article_snippet.sent: Ronald Reagan asked Mikhail Gorbachev for help from Russia to 'fight the alien invader'.
article_snippet.sent: The former US President and actor went off-script during a peace summit in Geneva in the 1980s to ask Mikhail Gorbachev for Mikhail Gorbachev support in the event of an invasion from extra terrestrial life.
article_snippet.sent: Ronald Reagan met Mikhail Gorbachev (left) for the first time at a peace summit in Geneva, Switzerland in 1985  and asked for Ronald Reagan support in the event of an alien invasion .
article_snippet.sent: In 1985 Ronald Reagan went a step further and directly addressed Gorbachev at a summit to ask for Ronald Reagan support in the event aliens were to invade.
article_snippet.sent: Ronald Reagan asked Gorbachev for support fighting a future alien invasion at a peace summit . '
article_snippet.sent: Taken aback, Gorbachev politely changed the subject.'
article_snippet.sent: Ronald Reagan apparently then told Gorbachev inner circle Gorbachev felt Gorbachev had 'scored a point' over Gorbachev counterpart.
article_snippet.sent: The book suggests Ronald Reagan was secretly appalled by nuclear weapons and Ronald Reagan approach to Gorbachev may have been inspired by the 1951 movie, The Day the Earth Stood Still.
article_snippet.sent: Gorbachev, pictured in Germany in November 2014, was said to be shocked by Ronald Reagan's request .
highlights_snippet.sent: Ronald Reagan asked Mikhail Gorbachev for help with aliens at summit .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: The former US President and actor arranged private screenings of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and asked Mikhail Gorbachev for help dealing with any future alien invasion .
  