During the Reagan administration, President Reagan spoke of the effect of an alien invasion on the earth. He spoke about how it would bring the various races that make up the world community together.

President Clinton also talked about the alien invasion, but his use of the concept was often as a paranoid view of the many groups that he envisioned as being "out to get him." In a cartoon drawn for the Akron Beacon- Journal cartoonist Chip Bok picked up on this self-pitying side of Bill Clinton.