Anthony Lake denies UFO briefing
From: Bob Durant <70232.17@compuserve.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 08:36:06 -0800
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On March 30 Washington columnist Sarah McClendon published a report
claiming, among other things, that "a community of scientists and
technicians employed by the government" believe UFOs "are actual
visitors from other worlds." Her report has received wide
distribution on the Internet.
[See http://www.ufomind.com/people/m/mcclendon/#1]
McClendon states that a number of senior Clinton advisors received UFO
briefings. Among those named officials is Anthony Lake, who served as
the President's National Security Advisor. Lake was nominated for the
position of Director of Central Intelligence, but his nomination was
withdrawn in the face of Republican opposition. He resigned from
public life, and now teaches at Georgetown University.
On April 14 Lake delivered the annual George W. Ball Lecture at
Princeton University. I attended the lecture, and approached him after
the talk to ask about McClendon's report. The following is a
transcript of our short but unambiguous conversation.
Durant: Two weeks ago Sarah McClendon, a Washington reporter,
Lake: Right, right
Durant: wrote a real fire burner about UFOs. And she indicated that
this was taken very seriously by the Clinton administration. Your
name was mentioned in it, as somebody having received a briefing on
this topic. Do you know anything about this?
Lake: This is very highly classified. But if you looked at
Independence Day, the contact with the space aliens, the description
of the aliens is just about perfect. No, that's just nonsense.
Absolute nonsense. I never got a briefing. There is no, what, what
is it, Roswell. Unless, I never heard of Roswell, in fact, until I
was on the Diane Reems (sp?) show about a year ago, and a caller said,
so are you going to tell us about Roswell, Roswell and what's it
called, 51 or 52?
Durant: Area 51
Lake: Oh, Area 51. I never heard of it, and so I went back to the
Air Force and said, what's this all about? And they denied it. Maybe
they lied to me. This is nonsense. And I think the explanation is,
uh, I can't remember now, it may have had something to do with
satellites, reconnaissance, going over, flights, planes going over
that convinced people something was happening. Now, the problem is,
as I said on the Diane Reems (sp?) show, I never heard about this, I
don't know about this. You can either conclude, one, that I'm lying
to you, or two, that I'm naive and nobody ever tells me anything, or
three, that I'm telling the truth. All I can do is tell you what the
truth as I know it is. But Independence Day was a good movie!
Durant: OK, gotcha. Thank you.
Earlier in the day, a colleague of mine telephoned Sarah McClendon to
inquire about her source for the claim about Lake's UFO briefing. She
was unable to answer that question at the moment.
Robert J. Durant
15 April 98
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