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- Well folks, I am just tickled pink to present this
one!
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- This
article deals with the ole folklore of Jackie Gleason
and President
Nixon, who were not only supposedly good buddies but UFO
believers as
well. This one gets me because I remember not only the Honeymooners
as
a kid but also the Jackie Gleason Show in later years. Maybe UFOs had
always played a part in the Great One's life ? If you recall, Ralph
Kramden
was always threatening to send Alice : "To the Moon Alice
!"
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- "One more time and it's to the moon! "
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- With all repsect to a
great entertainer I now bring you
"Jackie Gleason & The Little
"Men From Mars"
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- This was sent to me via email: I don't know where it
came from, so if anyone knows the originting source please let me know
so I may post proper credit !
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- Jackie Gleason & The Little "Men
From Mars"
By Timothy Green
Beckley
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- Way back in the mid-1960s, I got a letter in the mail
from
Jackie Gleason Productions, Hollywood, Florida, ordering a copy of
a
mimeographed booklet I had put together relating to UFOs. This, to me,
was confirmation of what I had heard rumors about for a long time ... that
"the Great One" was personally involved in researching
UFOs.
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- Supposedly - and I've since found out that this is true
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Gleason had one of the greatest UFO book collections in the world. This
is where the tale gets a bit wilder. A story circulated by Gleason's
ex-wife,
Beverly, has Jackie actually viewing the bodies of several
aliens who died
when their craft crashed in the Southwest.
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- The story was carried
originally in the National Enquirer,
and though Beverly Gleason later
confirmed it to members of the press who
were able to track her down,
independent confirmation of Gleason's supposed
experience could - for
the longest time - not be certified.
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- Now with the striking
revelations of a young man who
knew Gleason personally, it can safely
be said that such an event did take
place...Larry Warren was an Airman
First Class stationed at Bentwaters
Air Force Base in England (a NATO
installation staffed mainly by US. servicemen)
when an incredible
series of events took place over Christmas week of 1980.
A UFO was
picked up on radar and subsequently came down just outside the
perimeter of the base in a dense forest.
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- On the first of several nights
of confrontation with
the Unknown, three security police ventured into
the area across an eerie-looking
object hovering just above the ground.
One of the MPs was mesmerized by
the UFO and was unable to move for
nearly an hour. While in this mental
state, he received some sort of
telepathic message that the craft would
return.
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- For the next few nights, up to
80 US. servicemen, British
bobbies, as well as civilians from some
nearby farms, witnessed an historic
event. According to Larry Warren
who stood within feet of this craft from
another world-three occupants
came out of the ship and actually communicated
with a high ranking
member of the U.S. Air Force. This close encounter
at Bentwaters has
become the subject of several books (see "From Out
Of The
Blue", Jenny Randles, Inner Light Publications) and has been
given
wide publicity on CNN, Home Box Office and more recently "Unsolved
Mysteries." Warren has, in a sense, become somewhat of a celebrity
himself as he remains in the public eye, willing to talk about what he
observed.
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- "Jackie Gleason was interested in hearing my story
first
hand," Warren offers as a means of explaining how he met the
famous comic in May, 1986. "At the time I was living in Connecticut
and both CNN and HBO had run pieces on the Bentwaters case. Through mutual
friends who knew members of his family, I was told that Gleason would like
to talk with me privately in his home in Westchester County, and so the
meeting was set for a Saturday when we would both have some time to
relax'".
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- After being formally introduced, the two men ventured
into
Gleason's recreation room complete with pool table and full-size bar.
"There were hundreds of UFO books all over the place," Warren
explains, "but Jackie was quick to tell me that this was only a tiny
portion of his entire collection, which was housed in his home in
Florida."
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- For the rest of the day, UFO researcher and UFO witness
exchanged information. "Gleason seemed to be very well informed on
the subject," Larry says, "as he knew the smallest detail about
most cases and showed me copies of the book "Clear Intent" that
had just been published, as well as a copy of "Sky Crash", a
British book about Bentwaters that was published, actually, before all
the details of this case were made public. I remember Gleason telling me
about his own sightings of several discs in Florida and how he thought
there were undersea UFOs bases out in the Bermuda Triangle."
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- But it wasn't till
after Warren had downed a few beers
and Gleason had had a number of
drinks-"his favorite, Rob Roys"-that
conversation really got
down to brass tacks. "At some point, Gleason
turned to me and
said, 'I want to tell you something very amazing that
will probably
come out some day anyway. We've got em!' 'Got what', I wanted
to know?
'Aliens!'
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- Gleason sputtered, catching his breath." According
to
Warren, Jackie proceeded to tell him the intriguing set of circumstances
that led him to the stunning conclusion that extraterrestrials have
arrived
on our cosmic shores.
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- "It was back when Nixon
was in office that something
truly amazing happened to me,"
Gleason explained. "We were close
golfing buddies and had been out
on the golf course all day when somewhere
around the 15th hole, the
subject of UFOs came up. Not many people know
this," Gleason told
Warren, "but the President shares my interest
in this matter and
has a large collection of books in his home on UFOs
just like I do. For
some reason, however, he never really took me into
his confidence about
what he personally knew to be true... one of the reasons
being that he
was usually sur rounded by so many aids and advisers."
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- Later that night,
matters changed radically, when Richard
Nixon showed up at Gleason's
house around midnight. "He was all alone
for a change. There were
no secret service agents with him or anyone else.
I said, 'Mr.
President, what are you doing here?' and he said he wanted
to take me
someplace and show me something."
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- Gleason got into the
President's private car and they
sped off into the darkness - their
destination being Homestead Air Force
Base. "I remember we got to
the gate and this young MP came up to
the car to look to see inside and
his jaw seemed to drop a foot when he
saw who was behind the wheel. He
just sort of pointed and we headed off."
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- Warren says that later Gleason
found out that the Secret
Service was going absolutely crazy trying to
find out where Nixon was.
"We drove to the very far end of the
base in a segregated area,"
Gleason went on, "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."
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- Gleason noted his initial reaction was that this was
all a joke
brought on by their earlier conversation on the golf course.
But it
wasn't, as Gleason soon learned. "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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- According to Larry Warren's
testimony (regarding Gleason's
lengthy conversation about UFOs and
space visitors), "I forget whether
he said they had three or four
fingers on each hand, but they definitely
were not human...of this he
was most certain!" For three weeks following
his trip with Nixon
to Homestead Air Force Base, the world famous entertainer
couldn't
sleep and couldn't eat. "Jackie told me that he was very
traumatized by all of this. He just couldn't understand why our government
wouldn't tell the public all they knew about UFOs and space visitors. He
said he even drank more heavily than usual until he could regain some of
his composure and come back down to everyday reality."
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- Larry Warren is
convinced that Gleason wasn't lying to
him. "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 this was
why he was telling me all of this." And
as far as Larry Warren was
concerned, the Great One's personal testimony
only added extra
credibility to his own first hand experience with aliens
while he was
in the service.
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- "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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- Hopefully this day may arrive soon.
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- For similar descriptions to
Jackie Gleasons experience,
read the Vaults at WPAFB section here at
UFO Folklore !
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