quotes by other famous people

Joe Biden – 7 terms as Senator from Delaware and 2008 Democratic nominee for President in reply to the question – Do you believe in UFOs?
I’ve never met Dennis Kucinich and I don’t know Governor Richardson. No I don’t think there are UFOs. No I don’t think the government…  What the hell are we talking about? This has gone downhill real quick.

Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia's chief counsel and attorney who had a top secret clearance and subpoena power - to Dr. Steven Greer
"Look, this subject -with a top secret clearance and subpoena, I have not been able to penetrate it. You're dealing with the varsity team of all super secret projects. Good luck." [laughs]...

George Bush Sr. 1988 in reply to releasing the UFO files if elected as President
Yes. If I can find out what it is…it really is

George W. Bush in reply to if he will release the truth on UFOs.
"This man (Dick Cheney) knows. He was Secretary of Defense…And was a great one. It will be the first thing he (pointing to Cheney) will do. He'll get right on it."

George W. Bush to reporters on his campaign plane in response to a Weekly World News from page story showing George Bush shaking hands with an alien who was predicting his victory in the 2000 election.
"My alien encounter is further proof of my commitment to expanding the Republican Party’s appeal. New faces, new voices. It goes to show that I am willing to reach across certain demographic lines."

George W. Bush speaking to the Military Academy in Roswell, New Mexico January 22, 2004
I heard you had reports this morning of an unidentified aircraft. Don’t worry it was just me.

Jimmy Carter- 1976 presidential campaign
I don’t see any reason to keep information like that secret, but there may be some aspects of the UFO information which I am not familiar that might be related to some secret experiments that we were doing that involve national security or new weapons systems. I certainly wouldn’t release that.

Jimmy Carter - November 2007 speaking to CNN following the Kucinich UFO question in the Democratic debate on October 30.
I think it is impossible in my opinion – some people disagree, to have space people from other from other planets or other stars to come here. I do not believe that is possible.

General Wesley Clark - Sept. 27, 2003,  in New Castle, New Hampshire
"We need to look at the realms of applied and higher mathematics.  I still believe in E = mc squared.  But I can't believe that in all of human history, we'll never ever be able to go beyond the speed of light to reach where we want to go.  I happen to believe that mankind can do it.  I've argued with physicists about it.  I've argued with best friends about it.  I just have to believe it.  It's my only faith-based initiative."

General Wesley Clark, Reno Nevada, October 30, 2004 in reply to whether or not he was briefed on UFOs
I heard a bit. In fact, I'm going to be in Roswell, New Mexico tonight. There are things going on. But we will have to work out our own mathematics.

Col. Bill Coleman, Air Force Spokesman to Project Blue Book responding to a question from film producer Robert Emenegger as to why the Air Force had been so forthcoming in providing information and films to the 1974 documentary “UFOs, Past, Present and Future.”
“The Secretary of the Air Force ordered it to be that way.”

President Dwight Eisenhower – December 1954 White House News Conference
The last time I heard this talked to me, a man whom I trust from the Air Forces said that it was, as far as he knew, completely inaccurate to believe that they came from any outside a planet or otherwise.

Albert Einstein – Talking to President Truman about the “shoot-them-down” order of UFOs flying over Washington DC on July 19, 1952 - As quoted by national radio host Frank Edwards.
Mr. President, anyone who can cross millions of miles of space will be able to take care of themselves when they get there. Don’t start something you can’t finish.

President Gerald Ford – March 17, 1998 letter to George Filer
"During my public career in Congress, as Vice President and President, I made various requests for information on UFOs. The official authorities always denied the UFO allegations.”

Sir Eric Gairy – Prime Minister of Grenada 1974-1979- repeatedly called for a special group within the UN to investigate UFO's.
I was privileged to see what I consider an Unidentified Flying Object very far out in the sky and it was going at tremendous speed. I could not identify any movement within the object. It was just a tremendous light. ..We would be naive to accept any theory that earth is the total estate of God’s domain. There must be other planets. There must be other creatures. There must be other living things. We are not the most intelligent of God’s creatures.

Mike Huckabee – Former Governor of Arkansas and 2008 Republican candidate for President
I believe in G-O-D not U-F-O.

James Irwin – Apollo 15 astronaut to Frank Stranges after backing out of speaking at a 1976 UFO convention where he was going to “inform us of the strange things he saw on the surface of the moon.”
Look, I have a pension to worry about. I have a family to take care of, and they told me to just back away from this entirely or else.

James Irwin – (on tape) to a famous Canadian pilot
He told me the story here in the hanger…as soon as we were by ourselves. He turned to me and he looked at me and said, “I’m going to say something that is Top Secret. If you repeat it I will deny ever having said it.” He said they weren’t there (on the moon surface) an hour and a saucer landed a mile away from them and we asked Houston if we could motor over and say howdy. They said ‘no ignore them and pretend they’re not there, and carry on about your business.’ He said the all the time we were there they saw no sign of movement, and they were still there when we left.

Senator Robert Kennedy - Letter to UFO researcher Robert Barrow, October 2, 1965
“I am keeping myself abreast of information developed on this subject.”

Robert Kennedy – Letter to Ralph Rankow, August 15, 1965
“If it were desirable to hold congressional hearings on the question of unidentified flying objects, I would certainly agree that they should be open to the public.”

Henry Kissinger speaking of UFOs
The subject is the biggest hot potato of all time.

President Lyndon Johnson – Writing as Vice-President to a letter about a UFO photo written by Ronald Anstee - September 21, 1961
While we would not be in a position to send an expert in response to each such request, we are always willing to investigate all responsible reports or claims of evidence.

Melvin Laird (Former Secretary of Defense under Richard Nixon) May 9, 1994 Letter to Laurance Rockefeller
“The whole question of declassification of any government projects which might have been associated with unidentified flying objects seems to be on the right track…I am sure that should classification be lifted, some individuals will be disappointed as certain of these phenomena will be pretty well explained. Any review will certainly disappoint some individuals who have built up some rather extreme antidotal and uncollaborated accounts which the removal of classification might discredit to a large extent.

Dr. Scott Jones – Head Human Potential Foundation and Aide to Senator Claiborne Pell who was part of the Rockefeller UFO Initiative to the Clinton White House – writing to President Clinton’s science Advisor February 17, 1994
From what I have been told, a Pentagon spokesman was less than civil in a verbal response to a GAO investigator when asked about Roswell. The alleged response was “Go shit in your hat.” If that is accurate, it is my opinion an unfortunate reply. It could reflect that he was having a bad day, or it could be a recent example that unwillingness to discuss the subject.

Dennis Kucinich when asked October 30, 2007 if he had seen a UFO at the home of actress Shirley MacLaine
"I did, And the rest of the account -- I didn't -- I -- it an was unidentified flying object, okay. It's like -- it's unidentified. I saw something. Now, to answer your question. I’m moving my -- and I'm also going to move my campaign office to Roswell, New Mexico and another one, an Exeter, New Hampshire, okay... And also, you have to keep in mind that more -- that Jimmy Carter saw a UFO, and also that more people in this country have seen UFOs than, I think, approve of George Bush's presidency.''

Dennis Kucinich – October 31, 2007 Ashville, North Carolina
What I wish I had said if I had thought about it a little bit more…I didn’t get any messages or anything, but what I should have said is “Ya, Tim (Russert), it spoke to me” and said ‘Take me to your leader,’ and I said, “No, not this guy – he doesn’t like illegal aliens.”

Kucinich to Michigan JWR radio
I later learned after this story surfaced that 40 million Americans have seen things in the sky that they thought they couldn’t identify. I also learned that President Reagan and President Carter at one time or another saw UFOs. So it may just be that seeing a UFO is a prerequisite to becoming President.

Elizabeth Kucinich – October 30, 2007 responding to her husband being asked about his UFO sighting
They always try to belittle Dennis, and that’s fine. UFO means Unidentified Flying Object, I think it’s fun but I also think it’s a waste of time when there are important things we should be talking about.

Elizabeth Kucinich April 8, 2008 in Berlin Germany
I think it’s a very arrogant position for the human race to think that in the multitudes of planets and stars that are out there that we are on only place in the universe that has life…I would suggest though that if governments did understand or want to make public that there might be extraterrestrial life or they have evidence to show the evidence, I have a syndical mind that it would be used as a means to weaponize space, to create more fear, to create more control through government control, as opposed to liberating the human experience in understanding that there is life elsewhere. I would be used negatively.

Mikhail Gorbachev
"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, though I think it’s early yet to worry about such an intrusion."

Mike Gravel – Two term senator and 2008 Election candidate when asked if he would disclose the UFO secret if elected.
Yes, I’m curious too.

Rudy Guiliano after being asked about the possibility of an alien invasion - October 15, 2007
“Of all the things that can happen in this world, we’ll be prepared for that, yes we will. We’ll be prepared for anything that happens.”

Dr. Jack Gibbons – Science Advisor to President Bill Clinton who initiated a new investigation into the 1947 Roswell crash – memo to the President –August 1995
I told him (Rockefeller) that you strongly favor openness in government, and that we need his help in pushing for strong support of your science and technology investments that congress is cutting. He knows that we are trying to be helpful in responding to his concerns about UFOs and human potential—and that we are keeping an open matter on such matters—but I’ve made no secret about my conviction That we must not be too diverted from more earthly imperatives.

Jackie Gleason on the Long John Nebel Radio Show, November 16, 1958
I told Ed Morrow (pioneering CBS correspondent) I think the biggest story in the world is flying saucers if there are such things. I said let’s do a documentary on flying saucers. Now who do you know in Washington who would know if there are flying saucers, or would tell us if it’s a fool’s gold and we should forget about it? He says I’ve got the guy General so and so. So we call the guy up (1966) and the guy says to Ed “Don’t get me in this thing. I don’t want to get near it. It’s too hot down here. I don’t want to handle it, and you might as well forget about the project. You will get no cooperation.”

Morrow hung up the phone and he looked at me and repeated to me what the guy had said to him on the phone. Then he looked at me and said, “How about that. There are flying saucers.”

Mikhail Gorbachev, 'Soviet Youth,' 4 May 1990.
The phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously.

Mikhail Gorbachev, Speech at the Grand Kremlin Palace, February 17, 1987
The US President said that, if the earth was faced with 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, though I think it’s early yet to worry about such an intrusion.

Billy Graham- Evangelist – writing to Laurance Rockefeller May 20, 1993
I was most interested to hear of your desire to get the classification of documents changed so that they will be available to researchers and those who have interest in the so-called UFOs etc. I think you are exactly right, that since they are reviewing the whole classification process, many documents will probably become available that have not previously.

Adm. Hillenkoeter, first head of the CIA (Feb. 28, 1960, NY Times, 'Air Force Order on 'Saucers' Cited').
"Through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense... to hide the facts, the Air Force has silenced its personnel."

Dorothy Kilgallen – Noted American Journalist – 1954
Flying saucers are regarded as of such vital importance that they will be the subject of a special hush hush meeting of the world’s military heads next summer.

Anthony Lake – National Security Advisor to President Bill Clinton answering a question about the Roswell crash on the Diane Rehm show November 3, 2000
I had never been let into this conspiracy (Roswell UFO crash), even as national security advisor so I tried to prove a negative afterwards that there is no alien being held there. What I should have said in fact is that the alien does not look anything like the alien in Independence Day.

Shirley MacLaine – Larry King Show, May 1995
He (Jimmy Carter) told me many times when I first wrote “Out on a Limb” that he would support me, that it was true, that there were occupants, why should we be the only people in the universe. He wanted to sun the sunshine laws on it- to expose it – to see how the people would react to it, but he didn’t, and wouldn’t, and couldn’t, as he explained to me.

Shirley MacLaine – Interview Abovetopsecert.com – November 2007
He (Jimmy Carter) told me when he was President, because he had see a UFO – he told me that he had gone into investigating with his intelligence what they were etc. and he was told that basically the President or the Executive Branch is not on a need to know basis, and I saw him not too long ago. I was campaigning for his son in Nevada, and we had dinner together and I asked him again, and he said, “I don’t know.”

Victor Marchetti, former Executive Assistant to the Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency
If it were concluded that UFOs were not of terrestrial origin but, rather, vehicles from outer space, the CA and the US government, aware that the phenomena was of worldwide nature, would seek cooperation in the investigation of the earth’s other technically advanced nations, such as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and even the USSR. The CIA would function as the US government’s agent, just as the KGB would be the USSR’s, MI6 would be the UK’s, and so on. These agencies…are quite accustomed to operating with each other on matters of mutual interest.

Edgar Mitchell – on tape speaking of who knows the truth about UFOs
The only people that I know who claim to have been in that position are former intelligence, military, government, and some contractor people who official duties in the early days were to investigate this and know about it. Those people were under, at that time, great restrictions and high security clearance that prevented them from telling the general public about it. It would appear that that period has long passed, but they are still under security restrictions, or at least believe that they are. Thus then, in the past, there seems to have been a great deal of secrecy and security. Today I don’t know that anyone in government per say really has any information.

Benito Mussolini – Italian Dictator of Italy in World War 2 – speech February 23, 1941
The United States are far more likely to be invaded, not by soldiers of the Axis, but by the not so well known but warlike inhabitants of the planet Mars, who will come down out of space in their unimaginable flying fortresses.

Adm. Lord Hill-Norton, former Admiral of the Fleet, former chief of the UK Defence Staff, and former chair of the NATO Military Committee (Nov. 11, 2000, Daily Mail, 'Aliens under the sea').
"If you look at the evidence and still do not believe something very odd is going on... you've brought scepticism to an art form. Anyone who does not believe in alien activity should be required to prove why they don't, rather than the other way round."

Barack Obama – October 30, 2007 in reply to the question “Do you believe there is life beyond earth?
You know, I don’t know, and I don’t presume to know. What I do know is that there is life here on earth, and that we’re not attending to life here on earth. We’re not taking care of kids who are alive and who are unfortunately not getting health care. We are not taking care of senior citizens who are alive and who are seeing their heating prices go up. So, as President those are the people that I will be attending to first. There may be some other folks on their way.

Lester B. Pearson – Prime Minister of Canada (1963 – 1968) and key player in the creation of NATO and the United Nations – Speaking after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957
Perhaps there is a hopeful possibility here in the conquest of outer space. Interplanetary activity may well give us planetary peace. Once we discover Martian spaceships hovering over Earth's air-space, we will all come together.
"How dare they threaten us like this!" we shall shout, as one, at a really United Nations!

John Podesta – Bill Clinton White House Chief of Staff
Las Vegas Review Journal October 23, 2002
"My tendency is to try and err on the side of openness rather than on the side of secrecy, and I think a thorough review about whether more information could be brought to light (about Area 51) would be a worthwhile enterprise."

John Podesta - Sci-Fi News Conference October 22, 2004
I think it’s time to open the books on questions that have remained in the dark;  on the question of government investigations of UFOs. It’s time to find out what the truth really is that’s out there. We ought to do it because it’s right; we ought to do it because the American people quite frankly can handle the truth; and we ought to do it because it’s the law.

Bill Richardson – To Dell Employees in Austin,Texas – October 26, 2007
Well, Look I’ve been in government, I’ve been in the cabinet; I’ve been in the Congress. I’ve always felt that the government doesn’t tell the truth as much as it should on a lot of issues. We have some privacy and national security issues that should be more open, and I’ve always felt that. This was the Roswell aliens. He was very polite and didn’t say that. I remember asking. I had my constituents ask me, and I was the Congressman. I said Department of Defense, Los Alamos Labs – What is this? What is the data you have? They said it’s classified. That ticked me off. That reflects what I said then. I also believe that we have to find a way to open up our secrecy and privacy laws. So many things are classified. However, I do respect the human being’s right to privacy. What do you want me to do? Do you want me to open up all those files? Sure I’ll work with you on that.

Bill Richardson – MSNBC – October 30, 2007
You know, I’ve never seen one. You know that Roswell, New Mexico is the hotbed of UFOs, and I promote Roswell as a tourism issue, but there is no credible evidence…I’ve never seen one. I doubt of their existence, but I admit, I’m the governor of the state and I push the tourism promotion side like Billy the Kid 2. You know I’m also trying to bring tourism to my state.

Ronald Reagan to Steven Spielberg – June 27, 1983 – During a screening of “ET-The Extraterrestrial” at the White House.
"You know, there aren’t six people in this room who know how true this really is."

Mitt Romney- 2008 Republican Presidential Candidate – November 2, 2007 in Cleveland Ohio responding to a reporter’s question of whether he believed in extraterrestrials.
I'm afraid I do not believe in extraterrestrials visiting earth.

Donald Rumsfield speaking to Dr. J. Allen Hynek when questioned whether he could be briefed on the truth of UFOs.
"You have no ‘need to know’”

Steven Spielberg – not sure of source but have this on audio.
I don’t know if Area 51 was in fact a place that was used to dissect a spaceship and transfer the occupants to Wright Patterson Air Force Field in Dayton Ohio so the story goes. I’d like to believe it’s true but I know a couple of Presidents who have certainly not been clued in, or at least are telling me they have not been clued in as to the existence of ANY hard evidence that we have been visited.

President Harry Truman – July 1952 – in reply to the question “Did the Joint Chiefs of Staff talk to you or concern you about UFOs?”
Yes, we discussed it with every conference that we had with the military, and they were never able to make me a concrete report. There’s always things like that going on, flying saucers and we had other things.