25-June-2009, 03:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Jason Chapman
I didn't realise that, I have read the Roswell Incident By Charles Berlitx, and William more, and it mentioned an interesting account by a man called Gerald Light who claims that Eisenhower visited Edwards Air force Base to view the wreckage of a UFO.
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The following are some select quotes from a good article detailing the origins of this myth that Berlitz and Moore no doubt failed to mention (assuming they even bothered to research the case)…
[pay particular attention to the very last snippet]
http://www.ufologie.net/ce3/1954-04-usa-edwardsafb.htm
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In the Forties in the United States, one Meade Layne was a "paranormal" buff, talking about "other dimensions of reality" the world of the spirits, ghosts, ectoplasms, dematerializations, materializations and so on.
He founded a research society on these matters, which he said had bona fide scientists as members, whom he designated only by code numbers, so that the malevolent mainstream scientists do not harass them.
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Once the topic of the flying saucers had been popularized in 1947, he naturally begun to research this subject, and discovered that these flying saucers really did not come from other planets, but from the fourth dimension, inhabited by the "Etherians", beings made up of a form of matter that we cannot touch, who build the flying saucers by the force of the thought, and live in "the etheric counterpart of the planet Venus" and other such interdimensional places.
The reason that they now visit mankind so often is that the sun soon will explode into a supernova.
Meade Layne had made these discoveries on the true nature of the flying saucer by the intermediate of a psychic named "Probert". "Probert" had been contacted by ancient spirits, such as "The Yada Di'Shi'ite", an Oriental chap who had lived 500.000 years ago as a citizen of an Himalayan civilization, as well as one friend of Gallilée, and a deceased German scientist.
In 1954, the radio host Frank Edwards refers to flying saucers that were rumored to have landed at Muroc AFB, and soon, Meade Layne produced a letter he claimed to be of his friend "Gerald Light", an expert on the occult and an "astral traveller". Light told how he had his time of fun when he saw the humiliation of the "know-it-all" mainstream scientists who scoffed at the etheric theories confronted with the Etherians beings demonstrations of superior techniques.
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Then, authors of flying saucers books of the lunatic fringe type, from Jimmy Guieu to William Cooper, removed the too-obviously nonsensical tones of the story, carfully avoided giving the sources or the background, and gave birth to the ever re-hashed mythology of the encounter between President Eisenhower and the aliens at Muroc AFB (aka Edwards AFB).
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As of Gerald Light, oddly or significantly, I found strictly null independent confirmation that he even existed, and it is quite possible that he did not exist at all and that his alleged letter was simply invented.
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All I can say is I hope you didn’t pay too much for that book… 
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