UFO Crash at Aztec (Full Text)/PREFACE

PREFACE

qhe subject of crashed UFOs and their possible recovery has been one jong texm mystery piquing the curiosity of researchers; and laymen as yell, Since the very beginning of the public awakening to this strange

in 1947 with the Kenneth Arnold story and its subsequent coining of the term "Flying Saucers".

But that was not the first awareness at government level, nor was the Maury Island case in Puget Sound, about the same time, the first evidence of UFOs in distress. That was an example of a UFO in distress peing "saved" by its sister ships in full view of ground observers yo were showered with pieces of metal ejecta that fell froma large do-nut-shaped flying vehicle that was slowly drifting down as it was aided by the other identical vehicles. The falling fragments of metal injured ground observers, punctured boats, and killed one fisherman's Gog. Amold was even called in by the news media for consultation. ~

We got our first view of official obfuscation of facts, intimidation of witnesses, and suppression of evidence in the handling of that event, and it has gone on ever since.

Fortunately, that did not result in a crashed UFO, but the worst has also happened, even in this country, since then, and its handling in- volved the direct intervention of same of the biggest officials in out country.

There was a time in the late 1940s when several disc-shaped craft of unknown origen went out of control and crashed here in these United States.

This account is about one of those incidents in the western U.S.A., when four such unknown and unidentified flying vehicles reportedly came down within a few months of each other, and some only days apart:

One near Roswell, New Mexico

One near Aztec, New Mexico

One near Laredo, Texas

One in Paradise Valley, Arizona

The one that crashed near Roswell was reported extensively in "IHE ROSWELL INCIDENT" by Charles Berlitz and William Moore,

The original news of one or more of these crashes at that time was briefly reported by the Hearst Syndicate based on Dorothy Kilgallen's uivestigations, and was picked up by Walter Winchell in New York and Frank Edwards in Washington. Frank Scully in the west, discovering an- Sther source, tock up a more systematic pursuit of the story and con- tacted several principal figures in the drama. He published his report An a special book on the matter titled "BEHIND THE FLYING SAUCERS".

Scully's report revolved around a mysterious Mr. "G" who was appar- ently involved in a U.S. Government contract of same kind in attempt—

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ing to determine the source of power in these mysterious vehicles. The Mystery Lecture at Denver University centered around the findings of this unidentified Mr. "G" and his investigations.

All of this still lacked reality to me in a personal sense, and was just an interesting story until in 1979 when I was investigating a UFO abduction case in Charleston, South Carolina, involving a then UFO sceptic, a "bom again christian" in his Baptist faith, who thought he was observing a new U.S. Navy aircraft under test, because of the proximity to a Naval Base, which he had cbserved a mmber of times and had even photographed twice.

Still thinking it was a new Government test project, he took his photos to authorities, who wanted them bad enough to go to exceptional measures to get them, and then branded the witness a “nut" and a psy- chopath. The local newspaper printed this man's story in a "tongue-in- cheek" offhanded way, in a single colum, short item on an inside page of the local daily, and right next to it they ran a two-colum wide twice as big article in a box, by a University Professor, debunking the ridiculous idea of UFOs and all the psychopaths who see them.

Three months after the second set of color photographs were made, this witness was involuntarily abducted from a point only a few hun- dred feet from his house, and taken aboard the same ship he had pho- tographed. He was transported aboard in a coherent beam of light, and was carried away for over an hour. During that absence he was physi- cally and mentally examined, and then was given a tour of the ship during which some "discussion" took place.

In that discussion, among other things, reference was made to a sim- ilar earlier abduction from his area, and another that took place some 18 years before that, in another part of the country, which got too much attention and caused some problems in subsequent operations.

Then in a discussion as to why they did not pick sameone in author- ity for their contact, his "guide" explained that they (the Els) had lost some ships here earlier, and at first believed the craft had gone gut of control and crashed due to hostile action. A meeting of their "Network" was even convened to decide on what fom a retaliation should take. But their more careful examination of the problem revealed a dangerous ray being transmitted from a certain area in the westem part of the Country in a continuous revolving sweep that was affecting circuits in their on-board computer systems and causing them to fail when the ships came too close to this area. They lost several ships before the cause was discovered and they designed a protective screen.

(It was about this time that a new 200 mile sweep area control radar of super-power was put into experimental use for cross country Air Traffic Control. This first one was installed on a mountain top in the

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Four-cormers Area: Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Qblorado, but its radiations were found so dangerous that it was de-conmissioned until a safer version was ready.)

Once satisfied that the action was unintentional, and not directed at them, they attempted an official contact and narrowly avoided in- jury to the attackers seeking to capture them. They then ruled out such attempts because of the high risk of injury —- not so mich to them (who were well protected), but to those who would be attacking, and they opted for the isolated secretive contacts until we came to out senses.

Now this whole crash scene began to take on new significance to me.

I had been coordinating sone information with Dr. James McDonald a Professor in the Atmospheric Physics Department at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and helped provide him with same recent case infor- mation he could use to find out for himself that Project Bluebook was

different from the earlier projects, and was not being given certain.

cases. Then as an afterthought, since he was going to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base anyway, we asked him to try to find out what happened to the Project Grudge/Bluebook Report No. 13. We had No. 1 through No. 12 and Nb. 14 had been released. The story being put out was that there was no Report No. 13, but having been in the service 23 years, I knew they did not skip numbers for mo good reason. Then we picked up rumors that a Nob. 13 had been prepared but, upon the order of some- one higher-up had been recalled and destroyed immediately after dis- tribution had begun. This made more sense, but we had never been able to verify this. Jim did find one man who said he knew that it had been prepared. But why destroy it???

McDonald also found that Project Bluebook was not getting a lot of Reports, including the test cases that he was carrying (which he had verified for himself), and that some reports that had gotten there one time disappeared later. This worried him.

Fe chased his developing theories all the way to Washington and the Pentagon, and found that though he got some answers, his objective was getting bigger and bigger. He returned to ‘lucson and “ammitted sui- cide".

Bs I was working on "UFO CONTACT FROM RETICULUM", a book on that single case, a man who had become aware of my search for evidence of the mythical late 40's crashes to back up the statements made to the Charleston witness by his extraterrestrial abductors, came to my hane to tell me that he had reviewed narrative material on those crashes, and that it included photographes of the damaged ships, ship residue, and bodies of the occupants, and he had seen these in a Project Gmadge Special Report No. 13, which had come out of an intercepted courier's pouche in Europe (where he worked). That Report had been annotated

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and updated along the margins by somebody, and was on its way to an east Bloc Country.

That man, who was an "intelligence analyst", said he was fired from his job two weeks after processing the document and was returned to the United States "Persona Non-Grata" so he could never go back.

While he was being mustered out at Fort Dix, New Jersey, his immed- jate supervisor at that post, an office Staff Sergeant who had recei- ved the report from the first man, arrived from the same overseas post also fired from his job and retumed “Persona Non-Grata". A short time later they learned that that Post Commander had also been removed from his job and sent back under stigna. The one thing in common was that they all handled the Report No. 13!

Tt appears that they have all "passed-on" now, and so are no longer vulnerable by these revelations. As a matter of peculiar fact, the mortality rate among persons involved in UFO mttters has been unusual- ly high, which raises some other interesting questions.

We don't know the significance of this at this point, but are con- vinced that with enough light on this subject, something may come out. Tf in fact UFOs do not exist, we may rest assured that we are not in any danger from then. If they do really exist after all the official denials, then we are being officially lied to and my also be in dan- ger, if not from the operators of these craft, then for investigating the reality being suppressed.

This is our motive in considering publication here of a little mre of this massive mystery, in this book. If you have any information that may further contribute to a resolution of the facts in this case, we welcome your contact.

We undertake this report with no inconsiderable amount of trepida- tion, realizing at the outset that we may be isolated from our fellow researchers because they did not have the evidence first, or are not prepared to release it if they do. We will be attacked by a few out of jealousy, but most of all we will become the objects of wrath and tar- gets for discrediting (which we assure you can be quite effective) by the many various agencies of disinformation used by official as well as covert levels to do the "dirty work".

This includes first and foremst, the exploitation of jealousies through the very effective use, wittingly or unwittingly, of UFO Clubs and Study Groups, UFO research agencies and senior UFO figures, to discover and spread unfounded numors and outright falsehoods.

We are not the first, however, as the list preceeding us is long and illustrious. Witness Silas M. Newton, Richard E. Gebauer, Wilbert B. Smith, Frank Scully, Frank Hiwards, Admiral James V. Forrestal, Capt. Hiward J. Ruppelt, and there are many more.

Most of these gentlemen have been unduely cast in unfavorable light

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to cloak whatever they may have said, or could have said in qood faith, with an aura of suspicion and outright distrust. Same were even bran- ded outright liars, and that in itself is one of the few real false- hoods in the story we are about to tell.

I myself (WS) first heard of Silas M. Newton and his interests in UFO investigations and crashed discs through the late Harry Meyers Sr. last of Grass Valley, Galiformia. Meyers, at the time that I met him in 1958 was investigating the Solar Cross contacts coming through Mr. Richard Miller who had developed as a psychic voice channel for the same group of Space Brothers who were commmicating through George Hunt Williamson (described in STAR WARDS by Richard Miller and also in OTHER TONGUES, OTHER FLESH by G.H. Williamson). I was personally in- vestigating the Miller contacts at the same time as Mr. Meyers, al- though Meyers had already been following them for some time for his employer. Meyers had been working for the Los Angeles Times as a con- sultant on psychic and unusual phenomena when he first encountered the crashed disc story through Dorothy Kilgallen (a freelance reporter for , the Hearst Syndicate) who first reported to them on the crashed discs. Dorothy Kilgallen also knew Silas M. Newton and had discussed her own newly discovered leads and evidence of the recovery of the crashed discs by U.S. Military vehicles. She received some backing and support by Newton who was modestly wealthy at the time. But by strange coinci- dence Newton was already familiar with part of one story through his friend and collaborator in oil prospecting research based on magnetic fields, one Mr. Leo A. GeBauer, a physical scientist specialized in magnetics, who also just happened to know one of the research consul- tants called in by the U.S. Government to examine the crashed discs. Harry Meyers met Newton when he was verifying the story for the Los Angeles Times — and having many interests in common, they became very good friends.

Newton joined Meyers in interrogating the Space Brothers through Richard Miller about the crashes — which those entities verified and alleged that same crash residue had been taken to Wright Field, and was held in a big red brick building at the far southwest end of the Wright Field Flight Line. Qn a layout map of that base they picked out building number 18! Upon further interrogation they said that the par- ticular crashes under inquiry occurred because a certain kind of ra- dicelectric beam had damaged the control systems of several such ex- traterrestrial ships. This same cause was reported, unsolicited, to William Bermmann in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1979 (see UFO CON- TACT FROM RETICULUM, 1981, by Stevens and Herrmann) who was a non- believer in UFOs, not interested in the subject, and never heard of the Solar Cross Group, or of any crashed UFOs.

But back to Kilgallen who was now heavily into the "big story" and

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coordinating as well with Newton, through whan she met one man who alledged that he had inspected three of the four crashed discs under government orders, examining them from a magnetics engineer's point of

iew. These are presumably the four mentioned in the beginning of this statement, which may have been the only ones posessed up to that time.

Kilgallen's investigations led her to identify 5-Star General George C. Marshall, then U.S. Secretary of State (father of this country's Marshall Plan) with these crashed discs, as he tumed up several times in her investigations. Kilgallen was the one who passed the lead on the crashed discs to Walter Winchell in New York and Frank Edwards in Washington. (Their brief release was in both cases immediately sup-~ pressed.) But she was also among those who passed infommation on to other researchers into this exotic aspect of this phenomenon and was careful about respecting confidences. Kilgallen never really let go of this story, and never released all the details to anybody. Me has to wonder why! Was she going to write a book? Was somebody controlling her or at least threatening or intimidating her? Shortly after that English Air Marshall Lord Dowding (a close associate of General George C. Marshall during World War II) revealed to her that Marshall was in- deed the man who supervised the UFO crash recoveries -- including one in northern Mexico, where Marshall telephoned the Mexican Goverrment at night, advising that one of our missile tests had gone out of con- trol and landed in Mexico, and obtained permission for immediate re- covery with U.S. Army equipment — which Marshall was reported to have supervised personally.

So here was one of the mst interesting developments of all. It was the Department of State that was calling the shots on Goverrment UFO activity! The Military was only an instrument of the State Department, and the various military activities involved were kept carefully con- partmented so that none of them ever had the whole story. That was why it couldn't be put together. Each agency -- Military, Civilian Qon- tractors, Gonsultants, all had only fragnentary parts of the project which were kept separate at the lower levels. Intelligence never had the ball either. They were also an instrument of State in this respect and only carried out assigned tasks, but they were more involved than any military branch. This also accounts for the intimate intergovern- mental cooperation on UFO matters, which has always seemed surprising.

Tt wasn't long after these discoveries that Dorothy Kilgallen mys- teriously suffered a premature death, and her files on this subject "disappeared"!

But back to the association that developed between Harry Meyers and Si Newton over their common interests. Newton was being kept informed by Kilgallen, his friend Mr. "G." and Frank Sculley, who was now con- ducting his owm investigations to verify facts in the case. They by

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now were acquainted and knew Mr. "G.", a key figure in this case be- cause he was apparently the only one of them who had actually seen the crashed discs. Mr. "G." reported that he had inspected crashed discs, circular vehicles, at Roswell, New Mexico; an Arizona desert and Aztec, New Mexico, all of which figure in other reports unknown to Mr. "G.". The association in common interest of these several people con- tinued until all of their later bodily deaths as they all shared a “secret" that each was obliged one way or another to keep. Sy Newton and Leo GeBauer were popularly discredited by unwarranted and unfair court cases designed to make them look like “con-artists" and cheap frauds. Frank Scully died leaving this UFO monument before he saw any second manuscript on these cases published.

Mr. Meyers' descriptions of the Silas Newton he knew sound very mich like that of Harold Sherman as reported by Dr. Berthold E. Schwarz in UFO DYNAMICS, Book II, pages 532 to 541. The following excerpts are considered significant:

"A psychiatrist is sometines in a privileged position to hear rice! what is going on behind the scenes in connection with sensitive mat- ters, including the varigated "people" complexities of UFOs. In this connection, mention might be made of something disquieting that should not be ignored. Frank Scully's highly successful BEHIND THE FLYING SAUCERS was published in 1950, but it was soon discredited (APRO Bul- letin, Vol 23, Jan-Feb 1975). Scully claimed that a saucer had crashed in Aztec, New Mexico in 1948 and that Silas M. Newton, a successful geophysicist, businessman and oil millionaire had described three wrecked craft with their dead crews who were observed by scientists friends of his. Newton detailed this and additional information in an anonymously delivered lecture at the University of Denver on March 8, 1950. Possibly, as a consequence of his statements Newton suffered protracted harrassment, and in an audiotaped lecture on April 20, 1969, entitled 'Same Implications of Space Ships and Space Gommand', he told a small group of individuals in Denver that: 'I find it diffi- cult to talk about this phase to any extent because of the memory of the grief I experienced through attempts to force me, by different means and methods, to disclose the source of the information that I had received from time to time.’ I (BES) personally would never have paid mich attention to this apparently wild tale, except for two events. By synchronicity or coincidence, I had met a young man in Cincinnati in 1971 who was an expert in laser physics and whose father was a prominent surgeon who supposedly was told by a colleaque how he had actually seen preserved specimens of the Newton (?) ufonauts at Wright-Patterson Air Firce Base [formerly named Wright Field - wos]. Dayton, Chio. Unfortunately the infomnant and also, through intermed- ijaries, his father, refused to say anything further on this delicate

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subject. (Was the informant Dr. E.H. Wang, ...or Fritz A. Werner?)

"In New York City in 1972 I met Harold Shennan, the renouned parag- nest, psychic investigator, and author of more than 90 books, who is also the founder and Board Chairman of the ESP Research Associates Foundation of Little Rock, Arkansas. I had corresponded with Shennan years earlier in connection with my researches on the nonagenarian, but youthful-appearing paragnost Jacques Romano. At that time I also had interviewed the well-known internist-researcher, Seymour S. Wande- man, M.D., who was Sherman's personal physician, and the late Leslie F. Egbert, a close friend of mine who had also known Harold Sherman since the 1920s. Therefore when, during our last meeting, I told him about my UFO studies, Sherman confided to me about his friend Si New- ton and the crashed saucer occupants. My ears perked up because I had found Harold Sheman to be truthful and creditable. Among his many accomplishments throughout his more than half century career should be mentioned his outstanding experiments in telepathy between Sir Hu- bert Wilkins, who was 2,000 miles away in the Canadian Arctic, and Sherman, who was in New York...

“Recently the pioneer ufologist Leonard Stringfield, after years of painstaking interviewing and researches, published studies in which he carefully documented the evidence of the Aztec, New Mexico landing and similar situations. Although various details of these cases were spor- adically published throughout the years, they had also been recently collected and reviewed by the scholarly polylinguist and ufologist Gordon Creighton in FLYING SAUCER REVIEW. My psychiatric footnote is to supplement this information with sane of Newton's interests and experiences that might not be so widely known and which happened subsequent to his becoming deeply involved with UFOs.

“Although I had pledged never to reveal Sherman's 1972 confidences to me, I asked him for a follow-up during our 1980 visit. Since Newton had died in the interim and Stringfield had stirred considerable in- terest in Newton and the subject, Sherman felt free to reaffirm what he had originally told me and to further dilate on matters in a tele- phone interview on May 31, 1980 between his wife Martha and himself in Arkansas, and myself in New Jersey. The Shermans met Silas Newton and his family through Frank Scully, who was a friend of many years stand- ing, and whom they implicitly trusted for his honesty and humanity: ‘A great human being, and an Irishman with a wonderful sense of humor ++-a unique experience in life to know his personality."

"In Newton's little-known audiotaped 1969 lecture he described how several workers and he had observed in 1947 a UFO sighting on his company's oil property in Wyoming. As a scientist he wondered how those objects could fly and how they were propelled. Following his awesome experience, Newton became acquainted with several high-ranking

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geophysicists who had actually seen downed craft and occupants, and according to Sherman, through the intervention of Wilbert Smith, elec- tronics expert and organizer of Project Magnet (1950-54, the official Canadian UFO study)* Newton later actually saw the humanoids himself.

“The Shermans were friends of Newton and his family for almost 30 years. Newton had been to the Sherman home in Arkansas on many occa- sions and they had been to his. The Shermans had visited locations where Newton had been drilling for oil, and Sherman recalled: ‘We didn't know how old he was until he died, when his wife told us. We thought he was in his 80s, but he was 102. Sometimes he used to give us a knowing lock and say, "I am older than you think, my friend."' And then the Shermans recalled: 'He would show us scrap books about things he had done at the tum of the century. He was fran Texas and had gone to Baylor and to Yale. He was the first All American Quarter- back and a four-sport man. At the Buming Tree Golf Club in Washing- ton, D.C., he once showed me (HS) a plaque with his name 'Silas Newton, Founder.’ He was one of the great golfers of all times and he taught Bobby Jones how to putt. Jones named one of his children after Si.' ‘Though the Shermans had met some of the most extraordinary people in the world of then, throughout Mr. Sherman's long exciting career, they said that they never met anyone like Si Newton. Although Newton was a highly creative man with deep interests in psychic matters, he never told Sherman about any possible personal psi experiences, except his relief from severe pain, presumably due to cervical arthritis by a Phillipines surgeon.

"\..Sherman recalled how Newton had invented an instrument that would measure the vortices of different areas of the earth, and he had actually seen the instrument in operation. For example, when staying with the Shemans in Arkansas, Newton once commented: ‘You've got one of the strongest magnetic vortices I have ever lived in. Nb wonder you can perform [your paragnostic feats) .'

“The Shermans recalled that Newton was a vegetarian for many years and that he neither drank alcoholic beverages nor smoked, He did not use drugs, and to the best of their knowledge, Newton had never been hospitalized for an emotional disorder. Newton was active until near the end of his long life, and besides being a great sportsman, he had made 50 million dollars in the oil business which he lost in the depression of 1929. However he regained large sums of money in various wildcat adventures through the years. Sherman believed that

• In 1950 Smith reported to the Canadian Government that "...The matter

of UFOs is the most highly classified subject in the U.S. Government, rating higher even than the H-bomb." (UFO Investigator, NICAP, Vol, 11 (No. 203, Feb., 1980),

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perhaps a disgruntled investor, who had sued Newton in later life, might have been used by official interests to discredit Newton because of his comments about UFO matters. Sherman continued: ‘Newton believed in inhabited planets and space people, He predicted that the time was coming when they were going to make contact with us and he thought they were concerned about the human race. His way of putting it was, ‘They care about the damn fool human creatures that are going to be sorry because they keep exploding these atomic bombs.‘ Sherman went on: 'I don't remember Newton discussing religion but he had a deep~ rooted philosophy. He believed in the Great Creator, so far beyond the localized concepts of God here. An altogether extraordinary person (Newton) who probably was misunderstood in many fields, but he had an awful lot to him."

‘Twelve years after BEHIND THE FLYING SAUCERS Frank Scully devoted one chapter (Chapter 18) in his new manuscript on another subject ti- tled IN ARMOUR BRIGHT, to his problems that came from writing his first and last book on UFOs.

In that chapter he described his first meeting with Silas Newton in 1944, and characterized him pretty much as Harold Shennan and Harry Myers have done. The two remained friends ever after. Newton was the man who first told Scully, over lunch at the Sportsman's Lodge in San Fernando Valley (Los Angeles) about his scientific friends (he moved among the most prestigious) having been called in by the Defense De- partment to examine a grounded flying disc near Aztec, New Mexico. In seventy two days they collected enough information for Scully's book.

One evening after a talk in Glendale, California, a man came up to Scully and told him he had worked on a grounded disc-shaped craft. A bank president also attending the lecture that night provided the man's name and said that the man was a civilian specialist working for Army Ordnance. (This fit perfectly in the pattern of events un- folding because in those days a crashed military or unidentified air- plane was always approached by an Amny Ordnance specialist first, to disarm any weapons or explosive charges it might be carrying.)

After reestablishing contact with that witness, Scully saw his first example of the "silencing" treatment, and just how effective it could be. Military officers in that District started a campaign to defame Scully and his associates.

Scully got his first look at a real UFO when two Hollywood cameramen working on Malholland Drive shot same footage over Hollywood and suc- cessfully filmed movies of a flying object that moved in from the left and tumed and ran south, parallel to some high tension wires, made a 180° tum and went west, back towards Nichols Canyon. The flying ob- ject looked like a Mexican hat. When It speeded up it became almost transparent. When it slowed down it became solid again. Skilled studio

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technicians studied the film exhaustively but were unable to figure out a way this could be faked.

The studio and camera men dutifully tumed their valuable film over to Air Force Intelligence (another coups for them). Neither the studio nor the cameramen ever heard of that film again, and all efforts to get it retumed failed. But this was the mst authentic motion picture sequence of a UFO up to that time.

(ne of the early, less scrupulous writers, trying to take over the case from Scully, came to him one time and tried to buy it for $3,000. Scully declined, and that writer then became antagonistic and attacked the case and Scully in a very underhanded way (this is still going on).

But before that man's antagonistic article was on the newsstand, Scully released a statement to the press in which he revealed a number of things involved that he was sure would not be mentioned in that denigrating article. Among other things, that Press Release said:

“Fron time to time some character, publication, or Pentagonian sto-- oge breaks out with an "expose" of BEHIND THE FLYING SAUCERS, a book I wrote which, since 1950, has gone around the world in various trans- lations.

"The most recent attempt is in the September 1952 issue of a maga- zine published in New York. It will be on the Los Angeles newsstands August 20. The magazine is edited by a character who was demoted fron Publisher to editor a few years ago and now divides his time between his editorial desk and peddling automobiles. (That was TRUE magazine)

"He writes that he offered me $25,000 for the proof of the story two years ago. He actually offered me $3,000 for the story, agreed to ad- vance $1,000 for expenses, and finally settled for $12.50. That is quite a discount. I then sold the story to Holt, and the book's subse- quent success seemingly has consumed the magazine editor with frustra- tion and envy, and the sort of indigestion that comes from having to eat old crow.

“Some time back the magazine editor received the manuscript of an unemployed San Francisco newspaperman. It attempted to discredit our BEHIND THE FLYING SAUCERS by belittling the private character and pro- fessional standing of two of the hundreds of authorities I cited in the book. In his account, the reporter is a self admitted thief. He Admits he stole one of the discs, reported to be from a flying saucer, from Mr. Silas Newton in a San Francisco hotel room. He goes into long details how he planned the larceny, which would be petty or grand, depending on the value of the discs, bat theft in any case...

"All I can say is that they announced in their table of contents that they were going to give the true story of the flying saucers and they mysterious little men, and in 25,000 words of character asassain-

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ation of big men never got around to the little men."

Scully wrote, "Though I have never written another book on the sub- ject I have know many of the amy of "experts" who have caused scores of books to be published on this mystery."

Yes indeed, we suggest that if Mr. Scully's critics had half the qualifications of his collaborators, we would know a whole lot more about this amazing story today.

We ask nobody to believe any of the statements we have made here simply because you have read them in this book. We have reported to the best of our ability exactly what we have found. We may err to some degree in our interpretation, but the evidence is there to be examined by all. You do not have to take our word for any of this. In fact we advocate disbelief until you have verified these things for yourself. We have pointed the way. We have conducted these investigations with private resources and strictly on our own initiative. We are convinced that anybody doing the same thing will find the same evidence. Be well prepared however, to face considerable highly organized interferrence, heavily funded, and with information sources and support completely beyond your ability to control. Be aware that there are dangers in this as well.

Though we do not have the hardware in our personal posession to show you in order to positively prove its existence, we have nevertheless interviewed others who have convinced us that they had personal and intimate contact with such proof, always carefully safeguarded from any kind of exhibition by the authorities in charge. Little of this evidence is in private hands.

We have collected the interviews and our infomation from the most widely disparate sources, mostly independent, and almost always com- pletely out of touch with all others telling similar stories. Same of them were convinced that they alone were the first and only ones wil- ling to let the world know what was really going on. They seldom knew of any other cases or that anyone else had already reported on these cases they were describing.

They were almost always aware of the danger they were in by reveal- ing what they knew, and only discussed details after being assured of complete anonymity. We have therefore had to withold same of these identifications for now, and simply offer their information for pos- sible corroboration, or refutation, by other separate information developed elsewhere through other witnesses.

You are free to choose to believe what you may prefer. You may just consider this all one big hoax if you feel better in so doing; or you may choose to accept our data with reservation, preferring to wait for more information before deciding, clearly the wiser course for

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all, because the one thing that is certain is that the truth eventu- ally will be known. Or you may agree with us, that this evidence is substantial and seek to evaluate what we have reported and how to proceed as we continue our search for more data.

We, for our part, have became convinced beyond all doubt that the situation is real and that UFOs have crashed on United States soil, and have been recovered and studied by scientists. We simply offer what we have collected through cur own sources to be compared with all other data similarly collected by others, notably Leonard String- field, who has specialized in this particular aspect of the UFO phen- q@menon for many years, and who probably could put out a mach more ex- tensive report on this subject if he chose to do so.

Where we differ is in this author's concentration on a single spec- tacular UFO crash and recovery case which has produced other evidence in the process leading to other similar situations already well doc- umented in Stringfield's files. An importnat consideration is the fact that many of our witnesses are different from his, and so we gladly add our evidence to his collection for greater exposition at some future time.

This therefore offers some degree of support to what he could say if he would, and tends to reinforce his position.

We have decided to lay the evidence out for all to see —- believing that the light of day will illuminate the truths here. We feel that the evidence is substantial and needs to be aired for public scrutiny now, relying on the inherent good judgement of intelligent people to ascertain the real facts as they exist.

[Note-- The "Mr. G" as used here indicates both Mr. Leo A. GeBauer individually and 8 other scientific contacts, referred to collectively under this pseudonym to protect their real identity. This was the plan originally used by Scully. We shall identify them in this work. --WS]

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