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Reports about President Dwight David Eisenhower leaving a Palms Springs, CA vacation for an emergency dental procedure only to fly to Alamogordo, NM to meet aliens at Holloman Air Force Base. It is alleged that Air Force One landed on the field at Holloman, shortly before a space ship landed in front of the President's plan.  President Eisenhower exited his aircraft, walked over to the UFO and greeted aliens from another planet.  Eisenhower then boarded the alien spacecraft for a one hour tour.

iRumorMill.com Determination: Unproven

This appears to be a combination of different stories from different sources leading to various outcomes. This is very most likely  investigators have labeled this one a hoax.

Reality Check:

What we know to be real is that President Eisenhower did travel to Palm Springs in 1954.

According to a Feb. 26, 2025 article by the Wall Street Journal, "President Dwight Eisenhower came to Smoke Tree in 1954 to visit his friends Paul Helms, a bakery executive from Los Angeles, and Paul Hoffman, who led the Studebaker Corporation."  The Smoke Tree Ranch is located at the foot of the San Jacinto Mountains near Palm Springs, CA.  It is a 400 acre community with 100 private homes where residents can be close to nature and enjoy the cowboy lifestyle.

Photo: President Eisenhower with friends at the Smoke Tree Ranch (Photo by Wall Street Journal)

Location of the Encounter?

This was confirmed in "Alien Contact" by Timothy Good, which said President Eisenhower was on a golfing holiday at the Smoke Tree Ranch on Feb. 20, 1954.  The President lost a cap on his tooth while chewing on a chicken leg and was gone for four hours to seek treatment from a dentist.  The book said that there was no official White House documentation for the dental visit and Eisenhower was taken to Edwards Air Force Base (not Holloman), 137 miles from Smoke Tree Ranch, where he saw five alien space craft in Hanger 27. 

Eisenhower's Air Force One in 1954 was a Lockheed VC-121E Columbine III and had a cruising speed of 330 miles per hour. It could easily made the trip from Palm Springs to Edwards in less than an hour.

Photo: Lockheed VC-121E Columbine III

Plot Hole

Even if the President used this aircraft to go to Holloman Air Force Base, just south of Alamogordo, NM, the 725 mile trip could not have been done in the four time frame that "Alien Contact" described.
 

Eye Witness Accounts at Holloman
This is a video Retired Air Force Medic Manuel Kirklin describing his time at Holloman Air Force Base when President Eisenhower visited. The year is 1955 but there are similarities to the 1954 encounter. Patricia Sorenson read a letter from her father who was stationed at Holloman during this time.

 

Posted 10/18/2026

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