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(.#577).- UFO Crash and Retrieval - Missouri, 1941.
UFO Crash and Retrieval - Missouri, 1941.
Published: 9:50 AM 10/17/2010
One of the most mysterious stories of a crashed UFO with Alien bodies preceded the well-known Roswell event by about six years. This case was first presented to investigators by Leo Stringfield in his book "UFO Crash / Retrievals: The Inner Sanctum".
Léo Stringfield opened an enticing account on the recovery of a UFO crash under military control which is still the subject of research today. Details of the case were sent to her in a letter by the name of Charlotte Mann, who recounted the story of her grandmother Floy `` on her deathbed '', on the confession about her husband on Reverend William Huffman (minister at the time), having been summoned to pray for accident victims outside Cape Girardeau, Missouri, in the spring of 1941.
The Rev. William Huffman had been an evangelist for many years, but had taken over as minister of religion, resident of the Red Star Baptist Church in early 1941. Parish records supported his employment there during the period in question.
After receiving this call to duty, he was immediately driven 10-15 miles across the woods outside the city. Upon arriving at the scene, he saw police, firefighters, FBI agents and photographers already investigating the wreckage.
He was quickly asked to pray over three corpses. As he began to participate in the activity around the area, his curiosity was first struck by the sight of the craft itself.
Expecting a small plane of some type, he was shocked to see that the craft was in the shape of a disc, and looking inside, he saw symbols of the hieroglyphic type, indecipherable for him.
He was then shown the three victims, not human as expected, but small extraterrestrial bodies with large eyes, barely a mouth, barely ears, and hairless.
Immediately after exercising his duties, he was sworn in to keep secret by the military personnel who had taken charge of the accident area. He also witnessed these warnings.
On returning home to 1530 Main Street, he was still in a mild shock and could not keep his story which he told his wife "Floy" and his sons present. This late-night family discussion would give birth to the story that Charlotte Mann would hear from her grandmother in 1984, when she died of cancer at Charlotte Mann's home, while undergoing radiation therapy.
Charlotte Mann told the story that spanned several days, and although Charlotte had heard parts of it before, she now demanded of her grandmother all the details.
As her grandmother tolerated these last days on this Earth, Charlotte knew that it was now or never to discover all that she could know, before this intriguing story is lost forever, with the death of his grandmother.
Charlotte Mann also learned that a member of her grandfather's congregation, considered to be Garland D. Fronabarger, had given her a photo taken the night of the crash. This photo was of one of the dead aliens helped by two men.
Charlotte Mann shared in her own words what she knew about a television documentary. Part of this report is given here:
"I saw the photo my father owned, which he obtained from my grandfather who was a Baptist pastor in Cape Girardeau Missouri in the spring of 1941. I saw this [photo] and asked my grand -mother later, when she was home deadly sick with cancer, so we had a frank discussion.
"Her grandmother" Floy "told" Charlotte Mann "that her grandfather had been called in the spring of 1941 in the evening around 9:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., that he had been called for a plane crash out of town and would he be willing to go to the people there, which he did. "
"On arrival, the situation was very different. It was not a conventional plane, as we know it. He described it as a metallic saucer, without seams, resembling nothing like what he had seen. The object was broken and opened in one piece, so he could walk and see it.
"Looking inside, he saw a small metal chair, gauges and dials and things he had never seen in his life. However, what impressed him most was is inside that there were inscriptions and writings, which he said he did not recognize, but which were similar to the Egyptian "hieroglyphs".
"There were 3 entities, or non-human people, lying on the ground. Two aliens were just outside the saucer, and a third was further away. He understood that perhaps the third was not died on impact. It was reported that a fireball was present, and there was fire around the crash site, but none of the entities were burned and therefore the father prayed for them, giving them the last rites.
"There were a lot of people there, firefighters, photographers, so they raised an" alien ", and two men on each side lifted it up and held out their arms, they have taken under the armpits and here. "
If I remember the photo I saw, it was about 4 feet tall, seemed to have no bone structure, a soft appearance. He was wearing a suit, or we assume it was a suit, it could have been his skin, and what looked like soft, crumpled aluminum foil. I remember he had very long hands, very long fingers, and I think there were three, but I can't swear. "
"My grandfather upon his arrival said that there were already several people on the scene, two whom he supposed were local photographers, firefighters, and therefore shortly after their arrival, the soldiers just presented, surrounded the area, the present were taken in groups separately, and the soldiers spoke to each of them.
"Grandpa did not know what had been said to others, but he was told :
"It did not happen, you saw nothing, in the name of National Security, you should never talk about it again."
"My grandfather was an honorable man, being a preacher, that's all we had to tell him. And so he came home and told the story to my father, who was there, and to my grandmother and my uncle. My mother who was there and heard, she was in the room. "
"My sister was born on May 3, 1941, so we assume it was from the middle to the end of April 1941. And my grandfather never talked about it again. But about two weeks later, one of the men who had a personal camera at the time of the "crash" accident. He then put a photo in his shirt pocket, approached grandfather and said that I think someone need a copy of this.
"I have one and I would like you to keep one." So that's how this grandfather got the picture to start. But he never talked about it again. " others seem very intimidated and very scared and paranoid. ''
Other living witnesses include Charlotte Mann's sister, who confirmed her story in a notarized sworn statement, and the living brother of Cape Girardeau County Sheriff in 1941, Clarance R. Schade. He remembers hearing the account of the accident, but does not have many details. He remembers hearing about a "spaceship with little people".
There are also reports ‘’ written notes ’of the fire department of the date of the accident. This confirms the censorship by the secret ’secrecy of members of the military oath department, as well as the removal of all evidence from the scene by military personnel’ ’.
Charlotte's father Guy Huffman also told the story of the accident and had a photo of the dead alien in his possession. He showed the photo to one of his photographer friends, Walter Wayne Fisk.
He was contacted by Stanton Friedman, but did not disclose relevant information.
Charlotte Mann was unlucky enough to get Fisk to divert calls or answer letters. It has been said that Fisk was an adviser to the president, and if so, would explain his silence on the facts of the Missouri accident.
This case ends like many others, but seems in all respects to be authentic. Everyone who has come into contact with Charlotte Mann has found her to be a trusted person who is not a fan of sensationalism and has sought no gain from her account.
There is still research in progress on the Missouri crash, and I hope more information will be provided to validate this remarkable case.
- (B J Booth)
Source: "UFO Crash Retrievals: The Inner Sanctum", by Leo Stringfield.
ADDENDUM: 18-18-04 - Local researcher on UFO probe seeks answers to accident report in 1941
By Peggy O'Farrel, Missourian Southeast
Virginia man investigates possible UFO crash near Cape Girardeau in 1941. "It would be six years before Roswell," said James Westwood of Centerville, Virginia, referring to the 1947 incident in which the government is said to have recovered and then covered a UFO accident in New Mexico.
"It would put Cape Girardeau County on the UFO map," he said.
Southeast Missouri is already known for its UFO activity. Dr. Harley Rutledge, former chairman of the physics department of Southeast Missouri State University who is now retired, has investigated reports of strange objects seen flying in the sky near Piedmont and other UFO reports .
"Project identification : the first scientific study in the field of UFO phenomena", describes Rutledge's research.
James Westwood stated that Rutledge had told him that he had not heard of the 1941 incident.
James Westwood, a retired Marine and engineer, is looking for people who may remember an incident that occurred in 1941 when a certain type of plane crashed about 3 to 15 miles from Cape Girardeau.
James Westwood bases his investigation on an account of Charlotte Mann, a Texas woman whose grandfather, the Reverend William Huffman, was a pastor at the Red Star Baptist Church from 1941 to 1944.
Leonard H. Stringifield, a renowned UFO investigator, told the story of Charlotte Mann in the July 1991 issue of her "Status Report", a monthly publication on UFO activities and investigations.
Charlotte Mann told Leonard H. Stringfield that her grandfather had received a call one spring evening from police asking her to accompany them to the site of an out-of-town plane crash in case the victims would need a clergyman.
"A car was sent to pick it up, but Grandma said it was not a police car," said Charlotte Mann in the story by Leonard H. Stingfield.
"When the Rev. William Huffman arrived at the scene of the accident, said Charlotte Mann, he noticed part of the wreckage which appeared to have a rounded shape without edges or seams", and a "very shiny metallic finish" .
"Police, plainclothes men and military officers were already on the scene sifting through the wreckage," said Mann.
"It was difficult for him to tell if they were wearing costumes or if it was their skin, but they were covered from head to toe in what looked like crumpled aluminum foil," said Charlotte Mann.
"He couldn't see any hair on their bodies and they had no ears. They were small, framed like a child, about 4 feet tall, but had larger heads and longer arms."
Their faces had big oval eyes, no noses, just holes and no lips, just little slits for the mouth, "said Charlotte Mann.
One of the military officers on the scene told Reverend William Huffman not to tell anyone what he had witnessed for security reasons, Charlotte Mann told Leonard H. Stringfield. Reverend William Huffman told his wife Floy and their two sons what he saw when he returned from the crash site, but he never talked about it again, said Charlotte Mann.
The Reverend William Huffman died in 1959. His wife, who died in 1984, told the story to Charlotte Mann. A few weeks after the accident, The Rev. William Huffman received a photo of "two men holding one of the aliens found at the scene". Charlotte Mann's father loaned the photo to a friend, but never saw it again.
Now, investigator James Westwood, who read Charlotte Mann's story in Leonard H. Stringfield's publication, is looking for other people who may remember hearing about the accident. "What you need here is from another source, at least one other person who says, I sort of remember it," said investigator James Westwood.
"Even though this is a story from someone who heard about it at the time, you have at least one other source."
"Charlotte Mann's account indicates that the accident occurred in the spring. James Westwood assumes that it may in fact have occurred in the fall due to the mention of a field fire caused by the accident. In the spring, he said, the vegetation would have been too wet to burn easily. "But in the fall, it's very dry," he said.
He also speculates that military officers at the scene could have been called from an "Army Air Corps base in Sikeston" at the time. If the accident had really happened, the military and police would not have known what they were looking at, said investigator James Westwood, because Roswell and the other first UFO sightings had not not produced.
And the incident may have been concealed for "military security" reasons since the United States prepared for World War II, he said.
"It would not be improbable" that the incident would have been reported as a plane crash, "said investigator James Westwood.
Investigator James Westwood began researching the story of Charlotte Mann earlier this year. He went to Cape Girardeau last week to examine local documents and look for potential sources. He was not very lucky. So far, no one he has spoken to has admitted knowing anything.
"There is nothing I would even consider closely," said investigator James Westwood.
"He couldn't see any hair on their bodies and they had no ears. They were small, framed like a child, about 4 feet tall, but had larger heads and longer arms."
Their faces had big oval eyes, no noses, just holes and no lips, just little slits for the mouth, "said Charlotte Mann.
One of the military officers on the scene told Reverend William Huffman not to tell anyone what he had witnessed for security reasons, Charlotte Mann told Leonard H. Stringfield. Reverend William Huffman told his wife Floy and their two sons what he saw when he returned from the crash site, but he never talked about it again, said Charlotte Mann.
The Reverend William Huffman died in 1959. His wife, who died in 1984, told the story to Charlotte Mann. A few weeks after the accident, The Rev. William Huffman received a photo of "two men holding one of the aliens found at the scene". Charlotte Mann's father loaned the photo to a friend, but never saw it again.
Now, investigator James Westwood, who read Charlotte Mann's story in Leonard H. Stringfield's publication, is looking for other people who may remember hearing about the accident. "What you need here is from another source, at least one other person who says, I sort of remember it," said investigator James Westwood.
"Even though this is a story from someone who heard about it at the time, you have at least one other source."
"Charlotte Mann's account indicates that the accident occurred in the spring. James Westwood assumes that it may in fact have occurred in the fall due to the mention of a field fire caused by the accident. In the spring, he said, the vegetation would have been too wet to burn easily. "But in the fall, it's very dry," he said.
He also speculates that military officers at the scene could have been called from an "Army Air Corps base in Sikeston" at the time. If the accident had really happened, the military and police would not have known what they were looking at, said investigator James Westwood, because Roswell and the other first UFO sightings had not not produced.
And the incident may have been concealed for "military security" reasons since the United States prepared for World War II, he said.
"It would not be improbable" that the incident would have been reported as a plane crash, "said investigator James Westwood.
Investigator James Westwood began researching the story of Charlotte Mann earlier this year. He went to Cape Girardeau last week to examine local documents and look for potential sources. He was not very lucky. So far, no one he has spoken to has admitted knowing anything.
"There is nothing I would even consider closely," said investigator James Westwood.
He found a report on the crash of a student pilot near Morley in Scott County in May 1941, and a local pilot told him of another accident near Oak Ridge in the spring of 1941.
The other problem is that the Huffmans left the area shortly after the alleged crash. The Cape Girardeau City Directory lists the Huffmans from 1942 to 1944, but they are not listed in the 1945 directory.
Documents from southeast Missourian indicate that Huffman became pastor of the church in September 1941.
And James Stringfield, who investigated hundreds of accident reports and UFO recoveries, died in 1994. His family refused to disclose his files to other researchers.
James Westwood says he has never seen a UFO or been in contact with extraterrestrials.
"There is no doubt in my mind that UFOs are real space objects," he said. He points to similarities in thousands of sightings and reports from people who said they've been in contact with aliens as evidence that something is there. "
But what he calls the "cult" surrounding the study of hysterics seeking attention to UFOs and false reports by hysterics undermines the evidence provided by witnesses or people who claim to have contact, says James Westwood, "does are no crazier than anyone. "
Tracing UFO reports is "an interesting type of detective investigation," said James Westwood.
"It's kind of like" Sherlock Holmes "where you have to sort through a lot of files looking for clues.
"In the end, some things are fine and some are not."
The Roswell crash and recovery is not the only UFO crash in the history of the UFO study, Westwood said. "It's just the best known," he said.
Anyone with information about a 1941 accident can contact James Westwood at :
5608-34 Willoughby Newton Drive, Centerville, Va., 20120,
or call him at
(703) 222-0978.
Source and References :
See also www.majesticdocuments.com/authentication_articles.php
R Y A N S W O O D, who was the lead investigator in this case
President
www.majesticdocuments.com
14004 Quail Ridge Drive
Broomfield, CO 80020
Phone: 720-887-8171
Fax: 720-887-8239
Cell: 303-941-9663
Also: thanks to: NY Mutual UFO Network Postings - www.nymufon.org
Addendum :
Genealogy research has revealed unexpected coincidences between the family history and a Missouri legend of an alleged recovery from a 1941 UFO accident. In an attempt to reject this connection, I chose to investigate more about the incident. The personal investigation only adds to the intrigue.
Did an object of unknown origin, an alleged UFO, crash in the Southeast Missouri countryside in 1941? See more HERE.
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UFO Crash and Retrieval - Missouri, 1941.
Published: 9:50 AM 10/17/2010
One of the most mysterious stories of a crashed UFO with Alien bodies preceded the well-known Roswell event by about six years. This case was first presented to investigators by Leo Stringfield in his book "UFO Crash / Retrievals: The Inner Sanctum".
Léo Stringfield opened an enticing account on the recovery of a UFO crash under military control which is still the subject of research today. Details of the case were sent to her in a letter by the name of Charlotte Mann, who recounted the story of her grandmother Floy `` on her deathbed '', on the confession about her husband on Reverend William Huffman (minister at the time), having been summoned to pray for accident victims outside Cape Girardeau, Missouri, in the spring of 1941.
The Rev. William Huffman had been an evangelist for many years, but had taken over as minister of religion, resident of the Red Star Baptist Church in early 1941. Parish records supported his employment there during the period in question.
After receiving this call to duty, he was immediately driven 10-15 miles across the woods outside the city. Upon arriving at the scene, he saw police, firefighters, FBI agents and photographers already investigating the wreckage.
He was quickly asked to pray over three corpses. As he began to participate in the activity around the area, his curiosity was first struck by the sight of the craft itself.
Expecting a small plane of some type, he was shocked to see that the craft was in the shape of a disc, and looking inside, he saw symbols of the hieroglyphic type, indecipherable for him.
He was then shown the three victims, not human as expected, but small extraterrestrial bodies with large eyes, barely a mouth, barely ears, and hairless.
Immediately after exercising his duties, he was sworn in to keep secret by the military personnel who had taken charge of the accident area. He also witnessed these warnings.
On returning home to 1530 Main Street, he was still in a mild shock and could not keep his story which he told his wife "Floy" and his sons present. This late-night family discussion would give birth to the story that Charlotte Mann would hear from her grandmother in 1984, when she died of cancer at Charlotte Mann's home, while undergoing radiation therapy.
Charlotte Mann told the story that spanned several days, and although Charlotte had heard parts of it before, she now demanded of her grandmother all the details.
As her grandmother tolerated these last days on this Earth, Charlotte knew that it was now or never to discover all that she could know, before this intriguing story is lost forever, with the death of his grandmother.
Charlotte Mann also learned that a member of her grandfather's congregation, considered to be Garland D. Fronabarger, had given her a photo taken the night of the crash. This photo was of one of the dead aliens helped by two men.
Charlotte Mann shared in her own words what she knew about a television documentary. Part of this report is given here:
"I saw the photo my father owned, which he obtained from my grandfather who was a Baptist pastor in Cape Girardeau Missouri in the spring of 1941. I saw this [photo] and asked my grand -mother later, when she was home deadly sick with cancer, so we had a frank discussion.
"Her grandmother" Floy "told" Charlotte Mann "that her grandfather had been called in the spring of 1941 in the evening around 9:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., that he had been called for a plane crash out of town and would he be willing to go to the people there, which he did. "
"On arrival, the situation was very different. It was not a conventional plane, as we know it. He described it as a metallic saucer, without seams, resembling nothing like what he had seen. The object was broken and opened in one piece, so he could walk and see it.
"Looking inside, he saw a small metal chair, gauges and dials and things he had never seen in his life. However, what impressed him most was is inside that there were inscriptions and writings, which he said he did not recognize, but which were similar to the Egyptian "hieroglyphs".
"There were 3 entities, or non-human people, lying on the ground. Two aliens were just outside the saucer, and a third was further away. He understood that perhaps the third was not died on impact. It was reported that a fireball was present, and there was fire around the crash site, but none of the entities were burned and therefore the father prayed for them, giving them the last rites.
"There were a lot of people there, firefighters, photographers, so they raised an" alien ", and two men on each side lifted it up and held out their arms, they have taken under the armpits and here. "
If I remember the photo I saw, it was about 4 feet tall, seemed to have no bone structure, a soft appearance. He was wearing a suit, or we assume it was a suit, it could have been his skin, and what looked like soft, crumpled aluminum foil. I remember he had very long hands, very long fingers, and I think there were three, but I can't swear. "
"My grandfather upon his arrival said that there were already several people on the scene, two whom he supposed were local photographers, firefighters, and therefore shortly after their arrival, the soldiers just presented, surrounded the area, the present were taken in groups separately, and the soldiers spoke to each of them.
"Grandpa did not know what had been said to others, but he was told :
"It did not happen, you saw nothing, in the name of National Security, you should never talk about it again."
"My grandfather was an honorable man, being a preacher, that's all we had to tell him. And so he came home and told the story to my father, who was there, and to my grandmother and my uncle. My mother who was there and heard, she was in the room. "
"My sister was born on May 3, 1941, so we assume it was from the middle to the end of April 1941. And my grandfather never talked about it again. But about two weeks later, one of the men who had a personal camera at the time of the "crash" accident. He then put a photo in his shirt pocket, approached grandfather and said that I think someone need a copy of this.
"I have one and I would like you to keep one." So that's how this grandfather got the picture to start. But he never talked about it again. " others seem very intimidated and very scared and paranoid. ''
Other living witnesses include Charlotte Mann's sister, who confirmed her story in a notarized sworn statement, and the living brother of Cape Girardeau County Sheriff in 1941, Clarance R. Schade. He remembers hearing the account of the accident, but does not have many details. He remembers hearing about a "spaceship with little people".
There are also reports ‘’ written notes ’of the fire department of the date of the accident. This confirms the censorship by the secret ’secrecy of members of the military oath department, as well as the removal of all evidence from the scene by military personnel’ ’.
Charlotte's father Guy Huffman also told the story of the accident and had a photo of the dead alien in his possession. He showed the photo to one of his photographer friends, Walter Wayne Fisk.
He was contacted by Stanton Friedman, but did not disclose relevant information.
Charlotte Mann was unlucky enough to get Fisk to divert calls or answer letters. It has been said that Fisk was an adviser to the president, and if so, would explain his silence on the facts of the Missouri accident.
This case ends like many others, but seems in all respects to be authentic. Everyone who has come into contact with Charlotte Mann has found her to be a trusted person who is not a fan of sensationalism and has sought no gain from her account.
There is still research in progress on the Missouri crash, and I hope more information will be provided to validate this remarkable case.
- (B J Booth)
Source: "UFO Crash Retrievals: The Inner Sanctum", by Leo Stringfield.
ADDENDUM: 18-18-04 - Local researcher on UFO probe seeks answers to accident report in 1941
By Peggy O'Farrel, Missourian Southeast
Virginia man investigates possible UFO crash near Cape Girardeau in 1941. "It would be six years before Roswell," said James Westwood of Centerville, Virginia, referring to the 1947 incident in which the government is said to have recovered and then covered a UFO accident in New Mexico.
"It would put Cape Girardeau County on the UFO map," he said.
Southeast Missouri is already known for its UFO activity. Dr. Harley Rutledge, former chairman of the physics department of Southeast Missouri State University who is now retired, has investigated reports of strange objects seen flying in the sky near Piedmont and other UFO reports .
"Project identification : the first scientific study in the field of UFO phenomena", describes Rutledge's research.
James Westwood stated that Rutledge had told him that he had not heard of the 1941 incident.
James Westwood, a retired Marine and engineer, is looking for people who may remember an incident that occurred in 1941 when a certain type of plane crashed about 3 to 15 miles from Cape Girardeau.
James Westwood bases his investigation on an account of Charlotte Mann, a Texas woman whose grandfather, the Reverend William Huffman, was a pastor at the Red Star Baptist Church from 1941 to 1944.
Leonard H. Stringifield, a renowned UFO investigator, told the story of Charlotte Mann in the July 1991 issue of her "Status Report", a monthly publication on UFO activities and investigations.
Charlotte Mann told Leonard H. Stringfield that her grandfather had received a call one spring evening from police asking her to accompany them to the site of an out-of-town plane crash in case the victims would need a clergyman.
"A car was sent to pick it up, but Grandma said it was not a police car," said Charlotte Mann in the story by Leonard H. Stingfield.
"When the Rev. William Huffman arrived at the scene of the accident, said Charlotte Mann, he noticed part of the wreckage which appeared to have a rounded shape without edges or seams", and a "very shiny metallic finish" .
"Police, plainclothes men and military officers were already on the scene sifting through the wreckage," said Mann.
"It was difficult for him to tell if they were wearing costumes or if it was their skin, but they were covered from head to toe in what looked like crumpled aluminum foil," said Charlotte Mann.
"He couldn't see any hair on their bodies and they had no ears. They were small, framed like a child, about 4 feet tall, but had larger heads and longer arms."
Their faces had big oval eyes, no noses, just holes and no lips, just little slits for the mouth, "said Charlotte Mann.
One of the military officers on the scene told Reverend William Huffman not to tell anyone what he had witnessed for security reasons, Charlotte Mann told Leonard H. Stringfield. Reverend William Huffman told his wife Floy and their two sons what he saw when he returned from the crash site, but he never talked about it again, said Charlotte Mann.
The Reverend William Huffman died in 1959. His wife, who died in 1984, told the story to Charlotte Mann. A few weeks after the accident, The Rev. William Huffman received a photo of "two men holding one of the aliens found at the scene". Charlotte Mann's father loaned the photo to a friend, but never saw it again.
Now, investigator James Westwood, who read Charlotte Mann's story in Leonard H. Stringfield's publication, is looking for other people who may remember hearing about the accident. "What you need here is from another source, at least one other person who says, I sort of remember it," said investigator James Westwood.
"Even though this is a story from someone who heard about it at the time, you have at least one other source."
"Charlotte Mann's account indicates that the accident occurred in the spring. James Westwood assumes that it may in fact have occurred in the fall due to the mention of a field fire caused by the accident. In the spring, he said, the vegetation would have been too wet to burn easily. "But in the fall, it's very dry," he said.
He also speculates that military officers at the scene could have been called from an "Army Air Corps base in Sikeston" at the time. If the accident had really happened, the military and police would not have known what they were looking at, said investigator James Westwood, because Roswell and the other first UFO sightings had not not produced.
And the incident may have been concealed for "military security" reasons since the United States prepared for World War II, he said.
"It would not be improbable" that the incident would have been reported as a plane crash, "said investigator James Westwood.
Investigator James Westwood began researching the story of Charlotte Mann earlier this year. He went to Cape Girardeau last week to examine local documents and look for potential sources. He was not very lucky. So far, no one he has spoken to has admitted knowing anything.
"There is nothing I would even consider closely," said investigator James Westwood.
"He couldn't see any hair on their bodies and they had no ears. They were small, framed like a child, about 4 feet tall, but had larger heads and longer arms."
Their faces had big oval eyes, no noses, just holes and no lips, just little slits for the mouth, "said Charlotte Mann.
One of the military officers on the scene told Reverend William Huffman not to tell anyone what he had witnessed for security reasons, Charlotte Mann told Leonard H. Stringfield. Reverend William Huffman told his wife Floy and their two sons what he saw when he returned from the crash site, but he never talked about it again, said Charlotte Mann.
The Reverend William Huffman died in 1959. His wife, who died in 1984, told the story to Charlotte Mann. A few weeks after the accident, The Rev. William Huffman received a photo of "two men holding one of the aliens found at the scene". Charlotte Mann's father loaned the photo to a friend, but never saw it again.
Now, investigator James Westwood, who read Charlotte Mann's story in Leonard H. Stringfield's publication, is looking for other people who may remember hearing about the accident. "What you need here is from another source, at least one other person who says, I sort of remember it," said investigator James Westwood.
"Even though this is a story from someone who heard about it at the time, you have at least one other source."
"Charlotte Mann's account indicates that the accident occurred in the spring. James Westwood assumes that it may in fact have occurred in the fall due to the mention of a field fire caused by the accident. In the spring, he said, the vegetation would have been too wet to burn easily. "But in the fall, it's very dry," he said.
He also speculates that military officers at the scene could have been called from an "Army Air Corps base in Sikeston" at the time. If the accident had really happened, the military and police would not have known what they were looking at, said investigator James Westwood, because Roswell and the other first UFO sightings had not not produced.
And the incident may have been concealed for "military security" reasons since the United States prepared for World War II, he said.
"It would not be improbable" that the incident would have been reported as a plane crash, "said investigator James Westwood.
Investigator James Westwood began researching the story of Charlotte Mann earlier this year. He went to Cape Girardeau last week to examine local documents and look for potential sources. He was not very lucky. So far, no one he has spoken to has admitted knowing anything.
"There is nothing I would even consider closely," said investigator James Westwood.
He found a report on the crash of a student pilot near Morley in Scott County in May 1941, and a local pilot told him of another accident near Oak Ridge in the spring of 1941.
The other problem is that the Huffmans left the area shortly after the alleged crash. The Cape Girardeau City Directory lists the Huffmans from 1942 to 1944, but they are not listed in the 1945 directory.
Documents from southeast Missourian indicate that Huffman became pastor of the church in September 1941.
And James Stringfield, who investigated hundreds of accident reports and UFO recoveries, died in 1994. His family refused to disclose his files to other researchers.
James Westwood says he has never seen a UFO or been in contact with extraterrestrials.
"There is no doubt in my mind that UFOs are real space objects," he said. He points to similarities in thousands of sightings and reports from people who said they've been in contact with aliens as evidence that something is there. "
But what he calls the "cult" surrounding the study of hysterics seeking attention to UFOs and false reports by hysterics undermines the evidence provided by witnesses or people who claim to have contact, says James Westwood, "does are no crazier than anyone. "
Tracing UFO reports is "an interesting type of detective investigation," said James Westwood.
"It's kind of like" Sherlock Holmes "where you have to sort through a lot of files looking for clues.
"In the end, some things are fine and some are not."
The Roswell crash and recovery is not the only UFO crash in the history of the UFO study, Westwood said. "It's just the best known," he said.
Anyone with information about a 1941 accident can contact James Westwood at :
5608-34 Willoughby Newton Drive, Centerville, Va., 20120,
or call him at
(703) 222-0978.
Source and References :
See also www.majesticdocuments.com/authentication_articles.php
R Y A N S W O O D, who was the lead investigator in this case
President
www.majesticdocuments.com
14004 Quail Ridge Drive
Broomfield, CO 80020
Phone: 720-887-8171
Fax: 720-887-8239
Cell: 303-941-9663
Also: thanks to: NY Mutual UFO Network Postings - www.nymufon.org
Addendum :
Genealogy research has revealed unexpected coincidences between the family history and a Missouri legend of an alleged recovery from a 1941 UFO accident. In an attempt to reject this connection, I chose to investigate more about the incident. The personal investigation only adds to the intrigue.
Did an object of unknown origin, an alleged UFO, crash in the Southeast Missouri countryside in 1941? See more HERE.
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