President Truman and counsel to the president, Clark Clifford, in their Hawaiian shirts, resting up in Key West, Florida, 1949. Truman was reported to have made at least two UFO comments while at his "Southern White House." In April 1950 he passed this message through his press secretary " I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on earth." and a more pessimistic comment to UFO researcher James Moseley "I’ve never seen a purple cow, I hope never to see one." (photo: Truman library)

In his farewell speech to the United States Military Academy on May 12, 1962 MacArthur stated further ,"You now face a new world, a world of change. We speak in strange terms, of harnessing the cosmic energy, of ultimate conflict between a united human race and the sinister forces of some other planetary galaxy." (photo:Truman Library)

Truman and his long-time friend and Press Secretary Charles Ross. Ross handled the press in the days following the Roswell crash, and prevented the story from becoming a public relations concern.

In April 1950, he passed a message to the press from President Truman saying, " I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on earth." (photo: Truman library)