The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth: Alien Base
While it is widely believed that the first recovery by US military forces of a crashed UFO took place in New Mexico in July 1947 (the so-called Roswell Incident), there are intriguing stories of UFO recovery operations some years earlier.
MISSOURI, USA
Raymond Fowler, a UFO researcher who once served in the United States Air Force (USAF) Security Service, learned of the recovery of a crashed UFO near Cape Girardeau, Missouri, in the spring of 1941. Fowler’s source was Charlotte Mann, granddaughter of a witness, Reverend William Huffman, a Baptist. In a letter to the late Leonard Stringfield, a former USAF intelligence officer and the leading specialist in what he called ‘UFO crash/retrievals’, Mann shared her knowledge of the case: About 9 to 9:30 one evening, granddad got a telephone call from the police department, saying they had received reports that a plane had crashed outside of town and would he go in case someone needed him . . . A car was sent to get him, but grandmother said it wasn’t a police car. After grandfather returned that night, he explained what he had seen to my grandmother, my father, Guy, and Uncle Wayne, but they were never to speak of it again as he had given his word. Grandmother said he never did talk about it after that.
He said they drove out of town 13-15 miles or so, then parked the cars on the side of the road and had to walk a quarter of a mile or so into a field where he could see fire burning. Grandfather said it wasn’t an airplane or like any craft he’d ever seen. It was broken and scattered all around, but one large piece was still together and it appeared to have a rounded shape with no edges or seams. It had a very shiny metallic finish. You could see inside one section and see what looked like a metal chair with a panel with many dials and gauges — none familiar-looking to him.
He said when he got there, men were already sifting through things. There were some police officers, plain-clothes people and military men. There were three bodies, not human, that had been taken from the wreckage and laid on the ground. Grandfather said prayers over them so he got a close look but didn’t touch them. He didn’t know what had killed them because they didn’t appear to have any injuries and they weren’t burnt. It was hard for him to tell if they had on suits or if it was their skin but they were covered head to foot in what looked like wrinkled aluminum foil . . .
There were several people with cameras taking pictures of everything. Two of the plain-clothes men picked up one of the little men, held it under its arms. A picture was taken. That was the picture I later saw. Then, one of the military officers talked to granddad and told him he was not to talk about or repeat anything that had taken place for security reasons and so as not to alarm the people. Granddad returned home, told his family. That was it. About two weeks after it happened, he came home with a picture of the two men holding the little man . . .
My recollection from what I saw in the picture was a small man about 4 feet tall with a large head and long arms. He was thin and no bone structure was apparent; kind of soft-looking. He had no hair on his head or body, with large, oval, slightly slanted eyes but not like an oriental from left to right, more up and down. He had no ears at all and no nose like ours. There appeared to be only a couple of small holes where his nose should have been. His mouth was as if you had just cut a small straight line where it should have been. His skin or suit looked like crinkled-up tin foil and it covered all of him I believe he had three fingers, all quite long, but I can’t be sure on this.
One of the first checks Stringfield made was to establish whether the photograph seen by Charlotte Mann was identical to a bogus photograph released as an April Fool’s Day joke in Germany in 1950, showing some men in hats and coats holding a little silver man. It was in no way similar, as Mann confirmed. (The photo was lent by her grandfather to a friend, who never returned it.)
If this event really occurred, one is left to wonder why no more witnesses have come forward. Were they all intimidated? Whatever the case, Stringfield was impressed. ‘After discussing the incident several times with Charlotte by phone, I felt increasingly comfortable with her manner of response to my questions,’ he concluded. ‘To me, she sounded sincere.’
SONORA, MEXICO
Dr James Harder, a professor of civil engineering and a UFO investigator, believes that a crashed spacecraft may have been recovered from the Sonoran desert in Mexico (south of Arizona) late in 1941. Reportedly, recovery was effected by a team from the US Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI). One member of the team, unable to contain the importance of what had been discovered, brought home to share with his immediate family some photographs supposedly showing an unusual craft and small bodies.
Dr Harder told me that the location of the incident was determined by one of his co-investigators, the late Jim Lorenzen, co-founder of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO), to which Harder was a consultant. Together with another APRO consultant, Dr Leo Sprinkle, Harder interviewed a relative of the witness. He informed me that although the relative was only 10 years old or so at the time of the alleged incident, she seemed reliable and convincing. ‘She had been sitting on the information for a long time, and had decided that APRO was the organization to talk to,’ Harder explained.
He continued: She was looking from a stair landing when she observed her uncle showing her family a sheaf of 8 x 10 prints of a UFO crashed horizontal on level ground. In one of the pictures, he himself was holding up a small spindly dead body, about 3.5 feet tall — the picture had been taken by a friend. A small pile of other small bodies was over to one side. The UFO took up nearly the entire frame. By various deductions from the witness’s age, etc., we estimated the time of her seeing the prints was about Halloween, 1941 . . . Jim Lorenzen did send, against my advice, some local investigator around to question the retired officer [name supplied], who naturally clammed up, so at least he knows we know, if he is still alive.