Friedman - Crash at Corona The Definitive Study of the Roswell Incident (1992)

Friedman - Crash at Corona The Definitive Study of the Roswell Incident (1992)

The U.S. military retrieval and cover-up of a UFO.

by Stanton T. Friedman & Don Berliner

With Exclusive Testimony on a Second New Mexico Crash Site and New Evidence of the Government's Secret MJ-12 Team.

Before there were UFOs, there were remarkable meteors, mystery airships, mystery airplanes, Foo fighters, ghost rockets, flying discs, and flying saucers. In fact, strange, unidentified sights in the sky can be traced as far back into history as one is willing to delve. Drawings interpreted as someone's idea of spaceships and spacemen have been found on the walls of European caves dating back tens of thousands of years. Prehistoric lines on a Peruvian plain are said to be a guide for UFO landings. Biblical passages are read as the appearances of what are now called UFOs. All through the nineteenth century, ships' captains and astronomers reported seeing things in the sky that failed to fit anything known and were thus lamely referred to as "remarkable meteors."

Unfortunately, there is no way to apply scientific techniques to determine the legitimacy of clues older than a few score years. The original references are too vague and the witnesses long since dead, so all that remains are amusing tales and the intriguing hint of a link between ancient unknowns and their modern counterparts. To take old reports at face value would be unscientific in the extreme. The author and philosopher Charles Fort collected several volumes of anecdotes about pre-1930s mysteries, catalogued them, and left them for later generations to unravel.

At the end of the nineteenth century, with ballooning a popular sport and powered balloons—airships—being tested in hopes of providing elementary air transportation, a wave of sightings of "mystery airships" broke out. While many of the reports were eventually blamed on publicity-seekers and unethical journalists, some reports suggested real machines with performance capabilities greater than anything known to have been flying at the time.

But not until man entered the age of mechanical flight with the first voyages by the Wright Brothers in 1903 could reports of odd aerial sights be judged in the light of rapidly advancing technology. It wasn't until 1911-1912 that airplanes began to be seen in any numbers, and then mainly at air shows where there were people ready to pay for the privilege. This was soon followed by the first of the twentieth-century waves of UFOlike sights. Called "mystery airplanes," they are only now beginning to attract serious attention.

Similar waves of mystery airplanes that failed to conform to known activity were reported from both the United States and Europe in the 1930s, but not until the latter stages of World War II did the press and governments began to pay attention to a cohesive phenomenon: the "foo fighters."

These mysterious, often "playful" balls of light and shining spheres were reported by the experienced crews of American warplanes in both the European and Pacific theaters of war in late 1944 and early 1945. They were said to fly along with our planes and even to play tag with them, singly and in small formations. Not once was there any suggestion that a foo fighter had proved aggressive or even mildly unfriendly. That, in the midst of history's most terrible war, suggested two possible explanations: they were something natural (such as St. Elmo's Fire, the eerie atmospheric discharge of built-up static electricity) or they were insidious enemy machines not quite ready for combat. After all, the sky was full of V-1 buzz bombs and V-2 rockets; who could say what other devilish contraptions the Nazis might be readying?

1. A History of Modern Sightings 1
2. The Search for Evidence Begins 8
3. The Government and UFOs 20
4. The Search Intensifies 41
5. The Canadian Connection 47
6. Majestic-12 55
7. Civilians Find the Wreckage 71
8. The Military Takes Over 98
9. Retrieval and Shipment 110
10. The Great Cover-up 130
11. Alternative Explanations for the Wreckage 141
12. Keeping the Secret 148
13. After the Crash 157
14. The Crash Site Today 167
15. Implications 174

audiobook specs: 6 hours 42 min, MP3, 58 kbps VBR, Mac computer voice Daniel

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