Have you ever wondered if the people who run the world have ever seen something strange in the sky?
You may be surprised to learn that some of the most influential leaders, past and present, have had their own encounters or opinions about UFOs or UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena).
Some of them have even made their statements public, while others have kept them secret or rejected them.
Jimmy Carter
“I am convinced that UFOs exist because I have seen one.” Carter reported seeing a bright white light in the sky in 1969, when he was governor of Georgia. He later filed a report with the International UFO Bureau and said he would make all UFO information public if he became president. However, he was denied access to classified documents on the matter.
Ronald Reagan
“It was a bright white light. We followed him to Bakersfield, and suddenly, to our great surprise, he went straight into heaven.” Reagan described his UFO sighting in 1974, while flying over California in a private plane.
He also reportedly told Steven Spielberg after watching ET that “there are some people in this room who know that everything on that screen is absolutely true.”
George H. W. Bush
“Americans can’t handle the truth.” Bush, former director of the CIA, called this cryptic answer when asked about UFOs at a fundraising event in 1988. He also reportedly told an investigator that he knew “a fair amount” about UFOs, but declined to elaborate.
George W Bush
“No.” Bush gave this blunt answer when Jimmy Kimmel asked him if he would tell everyone if he had seen evidence of UFOs. He also joked that revealing such information “could put you in orbit.”
Barack Obama
“There are images and recordings of objects in the sky that we don’t know exactly what they are.”
Obama confirmed that there are unexplained aerial phenomena observed by military personnel and recorded by satellites. He said people are still taking research into these objects seriously.
Dennis Kucinich
“I did [see a UFO].” Kucinich, who ran for president in 2008, acknowledged having a UFO sighting at Shirley MacLaine’s home in Washington state. He said it was “huge” and “triangular” and that it made him feel a connection to the universe.
Winston Churchill
‘What does all this fuss about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth?” Churchill wrote these questions in a memo to his Minister of Aviation in 1952, after a spate of UFO sightings over Britain.
He also ordered an investigation into the matter, but was reportedly dissatisfied with the results.
Mikhail Gorbachev
“The phenomenon of UFOs does indeed exist and must be treated seriously.” Gorbachev made this statement in 1990, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He also revealed that there were many UFO reports in the USSR, some of which were investigated by the military.
Paul Hellyer
“UFOs are as real as the planes that fly overhead.” Hellyer, who served as Canada’s defense minister from 1963 to 1967, made the statement in 2005, when he became the first cabinet official in any G8 country to publicly declare that UFOs are real and extraterrestrial.
He also claimed that there are at least four different types of aliens visiting Earth.
