Evening all, starting another new one, Eisenhower's Close Encounters
By Paul Blake Smith.

The Greatest Story Never Told “This really is a great story!” A podcast host recently blurted this out during an otherwise calm conversation, recorded live, on the air, and currently available as an internet video.

“It is!” the broadcast program's guest, a UFO author, replied enthusiastically. Listening to this, I could practically hear the excited grins and childlike wonder from these two mature adults when talking for a few minutes about the near-legendary allegation. The out of this world legend about the late American President Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) secretly meeting with landed, friendly alien beings in seemingly sleepy 1954.

I had to agree with the two men on the podcast. I first heard of the mind-blowing claim in 1985. To me, it's like “the greatest story never told,” in a sense. Why? Because no one has ever really put the tale together properly in a sane, sober, complete nonfiction book, separating the wheat from the chaff, so to speak. When you remove the exaggerated fiction and keep the firm facts, it ends up being, well, the most amazing and electrifying historical drama, ever. After years of researching the story, I have discovered there was much more to it than just Eisenhower being surprised to hear aliens had suddenly landed not far away and wanting to chat. It's past time this staggering, well-planned, classified event was told in an evenhanded, non-hysterical manner, all while jettisoning inaccurate conspiracy theories that have recently larded it down.
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