article_snippet.sent: Ronald Reagan repeated the warning when Ronald Reagan spoke to a group of students, and Ronald Reagan subsequent speeches were examined by Reagan's advisers to remove any mention of aliens in Reagan's advisers.
article_snippet.sent: Ronald Reagan even arranged a private screening of Stephen Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind at the Whitehouse in 1982 for top judges, astronauts and other VIPs.
article_snippet.sent: Deputy national security adviser Colin Powell was said to be horrified by the mention of aliens at the meeting.
article_snippet.sent: Deputy national security adviser Colin Powell then found Ronald Reagan repeated the story to a group of Maryland high school students after Deputy national security adviser Colin Powell return to the US in 1985.
article_snippet.sent: Powell's solution was to go through the President's public speeches deleting 'interplanetary references' right until Ronald Reagan's final months in office.
article_snippet.sent: Dr Clarke said that at any mention of an alien invasion Powell would roll Deputy national security adviser Colin Powell eyes and say 'Here come the Little Green Men again.'
article_snippet.sent: Dr Clarke said Ronald Reagan may also have been convinced Dr Clarke was speaking for the American public because of a poll released, shortly after Close Encounters hit film screens.
highlights_snippet.sent: Ronald Reagan's advisers edited out mentions of aliens in subsequent speeches .