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- THE AZTEC RECOVERY 1948
- It was the columnist Frank Scully who first alerted the world to sensational
- stories of recovered flying saucers and little men in his best-selling book
- "Behind the Flying Saucers" published in 1950. Scully claimed that up to that
- time there had been four such recoveries, one of which was alleged to have
- taken place around Aztec, New Mexico, when sixteen humanoid bodies were
- recovered together with their undamaged craft. According to Scully's
- informants, the disk that landed near Aztec was 99.99 feet in diameter, its
- exterior made of a light metal resembling aluminum but so durable that no
- amount of heat (up to 10,000 degrees was applied) or diamond-tipped drill had
- the slightest effect. The disk apparently incorporated large rings of metal
- which revolved around a central, stabilized cabin, using an unfamiliar gear
- ratio. There were no rivets, bolts, screws or signs of welding. Investigators
- were eventually able to gain entry. Scully was told, because of a fracture in
- one of the portholes, which they enlarged, revealing a knob inside the cabin
- which when pushed (with a pole) caused a hidden door to open. Sixteen small
- humanoids, ranging in height from 36 to 42 inches, were supposedly found dead
- inside the cabin, their bodies charred to a dark brown color. Scully was told
- that the craft landed undamaged, having landed under its own guidance. The
- craft was eventually dismantled, the investigators having discovered that it
- was manufactured in segments which fitted in grooves and were pinned together
- around the base. The complete cabin section, measuring 18 feet in diameter,
- was lifted out of the base of the saucer, around which was a gear that fitted a
- gear on the cabin. These segments, together with the bodies, were then
- transported to Wright Field (Wright Patterson AFB). Some of the bodies were
- later dissected and examined by the Air Force, and were found to be similar in
- all respects to human beings, with the exception of their teeth, which were
- perfect.
- New Supportive Evidence?
- -----------------------
- According to important information published by William Steinman in 1987 there
- is a large grain of truth in the Aztec story, and he has managed to acquire
- some astonishing supportive evidence. Like Scully, he is unwilling to divulge
- his sources, which inevitably lays him open to charges of fabrication.
- Steinman discovered that the Aztec disk came to earth on 25 March 1948, having
- been detected by three separate radar units in the southwest, one of which was
- said to have disrupted the craft's control mechanism. The area of impact was
- calculated by triangulation and this information was immediately relayed to Air
- Defense Command and Gen. George C. Marshall, then Secretary of State, who
- allegedly contacted the MJ-12 group as well as the Interplanetary Phenomenon
- Unit (IPU) of the Army Counterintelligence Directorate. The IPU operated out
- of Camp Hale, Colorado, at this time, Steinman claims, and its main function
- was to collect and deliver disabled or crashed disks to certain specified
- secret locations.
- The craft was recovered within hours by the IPU scout team about 12 miles
- northeast of Aztec. General Marshall ordered Air Defense Command to go off
- alert status, and the radar units were advised that there had been a false
- alarm. Marshall then gave orders to the commander of the IPU to organize a
- recovery team and contacted Dr. Vannevar Bush - the head of MJ-12 - to gather
- together a team of scientists to accompany the IPU to the crash site. Steinman
- has named these scientists as follows:
- Dr. Lloyd Berkner
- Dr. Detlev Bronk
- Dr. Carl A. Heiland
- Dr. Jerome Hunsaker
- Dr. John von Neumann
- Dr. Robert J. Oppenheimer
- Dr. Merle A. Tuve
- Dr. Horace B. van Valkenberg
- Four of these scientists, it will be noted, were members of the original
- MJ-12 panel set up in September 1947. Dr. Carl A. Heiland was a geophysicist
- and magnetic sciences expert who was the head of the Colorado School of Mines,
- and according to Steinman leaked details of the recovery to one of Scully's
- sources, Leo GeBauer. Dr. Horace B. van Valkenberg was an inorganic chemist
- associated with the University of Colorado. Dr. Merle A. Tuve worked for the
- Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II, and is
- chiefly remembered as a geophysicist for his techniques of radio wave
- propagation of the upper atmostphere. Dr. Robert J. Oppenheimer distinguished
- himself primarily as leader of the Los Alamos atomic bomb project, commanding
- the allegiance of the world's top physicists. He was the Director of the
- Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton from 1947 and became Chairman of the
- General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission. Dr. John von
- Neumann, the famous Hungarian born mathematician, became a consultant on the
- atom bomb (Manhatten Project) in 1943. His main area of expertise lay in the
- design and development of computers. The scientists, according to Steinman,
- were told by Dr. Bush to assemble at Durango Airfield, Colorado, 35 miles to
- the north of Aztec, with the minimum delay. All those involved in the
- recovery were sworn to an above top secret oath.
- The IPU convoy used a route to the site that avoided main roads, and on
- arrival road blocks were set up at strategic points within two miles of the
- recovery area. The owner of a ranch and his family were allegedly held
- incommunicado and told never to discuss the matter (cf. the Roswell incident).
- Equipment hauling trucks were camoflaged to look like oil drilling rigs during
- the operation.
- Inside the Craft
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- The team of scientists arrived at the site a little later than the IPU
- team and began inspecting the disk. According to Steinman, they entered the
- craft one by one, entry having been gained via a fractured porthole as
- discribed in Scully's account. The portholes themselves looked metallic and
- only appeared translucent on close inspection. Inside the craft they found
- two humanoids, about two feet in height, slumped over an instrument panel,
- charred deep brown. Another 12 bodies lay sprawled on the floor in a chamber
- within the cabin, making a total of 14 bodies (not 16 as Scully had been told).
- An instrument panel supposedly had several pushbuttons and levers with
- hieroglyphic-type symbols, as well as symbols illuminated on small display
- screens. Bush and von Neumann discovered that the control panel had drawers
- which rolled out, but no wiring could be detected. A book composed of
- parchment-like leaves with the texture of plastic also contained the strange
- hieroglyphs - similar to Sanskrit, Oppenheimer thought. This was given to
- General Marshall, who then passed it on to two leading cryptological experts
- for analysis, William F. Friedman and Lambros C. Callihamos (who both later led
- distinguished careers in the National Security Agency).
- Dr. Bonk, a physiologist and biophysicist, examined the bodies and asked
- Bush to get hold of cryogenic equipment with which to preserve them.
- Cryogenics specialist Dr. Pual A. Scherer, a colleague of Bush's, was contacted
- and advised Bush to obtain some dry ice. Meanwhile, another small group of
- scientists and military personnel examined the craft and were eventually able
- to dismantle it when several interlocking key divices were found which opened
- up seams at specific points.
- Three days later the segments were loaded onto three trucks, together with
- the bodies, and were with a tarpaulin marked "Explosives". The convoy headed
- at night by the least conspicuous and often most laborious route to the
- restricted Naval Auxilary Airfield complex at Los Alamos, arriving one week
- later. Here theyy remained for over a year, Steinman claims, before being
- transported to another base.
- The Bodies
- ----------
- Dr. Paul A. Scherer eventually obtained special preservation containers
- for the least damaged bodies, Steinman relates. One of the ocmpanies which
- supplied equipment was the Air Research Corporation, of which Scherer was
- Director of Research and Development; it supplied the liquid nitrogen pump,
- circulation system and refridgeration units. Other specimens were given a
- complete autopsy, by a team headed by Dr. Bronk, of biophysicists,
- histochemists and pathologists. The results were put in a report, part of
- which, Steinman claims, appeard in the "Air Force Project Sign (Grudge) Report
- No. 13" which has never been released.
- According to the report, the bodies were described as averaging 42 inches
- in length. The facial features strongly resembled "mongoloid orientals" in
- appearance, with disproportionately large heads, large "slant" eyes, small
- noses and mouths. The average weight was about 40 pounds. The torsos were
- very small and thin, with very thin necks. The arms were long and slender,
- reaching the knees, with hands containing long and slender fingers with webbing
- between them. There was no digestive or gastrointestinal tract, no alimentary
- or intestinal canal, and no rectal point. No reproductive organs were
- apparent. Instead of blood there was a colorless liquid with no red cells
- which smelled similar to ozone.
- -Timothy Good
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