Secret UFO ‘crash’ 6 years after Roswell still troubling US intelligence officials, leaked texts reveal: ‘stuck’

Roswell was just the beginning.

The 1947 UFO incident that rocked a small New Mexico town and shocked the world was followed by a less famous but perhaps even scarier event six years later—with recently declassified government documents appearing that shed new light on the night in question.

In the partially redacted communication shared on social media, a senior intelligence official notes that the public would be “reluctant” to know the whole truth.

The unearthed information appears to confirm a longstanding urban legend in the town of Kingman, Arizona, a state west of the Route 66 pitstop, where locals have spent nearly three-quarters of a century retelling the story of a 1953 crash.

Multiple sighters reportedly saw at least one UFO crash on May 21 just outside the small Mojave Desert town, located 100 miles from Las Vegas.

“It’s very rare to have multiple witnesses, multiple sources of information, corroborating an incident like this,” Preston Dennett, author of “UFOs Over Arizona: A True History of Extraterrestrial Encounters in the Grand Canyon State”.

In a previous interview with AZ Central, Dennett called the incident “one of the most verified UFO encounters in the United States.”

A local institution, the Mohave Museum of History and Arts even boasts an exhibit on the crash, which locals — and more recently podcasters — have been trying to get to the bottom of for years.

Bigger than Roswell?

Harry Drew is one of those locals – the local historian made a documentary on the extraterrestrial mystery a few years ago.

Drew told 8NewsNow that witnesses described seeing eight UFOs — also called modern unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) — in the night sky, engaged in what appeared to be some sort of battle. In the end, he said, three crafts fell.

The crash happened around the same time as a series of nuclear tests in Nevada code-named Operation Upshot-Knothole, declassified military documents show.

Consistent with other global sightings of UFOs near sharp points of radiation, an atomic bomb was detonated two days before the incident, according to the report.

During the night in question, one ship burned when it crashed into a mountain, another was found intact in the desert without any damage, and a third crashed near a small reservoir, around which the military and a team of scientists were stationed. to recover, Drew claimed.

Although much of the researcher’s theory has been debated in the UFO world – he also believes that experimental radar brought down the craft – Dennett documents a military response of 40 officials to one of the sites.

“The object was described as metallic, 30 feet wide and three and a half feet high, oval shaped with holes,” Dennett said in 2016. “Inside were two to four, four foot tall humanoids, mostly dead of springs. with big eyes and wearing metal suits.”

The pilot appears to have died in the crash.

What did the government know?

Over the next several years, Dennett traced the incident through old reports and government documents. He discovered a code name often used for a scientist: Fritz Werner.

“Now we know he’s Arthur Stansel,” Dennett said recently.

“It was [Stansel’s] work to basically determine the speed of this object as it descended, based on the scratch it made on the ground, and he estimated it to be about 1,200 miles per hour.

The project was top secret – the scientists arrived in a closed bus so they wouldn’t know where they were. An Air Force colonel impressed upon the importance of staying calm in a group.

However, 20 years later Stansel signed a statement confirming his presence at the mystery site. Dennett claims the government took the craft into secret storage, according to information in a lawsuit discovered 50 years after the fact.

“These ships are assembled, sent to various Air Force bases, science laboratories and studied intensively, with the goal of understanding exactly what we can understand about how they work,” he said.

And while this may all sound like a great plot for a sci-fi thriller, the impressive reports seemed to be further legitimized after a former intelligence officer recently went public with a text conversation he had with an official unidentified government “high” in 2020.

The conversation between Christopher Mellon, the former deputy assistant secretary of Defense, and the anonymous source said people will be “fed up” to learn what the government really knows about the incident.

The government also knows “who recovers the downed UAPs [unidentified anomalous phenomenal] under what authorities.”

The next blow – the feds are still “dealing” with the Kingman incident.

“We are cleaning up the information,” the partially redacted conversation said. “We also know that a still highly classified memo from a Secretary of [United States Air Force] is still in effect to maintain cover at UAP.