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