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In an interview with the Wall Street Journal Shirley MacLaine has made additional comments about the Kucinich outing. In her most recent book, Sage-ing While Age-ing,  MacLaine explained how presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich witnessed a close encounter with a UFO while at her home in Washington State 25 years ago.

The book reference led to a question being put to Kucinich by Tim Russert during an October presidential debate. In the WSJ interview Jeffery Trachtenberg, the book publishing reporter at the Wall Street  Journal,  asked Shirley to comment on the position her revelation had placed Kucinich in.

Trachtenberg: I believe that midway through your book you talk about Dennis Kucinich actually see a…

MacLaine: He didn’t actually see a star being. He saw a craft.

Trachtenberg: A spaceship from your balcony.

MacLaine: Yah.

Trachtenberg: Were you concerned when you wrote that into your book that he might have to address that?

MacLaine: It never even occurred to me. I didn’t know that he was going to run for President. I certainly didn’t know that Tim Russert was going to bring it up. What on earth made him do that?

Trachtenberg: What on earth?

MacLaine: What...

Tags: 2008 election, dennis kucinich, shirley maclaine, tim russert, ufos

Shirley MacLaine has added to her story of what US Presidents know or do not know about the subject of UFOs. The question of what the President knows is important because as head of sixteen intelligence agencies he (or she) should have the best possible answer to “What is the explanation for UFOs that have been reported by millions of people since WW11?

MacLaine has stated on more than one occasion that she has discussed the issue of UFOs with many US presidents. Now in an interview with Dave Rabbit at Abovetopsecret.com. The question posed to MacLaine was.

How would you propose to get definite answers from our government?

I’ll tell you what Dave. That is something that not even Jimmy Carter could not get. He told me when he was President – because he had seen a UFO etc. He told me that he had gone into investigating with his intelligence what they were etc., and he was told that basically Presidents or the executive branch is not on a need to know.And I saw him not to long ago. I was campaigning for his son (Jack Carter running for Senate) in Nevada. We had dinner together...

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The other day I received three new FOIA replies from the Clinton presidential library. They were all for more files from Hillary Clinton’s first lady files during the Bill Clinton White House days.

I was informed that the library would be reviewing 700 photos from the Hillary Clinton files related to a close friend of the Clintons – singer Carly Simon, who I found has at least a passing interest in UFOs. I was also told that the library would be reviewing 400 pages of Hillary files related to “outer space and NASA.” I hoped that the subject of UFOs might been included, because after all Hillary had wanted to be an astronaut when she was young, and Bill Clinton said she had a deep interest in outer space. The final request was for Hillary files related to evangelist Billy Graham who in his book “Angels: God's Secret Agents” described his belief that UFOs were angels of God. I was told 650 photographs would be reviewed for release.

The FOIA requests were numbered 2007- 1756 to 1758 which means there are 1755 requests ahead of me for 2007 alone. Considering not one of my 2006 requests has been completed I...

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My interest has always been the involvement of President Truman in the whole story. What has come up so far is not much. He answered a question about flying saucers only a couple days after the famous press release stating that the AAF had recovered a disc. Some of the key military officials around him seemed to be having meeting about something the day after the press release.

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Got an e-mail from my researcher friend Dr. David Rudiak yesterday dealing with the possible involvement of President Truman following the July 1947 crash. As usual David David’s e-mail was filled with numerous dates, events, and people. He is always a challenge to those he corresponds with to be on their game when it comes to the facts.

There was some new details I had not seen before, so I decided to update my knowledge by buying Witness To Roswell, a recent book on the Roswell crash by Don Schmitt and Tomas Carey.

After a trip to two largest bookstores in my city, I was shocked to find that not only could I not find Witness to Roswell, I could not find a single UFO book in either store. All the other para subjects were however well represented. Witchcraft and astrology, for example, had their own sections with dozens of titles to chose from.

 My mind has been racing ever since trying to figure out what happened. Is this absence of books a part of the grand conspiracy to cover up the ET presence on Earth? Are there no books being printed anymore? Were the UFO books so...

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In a list put out by Computerworld -- UFOs has made the list of the ten funniest questions for the CNN July 23 Youtube debate. You can see the article and view the UFO question at

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9026600

UFOs also made an article on the CNN debate by the Miami Herald.

http://www.miamiherald.com/277/story/179008.html

Then there is a small CBS article at

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/07/23/politics/purehorserace/main3089375.shtml

Not exactly what UFO researchers would have wanted, but as the famous Canadian expression goes, "It's better than a kick in the ass with a frozen boot."

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My friend Steve Bassett had placed  question on youtube with his UFO question for the democratic devbate taking place at the Citadel in Charleston, S.C. on July 23, 2007 at 7pm EST.

Steve writes, "This question to all the candidates requests their intentions as president regarding their being fully briefed on the ET/UFO issue by the military and civilian intelligence agencies and regarding their calling for open, comprehensive congressional hearings to take the testimony of scores of former government employees ready to come before the Congress now."

Readers can view the question at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d1fw3MPvIA

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Steve Bassett, the lone Washington UFO Lobbyist and Executive Director of  the Paradigm Research Group Extraterrestrial Phenomena Political Action Committee has now posted questions that can be asked of the various 2008 Election Campaign. This is one of Steve's main ideas to get the ET issue into the discussion of issues of the 2008 election.

However, in 2004 General Wesley Clark was a forerunner in the Democratic primaries. He stood up in the New Hampshire primary and told voters that he believed we could exceed the speed of light, which led to an e-mail message to me that General Clark had been briefed on the crash saucer program. When I asked some of the top ufologists in various states to ask Clark if he had been briefed on UFOs, I was told by some that they did not want to “embarrass” the candidate or "ruin his chance" to win.

 Hopefully, times have changed and ufologists believe it is important enough to stand up to the plate. If not ufology will remain a hobby style interest for the general public.

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As expected General Lawrence Craigie, who it is now claimed was flown into Roswell following the 1947 crash and made a deal with President Truman to keep quiet, has no supporting evidence from the Truman presidential files.

In an e-mail dated July 20, 2007 Randy Sowell at the Truman library wrote

 Greetings from the Truman Library:

Thank you for your e-mail of July 13.  I found only three references to
General Craigie in President Truman's White House files.  In January
1948, Craigie was named by Secretary of the Air Force Stuart Symington
as his representative on the Interdepartmental Committee on Research and
Development.  In August 1949, Craigie contacted the White House to
request an autographed photo of the President, which he received.  In
June 1952, Craigie was appointed Deputy Chief of Staff for Development,
U.S. Air Force, with the rank of Lt. General.  I found no correspondence
with Craigie dating from July 1947.

I looked through the President's phone records from July 1947 and found
no references to General Craigie.  The President's appointments schedule
includes one listing of Craigie's name.  He was in attendance on Dec.
17, 1947, at a White House ceremony marking the presentation of the
Collier Trophy...

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As of yet UFOs have not become a part of the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Issues still centre on the war in Iraq, and domestic issues that affect daily well being.

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In the last couple days I have been reviewing the draft of a 27-page article titled “The Breaking of Jim Sparks, or, why the Aliens Don’t Land on the White House lawn.” The article has been written for the second issue of The Journal of Abduction Research (JAR) which is a new first class magazine with articles from the top abduction researchers around the world. The article I was reviewing was written by JAR Board Member Elaine Douglass, who is also Utah Co-State Director for MUFON.

Elaine and I go back a long way. We have met many times at conferences on the west coast, and I stayed at her house once on my way back from the World UFO Congress in Laughlin, Nevada. Elaine is like me in that she is ultimately interested in “what the hell is going on” as opposed to collecting UFO cases. Elaine holds a master degree in military policy from MIT, which has always made me wonder how she got into UFOs.

Elaine is very direct. I recall lecturing in Denver where I indicated that, based on the evidence I was seeing, I was starting to have doubts the President of the United States knew...

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