Toward the end of the televised Democratic presidential candidates’ debate on MSNBC Tuesday, Oct. 30, NBC’s Tim Russert asked Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich about published reports that he had once seen a triangle-shaped unidentified flying object.
Kucinich stated briefly that, yes, he did see something that was unidentified (at least to him), was apparently flying and appeared to be an object.
Illinois Senator Barack Obama was also asked about extraterrestrial life and he spun it in a reasonable way by saying he was concerned with life on Earth and living beings in the United States.
During the analysis segment after the debate, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews followed up on the issue with New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson.
Matthews pointed out that Richardson’s home state is associated with UFO lore due to the stories about “the Roswell incident.”
Richardson responded that, in his view, the federal government should be more straightforward and release classified information about these topics.
But he stopped short of saying he believed there was anything to the issue of actual contact with Earth and humans by visitors from other planets, dimensions or some other unusual point of origin.
Richardson said he does deal with the issue as a way to promote tourism in New Mexico and stated that he has not seen a UFO.
He, like Obama, did not want to get drawn into a discussion about extraterrestrial visitors to Earth or UFOs. This is understandable for a politician seeking high office.
WRIGHT-PATTERSON, ROSWELL, O’HARE
It is interesting that these three candidates are from states with significant involvement in the UFO issue.
Kucinich, from the Cleveland area in northeastern Ohio, is just a few hours drive from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, in southwestern Ohio.
Wright-Patterson, according to lore (some of it very well-researched), is where wreckage and possibly extraterrestrial bodies were taken in the summer of 1947 after the Roswell crash of an unusual craft.
Wright-Patterson was, and still is, involved in testing and analyzing foreign aircraft materials and technology.
The base reportedly was involved in the UFO issue for many decades. Project BLUEBOOK, a UFO investigation effort (or some say cover story operation) was based at Wright-Patt.
This brings us to New Mexico’s Richardson, who says he doesn’t mind promoting Roswell as a tourist destination, and feels the federal authorities (or whoever is in charge of the UFO situation) should be more forthcoming with the American people.
For those few people not familiar with the accounts of the so-called “Roswell incident,” as the story goes, a crash of an object at a remote sheep ranch in July 1947 resulted in the rancher bringing strange debris into the local county sheriff’s office.
The nearby Roswell Army Air Force (RAAF) base was contacted. The base intelligence officer and counter-intelligence personnel investigated and reportedly came the conclusion that a “flying saucer” had crashed there.
The base public affairs officer issued a press release stating this which made worldwide headlines, before a more down-to-Earth explanation (or cover story) about a weather balloon was issued.
Richardson has seemed somewhat strong in the past about advocating the release of information about Roswell and the general topic of UFOs. After the debate, though, he seemed to back off a bit when questioned directly by Matthews.
And Obama made his comments almost exactly one year after a highly unusual incident at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. On Nov. 7, 2006, a gray, metallic, disc-shaped craft was witnessed hovering over O'Hare by many airport and airline employees. The incident made news around the world.
Witnesses reported that the object had no visible lights and it was estimated to be 6 feet to 24 feet in diameter. The object was reportedly in a stationary position and was silent. It hovered just below the cloud deck which was estimated to be 1,900 feet that day.
A SENSITIVE SUBJECT
No matter how you cut it, UFOs and the visitation to Earth of extraterrestrial or other unusual beings are controversial topics. Yet, many people find these subjects thought-provoking and interesting.
Did the U.S. Government become acutely aware of this kind of situation in the summer of 1947 in Roswell? Were extraterrestrial bodies or even a live survivor recovered?
Did we establish communications with other nations about this scenario? Was a special group of scientists and military officers established by President Harry Truman to deal with this development?
Those are some of the claims of researchers who have tried to get insight into the stories, rumors and documentation about UFOs.
How big is your imagination? Some researchers claim that the U.S. established communication and diplomatic relations with these “visitors” and that they provided our government with advanced technology and knowledge.
There is a story that President Dwight Eisenhower met with a different type of extraterrestrials at Edwards Air Force Base in California in 1954.
Yet another story alleges that the U.S. Government trained a small team of military personnel as part of an exchange program in the 1960s with the Roswell type of visitors. This program reportedly sent the U.S. team to another planet, via the visitors’ space craft, for over ten years.
According to tales about this program, Steven Spielberg’s movie CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND referenced the operation as part of the film’s plot.
President Ronald Reagan reportedly made a comment about Spielberg’s movie being closer to the truth than most people could imagine. And Reagan made a well-known speech about how humanity would become unified in the face of an extraterrestrial threat.
President Jimmy Carter and other witnesses aboard an aircraft spotted a UFO of some kind in October 1969. Carter filled out a UFO witness report form.
Former Arizona governor Fife Symington stated, as reported in a March 18, 2007 article, that he saw the huge “Phoenix Lights” craft that silently cruised at low altitude over the Phoenix metropolitan area in the early evening of March 13, 1997.
He was quoted as saying he witnessed a large triangular "craft of unknown origin" with lights. "It was dramatic. And it couldn't have been flares because it was too symmetrical. It had a geometric outline, a constant shape," Symington said.
Symington, a former Air Force officer, stated, "It was enormous and inexplicable. Who knows where it came from? A lot of people saw it, and I saw it too."
These kinds of accounts are very difficult to believe. But, when researchers and average people put various bits of information together, an interesting scenario does emerge. But, are these things true, partially true, totally false? This is not completely clear.
READY OR NOT
And now in the early part of the 21st Century we have candidates for president discussing the topic, or avoiding discussing it, on national TV. This could be “one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind,” as Ohio native and astronaut Neil Armstrong stated when he set foot on the moon July 21, 1969.
Because whether we believe accounts and reports of unusual objects sighted in the skies or not, contact between humans and other kinds of intelligence cannot realistically be ruled out.
Nowadays, physicists and other scientists tell us there could be other dimensions that are unseen. And that there could be ways of bending or using time and space in ways that make long-distance space and inter-dimensional travel possible.
For average people who take time to read some of the alleged evidence of these very unusual activities, the information can sometimes be compelling in persuading us that something is going on. Something that is very interesting, maybe scary or dangerous, maybe something that can completely change your view of things.
It seems worthwhile that we keep open minds about these kinds of topics. Because as we become more prepared to discuss and consider subjects like this, we are better able to deal with unusual circumstances of many types. And this can be helpful for us.
Who knows – our next president might be the one who announces that, yes, my fellow Americans, we are in contact with unusual visitors. There have been successes and problems in the relationships with them over the decades. There have been courageous efforts, advances and mistakes along the way. There was secrecy and now there is disclosure.
My fellow Americans, we will now need to look at our human existence on this small planet in new ways.
Presidential Debates UFO Disclosure
Presidential Debates UFO Disclosure
