Gerald R. Ford Dead-UFO Proponent
Wednesday December 27, 2006
LOS ANGELES-Gerald R. Ford, who picked up the pieces of Richard Nixon's scandal-shattered White House as the 38th and only unelected president in America's history, has died, his wife, Betty, said Tuesday. He was 93. "My family joins me in sharing the difficult news that Gerald Ford, our beloved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather has passed away at 93 years of age," she said in a statement. "His life was filled with love of God, his family and his country."
As a U. S. Congressman in 1966, Ford stuck his neck out and made the following statement after the U. S. Air Force declared the Michigan UFO Wave of 1966 could be explained as "swamp gas."
"In the firm belief that the American public deserves a better explanation than that thus far given by the Air Force, I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena. I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs, and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment of the subject."
(Image: Public Domain-Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library)
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It should be pointed out that Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Project Bluebook scientific advisor, was sent to Michigan after the mass UFO sightings in 1966. The press and citizens of Michigan were expecting a QUICK answer/explanation…Dr. Hynek was still studying reports, etc. and had a lot to go thru. After awhile the USAF was being pressured to give an answer.
So the USAF hasily arranged a news conference.
Dr. Hynek who was still studying and reviewing cases was not prepared for this so he decoded to give the press, what he had found out so far….
According to Dr. Hynek, he made a speech on the sightings, etc. He started out with one sighting saying, “The case of the girls in the college dormitory that saw a strange object in the swampy fields on night, I believe they PROBABLY saw a phenomenon called “swamp gas”, and briefly went into an explanation of it.
Because, of the frenzy at the time the press did not pay attention to his term of “PROBABLY”, nor did they stick around to hear what he had to say about other sightings.
According to Hynek, as soon as he finished telling what he thought of this only ONE CASE. The reporters inmediately left the room to call their city editors, news desks, ect. And in less than 24 hours almost every newspaper in the world had on the front page, “MICHIGAN UFOs ARE SWAMP GAS”.
Dr. Hynek said he was BADLY MISQUOTED by the press at the time. He was referring to ONLY ONE UFO SIGHTING and the press assumed he meant all UFO sightings.
And much the same is true today of the media. Often actual facts are clouded in the perpetual rush to get the story out, and others are biased in what they report. So, the public is usually left with partial truths, half truths and what sells the media, for the most part. Unfortunately, this reaches far beyond UFO reporting. And today much is reported in sound bites. I may be cynical, but little the media reports generally impresses me as truthful and factual journalism.
I think there is more to it than just media disbelief– I am not in favor of a “conspiracy theory, per se. But there is little doubt that the government has long orchastrated a coverup of the first magnitude. Recall the threat by the military rep to thte local radio station news broadcaster at Roswell in 1947, and the phone call from Washington immediately thereafter to the station owner. I am convinced that the media has been “coached” not to give credence to such reports, both locally and nationally. No less that Bill Hemmer of CNN poo-pooed the report a few years back about the sightings of the Mexican Air Force reconnaissance aircraft over the Gulf of Mexico. And th elist goes on. Our media is not living up to its reputation or responsibility.
cover up? u bet. why? cause we are being used and abused by aliens presently who are living inside the earth in huge caves and caverns built by the US gov’t.
http://www.disclosureproject.com or net.
u will be amazed…
Aliens (ET) of various species are integral part of some religions, as they were in true biblical times. Like Voodoo, Hinduism, some shamanistic religions, Kabala and others. most religions that have possession as a central team, are dealing with alien life force.
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