Part 5 of 5 : Eisenhower's Close Encounters ... Mr C on 1955 ...The Presidents After Ike

Eisenhower's Close Encounters 

By Paul Blake Smith

CHAPTER TEN 

Mr. C on 1955: More Ike & ETs 

“The ETs will refrain where and when possible from an open display of their presence.” 

— a 1989 DIA briefing document 

Coincidence or not, the dating of mid-February for Eisenhower-ET affairs pops up again as we take a look at the smashing research of a late, great American UFO investigator who pinned down further otherworldly presidential exploits in 1955... 

As far back as the mid-1950s, ex-serviceman Arthur Campbell (1930?-2017) of the Pacific Northwest (and Kansas City, Missouri) had been an enthusiastic ET/UFO researcher and writer. Having completed his stint in the United States Navy during the Korean War, Art went on to work with the likes of NICAP (National Investigative Committee on Aerial Phenomenon) and even the Boy Scouts of America, since he was once an Eagle Scout. By profession, Art was a schoolteacher and gym coach but always held a deep-seated need to more thoroughly explore under-reported Unidentified Flying Objects cases. Sightings and sites, even digging in the dirt for crash clues, that's what intrigued doggedly determined Art Campbell the most. 

While looking into a 1947 UFO crash-landing near San Agustin, New Mexico, Mr. Campbell began to accumulate startling data on another Eisenhower-alien affair in the so-called “Land of Enchantment.” In a nutshell: it seems the president undertook a covert trip to Holloman Air Force Base (in southern New Mexico) in 1955. Art created enough material regarding this stunner to put it into a well-constructed website (one actually dedicated more to his archaeological digging for alien artifacts). The following will be a summary of what Arthur wrote about; gave public speeches about; and reported over the airwaves about since the year 2006 until his death eleven years later... 

President Dwight Eisenhower spoke to the gathered press at the White House on Wednesday, February 9, 1955, and informed them he planned to take a quick trip south, via Columbine III – his newest Air Force One plane - to modest Thomasville, Georgia. Once there he hoped to do some quail hunting for a few days with his friends. This we have seen he did the year before, at the very same Georgia farm called “Milestone,” owned by Treasury Secretary George Magoffin Humphrey (1890-1970), before returning to the White House, then jetting off to Palm Springs. Now a year later Dwight announced the coming trip himself and allowed members of the press to follow him to Georgia in their chartered airplane, creating a very above-board atmosphere in '55, seemingly. But there appears to have been another Eisenhower ruse afoot, a diversion for the press. 

That Thursday morning, February the 10th, the president met early (8:30) with his seventeen-man National Security Team at the White House, including both Dulles brothers. The First Couple left for the airport at 12:45 p.m. and were airborne by 1:05. There were fourteen crew members and various aides on board the president’s flight, and no side trips were announced, nor rumored. Columbine III and the press plane went straight to Georgia without incident. The two planes arrived around 4:30 p.m. at Spence Air Force Base, near Moultrie, Georgia, about 35 miles north of the rural Humphrey estate, located about a dozen miles north of the state’s border with Florida.

Dwight and Mamie, plus her mother and the accommodating Treasury Secretary (and his wife) were driven to the 2,000-acre plantation accompanied by a Wall Street banker and financial adviser. Oh, and presidential press spokesman James Hagerty, of course. Plus Mamie’s aide and Dwight’s valet. And an unusually large contingent of Secret Service agents, at least twelve instead of the usual five or six, an Air Force One security guard recalled later to Mr. Campbell. In particular, a rather unique Secret Service linguist who spoke at least six different languages was memorably along for the alleged bird-hunting trip. He was a “Communications specialist.” Did he do bird-calls? All this for a quick outdoorsy hunting vacation? 

Many local citizens gathered on a motorcade route between the Georgia airbase and the enormous farm to watch the presidential party roll by, guarded as usual by the Secret Service, the Treasury Department’s most dedicated and hardworking employees. By nearly 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, 2/10/55, the sun was setting and it grew quite damp outside, but travel-weary Eisenhower was seen heading out to the duck blinds anyway, along with his shotgun and two similarly-armed friends. The press corps – said to have been representing a whopping 120 different news outlets - was not allowed many, if any, further glimpses into the carefully crafted presidential visit. In what must certainly sound like a familiar modus operandi, reporters were kept at bay, eight miles away at a hotel in the nearest town. They were kept informed at times by spokesman Hagerty, generally bored. 

A Time magazine writer stated that he learned the president and his cabinet member “bagged two birds apiece” that Thursday evening, despite the light rain. Eisenhower was said to be in good spirits, dining later with friends, then playing cards while Mamie and her mother Elivera played Scrabble with Mrs. Humphrey. The next day - Friday, February 11th - the press gathered for a conference headed by imposing Hagerty. He told them that due to the area’s precipitation the morning Milestone quail hunt, starting at 9:20 a.m.,was not successful. No one seemed to have witnessed this, however. The alleged hunt was wrapped up a little early, Hagerty explained, and the president would not be around for a while since he had come down with “the sniffles.” He now needed quiet bed rest and privacy on the farm. “The president remained indoors the rest of the day,” his logs read. Was Dwight really now a bit ill with a slight cold? Or was this the thin cover story he needed to sneak away? 

{Author Larry Holcombe checked Eisenhower’s diary at his Presidential Library in Kansas and found notations for the Georgia quail hunts but mentioned that clever strategist Dwight’s diary “could have been deliberately adjusted” and that he likely wasn’t at the chilly estate much that Friday, 2/11/55.} 

It continued to drizzle on and off during the cold, gray, dull day in Georgia. To appease the restless White House press corps, Hagerty told all that Secretary Humphrey was going to host a big cocktail party for them at a local country club that Friday night. Sound familiar? The same distraction method of operation as in Palm Springs, hosted by Paul Hoffman and Paul Helms on a Friday night at the El Mirador Hotel. The '55 party invitation caused some reporters to hit the Thomasville, Georgia, shopping district, to prepare for the shindig. Thus the press and the public were effectively distracted, not realizing that behind the scenes, a healthy Eisenhower had quietly taken off, with meeting aliens in private once more on his mind. 

{Two trivia notes: Art Campbell found that newspapers that day ran the syndicated one-panel cartoon “Blondie” which featured the character “Dagwood Bumstead” dreaming of riding in an alien's flying saucer! Plus, during this time a future U.S. president was busy toiling 100 miles away on his farm in Georgia, growing his agribusiness while serving in the U.S. Naval Reserve: James Earl “Jimmy” Carter, then age 30, the son of a late State Representative and fourteen years later himself a UFO eyewitness in Leary, Georgia.}

Strangely, at this point, February 19, 1954, suddenly rears its remarkable head again. It was the specific date found noted in the president's daily appointment logs for Saturday, February 12, 1955! Supposedly at 4:10 p.m. that day, the chief executive's records state that “The president autographed a group picture taken February 19, 1954, showing members of the Georgia state police who assisted the Secret Service in setting up the security on that occasion.”

Wow! What's this now? Could we have here a tremendous clue on exactly who it was that surrounded President Eisenhower at Muroc/Edwards for the well-planned alien encounter of 2/19/54? The “Secret Six?” What other reason would there be to fly some state cops a couple of thousand miles out to a simple “California golf vacation?” 

Perhaps these were trusted Georgia men, off-duty and in civilian attire in '54, briefed and ready to protect their leader at all costs, just like they had done for him in the past decade when Dwight came to Georgia to golf and fish at Augusta. 

The Secret Service was of course around, too, on 2/19/54, along with local police in Palm Springs and likely California state troopers here and there, not to mention the regular U.S. Air Force troops on guard duty all around Edwards Airbase. Plus MPs. So why would anyone import such Georgia lawmen? For “that occasion” they were “setting up security,” which means the Dixie cops weren't in Palm Springs for a mere convention, or to play golf. At some point that day or night they posed for a group picture with Dwight; why do so if nothing noteworthy was afoot? And why then have the commander in-chief autograph it in February of 1955... unless it was on the day of a second alien encounter out west, where perhaps the same special Georgia unit was again utilized? It's speculative, but fits. 

Let's remember that President Eisenhower was a member since 1948 of the exclusive Augusta golf club, an all-white-male organization that played on the finest course in the country, where “The Masters” tournament is held annually. Dwight visited there a whopping 45 times! It would seem quite likely that in the past, President Eisenhower utilized this very Georgia state police unit – consisting no doubt of WWII vets - to help guard him when visiting that southern state in the past. And let's recall that even more importantly, just a couple of days before the 1954 Palm Springs trip, the president visited Secretary Humphrey's farm for alleged “bird hunting.” That was on Friday, February 12th through Sunday the 14th of '54. The special Georgia police unit was almost assuredly utilized during that brief stay in the Peach State... and then ordered to help out in southern California days later too? {The president's party departed Washington D.C. on Wednesday afternoon, the 17th - with the “Secret Six”?} 

“There would be huge crowds” to greet and sometimes shadow popular Mr. Eisenhower when he arrived in Georgia in various past visits, according to a professional photographer who captured images in those more law-abiding times. State police officers - likely from Troop E, Post 25, that patrolled Augusta and Richmond County (and some neighboring counties) - were deemed necessary to help keep the enthusiastic onlookers at arm's length. So there could have been quite a previous strong connection with Eisenhower, and genuine trust established, well before the idea of any historic 1954 ET runway summit at Edwards AFB. 

What’s more, official 1955 White House records say President Eisenhower signed the 2/19/54 cop photo with this inscription: “For Sgt. L. H. Bass, with greetings and best wishes, Dwight D. Eisenhower.” Hmmmm, L. H. Bass, eh? A sergeant in the Georgia State police force – Troop E? - was a long away from home, some 250 miles away from his regular post, on 2/12/55. Sgt. Bass and the Georgia unit's other members were welcomed in the Thomasville area but had no particular legal authority in the state of California, it should be noted.

In his research for the 1955 ET drama, Art Campbell interviewed a former Secret Service agent who acknowledged some of the strange extra protection for Chief Executive Eisenhower during the Georgia trip that mid-February. Campbell quoted this retired agent as recalling he was notified one night at 3:00 a.m. that they'd all take off within the hour, with Dwight in his presidential airplane, but a half hour before that 4:00 a.m. departure, he saw two cars rolled up to the aircraft at the dark airfield. With a dozen T-men already on the plane, out of a pair of the parked sedans “six agents came on board,” apparently having been holed up in a local motel “for a day or so.” Who were these six special men? The two vehicles had USAF markings on the sides as if someone in authority within the United States Air Force was handling this part of security (like Stan Holtoner, perhaps?). 

Six men in suits, apparently, specially ordered to go to the New Mexico alien landing with the president, much like California in '54. Let's recall the retired pilot “Jerry Flier” who said around 1982 that he was “one of six people guarding the president” at Edwards Airbase. And now this special photograph's troopers likely hailing from central to South Georgia, but willing to travel quite a ways to help out their president. 

The February 1955 “hunting vacation” in Georgia, Art Campbell's Secret Service source recalled, did include a covert middle-of-the night trip “somewhere out west,” confirming the remarkable Holloman ET “runway summit” notion. Something quite unusual was up, it seems. 

Theory: the “Secret Six” were a tight-knit group of serious-minded Georgia men who kept in touch with each other over the years – and with the ex-pilot, “Jerry” at Edwards AFB – well beyond their retirement, bonded by the incredible alien landing memories and Eisenhower's somber, sworn oath to keep it all from the public. It was like a special, exclusive club. Thus by mid-1982, the pilot knew it was finally time to spill some secrets when he learned that the last one of these Peach State troopers had passed away. It was finally time then to get the story out (still anonymously). More on this intriguing situation later in the chapter. 

In returning to dedicated Mr. Campbell’s original research on 1955 subterfuge... President Eisenhower was taken by his Secret Service chauffeur in a car at close to 3:00 a.m. on early Friday the 11 th , back up the road to Spence AFB near Moultrie. From there he flew without fanfare on Columbine III (Air Force One) across the country, leaving around 4:00 a.m., headed for Holloman AFB, New Mexico, near the town of Alamogordo. The isolated desert locale was the same general area of practice military bombing runs, missile testing, and special secret experimental aircraft flights – and many reported UFO sightings. {It was also not too far from where Setimus once was housed at Los Alamos and later picked up by his landed ET brethren in August of 1949, at Kirtland AFB near Albuquerque.}

The president's plane approached Holloman Airbase in broad daylight but was being observed in more ways than one. Art Campbell estimated that “probably three hundred” Holloman base employees and military personnel were potentially able to have seen the famous plane land that sunny day. It was said to have come down on the runway around 8:45 to 9:00 a.m. Mountain Time. It rested at the farthest point possible, away from base hangars, offices, and workshops. At one point a worker or two supposedly brought out a metal stairwell to the famous plane's door, then likely exited. All airbase radar technicians were supposedly given orders to shut off their equipment, although smaller radar mechanisms were allowed to operate. Soon some personnel on duty found out why… 

Two unidentified “bogies” or unusual flying objects had been sighted in the area, Campbell says he learned. {A third alien airship was said to have been spotted a few minutes after the initial pair, but this vehicle does not seem to figure in the story.} Swiftly the pair of UFOs hovered directly over inert Columbine III, perhaps 300 feet up in the air, Campbell said eyewitnesses told him. They were silvery discs with no tails, propellers, wings, exhausts, or visible motors, just as in 1954's runway encounter. The first vehicle was supposedly set down gently on the ground about 200 feet from the president’s plane. The second came down lower, but only somewhat, slowly sweeping the sky across the grounds, near some hangars, as if keeping a silent watch in mid-air. 

According to those at the base observing, at times with binoculars, the landed alien airship opened up a hatchway, then a metallic ramp pushed out quietly and set down on the pavement. The craft waited quietly; no figures seen around it. 

As the tension and drama built, the door to Columbine III opened. A grown man stepped out and then down its rolled-into-place steps. Arthur Campbell stated the mysterious person was none other than President Eisenhower. Dwight moved from the stairs, across the runway, and walked right up to the landed alien ship. He stepped up its ramp, extended his hand, and a humanoid creature leaned out to shake it, supposedly. Soon brave Mr. Eisenhower trooped inside, just after his peaceful ET host, both now out of view from any observers at the base. {Where were the imported “Secret Six?”} 

Holloman AFB personnel who were able to see from a distance what was going on felt that the Friday meeting between the chief executive and those within the non-terrestrial craft lasted for “about 45 minutes.” If this shocking account is accurate, it shows the president was comfortable and trusting of his ET hosts, and had something very important to discuss with them, unafraid, perhaps realizing if they wanted to harm him, or the nation, they'd have done so long ago.

How long the shipboard communications lasted no one is sure, but when this phenomenal direct contact was over, it was claimed that President Eisenhower stepped back out of the craft's hatchway and walked calmly down its ramp, across the runway, and back over to his parked airplane. It seemed pretty clear to those with binoculars that bald Dwight was hatless, walking with a certain military bearing, and appeared quite unharmed. He made his way back up the portable stairs to his airplane and slipped inside Columbine III (again, also known as “Air Force One”). Anxious observers and staffers had to have breathed a tremendous sigh of relief. 

On the surface, the Arthur Campbell story sounds a bit outlandish and hard to swallow, but we do know that a dozen or so Secret Service agents were on board the first flight, from D.C. to Georgia, including the language specialist; it was an unusually high number. Some of them could have been imported specially for this second and secretive trip, from Georgia to New Mexico. 

On his website, researcher Campbell alleged that he gathered most of his data from two main eyewitnesses, evidently respected military men that he assigned fictional names to protect their identities. “Wilbur” and “Dorsey” related they were told days before that Friday, February 11, 1955, that the president was going to be visiting their airbase fairly soon. At first, a military parade was assumed by base commanders to be necessary and prepared for, to officially greet the arriving commander-in-chief, but the idea was suddenly quashed. In fact, the two were told that the whole mention of Dwight’s impending arrival was to be “forgotten,” and not discussed with anyone. 

Dorsey saw the strange silver disc on the runway, telling Wilbur it looked to be of highly polished steel or aluminum construction, about “20 to 30 feet in diameter.” Dorsey said he witnessed this circular ET craft twice that day, separated by about thirty minutes when he was moving about the airbase commissary. The two men also overheard a pilot on the base who speculated that the tower radar was turned off as it might have interfered with not the president’s plane, but with a visiting alien “saucer’s guidance system.” At this point, a question from the talkative pilot overheard may be most revealing to us now. Wilbur heard the flier ask another man about the UFO: “Do you think the one’s today are the same from Palmdale last year?” In this remark, we might well have confirmation of the original ’54 Eisenhower encounter. That is, “Palmdale” is located not far from Muroc/Edwards Airbase (37 miles driving distance). There is no “Palmdale,” New Mexico. 

Another supportive eyewitness tale came to Arthur Campbell by way of a woman who said her father, an electrician, was working on the base that specific, memorable day. He climbed up an electrical utility pole on the Holloman base to get a glimpse of the presidential plane on the runway and got a good look at it. Then he said he saw the spaceships come down near the parked Columbine III. He anxiously scampered down his pole, moving fast, fearing for his safety, perhaps even a possible conflict or “alien invasion” to come. 

From what Art learned, however, Mr. Eisenhower did not just quickly take off that day, right after returning from the alien craft. Instead, he eventually left Columbine III and headed for a base building, likely surrounded by security agents and an aide or two. Supposedly, in the early afternoon hours at Holloman, Dwight hunkered down with base officials, then gathered about 225 other personnel and addressed them in a kind of pep talk, telling them to “keep up the good work” but that what everyone saw that morning was to remain a top-secret matter, not to be discussed. This speech was allegedly repeated later within the “base theater” to again about 225 or so people, with Eisenhower mentioning that his visit was quite private and was to remain that way, not to be related to the American public or the press for reasons of “national security.” 

Interestingly, one source of information for the Holloman presidential-alien summit, relaying his data to a different UFO investigator/lecturer decades later, was allegedly a crew member from the president's plane.

The entire Holloman AFB visit allegedly took several hours, dragging on, for some reason. When base business was completed, the president then finally returned to Columbine III, which was likely refueled and safety-inspected during his time indoors. It took off late in the afternoon “over the residential area of the base,” and even this was memorable as it was normally restricted, empty airspace. 

Coincidence or not, a series of atomic test detonations were set to begin in Nevada, just days later. From February 18th through May 15th , 1955, fourteen atomic warheads were set off, incredibly, within just 65 miles of Las Vegas. Eisenhower learned no lessons from the troubling '54 “Castle” program. Dubbed in '55 “Operation Teapot,” it was more of the same ol' nuclear experimenting, just with smaller scale detonations, but emitting plenty of radiation in the desert. Still more reckless testing in the land underground, under the sea, in the atmosphere, and on the earth's surface went on, unabated by any extraterrestrial concerns in the years to come. 

Eventually, Columbine III uneventfully flew President Eisenhower and his entourage back to Spence AFB in Georgia where they landed safely, presumably well after dark Friday night with no fuss or fanfare. The press at that time would have been neatly out of the way, gathered at the Thomasville area’s country club for the big dinner party hosted by Secretary Humphrey. The distraction worked perfectly, and thus the Eisenhower-to-Holloman trip didn't leak out via the media at all, but only after determined Art Campbell's insightful spadework in New Mexico decades later. Whether Secretary George M. Humphrey was ever fully informed of the true, otherworldly nature of the New Mexico journey remains unknown. No one was the wiser when the president was driven without fanfare the 35 miles from the airport to the Milestone Plantation to secretly return to his guest cottage, the distant media naively believing the “sniffles” story. According to Campbell’s research, the president’s plane did not arrive at Moultrie/Spence AFB until around midnight, and Eisenhower did not make it “home” to Milestone until about 1:00 a.m., on Saturday, February 12, 1955. He likely tried to sleep in his guest quarters, and by the late morning was finally back up and around; he signed the telltale Georgia trooper photograph from 2/19/54 just after 4:00 in the afternoon, perhaps while entertaining the “Secret Six” in his guest cottage or the main house. Had that special unit been utilized in the past twenty-four hours as well, on the ground at Holloman, and this was part of their president's quiet gratitude? 

Whatever the case, Mr. Eisenhower had been out of sight from the press a total of 36 hours, giving him plenty of time to have made safe ET contact and follow-up business at Holloman. Dwight's dance card was filled on Sunday the 13th , with some public appearances in and around the Thomasville, Georgia, area, before departing Spencer AFB for D.C. at about 3:00 p.m. He had to have been pretty jet-lagged when he reached the White House by 6:00 that evening. Some sharp-eyed reporters noted the next day that Eisenhower looked a little tired for a casual “hunting trip” or quiet presidential vacation. 

Interestingly, it was Art Campbell’s opinion that the ’55 Holloman Airbase affair was not Eisenhower’s first meeting with friendly extraterrestrials. That the president had to have been assured in advance that the ETs were peaceful and openly communicative to have made such brazen contact on the New Mexican runway. That previous safe encounter had given him experience and confidence to undertake more, Art reasoned. Thus, negotiations had to have been going on well before this carefully arranged, secured Holloman Airbase runway summit, from 9:00 in the morning to around 4:45 in that warm afternoon. Campbell's informants did not speak out about the benumbing occurrence until the mid-1990s. 

Author Larry Holcombe pointed out that his sources informed him that previous “saucer sightings” in the area of the New Mexico military installations were so common in that era of weapons testing in the desert “they were expected and virtually ignored.” 

It's worth noting that something unknown seemed to hold up the completion of the human-alien exchange at Holloman AFB. Soooo many hours on the ground there, for the president. What was the source of the “dead time” of waiting around? Was it finalizing the IkeET agreement and its need for firm commitments and signatures? Was it waiting for trade-worthy data and materials to arrive? 

Let's go back to those 2017-leaked “Majestic-12 Documents,” containing information about U.S. contacts with visiting extraterrestrials. Again, mention was made within its DIA-written pages that on July 18th , 1954, President Eisenhower first ventured to New Mexico. Thus in '55, he flew to Kirtland AFB “to ratify and sign” a treaty with aliens, after having first hammered out the contractual details with his secret “MJ-12” control group, over which he had the final say as its most powerful member. The 1989 DIA document claimed the president on this July '54 date – a Sunday - personally handed over this “statement of intent” to “an individual on behalf of the EBEs.” Was that “individual” an alien, or a human? Were there arriving alien saucers at Kirtland AFB on July 18th , like there supposedly would be in February of '55 at Hollomon? Many questions arise, but none can be answered for sure at this point. 

President Eisenhower's official daily appointment logs show us that on Saturday, July 17, 1954, he had lunch at the White House with none other than ubiquitous businessman George Edward Allen, the name so familiar in these affairs. The meal was suspiciously labeled “Off the record.” Dwight and George also golfed together at a course in the D.C. area (Burning Tree Country Club) that Saturday afternoon. The president supposedly returned home at 5:30 p.m.; was that time fudged? Sunday the 18th is shown as nearly a blank, with a brief notation of Mr. Eisenhower meeting with a wealthy businessman at 4:00, and then-Secretary of State John Foster Dulles from 5:10 to 5:48 p.m., valid entries or not. In other words, on Saturday morning, Dwight could have flown to New Mexico on a hush-hush, sun-drenched July '54 trip to an airbase, and then gotten back by late Sunday afternoon. Or even have left early Sunday morning and taken much of the day there, keeping it all off the books.

Within the official White House records, it states that first thing Monday morning, 7/19/54, President Eisenhower met in the Oval Office with Secretary Dulles and Joint Chiefs honcho Arthur Radford again, along with two others, and this was again considered “Off the record,” meaning it was top tier stuff with no notes taken. Radford stayed for more meetings, most suspiciously with Dwight and USAF General Nathan Twining at 10:30 a.m. Again, the very type of people a president would meet with after he had just transacted some secret, classified extraterrestrial matters. 

Thus the DIA “MJ-12” document might well be telling the truth once more. A July 18, 1954, meeting in New Mexico with landed ETs could conceivably have happened as described in the DIA summary that was leaked in 2017. But what was agreed to in writing, as relayed in the '89 government briefing paper? 

“The extraterrestrials will refrain where and when possible from an open display of their presence to the public at large. The extraterrestrials will submit substantiating proof and listings of all persons contacted from among the public at large, or that have been removed from Earth for purposes of contact or cultural exchanges. In no case shall anyone abducted by the EBEs be subjected to knowing harm, or kept against their will for longer than 48 hours.” 

These are words that Dwight D. Eisenhower himself may have uttered that first night in southern California on 2/19/54, so protective as he was to the fate of the American people, those he was sworn in to protect and preserve as president... thus this paragraph looks and sounds pretty believable. Alien beings were most curious about human beings and wanted to look them over within their flying laboratories, in a sense, so to keep this otherworldly desire undercover, it appears our commander-in-chief issued more stipulations that were agreed to by the visiting entities: 

“The extraterrestrials will avoid any willful contact with representatives of the public news media or any private investigators of the UFO phenomena, groups of writers dedicated to the same intentions.” 

In other words, 

“Keep your visiting alien mouths shut to inquisitive folks, and the press, and make us an accurate list of people you pick up to examine and release, and we'll be cool, atomic testing agreement or not.” Keeping ET visitation out of the papers and TV/radio airwaves, and also published books if possible was once again a key factor to the Eisenhower administration. Once more, we see keeping the American public in the dark at all costs was imperative to avoid cultivating a fearful mass panic and to maintain secret communications with the friendly ETs. 

Now we come to the DIA document's statement on what the American government secretly agreed to in the top-secret alien human treaty: 

“The U.S. government will provide, through the Defense Logistic Agency's “Reutilization and Marketing Service,” such items as needed for the personal comfort of those visiting EBEs who may be sequestered in its care. The U.S. government will provide a section of the MAJESTIC headquarters base in Nevada as an embassy compound for the EBE visitors and equip it to their needs.” 

Not only does this sound again like what “Kewper Stein” alleged in 1998, but the Eisenhower administration was going to covertly and cleverly “help” aliens get settled in America by providing part of a sprawling military base in remote Nevada. In that way, they could keep their eyes on their “special guests” and make sure they weren't getting carried away, all while protecting them from the public. But what possible “personal comfort” could we humans possibly give advanced aliens? “In its care” sounds like babysitting children, nearly. This was – and still is - pretty mind-boggling stuff, and one wonders if it all continues today.

Oh, and one more thing Mr. Eisenhower supposedly wanted in writing: 

“Any exchange of technical, scientific, or social information will be conducted item-for-item and in such a manner as to assure that both parties have equal gain from the process.” 

So if we gave the aliens some inside scientific data on the human race or planetary ecosystem – DNA samples, for example - they had to give us something similar, of equal value we longed for, or no deal. Perhaps their DNA, blood, or tissue samples for scientific study. Fair enough, but this stipulation sounds very tough to assess and enforce. 

Was all of this agreement detail signed, sealed, and delivered on a sunbaked runway in steamy New Mexico? In July of '54 at Kirtland AFB as the DIA “Majestic-12” alien document claimed, or in February of '55 at Holloman AFB as Art Campbell discovered? Or perhaps at both? 

One source for Art Campbell summed up the odd length of time for the February 1955 airbase visit after Eisenhower returned to Columbine III from the landed alien spaceship on the Holloman AFB runway: “It was almost as if they were waiting for something,” or killing time until something else took place. Possibly a new or followup alien message, stipulation, snafu, or item to be received, either at Holloman or elsewhere? Another Campbell airbase source, a pilot, told Art he flew a load of cargo into Holloman AFB that day as scheduled, but wasn’t allowed to leave until President Eisenhower and his party did. This flier personally attended one of the two airbase personnel confabs that the president addressed, where Dwight stressed the need for base personnel to keep quiet and maintain security on his covert presence there. Could his cargo load have been something either side desired at the runway summit, agreed to be provided for aliens by humans in the signed treaty, and patiently waited for? Conjecture, yes, but not unreasonably so. 

A check of President Eisenhower’s White House daily appointment log shows that after his return to D.C. from New Mexico in February of '55, he quickly held high-level meetings on Monday morning the 14th in the Oval Office with three top advisers: Admiral Radford (at 10:30); Charles I. Wilson, his Secretary of Defense (at 11:30); and John Foster Dulles, his Secretary of State (at 1:00 p.m.). Once again precisely the sort of military/government officials you’d need to confer with regarding very classified recent contact with visiting aliens. After the Dulles lunch confab wrapped, dutiful Dwight was down for the day, with no further official appointments, which was pretty unusual. Likely he needed a substantial nap, thanks to jet-lag. 

Backing up his overall research, Arthur Campbell alleged, was an unexpected letter that arrived from a mysterious source within British military intelligence, specifically someone who had access to the juicy archives within “MI5” (“Military Intelligence, section five). The letter-writing Brit stated that it was his understanding that friendly human-like aliens “had landed in several places” in the years 1953 to 1955 and specifically “asked for a meeting” with President Eisenhower. If this is true, Dwight undoubtedly felt like he had to go meet them, somewhere in private, or this potentially explosive landing and exposure situation would continue until the lid was blown off nationally in some unsecured manner. 

Also, the February 1955 Holloman Air Force Base summit was quite real, the British source told Art, and that it was “one of the first” meetings that this particular race of visiting alien species had undertaken. The humanoid ETs liked and/or trusted Eisenhower more than his predecessor Truman, who some say – like Linda Moulton Howe, after much research - once ordered the U.S. Air Force to shoot down UFOs, back in 1947. Arthur Campbell once spoke with aging Harry Truman in his retirement in western Missouri, according to author Larry Holcombe. The Truman’s were old friends to Campbell’s family, both based out of Independence. When Mr. Campbell brought up the subject of UFOs to Truman, Harry’s face and friendliness frosted fast. Arthur also noticed that a Secret Service agent showed up that night to his hotel lecture on alien visitation, undoubtedly sent by the ex-president, but nothing seemed to have come from the hawkish federal monitoring. 

In his lectures and within his website, researcher Campbell passed along still more information he uncovered on the Holloman secret summit, including some of the names of the passengers who went along from Washington D.C. to Moultrie, Georgia, to begin the trip. It was here however that Art made a substantial mistake that harmed his overall credibility somewhat. He stated that he learned that a name on the passenger list for the president's plane was “Arthur Godfrey”, so he naturally assumed this was the popular radio and television entertainer of the same name. Campbell was not aware that one of the toughest, most respected Secret Service agents working the White House detail in the 1950s and '60s, traveling often with the president, was none other than “Arthur Lincoln Godfrey” (1921-2002). Campbell thus went a little overboard in the wrong direction; Art Godfrey the famous emcee/singer had nothing to do with the ET contact (although a decade later he reported a UFO while flying his plane, on the East Coast). But we can forgive that small error in the otherwise compelling and convincing circumstantial case that Campbell put together overall. 

{On a minor note, it is worth mentioning that on the day of the first anniversary of the Muroc/Edwards summit with aliens, President Eisenhower (according to his records) held a 2/19/55 Saturday Oval Office meeting with Admiral Radford and USAF General Twining; then had lunch about an hour later; and soon called it a day, leaving a substantial, mysterious gap again in his schedule. Was there an alien-human agreement to attend to in private during that slow weekend?} 

Overall, what Art Campbell's exciting research shows us is that President Eisenhower wisely utilized a “vacation” approach a second time, a la Palm Springs, to covertly meet with aliens in 1955, but via a shorter plane trip to an equally remote desert airbase (in New Mexico), saving many hundreds of miles further west in travel, to southern California. And it was pulled off again by distracting the media with a hotel party, and all effectively kept under wraps, even long after Dwight Eisenhower's death in 1969. And perhaps also after the passing of his special six-man entourage/eyewitnesses years later. No one expressed a public peep or a monument concerning the covert, historic landing events, and any data learned from the summits. 

Or... did they? 

Let's say you were part of the “Secret Six” cautiously flanking President Eisenhower at Edwards Airbase in '54, and possibly also at Holloman Airbase in '55. Probably five or six guards – Georgia state troopers? - and maybe one high-ranking Air Force pilot who knew the president well and was trusted by him. You remembered the mid-1950s extraterrestrial contact and discussed it privately, only among yourselves. Over the passing years, wouldn't you, as a member of this exclusive club – probably based in rural Georgia - long to create a memorial to these mighty events? And perhaps also get a special message out from the ETs out to the public, in some anonymous fashion? All without giving away your identity and that of the off-world messengers?

A generation after the '54 and '55 encounters, something quite monumental appeared in a central Georgia pasture that has since boggled the minds of people across the planet, and has remained a puzzling, unsolved enigma ever since. Specifically, we're talking about a strange rock monument nicknamed “The Georgia Guidestones.” This unusual public design consists of five tall granite slabs featuring ten messages - simple suggestions, really - for humanity, expressed in eight different languages. The slabs stand in the middle of a hilly cow pasture near Highway 77 in the Georgia countryside. It's located about 84 driving miles from Augusta, or about a two-hour car trip north, resting atop a pastoral slope in Elbert County, 90 miles east of Atlanta. Some folks call the structure “America's Stonehenge.” It turns out the available land was purchased in mid-1979 and a local “granite finishing company” was contacted that summer to create the mysterious edifice, with a large, deep, steel-reinforced foundation. A hair-raising “Top Ten List,” of sorts, is chiseled into the rock, simple, straightforward words of guidance in how mankind should govern planet earth. It is very much like the “Ten Commandments” brought forth by Moses, from all powerful but caring God. 

The project got underway a full decade after Dwight D. Eisenhower, who so loved rural Georgia, passed away in a D.C. army hospital. The person who funded the unusual 1979 construction is alleged to have called himself “Robert,” or “R. C. Christian,” but his true identity has never been revealed. Did “R.C” stand for “Roman Catholic” perhaps? Was surviving Stan Holtoner or “Jerry Flier” such a source? Unknown. The sculptor who created the monument upon instructions recalled that the well-dressed, grayhaired Mr. Christian was “a middle-aged gentleman” who initially said he wanted the pricey monument built on land “stretching west of Augusta” (which had its own remarkable UFO sighting in 1952). Was the wealthy stranger a former Georgia state trooper/Ike bodyguard from the Augusta area that the famous president so often visited? Rumors have it that R. C. Christian had a great grandmother who hailed from Georgia and that he had once served in World War II (under Ike?). 

{Note: someone calling himself “Robert Christian” wrote an odd book – supposedly in 1986, but not published until 1990 - that tried to explain the Georgia Guidestones' messages, called “Common Sense Renewed,” which asserted that “Atomic arsenals should be dismantled and their warheads converted to peaceful uses,” sounding very much like the '54 aliens, but... who knows if the book is authentic and genuinely related?} 

The mysterious R. C. Christian said in 1979 that he represented a small group that anonymously wanted the monument built on Georgia rural property formerly utilized for peacefully grazing cows. Christian said his group had been planning the monument for over twenty years, which means it was originally inspired in the 1950s. Money was no object, so construction was quietly undertaken despite the very curious unexplained nature of the enterprise. On March 22, 1980, the finished monument was unveiled to many a baffled and confused citizen. What did it all mean? Who or what did R. C. Christian and his “small group” represent? Who was the source of the unexplained information imprinted in the Guidestones' granite? 

To be more specific, the simple sentences put into the solid stone slabs were in English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, and Russian. It translated into this Top Ten List: 

#1.) Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature. 

#2.) Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity. 

#3.) Unite humanity with a living new language. 

#4.) Rule passion — faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason. 

#5.) Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts. 

#6.) Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.

#7.) Avoid petty laws and useless officials. 

#8.) Balance personal rights with social duties. 

#9.) Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite. 

#10.) Be not a cancer on the earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature. 

Now then, under our scenario... who do we know in Georgia that were a small unit of concerned citizens, likely wanting to anonymously get a message for humanity out to the world, for advanced ETs, but were dying out by 1979 to 1982? 

Well obviously, the answer would be the “Secret Six” from the Eisenhower-ET encounters, trying to leave an insightful extraterrestrial's statement for the planet before they too passed away. Can we draw an alien-themed conclusion here? Seems logical, does it not? 

Was there in any way an otherworldly feel to the monument besides the odd “Top Ten List” printed on it? Consider now a helpful small guide marker, left in the base of the unusual structure. It mentions the “Astronomic Features” of the edifice. Which are: “#1. Channel through stone indicates celestial pole. #2. A horizontal slot indicates the annual travel of the sun. #3. Sunbeam through capstone marks noontime throughout the year.” 

As Wikipedia explains it: “The four outer stones are oriented to mark the limits of the 18.6-year lunar declination cycle. The center column features a hole drilled at an angle from one side to the other, through which can be seen the North Star, a star whose position changes only very gradually over time. The same pillar has a slot carved through it which is aligned with the Sun's solstices and equinoxes. A 7/8-inch (22 mm) aperture in the capstone allows a ray of sun to pass through at noon each day, shining a beam on the center stone indicating the day of the year.” Pretty complex and impressively precise, accurate stuff. 

Additionally, enigmatic R. C. Christian stated that the monument stones “would function as a compass, a calendar, and a clock.” Oh, and that the structure should be able to withstand catastrophic events – a rather chilling description to contemplate. [oops 2022 says different dc]

How in the world did some Georgia citizens come up with all of that complicated, far-out data (from the '50s)? 

The special info marker also mentions that the monument was created by “a small group of Americans who seek the Age of Reason.” But was this really who passed along the strange, ETsounding guidance for all humanity in the multilingual messages? As of now, we can also ask: did the five tall slabs represent the five alien spaceships that came down at Edwards AFB? Or perhaps the five special security men – plus one person more, the test pilot, represented by the top capstone piece? - who surrounded President Eisenhower as he met with landed, off-world ambassadors in '54? 

The ground-level marker also asserts that a special “time capsule” was placed six feet under the structure and then allowed an open space for the date that it should be opened... which was inexplicably left blank. Could there still be something that commemorates the Eisenhower encounters buried below the imposing monument? 

We just might have an explanation for the whole odd structure at last. 

Let's face it, the “Secret Six” from 1950s Georgia certainly could not have erected a large, special, explainable monument to honor aliens on government land at Edwards Airbase, nor at Holloman AFB, in their heyday. They would have waited decades, and wanted it done anonymously in their home state, to keep their identity and that of the ETs secrets but relay what the human-like aliens passed along to President Eisenhower. They would likely have wanted the messagey Guidestones built reasonably close to their homes, within driving distance, and may have found that the nearest available land for sale was up near Highway 77. Perhaps nearly everyone else involved from the 1954/55 secret airbase contacts were now deceased, so the six men felt free to act at last. Even former First Lady Mamie Eisenhower died one day after Halloween in 1979, when she eerily assured a relative visiting her - in the same Washington D.C. hospital that her beloved husband died in - that she would be passing away on the following day – and did, in her sleep. 

While none of this is concrete, indisputable evidence for a watertight verdict on the enigmatic monument, it sure makes a solid circumstantial case that seems to add up here, every aspect of it. 

Let's put it this way: does anyone have a better explanation for the puzzling “Georgia Guidestones” than this? 

CHAPTER ELEVEN 

The Presidents After Ike 

“For the purpose of inspecting things from outer space.” 

— a 1962 CIA summary 

You become president. You receive highly sensitive, classified intelligence briefings on military, defense, and space matters. You meet with your most trusted advisers. Even before you move into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, you come up with a pretext for traveling to Palm Springs. You arrange a suitable place to stay while in the Mojave Desert, at a wealthy friend's house, to be able to duck out quietly. You distract the media with a hotel party. You attend to alien issues at a nearby military airbase, with no reporters or civilians around. Then you go home and pretend like nothing ever happened. 

That was the workable method of operation for Dwight D. Eisenhower, as we've seen, and this template was copied by some other United States presidents, as we're about to understand. So let's take a closer look at Palm Springs and presidential sightings... 

In February of '54, vacationing President Eisenhower told the Palm Springs press pool he wanted to come back to Coachella Valley the following year, but records show he did not return to the region until early October of 1959. He and Mamie also spoke in '54 of enjoying their Smoke Tree Ranch stay yet when they arrived in town five years later the First Couple bunked down at George Edward Allen's pad in La Quinta, and records show that Dwight didn't even visit Smoke Tree, nor hobnob with wealthy exec Paul Hoffman. {Paul Helms had since died.} 

As was his custom, the president played plenty of golf during that early October '59 lull, although there were substantial openings in his printed schedule which could have allowed for sneaky shenanigans, left unrecorded of course. In theory, the president could also have even brought with him “Jerry Flier,” or General J. Stanley Holtoner, since Eisenhower had recently returned him to the Pentagon in D.C. in 1959, where Stan was assigned to the newly created “Office of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering.” Perhaps the kind of work that reverse-engineering captured or gifted ET technology with defense industries would have required coordinating very discreetly by a knowledgeable old hand. 

Starting in early 1961, newly retired ex-President Eisenhower settled into a quiet, somewhat-secluded life, partly on his cattle farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Dwight and Mamie often stayed long stretches in the wintertime at their rented golf course home at their Eldorado Country Club in Palm Springs, where he penned much of his autobiography. {Even supporters referred to Dwight's memoirs as dry and dull; he barely commented on the period of February through April 1954 and never mentioned Palm Springs, nor Edwards, Kirtland, or Holloman airbases, understandably.} 

In his retirement – from January of 1961 to his death of congestive heart failure at age 78 in March of 1969 - Dwight Eisenhower met with two sitting United States presidents that we know of in Palm Springs, and at least two future ones, possibly more. Leaders seemed to make a beeline for his 11th fairway door. Was this done partly to discuss in secluded privacy the ongoing covert alien visitation situation? 

According to the Thunderbird Country Club website: “President Eisenhower on two occasions brought his Vice President Richard Nixon to play golf at Thunderbird. He was also responsible for President Lyndon Johnson visiting Thunderbird and playing the course on several occasions.” As a “Veep,” Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-1994) was not with Eisenhower in Palm Springs in February of 1954, nor in October of 1959. What the contemporary website was undoubtedly mentioning was during Dwight's retirement, when he hosted travelin' “Tricky Dick.” It was pretty rare for “Ike and Dick” to golf together, for both security and personality reasons. {Nixon privately complained Eisenhower often treated him like a lowly subordinate, almost as if he was an army private reporting to a general.} Nixon mostly golfed at “Sunnylands” in Palm Springs – 14 times between 1969 and 1992 - especially as president, staying at the upscale, 220-acre estate of the mega-wealthy publisher and diplomat Walter Hubert Annenberg (1908-2002). Naturally, it was situated near well-watered fairways. 

V.P. Nixon flew to Edwards Airbase for an inspection of the latest high-tech U.S. aircraft on October 15, 1958; what else he saw in private while touring the installation before making a speech to a crowd there is unknown. And if Mr. Nixon made any other open or covert visits at Muroc/Edwards in the 1950s, well, that remains a mystery too. Obviously, as a native southern Californian, for Richard Nixon to have flown to Edwards AFB directly would not have been very unusual or suspicious. {On that particular 10/15/58 afternoon in Washington, President Eisenhower shot a round of golf at a country club with George E. Allen, and five days later Dwight flew to Los Angeles himself, but there were no side trips to Palm Springs or Edwards Airbase.} 

In 2019, an excellent story hit the internet from writer Marcus Lowth of www.ufoinsight.com. It detailed a strange aerial crash near Edwards in the summer of 1971, during Nixon's White House tenure. A woman living near the installation said she heard a roar and a crash outside her property at that time; she and some other neighbors rushed outside and to the accident site, expecting an errant airplane in ruins and injured people in pain. What they found instead was a bizarre mushroom-shaped alien craft on the ground, broken open with “three gray humanoids” on board... along with a grown woman in a pink outfit, a dazed human scrambling out of the wreckage. She had been abducted from her Los Angeles area home! Decades later this “Woman in Pink” came forward to say she was removed from the downed alien craft by base military personnel and taken to a facility on the north side of Edwards AFB, where memories were hazy but... there might have been military and humanoid ET personnel standing over her as she was examined by medicos. If President Nixon was notified of the strange incident, it remains unknown, but seems likely. 

As a hands-on president, Mr. Nixon was ultimately in charge of the Apollo space program, which was shaped partly at the Edwards Flight Research Center. His friend, conservative comic Jackie Gleason (1916-1987), was glued to the Apollo project and had its Edwards-trained pilot-astronauts as special guests on his Miami based TV variety show. In the 1950s, Jackie undoubtedly supported fellow Republican Eisenhower while living in a special “Mother-ship” round home outside New York City, from the mid-1950s to the early 1960s. Mr. Gleason was also an enormous UFO/ET buff (weight pun not intended). Jackie told a few people he was privately informed – and shown – actual crash-recovered dead alien bodies and ET hardware at a south Florida USAF base, by way of his Miami-area golfing buddy Nixon, a subject explored in many online articles since it broke in the tabloids in the mid-1970s. It is not a tale to be taken lightly, but did Jackie ever golf with Dwight Eisenhower, and found out more? It is possible, yet whether Ike took a showbiz comic into his confidence is unknown. It was tough enough for Nixon to get Eisenhower to reveal important government matters to him. 

When precisely Nixon learned of President Eisenhower's February 1954 encounter with aliens is anyone's guess, but it now seems a solid bet that Richard was briefed at some point and later patterned his own mid-February 1973 trip to Florida's Homestead Air Force Base, just south of Miami, for personally reviewing ET evidence (with Gleason) based upon Dwight's action plan. To examine this claim in some small detail, let's stop and compare notes on the two presidents and their methods of operation, via another Top Ten List. It simply cannot be considered coincidental that...

#1.) Ike arranged in advance a “relaxing vacation” pretext, involving golf in order to make his secret ET connection – and so did Dick. 

#2.) Ike chose February 19th to handle his otherworldly business – and so did Dick.

#3.) Ike sneaked out at night – and so did Dick. 

#4.) Ike made sure the distant press was distracted with a party at their hotel - and so did Dick. (Well, probably.) 

#5.) Ike traveled many miles that late night to an Air Force Base and back under the cover of darkness – and so did Dick. 

#6.) Ike saw aliens and their spaceships – and so did Dick (only his were autopsied remains of both). 

#7.) Ike had bodyguards and witnesses with him – and so did Dick (well, one or two witnesses, plus guards around nearby). 

#8.) Ike ducked back home safely around midnight, with no one the wiser – and so did Dick. 

#9.) Ike got up the next morning, February 20th , and kept his set public schedule like nothing unusual happened – and so did Dick. And finally... 

#10.) Ike remained completely mum on the topic for decades, even to his death – and so did Dick. 

An important question arises: did President Nixon stick around Homestead AFB after Jackie Gleason was taken home that 2/19/73 Monday night? The president could always order a car, or a helicopter to take him back later to his “Winter White House” in Key Biscayne. But did he stay to secretly meet with some landed ETs on a base runway as the night wore on? Or was he planning to, but chickened out? Was there a formal treaty that needed renewal? 

“The Council of Five” is a contemporary website that purports to give inside ET data; its writer Dante Santori describes a visiting alien race called “Emerther” beings by noting: “They met with President Eisenhower on three different occasions, and they also met with two high-ranking USSR leaders on three occasions, and they tried (they do not "force" anything upon Humans) to meet with President Nixon but he refused, claiming that it would be too dangerous as they could maybe read his mind and find out about delicate national security secrets concerning the relations with USSR.” It seems beyond belief that Nixon “just happened” to show up at an airbase on the very night of the exact 19th anniversary of the Eisenhower-ET airbase summit, so to have signed or officially renewed an alien-American treaty seems at least logical, whether any “live ones” showed up or not to co-sign it. 

Richard Nixon made eight total trips to Palm Springs as commander-in-chief from January 1969 to August of 1974. Just as one example, Richard made a sudden and unannounced motorcade drive from his home in San Clemente, California, to the Palm Springs mansion of wealthy ambassador to the United Kingdom in mid-January of '74. What the controversial president was doing, precisely, at this upscale estate, behind closed doors, for two full days remains unknown. Did Richard make any side trips to a nearby airbase for an ET inspection? It is at least possible as the press was kept at bay. It was a month shy of the twentieth anniversary of Eisenhower's historic visit/summit. When his sudden and enigmatic Palm Springs idyll was complete, Nixon flew out of the local municipal airport on Air Force One to D.C., yet his daily diary is a bit incomplete for this day, January 12th , as “a restricted document was removed from this file folder.” 

{Digitized records show President Nixon spent the actual twentieth-anniversary date, 2/19/74, at the White House, with nothing of any consequence going on, at least not officially and reported.} 

As the Watergate scandal closed in and impeachment loomed, Nixon resigned in disgrace, on August 9th , 1974. That's when he flew directly from Washington D.C. to El Toro Marine Airbase in Orange County, California. But then, oddly, Nixon nearly went straight to Palm Springs, where he was frequently seen over the next days, weeks, and even years (despite living elsewhere). In fact, retired Richard Nixon was golfing (at “Sunnylands” and the Annenbergs' home again) when his historic official legal pardon from the new president was announced one month later. 

Back in the 1950s, when both Eisenhower and Nixon separately enjoyed hitting the links in the D.C. area – mostly at the “Burning Tree Country Club” course - they might well have run into a handsome young United States congressman nearly as obsessed with golf as they were: John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963). 

Youthful JFK directly succeeded aging Eisenhower as president in January of 1961 and during his relatively brief administration, Kennedy visited Palm Springs at least three times: late March of '62; December of '62; and late September of '63. Remarkably, records do not show President Kennedy playing any golf on these three desert community trips! If he did not hit the links, then what was the official excuse for going to Coachella Valley? Why bother? 

As soon as he got elected Kennedy's relationship to Palm Springs mirrored Dwight Eisenhower's, almost eerily so. For instance, instead of Paul Hoffman hosting the First Couple, the nearby Paul Helms home at Smoke Tree Ranch was selected instead, for “security reasons.” Some years later, President-elect Kennedy contacted his own wealthy friend about making a very similar Palm Springs trip: world-famous singer/actor Francis Albert “Frank” Sinatra (1915-1998). Just a week after the November 1960 election win, excited Sinatra quickly drew up plans to add a special wing to his remote desert house to accommodate the new president, plus a helipad and guest cottages for the Secret Service. Ground was broken for these new additions in early December, even though Frank already had an upscale mansion in Beverly Hills. And JFK had plenty of other friends and well-heeled donors in southern California, and almost always stayed with his sister and “brother-in-Lawford” when in the L.A. area (beachfront in Santa Monica), for example. Why not stay there, or at the Beverly Hills Hilton, as the Kennedys had done at times also? 

Thus we can speculate reasonably that perhaps the only need for Sinatra's sudden “home improvement” project in Palm Springs was for Kennedy to copy Eisenhower and set the excuse of a “relaxing desert vacation” in order to be in the vicinity of a well-guarded desert airbase for more private alien matters. {Sinatra was undoubtedly not told the real reason for the president's Palm Springs visit, however.} 

Throughout 1961 expansion work on the classy Sinatra desert house proceeded, and like Paul Helms before him, Frank paid for the pricey additions and installed many special telephone lines. Again it should be noted, John F. Kennedy could golf anywhere in the country (and did), and could party with women any place (and did), and could stay at any ol' place in southern California. And as it turned out, when March 23rd-25th of 1962 rolled around, JFK did just that. He went elsewhere. President Kennedy flew into Palm Springs on Air Force One (without his wife) and stayed with another singer/actor, Harry Lillis “Bing” Crosby (1903-1977). Then after settling in... JFK quickly visited ex-President Eisenhower. {Sinatra meanwhile flew into a rage; his place had been scrubbed from the Kennedy schedule just two days before the president's arrival, supposedly thanks to his past associations with gangsters. Frank was told it was for reasons of “security” instead. He thus took a sledgehammer to some of his own home's improvements, by all accounts furious at being snubbed.} 

Yes, at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, JFK left the Crosby residence and motored over to the Eldorado Country Club, to meet Ike at the Eisenhower home. When they were done about an hour later, the famous duo stepped outside, strolling around the pool deck to pose for photographers and a gathered crowd that loitered on the nearby golf course. The rest of the youthful president's schedule that day is officially left blank. He undoubtedly went back to Crosby's place at some point. Der Bingle's modern, private Palm Desert home within the then-sparse “Silver Spur Ranch” development near Shadow Mountain, on 49400 Della Robbia Lane, was utilized for all three of Kennedy's area visits. The president was able to do whatever he wanted in much-guarded secrecy. 

Just a few hours before the president's party arrived in town in March of '62, President Kennedy toured California's Vandenberg Air Force Base, where inside one hangar he was shown “missile equipment during a tour of spacecraft displays,” according to his presidential library website. JFK hovered over what appears eerily like a small, stereotypical “flying saucer,” in some of the resulting hangar photographs. Was this still on his mind when he got settled in at the Crosby estate? Or was it something more down-to-earth... 

On Saturday, 3/24/62, it seems pretty clear that the president had a romantic rendezvous with superstar actress Marilyn Monroe (1926- 1962), witnessed by others and even described decades later by a visiting Los Angeles government employee. Supposedly in the late afternoon, Kennedy entertained guests in Crosby's large living room, then would duck out to a guest cottage where a smaller gathering was held, including Monroe “in a kind of robe thing.” A bit later that evening, Monroe called her masseuse and let Kennedy speak to him. But perhaps from 8:00 p.m. onward, nothing is known of the president's whereabouts (along with noon to possibly 4:00 p.m. before that). That same Saturday night the naughty president's famous press secretary, Pierre Salinger (1925-2004), held a “lavish party” for the distracted media on Saturday night at a Palm Springs hotel. Sound familiar? The town's Riviera Hotel was in fact host to celebrity soiree entertainers that entire “gala weekend,” imported to keep the press happy. Was it more accurately designed to keep intrepid reporters away from the steamy Kennedy-Monroe tryst, or perhaps something more otherworldly, a la Ike at Muroc/Edwards in '54? Or perhaps for both top-secret reasons? 

After church services Sunday morning the 25th , nothing appears concrete about JFK's schedule that day, and the local papers reported he left for the airport “after 11:00 p.m.” for a takeoff to D.C. That leaves quite a wide-open second window of unobserved Sunday presidential goings-on; the entire three-day desert visit was the talk of the town, of course, but for so much of it, President Kennedy was far more discussed than seen in public. 

Overall it seems strange as to why Kennedy was in “Eisenhower’s ballpark” so many times in such a short span. After all, Dwight had previously traveled to Camp David to quietly summit with JFK, and they of course had occasional phone conversations. So something pretty substantial had to have been afoot when Kennedy was in Palm Springs. 

Shortly before her mysterious death in August of 1962, Marilyn Monroe told a close friend – producer/author Robert Slatzer (1927- 2005), interviewed about it on the mid-1990s TV show “Encounters” - that the handsome president had admitted to her that while on “a trip out west” to “some Air Force base” he covertly undertook for viewing some dead, gray, black-eyed, alien bodies and crashed ET hardware! This covert airbase inspection was also mentioned within a controversial 1995-leaked document that some feel is an authentic CIA office memo, summarizing on 8/3/62 various topics gleaned from wiretapped Monroe's recent phone conversations, while others suspect the one-page report is somehow a fake. 

Did JFK secretly inspect UFO crash corpses and debris? Consider the case of former LAPD intelligence officer Mike Rothmiller, who said he read secret Los Angeles police documents regarding Monroe's early August 1962 death, and of her ties to the loose-lipped Kennedy brothers. To this day, Rothmiller refuses to give details of something quite explosive he learned, but he spoke tantalizingly on camera once, for a 1999 documentary, and spilled just a few beans. Rothmiller claimed that from the sizzling LAPD intel reports of Monroe's bugged telephones and Brentwood home, he discovered that “President Kennedy had told her the truth about this event,” which he declined to describe but added, “It was a phenomenal event that would literally change the world,” far beyond Miss Monroe's normal topic of discussion. Certainly, the shushed '47 Roswell alien fiasco fits that bill, and would also cause Rothmiller to keep his lips sealed out of fear of government recriminations five decades later. 

In 2013, an anonymous online book reviewer stated the following on the JFK and RFK assassinations, Marilyn Monroe's death, and UFO crash recoveries: “There was indeed a connection in these horrific murders, and the three were silenced for knowing too much about "The Big Secret." I work for the U.S. Government and know and can prove this The UFOs/ETs are indeed real, and every U.S. President since Franklin Roosevelt has known it. I cannot disclose my real name, but rest assured JFK was ambushed in a militarystyle killing. There was no way "THEY" were going to let him live and be President again in 1964. He was considered a real national security risk. So was Marilyn Monroe.” Of course, anyone can make up a story online without giving their name and pass it off as valid, so this comment should be approached warily. But it just might be support for the presidential '47 Roswell ET recovery inspection by John F. Kennedy during his brief presidency (1961-1963).

The alleged 8/3/62 Central Intelligence memorandum – leaked in 1995 - also mentioned wiretaps on aforementioned gossip reporter Dorothy Kilgallen, who knew both Monroe and Kennedy and had previously expressed in print data on governmental knowledge of ET visitation, as we've seen in Chapter One. A paragraph within the disputed '62 memo stated that Miss Kilgallen had recently told a phoned friend that she first learned “in the mid-fifties” of a “secret effort by U.S. and U.K. governments to identify the origins of crashed spacecrafts and dead bodies.” It added this now-famous nugget regarding Miss Monroe's mid-summer telephone chit-chat: “One such “secret” mentions the visit by the president at a secret airbase for the purpose of inspecting things from outer space.” Was this during the March '62 idyll in southern California? 

UFO researcher, lecturer, and author Timothy Good (1942-) included a thumbnail sketch of the '54 Ike-ET allegation in his 1991 book “Alien Contact,” claiming Eisenhower “disappeared for four hours, causing considerable confusion” among those left behind in Palm Springs while at Edwards Airbase. British Mr. Good described interviewing Lord Clancarty over the prior decade but being unable to pry the true identity of the mysterious “retired colonel” who confessed his presence at Eisenhower's ET runway summit. Timothy, a classically trained orchestral violinist, was interviewed in 2012 on BBC2's talk show “Opinionated” about the '54 alien saga and was featured in a 2012 London Daily Mail newspaper article on it. 

Did JFK find out Eisenhower's top-secret summit information and want in on the fun? In 2007 Timothy claimed he had “an impeccable source” that told him President Kennedy did indeed inspect an American military airbase regarding extraterrestrial evidence after having been briefed on the subject by intelligence bigwigs. “Special access” was granted in 1961 or '62, and JFK arranged for Air Force One to fly him directly to the military site. In guarded privacy, Kennedy personally reviewed seemingly indestructible silvery-gray metal spaceship materials and also small, dead alien bodies. {Mr. Good then claimed he learned that this inspection took place at Tyndall Air Force Base near Panama City, Florida, oddly enough.} Tim's source stated the event was not allowed to be recorded in a White House log, and no member of the press was taken along to observe the trip, either, so the explosive allegation remains difficult to confirm or deny to this day. 

Author Tim Good further explained he was told by another source that President Kennedy once privately met and spoke with peaceful extraterrestrials who had landed at a military airbase near Desert Hot Springs! That town was of course situated just a few miles from Palm Springs/Palm Desert, but precisely what military airfield this could have been remains clouded by time (many have closed in the past sixty years). Was it the very same airfield that handled Eisenhower’s brief, intermediate military transport flight to Muroc/Edwards on 2/19/54, as mentioned in Chapter One? Was alien material moved closer to Palm Springs in the interim, for either Kennedy or retired Mr. Eisenhower to more easily monitor? Much greater detail is needed to fully believe in this amazing allegation. However, a fairly well-known UFO “contactee” of the day - George Adamski (1891- 1965) - also once stated that it was his acquired information that President Kennedy traveled to Desert Hot Springs to meet friendly humanoid aliens in private. {Desert Hot Springs online today boasts that JFK's lover, movie queen Monroe, journeyed to their town to enjoy their spas on occasion, and did so for a full week not too long before her abrupt and extremely suspicious early August 1962 demise.} 

All we know for certain is that, like Eisenhower, official records show that on 3/25/62, President Kennedy attended Sunday morning services at a (Catholic) church in the area (Palm Desert), then he returned to the Crosby house. But that lazy Sunday from noon onward, with another party for the press going on in Palm Springs... all we know for sure is that the Kennedy presidential party left town that night at 11:30 p.m. Pacific Time. They made it back to the White House in the early morning hours of the 26th , and then... Kennedy's first appointment Monday morning in the Oval Office was with an Air Force general with UFO ties! 

USAF General Lauris Norstad (1907-1988) huddled alone with the handsome young president in the West Wing on March 26th , but the content of their chat is still unknown. Lauris retired a month after President Kennedy's murder and joined the RAND Corporation, which has been rumored for years to have been quietly working on recovered UFO technology. General Norstad was noted in official White House logs as being summoned to Harry Truman's Oval Office during the height of the mid-summer 1947 Roswell response, along with some other Air Force honchos. {And by the way... young Congressman Jack Kennedy was said in a later-leaked summer of '47 military brief to have been informed about the true otherworldly nature of the Roswell incident (see www.MajesticDocuments.com.} 

Hours after the Norstad 2/26/62 huddle, JFK met in an “off the record” confab in his office with another worldly-wise major-general, mostly regarding atomic testing. Coincidence? That was the subject humanoid aliens were most concerned about, supposedly, in the Eisenhower years. They had every reason to fret during the Kennedy tenure. 

In December of '62, after stops at key military/science sites in New Mexico on Saturday the 8th , President Kennedy and his small entourage again flew to Palm Springs, where they once more settled in Crosby's upscale home, by 12:45 p.m. Again, the official records of appointments that day stops cold. Whatever the president undertook that day and the rest of the night was left off the books. Sunday morning, Kennedy went to a church mass, then returned to Crosby's place by noon. The rest of that day is left unrecorded also, in fact completely until 24 hours later, when the presidential group packed and motored to the airport to leave town. 

Adding to all of this, low-key California UFO investigator Timothy Cooper stated that a “reliable source” had told him that President Kennedy “did fly out to an air force base to personally watch an “unidentified bogie” track an aircraft under tight security, which got no press coverage in 1962.” Mr. Cooper – the 1995 source of the controversial 1962 CIA summary on Monroe and Kilgallen - further stated he learned that as chief executive Mr. Kennedy also once flew to Holloman Airbase for a tour and while there received a classified military briefing on the UFO situation. Cooper's source was likely his father, then a USAF investigator based out of Holloman AFB, at times digging into serious UFO allegations as part of his duties. Much of this story is absolutely, provably true: the press recorded JFK and his vice president, flying in separate airplanes, arriving at Holloman in early June of 1963 – with rare color footage of it found in 2011 and placed on YouTube. Kennedy gave a speech to a crowd gathered there, then both men reviewed something pretty important behind closed doors on the base, the press not allowed in to follow. However, the timing for this was ten months after the death of Marilyn Monroe, so obviously this wasn't the western airbase alien inspection she mentioned over her tapped telephone. 

Existing photos and video footage show that on another occasion, President John Kennedy – along with his “Veep” and also Harry Truman's pal during the August 1949 “Setimus” affair, New Mexico Senator Clinton Anderson – openly visited (on December 7, 1962) Albuquerque’s Kirtland AFB. Then they hit nearby Sandia National Laboratory, located near the Manzano Storage Facility, all three long rumored to have been involved in secret UFO hardware examination and reverse engineering. Their later additional visit to Los Alamos laboratories was said to have been concerning aspects of the burgeoning space program. A closed-door, classified confab was held there, too, no press allowed.

Dashing naval Lieutenant “Jack” Kennedy was a free man in early 1945, discharged by the military but still eager to do his part. When in Frankfurt, Germany, he first met “Ike” Eisenhower, on August 1 st of that eventful year. The odd couple met again fifteen years later at the White House to discuss, historians note, top-secret, “off the record” government matters – probably including ET visitation – on December 6, 1960. The duo did so again within the Oval Office on January 19, 1961. The new president's younger brother, Robert Francis Kennedy (1925-1968), was so curious about UFOs he called in aforementioned Army officer Phil Corso for such discussions “on several occasions” in 1962, the retired colonel recalled three decades later in his popular book. Corso said he knew that by briefing Bobby he was also informing Jack, fully realizing RFK - the U.S. Attorney General and virtual co-president - would swiftly take the data back to his big brother, who was so famously enthused by NASA and the growing space program and its noble moon landing goal. 

JFK-era ET tales inevitably lead us to this aging but important claim: retired Air Force One “load-master and flight steward” William “Bill” Holden revealed in later years that he once brought up the subject of UFOs to a seated President Kennedy as the young man served him on board the famous plane (in June of 1963, on a flight to Germany). Kennedy gave the ET matter some quiet thought before replying that he'd love to reveal all to the public on UFOs “but my hands are tied.” Was this a quick reference to the same military/governmental barriers that the previous president found himself up against when contemplating a public speech in the mid1950s? 

Bill Holden worked on Air Force One for Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon (but only one trip.) Holden said in an interview he had heard talk about the amazing Eisenhower '54 encounter. “I believe he was in Palm Springs and he was getting ready to play golf and all of a sudden he said, 'I’ve got a toothache,'” Holden told questioner Kerry Cassidy on camera in 2007. “So he goes all the way to Edwards Air Force Base,” where “a mother-ship was seen coming in. There were several UFOs coming in,” Holden recalled learning. The airbase was shut down, and this lock-down lasted for three days. “An agreement was signed between the U.S.” and the visiting ETs, retired Mr. Holden noted. “I have been able to find in civilian records, newspaper accounts, and everything else” confirming evidence the Edwards ET event did happen, William stated firmly (despite missing the mark on the “dental emergency” saga, as we've seen). 

Although its authenticity is in dispute, there exists a CIA memorandum from Director Allen Dulles to President Kennedy from June of 1961 that mentions “MJ-12 activities” - or the study of recovered spaceships and data from and about friendly aliens - and how they were once “classified under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954.” So once again we see the subject of atomic power linking the American scientific community; the federal government; and extraterrestrial issues... and there's that special year again: 1954. 

So now we come to another tantalizing tale of JFK and UFOs/ETs with a possible atomic bomb twist to it... 

An American gentleman who runs a paranormal website claims that in the autumn of 2000 he communicated with a USAF vet who was once stationed, in 1963, at an airbase in Corvallis, Oregon. We'll call him “Perry.” His specialty was as an Air Force photographer. It seems Perry made a most startling claim 37 years beyond his heyday: that he was asked in September of '63 to fly in a small private plane for about three hours “with two men in suits” to an unnamed “secret airfield.” There he met President Kennedy and snapped his picture - posing with a real live alien! 

To inject an important point here first: JFK seems to have been quite fond of having his photo taken. He posed a great deal during his presidency with family, friends, administration members, Oval Office visitors, and foreign heads of state. For most of this, he employed his own official White House photographer, Cecil William Stoughton (1920-2008), formerly of the Army Signal Corps. Respected reporter/author Seymour Hersh (1937-) stated that to his astonishment in his JFK research, he learned the promiscuous president also loved to pose in a White House bedroom with his private mistresses, sometimes wearing masks but little else. The resulting adult snapshot would be taken by a Secret Service agent to a D.C. art gallery, where the owner would fit it with a nice frame. The agent in a dark suit would then monitor the framing process and make sure no copies of the astonishing sex photo were made. When done he'd take the item back to JFK at the executive mansion. Allegedly, Kennedy loved somewhat reckless, brazen fun, and recording it for his own sake. So therefore, was staging an alien greeting photo at a “secret airfield” the same general modus operandi? 

Perry said the peaceful extraterrestrial being with President Kennedy that memorable day was “a head taller” than the chief executive, sporting “a gray jumpsuit,” with long limbs and “big black eyes.” Not far away was the alien's round spacecraft, “with a ladder” leading out of an opening, down to the flat runway. Curious lettering was visible on the side of the airship; Perry alleged it read “ATIPACIL,” which might have meant, “Atomic Testing In Pacific Islands.” 

While all of this sounds far-fetched and unproven, it is a fact that in September of 1963 President Kennedy went on a substantial “conservation tour” of U.S. western states, stopping at Air Force bases and airports, speaking to large crowds to gin up support for preserving the earth and establishing peace through reduction of atomic weaponry and its testing (including in the Pacific Islands). The last stop on this noble, lengthy tour was Palm Springs. Yes, it was back to the Crosby estate at 3:10 p.m. on Saturday, September 28th , but why? There was no big speech, no golf, no public appearance, and no activity listed at all, in fact, nothing is listed on Kennedy's official diary of appointments from 3:10 until the following morning. That Saturday evening a special cocktail party was set up for “the presidential press corps, entertained by the Desert Press Club,” according to the Palm Springs newspaper. Obviously, this was the key opening JFK needed for a covert trip to a nearby airfield, to meet 'n' greet ETs in secrecy, at least in theory. After Sunday morning church services on the 29th the president and his party zipped to the Palm Springs airport by 11:20 a.m. and quickly took off for our nation’s capital. He was back at his desk early Monday morning, the 30th .

Could President John Kennedy during that Saturday late afternoon/evening have been quietly flown out to Edwards Airbase, and then back without being recorded? Well, yes, of course. And that desert installation was about three hours in flight time for a twinengine craft, from Corvallis, Oregon, the webmaster reported discovering after carefully measuring Perry's claim. But Edwards AFB was hardly “secret airfield” with just one tower and a small ground crew, as Perry remembered seeing while picture-taking unless it was a far-flung part of the huge Muroc lake-bed facility. But about those lingering rumors regarding a smaller airfield in Desert Hot Springs or Palm Desert... one that Kennedy may have visited before, regarding ETs and UFOs... that matches Perry's wild story well. 

{To conclude Perry's fascinating but unsubstantiated story, he said he was flown with the federal agents from the mystery airfield back to his Oregon base, where he developed the photos in his office and handed them (and the negatives) over to the feds. They left after warning him to keep silent or else. Perry said he did take one fully developed and secretly stashed photograph of JFK and the ET back to his own home to allow his wife to view it, as a witness, then he destroyed it. After relaying these statements in 2000, Perry stopped responding to further communications, so that seems to be the end of the mysterious Kennedy-ET claim. The UFO website's owner/researcher felt that the Air Force photographer's service record was solid, and his story was at least possible.} 

Throughout his time in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy pushed hard for a global nuclear test ban, precisely what aliens wanted. He managed to negotiate successfully with the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom and the resulting “Limited Test Ban” agreement was signed in August of 1963. The new accord banned detonations in the air, sea, and or up in space, what Dwight's “Castle” testing program exploited. It was to take effect in full in the coming year – 1964, a decade from the Muroc/Edwards encounter and its possible ten-year treaty with atomic-bomb-concerned aliens. {Unfortunately, such huge atomic detonations continued within American and Russian soil, exploded underground – in fact more than ever, sadly. This area was not covered in the historic new agreement.} 

Tragically, JFK was murdered in Texas on November 22, 1963, under still-murky circumstances, but he should be remembered and lauded to this day for at least scaling back what President Eisenhower escalated – the U.S. arsenal of nuclear bombs went from just over 1,000 when Dwight took office to over 22,000 when he left the White House! Little wonder visiting, observing aliens were aghast and landed to express their concerns. 

Texas-based Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973) took over that dark day in Dallas as the new president, eager to keep the country on an even keel and its standing in the world community reliable. He was seemingly very busy... yet naturally, within a month in office, President Johnson surprised the press by suddenly announcing his plans to visit arid Palm Springs. Less than two months later he too traveled to the far-flung desert, just like his predecessors. 

It seems that in late December of 1963, Johnson decided to meet with the president of Mexico, mostly over resolving a minor but nagging land dispute on the two nations’ border, near Texas. The conference between the two leaders and their top aides would not take too long since, in LBJ’s own words, “Relations between the United States and Mexico have never been better.” It is customary for a U.S. president to receive a foreign head of state at the White House, perhaps with an official South Lawn greeting ceremony and even a state dinner. And to confer in the privacy of the Oval Office with the door shut, after press photos. Or maybe at the LBJ ranch outside Austin, Texas, much closer to Mexico for its president, Adolfo Lopez Mateos (1909-1969), and also to the problem area in question. But that is strangely not what was planned or took place over two months later. 

The lanky liberal Lyndon decided to fly with his wife; his press secretary; and his loyal Secretary of State (plus a State Department contingent) across the country to Palm Springs. Of all the times and dates for this act, Johnson chose the evening of Thursday, February 20, 1964... missing by one day the exact tenth anniversary of Ike's excellent adventure! 

Private meetings between LBJ and Mexico's Mateos were also held in Coachella Valley on Friday the 21st . According to White House records, the two famous leaders then took limousines to the Eldorado Country Club in Palm Desert, where they met private citizen Dwight D. Eisenhower, and then posed for news photographers. After dinner, the trio reconvened for drinks at the Eisenhower home on the 11th fairway, from 6:20 to 6:45 p.m. Then the two current leaders left Dwight and Mamie at Eldorado and headed elsewhere that night. What was discussed behind closed doors that night remains a mystery, but it was likely mostly small talk mixed with governmental affairs. 

Records reveal that President Johnson and ex-President Eisenhower met again on Saturday, February 22, 1964, at a private home in the Las Palmas suburb of Palm Springs where the Johnsons were staying, existing news photos and articles reveal. “Johnson Changes Plans, To Remain at Resort Extra Night,” read an Associated Press headlined news article for the afternoon editions on the 21st , indicating an unscheduled extension in his Palm Springs visit, just like Eisenhower a decade earlier. LBJ and Mateos “had breakfast today” in the early morning, then for some reason, the American president was too busy to participate when the Mexican president held a press conference, keeping the media occupied. Press shutterbugs at one later point snapped images of Johnson and Eisenhower conversing outside the sunlit upscale house, then heading inside, deep in thought that was never detailed to the public. What happened after that is unknown. 

Oddly enough, meanwhile, at the Palm Springs airport, two “Air Force Ones” were parked, the press noted. One was for the president, and one was an identical backup airplane, landing about fifteen minutes ahead of LBJ’s aircraft, the night of 2/20/64. “Air Force Two” is normally assigned to the vice president, but Johnson had none in 1964. Both big planes came to a halt in front of the bright lights of the press and eager public, wanting a good view of the relatively new American First Couple as they initially arrived. 

It has to be asked, speculatively: did Johnson and Eisenhower somehow find a way to sneak over to Edwards Airbase that Saturday 2/22/64 for any alien-related matters? As we'll see, there certainly was an open window for “jumping out” and attending to such spine tingling issues. {This is not to be confused with LBJ officially inspecting the Edwards base on 6/19/64, for that was for just one hour, surrounded by staffers, news people, congressmen, records show.} 

Later on that Saturday the 22nd , Johnson and Mateos reconvened to dine at the private estate of “a Texas oil and real estate developer” on West Stevens Road. The twosome – with a secretary present - talked out a host of issues, nothing very critical, as White House notes (found digitized online today) explain. The Palm Springs summit conference between the two nations’ presidents was deemed a success, coming on the heels of their initial LAX meeting and UCLA ceremony the previous day. An agreement was drawn up that February of '64 about the Texas-Mexico land dispute and signed by Mr. Johnson and Mr. Mateos. But was that the only written treaty that was of importance during the special presidential visit to Palm Springs?

The fact is, when first talking to reporters back in late December of 1963, in what was dubbed “a surprise announcement,” President Johnson mentioned openly that he would likely visit retiree Eisenhower, who was going to be briefed ahead of time by none other than the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency – Dwight's former Atomic Energy Commission chairman - John Alexander McCone (1902-1991) to prep for Johnson's visit. Atomic energy? It was for some reason very important for Eisenhower to have the lowdown on sensitive intelligence matters in that field before he had a chance to sit down with Lyndon in his Eldorado home almost two months later. News articles even mentioned how unusual this was, and that such impending presidential visits are not normally declared to the press and the public until a few weeks beforehand. The mid-February Eisenhower-Johnson encounter was quite calculated and prepped for. But like Ike in '54 and '59, and visiting JFK two years earlier, why didn't LBJ simply stay at a hotel? Why did it have to be at a private estate? It belonged in this case Louis J. Taubman (1923- 1994), a wealthy Texas/Oklahoma oil executive. Back in December, the Taubmans were contacted about utilizing their estate at 925 Coronado Avenue for hosting the Johnsons. Did Mr. Taubman – like Helms and Sinatra before him - also add some extra phone lines and Secret Service accommodations in time for the president's visit in late February? Their mansion already boasted five bedrooms and a whopping ten bathrooms, so adding an entirely new guest wing was likely felt unnecessary. And of course, news reporters were not allowed anywhere near the Taubman estate for the high-level meetings; only later did the State Department reveal some of the nature of the summit chat, seemingly rather mundane.

Adolfo Mateos left Palm Springs for first Los Angeles on Saturday evening, then Mexico City. Johnson oddly remained, and what he did that night, and on Sunday morning and afternoon, remains an intriguing mystery. He did not leave until Sunday night, 2/23/64, headed back aboard Air Force One for D.C. with the First Lady and a full entourage. This late Saturday/most of Sunday time gap certainly left Lyndon Johnson – with Dwight Eisenhower? - plenty of time to duck out of view of the press and public to attend to secret, classified extraterrestrial matters. 

The 1989 DIA briefing document about “Majestic-12” stated: “During a contact debriefing in 1964, an EBE explained that this was a hardship for them.” This was a reference about ETs having to “rotate at twenty-two-year intervals” their “stationed mother-ships” where they cannot be detected by mankind, just beyond our evermoving solar system. But take note of two keywords: “contact” and “1964.” Could this alleged alien-human interaction have taken place at Edwards AFB (or another, smaller airfield nearby) during Johnson's February '64 visit? Speculative, yes, but it would make sense, considering the expense, time, and trouble it took to arrange the tall Texan's special, out-of-the-way trip. It might also explain a second Air Force One being present. {We can't ask Dwight's personal pilot, who commanded the three different Columbine “AF1” planes, USAF Colonel William G. Draper (1920-1964); he allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in November of '64.} 

Things gets more “coincidental,” five years later. Appointment logs show that on February 19, 1968 – the ET summit's precise 15th anniversary - President Johnson received at 12:17 p.m. an Oval Office long distance phone call of about ten minutes long from “President Dwight Eisenhower, Indio, California.” 

The Palm Springs Desert Sun newspaper noted that President Lyndon Johnson came back to the valley “to golf and soak up the sun” - with Eisenhower. Naturally, this next co-presidential event took place on February 21, 1968. The press noted that on the day before, war-weary Johnson “made an impromptu tour of military installations in this area.” Was Edwards Airbase included? With aging Ike? All we know for sure is that LBJ made a surprise visit to the Navy carrier U.S.S. Constellation in San Diego harbor and even stayed there overnight, supposedly, before flying to Palm Springs and huddling with elderly Eisenhower r in private, and out on the links. 

Additionally, Truman administration member Charles S. Murphy recalled in an interview meeting with President Johnson on April 18, 1968, on LBJ's way back from a trip to Hawaii. Johnson made sure to stop at Edwards Air Force Base, “and President Eisenhower came up and had breakfast with him.” Murphy vividly remembered being impressed at how coherent and insightful Eisenhower was, despite his increasing health woes, at a wider meeting besides the two chief executives conferring alone within an Air Force One private cabin, from 7:15 to 7:40 a.m., and then again from 9:05 to 9:30. a.m., records show. {However, LBJ's logs claim this all took place during a stop at March Airbase, 100 miles from Edwards AFB.} 

Mr. Eisenhower died in March of 1969 and Mr. Johnson died in January of 1973, so both men did not live long enough to see the next tenth anniversary of any alleged alien agreement's update in 1964. However, LBJ's Oval Office audiotapes reveal the two men spoke fairly often over the telephone, so any face-to-face meeting about any matter that was not revealed to the public becomes increasingly intriguing. 

“Ufologists” have not found a great deal to dig into regarding the rest of the Johnson administration (1963-1969) when it came to possible alien visitation - minus the puzzling Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, incident. That's when something round and metallic came crashing down in some woods near that small town on December 9, 1965. The impact site was about 140 miles from Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower’s rural Gettysburg home, but more contemporary research shows that this “UFO” crash might have been in reality merely a downed Russian satellite.

The Kecksburg affair originally began way up in the North American sky with “a large, brilliant fireball seen in six states, dripping hot metal,” most notably in the state of Michigan. That was the home state of the U.S. House Minority Leader, Gerald Rudolph Ford (1913-2006). A Freemason; a Republican Party leader; and a U.S. congressman since the late 1940s, Ford was pretty familiar with fellow conservative Eisenhower as well as liberal Johnson, who appointed Jerry to the controversial Warren Commission in 1963. Future President Ford certainly showed genuine interest in UFOs when in 1966 the representative from Grand Rapids tried to get a federal investigation started into a controversial wave of UFO sightings in his home state, one that eventually the Air Force looked into and famously (and ridiculously) dismissed as “swamp gas.” In a spring 1966 letter by Congressman Ford to the Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, Jerry wrote: “I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomenon... It is important that we learn where UFOs come from and what is their purpose.” 

Jerry Ford’s later presidential administration was so brief (1974- 1977) it produced nothing of substance on UFOs, but when it was over retired Mr. Ford sent a letter to an American citizen interested in the subject stating he received zero help from his government on the matter during his time in office. The Fords had retired to the Palm Springs area following his presidency, buying up two homes fronting Dwight's beloved Thunderbird Country Club golf course. Jerry golfed the many desert courses there quite often after Eisenhower's death and perhaps a few times before it, possibly even meeting him there. {Ford was an early 1952 political supporter of Ike's.} But what Gerald R. Ford knew about any presidential alien airbase encounters at Edwards or in New Mexico is not known. 

President James Earl Carter (1924-) took office just after Ford, and as previously mentioned once filed an official UFO report years after having witnessed a rather large flying craft of changing colors move slowly about in the Leary, Georgia, sky. Although Carter originally recollected this event happened in October that year, records show that it had to have been at 7:15 p.m. on January 6, 1969. Several other startled people watched the craft alongside Mr. Carter outside a Lions Club meeting hall that evening. “It seemed to move towards us from a distance. It stopped, moved partially away, returned, and then departed.” It was a luminous object “about the size of the moon.” But the moon had not yet risen, and there was no breeze. “It was bluish at first, then reddish.” The closest it came was at about 300 yards away, then it disappeared in the distance. 

During his presidential campaign of 1976 Jimmy – an amateur astronomer - told reporters: "It was the darnedest thing I've ever seen. It was big, it was very bright, it changed colors and it was about the size of the moon. We watched it for ten minutes, but none of us could figure out what it was.” Jimmy Carter filed a report with the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) on September 18, 1973, a year before he decided to run for president, it should be noted. Carter promised to bring transparency to the U.S. government's dealings with UFO reports if elected president: “If I become president, I'll make every piece of information this country has about UFO sightings available to the public. I am convinced that UFOs exist because I have seen one.” He walked that promise back when he took office, saying he had concerns relating to "defense implications." Shirley MacLaine in 2007 wrote: “I discussed the UFO phenomenon with President Jimmy Carter. He told me once that he tried to shed some sunshine laws” on the topic because he had seen one himself, “but he said elected officials are told such things only on a “need to know” basis.” 

In 2007 elderly Mr. Carter strangely, abruptly backtracked on his UFO incident, claiming to the media he simply saw something skyward he didn't recognize back in '69 and that he now doubted it was truly extraterrestrial in nature. His filed report description and various other statements certainly sound otherwise. Mr. Carter very rarely golfed as president (from 1977-1981) but may well have visited Palm Springs on another pretext, however, no one seems to have a record of it. The same could be said for his possibly stopping by Edwards Airbase as president. His rural home/farm in Plains was/is 220 miles from the Georgia Guidestones, notably created during his presidency. Jimmy probably never met Dwight Eisenhower, so we'll move on to a commander-in-chief who knew Ike pretty well...

President Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004) was a visitor to Palm Springs so many times no one can count them all. First as a Hollywood actor and occasional golfer, then as a political figure. Reagan spent many a stint campaigning in the desert community. He was in town for various official functions as a two-term governor of California, such as when Reagan set up a Republican Governors Association meeting in 1968 in Palm Springs, with then-House Minority Leader Gerald Ford addressing the esteemed group. Dwight Eisenhower attended too, still residing at nearby Eldorado. Aspiring to the presidency even then, Governor Reagan huddled with Dwight and posed for pictures with him, and again when visiting the area at other times. 

One person who claims to have learned that Ronald Reagan personally reviewed photos and documents on otherworldly humanoids who once landed at Edwards was a rather esteemed physicist/engineer who supposedly once worked there: Dr. Edward Leverne Moragne, Ph.D. (1915-2000). Nearly eighty when he spoke up, Dr. Moragne publicly declared that he worked at the legendary airbase while researching acquired alien hardware for the U.S. Department of Defense in the late 1960s and early 1970s when Reagan was governor of California. This was a special, top-secret DoD project back then, Ed said, under the aegis of the Defense Intelligence Agency (which, again, produced the January 1989 briefing report on aliens, while Reagan was still in office). But here's the upshot: Dr. Moragne told Linda Moulton Howe that there was indeed a landing by humanoid extraterrestrials at Muroc/Edwards, perhaps more than one, “sometime in 1964,” and that alien technology was gifted upon Air Force officials during that time. Which could well mean that President Lyndon Johnson did go to Edwards about ETs during his mysterious Palm Springs summit that mid-February! And maybe Dwight Eisenhower (again) too? 

All of this became the subject of a classified report that Governor Reagan supposedly absorbed in the mid-'60s, highly intrigued, understandably. Dr. Moragne alleged that nearly four rows of military guards and even more rows of electrified fencing secured where he worked, within the special Edwards Airbase “Hangar 8,” where a gifted alien spaceship supposedly was being kept for scientific testing. {For more details on Dr. Moragne's singular claims, see Howe's mighty www.earthfiles.com.} 

During World War II, liberal actor Ronald Reagan served as a captain with an Army Air Force Public Relations Unit. Conservative politico Ronald Reagan in later decades was said by his pilot, Bill Paynter (a former Air Force colonel), to have witnessed with others an otherworldly flying “bright object” in the night skies of September 19th , 1974. He saw it at length while peering out of a window of his campaign airplane as it zipped along near Bakersfield, California, some 200 miles north of Palm Springs and just 80 miles from Edwards Airbase. Paynter remembered decades later: “It appeared to be several hundred yards away," initially approaching from the rear. It was "a fairly steady light until it began to accelerate. Then it appeared to elongate. Then the light took off. It went up a 45 degrees angle at a high rate of speed.” Everyone on board the sleek Cessna was surprised and thrilled. Neither Reagan nor Paynter could offer a satisfactory human-based explanation for the UFO, and Ronald Reagan never discussed the incident in public. 

“Ronnie” was also rumored to have seen a UFO on a second occasion in California as well, but confirmation is lacking. These notable sightings were of course kept hushed for decades, for the reserved Reagans didn't want to be seen as “kooky,” especially while in office (1981-1989). Once he was re-elected president in late 1984, however, Mr. Reagan began mentioning the idea of ETs visiting planet Earth, noting to the United Nations, “I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet I ask: is not an alien force already among us?” It was a stunning statement, one that the Republican leader soon figured he needed to back out of; he quickly claimed that the threat of war itself was this “alien threat,” which of course is nonsense. 

As president, Ronald Reagan vacationed in the Palm Springs area a whopping total of 41 days, records show. The First Couple had several wealthy friends (some from show business) living in the area, now growing more popular and crowded. In early January of 1984, for example, the Reagans stayed at the same Walter Annenberg mansion that the Nixon’s guested in ten years before. During the key February 19, 1984, date, however, President Reagan simply attended to routine business at the White House, taking no mysterious 30th anniversary trips to Palm Springs or Edwards AFB. {As it turns out, however, handsome Ron Reagan appeared in some Palm Springs homes – and all across America – the Friday night of the Eisenhower encounter, as a performer on the February 19th , 1954, television drama “Schlitz Playhouse of Stars.”} 

Author Linda Moulton Howe has done considerable research into a special March 1981 Camp David meeting that President Reagan convened with the heads of the CIA, DIA, and NSA. According to rumors, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency briefed Reagan on alien visitation, laying out the details of how at least five or more extraterrestrial races were sending representatives to earth to observe humanity. Some of the information the new chief executive received was allegedly not at all comforting, in that at least one of the visiting races were said to have been hostile, prompting a discussion of American defenses in case of an alien attack. Whether the friendly human-like beings that once landed and communicated with Eisenhower were mentioned to or with Mr. Reagan is unknown, but seems in hindsight quite possible. 

According to Ms. Howe, at that Camp David site, President Reagan was also briefed by a knowledgeable CIA operative known as “The Caretaker,” the so-called “custodian of UFO secrets for thirty-one years.” He supposedly informed the fascinated new chief executive that the spaceship crash debris and dead bodies recovered from the July 1947 New Mexico event were hauled initially to Roswell Army Airfield, then to other Air Force installations. One small alien was still alive, however. The ET was treated for some minor injuries and then taken to Los Alamos National Laboratories to reside – just like “Setimus” a year later. The overall matter of alien visitation was/is to be squelched at all costs in order to avoid igniting a media firestorm and a public panic, Reagan was informed, and again that reasoning sounds quite familiar, from the Truman/Eisenhower days.

Oscar-winning movie-maker Steven Allan Spielberg (1946-) is rumored to have been briefed by “a friend with military connections” on the 1954 Eisenhower-ET encounter when readying his script for eventual 1977 classic movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” where peaceful aliens land in advanced craft on an airbase runway in the western desert of the United States, met by Air Force officials at night. The film plot can't just be coincidental, but the Spielberg connection to our tale herein doesn't stop there... 

A whopping 35 years after the fact, Mr. Spielberg at last discussed his special visit on June 27, 1982, to the Reagan White House, to exhibit for the First Couple his newest motion picture, “E.T., The Extra-Terrestrial.” The film turned out to be one of the biggest smash hits of all time, an instant classic. When the screening ended, the Reagans were visibly moved, so much so that the president stood up, looked around as he composed himself, and then blurted out before many guests (including some astronauts): “We really enjoyed your movie. There are several people in this room who know that everything on that screen is absolutely true.” To this Spielberg added in a 2017 interview: “And he said it without smiling.” So it was no joke, not to the president who had access to classified UFO files and updated briefings from the military and government officials. Spaceships were on everyone's minds that mid-'82 day; hours earlier the Columbia space shuttle took off from Cape Canaveral in Florida, viewed on White House TVs. Many years after the executive mansion film screening, a presidential staffer recalled that President Reagan asked the assembled movie-viewing group: “How can we be one hundred percent sure that there are no other forms of life out there?” Some in the screening room looked quite stunned in response. {Source: “Movie Nights with the Reagans” by Mark Weinberg.} 

So let's quickly review what the movie “E.T.” is all about: a small humanoid-type alien being – who is peaceful, intelligent, and (eventually) speaks English – finds himself cut off on planet Earth from his extraterrestrial family, who take off in a spaceship. The friendly alien is given shelter by a few welcoming Americans and manages to build a communications device to send out high frequency radio signals to his otherworldly brethren, to come back to Earth and pick him up. This was the dramatic conclusion of the film story; an advanced alien spacecraft lands and takes the creature to safety in the end. 

Does that plot sound just like the “Setimus” situation, or what? 

On top of all this, according to the fine research of UFO author Grant Cameron, just a few days after viewing Spielberg's cinematic masterpiece, President Reagan flew on Air Force One to Edwards AFB to watch the landing of Columbia out on the dusty dry Muroc lake-bed. Mr. Cameron also noted that in October of '82, just as the Eisenhower-ET story was making headlines via some newspaper accounts, President Reagan flew to Roswell, New Mexico, and spoke at their old Army Airfield, site of the 1947 UFO crash recovery process. His campaign speech there was to promote a former USAF pilot and Apollo astronaut who had become a U.S. senator. Reagan even stood not far from where the dead bodies of gray alien beings were once said to have been handled, 35 years earlier! And in his delivery, he even mentioned Spielberg's “E.T.” movie. Eerie. 

As the 1980s continued, Reagan's fascination with the cosmic subject seemed to increase. For instance, in a televised interview, the former Soviet Union's ex-premier, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (1931-), said of a November 1985 meeting with then President Reagan: “From the fireside house, President Reagan suddenly said to me, ‘What would you do if the United States were suddenly attacked by someone from outer space? Would you help us?’ “I said, ‘No doubt about it.’” “He said, ‘We too.’ So that’s interesting.” Mr. Reagan, on speaking to Gorbachev, recollected: “I couldn't help but say to him, just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from some other species from another planet outside in the universe.” {Remarks to the students and faculty at a high school in Fallston, Maryland, on December 4, 1985.} He described the same general extraterrestrial scenario in a speech at the United Nations in New York City on September 21, 1987, and again at a public forum in Chicago on May 4, 1988. No wonder his daughter, Patti Ann Reagan (1952-), once remarked that her famous father was “obsessed with UFOs and life on other planets.” 

But what about his loyal vice president of eight years? 

President George Herbert Walker Bush (1924-2018) - and later his son, President George Walker Bush (1946-) - seldom seemed to mention the subject of ETs. Elder Bush was once head of Central Intelligence and knew how to keep classified state secrets. His tight lipped policy was shown in the fall of 1988 when asked about UFOs by an avid researcher while on the campaign trail in Arkansas; GHWB simply retorted: “I’m very careful in public life about dealing with classified information.” On UFO’s he replied, “I know some, I know a fair amount,” about the subject, before swiftly ending the give-and-take. His one-term administration produced no particular UFO revelations (from 1989 to 1993). Long afterward when out on the campaign trail in 2016, stumping for presidential primary support for his son Jeb, a man in the crowd raised his hand to ask a question, regarding the U.S. government’s role in relating the truth about extraterrestrials on earth. “Americans can’t handle the truth!” the 91-year-old Mr. Bush suddenly snapped, just before embarrassed event organizers hurriedly put a stop to any follow-up questions.

It should be mentioned that elder Bush – then a young man - consulted with President Eisenhower back in the day, photos show, and that his father – U.S. Senator Prescott Sheldon Bush (1895- 1972), Republican from Connecticut – was a fairly close confidante to Eisenhower (and Nixon) during his presidency, becoming golfing buddies in Washington. G. H. W. Bush so enjoyed golf he possibly went along at times... and then he went along with being named President Ford's Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (1976- 1977), learning plenty but saying nothing. A former high-ranking CIA employee, Victor Leo Marchetti, Jr. (1929-2018), spoke out in 1979, asserting: “We have indeed been contacted - perhaps even visited - by extraterrestrial beings, and the U.S. government, in collusion with other national powers of the Earth, is determined to keep this information from the general public.” {Oddly, Bush and Marchetti died a month apart in the fall of 2018.} 

The two-term administration of “the son,” fellow conservative George Walker Bush, from 2001-2009, was marred by the terrible 9- 11 terrorist attacks in Washington and New York City. Thus the “Second Bush” White House rammed through government secrecy laws and strict regulations on releasing classified materials, meaning any talk of leaking data on UFOs and past presidential encounters was out of the question. Blackout conditions and covert intelligence action behind the scenes “for reasons of national security” became the name of the game in America, and nothing was learned from the Oval Office on the touchy topic of alien visitation. After his presidency, “Dubya” mentioned on a TV talk show that his daughters asked about the subject and he replied that he couldn't tell them anything. Couldn't... or wouldn't? 

Both Bush men were avid golfers; both visited Palm Springs in their day; and both also stopped by Edwards Air Force Base. What they did or learned there is a complete conundrum, unfortunately. Elder Bush visited with retired President Ford when in Palm Springs and golfed aplenty there, which the two ex-chief executives once did on national television with aging comedian Bob Hope, alongside our next elected president of the United States... 

William Jefferson “Bill” Clinton (1946-) actually seemed to display a healthy curiosity about aliens in general when in office (1993- 2001). Mr. Clinton naturally flew to Palm Springs and golfed there, once even in a trio as mentioned with Ford and elder Bush, at a televised pro-am tournament held on February 15, 1995. Clinton even mentioned in a speech his desire to learn the truth about the 1947 Roswell incident. Several years later, in 2014, ex-President Clinton spoke on an ABC late-night talk show and admitted he had asked for government ET files while in the Oval Office. He added, “If we were visited someday, I wouldn’t be surprised.” He didn't say if we as a nation had already been contacted, but grudgingly summed up on camera: “It’s increasingly less likely we’re alone.” 

President Barack Hussein Obama (1961-) and his wife loved visiting Palm Springs, known as “The Playground of Presidents.” In fact, it was the Obama’s first stop after leaving the White House and a later rally in January of 2017. When searching for a good site to confer with the leader of China back in June of 2013, President Obama arranged a conference in Palm Springs, where he stayed/golfed at Sunnylands. The Obamas visited the Coachella Valley region at least five more times during his tenure (2009-2017), according to media reports. One such visit took place (again at Sunnylands) in mid-February of 2014 to summit with the visiting King of Jordan. It was just days away from the sixtieth anniversary of the Eisenhower encounter. Very reminiscent of summiting LBJ and Mateos in '64. Was there another ET treaty expiring and needed secret review or renewal? And why make the King of Jordan travel across our country to meet when an East Coast (or White House) confab would have been far less taxing on him and his entourage, arriving in the USA from the Middle East? 

The next American president, the controversial Donald John Trump (1946-), was for decades an obsessed golfer and very active businessman who visited Palm Springs several times and hit the links at the upscale, exclusive country clubs there. He was seen - and photographed by the press - in the village as far back as 1991, and two years later participated in the widely televised Bob Hope Desert Classic held there. It is unknown if he visited Edwards Airbase during his tumultuous term (2017-2021). Perhaps it is just a coincidence, but Mr. Trump did initiate his special “Space Force” program through a White House directive dated February 19, 2019! And he has also expressed in interviews his great admiration for President Eisenhower. Trump even recalled waving at him when Dwight was passing by in his presidential limousine in New York City when Donald was a boy. His father was reportedly a big Eisenhower booster as well. When asked once by Fox News in 2019 about UFOs, President Trump replied that he “might consider” opening Roswell files but that he was not a believer, yet “anything's possible.” His son interviewed him on the same news outlet in June of 2020 and managed to illicit the following response on the possibility of opening UFO files: “So many people ask me that question. There are millions and millions of people that want to go there, that want to see it. I won't talk to you about what I know about it but it's very interesting. But Roswell is a very interesting place with a lot of people that would like to know what's going on." When Trump Jr. pressed his father on whether he would declassify details about the Roswell ET crash of 1947, the president merely said, "I'll have to think about that one."

While sitting and future presidents think about it, we at least have a strong clue what's going on without their assistance, thanks to the now-accumulated data about President Eisenhower's actions, so long ago. Incredibly, Dwight was uniquely positioned to have personally known – and/or perhaps influenced – every U.S. chief executive from the late 1920s' President Herbert Clark Hoover (1874-1964) to the early 1990s (George H. W. Bush). {To be fair, Eisenhower didn't know Hoover until the 1950s and didn't influence President Roosevelt on anything but military matters in Europe.} But still, Dwight Eisenhower's shadow looms (lightly) even today with Mr. Trump's continuing affection for him. 

The bottom line: 

When you boil down this presidential UFO topic overall, it is clear that fearless Dwight David Eisenhower knew the alien score much better than all of the other leaders combined, but may have shared only some of what he knew in private with them - while the American people were kept completely in the dark, essentially lied to “for their own good.” 

Probably most of our United States chief executives have known the staggering truth but have quite willingly followed the Truman/Eisenhower approach: silence, sidestepping, and shading the facts, to avoid all kinds of possible complications, even after these men get out of office. They feel it's their patriotic duty, and fear what might happen to their legacy and their loved ones should they reveal too much. Life went on, without disruption or upheaval. 

Hopefully, an open-minded, knowledgeable United States president will someday show the political courage and personal curiosity to read his DIA briefing and report candidly to the entire human race on UFOs/ETs. Until that day all we can do is follow the juicy rumors, clues, and fun facts listed herein and then speculate with reason and logic. What else can thinking human beings do? Invite extraterrestrials to set down and summit with us on our own, and then have them reveal what went on with American presidents in the past? There may be dozens of races coming here, entities that would have stories to tell. 

And that leads us to our conclusion...

EPILOGUE 

Final Thoughts “Complete diplomatic status and recognition to these individuals from beyond our world.” 

— a 1989 DIA briefing document 

Yes, it's a cold, hard, unavoidable fact: no United States president has ever come forward with the complete, candid facts on alien visitation to planet Earth. Likely for fear of mocking ridicule, or triggering a panic, or losing an election, they just won't touch it. From the old Truman/Eisenhower era, to right up to the present day, it's always the same old tiresome evasiveness and misdirection in public when they are pressed on the subject. A skeptical mainstream media is no help, either, barely touching upon the topic without disbelieving snickers and derisive comments. 

However, contained within the final assessment summary at the end of the 1989 Defense Intelligence Agency report – a section entitled “Statement of Position” - one discovers that since the curious 1940s and '50s human-like visitors to earth – like good ol' “Setimus” - had been deemed tranquil and even helpful with “great and many cultural and technical advances {that} have been derived by such exchanges,” privately American leadership has made some very important friends in high places, so to speak. Many of our presidents have been informed of this, it would seem, and all have quietly upheld Dwight Eisenhower's formal treaty with this specific race. But it's just one species. It's probable there are many more “out there.” 

And not all of them are very friendly, one can reasonably postulate. And therein lies the problem of disclosure. 

Theory: A continuing peace was established by “Ike” in 1954-'55 with an entire race of high-tech humanoid visitors, officially reinforced by Eisenhower-signed agreements, and covertly extended or renewed by other U.S. presidents for decades after. American commanders-in-chief and their top staffers from DIA, CIA, and NSC know much more than what they let on but even in a supposed “open democracy,” we the public are kept in the dark for reasons of “national security” and “avoiding panic and social disorder.” They have felt it for the overall good. This might be an indication that there are also rotten, soulless ETs in our orbit, entities that would do us harm if they felt so compelled. The Dark Side. It's probably real and we as a planet are in a kind of quarantine from all of them. If one kindly race is barely allowed in, to trade with us behind-the-scenes, then that's it, it's all mankind can handle. The other races have been contacted by our “favorites” (by Setimus himself?) and have agreed to barely show up now and then, and remain quite aloof overall. The agreement has held. 

That's pure speculation, yes, but not foolishly so. To try to explain further... 

Laid out in the 1989 document, our national behind-the-scenes stance towards visiting benevolent extraterrestrials from Eisenhower's day was as follows: 

“We hereby grant full, complete diplomatic status and recognition to these individuals from beyond our world. Furthermore, let it be known that we seek to provide shelter, comfort, and aid in all of their peaceful endeavors, so far as these are respective of the laws of our land and the right to self-determination and free will expressed in our national constitution. And until the objectives or methods of either parties in this agreement shall deem otherwise, this bond between our people shall remain in effect.” 

These might be the very dictated words of President Dwight David Eisenhower in 1954, set into print at some point and signed on behalf of the entire United States government and its military powers (yet apparently not ratified by either house of congress). It was all done in great secrecy and still operates that way. Perhaps the '48-'49 “Diplomat Setimus” cooperation was a template for this '54-'55 agreement and ongoing top-secret exchanges, and the same goes into our future. 

So it was mutually beneficial that every U.S. president since Eisenhower remain silent and skeptical in public, and stay that way, today and into the future. If we want the advanced extraterrestrials' goodies, we'll hold to this stated treaty, to put it rather bluntly. It's predicated, of course, on if the sympathetic human-like aliens can keep their buzzing about in our skies and their visits on the ground to a brief, bare minimum. To not brazenly set down and approach Americans in small or large groups, such as in bustling major cities, scaring the populace into massive, fearful chaos. Then we're good. 

But what about all of the other races coming here? Scaly lizard types; little gray insect types; and huge, blonde Nordic-types, as mere common pop culture examples? They have been seen briefly from time to time, on terra firma and within their spaceships. Again, it is very speculative, but it would seem plausible for the congenial human-type ETs to have taken whatever treaty that was drawn up and signed by Eisenhower (and his top advisers) back to their multicultural “floating space lab/apartment complex,” (author's description). That is, the three huge, cloaked, undetectable alien mother-ships that are supposedly “parked” outside our solar system, as the 1989 intelligence brief mentions. The site of other intergalactic races of curious visitors, where they live in presumed peace and work (on science projects, evidently), coming and going to earth in much smaller scout ships. They are fascinated by us, and some want to help us, while others probably couldn't care less if humanity lives or dies, they simply have their studies to diligently perform. 

 these other races sign the Eisenhower compact too? And possibly hand over advanced technology and advice? If so, it makes Dwight's actions all the more critical and far-reaching, truly worth pursuing and planning over a year in advance. And if so, it would explain why Mr. Eisenhower met in July '54 with ETs, and then again in February of '55, getting all the necessary alien signatures for his deal would have taken time, as corny as it sounds, along with receiving any data and material in return from the races of visitors within the agreement. 

Remember, the controversial January '89 DIA document explains that not just humanoids, but various alien entities have existed “in huge interstellar craft,” or three very large “mother-ships” that avoid the strong gravitational pull of physical worlds and are thus “placed into a “parking orbit” far outside the planetary family (solar system) of any star they approach.” This trio sounds almost like our man-made, orbiting space stations, or mobile alien office/apartment complexes! Thus different species utilize different types of smaller shuttle crafts that can survive the electromagnetic gravity fields of Earth to come here and dart about, and at times land, like those at the 2/19/54 event. Then they flit on back to their home station in so-called “outer space,” undetected by humanity (again, thanks to cloaking techniques). Presumably once there – within their trio of floating, high-tech residence/laboratories - the different races of advanced species – humanoids, grays, “Nords,” etc. - examine, log, and compare experiences and scientific data recorded on earth. They monitor our land, our waters, and our skies, worried about our pollution levels. They monitor our human condition and civilizations, our space program, and our arms build-up... but also our tendency towards violence, selfishness, and greed. They monitor our plants, animals, and microscopic lifeforms as well. Even our melting polar ice caps and changing CO2 levels... perhaps this dangerous and alarming situation most of all. 

It is conjecture, sure, but perhaps dozens of visiting alien species were able to agree to the treaty's provisions, as ever since '54-'55 we've seen only fleeting glimpses of ETs zipping through our skies, sometimes caught on camera, all without any direct, landed involvement - or an invasion. Eisenhower's dedicated efforts kept us safe. It's such a mind-blowing concept – all these different visitors with different agendas! - that U.S. presidents simply can't refer to it. It's just too complicated to explain, for the average citizens to handle psychologically, all at once. After all, we still have people in America and around the globe who moronically believe the Earth is flat, and/or don't understand that it revolves in orbit around the sun along with other planets within our arm of the Milky Way galaxy, one of many millions in the incredibly vast cosmos. 

Hence the evasive responses, dismissive sarcasm, or mere silence from our American commanders-in-chief. It's much simpler and quicker that way and preserves mankind's sanity and daily order. 

Yes, it would Eisenhower was an even greater American/world hero than we imagined. Any trip today to the Dwight Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum in Abilene, Kansas, will not help the inquisitive among us, seeking proof. Its director remarked in a 2019 interview that his office receives “ten to twelve requests” per month on the Eisenhower-ET incident. He said he tells such researchers that their 29,000 library documents have extremely few references to UFOs - “occasional” papers do for cabinet officials, “such as the National Security Council” - but then admits that many sensitive documents could well have been removed from the presidential files before they were even allowed in the building, in the early 1960s. {This author was visited the library/museum some decades ago, and also toured the nearby Eisenhower childhood home.} The Eisenhower library does “have proof of the dental work, that part of the story is true,” the library/museum director made sure to point out on camera, and he is correct on that point, especially since past UFO researchers have operated under the wrong date for the so-called “first contact” theory, Saturday night, February 20, 1954. 

Perhaps the most tragic part of this saga is that the human-like ETs who set down at Muroc/Edwards on 2/19/54 in hopes of helping us correct our planet's ecological downward course were rejected by President Eisenhower. That is, their well-intentioned anti-atomic bomb testing advice; their revolutionizing advanced energy technology offer; and perhaps also their fatherly guidance for the rapidly-expanding human race on earth (which may have ended up chiseled onto the Georgia Guidestones). Strict policies about the entire highly classified subject of direct contact were considered “Above Top Secret” and that was that. We missed out on plenty. 

However... 

By late 2020, such restrictive official policy might be slowly melting. Citizens worldwide have cellphones and digital cameras. They're recording unusual imagery and placing their UFO home videos online. Many are going viral, impressing the world. TV shows are picking them up and treating them with respect, instead of ridicule. Even military footage and airport radar returns on unexplained craft are hitting the airwaves. “Ancient Aliens” on the History Channel has been helping to shape opinions and open minds, every week for years now. Authentic government documents hinting at, or fully describing, alien visitation have been leaked here and there, in small dribs and drabs. Rock star Tom DeLonge's “To the Stars Academy” has done admirable work in attempting to gain insider access to government sources. Grudging minor admissions and accidental “hot-mic” slips by governmental figures have been slowly mounting. Nowadays it's getting tougher and tougher to deny humanity is being graced by observers from other planets or dimensions. Over 65 years after the '54 Edwards ET affair, citizens of Earth are generally far more accepting and understanding on the topic of celestial entities coming here, conditioned for decades by absorbing UFO/ET-related news stories; paranormal podcasts; documentaries; fictional movies; monthly magazines; and wacky TV sitcoms. The general public at last could well be ready, emotionally... braced up mentally... slowly but surely... for disclosure. Or at least partial disclosure. What the CIA used to call “Limited Hangout.” Some even feel it is genuinely coming soon, or even quietly underway now. 

So perhaps in the years to come, a seated United States president, surrounded by a new generation of tech-loving advisers, will make the call to throw open old files and vaults in order to finally reveal this unavoidable conclusion: we're a fascinating race that attracts other races, all of them more advanced, some more friendly than others, keen on studying us and our troubled planet. And that Dwight Eisenhower was a pioneer in this field, leading the way with direct contact and communication. 

Until that hoped-for day of disclosure, the defense rests, and the case is now in the hands of you, the jury, the people of planet Earth. Are you ready to render a verdict?

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