UFOs and the White House_ What Did Our Presidents Know and When Did They Know It

251 Pages·2018·2.663 MB·English

by  William J. Birnes & Joel Martin

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Print ISBN: 978-1-5107-2430-3
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-5107-2431-0
Printed in the United States of America
Dedicated to the late Jimmy Breslin from Queens Boulevard,
a columnist and reporter who always shot straight.
“Flying saucers are real, and we know what they are.”
—President Harry Truman
CONTENTS
Introduction
Governors John Winthrop and William Phips, UFOs in the
Chapter 1
Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the Salem Witch Trials
Chapter 2 George Washington and the UFO at Valley Forge
President Thomas Jefferson’s UFO Report to the American
Chapter 3
Philosophical Society
Chapter 4 Lincoln’s UFOs
Chapter 5 President William McKinley and the Texas Airship Mystery
Chapter 6 Teddy Roosevelt and the UFO Sighting Over Sagamore Hill
FDR’s Presidency, World War II, and the UFO Flap over
Chapter 7
Europe
Harry Truman: Roswell, the Summer of the Saucers, and
Chapter 8
MK-ULTRA
Chapter 9 We Liked Ike
JFK, the Marilyn Monroe Conspiracy, and All the
Chapter 10
President’s UFO Memos
Chapter 11 LBJ and UFOs
Chapter 12 Nixon, “The Great One,” and the ET in Florida
Chapter 13 President Gerald Ford’s Quest for UFOs
Chapter 14 The Turbulent Presidency of Jimmy Carter
Chapter 15 President Ronald Reagan and UFOs
Chapter 16 George H.W. Bush: “Americans Can’t Handle the Truth!”
Chapter 17 The Clintons Come to Town
President George W. Bush, Vice President Cheney, and the
Chapter 18
UFOs
Chapter 19 The Obamas and UFOs
Hillary Clinton’s Promise of ET Disclosure and the John
Chapter 20
Podesta Email Flap
The Age of Trump: Aliens, New Disclosures, and Climatic
Chapter 21
Armageddon
Notes
Photos
Introduction
OUTSIDE THE OVERTON
WINDOW
Winston Churchill once noted that what we call history is actually
written by the victors, describing the way the winning party line
tends to prevail over the opinions of others. And so it is with American
history, especially as it’s taught in schools. The orthodox opinion prevails
even in the face of contrary evidence. The chapters in this book will
challenge the normative historical interpretation of the American
presidency by presenting facts you might never encounter in a schoolroom
or a college class.
Did you know, for example, that President Harry Truman, the plain-
speaking “Show Me State” politician who made the decision to unleash
nuclear weapons on the world, was also one of the first presidents to step
forward and declare unequivocally that flying saucers were real and that the
American government knew what they were? Of course you didn’t.
Did you know that just days before his assassination in Dallas, President
John F. Kennedy instructed the branches of the military and the CIA to
release all their UFO files to the Soviets before releasing them to the
American space program? Or that the president was whispering pillow talk
to his mistress Marilyn Monroe about “little men from outer space” kept at
a secret military location? Probably not.
How about President Reagan’s not one but two UFO sightings, his
administration’s having been run by an astrologer, or his using an astrologer
to pick his vice presidential candidate in 1980 by analyzing the star charts
of his political short list? You probably knew about President Car-ter’s UFO
sighting and also that presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, the victim of