Shape: Sphere - Duration: 5 minutes - Glowing orbs in ocean surf during thunderstorm.
This sighting may not technically be classified as "UFO", since the objects were not actually flying, but it came on the heels of a sighting of the typical orange orbs and flashing white lights frequently seen over the ocean, and a sighting of a strange aircraft which I believe was a military drone. I am reporting those sightings separately.
On the night of June 20, my husband and I were vacationing with his family at an ocean-front home on Oak Island about 1/2 mile east of Ocean Crest Pier. At about 10:30 a thunderstorm began to roll in, and by about 11:00 the storm was in full force.
My husband, his brother, my daughter and I were out on the porch facing the ocean, watching the lightning. My daughter, who is 22 years old, suddenly said "what is THAT?" and pointed to the right (west) toward the beach.
We saw a glowing, blue ball. At first we assumed someone was walking on the beach with a light, although it was a torrential downpour and there was lighting flashing every 10 seconds or so.
However, when the lightning would flash we could clearly see that the ball was floating in the surf, probably in about 4 feet of water, and it was moving in a straight, steady line up the shore toward the east.
Based on its location, it appeared to be at least 2 feet in diameter. We then noticed a glowing red ball following the blue ball by about 200 feet, and following that was a second red ball which also appeared to be about 200 feet behind the first red ball.
We stood and watched the balls moving through the surf. They were not being blown or pushed by the waves, and they were not bobbing. The blue ball appeared to the larger than the red balls. They moved in a steady, straight line past our house. My daughter tried to get a video on her phone, but her camera wouldn't focus because of the heavy rainfall.
About that time a young woman in the house next door came out onto her porch and saw the balls as well. She asked if we knew what they were, but we could only shake our heads in bewilderment.
As we watched, the first red ball suddenly seemed to roll or be blown out of the water and went up into the dune. As soon as that occurred, the other balls seemed to just disappear.
The following morning, I walked along the dunes to see if there was any sign of the red ball, but found nothing. I am completely baffled.
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Friday, June 27, 2014
2002 Train collides with UFO
Paintsville, Kentucky -- At exactly 2:47 a.m. on
January 14, 2002, while working a coal train enroute from Russell, Kentucky to
Shelbiana, Kentucky, our trailing unit and first two cars were severely damaged
as we struck an unknown floating or hovering object. I know it was 2:47 because
my watch fPaintsville, Kentucky -- At exactly 2:47 a.m. on
January 14, 2002, while working a coal train enroute from Russell, Kentucky to
Shelbiana, Kentucky, our trailing unit and first two cars were severely damaged
as we struck an unknown floating or hovering object. I know it was 2:47 because
my watch froze, and to this day shows that time. roze, and to this day shows that time.
Paintsville, Kentucky -- At exactly 2:47 a.m. on January 14, 2002, while working a coal train enroute from Russell, Kentucky to Shelbiana, Kentucky, our trailing unit and first two cars were severely damaged as we struck an unknown floating or hovering object. I know it was 2:47 because my watch froze, and to this day shows that time. Along with my watch the entire electrical systems on both locomotives went haywire. Approaching a bend near milepost 42 in an area referred to as the Wild Kingdom, for the many different types of animals spotted there, my conductor and I saw lights coming from around the way. This ordinarily means another train is coming and will pass on the other track. The outlay of the area is this, the river, #1 track, #2 tracks and a straight up mountainside, carved out for the laying of these tracks. I killed our lights as not to blind the oncoming crew. As we rounded the corner our onboard computer began to flash in and out, speed recorder went nuts, and both locomotives died. Alarm bells began to ring and that’s when we saw the objects. Apparently scanning the river for something. At least three objects had several "search" lights trained there, the first object hovered about 10 to 12 feet above the track. It was metallic silver in color with multiple colored lights near the bottom and in the middle. There were no windows or openings of any kind that we could see. It was 18 to 20 feet in length and probably ten feet high. With both engines dead as we rounded the corner we made little noise and the first object did not respond in time, I estimate that we hit the object at 30 mph with 16,000 trailing tons behind us. It clipped the top of our lead unit then skipped back slicing a chunk out of our trailing unit and first two coal cars. The other objects vanished. Our emergency brakes had initiated due to the loss of power and we stopped approximately a mile and a half to two miles after impact. Our power restored after we were stopped and we notified our dispatcher, located in Jacksonville, Florida of what had happened. We were told to inspect the cars to see if they'd hold the rail and try to limp into milepost cmg 60 which used to be the Paintsville yard which is no longer in full operation. We checked everything out and the cab of the rear locomotive was demolished and smoking, the second two cars looked as if they had been hit with a giant hammer, but looked like they'd hold the rail. We pulled into Paintsville yard at approximately 5:15 am. The huge overhead lights lining the yard were noticeably dark and the only lights came from what we assumed were railroad officials vehicles parked near the end of the track. We pulled to a stop and began unloading our grips off the wounded train. We could hear what sounded like an army of workers immediately tending to our train. Vehicle doors slamming, guys running by in weird outfits and lights glaring from all directions, the one thing missing was railroad officials. A guy named Ferguson shook my hand and asked me to follow him into the old yard office. We did, once inside they, and by they I mean I have no idea who these people were, began to ask us hundreds of questions, they then told us for our own protection we'd be medically tested before we could leave. I asked repeatedly to talk to my road foreman or trainmaster and not only were these requests denied but they confiscated my conductor’s cellular phone. Hours later we were led outside the old yard office and the strange things continued to happen, the 2 locomotives and two cars were removed from the rest of the train we had brought in and my only guess was parked 4 tracks over under a huge tent like structure buzzing with activity. We were led off the property and told, due to national security, our silence on this matter would be appreciated. We were then put in a railroad vehicle and taken to Martin, Kentucky were we went through questioning again with railroad officials and were then drug tested. After all of this we were sent on to Shelbiana, where we took rest for 8 hours and worked another train back to Russell. Working back we passed by Paintsville, no sign of the engines, cars, tent, people, nothing. Thanks to source and references:
Paintsville, Kentucky -- At exactly 2:47 a.m. on January 14, 2002, while working a coal train enroute from Russell, Kentucky to Shelbiana, Kentucky, our trailing unit and first two cars were severely damaged as we struck an unknown floating or hovering object. I know it was 2:47 because my watch froze, and to this day shows that time. Along with my watch the entire electrical systems on both locomotives went haywire. Approaching a bend near milepost 42 in an area referred to as the Wild Kingdom, for the many different types of animals spotted there, my conductor and I saw lights coming from around the way. This ordinarily means another train is coming and will pass on the other track. The outlay of the area is this, the river, #1 track, #2 tracks and a straight up mountainside, carved out for the laying of these tracks. I killed our lights as not to blind the oncoming crew. As we rounded the corner our onboard computer began to flash in and out, speed recorder went nuts, and both locomotives died. Alarm bells began to ring and that’s when we saw the objects. Apparently scanning the river for something. At least three objects had several "search" lights trained there, the first object hovered about 10 to 12 feet above the track. It was metallic silver in color with multiple colored lights near the bottom and in the middle. There were no windows or openings of any kind that we could see. It was 18 to 20 feet in length and probably ten feet high. With both engines dead as we rounded the corner we made little noise and the first object did not respond in time, I estimate that we hit the object at 30 mph with 16,000 trailing tons behind us. It clipped the top of our lead unit then skipped back slicing a chunk out of our trailing unit and first two coal cars. The other objects vanished. Our emergency brakes had initiated due to the loss of power and we stopped approximately a mile and a half to two miles after impact. Our power restored after we were stopped and we notified our dispatcher, located in Jacksonville, Florida of what had happened. We were told to inspect the cars to see if they'd hold the rail and try to limp into milepost cmg 60 which used to be the Paintsville yard which is no longer in full operation. We checked everything out and the cab of the rear locomotive was demolished and smoking, the second two cars looked as if they had been hit with a giant hammer, but looked like they'd hold the rail. We pulled into Paintsville yard at approximately 5:15 am. The huge overhead lights lining the yard were noticeably dark and the only lights came from what we assumed were railroad officials vehicles parked near the end of the track. We pulled to a stop and began unloading our grips off the wounded train. We could hear what sounded like an army of workers immediately tending to our train. Vehicle doors slamming, guys running by in weird outfits and lights glaring from all directions, the one thing missing was railroad officials. A guy named Ferguson shook my hand and asked me to follow him into the old yard office. We did, once inside they, and by they I mean I have no idea who these people were, began to ask us hundreds of questions, they then told us for our own protection we'd be medically tested before we could leave. I asked repeatedly to talk to my road foreman or trainmaster and not only were these requests denied but they confiscated my conductor’s cellular phone. Hours later we were led outside the old yard office and the strange things continued to happen, the 2 locomotives and two cars were removed from the rest of the train we had brought in and my only guess was parked 4 tracks over under a huge tent like structure buzzing with activity. We were led off the property and told, due to national security, our silence on this matter would be appreciated. We were then put in a railroad vehicle and taken to Martin, Kentucky were we went through questioning again with railroad officials and were then drug tested. After all of this we were sent on to Shelbiana, where we took rest for 8 hours and worked another train back to Russell. Working back we passed by Paintsville, no sign of the engines, cars, tent, people, nothing. Thanks to source and references:
Abduction in Illinois 1999
CARLYLE LAKE, KEYSPORT -- During hypnosis of an October
28, 1999, abduction I was out boating on Carlyle Lake. I remembered the flight
from the lake to the craft and getting a good view of oCARLYLE LAKE, KEYSPORT -- During hypnosis of an October
28, 1999, abduction I was out boating on Carlyle Lake. I remembered the flight
from the lake to the craft and getting a good view of our town from the air, and
going through the floor of the UFO. The boat gradually moved over me and went
through the bottom of the craft before I did. CARLYLE LAKE, KEYSPORT -- During hypnosis of an October
28, 1999, abduction I was out boating on Carlyle Lake. I remembered the flight
from the lake to the craft and getting a good view of our town from the air, and
going through the floor of the UFO. The boat gradually moved over me and went
through the bottom of the craft before I did. ur town from the air, and
going through the floor of the UFO. The boat gradually moved over me and went
through the bottom of the craft before I did.
I did not get a good look of the UFO as I was concentrating on my boat and other possessions as we were brought through the floor. The next thing I recalled is standing inside the craft and seeing an examination table which was on a pedestal that almost reached the edge of the table. It was molded into the floor. There was some kind of structure over the table that looked like a light or some instruments. The room was rounded and I was guided to the table by a small gray. I remember getting up on the table as if I had done it before. At that moment, I discovered that my clothes were gone. Shortly there after a larger gray came up and put his face into mine and I felt he was sucking the memory out of me. I was okay afterward and left alone. I then tried to get to my clothes, but wound up back on the table. After I received some kind of examination, I again went to my clothes and the small grays helped me get them on. The next thing I remember is sitting in the boat and a ramp with a rounded front that opens up. The grays pushed me and the boat out some 750 feet above the northern portion of Carlyle Lake. I did not stay in the boat, but floated out. Afterwards, I just forgot the whole thing except the position change which was about one quarter of a mile and I was going in another direction. I have been able to determine that there were two abductions and one failed abduction before during the same year and have recalled parts of others with and without hypnosis. Two of the abductions and a failed abduction were recorded on a GPS and saved.
I did not get a good look of the UFO as I was concentrating on my boat and other possessions as we were brought through the floor. The next thing I recalled is standing inside the craft and seeing an examination table which was on a pedestal that almost reached the edge of the table. It was molded into the floor. There was some kind of structure over the table that looked like a light or some instruments. The room was rounded and I was guided to the table by a small gray. I remember getting up on the table as if I had done it before. At that moment, I discovered that my clothes were gone. Shortly there after a larger gray came up and put his face into mine and I felt he was sucking the memory out of me. I was okay afterward and left alone. I then tried to get to my clothes, but wound up back on the table. After I received some kind of examination, I again went to my clothes and the small grays helped me get them on. The next thing I remember is sitting in the boat and a ramp with a rounded front that opens up. The grays pushed me and the boat out some 750 feet above the northern portion of Carlyle Lake. I did not stay in the boat, but floated out. Afterwards, I just forgot the whole thing except the position change which was about one quarter of a mile and I was going in another direction. I have been able to determine that there were two abductions and one failed abduction before during the same year and have recalled parts of others with and without hypnosis. Two of the abductions and a failed abduction were recorded on a GPS and saved.
1973 The Judy Doraty Abduction
Houston,TX 1973. One of the few UFO encounter cases
which also involved animal mutilation occurred in May, 1973, and involved four
women. Judy Doraty, her daughter Cindy, Judy's mother and sister-in-law would
have the most terrifying experience of their lives.
After playing Bingo in Houston, the four women were returning to Judy's home town of Texas City, but first going by Alto Loma to drop off Judy's sister and brother-in-law. After dropping off the two in Alto Loma, the remaining four saw a strange light, which seemed to be hovering in the night sky. The sight was intriguing enough that the four women stopped, and got out of the car to get a clearer look at the source of the light. They watched in awe until the light disappeared. They then resumed their trip to Texas City. Eventually, Judy began to suffer from extreme headaches and anxiety. After being seen and dismissed by several doctors, she was referred to well-known Ufologist and hypnotist Dr. Leo Sprinkle. Sprinkle's previous experience with the UFO enigma led him to recommend hypnosis as a way to relieve Judy of her emotional trauma. There can be little doubt that Sprinkle suspected an abduction from the beginning. Under hypnosis, it was revealed that Judy had apparently been abducted aboard an extra-terrestrial spacecraft. Judy went on in detail, describing how a cow was taken up into the craft and methodically mutilated by two "small entities." During the hypnotic regression, Judy described the unusual sensation of being in two places at once. She said that she was still standing beside her car after they stopped to watch the strange light in the sky. However, Judy also said that at the same time, she was in a strange chamber watching the gruesome experiment unfolding before her eyes. Footage of this regression was included in Linda Moulton-Howe's award-winning documentary "Strange Harvests." In a 1989 interview on 21st Century Radio, Linda Howe divulged what had been learned from the experience of Judy Doraty: "Judy described . . . in a pale beam of yellow light, a small brown and white calf being taken up into a craft. Then, in an extraordinary way, [Judy) was inside the craft, and she watches the calf have pieces of it excised: the tongue, the sex organs, the eyes...?" Some of Sprinkle's hypnosis session is included below: Sprinkle asks, "Is there anyone around you?" There was this long, almost forty-five-second pause, and then she said: "two little men." "[The two beings) were about three and a half to four feet tall; grey creatures with large egg-shaped heads." "It's like a spotlight shining down on the back of my car. And it's like it has substance to it. I can see an animal being taken up in this. I can see it squirming and trying to get free. And it's like it's being sucked up." She then went on to mention seeing her daughter Cindy on an 'operating' table. She went on: "They don't listen, they just ignore me....go about their work as if it's nothing. They don't seem to have any emotions. They don't seem to care. They just take some samples from her..." It would be a number of years later when Judy's daughter Cindy would also undergo regressive hypnosis. Her session only corroborated her mother's. Statement by Judy Doraty on February 01, 2003 at 19:48:28: First I must say there is no doubt that abductions exist. My abduction took place in 1973. There were 16 eye witnesses to the craft, though not all remember an abduction. My daughter who was 14 at the time and myself. This was first reported to Ellington airforce base in Texas, who denied anything was on radar at the time. Our abduction was also returning from a bingo game in Houston, to our home in Texas City, first going by Alta Loma to drop off sister and brother in law.
There was another sighting of three people coming from a bingo game in Houston that got burned by the effects of the sighting. Our sighting was almost a year before theirs. So much happened that night I would not attempt to go in detail, we were all changed and have never been the same since. We were first ridiculed so much by others who were not present (family mostly) I did not talk about it for a few years. Then my husband returned home from Viet Nam and we were stationed in Yuma, AZ. I somehow heard about APRO. I called them and told them about my sighting and the very next day, a Mr. Daugherty and his wife and a doctor. who had experience in hypnosis named Rose Tennant came to my house and spent the entire day going over what happened. Dr. Tenant regressed me and a few details came out or shall I say surfaced. I had been having terrible migraines, and just the amount of surfacing relieved much. I know I remembered a formula that was given to me by the small gray alien. I think that is what caused a lot of problems. I did not say anything to anyone else as I was still gun-shy and afraid of ridicule. A few years later I got a call from a lady Named Linda Howe. We talked a long time her trying to convince me I needed to be regressed again for a TV documentary she was doing called the Strange Harvest. For some reason I began to trust her as she convinced me she believed what I was saying. And as all abductees know this is one of the most important things to help one get on with their life. In my abduction I witnessed a small calf being transported in a LARGE CRAFT. At that time I somehow was teleported or astroprojected or something, as I was in the craft seeing what was going on as well as standing by my car I had gotten out of to see what the huge light was that had been pacing our car for about twenty miles or so. Anyway I allowed a DR. Leo Sprinkle from the University of Wyoming to do his regression. It was about a three hour regression, I fulfilled MS. Howe's agenda she got an Emma for her documentary, but I was left with all the information in my head that still needed syphoning. I asked her to help me write a book to be able to tell the amazing things that I was told and shown. She agreed and then kept putting it off. Both her and Dr. Sprinkle used my case for their own agenda and had little else to say to me. I guess I am trying to warn all of you to be careful who you trust. My main concern was I always wanted my abduction to be presented in a way that it would not be construed as a crazy woman venting her boredom. So again I pulled myself in a shell and talked to no one. I was contacted by Sightings to do a follow up and I called Linda Howe she told me it would make the story unbelievable to the average person and I should not do it, so I turned them down. Later I learned she a a rift with Mr. Wrinklier and that was the only reason she did not want me to be on the show. Then about ten years ago I was told by someone in the UFO community who was familiar with my case that Ms. Howe had gone to Kirkland airforce base was warned to keep my mouth shut but Ms. Howe never told this to me. She told a ufologist who called me. In other words the government did not want me to say anything about a formula I was given. I became frightened and this is the first time I have shared anything. I hope some one reads this that will contact me and give me advice or help as the abduction is 30 years old, I am 63 and before I die I would love to know what many already know, and why they do not want my story told...thanks for listening.
After playing Bingo in Houston, the four women were returning to Judy's home town of Texas City, but first going by Alto Loma to drop off Judy's sister and brother-in-law. After dropping off the two in Alto Loma, the remaining four saw a strange light, which seemed to be hovering in the night sky. The sight was intriguing enough that the four women stopped, and got out of the car to get a clearer look at the source of the light. They watched in awe until the light disappeared. They then resumed their trip to Texas City. Eventually, Judy began to suffer from extreme headaches and anxiety. After being seen and dismissed by several doctors, she was referred to well-known Ufologist and hypnotist Dr. Leo Sprinkle. Sprinkle's previous experience with the UFO enigma led him to recommend hypnosis as a way to relieve Judy of her emotional trauma. There can be little doubt that Sprinkle suspected an abduction from the beginning. Under hypnosis, it was revealed that Judy had apparently been abducted aboard an extra-terrestrial spacecraft. Judy went on in detail, describing how a cow was taken up into the craft and methodically mutilated by two "small entities." During the hypnotic regression, Judy described the unusual sensation of being in two places at once. She said that she was still standing beside her car after they stopped to watch the strange light in the sky. However, Judy also said that at the same time, she was in a strange chamber watching the gruesome experiment unfolding before her eyes. Footage of this regression was included in Linda Moulton-Howe's award-winning documentary "Strange Harvests." In a 1989 interview on 21st Century Radio, Linda Howe divulged what had been learned from the experience of Judy Doraty: "Judy described . . . in a pale beam of yellow light, a small brown and white calf being taken up into a craft. Then, in an extraordinary way, [Judy) was inside the craft, and she watches the calf have pieces of it excised: the tongue, the sex organs, the eyes...?" Some of Sprinkle's hypnosis session is included below: Sprinkle asks, "Is there anyone around you?" There was this long, almost forty-five-second pause, and then she said: "two little men." "[The two beings) were about three and a half to four feet tall; grey creatures with large egg-shaped heads." "It's like a spotlight shining down on the back of my car. And it's like it has substance to it. I can see an animal being taken up in this. I can see it squirming and trying to get free. And it's like it's being sucked up." She then went on to mention seeing her daughter Cindy on an 'operating' table. She went on: "They don't listen, they just ignore me....go about their work as if it's nothing. They don't seem to have any emotions. They don't seem to care. They just take some samples from her..." It would be a number of years later when Judy's daughter Cindy would also undergo regressive hypnosis. Her session only corroborated her mother's. Statement by Judy Doraty on February 01, 2003 at 19:48:28: First I must say there is no doubt that abductions exist. My abduction took place in 1973. There were 16 eye witnesses to the craft, though not all remember an abduction. My daughter who was 14 at the time and myself. This was first reported to Ellington airforce base in Texas, who denied anything was on radar at the time. Our abduction was also returning from a bingo game in Houston, to our home in Texas City, first going by Alta Loma to drop off sister and brother in law.
There was another sighting of three people coming from a bingo game in Houston that got burned by the effects of the sighting. Our sighting was almost a year before theirs. So much happened that night I would not attempt to go in detail, we were all changed and have never been the same since. We were first ridiculed so much by others who were not present (family mostly) I did not talk about it for a few years. Then my husband returned home from Viet Nam and we were stationed in Yuma, AZ. I somehow heard about APRO. I called them and told them about my sighting and the very next day, a Mr. Daugherty and his wife and a doctor. who had experience in hypnosis named Rose Tennant came to my house and spent the entire day going over what happened. Dr. Tenant regressed me and a few details came out or shall I say surfaced. I had been having terrible migraines, and just the amount of surfacing relieved much. I know I remembered a formula that was given to me by the small gray alien. I think that is what caused a lot of problems. I did not say anything to anyone else as I was still gun-shy and afraid of ridicule. A few years later I got a call from a lady Named Linda Howe. We talked a long time her trying to convince me I needed to be regressed again for a TV documentary she was doing called the Strange Harvest. For some reason I began to trust her as she convinced me she believed what I was saying. And as all abductees know this is one of the most important things to help one get on with their life. In my abduction I witnessed a small calf being transported in a LARGE CRAFT. At that time I somehow was teleported or astroprojected or something, as I was in the craft seeing what was going on as well as standing by my car I had gotten out of to see what the huge light was that had been pacing our car for about twenty miles or so. Anyway I allowed a DR. Leo Sprinkle from the University of Wyoming to do his regression. It was about a three hour regression, I fulfilled MS. Howe's agenda she got an Emma for her documentary, but I was left with all the information in my head that still needed syphoning. I asked her to help me write a book to be able to tell the amazing things that I was told and shown. She agreed and then kept putting it off. Both her and Dr. Sprinkle used my case for their own agenda and had little else to say to me. I guess I am trying to warn all of you to be careful who you trust. My main concern was I always wanted my abduction to be presented in a way that it would not be construed as a crazy woman venting her boredom. So again I pulled myself in a shell and talked to no one. I was contacted by Sightings to do a follow up and I called Linda Howe she told me it would make the story unbelievable to the average person and I should not do it, so I turned them down. Later I learned she a a rift with Mr. Wrinklier and that was the only reason she did not want me to be on the show. Then about ten years ago I was told by someone in the UFO community who was familiar with my case that Ms. Howe had gone to Kirkland airforce base was warned to keep my mouth shut but Ms. Howe never told this to me. She told a ufologist who called me. In other words the government did not want me to say anything about a formula I was given. I became frightened and this is the first time I have shared anything. I hope some one reads this that will contact me and give me advice or help as the abduction is 30 years old, I am 63 and before I die I would love to know what many already know, and why they do not want my story told...thanks for listening.
Roswell
"Roswell," the very mention of the word brings images of a crashed UFO,
aliens, government cover-up, autopsies, hidden debris, guarded charred bodies,
and weather balloons. In the history of UFO reports, no case has received the
world-wide attention as the Roswell event of 1947. Not only did the alleged
crash of a flying saucer create mass coverage at the time of the event, but
remains today as an often discussed case by which all other cases are judged. So
many books and articles have been written about Roswell, it is not an easy task
to write another, but I feel that no UFO enthusiast cannot include it among his
comments. The Roswell event is the cornerstone of UFO research. The case offers
everything one could imagine; a crash of some flying craft, direct, hands on
testimony of witnesses who handled crash debris, government cover-up and
secrecy, and most of all a list of participants which is generally listed at
around 500 first and secondhand testimonials.
Ironically, the alleged crash story originally died as quickly as it began.
It would be many years before UFO researchers refueled the fire behind its
enormous potential. Most all of us are familiar with the famous Roswell headline
stating that the Army had captured a "flying saucer," and then the retraction a
few hours later, substituting a balloon for the crashed saucer. At the time of
the original event, a sense of naivety and trust gave birth to a rapid, quiet
acceptance of the retraction, and there the event died. But, fortunately, it was
resurrected in 1976, and has kept pace with all other events of the last 50+
years. It would be January 1976, when ufologists William Moore, and Stanton R.
Friedman were mulling over some interview notes from two witnesses whom Friedman
had met with. A man and a woman, who both had knowledge of a crashed saucer in
July 1947 in Corona, New Mexico were the key witnesses.
A retired Air Force officer, Major Jesse A. Marcel asserted that he had first
hand involvement in the crash debris, and the Air Force cover-up. The woman was
Lydia Sleppy, who had been employed at an Albuquerque radio station KOAT. She
claimed that the military had covered-up the story of a crashed saucer, and the
bodies of "little men," who were aboard the craft. She also claimed that the Air
Force had literally stopped the sending of a teletype news report of the
incident.
The USA Military had announced to the world that it had captured a flying
saucer on a remote ranch in Corona, and then about four hours later corrected
the story, saying that what was found was just a weather balloon with a radar
reflector kite. We have two stories. Which one is the truth? Though subsequent
confirmations of the balloon theory continue, as long as we have firsthand
witnesses who defy this explanation, the investigation must continue. Of all of
the explanations given to Project Bluebook, it is quite strange that the Roswell
story was never mentioned. The story that died so quickly was rarely mentioned
from the beginning, the only one, to my knowledge, was in a mid-1950's lecture
by UFO enthusiast Frank Edward. It seems that from the beginning, a grass roots
group of believers would perpetuate this grand story. When we solve the puzzle
of the many UFO reports, it will be due to this grass roots movement. The truth
is hard to kill.
It would be June 24, 1947, when the term, "flying saucer" was coined by pilot
Kenneth Arnold. He used this term to describe UFOs flying over Mr. Ranier, and
only a couple of weeks later, the phrase was used by the Air Force to explain
what had been found in Corona, New Mexico. The alleged crash debris was flown to
Eight Army Air Force Headquarters in Ft. Worth, Texas, and somehow between the
time that Jesse Marcel Sr. had handled the "other worldly" material and its
arrival in Ft. Worth, the strange material had lost its luster, and became just
a weather balloon. The Air Force had effectively murdered the eye witness
accounts, and made fools of all who were involved. Marcel would categorically
state that the debris he held in his hands, and showed to his family, was not
the same material shown in photos of the "balloon wreckage."
What happened to the saucer debris? An uncertified, but controversial
document might provide an answer. Supposedly a brief prepared for then
President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower, this document was authored on November 18,
1952. It asserts that on September 24, 1947, President Harry S. Truman ordered
the genesis of the highly top-secret "Operation Majestic-12," to study the
remains of the Roswell crash. These papers would arrive in a plain manilla
envelope, postmarked Albuquerque, in the post of Los Angeles television producer
Jaime Shandera in December 1984. In the early part of 1987, another copy was
given to Timothy Good, a British ufologist. Good released it to the British
press in May. These documents caused quite a stir, but their authenticity cannot
be established beyond doubt. The jury is still out on the MJ-12 papers, but many
ufologists view it as a hoax. The issue itself is not insurmountable, however,
as a huge amount of evidence still remains to establish the Roswell crash as a
reality.
The Roswell saga actually began in Silver City, New Mexico on June 25. Dr. R.
F. Sensenbaugher, a dentist, reported sighting a saucer-shaped UFO fly over,
that was about one-half the size of the full moon. Two days later, in Pope, New
Mexico, W. C. Dobbs reported a white, glowing object flying overhead, not too
far from the White Sands missile range. On the same day, Captain E. B.
Detchmendy reported to his commanding officer that he saw a white, glowing UFO
pass over the missile range. Two days later, on June 29, Rocket expert C. J.
Zohn and three of his technicians, who were stationed at White Sands, watched a
giant silver disc moving northward over the desert. On July 2, a UFO was tracked
at three separate installations; Alamogordo, White Sands, and Roswell. In
Roswell, on the same day, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Wilmot saw a UFO. They report its
appearance as "two inverted saucers faced mouth to mouth," moving at a high rate
of speed over their house. Enter rancher Mac Brazel.
The
events of Roswell began on either July 2 or July 4 (there is some disagreement
here). A throwback to western days, William W. "Mac" Brazel, a sheep rancher,
would etch his name forever into UFO history, a designation that he neither
desired, nor appreciated. A common working man, Brazel was foreman of the Foster
Ranch in Lincoln County, near Corona, New Mexico. Brazel was a family man, but
his wife and children lived in Tularosa, near Alamogordo. The reason for this
arrangement was so his children could attend better schools than they would at
Corona. Brazel stayed in an older house on the ranch, where he tended sheep, and
the general chores of the ranch. He was a simple man, content with his job,
family, and his life. Mac would be thrust into the limelight for a brief period
of time, and ultimately regret ever reporting what he was about to discover on
the range of the Foster Ranch.
An evening thunderstorm was raging at the close of another workday, The storm
was highlighted by numerous bolts of lightning. These summer storms were not
uncommon for these parts, but this evening Mac noticed something different.. a
sound, like an explosion mingled with the typical sounds of a storm. Two of
Mac's children were staying with him that night at his farm house. Mac retired
with his two children, and temporarily forgot about the sounds of that night.
The next day's sun brought Mac out again to ride the fences, and check on his
sheep. He was accompanied that day with a seven-year-old neighbor boy, William
D. "Dee" Proctor, who often rode with Mac.
As they rode into the open field, ahead of them they noticed an area about a
quarter of a mile long and several hundred feet wide, covered with debris of
some type. The debris was composed of small pieces of a shiny, metallic
material, a material that Mac had never seen before. The sheep would not cross
the fragmented pieces, and they had to be taken the long way around that day.
Because of the curious nature of the debris, Mac picked up some of it and
carried it back to store in a shed. Little did he know the significance of his
find.
One of his children, Bessie Brazel recalled: "There was what appeared to be
pieces of heavily waxed paper and a sort of aluminum-like foil. Some of these
pieces had something like numbers and lettering on them, but there were no words
you were able to make out. Some of the metal-foil pieces had a sort of tape
stuck to them, and when these were held to the light they showed what looked
like pastel flowers or designs. Even though the stuff looked like tape it could
not be peeled off or removed at all."
"[The writing] looked like numbers mostly, at least I assumed them to be
numbers. They were written out like you would write numbers in columns to do an
addition problem. But they didn't look like the numbers we use at all. What gave
me the idea they were numbers, I guess, was the way they were all ranged out in
columns."
"No, it was definitely not a balloon. We had seen weather balloons quite a
lot, both on the ground and in the air. We had even found a couple of
Japanese-style balloons that had come down in the area once. We had also picked
up a couple of those thin rubber weather balloons with instrument packages. This
was nothing like that. I have never seen anything resembling this sort of thing
before,- or since..."
Later that afternoon, Mac took young Dee Proctor back home, a journey of
about 10 miles. He took along a piece of the debris that he had found, and
showed it to Dee's parents, Floyd, and Loretta. Mac tried to get the Proctors to
go back with him, and look at the strange material strewn in the fields.
Floyd Proctor would later state: "[He said] it wasn't paper because he
couldn't cut it with his knife, and the metal was different from anything he had
ever seen. He said the designs looked like the kind of stuff you would find on
firecracker wrappers...some sort of figures all done up in pastels, but not
writing like we would do it."
Loretta Proctor remembered: "The piece he brought looked like a kind of tan,
light-brown plastic...it was very lightweight, like balsa wood. It wasn't a
large piece, maybe about four inches long, maybe just larger than a
pencil."
"We cut on it with a knife and would hold a match on it, and it wouldn't burn. We knew it wasn't wood. It was smooth like plastic, it didn't have real sharp corners, kind of like a dowel stick. Kind of dark tan. It didn't have any grain...just smooth." "We should have gone [to look at the debris field], but gas and tires were expensive then. We had our own chores, and it would have been twenty miles."
The first hint that the debris could be "not of this world" would
come the next night from Mac's uncle, Hollis Wilson. Mac told Hollis about his
find, and Hollis urged Mac to report the findings, since there had been reports
of "flying saucers" in the area as of late. On July 6, Mac was going to Roswell
to strike up a deal for a new pickup truck. He took along some of the debris,
and stopped off at the Chaves County Sheriff's Office and spoke to George
Wilcox. The story of the find was not significant to Wilcox until he actually
handled a piece of the silvery material. Wilcox telephoned the Roswell Army Air
Field, and spoke to one Major Jesse A. Marcel, who was the base intelligence
officer. Marcel told the Sheriff he would come into Roswell and talk to Brazel
about his find. Word of the goings on began to spread rapidly in the community,
and soon Mac was talking to radio station KGFL about the incident. Mac told the
station what he knew over the telephone.
Marcel and Brazel met at the Sheriff's office. Mac told Marcel what he knew,
and showed him a piece of debris. Marcel reported the results of his interview
to Colonel William H. Blanchard back at Roswell Army Base. A decision was made
for Brazel to go out to the site, and investigate for himself. Marcel would take
his old Buick, and Army Counter Intelligence Corps officer Sheridan Cavitt
accompanied him in a Jeep all-terrain vehicle. Following Marcel back to the
ranch, it was too late that day to visit the site, so they all three stayed in
Mac's ranch house. After a dinner of beans, the three headed to the site the
next morning. After a brief look around, Mac left Marcel and Cavitt, returning
to his chores.Radio station KGFL reporter Frank Joyce informed his
boss, Walt Whitmore Sr. about the recent developments, and Whitmore drove out
and picked up Brazel and took him to his home in Roswell. There an interview
took place, all taped into a recorder, but the interview would never be made
public. Threats from the military would prevent the transmission of the tape.
The next day, Whitmore took Brazel to the radio station, and called the Roswell
Army Base. What Whitmore told the Base is not known exactly, but the military
came and picked Mac up, and transported him to the base, where he was a "guest"
of sorts, for about a week. On July 8, the military returned Mac to the Roswell
Daily Record, where a press conference was conducted.
Oddly enough, Mac's story was somewhat different after his "stay" at Roswell Army Base. Mac now said that he and his son had discovered the debris on June 14, but he was so busy, that he didn't pay it any attention. He stated that some weeks later, on July 4th, he, his wife, and two children drove out to the debris field, and collected some samples. Among the collection were gray rubber strips, tinfoil, a type of heavy paper, and small wooden sticks. Mac further asserted that he had found balloons on several occasions, but that this debris was totally different from the other finds. "I am sure what I found was not any weather observation balloon," he said. "But if I find anything else beside a bomb they are going to have a hard time getting me to say anything about it," he said. Mac's military escort led him out to a car after the conference, and drove him to KGFL. Eye witness accounts say that as Mac left the newspaper office, he kept his head pointed to the ground, and did not speak to any of his friends who were present at the time. Brazel went into the radio station without his escort, and began telling Frank Joyce the same story he had related at the press conference. Joyce was shocked by the sudden change in the story's details, and interrupted Brazel at one point, asking him why he had changed his story. Brazel became upset at the question, and stated, "It'll go hard on me." After this interview, Mac was taken back to the Army Base. After finally being released from Roswell Base, suddenly Mac didn't want to discuss his find anymore. Those who knew him say that in private, he complained about his harsh treatment by the military. He was not allowed even to call his wife during his stay at the base, and he told his children that he took an oath to never discuss the details of the debris field. Within a year after finding the strange debris, Mac had moved off the ranch he loved so much, into the town of Tularosa, where he opened a small business of his own. He passed away in 1963. All of this for a weather balloon? Major Jesse A. Marcel was the intelligence officer at Roswell Army Air Force Base, which was home of the only bomb group in existence at the time. It should be noted that all of the personnel at the base had high security clearance. Marcel was a veteran officer, who was trusted fully. He had been a highly skilled cartographer before World War II, and was sent to intelligence training by the Army, because of his impeccable character. He was even an instructor for a time at the training school. He also logged over 450 hours of combat duty as a pilot during the War, and was highly decorated with five air medals for shooting down enemy aircraft. After the War ended, he was chosen as a member of the 509th Bomb Wing, handling security for "Operation Crossroads," which conducted nuclear testing in 1946. After being awarded a commendation for his work on the nuclear project, he was named the intelligence officer for Roswell AAFB. Marcel was on a lunch break when he received a phone call from Sheriff Wilcox. Wilcox informed him that rancher Mac Brazel had found debris from a crash of some object on a sheep ranch. Marcel went to town, talked to Brazel, and reported his findings to Colonel Blanchard. Marcel was given orders to go to the site, which he did, accompanied by CIC officer Sheridan Cavitt. Arriving too late for ample light for a search, the two soldiers spent the night with Brazel, and then proceeded to the sight the next morning. Marcell related the events of the search through the debris in his own words: "When we arrived at the crash site, it was amazing to see the vast amount of area it covered." "...it scattered over an area of about three quarters of a mile long, I would say, and fairly wide, several hundred feet wide. "It was definitely not a weather or tracking device, nor was it any sort of plane or missile." "I don't know what it was, but it certainly wasn't anything built by us and it most certainly wasn't any weather balloon." "...small beams about three eighths or a half inch square with some sort of hieroglyphics on them that nobody could decipher. These looked something like balsa wood, and were about the same weight, except that they were not wood at all. They were very hard, although flexible, and would not burn at all. There was a great deal of an unusual parchment-like substance which was brown in color and extremely strong, and great number of small pieces of a metal like tinfoil, except that it wasn't tinfoil. I was interested in electronics and kept looking for something that resembled instruments or electronic equipment, but I didn't find anything. "...Cavitt, I think, found a black, metallic-looking box several inches square. As there was no apparent way to open this, and since it didn't appear to be an instrument package of any sort, we threw it in with the rest of the stuff." "It had little numbers with symbols that we had to call hieroglyphics because I could not understand them. They were pink and purple. They looked like they were painted on. I even took my cigarette lighter and tried to burn the material we found that resembled parchment and balsa, but it would not burn , wouldn't even smoke," "...the pieces of metal that we brought back were so thin, just like the tinfoil in a pack of cigarettes," "...you could not tear or cut it either. We even tried making a dent in it with a sixteen-pound sledgehammer, and there was still no dent in it." Having rode to the site in two vehicles, Marcel sent Cavitt back to the base with his Jeep full of the material, and Marcel took his Buick, and stopped by his house to show his wife and son his amazing find.
Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr.(Marcel's son):
"The material was foil-like stuff, very thin, metallic-like but not metal,
and very tough. There was also some structural-like material too,- beams and so
on. Also a quantity of black plastic material which looked organic in nature."
"Imprinted along the edge of some of the beam remnants were hieroglyphic-type
characters."
When Marcel arrived back at the base, he was instructed by Colonel Blanchard
to load the debris on a B-29, and fly with it to Wright Field in Ohio, stopping
on the way at Carswell AAFB in Ft. Worth, Texas. The military was hard at work
at Roswell. Colonel Walter Haut was given an order from Col. Blanchard to write
a press release stating that the RAAF had in its possession a "crashed saucer."
According to Haut, the saucer was transported to the 8th Air Force, to be turned
over to General Ramey. Haut discharged his duty, and finished the press release
he'd been ordered to write, giving copies of the release to the two radio
stations and both of the newspapers. The famous headlines hit the newspapers.
"RAAF CAPTURES FLYING SAUCER ON RANCH IN ROSWELL REGION"
When Marcel arrived at Carswell, Brigadier General Roger Ramey, Commander of
the 8th Air Force took full charge of the case. The debris from Brazel's field
was taken into Ramey's office, and photographed. The photographer was James Bond
Johnson. Marcel was in one photo with the real debris. Ramey took Marcel into
another office, and upon their return to Ramey's office, some new and different
material was spread on the floor. Marcel, under orders, stated that this debris
was from a weather balloon. After more photos were taken, Ramey sent Marcel back
to Roswell, along with a stern warning not to disclose anything he had seen at
Carswell. It was then reported that General Ramey recognized the remains as part
of a weather balloon. Brigadier General Thomas DuBose, the chief of staff of the
Eighth Air Force, after many years of silence would state: "[It] was a cover
story. The whole balloon part of it. That was the part of the story we were told
to give to the public and news and that was it." There can be NO doubt that the
orders to cover-up the saucer story came from our Chief Executive.
General Ramey
Marcel was stunned to find upon his return to his home base, that he was made
a laughing stock because he ignorantly misidentified the balloon material with
that of "something unknown." Some three months later, however, Marcel was
promoted to Lt. Colonel, and assigned to a new program. He was in charge of
testing atmospheric particles to detect Russian atomic discharges. When he was
interviewed in 1978, he maintained that the debris he found on the Foster ranch
was definitely NOT a weather balloon. He insisted that it was like nothing he
had ever seen...
Through the first part of the Roswell story, we have heard of strange debris,
and two different explanations of what that debris was. So what about the
alleged alien bodies, an actual saucer on the ground, or an alien autopsy? To
accurately continue our quest for all of the facts behind the Roswell case, we
move to a new location. The site is San Agustin, near Magdalena, New Mexico.
This story is based upon the testimony of Vern and Jean Maltais. The couple
states that in February 1950, an engineer friend of theirs, Grady L. "Barney"
Barnett told them that while working in the fields near Magdalena, July 3, 1947,
he had come upon a crashed disc-shaped object. This flying disc had alien bodies
strewn about it. There were aliens inside and outside of the craft. As important
as this seems, there is a flaw in his story. It seems that Barnett's wife kept a
diary of his comings and goings. His wife stated that his diary did not
corroborate the date as July 3, 1947. This may or not mean anything, as surely a
mistake could have been made, or a date mixed up, or plans changed after the
entry was made.
Barnett's claims were controversial though, until yet another witness would
come forward which would shed new light on his claims. After an airing of a
"Roswell Crash" segment on the popular "Unsolved Mysteries" show in 1990, Gerald
Anderson came forward with some fascinating details. Anderson states that he and
his family were hunting rocks on the Plains of San Agustin in early July 1947,
when they also came upon a crashed saucer-shaped craft. The craft had four dead
aliens inside. Though Gerald was only six years old at the time, the
extraordinary sighting was one he would never forget. To take matters a step
further, archaeologist, Dr. Buskirk, and five of his students also came upon the
crash scene. Anderson's story also has holes in it, however. It seems that Dr.
Buskirk was a former teacher of Anderson. Records indicate that the Doctor was
in Arizona at the time of the alleged sighting.
There is also a case for a second crash near Roswell. Testimony of mortician
Glenn Dennis, along with Captain Oliver Wendell "Pappy" Henderson seem to
substantiate this theory. The actions of the military can tell us a lot.
Supposedly cordoning off the area, and removing every iota of the debris field
does not make sense if all that was there was weather balloon material. Much
importance must also be put upon Marcel. His word seems to be above reproach. He
states without wavering that the debris was NOT balloon material. He should
know. He also states that the debris he brought from Brazel's field was NOT the
debris in the newspaper photographs. What about all of the eyewitnesses? In all
fairness, it must be said that many of the witnesses are NOT first hand. We know
how stories can be changed, or amended by being passed down the line. But there
are also many firsthand witnesses. What about their testimony? If their stories
are all lies, then a large group of people, some unbeknownst to the others, have
perpetuated one of the best organized conspiracies in the last century. Let's
examine the testimony of these "first hand" witnesses. Maybe the truth is out
there after all. Is there a way to reconcile all of the different theories into
one authentic account of the events of Roswell?What about the alien bodies? There are many rumors
about the "little men." Some say there were three, some say four, some even
count 5. Let's see if we can find the truth behind the rumors by relying on eye
witness testimony.
Ray Danzer, a plumbing contractor, was working on the Roswell Base. He was standing outside of the emergency room, when he saw alien bodies being brought into the base hospital on stretchers. Dumbfounded by the event, he was shaken back to reality by military police who warned him to leave, and forget what he saw. Steve MacKenzie saw four bodies around the crashed UFO. He said that another one was out of sight. Major Edwin Easley was commander of the Military Police who cordoned off the crash site. He related to his family that he made a promise to the President that he would never speak of what he saw that day. Herbert Ellis, a painting contractor at Roswell AAFB, reported that he saw an alien "walking" into the Roswell Army hospital.
Major Edwin Easley
Mary Bush, who was secretary to the base hospital administrator, told
mortician Glenn Dennis that she saw "a creature from another world." She was
called on to assist two doctors in a hospital room where three "alien" bodies
were being examined. Though suffocated by an overwhelming odor from the bodies,
she clearly recalled that the aliens had four fingers, and no thumbs.
Joseph Montoya, Lt. Governor of New Mexico, told Pete Anaya that he had seen
"four little men." One of them was still alive. He states that they had
oversized heads, with big eyes.
Their mouth was small, like a cut across a piece of wood. "I tell you they're
not from this world."
Sergeant Thomas Gonzales, with the 509th, was a guard at the crash site, and
saw bodies he called "little men."
A member of the Army COINTEL, Frank Kaufman, saw a "strange looking craft
embedded in a cliff." He also states that he saw debris being put into crates
which were stored under heavy military guard at Roswell AAFB.
Frank Kaufman
Again, we must ask the question. Are all of these witnesses lying? Are these
stories simply fabrications? What are the odds? How far would this kind of
testimony go in a court of law? The conclusion to me is obvious. Although every
tiny detail can be put under a microscope to find fault and error, it is only a
normal human assumption to believe this story.
There is just too much evidence to support it.
Many researchers have, in my opinion, wasted countless hours trying to find
fault in a report by one witness or so. At times, there have been discrepancies
found in a date, a name misspelled, a time of day an hour or two off, and these
researchers believe that the ability to discredit one witness makes it logical
to assume that ALL of the other witnesses who say essentially the same thing are
not to be believed.
On the contrary, when so many agree on one general concept, even with small
errors in detail, all the more reason to believe the consensus of the gist of
the whole.
There can be NO doubt that a flying craft of unknown origin crashed into the
deserts of New Mexico. At least three dead bodies were found, and examined. It
seems that possibly one of the aliens lived through the crash. Many theories
abound about the location of these bodies, and the crash debris. I have no
answers to that end. There are just too many first-hand witnesses to the events
of Roswell not to believe their accounts. The saga of Roswell continues even
today.
The
events of Roswell began on either July 2 or July 4 (there is some disagreement
here). A throwback to western days, William W. "Mac" Brazel, a sheep rancher,
would etch his name forever into UFO history, a designation that he neither
desired, nor appreciated. A common working man, Brazel was foreman of the Foster
Ranch in Lincoln County, near Corona, New Mexico. Brazel was a family man, but
his wife and children lived in Tularosa, near Alamogordo. The reason for this
arrangement was so his children could attend better schools than they would at
Corona. Brazel stayed in an older house on the ranch, where he tended sheep, and
the general chores of the ranch. He was a simple man, content with his job,
family, and his life. Mac would be thrust into the limelight for a brief period
of time, and ultimately regret ever reporting what he was about to discover on
the range of the Foster Ranch.
An evening thunderstorm was raging at the close of another workday, The storm
was highlighted by numerous bolts of lightning. These summer storms were not
uncommon for these parts, but this evening Mac noticed something different.. a
sound, like an explosion mingled with the typical sounds of a storm. Two of
Mac's children were staying with him that night at his farm house. Mac retired
with his two children, and temporarily forgot about the sounds of that night.
The next day's sun brought Mac out again to ride the fences, and check on his
sheep. He was accompanied that day with a seven-year-old neighbor boy, William
D. "Dee" Proctor, who often rode with Mac.
As they rode into the open field, ahead of them they noticed an area about a
quarter of a mile long and several hundred feet wide, covered with debris of
some type. The debris was composed of small pieces of a shiny, metallic
material, a material that Mac had never seen before. The sheep would not cross
the fragmented pieces, and they had to be taken the long way around that day.
Because of the curious nature of the debris, Mac picked up some of it and
carried it back to store in a shed. Little did he know the significance of his
find.
One of his children, Bessie Brazel recalled: "There was what appeared to be
pieces of heavily waxed paper and a sort of aluminum-like foil. Some of these
pieces had something like numbers and lettering on them, but there were no words
you were able to make out. Some of the metal-foil pieces had a sort of tape
stuck to them, and when these were held to the light they showed what looked
like pastel flowers or designs. Even though the stuff looked like tape it could
not be peeled off or removed at all."
"[The writing] looked like numbers mostly, at least I assumed them to be
numbers. They were written out like you would write numbers in columns to do an
addition problem. But they didn't look like the numbers we use at all. What gave
me the idea they were numbers, I guess, was the way they were all ranged out in
columns."
"No, it was definitely not a balloon. We had seen weather balloons quite a
lot, both on the ground and in the air. We had even found a couple of
Japanese-style balloons that had come down in the area once. We had also picked
up a couple of those thin rubber weather balloons with instrument packages. This
was nothing like that. I have never seen anything resembling this sort of thing
before,- or since..."
Later that afternoon, Mac took young Dee Proctor back home, a journey of
about 10 miles. He took along a piece of the debris that he had found, and
showed it to Dee's parents, Floyd, and Loretta. Mac tried to get the Proctors to
go back with him, and look at the strange material strewn in the fields.
Floyd Proctor would later state: "[He said] it wasn't paper because he
couldn't cut it with his knife, and the metal was different from anything he had
ever seen. He said the designs looked like the kind of stuff you would find on
firecracker wrappers...some sort of figures all done up in pastels, but not
writing like we would do it."
Loretta Proctor remembered: "The piece he brought looked like a kind of tan,
light-brown plastic...it was very lightweight, like balsa wood. It wasn't a
large piece, maybe about four inches long, maybe just larger than a
pencil.""We cut on it with a knife and would hold a match on it, and it wouldn't burn. We knew it wasn't wood. It was smooth like plastic, it didn't have real sharp corners, kind of like a dowel stick. Kind of dark tan. It didn't have any grain...just smooth." "We should have gone [to look at the debris field], but gas and tires were expensive then. We had our own chores, and it would have been twenty miles."
The first hint that the debris could be "not of this world" would
come the next night from Mac's uncle, Hollis Wilson. Mac told Hollis about his
find, and Hollis urged Mac to report the findings, since there had been reports
of "flying saucers" in the area as of late. On July 6, Mac was going to Roswell
to strike up a deal for a new pickup truck. He took along some of the debris,
and stopped off at the Chaves County Sheriff's Office and spoke to George
Wilcox. The story of the find was not significant to Wilcox until he actually
handled a piece of the silvery material. Wilcox telephoned the Roswell Army Air
Field, and spoke to one Major Jesse A. Marcel, who was the base intelligence
officer. Marcel told the Sheriff he would come into Roswell and talk to Brazel
about his find. Word of the goings on began to spread rapidly in the community,
and soon Mac was talking to radio station KGFL about the incident. Mac told the
station what he knew over the telephone.
Marcel and Brazel met at the Sheriff's office. Mac told Marcel what he knew,
and showed him a piece of debris. Marcel reported the results of his interview
to Colonel William H. Blanchard back at Roswell Army Base. A decision was made
for Brazel to go out to the site, and investigate for himself. Marcel would take
his old Buick, and Army Counter Intelligence Corps officer Sheridan Cavitt
accompanied him in a Jeep all-terrain vehicle. Following Marcel back to the
ranch, it was too late that day to visit the site, so they all three stayed in
Mac's ranch house. After a dinner of beans, the three headed to the site the
next morning. After a brief look around, Mac left Marcel and Cavitt, returning
to his chores.Radio station KGFL reporter Frank Joyce informed his
boss, Walt Whitmore Sr. about the recent developments, and Whitmore drove out
and picked up Brazel and took him to his home in Roswell. There an interview
took place, all taped into a recorder, but the interview would never be made
public. Threats from the military would prevent the transmission of the tape.
The next day, Whitmore took Brazel to the radio station, and called the Roswell
Army Base. What Whitmore told the Base is not known exactly, but the military
came and picked Mac up, and transported him to the base, where he was a "guest"
of sorts, for about a week. On July 8, the military returned Mac to the Roswell
Daily Record, where a press conference was conducted.
Oddly enough, Mac's story was somewhat different after his "stay" at Roswell Army Base. Mac now said that he and his son had discovered the debris on June 14, but he was so busy, that he didn't pay it any attention. He stated that some weeks later, on July 4th, he, his wife, and two children drove out to the debris field, and collected some samples. Among the collection were gray rubber strips, tinfoil, a type of heavy paper, and small wooden sticks. Mac further asserted that he had found balloons on several occasions, but that this debris was totally different from the other finds. "I am sure what I found was not any weather observation balloon," he said. "But if I find anything else beside a bomb they are going to have a hard time getting me to say anything about it," he said. Mac's military escort led him out to a car after the conference, and drove him to KGFL. Eye witness accounts say that as Mac left the newspaper office, he kept his head pointed to the ground, and did not speak to any of his friends who were present at the time. Brazel went into the radio station without his escort, and began telling Frank Joyce the same story he had related at the press conference. Joyce was shocked by the sudden change in the story's details, and interrupted Brazel at one point, asking him why he had changed his story. Brazel became upset at the question, and stated, "It'll go hard on me." After this interview, Mac was taken back to the Army Base. After finally being released from Roswell Base, suddenly Mac didn't want to discuss his find anymore. Those who knew him say that in private, he complained about his harsh treatment by the military. He was not allowed even to call his wife during his stay at the base, and he told his children that he took an oath to never discuss the details of the debris field. Within a year after finding the strange debris, Mac had moved off the ranch he loved so much, into the town of Tularosa, where he opened a small business of his own. He passed away in 1963. All of this for a weather balloon? Major Jesse A. Marcel was the intelligence officer at Roswell Army Air Force Base, which was home of the only bomb group in existence at the time. It should be noted that all of the personnel at the base had high security clearance. Marcel was a veteran officer, who was trusted fully. He had been a highly skilled cartographer before World War II, and was sent to intelligence training by the Army, because of his impeccable character. He was even an instructor for a time at the training school. He also logged over 450 hours of combat duty as a pilot during the War, and was highly decorated with five air medals for shooting down enemy aircraft. After the War ended, he was chosen as a member of the 509th Bomb Wing, handling security for "Operation Crossroads," which conducted nuclear testing in 1946. After being awarded a commendation for his work on the nuclear project, he was named the intelligence officer for Roswell AAFB. Marcel was on a lunch break when he received a phone call from Sheriff Wilcox. Wilcox informed him that rancher Mac Brazel had found debris from a crash of some object on a sheep ranch. Marcel went to town, talked to Brazel, and reported his findings to Colonel Blanchard. Marcel was given orders to go to the site, which he did, accompanied by CIC officer Sheridan Cavitt. Arriving too late for ample light for a search, the two soldiers spent the night with Brazel, and then proceeded to the sight the next morning. Marcell related the events of the search through the debris in his own words: "When we arrived at the crash site, it was amazing to see the vast amount of area it covered." "...it scattered over an area of about three quarters of a mile long, I would say, and fairly wide, several hundred feet wide. "It was definitely not a weather or tracking device, nor was it any sort of plane or missile." "I don't know what it was, but it certainly wasn't anything built by us and it most certainly wasn't any weather balloon." "...small beams about three eighths or a half inch square with some sort of hieroglyphics on them that nobody could decipher. These looked something like balsa wood, and were about the same weight, except that they were not wood at all. They were very hard, although flexible, and would not burn at all. There was a great deal of an unusual parchment-like substance which was brown in color and extremely strong, and great number of small pieces of a metal like tinfoil, except that it wasn't tinfoil. I was interested in electronics and kept looking for something that resembled instruments or electronic equipment, but I didn't find anything. "...Cavitt, I think, found a black, metallic-looking box several inches square. As there was no apparent way to open this, and since it didn't appear to be an instrument package of any sort, we threw it in with the rest of the stuff." "It had little numbers with symbols that we had to call hieroglyphics because I could not understand them. They were pink and purple. They looked like they were painted on. I even took my cigarette lighter and tried to burn the material we found that resembled parchment and balsa, but it would not burn , wouldn't even smoke," "...the pieces of metal that we brought back were so thin, just like the tinfoil in a pack of cigarettes," "...you could not tear or cut it either. We even tried making a dent in it with a sixteen-pound sledgehammer, and there was still no dent in it." Having rode to the site in two vehicles, Marcel sent Cavitt back to the base with his Jeep full of the material, and Marcel took his Buick, and stopped by his house to show his wife and son his amazing find.
Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr.(Marcel's son):
"The material was foil-like stuff, very thin, metallic-like but not metal,
and very tough. There was also some structural-like material too,- beams and so
on. Also a quantity of black plastic material which looked organic in nature."
"Imprinted along the edge of some of the beam remnants were hieroglyphic-type
characters."
When Marcel arrived back at the base, he was instructed by Colonel Blanchard
to load the debris on a B-29, and fly with it to Wright Field in Ohio, stopping
on the way at Carswell AAFB in Ft. Worth, Texas. The military was hard at work
at Roswell. Colonel Walter Haut was given an order from Col. Blanchard to write
a press release stating that the RAAF had in its possession a "crashed saucer."
According to Haut, the saucer was transported to the 8th Air Force, to be turned
over to General Ramey. Haut discharged his duty, and finished the press release
he'd been ordered to write, giving copies of the release to the two radio
stations and both of the newspapers. The famous headlines hit the newspapers.
"RAAF CAPTURES FLYING SAUCER ON RANCH IN ROSWELL REGION"
When Marcel arrived at Carswell, Brigadier General Roger Ramey, Commander of
the 8th Air Force took full charge of the case. The debris from Brazel's field
was taken into Ramey's office, and photographed. The photographer was James Bond
Johnson. Marcel was in one photo with the real debris. Ramey took Marcel into
another office, and upon their return to Ramey's office, some new and different
material was spread on the floor. Marcel, under orders, stated that this debris
was from a weather balloon. After more photos were taken, Ramey sent Marcel back
to Roswell, along with a stern warning not to disclose anything he had seen at
Carswell. It was then reported that General Ramey recognized the remains as part
of a weather balloon. Brigadier General Thomas DuBose, the chief of staff of the
Eighth Air Force, after many years of silence would state: "[It] was a cover
story. The whole balloon part of it. That was the part of the story we were told
to give to the public and news and that was it." There can be NO doubt that the
orders to cover-up the saucer story came from our Chief Executive.
General Ramey
Marcel was stunned to find upon his return to his home base, that he was made
a laughing stock because he ignorantly misidentified the balloon material with
that of "something unknown." Some three months later, however, Marcel was
promoted to Lt. Colonel, and assigned to a new program. He was in charge of
testing atmospheric particles to detect Russian atomic discharges. When he was
interviewed in 1978, he maintained that the debris he found on the Foster ranch
was definitely NOT a weather balloon. He insisted that it was like nothing he
had ever seen...
Through the first part of the Roswell story, we have heard of strange debris,
and two different explanations of what that debris was. So what about the
alleged alien bodies, an actual saucer on the ground, or an alien autopsy? To
accurately continue our quest for all of the facts behind the Roswell case, we
move to a new location. The site is San Agustin, near Magdalena, New Mexico.
This story is based upon the testimony of Vern and Jean Maltais. The couple
states that in February 1950, an engineer friend of theirs, Grady L. "Barney"
Barnett told them that while working in the fields near Magdalena, July 3, 1947,
he had come upon a crashed disc-shaped object. This flying disc had alien bodies
strewn about it. There were aliens inside and outside of the craft. As important
as this seems, there is a flaw in his story. It seems that Barnett's wife kept a
diary of his comings and goings. His wife stated that his diary did not
corroborate the date as July 3, 1947. This may or not mean anything, as surely a
mistake could have been made, or a date mixed up, or plans changed after the
entry was made.
Barnett's claims were controversial though, until yet another witness would
come forward which would shed new light on his claims. After an airing of a
"Roswell Crash" segment on the popular "Unsolved Mysteries" show in 1990, Gerald
Anderson came forward with some fascinating details. Anderson states that he and
his family were hunting rocks on the Plains of San Agustin in early July 1947,
when they also came upon a crashed saucer-shaped craft. The craft had four dead
aliens inside. Though Gerald was only six years old at the time, the
extraordinary sighting was one he would never forget. To take matters a step
further, archaeologist, Dr. Buskirk, and five of his students also came upon the
crash scene. Anderson's story also has holes in it, however. It seems that Dr.
Buskirk was a former teacher of Anderson. Records indicate that the Doctor was
in Arizona at the time of the alleged sighting.
There is also a case for a second crash near Roswell. Testimony of mortician
Glenn Dennis, along with Captain Oliver Wendell "Pappy" Henderson seem to
substantiate this theory. The actions of the military can tell us a lot.
Supposedly cordoning off the area, and removing every iota of the debris field
does not make sense if all that was there was weather balloon material. Much
importance must also be put upon Marcel. His word seems to be above reproach. He
states without wavering that the debris was NOT balloon material. He should
know. He also states that the debris he brought from Brazel's field was NOT the
debris in the newspaper photographs. What about all of the eyewitnesses? In all
fairness, it must be said that many of the witnesses are NOT first hand. We know
how stories can be changed, or amended by being passed down the line. But there
are also many firsthand witnesses. What about their testimony? If their stories
are all lies, then a large group of people, some unbeknownst to the others, have
perpetuated one of the best organized conspiracies in the last century. Let's
examine the testimony of these "first hand" witnesses. Maybe the truth is out
there after all. Is there a way to reconcile all of the different theories into
one authentic account of the events of Roswell?What about the alien bodies? There are many rumors
about the "little men." Some say there were three, some say four, some even
count 5. Let's see if we can find the truth behind the rumors by relying on eye
witness testimony.
Ray Danzer, a plumbing contractor, was working on the Roswell Base. He was standing outside of the emergency room, when he saw alien bodies being brought into the base hospital on stretchers. Dumbfounded by the event, he was shaken back to reality by military police who warned him to leave, and forget what he saw. Steve MacKenzie saw four bodies around the crashed UFO. He said that another one was out of sight. Major Edwin Easley was commander of the Military Police who cordoned off the crash site. He related to his family that he made a promise to the President that he would never speak of what he saw that day. Herbert Ellis, a painting contractor at Roswell AAFB, reported that he saw an alien "walking" into the Roswell Army hospital.
Major Edwin Easley
Mary Bush, who was secretary to the base hospital administrator, told
mortician Glenn Dennis that she saw "a creature from another world." She was
called on to assist two doctors in a hospital room where three "alien" bodies
were being examined. Though suffocated by an overwhelming odor from the bodies,
she clearly recalled that the aliens had four fingers, and no thumbs.
Joseph Montoya, Lt. Governor of New Mexico, told Pete Anaya that he had seen
"four little men." One of them was still alive. He states that they had
oversized heads, with big eyes.
Their mouth was small, like a cut across a piece of wood. "I tell you they're
not from this world."
Sergeant Thomas Gonzales, with the 509th, was a guard at the crash site, and
saw bodies he called "little men."
A member of the Army COINTEL, Frank Kaufman, saw a "strange looking craft
embedded in a cliff." He also states that he saw debris being put into crates
which were stored under heavy military guard at Roswell AAFB.
Frank Kaufman
Again, we must ask the question. Are all of these witnesses lying? Are these
stories simply fabrications? What are the odds? How far would this kind of
testimony go in a court of law? The conclusion to me is obvious. Although every
tiny detail can be put under a microscope to find fault and error, it is only a
normal human assumption to believe this story.
There is just too much evidence to support it.
Many researchers have, in my opinion, wasted countless hours trying to find
fault in a report by one witness or so. At times, there have been discrepancies
found in a date, a name misspelled, a time of day an hour or two off, and these
researchers believe that the ability to discredit one witness makes it logical
to assume that ALL of the other witnesses who say essentially the same thing are
not to be believed.
On the contrary, when so many agree on one general concept, even with small
errors in detail, all the more reason to believe the consensus of the gist of
the whole.
There can be NO doubt that a flying craft of unknown origin crashed into the
deserts of New Mexico. At least three dead bodies were found, and examined. It
seems that possibly one of the aliens lived through the crash. Many theories
abound about the location of these bodies, and the crash debris. I have no
answers to that end. There are just too many first-hand witnesses to the events
of Roswell not to believe their accounts. The saga of Roswell continues even
today.
US Secretary of State Cordell Hull 1939
William E. Jones writes, "I thought your readers should be aware of the
Cordell Hull story that alien artifacts were in our hands in 1939."
In early December of 1999, the Center of UFO Studies received a letter from the daughter of the Reverend Turner Hamilton Holt:
"Today I want to share some knowledge that has been, by request, kept secret in our family since sometime in World War II. This concerns something my father was shown by his cousin Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State under Franklin Roosevelt.
"Snip, my father, who was young, brilliant, and sound of mind, told us this story because he didn't want the information to be lost.
One day when my father was in D.C,. Cordell swore him to secrecy and took him to a sub-basement in the U.S. Capitol building, and showed him an amazing sight:
(1) Four large glass jars holding 4 creatures unknown to my father or Cordell [and],
(2) A wrecked round craft of some kind nearby.
"My father wanted my sister and I to make this information known long after he and Cordell were dead, because he felt it was a very important bit of information.
We have researched your group {MUFON} and feel it is the most reliable group in the country. We hope that you will research and search this information.
The jars with creatures in formaldehyde and the wrecked craft are somewhere! "Cordell said they were afraid they would start a panic if the public found out about it."
Sincerely, Lucile Andrew, Ashland, Ohio.
Cordell Hull was one of the greatest statesmen of the 20th Century with absolutely no apparent reason to tell this story unless it was true, especially at a time when stories of flying saucers and their alien drivers had not yet become part of our culture.
Hull was
elected U.S. Senator 1931-1937, as chairman of the Democratic National
Committee, and became the Secretary of State under President Franklin D.
Roosevelt in March 1933, the longest in American history until 1944, when he
resigned because of ill health.
He was also offered the Vice Presidency and in 1945, Cordell Hull won the 1945 Nobel Prize for Peace.
Reverend Holt and Hull were both born in Pickett County and were cousins and friends. Holt attained a Doctor in Theology degree from Ashland Theological Seminary, and was a minister at the Shenandoah Christian Church in Greenwich, Ohio.
He was a community leader, and wrote a book entitled Life's Convictions. He married Vina May Clark and they had three daughters. Two of the daughters claim they had been told about the creatures by their father. Lucile's original letter essentially tells the story as her father told it to her when she was a teenager.
Unfortunately, Lucile said that she was too young to really pay much attention to what her father told her but Allene, the mother of Eloise, the co-author of this story was told the same story as her sister.
Both sisters assured us that they remember the stories independently. Reverend Holt described the entities in the glass jars as "creatures, a term common for his day..." He never referred to them as "aliens" or "extraterrestrials." He never said where they came from.
Lucile stated that his experience happened in the "late 1930s," probably 1939. The material that was nearby the less than four feet tall creatures was described as "silver metallic."
She also remembers him referring to the material as being a "vehicle" that appeared to have been taken apart and was "in pieces."
He said the color of this material wasn't a color that he had seen before, but for the lack of a better word he used "silver." Reverend Holt was not the sort of person to make up such a wild story and, the sisters feel that by telling the story they are following their father's wishes.
Barbara A. Wolamin, "the curator U.S. Capitol building," chuckled a bit after being told the story. She said, "She had never heard about these creatures being stored at the Capitol, but she did confirm there was a sub-basement that was divided into storage rooms back then.
She said that the building had been significantly changed over the years, so in a small way, part of Reverend Holt's story checked out. After Cordell Hull left government service he wrote his memoirs in a two-volume book set. No reference to this story appeared in these pages, in his papers in the Library of Congress.
Numerous experts and libraries were contacted and there has been no confirmation for the story. If four alien bodies and other world technology were retrieved in 1939, what would that do to our interpretation of the U.S.
Government's involvement in UFO research? One would assume prior knowledge would have made the government ready for an event like Roswell and that the Roswell retrieval was more efficient because of that.
This is a story that truly deserves further investigation.
In early December of 1999, the Center of UFO Studies received a letter from the daughter of the Reverend Turner Hamilton Holt:
"Today I want to share some knowledge that has been, by request, kept secret in our family since sometime in World War II. This concerns something my father was shown by his cousin Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State under Franklin Roosevelt.
"Snip, my father, who was young, brilliant, and sound of mind, told us this story because he didn't want the information to be lost.
One day when my father was in D.C,. Cordell swore him to secrecy and took him to a sub-basement in the U.S. Capitol building, and showed him an amazing sight:
(1) Four large glass jars holding 4 creatures unknown to my father or Cordell [and],
(2) A wrecked round craft of some kind nearby.
"My father wanted my sister and I to make this information known long after he and Cordell were dead, because he felt it was a very important bit of information.
We have researched your group {MUFON} and feel it is the most reliable group in the country. We hope that you will research and search this information.
The jars with creatures in formaldehyde and the wrecked craft are somewhere! "Cordell said they were afraid they would start a panic if the public found out about it."
Sincerely, Lucile Andrew, Ashland, Ohio.
Cordell Hull was one of the greatest statesmen of the 20th Century with absolutely no apparent reason to tell this story unless it was true, especially at a time when stories of flying saucers and their alien drivers had not yet become part of our culture.
Hull was
elected U.S. Senator 1931-1937, as chairman of the Democratic National
Committee, and became the Secretary of State under President Franklin D.
Roosevelt in March 1933, the longest in American history until 1944, when he
resigned because of ill health.He was also offered the Vice Presidency and in 1945, Cordell Hull won the 1945 Nobel Prize for Peace.
Reverend Holt and Hull were both born in Pickett County and were cousins and friends. Holt attained a Doctor in Theology degree from Ashland Theological Seminary, and was a minister at the Shenandoah Christian Church in Greenwich, Ohio.
He was a community leader, and wrote a book entitled Life's Convictions. He married Vina May Clark and they had three daughters. Two of the daughters claim they had been told about the creatures by their father. Lucile's original letter essentially tells the story as her father told it to her when she was a teenager.
Unfortunately, Lucile said that she was too young to really pay much attention to what her father told her but Allene, the mother of Eloise, the co-author of this story was told the same story as her sister.
Both sisters assured us that they remember the stories independently. Reverend Holt described the entities in the glass jars as "creatures, a term common for his day..." He never referred to them as "aliens" or "extraterrestrials." He never said where they came from.
Lucile stated that his experience happened in the "late 1930s," probably 1939. The material that was nearby the less than four feet tall creatures was described as "silver metallic."
She also remembers him referring to the material as being a "vehicle" that appeared to have been taken apart and was "in pieces."
He said the color of this material wasn't a color that he had seen before, but for the lack of a better word he used "silver." Reverend Holt was not the sort of person to make up such a wild story and, the sisters feel that by telling the story they are following their father's wishes.
Barbara A. Wolamin, "the curator U.S. Capitol building," chuckled a bit after being told the story. She said, "She had never heard about these creatures being stored at the Capitol, but she did confirm there was a sub-basement that was divided into storage rooms back then.
She said that the building had been significantly changed over the years, so in a small way, part of Reverend Holt's story checked out. After Cordell Hull left government service he wrote his memoirs in a two-volume book set. No reference to this story appeared in these pages, in his papers in the Library of Congress.
Numerous experts and libraries were contacted and there has been no confirmation for the story. If four alien bodies and other world technology were retrieved in 1939, what would that do to our interpretation of the U.S.
Government's involvement in UFO research? One would assume prior knowledge would have made the government ready for an event like Roswell and that the Roswell retrieval was more efficient because of that.
This is a story that truly deserves further investigation.
Texas 1897
The state of Texas has always been called the "big
state." This expression applies to many things, but is especially true regarding
"tall tales." I have heard them all of my life, and sometimes it is difficult to
separate truth from fiction.
Such is the case with one story that comes from the small town of Aurora. The town's history book labels the community as "the town that almost wasn't," and that expression is directly related to the legend of a spaceship crashing into a windmill, and the burial of a small alien creature found in the aftermath. This event has become the most important news story to ever come out of this small Texas city. Aurora was designated a "historical site" by the State of Texas. The year was 1897, and this was the year of the "great airships" reports in the United States. As the story goes, it was on April 17, 1897, that a slow moving space ship crashed into a windmill, bursting into pieces. As the debris was searched through, supposedly the body of a small alien was discovered. Originally the alien pilot was dubbed the "Martian pilot." Some of the debris also revealed material sketched with a type of hieroglyphic. The town folk gave the poor little creature a proper burial in the local cemetery. This incident, whether true or not, has had just enough publicity to stay afloat for over 100 years. It was made into a movie, "The Aurora Encounter" in 1986, starring Jack Elam. The news of the crash spread quickly, even for that time period. A newspaper article of the event still exists, written by S. E. Haydon, reporter for the Dallas Morning News. Below is the original article:
"About 6 o'clock this
morning the early risers of Aurora were astonished at the sudden appearance of
the airship which has been sailing around the country. It was traveling due
north and much nearer the earth than before.
"Evidently some of the machinery was out of order, for it was making a speed of only ten or twelve miles an hour, and gradually settling toward the earth. It sailed over the public square and when it reached the north part of town it collided with the tower of Judge Proctor's windmill and went into pieces with a terrific explosion, scattering debris over several acres of ground, wrecking the windmill and water tank and destroying the judge's flower garden. "The pilot of the ship is supposed to have been the only one aboard and, while his remains were badly disfigured, enough of the original has been picked up to show that he was not an inhabitant of this world."
The story never gained
a lot of exposure at the time, but eventually it was commented on by UPI on May
24, 1973:
"Aurora, Tex. -- (UPI) -- A grave in a small north Texas cemetery contains
the body of an 1897 astronaut who was 'not an inhabitant of this world,'
according to the International UFO Bureau.
The group, which investigates unidentified flying objects, has already initiated legal proceedings to exhume the body and will go to court if necessary to open the grave, director Hayden Hewes said Wednesday. "After checking the grave with metal detectors and gathering facts for three months, we are certain as we can be at this point [that] he was the pilot of a UFO which reportedly exploded atop a well on Judge J.S. Proctor's place, April 19, 1897," Hewes said." "He was not an inhabitant of this world." The legend was back in the news! Only a couple of days later, UPI followed up the first report with another from Aurora. They had located a living witness to the event. "A ninety-one-year-old who had been a girl of fifteen in Aurora at the time of the reported incident was quoted. "I had all but forgotten the incident until it appeared in the newspapers recently." She said her parents had actually been to the crash sight, but had not allowed her to accompany them for fear of what might be in the debris. "She recalled that the remains of the pilot, 'a small man,' had been buried in the Aurora cemetery, validating the other legends." The Associated Press now joined the chase for the sensational story. From the city of Denton, Texas came this account: "A North Texas State University professor had found some metal fragments near the Oates gas station (former Proctor farm). One fragment was said to be 'most intriguing' because it consisted primarily of iron which did not seem to exhibit magnetic properties."
The professor also said he was puzzled because the fragment was "shiny and malleable instead of dull and brittle like iron."
For reasons unknown, the Aurora Cemetery
Association fought the attempts to exhume the alleged alien body. They were
successful, and the dead alien's remains stayed a mystery.
The town of Aurora still shows traces of Military intervention today, and the
question must be asked, "Why would the U. S. Military be in the town of Aurora?"
Anyone familiar with the Roswell crash of 1947 will remember that debris from
Mac Brazel's field was flown to Ft. Worth, which is only a short hop's distance
from Aurora. Is this why the Military was in Aurora? Could the Government have
the alien body?
Today Aurora, like other cities, is modernized, and yet a few hints of the
past still remain. Although the headstone of the alien was stolen, there remain
pictures of it today. A copy of this photo now adorns the grave site.
There has been, at times, a lobby to exhume the remains of the little pilot
and give it a proper burial, with a new headstone. So far, this has not
happened. Should the little grave be dug up, or should we just leave it and the
legend of the Aurora UFO alone?
Such is the case with one story that comes from the small town of Aurora. The town's history book labels the community as "the town that almost wasn't," and that expression is directly related to the legend of a spaceship crashing into a windmill, and the burial of a small alien creature found in the aftermath. This event has become the most important news story to ever come out of this small Texas city. Aurora was designated a "historical site" by the State of Texas. The year was 1897, and this was the year of the "great airships" reports in the United States. As the story goes, it was on April 17, 1897, that a slow moving space ship crashed into a windmill, bursting into pieces. As the debris was searched through, supposedly the body of a small alien was discovered. Originally the alien pilot was dubbed the "Martian pilot." Some of the debris also revealed material sketched with a type of hieroglyphic. The town folk gave the poor little creature a proper burial in the local cemetery. This incident, whether true or not, has had just enough publicity to stay afloat for over 100 years. It was made into a movie, "The Aurora Encounter" in 1986, starring Jack Elam. The news of the crash spread quickly, even for that time period. A newspaper article of the event still exists, written by S. E. Haydon, reporter for the Dallas Morning News. Below is the original article:
"About 6 o'clock this
morning the early risers of Aurora were astonished at the sudden appearance of
the airship which has been sailing around the country. It was traveling due
north and much nearer the earth than before.
"Evidently some of the machinery was out of order, for it was making a speed of only ten or twelve miles an hour, and gradually settling toward the earth. It sailed over the public square and when it reached the north part of town it collided with the tower of Judge Proctor's windmill and went into pieces with a terrific explosion, scattering debris over several acres of ground, wrecking the windmill and water tank and destroying the judge's flower garden. "The pilot of the ship is supposed to have been the only one aboard and, while his remains were badly disfigured, enough of the original has been picked up to show that he was not an inhabitant of this world."
The story never gained
a lot of exposure at the time, but eventually it was commented on by UPI on May
24, 1973:
"Aurora, Tex. -- (UPI) -- A grave in a small north Texas cemetery contains
the body of an 1897 astronaut who was 'not an inhabitant of this world,'
according to the International UFO Bureau.
The group, which investigates unidentified flying objects, has already initiated legal proceedings to exhume the body and will go to court if necessary to open the grave, director Hayden Hewes said Wednesday. "After checking the grave with metal detectors and gathering facts for three months, we are certain as we can be at this point [that] he was the pilot of a UFO which reportedly exploded atop a well on Judge J.S. Proctor's place, April 19, 1897," Hewes said." "He was not an inhabitant of this world." The legend was back in the news! Only a couple of days later, UPI followed up the first report with another from Aurora. They had located a living witness to the event. "A ninety-one-year-old who had been a girl of fifteen in Aurora at the time of the reported incident was quoted. "I had all but forgotten the incident until it appeared in the newspapers recently." She said her parents had actually been to the crash sight, but had not allowed her to accompany them for fear of what might be in the debris. "She recalled that the remains of the pilot, 'a small man,' had been buried in the Aurora cemetery, validating the other legends." The Associated Press now joined the chase for the sensational story. From the city of Denton, Texas came this account: "A North Texas State University professor had found some metal fragments near the Oates gas station (former Proctor farm). One fragment was said to be 'most intriguing' because it consisted primarily of iron which did not seem to exhibit magnetic properties."
The professor also said he was puzzled because the fragment was "shiny and malleable instead of dull and brittle like iron."
For reasons unknown, the Aurora Cemetery
Association fought the attempts to exhume the alleged alien body. They were
successful, and the dead alien's remains stayed a mystery.
The town of Aurora still shows traces of Military intervention today, and the
question must be asked, "Why would the U. S. Military be in the town of Aurora?"
Anyone familiar with the Roswell crash of 1947 will remember that debris from
Mac Brazel's field was flown to Ft. Worth, which is only a short hop's distance
from Aurora. Is this why the Military was in Aurora? Could the Government have
the alien body?
Today Aurora, like other cities, is modernized, and yet a few hints of the
past still remain. Although the headstone of the alien was stolen, there remain
pictures of it today. A copy of this photo now adorns the grave site.
There has been, at times, a lobby to exhume the remains of the little pilot
and give it a proper burial, with a new headstone. So far, this has not
happened. Should the little grave be dug up, or should we just leave it and the
legend of the Aurora UFO alone?
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