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Hollywood producer Brent Friedman says a Reagan-era official, John Herrington told him aliens are real, he’s seen them, and that he would cry himself to sleep every night over what he knew. 👀 https://t.co/THtnkmN3SY
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The speaker recounts a formative encounter with a trusted family friend, John Harrington, who had become an influential figure close to the Reagan administration. Harrington, once a lawyer and a strict Calvinist, had been Reagan’s advanced man in the 1980 campaign. After Reagan’s election, Harrington received a special appointment and moved his family from the West Coast to the East Coast, living in Langley Farms, Virginia.
On a cross-country road trip for Harrington, the speaker and a couple of friends drove Harrington’s two cars and his dog, just after graduating high school in 1981 and preparing to attend UCLA. They witnessed Harrington’s status change: he returned home with a black Lincoln Town Car, a secret service escort, and a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist, signaling his high-ranking government role. At a family dinner, Harrington’s two daughters—whom the speaker had known growing up—reconnected with the speaker, turning the gathering into a family reunion.
During the evening, Harrington’s personality and state of mind stood out. Although he had been a man of high character, integrity, and personal restraint—non-drinker, non-swearer, in good physical shape—the speaker noticed Harrington looked haggard and emotionally burdened, drinking Jim Beam in the backyard as they talked. When the speaker asked about his new job, Harrington initially refused to elaborate, calling it classified. Eventually, he revealed that to obtain the position, he had to undergo months of briefings in an underground facility in West Virginia. After each briefing, Harrington would cry himself to sleep, a detail that shocked the speaker, who could not imagine such distress in someone they had looked up to.
Pressed further, Harrington explained something about the world he had entered into, including a reference to the speaker’s own childhood interests in science fiction and comics. He finally conveyed a startling line: “Aliens are real. They're here, and I've seen them.” This revelation underscored the weight and disillusionment Harrington felt about the world he believed he was helping to shape for his family. The speaker emphasizes the emotional impact of these disclosures, highlighting the juxtaposition between Harrington’s respectable public persona and the private, burdensome truths he carried.
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Speaker 0: Very good family friend. Somebody that I looked up to, was a real role model for me. Had well, I guess he was he was advanced man for Reagan in his campaign in 1980. When Reagan got elected, he had a special appointment in the Reagan administration. And he had moved his family from the West Coast where we both grew up, to the East Coast and was living, in a place called Langley Farms, Virginia.
And he asked me and a couple friends to drive his two cars and his dog and some stuff they left in the garage across the country. Now I had just graduated from high school. This was 1981. I was about to go to UCLA. We had a crazy road trip.
I don't even know how we survived it. That's a whole different story. But when we got to his house, the first night that he came home from work, he arrived in a black Lincoln Town car with a whole kind of secret service escort and a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist. And I had never seen him in this capacity. He was a lawyer when I was growing up, a very successful lawyer.
But now he was being treated like a high ranking official in the government, which was both exciting and confusing to me. So cut to, we have dinner, everyone catches up. He has two daughters that I grew up with that were, a little younger than me. And it's like a family reunion for me because I haven't seen them in years. After dinner, he wants to just catch up with me.
So the two friends that I have, they're very interested in the two daughters, so they have And things to and this person, his name is John Harrington, and I go out onto the back veranda. And, you know, there was a couple really interesting things. You know, when when we were growing up, he was he was a strict Calvinist, if I remember. So, you know, he didn't drink. He didn't swear.
He he was he was a man of high character and integrity. And but he he was also really fit. And when I saw him, he looked he looked very haggard. He looked very rundown, like he was carrying a lot of weight emotionally. And he also brought bottle of of Jim Beam out to the backyard and and was pouring himself drinks as we were talking.
And I got the sense that this was a guy that, as I said, was burdened. Whatever he was doing was weighing heavily on him. So we start to talk, we catch up, and at some point I ask him, well, what is his new job? And he quickly explains he can't really say. It's classified.
He's working for the president. And I keep pushing, I keep pushing. And eventually he says, well, to get the job, I had to be briefed. I went and lived in an underground facility in West Virginia for a number of months. And every night, after they would brief me, would cry myself to sleep.
And yeah, and that line still haunts me because this is a man that I couldn't imagine crying once, let alone every night. And of course I said, well, why? I don't understand. What would cause you to cry yourself to sleep every night? And his response was really startling.
He said, this is not the world I thought I was bringing my daughters into. And again, I'm sure most people listening to this are older than 18, but when you're 18 years old and you hear those type of statements, there's no frame of reference. This is all very kind of staggering ideas. And so I pushed back and I said, well, okay, I need to know something because I'm like a son to you, aren't I? Well, what is this world that I've been brought into?
I need some answers. So I pushed and I pushed and eventually he hit on something interesting. He said, you know, when you were growing up, I remember you were into science fiction and comic books and stuff. And so I can tell you one thing. Aliens are real.
They're here, and I've seen them.