatures do not exist.” {Source: MUFON “Hangar 1” season premiere in 2014.} 

So now President Eisenhower, the ex-Army strategist, was rather boxed in, perhaps partly by his own doing. A speech revealing even some of the blockbuster event would likely open the proverbial floodgates, especially in the eager, probing press. He had just ordered everyone to zip their lips, likely with threats of very negative repercussions, but... Mr. Eisenhower probably felt someone was going to inevitably leak the bombshell saga. Overall, he knew that as commander-in-chief, he could make his own rules. So he at least seriously pondered the possibilities of going public first, in theory to get ahead of the story. 

Gerald Light informed us precisely when he heard it would all come spilling out: 

“From what I could gather, an official statement to the country is being prepared for delivery about the middle of May.” 

If he had made this big broadcast speech, Dwight could potentially spin it to make it sound like friendly, advanced ETs were waiting for only his competent administration to make contact as they trusted only his sparkling wisdom and leadership. He'd come across as the hero, to aid his future re-election, if not his place in the history books. And thereby rather stick it to ex-President Truman. It was likely very tempting for Dwight's ego and future planning to contemplate. 

Yet onward did the atomic testing program march, and no ET announcement ever surfaced. According to the story of retired Marine sergeant Charles L. Suggs II, recalling his naval commander father's first-hand tale of the Edwards secret summit, the human-like aliens stepped down from their crafts and “posed questions about our nuclear testing.” This seems to be a recurring theme in other UFO/ET cases over the ensuing decades; aliens are terribly worried about what humanity is doing to the planet. And remember that early 1952 UFO-buzzing of the U.S.S. Franklin Roosevelt, with pajama clad Eisenhower aboard... and how that aircraft carrier was rumored to be carrying nuclear weaponry? Was that Dwight's first clue to this anxious alien theme? Or did Setimus warn of reckless bomb testing first, back in 1948-'49, to Ike and/or President Truman in Vermont? Remember, Harry dubbed the Soviet bomb program, “Vermont.” 

Unfortunately for the fretful humanoids, as the spring of '54 went along they were unsuccessful in convincing Commander-in-Chief Eisenhower to halt the hideous “Castle” program. A unique “dry fuel hydrogen” device was set off as planned on March 1 st and “Castle Bravo” turned out to be the largest and most destructive blast in human history. To reemphasize: Bravo expended far more energy than originally figured and did much greater damage to the Bikini Atoll detonation site near the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific than U.S. scientists had initially predicted. It was approximated to be 1,200 times more devastating than either of the two atomic bombs that were dropped by American forces in the late stages of World War II, in August of 1945. An estimated 250% more destructive than first postulated by poorly calculating U.S. scientists! Bravo was a devastating, shocking blunder; did ETs see this coming and try to warn head honcho Eisenhower? 

To make matters worse, the startling '54 devastation spread windblown atmospheric nuclear fallout. The poisonous pollution wafted a reputed six thousand square miles within the earth's atmosphere, expanding across the Pacific Ocean, headed downward, making some people and animals sick for several years to come. Members of the American detonation team had to be rescued from an island twenty miles away, wisely covering themselves with bed-sheets to keep the fallout from touching their bodies. Twenty-three crew members of a Japanese fishing boat were not so informed or lucky. They felt atomic ash falling from the sky and sticking to their ship – and their bare skin. The group quickly fell ill with various symptoms, and one of the men eventually died. The Japanese press reported the tale and national outrage ensued. It grew internationally, naturally as March and April passed. 

Needless to say, angry criticism of the American soldier statesman Eisenhower and his heedless atomic policies eventually reverberated around the globe as the news of the sickening contamination spread – but it took a while. The nightmarish testing scenario slowly grew into a political morass for the president and his staff, scrambling to apologize and fix the fiasco as best they could. Two entire islands were evacuated – permanently - and quarantines for unlucky others took effect in the area downwind of the blast site. It took about $250 million in American government funds to clean up the disaster (as best they could) and pay off sickly victims. 

So when was Eisenhower's controversial Castle program in the South Pacific specifically planned to come to a halt? The middle of May! Perhaps we can see now why the president would reverse course and consider going public with the news of the alien landing and communication at Edwards: it would change the subject. And turn around his suddenly-sagging poll numbers. By April 11 th or so, Dwight knew he was in trouble, but stubbornly wanted the plotted Castle program completed first, perhaps to show who was boss. Castle program test detonations went off March 22nd and 29th , did they lead directly to a “second landing” and renewed pleading by the concerned ETs at Edwards Airbase? {The mighty atomic blasts concluded on May 14th-15th , 1954, with serious study of the effects went on for weeks after. Other plotted tests, on other types of bombs, continued as well.} 

As the nuclear controversy sizzled, it is possible the gentle extraterrestrials asked a favor of the military, perhaps realizing Eisenhower was vulnerable now. The aliens required and thus requested a more permanent place in America to safely land in privacy in order to conduct their own scientific studies on a more regular basis. This would call for a site more remote and peaceful locale than the sometimes-bustling Edwards AFB. They needed their own laboratory, it seems clear. The 1989 “MJ-12” documents mention how the ETs were accommodated. A special site at an American airbase in rural, obscure Nevada, far out in the burning desert, surrounded by imposing mountains, was allegedly turned into a special base for friendly humanoid ETs. Whether this accounts for the many UFO sightings in Nevada over the past decades is subject to debate, but the site mentioned in the DIA document was likely not the legendary “Area 51” but apparently, located not too far away. 

Speaking to journalist Linda Moulton Howe exclusively in 1998, an anonymous source from the U.S. Army Signal Corps (loaned to the CIA at times), nicknamed “Kewper Stein,” alleged that he briefed President Eisenhower in the late 1950s. Dwight was most curious during his tenure in office about the covert Nevada aerial facilities and their alien connection (as reported in Howe's marvelous www.Earthfiles.com). Alien hardware and relations were allegedly handled within a facility entitled “S-4,” not far away from Area 51, said Stein. At the time of his interview, Kewper was 77 years old and in ill health, wanting to spill secrets to Howe before he left this world. The top-secret S-4 site, he alleged, was built into the side of a Nevada mountain and contained gifted or recovered alien craft, plus comfortable quarters for the visiting members of “Majestic Twelve,” and on another guarded level, for live space aliens as our guests! Stein recalled he was once summoned to the Oval Office by President Eisenhower (with Vice President Nixon present), to discuss the captured and gifted alien hardware and creatures at “S4,” which an irritated Dwight eventually threatened to invade with an entire Army division if the site's CIA-heavy leadership didn't start producing intelligence reports on their progress, as they had originally promised him. The secret bases known as “Area 51” and “S-4” were actually specifically initiated by President Eisenhower (within a year of his '54 California meeting with extraterrestrials), Kewper noted, adding that “MJ-12” eventually made it their “main base of operations” during Dwight's tenure. This was to Eisenhower's eventual chagrin as key Central Intelligence figures involved pretty much took charge there and remained aloof from their own commander-in-chief, Stein explained. Eisenhower had his day-to-day duties in D.C. to perform and couldn't go rushing off to S4 to try to poke his nose into delicate, guarded matters; he had to rely on good intel. But it is possible these Nevada sites were touched upon in the 1989 DIA briefing... while S-4 remains off-limits but of great interest to UFO researchers to this very day.

In returning to Gerald Light and his wondrous April '54 letter... we're up to his opening sentence in the final paragraph, which reveals that perhaps he was a little optimistic on how many people were going to be contacted and informed within the scientific community on what was happening inside the guarded Edwards Airbase hangar that spring: 

“I will leave it to your excellent powers of deduction to construct a fitting picture of the mental and emotional pandemonium that is now shattering the consciousness of hundreds of our scientific “authorities" and all the pundits of the various specialized knowledge that make up our current physics.” 

The initial eye-catching claim within this statement is of course the word “hundreds.” Had Gerald gone over the top in his recall? Were the number of scientists Gerald saw during his two days at the airbase truly that many, or was he projecting a future scenario? He went on, regarding his typed-up sympathy for the human frailties he had absorbed: 

“In some instances, I could not stifle a wave of pity that arose in my being as I watched the pathetic bewilderment of rather brilliant brains struggling to make some sort of rational explanation which would enable them to retain their familiar theories and concepts.” 

Some of the great scientific thinkers of his day Gerald witnessed at the Air Force installation were reduced to sad, irrational states, a noteworthy percentage of them scrambling to somehow slam their stubborn, preconceived (or misconceived) scientific notions into ill fitting slots that did not jibe with the new reality the humanoids were presenting to them. 

Herein lies the rub with the entire ET saga: it was over our heads. Most of the “Etherian” abilities and technology were simply unfathomable to human comprehension in 1954. 

Within the final sentences in the marvelous missive, more is revealed about the background and experiences of Gerald Light than anything else. It is obvious he was quite fascinated by the field of metaphysical mysteries from a fairly early age: 

“And I thanked my destiny for having long ago pushed me into the metaphysical woods and compelled me to find my way out.” 

Bear in mind that Borderlands institute's director, Meade Layne, once wrote of Light: “He is a gifted and highly-educated” person who, according to authors Berlitz and Moore, “liked to dabble in clairvoyance and the occult.” Gerald found the answers to the great enigmas and powers he probed, if he truly did “find my way out.” At any rate, Gerald continued to type at his L.A. home: 

“To watch strong minds cringe before totally irreconcilable aspects of “science” is not a pleasant thing. I had forgotten how commonplace such things as the dematerialization of “solid” objects had become to my mind.” 

So now it would seem for certain that the visiting humanoids were not just able to make themselves appear invisible (while still being there), but they also “vanished” or “cloaked” most any object they wished, perhaps even human beings! To accustomed Gerald and his supernatural talents (and years of personal research), the process seemed like no great feat, but he was reminded how “mere mortals” like the straight-laced scientists at the airbase were simply not well prepared for the remarkable experience. 

“The coming and going of an etheric, or spirit, body has been so familiar to me these many years I had just forgotten that such a manifestation could snap the mental balance of a man not as conditioned.” 

Here we may have hit upon the ultimate “secret” to moving material objects, or at least the body of a visiting humanoid: his thinking soul or “spirit” was responsible. The “overall intelligence” or “etheric” mental makeup of a being is responsible for maneuvering the physical shell that encases one's self, or what makes up an object. In other words, it was mind over matter. It all came down to thought commands to conceal or expose its mass of molecules. {Note: this is something that was also asserted by Ruth Montgomery's “Spirit Guides” in her popular books, culminating in “Aliens Among Us,” that mental molecular commands are used by some advanced extraterrestrials, now coming to earth in larger numbers to worriedly observe and examine our environmental decay.} 

Finally Mr. Light wrapped up his letter to Mr. Layne, almost abruptly, likely because he was running out of words to explain his unique experience, and also because he was simply running out of room at the bottom of the page... 

“I shall never forget those forty-eight hours at Muroc!” 

An understatement if there ever was one. Who could forget such a life-altering event? 

After this succinct summation, the author simply scribbled his initials: “G.L.” in cursive, and that was it. Gerald's letter was finished and folded, enveloped, and stamped. It was then mailed and later received by his pal Meade, but the memories in typeface were to last forever, giving us plenty of exciting insight today. 

Perhaps the very first author to touch upon Gerald Light's claims was UFO researcher Gray Barker (1925-1984), via his fascinating 1956 tome, “They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers.” It seems to be the very first book to mention the notion of scary, intrusive “Men in Black.” Within one chapter, Mr. Barker wrote that Meade Layne had recently informed him of the ET spaceships landing at Muroc/Edwards, being “closely studied by our technicians and inspected by President Eisenhower himself during his stay in Palm Springs.” Meade said his anonymous source for the tale - Gerald Light - was “a highly responsible person who himself spent two days at the base,” with “three fairly well-known names who accompanied him.” The alien ships were “five different types, and they are said to have completely baffled scientists and 'experts.'” Barker wrote that he had another West Coast source that assured him the Eisenhower-ET airbase story was quite valid, but “the technicians studying the saucers were going quite nuts” as “the strange craft were unlike anything on Earth and represented technology far beyond our present knowledge.” Layne added that “a nationally known news commentator of a large radio network” - undoubtedly Frank Edwards - assured him that he was “determined to break this matter wide open,” but was “subsequently silenced.” Gray Barker also recalled in his book chapter “a news item” that mentioned reporters in February of '54 “had been trying to find the President during his stay in Palm Springs, but he had completely eluded them. He wasn't really in Palm Springs at all!” Sadly, in the years beyond this groundbreaking book, Gray Barker strangely engaged in some foolish but minor UFO hoaxing, wrecking his good name, and he subsequently faded from the scene. Yet his enticing 1956 book still stands out for tapping into more data than the author initially seemed to realize. 

Intrigued Mr. Barker wanted to know more, and perhaps so did an old friend of Mr. Eisenhower's... 

According to biographers, sometime in late February of 1954, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill contacted President Eisenhower and passed along a request to meet with him in person. The old WWII partners who had squelched a UFO report back in the day (see Chapter One) had just seen each other in December of '53, at a conference in Bermuda. On March 9 th , “Winnie” contacted the White House again on this proposed new summit. He didn't seem to get anywhere. By late that month, the news of Eisenhower's nearly out-of-control Pacific Ocean hydrogen bomb test and its troubling contamination had reached the British peoples' ears, and they grew understandably upset. Now more than ever, the prime minister felt he just had to meet the prez, face to face. On April 5 th , Churchill spoke at the British House of Commons and officially called publicly for a summit conference. The pressure worked. President Eisenhower acquiesced. The two great leaders finally nailed down in mid-May of ‘54 the firm details of an intimate conference for late June, to be held at the White House. 

As we have seen, “the middle of May” has turned up twice before in this saga. Was a bewildered “Winnie” Churchill eager to get the inside scoop on extraterrestrials? Did Winston even want to travel to Edwards Airbase for himself when he reached the United States? If so, this notion was quashed as he didn't travel beyond the American eastern seaboard and eastern Canada in June of that amazing year. 

In addition to all of this, in early 1954, a “Foreign Ministers Conference” was undertaken in Berlin, Germany, from January 25th to February 19th , the very day of the extraterrestrial landing at Muroc/Edwards. A Geneva Conference was also going on that spring of '54, with Secretary of State J. F. Dulles in attendance. Plus, the Bilderberg Society held their first-ever meeting in late May, with representatives of America and England present, interacting with other Europeans present. {Rumors over the years that have claimed that this closed-door confab was about handling visiting aliens are likely inaccurate.} 

Churchill felt passionate that he and Eisenhower had something quite critical to discuss that just could not wait; could not be done by aides, and could not be accomplished by mail, or by telegram, or by long-distance telephone calls. It was something so critical and high level it had to be in person, behind closed doors, with no aides allowed in the room, as it turned out. Hmmm...now what could that be? 

A once-secret memo from Winston Churchill to his “Secretary for Air, Lord Cherwell,” from July of 1952 (that “D.C. UFO flap” period when President Truman popped off to cameras), quotes the legendary leader asking plainly: “What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth?” What Cherwell's private response for Churchill was no one knows, but the British Air Ministry let loose some misinformation two weeks later, not helping matters. Distracting false data was officially released to the public. “This {cover-up} is evident,” one experienced UFO researcher has mentioned, “in a secret memo Cherwell sent two months later to Walter Bedell Smith.” General Smith (1895-1961) was Eisenhower's close military aide, intimate adviser, and one-time CIA director. To keep the lid on things, those in power in the USA and UK were saying one thing to the people and doing quite another, complicit partners behind the scenes, it is obvious. 

At any rate, Winston Churchill proceeded to fly from London on June 24, 1954, to meet with Eisenhower at the White House on the 25th (escorted inside by Vice President Richard Nixon). The conservative, conventional old wartime friends huddled in private, behind shut Oval Office doors, discussing secret subject matters that were strangely not explained to the press or the public. Historians and biographers are unsure to the present day what exactly was so critically important that it just couldn't wait or be explained later. What just had to be explored, person to person, within the West Wing, with no one else within earshot? And why is it kept under wraps to this day? 

Certainly, the two great men talked for a little while in the White House of sensitive Russian and Chinese issues, the Cold War, the Korean conflict, etc., but once again, they could have easily done that by written messages or assistants, and via their state department officials. And the same might have been said regarding talks regarding the dreadful “Castle” atomic bomb testing program. 

Remember that UFO researchers have learned that the United States government considered alien activity to be “a bigger secret than the atom bomb.” It was incredibly hush-hush in those more button-down times. And it might still be today. 

Did titillated Churchill wish to see some photo-filled Muroc/Edwards contact files? Or even some film footage? Or even the ET hardware? Again, a perfectly natural reaction, curiosity. When the executive mansion meeting was completed, Churchill and Eisenhower stepped out onto the White House lawn, settled into chairs, and posed for photographers. They sat alongside seated Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Britain’s Foreign Secretary, saying nothing of substance. The four days of high-level talks remain mysterious in some ways. It is difficult to believe the amazing alien landing and spaceship inspection saga did not reach Churchill's ears and create a need for the private D.C. summit. 

Also in late June of 1954 – the 26th , to be exact – a special “Housewarming Party” was set up at Edwards Airbase. According to a recently-discovered party invitation, among the guests to see a newly-completed “High-Speed Flight Station” at the base included General Twining, Jerome Hunsaker, and Detlev Bronk, all members of the covert “Majestic Twelve” UFO committee. Remarks to the assembled group were to be given by base commander J. S. Holtoner, the USAF general who may have been coordinating “Air Force officials” and scientists regarding inspections of the aliens and/or their craft at his base back in April (if Gerald Light is to be believed). Or was that was still quietly taking place in late June? Mentioned also in the uncovered “Housewarming” list were some members of academia associated with the “National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics,” seemingly the very type of brainy scientists Mr. Light mentioned in his letter. 

And all during this time, perhaps much of 1954, an apparent delicately-worded agreement for the aliens and Eisenhower to sign was supposedly being worked on, perhaps by one or two U.S. military aides or diplomats, under the president's secretive direction. Then this polished, highly classified “homework” needed to be turned in... possibly in July of '54 (when the 1989 DIA report said it was “ratified”), and perhaps in more polished, agreed form in February of 1955. The only questions are “how” and “where”?

next-188s

Mr. C on 1955: More Ike & ETs

FAIR USE NOTICE

This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. As a journalist, I am making such material available in my efforts to advance understanding of artistic, cultural, historic, religious and political issues. I believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.

In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. Copyrighted material can be removed on the request of the owner.