Muhammad Ali Talks UFOs- The Johnny Carson Show 1973

On 7 September 1973 Muhammad Ali appeared on NBC's Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. The expectation was that he would promote his rematch with the new Heavyweight Champion Ken Norton, who had defeated him in a split decision on 31 March in San Diego.

Instead, Ali maneuvers to introduce the subject of UFOs and his disappointment that so few people are discussing them given what he had personally witnessed and what he knew that others had been reporting. Carson had not looked at the details and was citing disinformation on deorbiting space satellite debris that had just recently been offered to squelch public interest in the subject.

At this time, Ali could not pull out a tablet computer and run the testimony of US Navy pilot Commander Graham Bethune's Encounter in the North Atlantic.

Ali could not show the testimony of Airman First Class Mike O'Conner or Staff Sgt Bill Smith or B-52 crew members Captain Brad Runyon and Captain Patrick McCaslin who had witnessed the 24 October 1968 events at Minot Air Force Base.

He did not have the benefit of the National Press Club Contributions made possible by Dr. Stephen Greer in 2001 or Robert Hastings in 2010. He could not share the testimony of Air Force Captain Bob Jacobs who had witnessed US military footage of a saucer beaming the warhead of an Atlas missile launched from Vandenburg Air Force Base.

Muhammad Ali didn't have the benefit of Fox News' Tucker Carlson confessing his error in mocking UFO reports.

Ali could only bravely suffer Carson's ridicule and change the subject back to the fight with Ken Norton, which he won in a split decision on 10 September 1973.