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UFOs and Senator Barry Goldwater
May 1, 2014
Nick Redfern
Born in 1909, Barry Morris Goldwater served as a Major-General in the U.S. Air Force, a Senator for Arizona, the Chairman of the U.S. Government’s Senate Intelligence Committee, and the Republican Party’s nominee for President of the United States in the 1964 election. Indeed, it was on May 2, 1964 – 50 years ago this very week – that Goldwater received no less than 75 percent of the vote in the Texas Republican Presidential primary.
Had Goldwater won the election (he lost it to Lyndon B. Johnson), it’s not at all out of the question that we might, by now, have in our possession the full and unexpurgated facts concerning what the world of officialdom really knows about the UFO phenomenon.
Goldwater had a fascination for the UFO issue, and, throughout his life and career, made more than a few notable comments and observations on the subject. The bulk of them revolved around his attempts to determine the truth about longstanding rumors that something of a UFO nature (and something of deep significance, too) was secretly held at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. The location of whatever this “something” may have been has variously been termed as “Hangar 18” and the “Blue Room.”
On March 28, 1975, Goldwater wrote the following, highly thought-provoking, words to a UFO researcher named Shlomo Arnon:
“The subject of UFOs is one that has interested me for some long time. About ten or twelve years ago I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.”
Goldwater continued to Arnon: “I have, however, heard that there is a plan under way to release some, if not all, of this material in the near future. I’m just as anxious to see this material as you are, and I hope we will not have to wait much longer.”
Well, it’s certainly not every day you receive in the mail a letter like that – and from a U.S. senator and a presidential-nominee! Unless, that is, the subject-matter of the letter left a deep, lasting impression upon that same senator and nominee, which it clearly did.
Needless to say, the UFO research community sat up and took notice of Goldwater’s words.
In 1979, Goldwater made another comment on this particularly intriguing issue, this time to UFO investigator Lee Graham. Goldwater told Graham: “It is true I was denied access to a facility at Wright-Patterson. Because I never got in, I can’t tell you what was inside. We both know about the rumors.”
CONTINUE READING: mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/05/ufos-and-senator-barry-goldwater/?utm_source=feedly&utm_reader=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ufos-and-senator-barry-goldwater
UFOs and Senator Barry Goldwater
May 1, 2014
Nick Redfern
Born in 1909, Barry Morris Goldwater served as a Major-General in the U.S. Air Force, a Senator for Arizona, the Chairman of the U.S. Government’s Senate Intelligence Committee, and the Republican Party’s nominee for President of the United States in the 1964 election. Indeed, it was on May 2, 1964 – 50 years ago this very week – that Goldwater received no less than 75 percent of the vote in the Texas Republican Presidential primary.
Had Goldwater won the election (he lost it to Lyndon B. Johnson), it’s not at all out of the question that we might, by now, have in our possession the full and unexpurgated facts concerning what the world of officialdom really knows about the UFO phenomenon.
Goldwater had a fascination for the UFO issue, and, throughout his life and career, made more than a few notable comments and observations on the subject. The bulk of them revolved around his attempts to determine the truth about longstanding rumors that something of a UFO nature (and something of deep significance, too) was secretly held at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. The location of whatever this “something” may have been has variously been termed as “Hangar 18” and the “Blue Room.”
On March 28, 1975, Goldwater wrote the following, highly thought-provoking, words to a UFO researcher named Shlomo Arnon:
“The subject of UFOs is one that has interested me for some long time. About ten or twelve years ago I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.”
Goldwater continued to Arnon: “I have, however, heard that there is a plan under way to release some, if not all, of this material in the near future. I’m just as anxious to see this material as you are, and I hope we will not have to wait much longer.”
Well, it’s certainly not every day you receive in the mail a letter like that – and from a U.S. senator and a presidential-nominee! Unless, that is, the subject-matter of the letter left a deep, lasting impression upon that same senator and nominee, which it clearly did.
Needless to say, the UFO research community sat up and took notice of Goldwater’s words.
In 1979, Goldwater made another comment on this particularly intriguing issue, this time to UFO investigator Lee Graham. Goldwater told Graham: “It is true I was denied access to a facility at Wright-Patterson. Because I never got in, I can’t tell you what was inside. We both know about the rumors.”
CONTINUE READING: mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/05/ufos-and-senator-barry-goldwater/?utm_source=feedly&utm_reader=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ufos-and-senator-barry-goldwater