Brief
Arthur Exon
The claims the writer was given for Arthur Exon, in the order they were given.
1
Whitley Strieber told Strom Thurmond in a letter that United States Army Brigadier General Arthur Exon told him personally in 1989 that there was a 'completely unequivocal cover-up' of a retrieved alien craft at Roswell, New Mexico that 'went from Truman on down'.
“Strieber told the Senator in his letter that US Army Brigadier General Arthur Exon had told him personally in 1989 that there was a 'completely unequivocal cover-up' of a retrieved alien craft at Roswell and 'it went from [President Harry] Truman on down'.”
In Plain Sight 2023-11-17 ch25:22926-23176 hearsay third hand
2
In 1988, Whitley Strieber met General Arthur Exon, who had seen and held one of the Roswell bodies and perceived it the same way, as insectlike.
“Only later, in 1988, would I meet General Exon, who saw and held one of the bodies, and perceived it the same way.”
The Fourth Mind 2025-01-15 ch11:6164-6274 testimony second hand
3
General Arthur Exon told Whitley Strieber, after Strieber published Communion in 1987, that everybody from Harry Truman on down knew within twenty-four hours of finding it that what had been found was not of this world.
“General Exon told me after I published Communion in 1987 that “everybody from Truman on down knew that what we had found was not of this world within twenty-four hours of our finding it.””
The Fourth Mind 2025-01-15 ch11:795-978 testimony second hand
4
Arthur Exon said that he had held one of the recovered bodies in his arms and that it was like a big insect.
“He also said that he had held one of the bodies in his arms and “it was like a big insect.””
The Fourth Mind 2025-01-15 ch11:983-1066 testimony first hand
5
Arthur Exon was a family friend of Whitley Strieber.
“General Arthur Exon, a family friend who was involved with the Air Materiel Command at Wright Field in July 1947”
The Fourth Mind 2025-01-15 ch8:9254-9362 administrative first hand
6
Arthur Exon was involved with the Air Materiel Command at Wright Field, Ohio, in July 1947.
“General Arthur Exon, a family friend who was involved with the Air Materiel Command at Wright Field in July 1947, and was officially assigned to it in 1948”
The Fourth Mind 2025-01-15 ch8:9254-9405 administrative first hand
7
Arthur Exon was officially assigned to the Air Materiel Command in 1948.
“and was officially assigned to it in 1948”
The Fourth Mind 2025-01-15 ch8:9368-9405 administrative first hand
8
Arthur Exon spoke privately about the existence of nonhuman bodies held by the United States Department of Defense (DoD).
“spoke of them privately”
The Fourth Mind 2025-01-15 ch8:9411-9425 hearsay second hand
9
In 1964, Arthur Exon was assigned as commander of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
“In 1964, he was assigned as commander of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base”
The Fourth Mind 2025-01-15 ch8:9436-9504 administrative first hand
10
As late as 1988, Arthur Exon told Whitley Strieber that he was still consulting with groups at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base working on the question of nonhuman bodies.
“and as late as 1988 told me that he was still consulting with groups there working on the question”
The Fourth Mind 2025-01-15 ch8:9510-9600 testimony second hand
11
Arthur Exon later served as commandant of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
“General Art Exon, who was involved in this, later he was commandant of Wright-Patt”
The Terrible Truth About the Visitors - Whitley Strieber | ep. 96 2026-07-24 00:13:37.4-00:13:43.3 administrative first hand
12
Arthur Exon told Whitley Strieber that in 1947 he was directly involved in what happened when the debris and the bodies were brought to Wright Field, as Wright-Patterson Air Force Base was then called.
“in 47, according to what he told me, he was directly involved in the what happened when the debris and the bodies were brought to Wright Field it was as it was called then”
The Terrible Truth About the Visitors - Whitley Strieber | ep. 96 2026-07-24 00:13:44.8-00:13:57.1 hearsay second hand
13
At the time the debris and bodies were brought to Wright Field in 1947, Arthur Exon was in or worked with the United States Air Force Air Materiel Command under Nathan Twining.
“under General Twining he was in the air material command or worked in this”
The Terrible Truth About the Visitors - Whitley Strieber | ep. 96 2026-07-24 00:13:58.2-00:14:04.0 hearsay second hand
14
Whitley Strieber spoke with Arthur Exon in 1988.
“he told me in 1988 when i talked to him”
The Terrible Truth About the Visitors - Whitley Strieber | ep. 96 2026-07-24 00:14:19.6-00:14:23.2 testimony first hand
15
Arthur Exon told Whitley Strieber in 1988 that officials held 'pencils up' meetings on the Roswell material, meaning meetings that were not recorded, and that even in retirement he travelled to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to brief the scientific group still working on the subject about what had been discussed.
“he told me in 1988 when i talked to him that they had a lot of pencils up meetings and that meant that he would go down he was still even in retirement going down to Wright-Patt from where his where he was to fill in the scientific group that was still working on this with what they had discussed in these meetings.”
The Terrible Truth About the Visitors - Whitley Strieber | ep. 96 2026-07-24 00:14:19.6-00:14:41.8 hearsay second hand
16
When Whitley Strieber asked Arthur Exon why there was secrecy about UFOs, Arthur Exon said something along the lines that the fear was that they could come in on human thoughts.
“something that Art Exon sort of alluded to but he didn't really i don't think it's something he understood himself... he said something along the lines of They could come in on our thoughts. That was the fear. I asked him, why the secrecy?”
The Terrible Truth About the Visitors - Whitley Strieber | ep. 96 2026-07-24 01:21:25.3-01:21:46.8 hearsay second hand
17
Whitley Strieber believes John von Neumann was probably the author of a memo referred to by Arthur Exon, which said that non-human intelligences would come in through human thoughts.
“the general made a reference to a memo. And I think that von Neumann probably would have been the author of this memo that said basically that they would come in through our thoughts.”
The Terrible Truth About the Visitors - Whitley Strieber | ep. 96 2026-07-24 01:22:19.2-01:22:33.4 opinion second hand
18
Arthur Ernest Exon was allegedly heavily involved in the retrieval of the Roswell craft in 1947.
“General Art Exon, who was allegedly heavily involved in the retrieval of the Roswell craft in 1947”
Whitley Strieber Reveals What 40 Years of Encounters Taught Him | Reality Check Rewind 2026-08-14 00:37:46.4-00:37:55.8 administrative
19
Whitley Strieber came to know Arthur Ernest Exon through his father's brother, not through his father.
“And it was not through my dad. It was through my dad's brother.”
Whitley Strieber Reveals What 40 Years of Encounters Taught Him | Reality Check Rewind 2026-08-14 00:38:04.9-00:38:07.4 testimony first hand
20
Arthur Ernest Exon was a friend of Whitley Strieber's uncle and later became a general and commanding officer at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
“his friend Art Exon, who had then later become a general and become commanding officer at Wright-Patt”
Whitley Strieber Reveals What 40 Years of Encounters Taught Him | Reality Check Rewind 2026-08-14 00:39:48.4-00:39:54.2 administrative first hand
21
Arthur Ernest Exon told Whitley Strieber that in 1988 he was still going regularly to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to brief staff there on matters discussed in the early days in classified off-the-record briefings he remembered.
“General Exon told me that in 1988, he was still going to Wright regularly to fill them in on things that had been discussed in the early days in pencils up meetings that he remembered.”
Whitley Strieber Reveals What 40 Years of Encounters Taught Him | Reality Check Rewind 2026-08-14 00:40:03.6-00:40:20.4 hearsay second hand
22
Arthur Ernest Exon supposedly later developed Alzheimer's disease, but Whitley Strieber suspects he may not have and that the United States Air Force acted against him for talking too much.
“He later supposedly got Alzheimer's, but I think He may not have. I think the Air Force really went to town on him because he was talking too much.”
Whitley Strieber Reveals What 40 Years of Encounters Taught Him | Reality Check Rewind 2026-08-14 00:40:21.5-00:40:28.6 opinion first hand
23
Whitley Strieber considers it a mistake that he introduced Arthur Ernest Exon to Stanton T. Friedman.
“I made the mistake of introducing him to Stanton Friedman”
Whitley Strieber Reveals What 40 Years of Encounters Taught Him | Reality Check Rewind 2026-08-14 00:40:29.4-00:40:31.7 opinion first hand
24
Arthur Ernest Exon told Whitley Strieber that debris and bodies were brought in following the 1947 Roswell crash.
“he told me that there was debris brought in and there were bodies brought in.”
Whitley Strieber Reveals What 40 Years of Encounters Taught Him | Reality Check Rewind 2026-08-14 00:40:43.6-00:40:50.3 hearsay second hand
25
Arthur Ernest Exon told Whitley Strieber that he held one of the bodies recovered after the 1947 Roswell crash while it was inside a body bag, and did not see it.
“And he had held one of these bodies. It was inside a body bag. He said he didn't see it, but he held it.”
Whitley Strieber Reveals What 40 Years of Encounters Taught Him | Reality Check Rewind 2026-08-14 00:40:50.8-00:40:59.3 hearsay second hand
26
Arthur Ernest Exon told Whitley Strieber that Nathan F. Twining and others did see the bodies recovered after the 1947 Roswell crash, although Exon himself did not.
“But he said that General Twining did see them and others saw them, but not him.”
Whitley Strieber Reveals What 40 Years of Encounters Taught Him | Reality Check Rewind 2026-08-14 00:40:59.9-00:41:04.2 hearsay second hand
27
Arthur Ernest Exon told Whitley Strieber, in what Strieber gives as a direct quote, that everyone from Harry S. Truman on down knew that what had been found at Roswell was not of this world within 24 hours of the finding.
“And he said that he said, and this is a direct quote, everyone from Truman on down knew that what we found had found was not of this world within 24 hours of our findings.”
Whitley Strieber Reveals What 40 Years of Encounters Taught Him | Reality Check Rewind 2026-08-14 00:41:05.6-00:41:18.8 hearsay second hand
28
Arthur Ernest Exon did not explain to Whitley Strieber anything about the motivations of the beings or why they were coming to Earth, and Strieber did not probe or press him because both Exon and Strieber's uncle were constrained by their security clearances.
“He did not, not to my knowledge, no. I didn't really question him. I really let him talk because he had a certain group of things he wanted to say to me. And I knew that they were both very constrained by their security clearances.”
Whitley Strieber Reveals What 40 Years of Encounters Taught Him | Reality Check Rewind 2026-08-14 00:41:44.9-00:41:59.8 testimony first hand
29
Arthur Ernest Exon told Whitley Strieber that a scientist in the group held that if the public became aware of the phenomenon, it would enable the beings to come in on what Strieber describes as a tide of belief.
“He said something along the lines of there was a scientist in the group who thought that if we I asked, I did ask him about the secrecy. He thought that if the public became aware of this, it would enable these beings to come in on a He didn't say these words, he was no poet, but on a tide of belief is how I would describe what he was trying to say.”
Whitley Strieber Reveals What 40 Years of Encounters Taught Him | Reality Check Rewind 2026-08-14 00:43:31.7-00:43:58.2 hearsay third hand
30
Neither Arthur Ernest Exon nor Whitley Strieber's uncle said whether the beings were malevolent or benevolent.
“They did not talk about, neither my uncle nor general excellently talked about that. In other words, they didn't say it was malevolent or malevolent.”
Whitley Strieber Reveals What 40 Years of Encounters Taught Him | Reality Check Rewind 2026-08-14 00:44:48.1-00:44:57.0 testimony first hand
31
Whitley Strieber has a feeling that Arthur Ernest Exon and his uncle may have been told to communicate to him what they did.
“They were just communicating basically what I think, I have a feeling they may have been told to communicate to me.”
Whitley Strieber Reveals What 40 Years of Encounters Taught Him | Reality Check Rewind 2026-08-14 00:44:57.4-00:45:04.0 opinion first hand
32
Ross Coulthart states that the Roswell wreckage was allegedly taken to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, where Arthur Ernest Exon was a former commanding general.
“you were reached out to by a former commanding general of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, where the Roswell wreckage was allegedly taken”
Whitley Strieber Reveals What 40 Years of Encounters Taught Him | Reality Check Rewind 2026-08-14 00:45:09.7-00:45:16.6 administrative
33
Neither Arthur Ernest Exon nor Whitley Strieber's uncle made any value judgement about Strieber having written Communion; they were totally neutral about it.
“No, they were totally neutral about it. I don't remember either of them making any kind of a value judgment about it at all.”
Whitley Strieber Reveals What 40 Years of Encounters Taught Him | Reality Check Rewind 2026-08-14 00:47:51.2-00:47:58.8 testimony first hand
34
From what Arthur Ernest Exon said to him, Whitley Strieber gained the impression - which he allows may be wrong - that someone on the Majestic 12 committee felt that the more people knew about the phenomenon, the more able the presence would be to come into our physical reality.
“Art Exon said to me, I gained the impression, and I may be wrong about this, that someone on that committee felt that there would come a, the more people knew about this, the more able this presence would be able to come into our physical reality.”
Whitley Strieber Reveals What 40 Years of Encounters Taught Him | Reality Check Rewind 2026-08-14 00:51:39.6-00:52:00.4 hearsay second hand