Tomorrow it will be exactly 50 years since President Dwight Eisenhower interrupted his vacation in Palm Springs to meet with extraterrestrials…or was it to visit the dentist? There’s some confusion about that point. The Washington Post looks into the story and discovers that Ike could have ended the Cold War:
The "Nordics" [a race of aliens who resemble Scandinavian humans] offered to share their superior technology and their spiritual wisdom with Ike if he would agree to eliminate America's nuclear weapons.
"They were afraid we might blow up some of our nuclear technology," says [Michael Salla, a former American University professor], "and apparently that does something to time and space and it impacts on extraterrestrial races on other planets."
Ike declined the ETs' offer, Salla says, because he did not want to give up the nukes.
How did Salla find this information? By searching on the Internet:
"There's a lot of stuff on the Internet," he says, "and I just went around and pieced it together."
(Hmm. That’s eerily similar to what I do…)
Naturally, the “Authorities” deny the whole story “Ike and the Aliens” story:
Did Ike really meet with ETs 50 years ago?
"Not to our knowledge," says Jim Leyerzapf, an archivist at the Eisenhower Library. "There's nothing in the archives that indicates that."
Nothing in the archives? Yeah, right. What are we supposed to believe, what the government tells us or what we read on the Internet? Sheesh. What kind of fools do they take us for, anyway?
(Hat tip: Christus Victor)
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Playing up the mistrust-of-government thing is one of my favorite things about most conspiracy theories. "The government denies this, which proves it must be true!"
The only "aliens" Ike ever met were the migrant workers landscaping the golf course he was playing...
posted on 02.20.2004 12:16 PM