U.S. President Barack Obama and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar make their way to board Air Force One before departure from Roswell International Air Center Airport March 21, 2012 in Roswell, New Mexico.
Photograph by: Mandel Ngan, AFP/Getty Images
MALJAMAR – A lighthearted President Barack Obama on Wednesday joked that although he had landed in Roswell he could not disclose if extra-terrestrials had done the same in a flying saucer in 1947.
“I announced to people when I landed that I come in peace,” said the U.S. leader, mocking an expression attributed to alien species in numerous works of fiction, including the animated blockbuster comedy “Toy Story.”
Roswell, a town of 50,000 inhabitants in the state of New Mexico, is known worldwide for being the place where a spacecraft and its alien occupants were allegedly recovered 65 years ago and then hidden by the US government.
“Let me tell you, there are nine- and 10-year-old boys… when I meet them they ask me, have you been to Roswell, and is it true what they say?” Obama said.
“And I tell them, If I told you I’d have to kill you. And you know, their eyes get all big,” the president added in Maljamar, a town 80 kilometers (50 miles) away from Roswell, where he was trumpeting his energy policy.
“We’re gonna keep our secrets here!” he concluded.
So true. Babies defy the laws of time and space. It’s like the Matrix or something. We must look like marshmallows sinking in honey to them.