As long as UFOs have been around they have often been regarded by the general public as a tabloid type story, sometimes not worthy of serious consideration. This preconceived attitude has extended itself to the rest of the media which rarely does anything beyond fluff on the subject.
This image of UFOs may have been created by the CIA in January 1953 when they gave secret instructions to take “immediate steps to strip the Unidentified Flying Objects of the special status they have been given and the aura of mystery they have unfortunately acquired.” The CIA committee suggested an educational debunking program to be “accomplished by mass media such as television, motion pictures, and popular articles.”
Now, what’s important about this? Well, unknown to everyone who believes the UFO tabloid myth, there actually is only one tabloid that does UFO stories. The main tabloid papers such as the National Enquirer and The Star do not cover UFO stories and haven't done so for almost two decades.
Now after 28 years of putting out wacko stories, the only UFO tabloid newspaper that did do UFO stories is folding. As of August 2007, the Publisher American Media Inc announced it would stop publishing the Weekly World News.
The tabloid, which claimed it was 
"The World's Only Reliable Newspaper," put out the wildest stories imaginable on various subjects such as unusual people, ghosts, Hollywood stars, and UFOs. Notable UFO stories included one where terrorists had stolen a UFO and were now planning to dive bomb the White House.
For the UFO field which has always desperately craved media coverage, the Weekly World News ended up produced some of the key publicly known UFO stories of the last decade.
The Weekly World News, for example, ran a cover story before the 1992 election stating that an alien had predicted the election win of Bill Clinton. Later, after Clinton was elected, Assistant Attorney General Webster Hubbell reported that Bill Clinton had sent him to look into "if UFOs existed." When a New York Post reporter, Deborah Orin, asked about Hubbell's UFO claim at a White House news conference, the President's spokesman referred to the Weekly World News alien to help evade the question.
"We have a regular briefing in the Oval Office with this space alien that some tabloids report," stated Mike McCurry as the reporters laughed. " Maybe the New York Post hasn't reported that, but we asked the space creature to look into that story."
In May 2000, after he received the Weekly World News alien's endorsement
for President, Bush jokingly held up a copy of the Weekly World News on Air Force One. He told the White House press corps that the alien's endorsement showed his expanding Republican Party Appeal."New faces, new voices," said Bush. "It goes to show I'm willing to reach across certain demographic lines."
It seemed that the Weekly World News could get the attention of the White House on a regular basis- something that the UFO community was getting nowhere close to doing.
Even 2008 Democratic presidential front runner Hillary Clinton has been
involved with the Weekly World News alien. In 2003 Hillary appeared on the Jay Leno show, and as part of that interview, Hillary discussed a story that had just appeared in the Weekly World News titled "My Steamy Nights with Hillary in the UFO Love Nest." Supposedly, Hillary was having an affair with the famous alien P'Lord who had endorsed her husband, and the whole thing was being revealed in a new book written by the alien called "Out of this World: My Life as an Alien In Washington."
Surprisingly Hillary was having a good time laughing at the story, and even added her own jokes. This led to another article talking about how Hillary had admitted the affair on Leno.
Maybe Ufology should start their own Tabloid newspaper if they want to get the attention of the leaders in the White House. It seemed to have worked for the Weekly World News. It also seems to have worked for the CIA who planned for this type of UFO media coverage so many years ago.
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