SUBJECT: CINCINNATI OHIO RESEARCHERS FILE: UFO2788 Hi Everyone My name is Dale and I belong to a local group of UFO researchers in the Cincinnati, Ohio area. Besides going out into the field we produce a tv program. This program is aired on Warner Cable's public access in Cincinnati. Along with the tv program we have a newsletter that reflects the program but also provides information on the UFO phenomenon. I hope this is of interest to you all. Vol. 1, No. 1 UFO Update Jan./Feb 1994 Premiere Issue Welcome to UFO Update newsletter. This publication is not simply a companion piece for the UFO Update cable access program, but an informative and -- hopefully -- thought provoking forum on the UFO phenomenon. A regular feature in each edition will be an entry focusing on the most recent segment of the UFO Update cable program. More than just a synopsis, each article will provide additional background information and commentary on the topic discussed. One can never know enough about UFOs, especially since it is difficult to find objective reporting in mainstream publications. We will also occasionally report on local cases of interest, even those that turn out to have down-to-earth explanations. It's important that our readers understand that UFO research requires patience, persistence and an understanding of general scientific principles. When an interesting UFO book hits the newsstands, we'll let you know what we think of it. We'll also keep you informed about other UFO related media and materials. Finally, we'd like to hear from you. If you have any questions or comments regarding UFOs, please send them along. Even if your letter doesn't get printed, we'll try to drop you a line in response -- so please include a self-addressed stamped envelope. Remember, we reserve certain editorial privileges, and your letter may have to be condensed to fit our limited space. Send your correspondence to UFO Update Newsletter 239 East State Road Cleves, Ohio, 45002-1369 A reminder -- If you'd like a response, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Who knows? If your letters are a good enough, you might be asked to submit an article! What's on Ice at Wright-Pat? One of the more enduring rumors of UFO lore has been the story that alien cadavers are being kept in cold storage at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. As crazy as it sounds, there is some logic behind this claim: Wright-Pat is home to the Foreign Technologies Department of Air Force intelligence. It's difficult to imagine a more foreign technology than an extraterrestrial one. The story actually has its beginnings in a book written by Frank Scully in 1950. BEHIND THE FLYING SAUCERS tells of the 1948 retrieval of one downed UFO near Phoenix, Arizona and two others that crashed near Aztec, New Mexico. In total, thirty-four alien bodies were recovered along with the three craft. Scully's source was one Silas Newton, who in turn was acting as a liaison for an enigmatic "Dr. Gee". Subsequent investigation by J.P. Cahn for TRUE magazine revealed that Newton had been involved in a number of previous schemes, including fraudulent stock practices. "Dr. Gee" turned out to be Leo GeBauer. Who owned a radio and television parts supply house -- a far cry from his claim to being the "top magnetic research specialist in the United States." With Scully's book exposed and discredited, any reference to crashed saucers was avoided by the major UFO groups of the 50's: NICAP and APRO. It was difficult enough to garner objective press for UFOs without inviting guilt by association. Nevertheless, the story persisted. Independent researchers developed contacts and leads that seemed to lend some credence to the hearsay. By the mid and late 70's, investigator Len Stringfield had compilation impressive file of witnesses who had firsthand knowledge of alien bodies and/or crashed saucers. Much of this data was released by Stringfield in a number of status reports issued over the last fifteen years. The watershed event came in 1978 when Col. Jesse Marcel, Sr. was interviewed on the old IN SEARCH OF... television program. He told of his task, as intelligence officer attached to Roswell Army Air Force Base, of collecting strange material from a ranch in Corona, New Mexico in early July 1947. Marcel described the substance as being like nothing found on Earth. This observation was later supported by Jessie Marcel Jr. and Bill Brazel -- whose father, Mac, discovered the debris and notified the air base. The collected scraps were taken back to the Roswell air field where they were loaded on to a transport plane and flown to Wright-Patterson. Accompanying the crates of fragments were three or four oblong boxes inside which were concealed alien corpses. These had been found some miles west of the debris field, along with the rest of the fallen saucer. In 1980 THE ROSWELL INCIDENT was published. Although flawed, Charles Berlitz and William Moore's book broke through the Scully stigma and established a degree of credibility for the crashed saucer reports. A decade later, Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt interviewed over two hundred people in compiling UFO CRASH AT ROSWELL, solidifying the scenario even more. Stanton Friedman and Don Berliner came along a year later with CRASH AT CORONA, which argued that a second saucer -- part of a midair UFO collision -- came down on the Plains of San Augustin. Clearly, the circumstances behind the Roswell UFO crash mystery are among the most fully researched in ufology. But where are the alien bodies now? As Part of in the IN SEARCH OF... investigation, a trip was made to Building (Hangar) 18 at Wright-Patterson. As could be expected, when the film crew got there the cupboard was bare. Interestingly enough, however, was that Building 18 housed a deep freeze unit. Jet engines were tested there to see how they'd hold up against the frigid temperatures of the Aleutian Islands. Not a bad place to keep a few extraterrestrial carcasses. If there ever were alien bodies, the almost forty-seven years since their recovery has probably seen them distributed widely to countless research facilities. In many cases, the examiners probably had no idea what it was they were ordered to classify. An oath of silence that carried unspoken threats held the questions at bay. Such would be secrets taken to the grave. Local Connection There is a local string tied to this mystery. In 1959 Charles Wilhelm heard the strange confession of his neighbor who was dying of cancer. A young man at the time, Charles had been hired by the woman to cut her grass that summer and had earned her confidence. As death approached, she took Charles aside and told him a secret she was unwilling to take to the grave. Accordingly, the woman held a clerical post with Top Security Clearance at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and was often charged with cataloguing equipment and supplies. In the course of these duties she had seen, concealed within a secret hangar, two saucer-shaped craft. One of the objects was intact, while the other was damaged. She further claimed that the bodies of two small beings were being preserved in another secret building and that she had handled their autopsy reports. Then in 1966, Charles Wilhelm obtained apparent verification of his late neighbor's revelations from a friend of his in the Army Reserve. This man's father was once assigned to Project Blue Book and held high security clearance. Nearing death, the father admitted to his son that two disc-shaped craft -- one intact, the other damaged -- were secured in a hangar at Wright-Patterson. Additionally, he acknowledge that a total of four humanoid bodies were kept preserved in chemicals. The confessions were made well before the current Roswell investigations were started, but they tally well with what was allegedly recovered from that New Mexico ranch so many years earlier. Kecksburg In the late afternoon hours of December 9, 1965, something fell from the sky and landed in a wooded ravine just west of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania. There was concern that it might be a small airplane, and the fire department responded to the scene. Four teams of rescuers combed the area and eventually something was found. It wasn't an airplane, it just may have been something not of this world. Shortly after the firefighters made their find, a detail from the Air Force's 662nd Radar Squandron, based near Pittsburgh, arrived to seal off the area. Moore troops and a flatbed truck soon arrived and the object was remove from the ravine and spirited away. Stan Gordon, MUFON state director for Pittsburg who has studied the case for over ten years, has gathered goverment documents that indicate that as many as 212 military personnel were on the scene that night. According to eyewitnesses the object appeared bell- or acorn-shaped amd measured ten feet long by eight feet wide. It was bronze colored and adorned with a collar near its rounder end. On the collar were etched strange figures that resembeled no earthly language. The original, official explanation was that the Kecksburg object was a meteorite. Clearly, the eye-witness descriptions eliminate this rationale. A more recent identification has been offered by NASA scientist, James Oberg. Although there is no record of such an event, he contends that the object was a Russian payload. The Air Force arrived to take it away so that its heat shield could be analyzed. One would also hope they studied what made it shatterproof, too! After all, an accidental re-entry is a high velocity event, and any manmade object would either burn-up in transit or disintegrate upon impact with the earth. Both the meteorite and Russian satellite theories are ruled out by another interesting point: the object flew no faster than a small airplane and made no fewer than four sharp course changes before touching down in Kecksburg. The descent was powered and controlled. If it had been a manned Soviet capsule, we would have been accused of somehow shooting it down to steal Russian space science secrets! Sorry, Dr. Oberg, try again. So, what did become of the Kecksburg UFO? Most likely it was shipped to Wright-Patterson where the Foreign Technologies Division would try to take it apart. There is, in fact some testimony that might bear that out. Kecksburg Connection On September 19, 1990, NBC's UNSOLVED MYSTERIES aired a re-enactment of the Kecksburg incident. It was a evenhanded treatment that featured comments from eyewitnesses and Stan Gordon. Soon after the broadcast, Gordon was overwhelmed with calls from viewers who thought they might add some information to the case. One of the callers was an Ohio man who claimed to have seen the acorn shaped object a few days after the Kecksburg event while deliverying bricks to property adjacent to Wright-Patterson. Gordon passsed this story on to a local investigator Len Stringfield. Stringfield, assisted by researcher Brian Thompson, pursued the case and interviewed the witness. At the time, the source preferred to go by his first name: Myron. The followinf is a summary of his testimony: Myron and his cousin, "JS", delivered a large inventory of special glazed bricks to Wright-Patterson just a few days after the Kecksburg event. Curiously, the order came through the Navy. The bricks were to be used to construct a double-thick, lead lined structure 50 x 80 feet in size, inside an already existing red brick building. After following a jeep bearing an officer (possibly a general) and a driver to the site, they were left to unload the bricks. Myron noticed that there were several men dressed in what resembled decontamination suits scurrying about. He also reconized the Navy officer who had selected and ordered the special brick. After some time, Myron took a break from his labors. His curosity got the best of him, so he decided to have a look at what was so important. The security officers had apparently grown used to Myron's presence and failed to check his approach soon enough. Although his glimpse was brief before being hustled back to the brick delivery by a gaurd, Myron claimed to have seen plenty. There, inside the building and supported by metal scaffolding was a bell-shapped object about ten feet tall. Although Myron describes the object as bell-shapped, it was his viewing of the UNSOLVED MYSTERIES program that caused him to contact Stan Gordan. In fact, when asked by Stringfield if "acorn-shaped" was a suitable description, Myron agreed it was. Myron's story is supported by his cousin, JS, who was able to add his own observation. The day before he worked with Myron, JS had made a solo run to Wright-Patterson with the first load of bricks. He recalled seeing a flatbed trailer near the red brick building. It's carge, although convered with a tarp, was "liberty bell" shaped and stood eight to ten feet tall. Clearly, there is a strong indication that Myron and JS witnessed the arrival and intial analysis of the Kecksburg object at Wright-Patterson. But there are some questions that must be asked: Why were the bricks ordered through the Navy? If the Navy was the investigative body, why wasn't the object taken to a naval base? Was this action directed by the Joint Chief of Staff? The implications are astounding and suggest that the Kecksburg object was considered by the U.S. military as a violator of American air space. For an in-depth examination of the Kecksburg episode, the reader is encouraged to consult UFO CRASH/RETRIEVALS: THE INNER SANCTUM by Leonard Stringfield. THE ROSWELL INCIDENT, UFO CRASH AT ROSWELL, and CRASH AT CORONA are all still available through local bookstores. NEXT ISSUE: THE FACE ON MARS Acknowledgements This modest periodical was made possible through the efforts of serious researchers dedicated to the scientific study of UFOs. Special thanks goes to Jerry and Peggy Black, Pat Packard, Brian Scow and Bob Leibold. 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