Did Jackie Gleason See Dead ET Bodies?
By Kenny Young
© 2003 Kenny Young
3-22-10
Note: The following reports were filed after several years of trying
to locate the subject, BeverlyGleason McKittrick, ex-wife of the famous
comedian Jackie Gleason. Her comments would help clarify a story that
has become a UFOlogical legend: The alleged Richard Nixon / Jackie
Gleason encounter with pickled aliens. In July of 2003, she was located
at her home in Easton, Maryland, and her remarks were most interesting.
- KY
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.
Filed,
JULY 9, 2003
KENNY YOUNG
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.
Filed,
AUGUST 6, 2003
Kenny Young
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