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- Did Jackie Gleason view UFO bodies?
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- NEW YORK - The clamorous cry To the moon. ALice" frequently delivered on the
- "Honeymooners" by the late, great Jackie Gleason, may have been inspired in
- part by the comic's fascination with outer space.
- Gleason was an avowed believer in UFOs and, according to his ex-wife
- Beverly McKittrick, he even got involved in some spaced-out exploits with his
- friend Richard Nixon.
- Beverly was 37-year-old divorcee with a great golf game when Jackie
- met her at Miami country club. Their four year marriage ended in 1974
- In her unpublished biography of the funnyman entitled "The Great
- One,"Beverly, Gleason's second spouse, describes a bizarre trip Jackie took with
- the then President in 1973 to Homestead AFB in Florida to see what see says
- were bodies of four dead space aliens recovered by the Air Force.
- The aliens were supposedly embalmed and displayed on operating tables
- and classified as top-secret material. Gleason and Nixon visited the base under
- extremely tight security, she says.
- "The significance of the information is tremendous," said Mike
- Luckman, director of the UFO research Center in New York. "The four bodies that
- Gleason saw were probably the same ones the the Army recovered in 1947 at
- Roswell, N.M. We want to establish that link."
- Gleason had a lifelong interest in the supernatural and accumulated one
- of the largest private libraries of esoteric and psychic literature in the
- country.
- He even named his Peekskill N.Y. home "The Mothership" and had
- architects build everything in the round to resemble a flying saucer.
- Said Luckman: "Most of the furniture was circular. So was the garage,
- which he called the Scout Ship."
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- Source: MUFON Journal February 1988 Number 238
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