Kucinich's Fellow Traveler: Impeachment Book Author Also Saw A UFO

CINCINNATI (TDB) -- Dave Lindorff is coauthor of The Case For Impeachment, a 288-page book that lays out his grounds for removing President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney from office. Lindorff, a writer and journalist from Philadelphia, disclosed today on Democrats.com that he, too, has witnessed a UFO. He says the fact that Cleveland U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-10 Ohio, claims to have encountered an unidentified flying object years ago should not stop people from taking Kucinich -- who wants to impeach Cheney -- seriously as a presidential candidate. Lindorff is a Kucinich supporter, obviously.

Lindorff reports he saw the UFO sometime in 1970 in Connecticut. He described it as a small, shiny object. His account is here.

"The sun was glinting off of it, making it especially bright. It caught my attention because it was flying much faster than a commercial jet, and was leaving no contrail. There was no apparent shape to it. That is, I couldn't see wings or a tail, but it was pretty far off.

"I was just speculating as to whether it might be a supersonic military jet when suddenly the thing made an abrupt right angle turn, way beyond the capabilities of any airplane -- and so fast that anyone sitting inside it would have been killed by the G-forces -- and then shot straight up into the sky, much faster than before, and just disappeared."

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"So does that preclude me from being taken seriously if I write about plans to restore the draft, or about the impeachable crimes of the Bush/Cheney administration? Of course not."

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"And I feel much more comfortable voting for someone for president who admits to having seen a UFO like I have, than for someone who says god talks to him, or who says she won't preclude dropping a nuclear weapon on Afghanistan, and who cannot commit to having all US troops out of Iraq five years from now."

UFOs Hidden In Ohio? Former Arizona Gov. Symington Saw Flying Saucers

DAYTON (TDB) -- Former Arizona Gov. Fife Symington III has the aliens-among-us-crowd stirred up with his admission he saw an unidentified flying object 10 years ago over Phoenix. But few outside the UFO-cults know that Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio was suspected of hiding the aliens who supposedly crashed at Roswell in the late 1940s.

Roswell gets all the tourists, headlines, rumors and fun about the space invaders, Phoenix is going to get some juicy publicity about the latest twist in an unexplained incident. Ohio, sadly, gets left out. What a slight.

Drawing upon some truth, the legend is that Air Force had a hush-hush research station at Wright-Pat where weapons were tested and developed and modified. There was a Foreign Technology Division that poked around in Soviet aircraft and others that got into government hands via spycraft or defectors during the Cold War. According to urban myth and folklore -- or maybe, some deep dark reality -- the aliens who landed in New Mexico were brought to "Hangar 18" at Wright-Patterson where their remains were stored and studied. Hangar 18 once had the conspiracy-theory cachet of Area 51, but has faded from center stage over the last 20 years or so. Wright-Pat, of course, is a research center for the Air Force. As to extra-terrestrials, the stories have been denied, pooh-poohed and turned into the stuff of scoffs.

Meanwhile, Symington's admission that he saw something over Phoenix in March 1997 is going to become another ufology chapter. Perhaps it is time to dust off the tales of Hangar 18. Ohio could always put a slogan on its license tags. But what should it say? Click to read a story about Symington's sighting.

And there is some background about Wright-Patterson AFB HERE , including a mention of Hangar 18. A Web site that discusses the aliens in Ohio theory is HERE. There is a Megadeath track and a band that use Hangar 18 as titles. So the the legend lives. But it definitely has weakened since the 1970s and early 1980s.