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