Famous people who believed in UFOs

Great post - some more interesting quotes here: http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum...=151090&hl= Cheers.

Richard Nixon, US President from 1969 to 1974: "I'm not at liberty to discuss the government's knowledge of extraterrestrial UFO's at this time. I am still personally being briefed on the subject." I think this one is very much to the point.

Reagan's and Nixon's quotes are very interesting. The only modern president that I believed saw a UFO was Carter.

and of course the government knows more than it lets on. I find the director of the CIA Hoovers remark interesting. J Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI from its inception in 1935 to 1972, said of a famous incident when flying saucers were allegedly fired at over Los Angeles in 1942: "We must insist upon full access to disks recovered. For instance, in the LA case the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination." so they asked the Army for it and the army said no. Not something you say to the head of the CIA when it's a balloon project . and a balloon wouldn't have lasted h... [More]

I tried to warn 'em... nobody would listen to me. Seriously, I suspect that there are a whole lot more 'prominent' figures out there, around the world, that have stood up to be counted; we just haven't heard about them.