The Science of Conspiracy Theories

The Grenada Treaty conspiracy

The Grenada Treaty conspiracy

This wild theory goes like this: In 1953 astronomers made contact with a race of aliens. Allegedly, another group of human-looking aliens warned the United States about the first group of aliens and offered to help with America's spiritual development if we would disarm and destroy nuclear weapons. That offer was refused.

Then president Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a treaty--Grenada Treaty--with the Grey aliens. The deal was that the United States would keep the presence of Grey aliens a secret and they would provide the United States with advanced technology. The Grey aliens promised to not make a treaty with any other country and for this they were allowed to abduct humans and examine them to monitor their development (I assume here that this implies evolution) with the requirement that there would be no marks on them and that they wouldn't remember anything.
Now, does that sound like science fiction to you?

First of all, if this treaty were real, it would mean that the Eisenhower administration circumvented the constitution and made a treaty with some political entity without ratification. I don't know how that would work. The Senate ratifies most treaties.

Supposedly, the CIA in the 1956 movie 'Earth vs the Flying Saucers' relayed Alien threats to the public. I saw that spoofy movie and it was just a joke, not a threat.

Allegedly, Eisenhower had three secret meetings with the Grey aliens at a New Mexico air base in 1954. I suppose that this theory came about because of Eisenhower's fascination with the space race at the time. The initial meeting was with 'Nordic' aliens but the subsequent meeting was with the 'Grey' aliens. Also keep in mind that this time period produced a virtual blizzard of UFO sightings. These meetings occurred during the week of February 17-24, 1954 when Eisenhower was supposedly on vacation to Palm Springs, California. The rumors about the alien meetings were spawned when the press was told that he wasn't there without any explanation of his absence. In order to explain the disappearance, Press Secretary James Haggerty called a press conference and said that Eisenhower had suffered a broken tooth and was having emergency dental repair. Later, in 1979, the dentist's wife had no knowledge of her husband working on Eisenhower. Eisenhower's library records do not have anything about his dental work. See what happens when you lie!

Supposedly, there is a grainy film that shows Eisenhower and Howard Hughes inspecting a flying saucer along with its alien crew. The authenticity of this film is highly debated and probably faked.

I've seen the pictures and the video, but I believe that they're fakes. This is a typical UFO conspiracy with a special twist that involves a great general and president. I don't think that Eisenhower was the type of person to be a party to this nonsense. Howard Hughes . . . that's another case.

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