PRESIDENT REAGAN AND AN ALIEN PRESENCE AMONG US.

     Again, 1960 was at the height of the Cold War, the year Kennedy would be elected, but still the Eisenhower Administration. If anything, U.S. military types involved in nondestructive testing should have been involved in back-engineering captured Soviet technology. But instead, they were meeting with the enemy to learn common skills. Why? I conjecture that we were concerned about a potential common enemy. It seems likely that these scientists carried out an analysis much like that written about by Potter; however I do not have their test results. I only know that the meeting took place and about who was there.

In her memoirs, former CBS White House correspondent Lesley Stahl recounts her final meeting with the president, in 1986: "Reagan didn't seem to know who I was. ... Oh, my, he's gonzo, I thought. I have to go out on the lawn tonight and tell my countrymen that the president of the United States is a doddering space cadet." But then, at the end, he regained his alertness. As she described it, "I had come that close to reporting that Reagan was senile." However, Dr. Lawrence K. Altman, a physician employed as a reporter for The New York Times, noted that "the line between mere forgetfulness and the beginning of Alzheimer's can be fuzzy" and all four of Reagan's White House doctors said that they saw no evidence of Alzheimer's while he was president. Dr. John E. Hutton, Reagan's primary physician from 1984 to 1989, said the president "absolutely" did not "show any signs of dementia or Alzheimer's." Reagan did experience occasional memory lapses, though, especially with names. Once, while meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, he repeatedly referred to Vice President Bush as "Prime Minister Bush."