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Ford UFO Files

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This file from the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, digitized by the Internet Archive, holds Congressman Gerald R. Ford's Fifth District weekly radio scripts from January to June 1966, plus several National Republican Congressional Committee scripts. They deal with President Johnson's budget, inflation, four-year House terms, electoral college reform, foreign aid, the Vietnam War, rent subsidies and Memorial Day. The extracted text does not discuss UFOs.

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RADIO TAPE FOR 5TH DISTRICT STATIONS
A few of the letters were a bit far out--like the one which suggested
that UFO's caused the failure of the Ganini 8 spaceship, the electric power
blackout last November in the East, and the recent Boeing 727 airplane
accidents.
This letter writer informed me that planet people are piloting the UFO's,
have superior abilities, have the anti-gravity secret, and fly about in
spaceships that travel 50,000 miles an hour or better. He wants a Minute
Man alert whenever UFO's are sighted anywhere in the country.
Another gentlemen. sent me a copy of a letter he had dispatched to a
friend of his in the Central Intelligence Agency.
He wrote: ''Well, the Air Force has done it. By its ridiculous ''solving'
of the UFO's in Michigan in a day or two, they may have doomed the Air Force.
Brilliant, Absolutely brilliant. They (the planet people) were trying to
establish their reality ••• for it must be done, if they are to help us. Now
they are angry at being called 'marsh gas' and are going on record that they
are going to harass the Air Force just as they have been doing to NASA.
Knowing what I do, if I were the Air Force, I would be scared witless. But,
of course, who ever heard of marsh gas being dangerous? To make it clear,
the SI's (Saucer Intelligences) are now going to teach the Air Force a lesson
it will never forget. They are turning their attention to harassment of the
Air Force in a big way."
Now, Dr. Hynek and the Air Force may not be disturbed by that lette~ but
they'd better beware of some astronomers in the nation. A chap in Seattle,
Wash., says he has absolute proof that the Air Force was dead wrong in
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