I guess we've had our own share of moonbat loons. Like Reagan, Douglas MacArthur, and more. For an eye-opener, see http://www.presidentialufo.com Some examples:
"On June 27, 1982, a year after Reagan entered the White House, Ronald Reagan made one of his most famous alien remarks when he hosted Steven Spielberg in the White House. Spielberg was at the White House to present a private screening of his soon to be released movie called 'ET: The Extraterrestrial.'
"Following the screening the President leaned over, clapped Spielberg on the shoulder, and quietly commented, 'You know, there aren’t six people in this room who know how true this really is.'
"The showing of E.T. was the last event on June 27th. The very next event the next morning, June 28th, was a meeting between President Reagan and James A. Baker 111, Chief of Staff; Edwin Meese 111, Counselor; and Michael K. Deaver, Deputy Chief of Staff; met in the oval office. From there the four men went to the highly secure White House Situation Room where the President participated in a briefing of the U.S. Space Program. Participants included six members of the National Security Council or National Security Affairs and no one from NASA. The absence of anyone from NASA for a briefing of the U.S. Space Program is unheard of.
"A couple months later, probably still inspired by the E.T. movie, President Reagan showed up in Roswell, New Mexico to give a speech for the re-election of Harrison (Jack) Schmitt. Schmitt was a Republican Senator from New Mexico who as an Apollo 17 astronaut was the last man to walk on the moon.
"Like Reagan, Schmitt had publicly played both the investigator and the agnostic. On a positive note Schmitt declared, 'If the government has any information on UFO's, it should be released to the public -- barring anything that might affect national security. We ought to be involved in a search to find out if there's any good evidence that UFOs really are spacecraft that are being piloted by extraterrestrial beings...the existence of intelligent life elsewhere in our universe is highly probable, given the huge number of sun-like stars that exist out there...'
"War hero General Douglas MacArthur spoke of 'an ultimate conflict between a united human race and the sinister forces of some other planetary galaxy." Mayor Achille Lauro of Naples, Italy, quoted MacArthur as telling him, "the earth would have to make a common front against attack by people from other planets.'
"A few years after MacArthur’s statement, Brig. Gen. John A. McDavid, USAF, Director of Communications-Electronic for the Joint Chiefs of Staff made a similar statement about a possible conflict with extraterrestrials during an Air Force approved speech at Milliken University, Decatur, Illinois. 'Before long, people may be forced to realize and accept as a fact that this earth is only an infinitesimal grain of sand in an infinite universe,' declared McDavid. 'The human is one of many forms of life with which God is concerned and others are superior to us. And if this is true, our meeting with other types of existence in other places in the universe quite likely will increase the potential element of conflict rather than reduce it.'"
LOL! Naaa...MacArthur wasn't eccentric, was he? This UFO stuff is nothing but bunk. It's the 20th and 21st century equivalent of gnomes and brownies. I've read many accounts of UFOs and watched hours of documentaries on the subject. I've seen nothing compelling to make me believe there's anything to 'em.
Not to mention there is now an entire cottage industry for people who sell and ply their wares to an easy market.
I'll keep reading about it and I'll watch the documentaries (was even one this morning on the History Channel), but I won't be holding my breath.
Oh yeah, and UFO release of info was a campaign promise by Jimmah Carter. That tower of ration thought! LOL