Mad Scientist Club

Roswell: Another Point Of View.

Germ?n V-1 and V-2 launches f?om desert ba?es afte? WWII. Tw? key people w?re on hand to recover the de?ris f?om the R?swell saucer ?rash site: the ?ase intell?gence officer and a member of the Counter Intelligence C?rps. The? dir?cted the recover? of the debris, which consumed ? good part of the following day, and loaded the pi?ces into t?o vehicles. The d?bris ?as t?ken to Roswell AAF fo? dis?osition. At abo?t t?e same time, 100 miles a?ay, Grady Barnett found what ?e ?elieved t? b? ? crashed s?ucer. Nearby w?re four ?mall dead bodies. They h?d f?ail li?bs and large h?ads with big, slanted eyes.

According t? Ba?nett, th?ir b?dies were ?ncased in tight, one-piec?, grey ?uits with n? v?sible fasteners. Again, t?e military ?as q?ick t? arrive. All witnesses we?e us?ered away and ordered not t? spea? ?f th? event. On June 8, 1947, s?x days afte? th? first event (all the debris m?y have been from the s?me vehicle), a pr?ss release appr?ved by Lt. W. Haut, announced t?at saucer debris h?d b?en recovered by t?e 509th Bomb Group. Th? debr?s from both finds was l?aded aboard ? B-29 and flown to Carsw?ll AFB in Fo?t Worth, Texas wh?re it w?s announced that ?t wa? nothing mor? than the remains of a standard weather balloon.

We ar? supposed t? believe it took military intelligence officers ?n entire week t? determine th?t the debris was fr?m ? weath?r balloon, an object any alert E-1 could have identified in about 30 seconds. Since m?st offi?ers do not scrub abo?t pastures recovering d?bris fro? fallen obj?cts, it must be assumed som? enlisted men were on hand fo? t?e ta?k. Dozens, if not all, could have identified the obj?ct as a we?ther ball?on if ?t wa?, ?ndeed, ? w?ather balloon.

But if not ? weath?r b?lloon, ?hat ?as it? Let's ?liminate t?e two least likely possibilities: weather ?alloon and alien s?ace craft, and concentrate on discovering what the 509th might ?ave carried away fr?m the pasture? in 1947.

To f?nd an answer, ?e must return to t?e period near the ?nd of W?rld Wa? T?o ?nd Naz? Germany. Germ?n engineer? and technicians ?ad produced t?e ?nly operati?nal jet bombe?, the Arado 234, du?ing the ?ar. Additionally, Willie Messerschmitt had designed, tested and produc?d both the Me 262 twin-jet fighter bomber and the M? 163 rock?t ?lane. Each ?f t?e latter planes wa? hundreds of miles p?r hou? faster than ?nything th? Allies h?d at the time. The Me 262 wa? ?owered ?y tw? very advanced J?mo ?xial flow j?t ?ngines. The Me 163 was powered ?y ? rocket m?tor using hypergolic fuels. But ?ost bi?arre wa? t?e dis?losure th?t the BMW ?lant in Prague had built ? prototype advanced jet powered sa?cer shaped aircraft with a diameter of 140 feet. Completed in 1944, thi? radical aircraft was flying by February, 1945 and ?as destroyed with its blueprints when it beca?e apparent ?t would soon fall into the hands of the Allies. British and U.S. intelligence rep?rts confirm the existen?e of t?is real "Flying saucer."

Cessation ?f hostilit?es between the waring countries and t?e knowledge that Germ?ny ?ight ha?e won t?e ?ar by pure techn?cal skill ?ad not the Alli?s overwhelmed ?t wit? ?n endless suppl? ?f ex?endable hardwar? and manp?wer, ?as the impetus that promped U.S., British, French and Ru?sian scientists, politicians and m?litary leaders to develop w?apons equal t? o? better than those that had nearly destroy?d half the civ?lized world.

Before th? w?r was even declar?d at an end, U.S. intelligence agencies wer? scouring the countryside trying t? locate as man? German scientists and engineers and t?eir hardware as the? could bef?re th? Russians o? British found them.

By m?d 1947, Arthur Rudolph, direct?r of the D?ra-Nordhausen r?cket projects, and hundreds of f?rmer Nazis and members of th? SS were safely settl?d in dusty desert towns in sout?ern Te?as where they beg?n reassembling ? few V-2 rocket? from ?undreds of crate? transported from Germany. Rudolph would go on to create th? Saturn V booster th?t ?ould put an American astronaut on the moon. Conveniently forgotten we?e the 80 million souls fo? whose deaths Rudolph h?d to sh?re responsibility.

The American ?ublic, ?y and large, wa? unawa?e that t?ese former Nazis were he?e or that their weapons wo?ld so?n ?e la?nched fr?m American s?il, b?cause t?e German tea?s had been literally smuggled into th? country illegally and in ?ecrecy ?y th? military!

White Sands Missile Test Cent?r was just down the r?ad a piec?. Los Alamos w?s not far ?way. R?swell AAF was no?th, acros? t?e state border. When p?eces of strange, unidentifi?ble obje?ts ?egan raining from t?e de?ert ?kies, it ?s no wonder that uninf?rmed officer? at Roswell's 509th th?ught they h?d discovered something "not made ?n th?s planet." But when knowledgeable peopl? ?eard of the incident t?rough the media rep?rts and frantic telephone call?, they would have clamped ? lid ?n th? find. The exotic mat?rials found at b?th ?ites may have b?en p?eces of a German-now-American V-2 ta?tical ballistic rocket gone astray!

The ?ieces, after all, went to Carswell AAF in Tex?s, probably close to wher? the? had been fired if the reports are cor?ect. T?ere ?ould hav? be?n no need to send th? debris to Wright Patterson A?r Force Base for identification. Comprom?se of t?e classified pro?ects and disclosure th?t For?er N?zi officers were responsible w?uld have ?reated a political disaster, hence, the ?eather balloon story was released to p?cify the American ?ublic. America and R?ssia, w?o had kidnapped and confiscated the lion's share of German engineers and hardware, lost n? time developing advanced aircraft and mi?siles of their ?wn. Many of t?e ?arly marks we?e bolt-for-bolt replicas of German ?perational aircr?ft. The Nort? American F-86 Sabre, so famous d?ring th? Ko?ean War, w?s developed directl? from German technology, the pr?totype flying on October 1, 1947.


Two weeks late?, on October 14, 1947, Captain Chuc? Yeager broke the sound bar?ier in t?e Bell X-1. A series of stunning and incredible flights followed with the X-planes leading the way tow?rd the edge of space. B? 1958 th? first North American X-15 was roll?d out and by June, 1960, an X-15, po?ered b? a V?king Rocket XLR-99 engine producing 57,000 pounds of thrust, reached an ?ltitude ?f 59.6 miles_the ?ery threshold of space itself_at a speed ?f 4,000 miles per hou?. In 1964, the X-15 Numb?r 2, designated A-2, establ?shed ?n absolute speed record ?f 4,520 mil?s per hour. The n?xt series of tests w?re t? be conduct?d w?th ?xoatmosphere orbital plane? b?t the project was cancelled before th? planes could b? developed. Exoatm?sphere planes ?ere not a ne? concept. At least not to the German engineers. During th? Second World War, German engin?er Eugene S_nger h?d p?oposed and drawn up th? plan? for a mas?ive sub-orbital "Skip Bomber" that, if produced, would h?ve entered th? edge of spac?, re-ent?red ?n a flat trajectory, and skipped ac?oss o?eans of ?ir ?nd water until it f?ll t? earth ?ver North America. It would h?ve carried a nuclear warhead.

America's "Skip" planes sho?ld hav? l?d t?e w?y to reusable airc?aft that could have tak?n off fr?m the ground (rather than being carried aloft under the wing ?f a B-52), flo?n into space and returned to the same a?rfield to refuel and take more passengers into space. Scott Crossfield, who helped dev?lop the X-15 and wa? its chief pilot fo? a number ?f flights, r?cently stated that if the exoatmo?phere tests had proceeded, A?erica would hav? been ?n ?pace w?th a reusable aircraft years ago. But th? Space Shuttle ?rogram ?as developed (by the s?me German s?ientists) ?nd th? orbit?l plan?s were all but forgotten along with the daring pilots wh? paved t?e way for ? ne? generation of astr?nauts w?o would ta?e man's f?rst tentative ?teps ?n another planet of the s?lar system.

Rocket scientists Werne? von Braun and Will? Ley bot? ?orked ?n America's space progra? at Hunts?ille's Redstone Arsenal. Thei? efforts ?ut Americans on t?e ?oon. It is interesting to note that th? period du?ing th? development, testing and evalu?tion of the X-planes, fro? 1947 to 1959, ?as als? the period when most UFO sightings were reported. Unidentified Flying Object re?orts dropped dr?matically from a ?igh of 1,501 ?n 1952 to onl? 167 during the last six months ?f 1959. Of t?e 173 official reports f?led in the f?rst six m?nths ?f 1960, only thr?e were classified as "Unidentified."

During t?e entire Blue Boo? reporting pe?iod f?om 1947 t? 1960, t?e number of unidentifi?d sighting? ?veraged only about 2%, or 130 ?ut of a total of 6,523 reported sightings. A numbe? of the unid?ntified sig?tings were classifi?d as "Lig?ts In The Sky." Lights ?n th? sky can include s?ch phenomena ?s ball lightning, swamp gas, earthquake lights, m?teors, plasm?, stars, plan?ts, aircraft lights, jet or rocket ?xhaust, sun-dogs and a host of other odd known ?r unkn?wn effects. "Nuts and Bolts" sightings includ? aircraft, rock?ts or other tangible man-made artifacts, ?r ?nidentified ?r unknown aerial ?ars. "Sightings" ar? generally defined ?s observ?tions of unknown craft at ? distance g?eater than 500 feet wh?re t?e craft doe? not t?uch the ground, doe? not affect th? en?ironment and does n?t alarm nearby animals.

"Encounters" fall ?nto thre? categories:

The First Kind: UFO is seen within 500 fe?t ?ut does n?t touch the gr?und o? affect t?e environment ?r n?arby animals. The Second Kind: UFO is seen within 500 feet ?nd touches the ground, ?ffecting t?e env?ronment b? flattening or scorching vegetati?n and/or alarming nearby animals. The Third Kind: Occupants ar? seen wit?in 500 feet outside the craft. Virtually all a?e se?n at night and usually ?nly on? o? two witn?sses ?re present. The occupants do not attempt to com?unicate, but retreat to thei? c?aft ?hich quickly fl?es a?ay. Two additional cl?ssifications ar? ?ecognized b?t recorded ?eparately from "Enco?nter" type reports. Th?y are: "Favored Intermediary" ?r "Contactee"; ?nd "Abductions."

Of ?ll th? ?eports filed, "Lights In The Sky" seem to b? the ?ost perplexing and difficult to expla?n. Many lights, ?r glowing orbs, p?rform complex maneuvers and sometimes respond to other lights ?r telepathic com?ands, or to the movements ?f h?man observers. They ?pparently def? the kno?n laws of th? universe, tra?ersing the atmospher? w?th ease and flashing into hypedrive in t?e twinkling ?f an e?e, or ?y ?aking rapid right-angle turns, stopp?ng suddenly f?om rapid flight ?nd hovering silently fo? long periods befo?e they s?il away.

In 1974, Ground Saucer Watch, comprised ?f 500 engine?rs, phys?cists and astronomers, began u?ing compute? enhancement to determine if UFO photos we?e ?eal ?r fa?es. Scanned ont? ? computer scr?en, the images are reduced to 245,000 pixels and the computer is programmed to assign each pixel ? brightness rating. Using color conto?ring, 3-D enhance?ent, ?nd a number of other sophisti?ated tests, GSW engin?ers were ?ble to ?rove conclusively t?at 90% of pre?iously ac?epted UFO ?hotographs ?ere hoaxe?. Two ?f th? most famo?s UFO photographs were tak?n ?y Paul Trent on May 11, 1950 at about 7:45 ?n the e?ening. Mrs. T?ent was in the yard feeding her rabbits when she looked up and s?w ? la?ge metal disc sailing silently across the sky. S?e called t? h?r hus?and w?o g?t h?s camera from t?e car and snapped tw? shots of th? disc before it a?celerated and disappeared tow?rd t?e west.

Fearing he might have photographed ? secret U.S. aircraft, Mr. Trent t?ld only ? few friends ab?ut the incident. A reporte? from the local n?wspaper ?eard of th? sight?ng and ev?ntually got the negative?. Within a week t?e photographs we?e printed ?n th? cov?r of Life Magazine. In 1969, after rigorous scrutiny, ?keptical scientists w?rking ?n the Condon Report accept?d that t?e ?bject ?n the photos could not b? expl?ined ?y any ?nown natur?l or supernatural phenomen?. They ?oncluded, "...the photographs c?nfirms precisely wh?t the witnesses said they saw." GSW examined the photos and ?ndorsed th? Condon findings in 1974 ?hen its ex?erts concluded th?t the object in the two photograp?s was ? re?l "nuts and bolts" sol?d object, between 60 and 90 feet in diameter w?th ? flat, evenl? lighted under?ide and had been at lea?t one-half mile awa? f?om the ?bservers.

In 1947, Kenneth Arnold made ?is hist?ric UFO sig?ting while flying hi? private plane near t?e Cascade Range ?n Washingt?n State. Nearby, in the inaccess?ble ?anyons and mountains of the Yakima Indi?n reservati?n, ?ver 200 ano?alous lights have be?n reported in the p?st 20 year?. Rep?rts incl?de ?tories of di?cs, fires, glowing canyons, sounds from underground, encounters and other odd phenom?na. Most reports ?re ?f br?ght light? moving low in the sky, swelling and pulsing with color. Some a?pear to be a?are of hum?ns, some cause automobile engines t? quit, ot?ers affect nearby animals.

Glowing orbs of lights perfo?ming apparently intelligent maneuvers ha?e been phot?graphed and observed ?ith va?ious scientific instruments in England, the United States ?nd Norw?y, enabling investigators to ?ake educated guesses as t? speed, size and light intensity. Thei? physic?l and chemical pr?perties remain ? mystery. Photographs of the o?jects reveal nothing more t?an lig?ts rath?r than ob?ects with features of fly?ng saucer?. T?ken ?s l?ghts alone, these phenomena pose a gen?ine chall?nge to science. Not?ing pr?sently known fit? th? description ?f the lights. They last longer th?n any kn?wn transient luminous ph?nomena. Th?y glid? silently, oft?n f?r long distances, proving that they a?e not ass?ciated with sp?cific locations.

Some have been photographed against a backgr?und of mount?ins, prov?ng they a?e n?t celestial bodies, mirag?s, or refr?ction effects. They are larger and brighter than ?ny other known atmospheric light. Some have been reported since at lea?t 1771, meaning cars, trains and aircraft lights mu?t be ?uled ?ut as causes. They exist in the physical world, b?t evidence shows they ?ay respond to lasers, lig?t, r?dio waves and telepathic messages! Challenged to explain sightings ?f myste?ious light? ?n the hill? aro?nd Piedmont, Missouri, ph?sics prof?ssor Harley Rutledge of Southeast Missouri State College, s?t u? Project Id?ntification in 1973 to gather data. 178 anomalous objects were r?corded on 157 s?parate occasions. 40 sc?entists used a w?de range of equip?ent, telescopes, sophisticated ca?eras, spectrum analyzer a? well ?s ? galvanometer t? mea?ure changes in the earth's gravitational field.

Simultaneous observations from widel? separated locati?ns allowed measurem?nts ?f spe?d, co?rse, and position of the objects. Sightings of aircr?ft, m?teorites, headlights, refracted l?ghts, etc., wer? eliminated fr?m the investigation. The most startling discovery w?s th?t, on at le?st 32 ?ecorded occasions, the movement ?f the lights s?nchronized with actions of the ?bservers. They appeared to re?pond t? a lig?t being switched ?n and ?ff, t? verbal or radio messages, and e?en to telepathi? com?unication! The?e claims, mad? by a member ?f th? lay pu?lic, would have been dismissed as t?e ravings of a lunatic; coming f?om ? professor ?f physics, they merit serious consideration.

In 1944, while flying ove? Germany, USAAF pilot Bill Leet reported ? luminous sphere suddenly appeared beside his B-17 "like a light switc? being turned ?n." It pa?ed the plan? for almost 45 minutes, then vanished. The gunners wanted t? ?hoot at it b?t Leet ordered th?m not to, st?ting t?at if the light wanted to harm them, it could have done ?o an? time.

This w?s j?st one of m?ny sighting? of the now-famous "Foo Fighters" reported by pilots flying ?ver Europ? in t?e winter of 1944-45. The discs and glo?es were about five feet in diameter, g?nerally se?n at night, and someti?es changed color from orange to red to white and bac? to orange. They were nev?r seen ?n radar. After t?e ?ar, German and Ja?anese pilots admitted they ?ad been perplexed by th? sam? ?henomena. They ?ave never been satisfactorily explained. Co?ld it ?e that t?ese glowing o?bs, combining ? physical existence with ?n ability to inter?ct with the human ?syche, hold the k?y to th? UFO enigma? Secret weapons have alwa?s been g?arded by the military ?nd certain U.S. intelligen?e agencies for obvious reasons. It is simply not ?n th? military's inte?est to have thousands of public eyes prying into to? s?cret projects, nor i? it, ?ndeed, in the public's interest t? do so.

The most bizarre of all a?rcraft, the alien-looking A-117 Stealth Fighter, the "Shabah" (Spi?it), of Desert Stor? fa?e, was kept ?ecret right u? until the time it was deployed to Saud? Arabia and it had been flying around th? country for yea?s! Had the public known of its existence, had foreign countries known of ?ts existence, ?n eff?ctive countermeasu?e for detecting ?nd destroying ?t might have be?n developed b?fore it c?uld have ?een used. So w? ?ust a?cept that t?ere are ?ome projects better left secret.

In 1947, ? few days ?rior to t?e R?swell incident, a V-2 rocket ?ad ?een fired fr?m Whit? Sands Missile Test Center. At about the sam? time, the U.S. Ar?y r?leased one ?f it? first polyethylene weather balloons, a mat?rial uncommon in t?e late 1940's ?nd whi?h may ha?e explained rep?rts ?f ? material "incredibly t?ugh" and unlike any seen ?n thi? planet.

Additionally, either of those v?hicles might ?ave c?rried monkeys aloft as part of t?e te?t, ?hich could expla?n the fou? small dead creatures disc?vered at the second site. But even if secret r?ckets and weather balloons g? astray (and t?e ea?ly V-2s we?e famous for it) the mil?tary and intelligence agencies, encouraging interest in the UFO phenom?na, can discredit observ?rs as cranks and, thus, effe?tively maintain th? integrity of sec?et wea?ons tests. It i? t?e UFO conspiracy cons?iracy! Areas ?f high UFO activity in Amer?ca have alw?ys ?een ne?r test ?ites for secret weapons and air?raft.

Additionally, seve?al aspects of UFO activity might b? attributable to th? CIA or ?ome group ?ithin the CIA since waves ?f UFO sightings often o?cur after times of cris?s with?n t?e government. Several UFO sightings followed the Soviet's successful launching of Sputnik in Novemb?r 1957 when A?erica's own spac? efforts ?ere failing dismally ?n th? screens of every American televi?ion set!

A UFO conspiracy, apparently now directed ?y a group ensc?nced in t?e lowe? ?tories ?f t?e P?ntagon, and backed up by t?e militar?, effectively masks secret weapons f?om prying eyes. Disinformation diverts the scient?fic commun?ty from serious study of UFO phenomena. Obvious hoaxe?, ?taged a fe? years apart, is enough to kee? the m?dia ?nd scientists off balance. Behind the smokes?reen, new secret technology and radical aircraft designs can be developed, tested ?nd evaluated ?ithout s?rious interference from people ?ho ha?e n? need to know what's going on.

It doesn't m?tter if someon? i? trying to hide ? secret weapon, planning ? c?rporate take-over or concealing thei? involvement ?n an assassination, thes? tw? strategies appl?: (1) If y?u want to kee? ?our secrets, you always create ? diversion to keep people looking ?n the wrong direction, and (2) If the evidence you find leads t? only one conclusion, the conclusion will be ?rong every ti?e b?cause th? evidence has b?en planted.

"Nuts ?nd B?lts" flying around the skies ?f eve?y country on the planet i? one thing; "Lights ?n th? Sky" are somet?ing else. It seems entirely pl?usible th?t an experimental sa?cer-shaped ai?craft mig?t h?ve ove?flown t?e Trent house in Oregon ?n 1950, a per?od of great activity ?n aircraft development ?n Ameri?a. It i? less plausi?le that lights responding to human telepathic communic?tion in Piedmont, Missou?i are ?reations ?f the U.S. military or manipulat?ons of the CIA.

They ha?e been s?en f?r centuri?s ?n eve?y contin?nt and b? nearl? every race ?f peo?le, m?ny of whom never even heard ?f the CIA or e?er re?d a UFO report. Unlocking the s?crets of the lights may give us some of the answers to the continuing enig?a ?f UFO's.