Alien Bodies, Crashes and Retrieval From the very beginning of the modern UFO era there have been reports, stories and rumors of crashed flying saucers and the recovery of dead alien flight crews. While there are now dozens of reported crashes, many of them are misidentifications of mundane objects and hoaxes perpetrated by those seeking the spotlight with their tales of involvement, there is a small core of reports that provide interesting evidence about possible alien visitation. The recovery and display of alien bodies would provide the proof that the Earth has been visited. While most of these tales are wrapped in controversy, there are those that have real substance. The best known of the crash/retrievals happened in early July 1947 near Roswell, New Mexico. Everyone agrees that something fell on a ranch managed by William W. "Mack" Brazel. The disagreement is over just what fell.

There is currently no viable terrestrial explanation. Those who follow the leads to their conclusion realize that the current accepted explanation, that is a Project Mogul balloon, fails because of the available documentation proves otherwise. What elevates the case into the stratosphere is both first and second-hand reports of alien bodies. Probably the most reliable of those second-hand testimonies was gathered by Robert Hastings. Hastings'' main interest has been reports of UFOs near nuclear weapons storage facilities. Hastings interviewed Chester Lytle, a man with impeccable credentials, and who traveled in some of the upper circles involved atomic research. He was a good friend of Colonel William Blanchard who was the commanding officer in Roswell when the crash took place. Blanchard ended up of as a four-star general and was on track to be the Air Force Chief of Staff had he not died of a heart attack.

According to Hastings, he was interviewing Lytle about UFOs for his book, UFOs and Nukes. During the interview, Lytle diverted the conversation to the Roswell case. Hastings reported: Unexpectedly, Lytle told me that he had once heard - from a high-credible source - that the object recovered near Roswell in 1947 was indeed a crashed extraterrestrial spacecraft. That source was none other than William H. Blanchard. According to Lytle, both he and Blanchard, who was what by now a general, had been visiting Eielson AFB, Alaska, in mid-February 1953. Lytle''s wife was in Chicago, about to give birth to a son and Lytle was desperate to get home. Blanchard, who was ''a very close friend''.

offered to personally fly him in a bomber to an Air Force base in Illinois. From there, Lytle could take a short commercial flight to Chicago. During the long flight. the subject of UFOs can up. Suddenly the general mentioned the Roswell Incident. Lytle, who held top secret clearances relating to his work with the AEC, was informed by Blanchard that a crashed alien spacecraft had indeed been recovered in July 1947. The general said that four dead humanoid beings had been aboard. According to Hastings, he had heard, from a different source, that the bodies had been taken to Muroc Army Air Field in California but were later moved to Wright Field, which became part of the larger Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

Art McQuiddy was the editor of the Roswell Morning Dispatch in July 1947 when the crash took place. In an interview I conducted with him, he told me, "The commanding officer out there was a great guy named Butch Blanchard. He and I were good friends. All I know is that he said they put the wreckage or whatever it was they found in a B-25 and flew it to Fort Worth, and it went right from there immediately to Wright-Patterson. He was the one who told Walter Haut to put out the press release." Don Schmitt and I had learned that some small pieces of the wreckage taken to the sheriff''s office on Sunday, July 6, had been flown to Fort Worth. Colonel Thomas DuBose, who was the Chief of Staff of the Eighth Air Force, said that he had been ordered to send the debris on to Washington, D.C.

so that the Chief of Staff of the Army Air Forces could examine it. Although he didn''t mention Blanchard, Edwin Easley, who was the Provost Marshal at Roswell in 1947, told me a little more about this. In an interview I conducted with him over the telephone, I asked if we, Don and I, had been following the right path. He asked what I meant, and I said, "We think it was extraterrestrial." "Let me put it this way. It''s not the wrong path." Not long before he died, he did mention bodies to the family. Dr.

Harold Granek, who practiced in several Fort Worth hospitals, reported Easley''s granddaughter asked him about the Roswell case. According to the information, Easley said, only, "Oh, the creatures." There was something else that is important here. We have little official documentation about the Roswell crash, but we have found some. The Easley family had a letter written on December 30, 1947, to Colonel Blanchard from the Treasury Department. The opening paragraph is generic, giving a bit of context. It is the second paragraph that is important. It said .