Friday, April 3, 2009

My father and the USAF

My father and I have always talked about UFO's and what the USAF knew about them. I began keeping a record of our recent conversations about them since he was getting elderly. I wanted to have a reference of the material.


7/8/07 Re: UFO Photos
Today, I was watching a UFO show on the National Geographic Channel. It had said that the Roswell, New Mexico crash was not general public knowledge and that no books had even been written on it until 1978. I recall being with my father at a pharmacy in Flemingsburg, Kentucky and purchased a magazine with articles about UFOs and aliens when I was a small child, between 7 and 10 years old. In 1978, I was 15 years old and my attention had switched from UFOs to cars. Maybe it was because of who my father was, but I have known about the Roswell crash as long as I can remember.

I called my father and discussed with him his experience in the Air Force and about UFO photos that he had seen. He was in the Air Force between 1949 and 1955. After his 1st year, he switched over to the Air Force Reserve. In the Reserve, he was part of the 509th Troop Carrier Wing in Wilmington, Ohio. He was a clerk in the Maintenance Supply Group Headquarters. He worked for Colonel Frank Haynes.

He said that there were 2-3 photos and a file about the Roswell, New Mexico crash. The photos were of the debris field, crashed ship and 3-4 bodies 1 appeared to be standing. He said, he had also seen the photos on modern day television shows. They had big heads and eyes, and appeared to be 3-4 feet tall. One day in January or February of 1952 or 1953, they went to Wright Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio. They were told the trip was to go and see the wreckage from Roswell. Once they got there, they were told that it “couldn't take place today”. They ended up seeing the museum at the base. He said that Wright Patterson AFB had lots of underground tunnels, 100 to 150 feet deep. He told me that lots of research took place there. He said that they had wind tunnels and other facilities underground. He figured that was where the wreckage probably was.

Also, when I was a child, I could remember that Action News 5 from Cincinnati, Ohio had a camera crew go in the infamous Hanger 18 at Wright Patterson AFB. There was not much to see, just a normal hanger. The precept was that all the wreckage had been moved from Wright Patterson, to a secret location, maybe Area 51.

In the area where I live, there have been lots of UFO sightings. I plan to go and see these locations and try to find out as much as I can.

11-25-07
I called my father to discuss some TV programs about UFOs and Wright-Pat. The show was showing the released photos of the weather balloon debris. Dad said, “what I saw, was no weather balloon”, referring to the photos he had seen while in AF Reserves at Wilmington, Ohio.


This is a patch I made commemorating the group from the Roswell Army Air Force which recovered the UFO evidence in 1947.

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