JOINT CHIEFS HEAD SAYS ALIENS NOT A PROBLEM

[CNI News thanks Rebecca Keith for forwarding this story, which appeared on the UPI newswire on September 24, 1997.]

WASHINGTON, D.C. (UPI) -- Americans should sleep soundly at night with no fears of an alien abduction. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff certainly does.

Gen. John Shalikashvili made his revelation during a question-and-answer session at the National Press Club [on September 24]. One question, read by a moderator, asked Shalikashvili if the United States had been truthful about threats the country faces from aliens traveling in unidentified flying objects.

That prompted Shalikashvili [a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Poland] to quip, "Am I the alien they're talking about?"

On a more serious note, he said he believes U.S. military officials have been completely forthcoming about extraterrestrials. He said no evidence exists.

He concluded, "I sleep well at night without the fear an alien being is going to capture me."

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