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Ford UFO Files

Internet Archive (Paul Galante) · 65 pages · text from the file's own layer

This file from the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, digitized by the Internet Archive, holds Congressman Gerald R. Ford's Fifth District weekly radio scripts from January to June 1966, plus several National Republican Congressional Committee scripts. They deal with President Johnson's budget, inflation, four-year House terms, electoral college reform, foreign aid, the Vietnam War, rent subsidies and Memorial Day. The extracted text does not discuss UFOs.

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  • p. 53 …of new jobs created by Federal public works projects. The official figure was more than twice…
  • p. 65 …They cannot live nor work effectively without the trust and confidence of their government. In my…
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RADIO TAPE FOR FIFTH DISTRICT STATIONS
describing Michigan pictures of an alleged UFO as "the rising crescent moon
and the planet Venus."
Well, happy landings to the Air Force. And I ~ think the American
people want a better explanation of UFO's than they have been getting. If
my mail is any indication, there are many, many people who find it extremely
difficult to believe some of the stories put out by the government on this
and other subjects.
This is your congressman, Jerry Ford, saying--So-long for now, and I'll
see you next week at this same time, same station.
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