FBI Memo: Proof Of UFOs?

Leaking Out

It's finally here.
After all the hard work, the blurry, unsubstantial pictures, the tales of abduction, the pilgrimages into the New Mexico desert only to return empty-handed but still full of conviction - it's all paid off. A memo from 1950 found in the now publicly-available FBI archives is proof that the US government has known about flying saucers, UFOs, alien life forms - possibly even the notorious Roswell crash.


Well... maybe. The memo, dated March 22 1950, written by FBI agent Guy Hottel and mailed to J. Edgar Hoover, reports that:
"An investigator for the Air Force stated that three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico... circular in shape with raised centers, approximately 50 feet in diameter. Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only 3 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 flyers and test pilots."

There's a big and immediate problem with these accusations, however. First off, the Roswell crash is said to have been in 1947, three years prior to this memo. Secondly, the Roswell crash supposedly resulted in scattered debris - not intact saucers. In fact, this memo is said to refer to a 1948 crash in Aztec, New Mexico.

The memo continues, "According to Mr. [redacted] informant, the saucers were found in New Mexico due to the fact that the Government has a very high-powered radar set-up in that area and it is believed the radar interferes with the controlling mechanism of the saucers."

Fine, so it's not Roswell. But this memo could still prove that there have been UFO crashes in the past, right? (Antennae crossed.)

Facing Facts

Many say no. The document is, in fact, old news. It was released to the public years ago according to AOL News. Physicist Bruce Maccabee asserts that it was one of 1,600 documents that the FBI released in the late 70s. Here's the kicker: the document was never secret - in fact, it was never even classified.

Even Agent Hottel himself may not have seen the evidence of a flying saucer. He was merely reporting what an unnamed informant reported to him. So how reliable is this informant? Yahoo! News reports that physicist and researcher David E. Thomas believes the informant to be a mystery man named Silas Newton, who may have fabricated a previous UFO hoax.

If only the Roswell UFO was caught on film. Newton was convicted of fraud in 1952 for claiming to be in possession of alien materials that would be able to locate underground oil. But then again, should we believe Mr. Thomas? Perhaps he, along with Maccabee pinned it all on Silas to pull the "metallic cloth" over our eyes? Who better to cast as a scapegoat than a known con artist?

British UFO expert Nick Pope believes that the memo is the real deal, calling the documents "the real life X-files." The Globe and Mail quotes him as saying: "This document could be the smoking gun that proves UFOs are real." And Pope is far from alone. DarkGovernment.com believes that the memo is further proof in a string of UFO sightings that occurred around the same time in Farmington, New Mexico.

There is little doubt that the Hottel memo is authentic and true, but the story it tells is up for grabs. Is it simply another peg in the tall tale of a con man with a penchant for sci-fi? Or is it just another layer in an ongoing government cover up?

Source : http://www.trutv.com