 "To the
moon, Alice!" There was a time when you could say that phrase and
immediately most everyone knew exactly who you're talking about: 'The Great
One."
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- The fine actor and comedian Jackie Gleason
will forever be associated with his role of bus driver Ralph Cramden on
the popular TV series, "The Honeymooners." But there was another
side to Jackie that few people know about. Gleason was an extremely serious
armchair UFO researcher, and prided himself on his huge collection of UFO-related
books, which numbered into the thousands. As soon as a new title came
out, even in Europe or the UK, Jackie had a copy. Little did he suspect
that his interest in that topic would one day gain him access to something
that most people would never even believe, and would leave others who shared
his interests either skeptical or forever jealous.
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- It was a chance conversation one afternoon,
back in 1974 in Florida, while Jackie was playing golf with one of his
regular partners, President Richard Nixon. Jackie had mentioned his interest
in UFOs and his large collection of books, and the president admitted that
he also shared Jackie's interest and had a sizeable collection of UFO-oriented
materials of his own. At the time, the president said little about what
he actually knew, but things were to change drastically later on that same
night.
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- One can only imagine Gleason's surprise
when President Nixon showed up at his house around midnight, completely
alone and driving his own private car. When Jackie asked him why he was
there, Nixon told him that he wanted to take him somewhere and show him
something. He got into the president's car, and they ended up at the gates
of Homestead Air Force Base. They passed through security and drove to
the far end of the base, to a tightly-guarded building. At this point,
I will quote directly from Gleason himself, from an interview he gave to
UFO researcher and author Larry Warren:
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- "We drove to the very far end of
the base in a segregated area, finally stopping near a well-guarded building.
The security police saw us coming and just sort of moved back as we passed
them and entered the structure. There were a number of labs we passed
through first before we entered a section where Nixon pointed out what
he said was the wreckage from a flying saucer, enclosed in several large
cases. Next, we went into an inner chamber and there were six or eight
of what looked like glass-topped Coke freezers. Inside them were the mangled
remains of what I took to be children. Then - upon closer examination
- I saw that some of the other figures looked quite old. Most of them
were terribly mangled as if they had been in an accident."
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- Gleason was understandably excited by
all of this, but also quite traumatized, and said he couldn't eat or sleep
properly for weeks afterwards, and found himself drinking heavily until
he was able to regain his composure. His wife at the time, Beverly, recalls
him being out very late that night and speaking excitedly about what he
had seen when he returned home. Later on, however, when she and Gleason
were splitting up and she told the story to a writer at Esquire Magazine,
which printed it in an article, relations between her and the entertainer
deteriorated and Gleason became very upset and angry that the story had
been made public. For this reason many people, including Beverly herself,
have wondered at the truth of the story. However, in his interview with
Larry Warren, who was invited to Jackie's house in person because Gleason
wanted to hear firsthand about Warren's experience at Bentwaters Air Force
Base in England, it was clear that Jackie was being honest and sincere:
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- "You could tell that he was very
sincere - he took the whole affair very seriously, and I could tell that
he wanted to get the matter off his chest, and that was why he was telling
me all of this. Jackie felt just like I do, that the government needs
to 'come clean,' and tell us all it knows about space visitors. It time
they stopped lying to the public and release all the evidence they have.
When they do, then we'll all be able to see the same things the late Jackie
Gleason did."
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- The United States government's knowledge
about UFOs and their occupants exists at the very highest levels of security,
above even atomic weapons and things of that nature. Information is imparted
on a strictly "need to know" basis, and this has left even many
presidents in the dark on the subject. Obviously, Richard Nixon wasn't
one of them. One can only imagine what technology and evidence of life
outside of this Earth exists in the back corners and hidden labs of the
American military, but for anyone who doesn't believe that this situation
is real, this story about Jackie Gleason is just the very tiny tip of the
iceberg. We may be waiting a very, very long time, indeed, until Jackie's
dream of government disclosure comes true.
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