JFK AND UFOS

FROM ROSWELL TO RUSSIA

I’ve spent many years examining the likelihood that President Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in a coup d’etat orchestrated by rogue elements of the CIA and military along with aid from the Mafia, Texas oilmen, and anti-Castro Cubans. JFK had made enemies among those groups on a number of different levels - and until recently, I’d never considered that the president’s plans for space exploration and even the existence of Beings from elsewhere had anything to do with his demise. But new document releases, along with revelations from a senior White House aide a few days before his death, have brought me to consider this as a very real possibility.

We know the following to be established fact: on September 20, 1963, in an address to the United Nations, President Kennedy proposed “a joint expedition to the moon” with the Soviet Union. Then, on November 12, JFK instructed NASA Administrator James Webb to pursue “substantive cooperation with the Soviet Union in the field of outer space, including the development of specific technical proposals.”

Corroboration from the Soviet side came from Dr. Sergei Khrushchev, the son of Premier Nikita Khrushchev), that the Russians were seriously considering Kennedy’s proposal. “I walked with him [his father] sometime in late October or November, and he told me about all these things,” Sergei said in a 1999 interview with PBS.

Of course, these overtures followed on the new relationship forged between JFK and Khrushchev after resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis, including the president’s famous peace speech in June 1963 and the signing of an atmospheric nuclear test ban treaty that September. But there was something else that Kennedy was after. Also on November 12, in what experts concur is an authentic leaked document, Kennedy dispatched a Top Secret memorandum to CIA Director John McCone, which ordered a “classification review of all UFO intelligence files affecting National Security, and that “a program of data sharing with NASA where Unknowns [UFOs] are a factor” be established.

In early 2025, Harald Malmgren - who advised presidents from Kennedy to Reagan and was a renowned economist - came forward on podcaster Jesse Michels’ popular podcast for a long conversation. Malmgren spoke of a “tagalong” object that had been following an ICBM-like test missile off Johnston Island in the Pacific in late October of 1962, when the orb had been knocked down into the ocean by a high-altitude X-ray burst and been recovered by Naval Intelligence. Malmgren claimed he then personally handled physical debris at Los Alamos, and that he gave a briefing to Kennedy. Even more startling was his assertion that JFK had then taken a secret trip to Holloman Air Force Base where he was shown alien artifacts.

In his late eighties, Malmgren died a few days after his taping with Michels, and subsequent skeptical investigators have uncovered holes in some of his other statements. But independent journalist Geoffrey Cruickshank, a former Australian intelligence officer, has verified much about the Bluegill Triple Prime tests off Johnston Island, which you can read about in detail at the link above.

The fact is, JFK had long been interested in UFOs. He was a personal friend of James Forrestal, America’s first Secretary of Defense, and the two had traveled to Germany in the immediate postwar month of July 1945 in search of Nazi “miracle weapons.” That may well be shorthand for recovered UFO technology. Following the Roswell crash in July 1947, according to a verified report by the Pentagon’s Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit, “some of the recovery operation was shared with Representative JOHN F. KENNEDY, Massachusetts Democrat elected to Congress in 46.”

On July 25, 1947, JFK had written a letter to Rear Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, director of the newly-formed CIA, saying “I have not been able to check this information, so the authenticity is unknown to me,” and sending along the names of several people whose “information may be of some assistance to you in your work.” It’s unclear just what the Congressman was referring to, but the timing is auspicious in the immediate aftermath of Roswell.

And in Part 2 of this substack, I’ll explore who JFK was enroute to see at the Dallas Trade Mart the day his life was cut short. This was a man named Lloyd Berkner, who ten years earlier had been a leading member of the CIA’s Robertson Panel, the first major examination of the UFO phenomenon by the U.S. government.