1947 – Museum of the Weird

The truth is out there, but for believers of UFO theories, it may very well be contained within the F.B.I.’s database of public records known as the Vault. Out of the 6,700 documents, one in particular has been viewed nearly a million times since 2011. Known as the “Hottel Memo,” the letter was addressed to then Director Edgar J. Hoover on March 22, 1950 from Guy Hottel, the head of the Bureau’s field office in Washington, D.C. It relayed a conversation held between Hottel and an Air Force investigator about three crashed “flying saucers” that were reportedly recovered from New Mexico.

The portion of the memo which has fanned the fire in the hearts of die-hard believers is the following:

“They [the saucers] were described as being circular in shape with raised centers, approximately 50 feet in diameter. Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only three feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine texture. Each body was bandaged in a manner similar to the blackout suits used by speed fliers and test pilots.”

Whether the report was merely hearsay or not, the F.B.I. has included it in the Vault and, thus, released it for public inspection under the Freedom of Information Act. The existence of the document itself is undeniable. However, the Agency went to great lengths to dismiss the memo in a publicly released statement on March 25th after realizing its viral popularity amongst believers. In this note the Agency remarked that the Hottel Memo “does not prove the existence of UFOs; it is simply a second- or third-hand claim that we never investigated.”

Agency representatives also included that the document is not related in any way to the infamous Roswell crash of 1947. Agency representatives explained the lack of an investigation on the Hottel Memo reports was because “our Washington Field Office didn’t think enough of that flying saucer story to look into it.”

Will we ever know the full truth when it comes to extraterrestrial encounters and our government? Probably not, but we can continue to search for the truth, wherever it may be.

There is only one surviving member of the Roswell, New Mexico firemen of 1947, and it’s an elderly man, 90 years old, that finally gets to tell his story.

It seems as though this man, who’s name has not been released, finally gets to be relieved of all that weight he’s carried around on his shoulders the last 65 years. He tells his story of what happened in 1947 when the “unknown object from someplace else” crashed into the earth just outside the now infamous city of Roswell, New Mexico.

UFO Iconoclast(s) writes:

A firefighter who was with the Roswell Fire Department in 1947 has confirmed that the mysterious crash in the New Mexico desert that Summer was in fact of an unearthly craft!

The firefighter, now age 90, related stunning information to this author in a lengthy interview conducted recently. Respected Roswell author Kevin Randle also talked with the involved fireman to confirm the details of his story.

Some time ago I located the son of Rue Chrisman. Rue was the Fire Chief for the Roswell Fire Department in 1947, passing in 1981 at age 98. Chrisman’s son explained to me that he knew that the town’s Fire Department was somehow involved in the crash event. But the son was sparse in his conversation, not really wishing to elaborate. When pressed, the son said, “It did happen. There was a big coverup. The crash was real.” I asked him how he knew of this, he paused and said, “I knew too many who knew.”

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