| Like most UFO incidents denied by the | | | | about odd bodies found out at the crash |
| U.S. Government, the 1947 Roswell crash | | | | scene. One of the men from his barracks |
| refuses to go away quietly. Each time a | | | | was an emergency room medic. He told |
| government spokesperson invents a new | | | | Sprouse and others that "humanoid" |
| explanation to contradict the theory | | | | bodies were brought in after the crash. |
| that an alien spacecraft crashed near | | | | The medic's story gave him the |
| Roswell, one or more new witnesses come | | | | impression that one or more of the |
| forward to support the original Air | | | | creatures might have been alive because |
| Force statement. That statement called | | | | he said, "We don't think the humanoid |
| the object a 'flying disc' and left us | | | | ate food." Milton also remembers how |
| with the impression that the occupants | | | | everything changed the day after the |
| weren't quite human. Milton Sprouse, age | | | | original 'flying disc' statement was |
| eighty-five, lives in Escondido, | | | | made. Milton recalls, "The next day, it |
| California. In 1947, he was an engine | | | | was published in the Roswell Daily |
| mechanic and part of the 393rd Bomb | | | | Record, and that night, all the generals |
| Group connected to the 509th Composite | | | | said the story was untrue." He continued |
| Group at Roswell. Milton arrived in | | | | on to say that officers from the base |
| Roswell during 1945 after serving on the | | | | were sent into town to collect all the |
| Pacific Island of Tinian towards the end | | | | copies of the press release and |
| of World War Two. When the aircraft he | | | | newspaper with the original 'flying |
| was servicing was moved to Roswell, he | | | | disc' story in it that they could find. |
| was sent there as well. As the lead | | | | The medic was transferred elsewhere |
| mechanic for Dave's Dream, he didn't | | | | along with the doctors and nurses that |
| find the area especially exciting. | | | | saw the odd-looking creatures. What |
| "There was nothing there but tumbleweeds | | | | became of the humanoids? "They took the |
| blowing for miles," Sprouse said in a | | | | bodies to a hangar, and there were two |
| recent interview. All that changed in | | | | guards at each door with machine guns," |
| July of 1947. After returning from a | | | | Milton said. Sprouse was referring to |
| brief trip to Florida aboard Dave's | | | | Hangar 84. Milton Spouse left the base |
| Dream, Milton found himself thrust into | | | | in 1956 and says that the people serving |
| a hurricane of activity. Back at the | | | | there were still talking about the crash |
| base on the day when the original | | | | at the time. That was years after the |
| 'flying disc' statement was released, he | | | | rest of the world already accepted the |
| remembered how hundreds of men from the | | | | first of several official explanations |
| base were sent out to the crash site to | | | | which indicated the object was a weather |
| pick up all the debris they could find. | | | | balloon with radar reflecting material |
| Milton was needed at the base because of | | | | attached. When he returns to Roswell for |
| his position as lead mechanic. However, | | | | the annual 509th Reunions, Spouse says |
| five other members of his crew went to | | | | "The Roswell incident comes up every |
| the crash site. After returning, they | | | | year, but there's nothing really new." |
| told Sprouse that what they saw looked | | | | He may not be an eyewitness to the 1947 |
| "Out of this world." They were | | | | crash, but Milton Sprouse is like so |
| describing the material which looked | | | | many others that were on the base or in |
| like aluminum foil, but refused to | | | | Roswell at that time. They simply do not |
| crumple and seemed almost | | | | believe the official explanations. |
| indestructible. The same description was | | | | That's because people they worked with, |
| used by Major Jesse Marcel, the officer | | | | knew and trusted with their lives told |
| originally sent to investigate the crash | | | | them the truth about what happened based |
| scene. Although Sprouse knew Marcel, he | | | | on their own first-hand experiences. |
| wasn't able to speak to him after the | | | | Even when skeptics spin that information |
| crash. Milton recalls, "I could never | | | | to say that crash test dummies, children |
| get close to him." Most of the men knew | | | | or bloated bodies were responsible for |
| about the radar reflecting balloons and | | | | the humanoid body stories, the |
| saw the material that the Air Force | | | | explanations just don't seem to fit. As |
| tried to pass off as what crashed in | | | | Spouse says, "You can believe what you |
| early July of 1947. It wasn't the same. | | | | want, I know it's true." Read more at |
| The radar balloons came down everywhere | | | | Bill Knell is a popular Speaker, Author |
| in those days and most everyone that | | | | and Consultant with eclectic interests. |
| lived in Roswell saw some at one time or | | | | Featured in the Wall Street Journal; |
| another. What they saw at the crash site | | | | seen on NBC Nightly News; heard on |
| was something else, and the buzz around | | | | Mancow and Howard Stern; consultant to |
| base wasn't just about strange metallic | | | | films like Men in Black and World of the |
| material. Milton said that he heard talk | | | | Worlds. BillKnell. |