About this episode

This episode explores the legend surrounding President Eisenhower's alleged secret treaty with extraterrestrial beings in 1954.

On the night of February twentieth, 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower finished dinner at a private ranch in Palm Springs and vanished from public view. A wire service reportedly flashed that he was dead. The next morning he surfaced at church, and the White House explained everything with a chicken wing and a chipped tooth. Seventy years later, that missing evening is still the foundation of the most durable presidential legend in American history: that Ike was driven into the Mojave Desert that night, walked into a hangar at Edwards Air Force Base, and negotiated a secret treaty with beings from another world.In this episode, I take the entire story apart with the evidence in hand. The dental records that nobody opened until 1991 and what they actually show about that famous tooth. The occultist whose 1954 letter started it all, and the announcement he promised that never came. The radar targets over Washington that put the whole country on edge, and the classified CIA panel that decided Americans should be talked out of looking up. The Majestic Twelve papers, the FBI file stamped with a single word, and the forged White House memo that appears to have been built from a real…

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