Claim: During a 1955 speech at West Point, General Douglas MacArthur told assembled cadets: "The next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of the earth must someday make a common front against attack by people from other planets."
Fact-check: Did General Douglas MacArthur Predict an Interplanetary War?
Verdict: false
Organisation: Snopes
Author: David Mikkelson
Date published: 2005-08-17T16:48:14