Wednesday, June 09, 2004





"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 this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien threat already among us? What could be more alien to universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?"

--Ronald Reagan, United Nations General Assembly, September 21, 1987

I like the bit about the alien threat "already among us." You have to wonder if Reagan was privy to any "sensitive" UFO information, up to and including the aftermath of the alleged Roswell crash.

Mikhail Gorbachev had this to say about Reagan's ET musings:

"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. It is much more important to think about the problems that have entered in our common home."

In 1990, Gorbachev went on record with the following:

"The phenomenon of UFOs does exist and it must be treated seriously."

(Suggested reading: "UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union" by Jacques Vallee, "UFOs and the National Security State" by Richard Dolan, and "Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good.)

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