Just fifty years ago, on February 20, 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower mysteriously disappeared. At first, the Associated Press even released a story that he had died. A few minutes later, it was changed to a visit to the dentist. But that story wasn’t true. Not even the dentist he allegedly visited would say he’d actually been there, and there is no record of the visit in the Eisenhower Library. In 1999, Whitley Strieber wrote a 43 page outline of a possible work of speculative fiction about what happened. Strong publisher prejudice against the UFO subject meant that the novel was never bought by a publishing house, but the outline remains as a gripping study of what might have been.read more

In his novella the Open Doors, Whitley Strieber speculates on the terror that gripped the scientist John von Neumann as he died in 1957. Called by the press ‘the smartest man in the world,’ he was one of the founders of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, and his 1932 paper "Mathematical Basis for Quantum Mechanics" is a key building block of quantum theory. Although his family vehemently denies it, Dr. Von Neumann has been identified as a key member of Majestic-12, and is believed to have formed the conceptual basis for the secrecy that surrounds the issue of alien presence to this day.read more