Tuesday, October 20, 2015
The Secret UFO History of Presidents - Roosevelt to
Obama
The Presidents and UFOs: A Secret History from FDR to
Obama
Could President Truman have known the story behind the
front page news from July 28, 1952?
For decades, pulp fiction writers, film-makers, and
countless UFO researchers have maintained that a veil of secrecy surrounds the
government’s knowledge of extraterrestrial beings. But does this veil – if it
exists – mask more than 70 years worth of verifiable findings from even the
office of the President of the United States?
Author Larry Holcombe believes
the answer is “yes”, and he has set forth the evidence for that belief in his
book, The Presidents and UFOs: A Secret
History from FDR to Obama (St. Martin’s Press). The Baltimore Post-Examiner
recently spoke with Holcombe about his extensive research, which included weeks
spent gleaning records in several presidential libraries. Holcombe will be one
of the featured speakers at this Saturday’s Mysteries of Space & Sky Conference. The highly regarded annual UFO conference will be held in nearby Gambrills, Maryland.
Thank you for taking some time to speak with us today.
To start, would you please tell us about your background? What led to your
interest in UFO’s?
LH: (Larry Holcombe) When
I was in junior high, I found a couple of Major Donald Keyhoe’s books – Flying
Saucers From Outer Space and Flying Saucers Are Real – in my school library.
Keyhoe was a retired Marine aviator who wrote for a number of publications in
the late 1940’s. When he started to write about the flying saucer phenomenon
for True Magazine, Keyhoe was a skeptic. But within a year, he became convinced
that the Air Force was concealing UFO evidence.
When I graduated from high school, the Vietnam War was
in progress. I joined the National Guard and served 8 years there. Then I went
into selling commercial construction products, and eventually represented a
manufacturer out of Chicago as a military sales manager. I closed out my
business career developing the military sales for this company and traveled all
over.
In your interaction with the military, did you ever
talk about your interest in UFOs?
LH: I had some conversation, but very little.
Unfortunately now, I look back on it and see that other people do the same
thing; they keep it to themselves. They don’t talk about it, because it may
affect their careers. A good friend who retired as a full colonel in the Air
Force has a number of high-ranking officer friends who have said they are
willing to talk with me. They say, “Yeah, I’d love to talk with him, but I don’t
really know anything about the subject.” Whether you’ve got 3 or 4 stars on
your shoulder, if you don’t have a need to know, then you don’t know.
