Did Jackie Gleason See Dead ET's?

[Martin]

From: www.sightings.com

INTERVIEW with BEVERLY GLEASON

This morning I spoke by telephone with Beverly Gleason McKittrick, an ex-wife of the late comedian Jackie Gleason. I explained to her that I was interested in the progress of her book and if she could talk about Jackie Gleason's claim of seeing alien bodies at Homestead Air Force Base in Florida.

She said that the book never came out as she had 'stopped writing' of it. She said she was 'glad to get out of it' as Jackie Gleason did not seem pleased with her quoting him on the aliens in Florida. She said that there was not much additional to tell as the whole story regarding Jackie Gleason and the aliens, as far as sheknew, had already been printed anyway.

"Esquire Magazine interviewed me after our separation," she said, "and I talked about how Jackie told me about seeing dead aliens in Florida. I think it was sometime in '74 when this happened. When I said that it was because he told me."

"After the interview was published, Jackie was upset about the story being public. He called and said he didn't appreciate me giving the interview, and that's when I started to wonder if the story was 'iffy.'

"The reason I became 'iffy' about it is because I wondered if it was really true, I mean... I believed it the whole time. I bought the story hook, line and sinker. But if it was true, then why did he get so upset about it?"

Beverly went on to explain how Jackie came to tell her of his experience.

"Jackie had been out very late one night. I did not know who he was with," She said. "He told me where he was that same evening, he said he had been in South Florida with President Nixon to see some dead aliens there and I believed him, he was very convincing.

"He and Nixon were in contact quite a bit and I'm not sure how that was arranged, but it seems that their meetings were set up by an associate of Nixon's. After he got back, he was very pleased he had an opportunity to see the dead little men in cases, he explained to me what they looked like and he was still talking about it the next day."

Beverly explained that during her interview with Esquire Magazine, she made the statement about Gleason's claim to see dead aliens and afterward things between her and Jackie turned sour.

"We were on the verge of divorce, but everything was okay until it came out in Esquire," she said.

She informed that Gleason never did deny the story. Regarding her announced intention to write a book, Beverly again said that she abandoned the project due in large part to Gleason's objection to her comments about him seeing the aliens.

"I just made that one statement about the UFOs and it appeared in Esquire and I guess a few other places and he didn't like that and I thought, I just can't go through with this. Let him live his life. So I never wrote the book."

I thanked Beverly for talking with me and asked if it would be okay for me to call her back later if I had more questions, she agreed. That concluded our conversation.

Special thanks to Donnie Blessing, Grant Cameron and David Rudiak for their help in providing contact informationfor Beverly Gleason McKittrick.

Subject: Follow-up With Beverly Gleason:

This afternoon I placed a second call to Beverly Gleason at her home in Easton, Maryland. We spoke for about 15-minutes and I asked if she could recall, for certain, if Esquire Magazine was the first to print her story about Richard Nixon showing comedian Jackie Gleason, her late husband, alien bodies after a golf game while at Homestead Air Force Base in Florida.

Beverly said that she is certain that it was Esquire Magazine that first printed the story, and went on to describe how the article was the front page cover story of Esquire, carrying a picture of Jackie and some text regarding UFOs. She also said that the reporter who did the story still works there, and she could only recall his firstname perhaps being "Ben."

She said that in the years after the Esquire report, other publications picked up the story - some of them she thought, directly from Esquire.

Going back to the Gleason/Nixon meeting sfor golf in Florida, she couldn't remember any specific date they met but said that her relationship with Jackie Gleason was good during that timeframe. She said that she had even met with President Nixon herself, meetinghim near a pool and having a drink with him.
She said that later, at the time ofthe Esquire article, her relationship with Jackie was not good.

"I'll be honest with you, about the time the article appeared Jack and I were breaking up," she said. "And when he saw the Esquire article that just finished everything."

I asked her about the reports she had planned to write a book and whether or not she ever prepared a manuscript. She said that she did not have any written manuscript at any time and nothing otherwise prepared. There is nothing she had ever prepared in writing, she said, to document this first-hand.

"At the time Jack came home after his meeting with The President, he was so giddy and excited about seeing these little men," she said, "but in the years afterward I began to ask myself if any of this could really be true or if he was just telling me that...perhaps having been 'out' with someone?"

I asked her if she could recall any of his words, a more complete description of the 'little men' or any information such as where they came from or crashed, and Beverly laughed and reminded me of how many years ago this was. She then answered by saying: "you would be best off to find that Esquire article, that probably contains my closest recollection of anything he said."

I told Beverly that in addition to doing research, I also was involved in writing and producing television documentaries. I asked her if she would feel comfortable going 'on camera' with this story and said that it would be tremendous to preserve her comments and experienceon videotape. She said that she was not interested in going on television and thought the story concerning the 'little men' should be authenticated first. I said that the only real 'authentication' would come if the government announced having the bodies and she said "I guess you're right, but I guess I just don't want to go on camera with this."

I thanked her for talking with me and she again suggested I find the Esquire magazine article.

[Carol Nistri]

A lot of people have hung their hats on this story,now Beverly seems to be backing off of it.

[dr wu23]

These same tired tales come up over and over ......

[GINO69]

It's more likely he died of the DTs ,than the ETs the way that guy used to drink
grapefruit juice .Did you ever see him do a flip on stage ? Drinking
grapefruit juice does that to you everytime and then you start seeing
ants crawling into your bed while mice are knawing out of the wood work.
Hell ! Little green men ain't nothing to get worried about when you start
to see pink elephants dancing with turkeys in strawhats .:-lol

[Allee]

Ah Carol, the one that doesn't go the conspiracist road....................shame

[Martin]

Originally Posted by GINO69

It's more likely he died of the DTs ,than the ETs the way that guy used to drink
grapefruit juice .Did you ever see him do a flip on stage ? Drinking
grapefruit juice does that to you everytime and then you start seeing
ants crawling into your bed while mice are knawing out of the wood work.
Hell ! Little green men ain't nothing to get worried about when you start
to see pink elephants dancing with turkeys in strawhats .:-lol

:-lol I take it you were not a fan?

[Wilhelm]

I pulled this out of my library...



BEYOND, Nov. 1969

Sorry it's a little blurry, but my scanner decided not to work again, so I just snapped a pic of it.

[Carol Nistri]

As a matter of fact Im one of those people that believed this story,maybe at the time they wernt as strict about presidents letting comedians see dead alien bodies,and I have to wonder if its why now presidents arent told a thing they dont need to know.Could be.

[dr wu23]

"After he got back, he was very pleased he had an opportunity to see the dead little men in cases, he explained to me what they looked like and he was still talking about it the next day."

So what did they look like...? Anyone read the actual interview in Esquire?

[Wilhelm]

Originally Posted by dr wu23

"After he got back, he was very pleased he had an opportunity to see the dead little men in cases, he explained to me what they looked like and he was still talking about it the next day."

So what did they look like...? Anyone read the actual interview in Esquire?

What's the date of issue, I can probably find it.

Anyway, here's the description:

In an interview with Gleason’s second wife, Beverly McKittrick, by Esquire Magazine about a book she was planning to write, she revealed that Gleason had told her that Nixon had shown Gleason alien bodies. The story goes that Gleason arrived home unusually late on the evening of February 19, 1973. Worried, McKittrick questioned his whereabouts. She said in the interview that his face looked “haggard�, and that he said he had been to Homestead Air Force Base and had seen alien bodies. He described them as small, “only about two feet tall, with bald heads and disproportionately large ears.�

http://ufohorizon.blogspot.com/2010/...howed-him.html