Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Shares What ‘Most People Don’t Know’ About Roswell UFO Crash
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This newspaper article had a military spokesperson saying the object was a UFO at first. This account was later corrected. (Image: Wikimedia)
Even if you don’t know the conspiratorial details surrounding the mysterious crash that occurred in the summer of 1947 in Roswell, New Mexico, you probably at least know there are some who believe it was a UFO now being covered up by the government.
One of them, a former Air Force Lt. Col., is speaking out saying not only was he ordered to debunk some of the findings surrounding the investigation he was involved in, but that there was more than one crash. Here’s what Richard French had to say about the case to the Huffington Post:
“There were actually two crashes at Roswell, which most people don’t know,” French told HuffPost. “The first one was shot down by an experimental U.S. airplane that was flying out of White Sands, N.M., and it shot what was effectively an electronic pulse-type weapon that disabled and took away all the controls of the UFO, and that’s why it crashed.”
French — an Air Force pilot who was in Alamagordo, N.M., in 1947, being tested in an altitude chamber, an annual requirement for rated officers — was very specific in how the military allegedly brought down what he believes was a spacecraft from another world.
“When they hit it with that electromagnetic pulse — bingo! — there goes all their electronics and, consequently, the UFO was uncontrollable,” said French, who flew hundreds of combat missions in Korea and Southeast Asia, and who held several positions working for Military Intelligence.
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French says he was told about the UFO “shootdown” by another military officer — a confidential source — from White Sands Proving Grounds, an area of the New Mexico desert where the U.S. military tested many weapons systems.
His source told French there was a second UFO crash near Roswell a few days after the first one.
“It was within a few miles of where the original crash was,” French said. “We think that the reason they were in there at that time was to try and recover parts and any survivors of the first crash. I’m [referring to] the people from outer space — the guys whose UFO it was.”
Watch this report from OpenMindsTV, a site that covers UFO news, (via Huffington Post) in which French speaks out:
In the above video, French again says that he was told to “debunk what we could in any way we could.”
Still, as one might expect, there are skeptics to French’s claims. The HuffPost reports retired Army Col. John Alexander, who viewed the Roswell documents, saying the technology in the 1940s would not have been sophisticated enough to do what French described:
“In the 1980s, I was the guy developing all of the pulse-power weapons systems. We couldn’t have done it then. In the 60s, they had a laser system, but your range was extremely limited, and we didn’t have operational laser weapons in that time frame,” said Alexander, who is working to get amnesty for military personnel who wish to talk about their UFO experiences.
Either way — government UFO cover-up or not — the object was deemed by military authorities as a high-altitude weather balloon, not a flying saucer.
The Huffington Post goes on to detail French’s credentials and the fact that he says it was part of his job to debunk UFO claims in many incidents outside of Roswell. Read more details about French’s account and the alleged Roswell cover-up here.
Check out this WDTN Channel 2 report out of Dayton, Ohio, investigating the Roswell incident and its connection with Wright Patterson Air Force Base:
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scrapadapolis
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:56pmObamas attempt to further the people of his background.And when I seen HuffPost I knew it was a dont look at obama we are changing the subject..
Report Post »TheArbiter
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 8:23amso should every single news story be about obama? that would be creepy
Report Post »Msgt Ret
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 9:35amYes, every news article should be about obama, his college records, birth certificate, unelected appointees, political donations for his election, tax records, (oops sorry he has never had a job so no tax records of any consequence) Just like it is for a Republican!
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 9:54amThere’s nothing amazing about technology speeding up throughout the 20th Century, and since there’s nothing new under the sun innovation is always there in the mix of life for the picking. I’d say in regards to the story that French told, that his squadron’s plane was shot down by the UFO, because they were going to shoot at the UFO. In 1947 I would say the only one who did any shooting down of anything was the UFO. Or surely they would have returned sooner. But it‘s a great story ’Then’ to make the world at the time believe the U.S may have a UFO. Germany had a flying-wing design airplane in the works during the WW2 era, so I’m not surprised by stealth aircraft. Yet still, maybe they happened upon an alien craft more recently. May the Force be with you, always.
Report Post »VRW Conspirator
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 10:54amdang it…stupid net..or maybe the secret government Eschilon computer blocked my posts…grrr…come and get me you toad monkies….grr….
German had the V-2, Flying Wing, and jet fighters in 1944….they were months away from nuclear weapons and launch technology that would level all Great Britian in a blink….there was an entire secret war starting in the late 1930′s in the USA and GBR to steal, kill, or capture defectors from the German war scientist ranks….they even had radar masking technology as well…..
this whole notion that it took the USA until the late 1970′s to build a Stealth Fighter…in a flying wing format by the way….is foolish…the problem is that radar and detection technology were advancing as fast as the Stealth technology was or faster….
could an EMP/Laser style weapon have been around in 1947…possible but unlikely….we barely knew how to contain an atomic bomb…let alone the EMP effects….the USA had Neutron Bomb tech in the 1970s however…all the damage to living material but no radiation after a few months and all the tech and infrastructure intact….makes you wonder why we don’t set one off in certain Middle East capitals, eh??
the more you learn and think about it…the Roswell incident was probably US work on Stealth Jets, Top secret aircraft, manned rocket flights…what..you think Kennedy just thought that up in 1961?? it goes back at least a decade before Kennedy…
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 11:18amI would like to see one article on Bill Clinton about his medical records. I want to see how many times he was treated for venereal disease & juxtapose that with the 60 Minutes interview with his wife saying what a great husband he was.
Report Post »muffythetuffy
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 11:37amObama is using radio waves to control people’s minds from his drowns. The Government is attempting to remove aluminum foil from the market but you can still get it in Dollar stores. Once you get some foil on you head, you can think straight.
Report Post »Ari Ben TZion
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 12:17pmSupport Chick-fil-A.
Close your Amazon account and ask others to do the same.
Put Amazon on the endangered species list.
Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bozo has pledged $2.5 Million dollars in support of same-sex marriage in retaliation to Dan Cathy.
Mr Bozo is willing to use his wallet to take a stand so let us do the same.
Report Post »BuzzardSays
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 5:43pmPhony-baloney plastic-banana. My bible does not talk about space aliens. Jesus came to save men, women, and children who are caught in the sin merry-go-round, not space-aliens with tentacles. The nearest space alien potential planet is so far away that it is impossible that they could get here to planet Earth in the period since God created the heavens and the earth some 6 to 10K years ago.
Roswell NM has secrets that if brought to light would still be ordinary and mundane kill your enemies type weapons systems, machinery, and methods. Oh what a beautiful day it will be when Jesus returns and we can dispense with the weapons of war.
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 6:01pm@MUFFY – I wish he’d drown.
Report Post »Thomas_Jefferson
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 10:45pmJust for argument sake, Lets say that a Extra Terrestrial ship did crash in Roswell NM & our government did recover the ship & survivors. Lets say that our government has been harvesting advance alien technology from the ship. Has anyone consider what would happen if our government admitted to it.
Report Post »Leaders from around the world would demand access to it. Can you imagine the problems this would cause. Consider Obama allowing Iran, North Korea & Venezuela to have unrestricted access to advance alien technology. That would be a disaster. If our government does have a recovered UFO, I say let them keep it a secret.
watersRpeople
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:50pmWhat if they shot one down more recently?
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 11:13amWhy do you ask? Are you trying to get home?
Report Post »pissantno.10
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 4:39pmthey wont let him back
Report Post »gena t
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 7:42amNot necessarily a UFO believer or nonbeliever. My first job, when I was 16, my supervisor was a woman in her 30s, who told me her husband had been assigned to guard a hanger at Roswell AFB in which a UFO was hidden. She had told me that back in 1962, I believe. That had been the first time I had heard the story about a UFO at Roswell. I just sorta dismissed it at the time. In 1967, one of my teachers at the Junior College I attended in San Antonio was a former Air Force officer who had been on a project to determine if there was any validity to UFO sightings. He said he totally disagreed with the final report that there had not been any valid sightings. He had told me there had been several reported sightings that seemed valid that had been studied by that group. I cannot remember the name of the study group. (long time ago) He had eventually gone on to received his PhD and worked at Ft Sam Houston until his retirement a few years ago. Seemed a very intelligent, knowledgeable man. I just don’t know enough to say yea or nay, but for that reason, keep an open mind on it. I do not believe Christianity contains any prohibition on believing that life might exist elsewhere.
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:44pmLet me get this straight. A couple little UFO’s traveled alone across the expansion of space with no mother ship near at the time to make the U.S pay for shooting down one of their ships? Or they haven’t come back for 60 years to make the U.S pay for capturing their ships?
Report Post »mark81150
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 9:19amThe whole story lacks any credibility.. We simply didn’t have that kind of technology then, and why, why shoot down an unknown aircraft/spacecraft type on sight?.. Fighter jocks are pretty wired, but they aren’t reckless, why fire on an unknown aircraft with a supposed experimental weapon, when as far as they knew, humans were flying it?
They would have pursued, observed, but not fired on unless ordered too.
and even if they suspected it was alien.. would any of you want to risk a war with aliens for no apparent reason than they breached our atmosphere close to a military base? and what are the odds, that aliens who would have been aware of our technology level, are taken down by a brand new technology which we wouldn’t have till decades later…
the whole story reeks..
Report Post »bertr
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 10:02amI’ve often wondered if the whole “UFO” thing was an intentionally created conspiracy for the airforce to divert attention away from anything they happen to be testing that accidently or intentionally gets seen.
Report Post »I mean they really don’t have to hide much, anything people see that’s strange, they assume is alien, and not the military. We can invade any countries airspace to look around or tinker and its not us. It’s just all very very convenient.
But who knows, based on what we have to go on(next to nothing) UFO’s could be almost anything from the unimaginable to the mundane
djsGA
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 10:27amThey have! Now you know why Obama’s records are sealed. :-)
Report Post »subic
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 11:01amSuch BS…there are no such thing as ufo’s & little green men from other galaxies!
Report Post »welovetheUSA
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 11:56amIts time………
Report Post »Krutch
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 11:56am@ mark
Report Post »At that time, the military may have thought the russians had ‘disk’ technology from captured NAZI factories. There was so much that the NAZIs’ had that was beyond our capabilities and not knowing how far ahead of us they actually were, there was some concern of what the russys had stolen. There was rumors of disk tech. and factories were found that had been stripped of equipment to the point that the purpose of the factory was not readilly known.
Our forces found the flying wing the Horton brothers had flown. One of the ‘wings’ was flyable and shipped to the USA. So there was every chance the russians had a disk and that technology. At least that was a possibility at that time.
GEEK_OMG
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 8:11pmI call BS on the article… We didn‘t have that kind of technology in those days and likely still don’t. Besides, wouldn’t you think ET would have already thought of the EMP as a threat and had an effective defense?
Report Post »autofixer
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:43pmRoswell is downwind of Whitesands missile range. In the late 40‘s and early 50’s there were many tests of high altitude ejection seat systems. They were flown to ultra-high altitude by ballon and the systems were deployed on a rotary that looks like a saucer. Each system had a small dummy, about 3/4 size of a normal man and there were 6 or 8 of these around the rotary (saucer). These systems were ‘top secret”, as they were to be used in our spy planes and high altitude bombers. If there was a malfunction of the ballon, guess where they would come down? That’s right, the Rosewell area. The saucer, little men and all. I know I will not convice the true believers, but that is what most likely happened and why the military came and cordoned off the area and confiscated the artifacts–top secret test beds. http://www.wsmr-history.org/HandsAcrossHistory-05-12.pdf
Report Post »as_mad_as_hell
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 12:08am@petehdo: to elaborate on your point, this is all hokum. First, everyone is up in arms about Harry Reid’s rumor-mongering re: Mitt Romney’s taxes, but many would probably find this second-hand account of a magic “pulse weapon” shooting down an ET’s ship credible (primarily because they want to). Second, as you so capably insinuate, effective travel across great distances in outer space is virtually IMPOSSIBLE. Of course, there are those who surmise that an alien race would be so “advanced” that they could bend the time-space continuum and pass through wormholes or whatnot, but I think that is highly, highly unlikely. I recently read some articles that suggest alien spaceship sightings are the work of Satan, whose goal is to instill doubt about God’s existence — a theory that, at least to a God-fearing Christian like me, seems as plausible as any. Finally — and pardon me if I’m picking nits — but any flying object is a UFO till it’s identified, no?
Report Post »eagle2715
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 10:09am“effective travel across great distances in outer space is virtually IMPOSSIBLE”
I don’t disagree with what your getting at, as I don‘t think little green men with intersteller spacecraft would be able to be ’shot down’ by anything we even have today… But…
600 years ago sailing around the world was IMPOSSIBLE… 200 years ago powered flight was impossible…Who knows what impossible things we will be able to accomplish 200 years from now…
So just because were not capable of it, that doesn‘t mean others who are more advanced couldn’t be…Assuming there are any out there to begin with…
Report Post »VRW Conspirator
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 11:10am@Mad and Eagle
here is my take on the issue…not that space travel in impossible…it isn’t…but without some type of artificial wormhole stabilization technology, folding space, or warp theory…it is COMPLETELY IMPROBABLE….
Report Post »the nearest star to Earth…not planet but star….is 4 years at Light Speed…one way..with time dialetion and all…a round trip for normal life would be 8 years but the planet you came from would advance nearly 80… Einstein’s Twin Paradox theory…who would think that would be worth it to study an ant-like race in comparison to yourself… NOBODY that was Intelligent…
NOW…the nearest planetary system to Earth of any type is MUCH more than 4 light years away… 10.5 or so..a Gas Giant…20.3 light years to a terrestrial planetary system…that is 1/5 the age of our solar system…kinda hard to be more advanced if you are on a planet 80% younger.. but still without the mentioned technologies for “faster than light travel”, a 40 year round trip for the alien would be 400 years on his planet…NOT worth it…
and even with a 40 year round trip…do you think all they would do it come down to drunk farmers and campers, steal some cows, make some crop circles, and float in the night sky flashing their lights??? Seriously?? You either come en mass to conquer and take over or you come for science to study and communicate…NOT float in the sky and blink your lights on and off for amusement….
Dougral Supports Israel
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:38pmIf an alien craft crashed at Roswell we would have had no chance of understanding it. Could people 100 years ago understood our tech? How many years ahead of us would be a species that could travel between the stars? Why would they fly their craft and crash them on the earth when they could watch us remotely without being detected? None of it makes sense at all.
Report Post »hayesstephen
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:48pmFunny so does your post. If there were parts of a U.F.O recovered sixty five years ago, we are still studying the thing. What people do not consider is that the first people on the scene were from the only Wing in the Air Force who were capable of carrying and deploying Atomic bombs to the enemy. They were the best of the best, the creme de la creme. They thought it was an alien craft. who am I to say they were Wrong?
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 7:53amIt’s about breeding with humans, simply watching won’t achieve their end.
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:37pmIf he really wanted to get his story out there it seems like French should be talking to someone instead of the Huffington Post.
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:33pmIt seems to me that back then the government very much so had a strangle hold on the media as much and even more than they do now.
Report Post »TexasHunter
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 1:35pmIF you really want people to take your points seriously put ALL your comments into ONE post!
Report Post »tomf
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:30pmradar can be used as an electromagnetic pulse weapon. It depends on the amount of power and shape of the beam. By the way Megawatt pulse radars were developed before the war.
Report Post »Redrivermma
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 12:32amWe mere humans are capable of doing what he is claiming, especially the US military. Many of the weapons systems that are developed and used in training, are not used in warfare… I don’t understand why, maybe political, but I witnessed weapon systems that could obliterate a battalion armor force very easily and quickly, deployed by artillery…yet isn’t used even in the recent campaigns. For some reason, we downplay the might of the US arsenal, instead focusing on stuff like drones and armor, (drones have been around for 20 years or more BTW). I also know that sophisticated energy pulse systems were very much a part of the arsenal in the 60′s especially for higher altitude use, so if White Sands were the deployment site in this supposed situation, then 10-12 years turnaround to unit field testing isn’t too unusual.
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:28pmI’m thinking back then it had more to do with psychological operations. Notice I said “Back then.”
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:22pmSometimes I think to myself, why would Reagan have wanted a weakened Soviet Union if there really was a credible space alien threat?
Report Post »Old_Warrior
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:16pmTesla coils have been around since 1891. (Thank you Nikola!) Building small Faraday cages around a plane’s internal electronics, with proper magnetic shielding, could have possibly allowed the USAF to rig a fighter Jet as a single giant ball of crackling ‘potential’ energy. Encountering a UFO that could hold the other end of a polar charge to close the circuit, would very much appear to be a directed energy weapon when the artificial bolts of energy would jump from the jet to the UFO. And yes, that high in the stratosphere going at faster than sound speeds, flying through the Earth’s magnetic field would generate an insane amount of potential energy electrical energy. So much focused in a small area, much like sunlight is focused through a magnifying glass, no amount of SPF would prevent the burn, just as no amount of counter measures against natural magnetic pulses in space and around planets can prevent seriously sustained lightning damage. I‘m not saying that’s what was used, but it makes the possibilities a little more plausible. Those guys in their R&D are smarter than I, and any of you, by leaps and bounds anyways. Who are we to say what they can pull off or not? ^_^
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:34pmNot being critical or any thing, but are you related to Pelosi? Interesting scenario but the plane would need to get like within a few feet of the UFO and I don’t think we were supersonic yet.
Report Post »Honestybefore truth
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 12:50amMaybe the pilot simply used the FORCE to bring down the U.F.O.
Report Post »Tayalynn
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:15pmWell, that explains where Harry Reid and Joe Biden came from.
Report Post »elimenopee
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:32pmFACT: Al Gore was born 9 months after Roswell.
Answers so many questions…
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:40pmInteresting, his dad hadn’t slept with his mom for 6 months before that, and she was known to be attracted to trolls. She did hang out under bridges…..I think you cracked the Gore theory, that’s why he believes in science fiction and ManBearPig.
Report Post »ssanda
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 12:46amEli,
You’re right. Al is 1/64 Cherokee Indian (just like Ms. Warren). I understand his Indian name at birth was “Crazed Sex Poodle”.
Report Post »Uranium Wedge
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 12:50amI’m super, super cereal.
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 12:58pm@NOHOPE I see you listened to Chuck Missler’s sermon.
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:10pmThough I really doubt Roswell ever happened, it is interesting to noet that a whole bunch of new technology came on the scene a couple years later.
Sort of makes one wonder…
Report Post »mark81150
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 9:28amRight after WW II< a lot of technology like jet engines were just coming online in 1947. A lot of new stuff designed to fight the Nazi's.. some joint programs with the Brits.. Hi-tech recovered from German bases, plus their engineers defecting to the US rather than risk a Russian internment camp..
Mostly why there was a big leap in technology during that period,.. a lot of research was done that only matured after the war.
Report Post »PeteHDO
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:08pmDo you UFO believers have any idea of time, distance, and speed involved in 1 light year? Quick, how many light years is the nearest star from planet earth?
Report Post »chips1
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:12pmSix, if you take the short cut.
Report Post »freeberty
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:13pmThanks Petehdo
I think a reporter was taking advantage of a very old confused man, the reason he had pulse on his mind was because he had just filled his diaper.
Report Post »dsind
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:13pm11 lt yrs?
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:16pmEven if I say: you’ll say I looked it up.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:18pmThe bianary star system of Alpha Centuri if I recall correctly is about 4.3 light years; at some 5.8 trillion miles per year. So for a spaceship to reach here at light speed, only if somehow they were advanced enough to find a way to bend or fold space-time could it reasonably be done, theoretically.
Sounds to me though that this Air Force Official has a book or film coming up on Roswell.
Either that or he has discovered why we wound up with Michael Moore and Nancy Pelosi on earth.
Report Post »Old_Warrior
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:18pm4 and a half. Alpha Centauri. Closest star system.
Report Post »JoeKing
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:19pmUh, 93M miles?
Report Post »flipper1073
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:25pmThat would be Alpha Centuri actually 3 stars
Report Post »Proxima being the closest at 4.22 light years
unless you’re doing a trick question then it would be the Sun.
93 million miles
elimenopee
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:38pmPer Wiki Answers:
“The sun is about 8.31 Light Minutes away from earth.”
That’s less time than it takes to get to our nearest Chic-Fil-A.
Report Post »PeteHDO
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:43pmGold star for Flipper.
Report Post »BOhastoGO
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:46pm5 if your wife is not navigating
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:57pmIf you knew the secrets of quantum entanglement, errr. I speak to much. Live long and prosper.
Report Post »old construction worker
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 12:03am“4 min,Captain, using warp speed 12 and a wormhole” Scotty
Report Post »flipper1073
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 12:09amI Like BOHASTOGO’s Answer Best LOL
Report Post »flipper1073
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 12:17amWho is this Pretty young Lady ELI
Report Post »Must be a Conservative
Pretty an Smart can’t be a Liberal
flipper1073
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 12:32amWait a minute I reread your Question
Report Post »I’m not a UFO believer
Although I like Eli’s Theory on the
origins an parentage of Al Gore.
Astronomy is just one of my Hobbies.
Meyvn
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 7:57amIf you have access to dimensions outside of length, width, height, and time it’s irrelevant.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 10:06amIf any civilization is even 100,000 years ahead of us, our present scientific knowledge would to them, be like rubbing 2 sticks together to start a fire. Just reflect on the scientific advances made just in the past 50 years. These beings would be so far advanced that we couldn’t even imagine the advances they have achieved. Wormholes, space warps and other quantum science would be grade school topics for their children. Travel across trillions of light years would be childs play to them.
I personally don’t know if these UFOs are real or not, having never seen one. There is, however, quite a body of evidence from many reliable sources that there is something strange going on. These sightings even were recorded in medeval times and artwork exists which was drawn by witnesses to these events.
Do aliens exist? Have we been visited? Does the government know more than they are telling us? Was there really a crash of a UFO at Roswell? All these questions remain unanswered but it is an interesting field of study. Keep an open mind – - – Remember early astronomers were burned at the stake for saying the Earth wasn’t the center of the universe and that everything seen in the sky revolved around it.
Report Post »Stratosaurus
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 10:13amAlpha Centauri is roughly 4.7 light-years (or ~28.2 TRILLION) miles from Sol. The fastest vehicle built by man is the Voyager module, traveling at 75,000 miles per hour.
The number of hours in an average year (365.25 days) is 8766. Speed is 75000 MPH.
Number of miles covered per year? 657,450,000. (6.5745 X 10 raised to the 8th power)
Distance to be covered? 28,200,000,000,000 (2.82 x 10 raised to the 13th power)
Simple math gives you the length of time needed to travel to Alpha Centauri.
2.82 +13/6.5745 +8 = 0.42892995 +5 or 4.2892995 +4 or 42892.995 YEARS, at current best speed. Let’s call it 43,000 years, in case they passengers want to stop for a burger.
Current string-theory physicists confirm the possibility of an Einstein-Rosen bridge (wormhole), but have yet to postulate how such a portal can be created, much less directed to a specific coordinate. Think sci-fi series “Farscape”.
Sol is ~10 BILLION light-years from center of the universe. This planet is ~4.5 billion years old. Is it possible that civilizations have risen and developed at or near this central point? The odds are close to 100%.
Look how rapidly this planet evolved tech-wise in 150 years. Now try to imagine a planet on which they have been evolving tech-wise for a BILLION years longer. Who could have predicted the growth of personal computers even forty years ago? I was in high-tech for most of my life, and I didn’t see it coming in 1972.
Who knows what others have don
Report Post »bertr
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 10:22amWe’re dealing with the unknown, there’s really no need to stick to travelers from other solar systems as the only answer when devling in complete speculation. They could be from the distant past, or future, another deminsion, have a base here or close in space, or they could be from some place that hasnt even been concieved by humanity yet, that would all be closer and perhaps much easier to traverse then deep space.
Report Post »Who knows what they are, but there‘s a lot more about the universe we live in that we’ll never know then we ever will
Mark13
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 11:09amNon-sequiter, your facts are uncoordinated!
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 5:06pmStrato, you are well versed in electronics. Just curious, I have heard AirForce1 is protected from EMP. Maybe a ferrous mesh for shielding?
Report Post »But the important question: How much do you know about quatum entanglement? Just fascinated with it my self.
getitgotitgood
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:03pmUFO, bull crap.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:59pmGive me a break. They did in fact have those weapons back then and we actually used them in the movie, “Earth vs Flying Saucers”. I saw it. In fact, there are so many of them that they keep knocking down trees in my back yard all the time. Ask anyone in Missouti. They will tell you!!!!
Report Post »RetiredAmericanNavyTaxpayer
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:55pmOk, let’s see the debris and any surviving artifacts. Also I want to see test results on all surviving materials showing that they are not of Earth origin / human manufacture. Otherwise I’m calling B S on the whole “this guy told this other guy who told it to his cousin who told it to his high school science teacher who told it to me before he died” story.
Report Post »lookatthefactsjack
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 6:33amJust a thought……WHY??????
Report Post »why would we shoot it down?
Did they threaten us?
Could interstellar intelligence kick our 1940′s butt?
why would the gov’ment hide it?
why did the aliens only send 1 rescue saucer?
HMMMMMMM
vtxphantom
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:53pmCurious that this should come out now, at this time. I still want to seen Dirty Barry’s college transcripts. NOW!
Report Post »chips1
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:07pmThose aren’t real. UFO’s are.
Report Post »Hickory
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:51pmThis story kind of smells a little.
Report Post »lel2007
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:47pmToo bad the air force couldn’t employ those 1947 “electromagnetic pulse” weapons in Korea or Vietnam. I guess they wanted to fight the old fashioned way, with bullets and missiles.
Report Post »9111315
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:52pm:^)
or in lower case ;60
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:45pmBS! Electromagnetic pulse weapons in 1947? They barely knew radar and magnetrons, much less able to direct and aim them and protect our own plane from said pulse. Certainly could not have put it on an airplane anyway (electronics was not exactly miniaturized back then).
Report Post »txjb
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:04pmYou should know that other things are invented ( or stumbled upon ) while trying to invent something else .
Report Post »dgonzalez01
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:20pmTry reading up on Tesla.
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:50pmOh, I know a little about Tesla. He was trying to transmit electrical power (wireless electrical lenergy). Hmmm. Didn’t seem to work out. Did benefit Marconi’s radio work though.
Report Post »Have to go. Reading up on quantum entanglement. Now that is weird stuff!
Stratosaurus
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 10:42amRadar was developed by the British BEFORE WWII. The Chain Home radar system was a decisive factor in the Battle of Britain in 1940-41. EMP destruction of electronic components was not discovered until use of solid-state electronics in the military became wide-spread in the mid-to-late 50s. Vacuum-tube electronics are not effected as severely as solid-state devices because of the inter-electrode gaps inside vacuum tubes.
Soviet military electronics well into the 80s used minitature and ultra-miniature vacuum-tube electronics in their aircraft and military vehicles for that very reason. When Viktor Belenko defected to Japan in a MiG-25 in 1976, American military experts were amazed to find that all the electrical systems were, in fact, vacuum tube designs in order to increase rad-hard durability of the aircraft.
Do you understand what causes the EMP effect? Gamma radiation can penetrate through most solid objects, including up to three feet of concrete and one foot of lead. When solid-state devices are subjected to gamma-ray bombardment, the junctions between the various elements of individual devices (emitter-base and base-collector junctions in bipolar devices, and source-gate or gate-drain in MOS devices) are physically destroyed. Their ability to control signals and current is no longer viable. Those junctions cannot be repaired. The devices must be replaced.
In vacuum tubes, there is no contact between elements. No phyisical destruction.
Report Post »kalli
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:44pmWow, any bets this man is a leftist progressive? The debunker was suppose to debunk all the bunk reported by the actual people who supposedly witnessed what needed debunking. Too funny.
Report Post »Caballosinnombre
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 2:17amIf the technology wasn’t available back then, then it sounds like he is trying to debunk himself. For whatever reason, who knows.
Report Post »Bruce P.
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:43pm“The first one was shot down by an experimental U.S. airplane that was flying out of White Sands, N.M., and it shot what was effectively an electronic pulse-type weapon that disabled and took away all the controls of the UFO, and that’s why it crashed.”
Complete and total nonsense.
If an alien craft were engineered to survive the rigors of space, it would be designed to withstand electromagnetic pulses, otherwise it would die anytime a nearby star let loose a solar-flare. A relatively primitive weapon, as any 1940s EMP weapon would have been, could not have brought it down.
He’s talking out of his behind. There was no alien crash as Roswell.
Report Post »flipper1073
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 12:53am@ Bruce
Report Post »We don’t generally Agree; but that’s What I was Thinking when I Read
this Story. Any Craft that couldnt withstand Electromagnetic Pulses.
Would not Stand a Chance in Intergalactic Space Travel.
mark81150
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 9:31amI agree.. nonsense.. just an old officer cashing in on having been there, he knows that some will believe him, enough to get him his 15 minutes of fame..
Report Post »armyofnibiru
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 12:04pmhe maybe right he maybe wrong but he was there, were you?writeings on walls of structures thousands of years old show us spacecrafts.little gold figurines from ancient structures in columbia are of spacecraft and planes.so ya think that et‘s wouldn’t know how or why to build a mother ship.do you believe were the only life in this unimagenibly big universe.billions of solar systems like ours where born and died before ours even coagulated.billions or trillions of galaxys .around for billions of years and were the only intelligent life in the history of the universe.how islamic thinking of you(backwards).
Report Post »Calm Voice of Reason
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:42pmThe most probable explanation I ever heard was that it was a Japanese fire balloon. It matches most accounts that there were odd materials with “strange” characters written upon them. That would also explain the way the Army/Air Force reacted to the crash site. It is known that the Office of Censorship (a very real thing in WWII) ordered newspapers to pull stories about fire balloons.
Report Post »(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_balloon)
Bruce P.
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:06pmThat was John Keel’s theory, but I do not buy it. It would have had to be floating around for 2 year past the end of the war.
Report Post »rbcintexas
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:41pmSaying that we did not have the technology back then is questionable at best. Look at our steal fighters the F117A. The body design is almost identical as a fighter prototype that the American military found after the fall of the Third Reicht. Yes, Hitler had some amazing technology that he was about to start using including the jet engine just before the fall. There were American fighter pilots who were stunned when the German jet blew past them as they flew their prop planes so in short, we may have had the technology back then. It just was not good enough to go into production yet.
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:54pmWas not aware they found anything like the F117 (diamond faceted). They did find a flying wing design there similar to the B2. The Brits pioneered the jet engine, but due to lack of interest, wound up in Germany.
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