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President Ronald Reagan - Official Portrait
Tomorrow, nearly 250,000 pages from the Reagan administration will be released for the first time. The release resulted from an April 9 letter to the National Archives and Records Administration from President Obama’s legal Counsel, Gregory Craig. The letter ordered the release of the records which had earlier been held up by the Bush administration. President Bush never decided if he should assert ‘executive privilege’ effectively preventing their release. In contrast, President Obama decided not to exert executive privilege in the 30 day period set by his January 21 Executive Order on presidential records (EO 13489).According to Politico, the pages to be released contain information on Reagan’s “presidential briefing papers, speechwriting research materials and declassified foreign policy records.” The papers are important since President Reagan often included references to extraterrestrial life in his speeches. These extraterrestrial references eventually became part of a tug of war between President Reagan who tried to include them in speeches, and staffers who tried to exclude them. Monday’s release of further Reagan presidential records may shed light on President Reagan’s fixation on the reality of extraterrestrial life, and why he was convinced this could unite the world. More intriguingly, they may yield clues into whether he received a secret briefing on UFOs and extraterrestrial life.
During his presidency, Ronald Reagan made numerous speeches referring to the existence of extraterrestrial life and how this could unify the world. In a November 1985 Summit Meeting in Geneva with the Soviet Union’s Secretary General Mikhail Gorbachev, Reagan said the following according to the U.S. State Department:
Reagan said that while the General Secretary was speaking, he had been thinking of various problems being discussed at the talks. He said that previous to the General Secretary’s remarks, he had been telling Foreign Minister Shevardnadze (who was sitting to the President’s right) that if the people of the world were to find out that there was some alien life form that was going to attack the Earth approaching on Halley’s Comet, then that knowledge would unite all the peoples of the world.
According to UFO and the Presidents researcher Grant Cameron, there was no record of this extraterrestrial comment in the speech writers’ files, and he concluded Reagan was an ad-libbing.
Later in December 1985, Reagan spoke at Falston High School and said:
I couldn’t help but - when you stop to think that we’re all God’s children, wherever we live in the world, I couldn’t help but say to him (Gorbachev) just how easy his task and mine might be if suddenly there was a threat to this world from some other species from another planet outside in the universe. We’d forget all the little local differences that we have between our countries and we would find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this Earth together.
Again, Cameron found no record of the extraterrestrial remark in speechwriter files and concluded Reagan was ad-libbing.
The most famous alien comment by Reagan was on September 21, 1987 before the United Nations General Assembly:
In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside of this world. And yet I ask - is not an alien force already among us? "
Cameron notes that Reagan succeeded in having these comments re-installed into his speech after they had been deleted by staffers.
Reagan’s views about extraterrestrial life were not dismissed by the Kremlin. Gorbachev did eventually respond in a serious way to Reagan’s scenario of an extraterrestrial invasion. In February 1997, Gorbachev responded to Reagan’s comments at their 1985 Geneva Summit.
At our meeting in Geneva, the U.S. President said that if the earth faced an invasion by extraterrestrials, the United states and the Soviet Union would join forces to repel such an invasion. I shall not dispute the hypothesis, although I think it’s early yet to worry about such an intrusion.
Also in May 1990, after Reagan had left office, Gorbachev said: "The phenomenon of UFOs does exist and it must be treated seriously."
The numerous references to extraterrestrials in Reagan’s speeches and the international dialogue this created raise many serious questions. The Reagan administration took great care to vet his speeches in accord to strict guidelines. Cameron notes that despite “these strict guidelines many UFO references were still found in Reagan speeches and comments. The question is why they were there.” .
A final question to consider is whether President Reagan received a classified briefing on extraterrestrial life. According to an alleged briefing document, Reagan was given an official briefing between March 6-8, 1981 by various national security officials that was highly classified. The Reagan Presidential briefing document is yet to be substantiated and has been widely dismissed by most UFO researchers. The alleged briefing document, however, does raise the possibility that Reagan was given a briefing, and some of what is in the document is based on fact. Monday’s release of additional presidential files will help resolve unanswered questions about Reagan’s views concerning extraterrestrial life, and why these appeared so frequently in his speeches. If President Reagan was indeed secretly briefed about extraterrestrials, then clues may be revealed about the officials involved and what he was told.
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