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ROSWELL THEORY

As you know, I have been studying ufology for the past few years. I subscribe to the mailing list UFO UPDATES on which many famous ufologists exchange information. A major focus in the field presently is Nick Redfern's book entitled BODY SNATCHERS IN THE DESERT: THE HORRIBLE TRUTH AT THE HEART OF THE ROSWELL STORY. Redfern has posited a down-to-earth explanation for the mystery of Roswell.

There is no question that SOMETHING crashed in the New Mexico desert in July, 1947. There were witnesses to the debris field and there are official stories to account for it. The whole Roswell legend as we know it was born in 1980 with the publication of the first book on the subject, by William Moore. Moore had interviewed every living witness to the event, and most believed that what they had seen was a downed alien spacecraft. Redfern, who claims to believe that there ARE spacecraft in our skies, offers an alternate view of what actually crashed near Roswell.

This is a good recap of Redfern's research as put forth in his book. It was not written by me; I thought you might be interested and could comment:


In simplified terms, Redfern believes what happened at Roswell
involves the intersection of several programs being conducted by
Imperial Japan, Nazi Germany, and our own government during WWII
and the years immediately following. These programs were:

1. THE JAPANESE FUGO BALLOON PROGRAM

This program involved the use of experimental high altitude
balloons as weapons. The goal was to launch these balloons from
Japan in such a way as to ensure that they would be carried by
the winds over the western United States. The intended payload
on these balloons were lethal biotoxins. 9,000 such balloons
were launched in the initial phase of the plan, complete with
ingenious explosive devices. A few reached U.S. soil, and there
were a few casualties. The press wisely obeyed military gag
orders on these events, and so the Japanese were kept from ever
finding out if their balloon bombs were effective. The nuclear
destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought the war to an end
before the Japanese could send the Fugo ballons with bioweapons.
Learning about all this has renewed my confidence in our nuclear
decision to end the war.

2. JAPAN'S UNIT 731

One of the more infamous atrocity mills of WWII, Unit 731
was an officially sanctioned and funded bioweapons program /
facility headquartered in Harbin, Manchuria. Headed by Shiro
Ishii. Unit 731 has become synonymous with human experimentation
for those who know of its existence. Experiments on human beings
(or "logs" as they were referred to) involving live human
vivisection, effects of frostbite, high altitude pressurization
exposure to bioweapons, flamethrowers, and explosives were
routine. These experiments included U.S. POWs. This Unit was the
potential source of the bioweapons to be used for the Fugo
balloon project.

3. OPERATION PAPERCLIP

The now well-known program begun under the Truman
administration to bring Nazi scientists to U.S. soil for their
knowledge and expertise. As Nick demonstrates, the program
eventually included Japanese scientists. However, even prior to
the "heyday" of PAPERCLIP, the U.S. government, with the
approval of Douglas MacArthur, was soliciting and procuring Unit
731 scientists for their advanced knowledge of bioweapons and
their effect on human beings. Nick marshals brief, but weighty,
evidence that both Nazis and Unit 731 scientists who engaged in
human experimentation made it into this country and wound up on
the U.S. payroll.

4. NAZI ADVANCED WINGLESS AIRCRAFT / THE HORTEN BROTHERS "UFO" DEVELOPMENT

This refers to the work of Reimer and Walter Horten, mainly
toward the end of the war, to produce a flight-worthy wingless
disk aircraft. Although models were tested and commissioned by
the Luftwaffe in 1944-45, the war ended before the Nazis could
more perfectly develop and mass produce the model. The Horten
craft was discovered by the British, after which the Horten
brothers were invited to Britain to continue their work. An
agreement between the two and Britain could not be reached, and
the Hortens returned to Germany in 1945.

5. NEPA (NUCLEAR ENERGY FOR PROPULSION AIRCRAFT)

This program focused on developing nuclear energy for the
propulsion of aircraft. One of the significant obstacles with
achieving the project goal was shielding pilots from radiation.
Another problem was constructing a reactor light enough and
small enough for an aircraft. A sub-problem for the testing
involving the protection of occupants from radiation was that,
eventually, human occupants would have to be put at risk.
Redfern argues that, in the wake of the 1947 close of the
Nuremberg trials — which called for the end of human
experimentation — those involved in our testing program felt
rushed to gain official permission to use human subjects.
Attempts were made to procure legislation allowing human
experimentation. Documentation indicates that, eventually,
prisoners and mental patients from U.S jails and institutions
were used, along with dead bodies snatched from morgues and
hospitals without consent of surviving kin. This body snatching
program was dubbed Project Sunshine. Of particular relevance for
Redfern’s thesis is the documentary evidence that certain
"specimens" were procured from Formosa, home of Unit 731.


The intersection of all the above offered by Redfern can be
briefly described as follows. Roswell was a PAPERCLIP screw-up.
The "UFO" was in reality a wingless craft launched from a U.S.
base in the southwest via a high altitude Fugo balloon. These
craft were occupied by either a Japanese crew (no one over five
feet tall) or human unfortunates being utilized for testing
purposes. Two or more of these craft crashed at Roswell and
other nearby locations, explaining the multiple site / multiple
date problem pointed to by skeptics as conflicting (and
therefore unreliable) testimony. The bodies were human, but
physically unusual to those who discovered them. The victims
were small, perhaps oriental, or perhaps unfortunates who
suffered from progeria or Turner’s syndrome (which involved
baldness, enlarged head, and even polydactylism). The UFO
explanation was floated to the public to deflect attention away
from the fact that Nazis and other Japanese war criminals were
on our payroll. After the late forties, the UFO scenario proved
useful for misdirecting the Soviets, and so the myth was
continued.