SUBJECT: A UFO FOR THE PRESIDENT-TO-BE FILE: UFO2411
One night in 1974, from a Cessna Citation aircraft, one of America's most
famous citizens saw a UFO.
There were four persons aboard the plane: pilot Bill Paynter, two security
guards, and the governor of California, Ronald Reagan. As the airplane
approached Bakersfield, California, the passengers called Paynter's attention
to a strange object to their rear. "It appeared to be several hundred yards
away," Paynter recalled. "It was a fairly steady light until it began to
accelerate. Then it appeared to elongate. Then the light took off. It went up
at a 45-degree angle - at a high rate of speed. Everyone on the plane was
surprised. . . . The UFO went from a normal cruise speed to a fantastic speed
instantly. If you give an airplane power, it will accelerate - but not like a
hot rod, and that's what this was like.
A week later Reagan recounted the sighting to Norman C. Miller, then
Washington bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal. Regan told Miller, "We
followed it for several minutes. It was a bright white light. We followed it
to Bakersfield, and all of a sudden to our utter amazement it went straight up
into the heavens." When Miller expressed some doubt, a "look of horror came
over [Reagan]. It suddenly dawned on him ... that he was talking to a
reporter." Immediately afterward, according to Miller, Reagan "clammed up."
Reagan has not discussed the incident publicly since.
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