UFO History: Steven Spielberg Met Ronald Reagan At The White House To Talk UFOs & Watch E.T.
Spielberg and Reagan - Men Utterly Fascinated With UFOs and Aliens
Brace yourself, my loyal true believers. The truth really is out there. It may have been found in an illustrious meeting and movie screening of a classic sci-fi film at the Reagan White House back in the 80’s.
Famed Hollywood filmmaker Steven Spielberg shared a strong, intellectual bond with President Ronald Reagan. No, not their politics. They both dutifully watched the skies in anticipation of visitation. The two men’s fascination - or an outright obsession - with UFOs and visiting alien life coming from outside our little blue planet is well documented. In 1982, when Spielberg’s epic alien movie, E.T. The Extraterrestrial, ruled over the box office, one American didn’t wait in line to buy his ticket. E.T.’s creative father brought a print to the White House and an historic meeting occurred.
After screening the movie, President Reagan made a little speech to his assembled distinguished guests. Giving an interview to Ain’t It Cool News back in 2011, here’s how the now legendary film director remembers the historic incident:
“He just stood up and he looked around the room, almost like he was doing a headcount, and he said, ‘I wanted to thank you for bringing E.T. to the White House. We really enjoyed your movie,’ and then he looked around the room and said, And there are a number of people in this room who know that everything on that screen is absolutely true,’” Spielberg remembered. “And he said it without smiling! But he said that and everybody laughed, by the way. The whole room laughed because he presented it like a joke, but he wasn’t smiling as he said it.”
Firmly said in the surreal spirit of Bill & Ted…. Whoa!
Was Ronald Reagan acting serious for his audience? Afterall, before becoming the leader of the free world, the man performed as an accomplished actor. For Reagan to reveal publicly - or at least solemnly hint - something on the order of top secret classified intelligence to a Hollywood director, among a group of other famous folk, is more of a stretch for anyone to believe would be possible. Still, perhaps it’s as they say - sometimes the best way to tell a truth is to couch it in a convincing enough lie, or here, apparently a colorful joke.
Reagan’s UFO Sighting While CA Governor
Most Americans probably don’t know, along with more than a few dedicated Ronald Reagan fans as well, that not only was the Republican president keenly interested in UFOs, but he actually saw one while flying in a plane during his time serving as California Governor.
It was 1974, Reagan, two security men and the pilot, flew in a small aircraft approaching Bakersfield, CA. Suddenly, nearby movement and a light caught their attention. All the men saw a strange moving light and shape which elongated, then took off at a fantastic speed. It was gone in a flash, as if it had never existed.
Sometime later, Reagan mentioned the unsettling experience to a journalist, Norman C. Miller, the Washington Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal. After briefly describing the event to the famous reporter, Reagan seemed to suddenly realize what confiding in such a respected media professional could mean for his political career, and quickly became silent on the subject.
This attitude didn’t change. He never commented on the incident ever again.
The United Nations Speech
Perhaps the most UFO themed or outright alien visitation statement our 40th American President ever said publicly, was when he addressed the United Nations, in 1987. When taken in full context, the segment from the speech found below sounds pretty incredible, almost as if Reagan genuinely seeks to warn our planet.
“Cannot swords be turned to plowshares? Can we and all nations not live in peace? In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity…. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond… I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us? What could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?”
Many would simply say Reagan’s words were merely metaphoric filled political rhetoric - purely symbolic to make his point as colorfully as he could manage while performing on the most prominent world stage. Still, when weighed with his own UFO sighting and his more than curious meeting with Steven Spielberg, a self avowed Ufologist himself, it seems possible Ronald Reagan more than believed in and welcomed a transparent societal time of revelation and the final truth about UFOs.