[00:00:00.120] I wouldn’t put it past this government [00:00:01.839] that a cosmic Watergate has been [00:00:04.080] underway for the last you know 25 years [00:00:08.400] and at the same time I don’t think it’s [00:00:11.280] uh I think as we’re growing up or from [00:00:13.920] the government’s point of view U I think [00:00:15.799] we’ve you know we’re we’ve been adults [00:00:18.720] for hundreds of years but from the [00:00:20.600] government’s point of view uh we’re [00:00:21.760] still growing up and eventually they [00:00:23.519] might want to tell us something about [00:00:24.880] what they’ve uh discovered over over the [00:00:27.000] decades uh there is a rumor that was in [00:00:30.359] US News and World Report a number of [00:00:31.880] months ago that uh Jimmy Carter might [00:00:34.160] make a uh uh make some unsettling [00:00:37.520] disclosures about the UFO phenomena [00:00:39.719] sometime in December uh it’s perfect [00:00:42.360] timing I opened my movie in December so [00:00:43.920] it’s perfect timing President Carter [00:00:45.680] reported a uo sighting twice twice has [00:00:48.199] he seen the picture uh last uh Saturday [00:00:51.120] what do you think he has we haven’t [00:00:52.239] heard the direct feedback we he he liked [00:00:53.879] it quite a bit we haven’t really heard [00:00:55.719] directly from the president I was [00:00:57.120] gathered in a in a schoolyard with about [00:00:59.559] 20 other men and we saw a bright light [00:01:03.960] uh appear in the distant uh Western [00:01:06.320] Skies and it got uh closer and closer [00:01:09.240] and when it uh was just above the [00:01:11.799] Treetops it changed color and then it [00:01:15.000] stayed there for a while and then it [00:01:16.920] disappeared into the distance and none [00:01:18.680] of us could ever imagine what it was and [00:01:20.640] I still don’t know what it was in in’ 76 [00:01:23.280] he said you’d try and get release all [00:01:25.479] information to the public and to [00:01:27.320] scientists about other UFO sightings yes [00:01:29.560] do you think you achieve that I I’m not [00:01:31.240] sure but we did release a lot of the [00:01:32.759] information but I don’t know how much [00:01:34.479] was not released in view of the fact [00:01:37.159] that your own president has cited it [00:01:39.200] reported it why is it that so many [00:01:42.799] responsible people accuse the US [00:01:44.920] government of of covering up UFO [00:01:47.079] sightings and and why would the US why [00:01:49.280] would the the forces or the government [00:01:51.200] try to do that it it’s very popular [00:01:53.119] today because of Watergate to blame the [00:01:55.399] government for anything that we think we [00:01:57.240] should know about that we don’t know [00:01:58.719] about uh [00:02:00.680] Dr heinik has referred to uh UFOs in [00:02:04.079] America as a cosmic water date [00:02:07.720] um there there are several reasons why [00:02:09.840] the government could be you know [00:02:11.480] withholding information beyond the the [00:02:14.080] Freedom of Information Act uh the [00:02:16.560] Robertson panel that convened in the [00:02:18.720] early 50s decided that UFOs were not [00:02:21.879] were were were not threat to our [00:02:24.440] national security but could be a threat [00:02:26.959] to our national security by clogging all [00:02:28.879] the property channels of communication [00:02:31.000] creating rumors during the Cold War when [00:02:34.000] we were already frightened of the [00:02:36.000] intercontinental ballistic missiles [00:02:37.879] arriving in 18 and a half [00:02:39.920] minutes uh and the government was afraid [00:02:43.599] that too many UFO reports could be [00:02:45.879] misleading could mislead our own [00:02:48.120] facilities our own NORAD facilities into [00:02:50.720] thinking that what looked like a [00:02:55.120] non-specific look like a an uncorrelated [00:02:57.560] Target could be in fact an incoming Miss [00:02:59.959] and they didn’t want to confuse UFOs [00:03:01.560] with a threat from communist Russia I [00:03:04.879] was there you were there okay so is is [00:03:08.599] it the story that I heard was that when [00:03:11.560] Reagan saw it he started talking about [00:03:13.920] how how close to reality it was and and [00:03:16.879] he was quickly ushered out of the room [00:03:18.519] is that is that true no he wasn’t [00:03:20.599] ushered out of the room he was the [00:03:21.720] president of the United States nobody [00:03:24.040] could user Ronald Reagan out of the room [00:03:25.640] it was in the White House screening room [00:03:27.280] yeah and Reagan got up to thank me for [00:03:28.959] bringing the film to show him to show [00:03:31.920] the president the first lady and all of [00:03:33.480] their guests which included sander de o [00:03:36.000] Conor in her first week as as as um you [00:03:39.319] know as as a justice as the Supreme [00:03:41.680] Court and included some astronauts I [00:03:43.920] believe I believe um I think Neil [00:03:46.720] Armstrong was there I’m not 100% certain [00:03:49.000] but it was a it was it was it was an [00:03:50.480] amazing amazing evening and um and he [00:03:54.280] just stood up and he looked around the [00:03:56.000] room almost like he was Ming a headcount [00:03:58.280] and he said I want to thank you for [00:03:59.879] bringing ET to the White House we really [00:04:02.599] enjoyed your movie and then he looked [00:04:04.159] around the room and he said and there [00:04:05.280] are a number of people in this room who [00:04:08.040] know that everything on that screen is [00:04:09.959] absolutely true and he said it without [00:04:12.439] smiling um um but he but but but he he [00:04:15.760] said that and everybody laughed by the [00:04:17.199] way the whole room laughed because he [00:04:18.799] presented it like a joke but he wasn’t [00:04:20.359] smiling as he said it yeah the room did [00:04:22.639] laugh and and and then later on I’ll [00:04:24.600] never forget my conversation with the [00:04:26.639] president he pulled me aside he said and [00:04:28.919] I can’t do Reagan but I wish I could do [00:04:30.759] that breathy wonderful voice of his yeah [00:04:33.560] and and Nancy Reagan was standing right [00:04:35.120] next to him and and the president said [00:04:36.960] to me there only one I only have one [00:04:38.880] criticism about your movie and I said [00:04:40.680] what’s that he [00:04:43.000] said how long were the end credits and I [00:04:46.080] said oh I don’t know maybe three three [00:04:48.280] and a half minutes he said in my day [00:04:50.479] when I was an actor our end credits were [00:04:52.800] maybe 15 seconds long he said why don’t [00:04:55.560] you let everybody get a credit three and [00:04:58.199] a half four minutes that’s fine would [00:04:59.880] only show that inside the industry but [00:05:02.240] throughout the rest of the country [00:05:03.800] reduce your credits to 15 seconds at the [00:05:05.800] end and and Nancy Reagan turned to him [00:05:08.479] and said oh Ronnie they can’t do that [00:05:10.960] you know that and he went oh yes yes I [00:05:15.759] suppose that’s awesome that was the [00:05:17.800] extent of my conversation about about [00:05:19.960] that that was his only criticism he felt [00:05:21.360] the end credits were too long but I’ve [00:05:23.280] often wondered what if all of us in the [00:05:27.000] world discovered that we were threatened [00:05:30.639] by an outer power from outer space from [00:05:34.759] another [00:05:36.039] planet wouldn’t we all of a sudden find [00:05:38.720] that we didn’t have any differences [00:05:40.560] between us at all we were all human [00:05:43.199] beings citizens of the world and [00:05:45.319] wouldn’t we come together to fight that [00:05:48.199] particular threat