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Not all that long ago a couple of people asked me what I knew about this Ralph Multer guy. I hadn’t heard of him but did a little research and discovered he was about to be added to the list of Roswell witnesses. Well, not really. His family was saying that he had told them about his brush with the Roswell case so his name might be added but he wouldn’t be telling us anything new.
Multer, who was described by Ed Balint at CantonRep.com, as a blue-collar worker, a World War II veteran who had been wounded during the war and had participated in the Invasion of Iwo Jima, apparently told family before he died that he had seen something from another world. He was married young and worked at the Timken Company as a truck driver.
According to the family, he told them that he had hauled debris from the flying saucer crash for testing at the plant. He said he had been told, along with two fellow truck drivers to pick up a load from the rail yard. He said that three trucks, covered by tarps, carried the material to the Timken furnaces for testing. His truck had the largest of the loads.
When they arrived at the plant, the were met by the FBI agents. In an incredible breach of security, one of that agents told him that the metal had come from a flying saucer recovered in New Mexico. Multer was told by an FBI agent not to tell anyone about what he had seen. It was all highly classified.
According to the story, Multer talked to someone at the plant who told him that the metal couldn’t be cut and couldn’t be heated, let alone melted. It was lightweight and silver or gray, which isn’t much of a description.
This story apparently surfaced in the mid-1990s when William E. Jones and Irena McCammon Scott heard it from Multer’s widow. He died in 1982 without talking to anyone about it other than family. They, of course, believe it, insisting that Multer wasn’t a liar and didn’t tell tales.
So, what do we make of all this. Frankly, I’m quite skeptical of this story. Why? Because there is no reason for the Army to have taken that much debris to a private company to run these sorts of tests. The facilities at Wright Field, in 1947, could have run the tests and not risk compromising the case. Why take that chance?
And, of course, the testing was compromised by Multer. He told family about it, apparently all his life. He was told not to talk, but did anyway.
And here is something else. Why was the FBI involved at all? The Army could have assured that the truck drivers and all the other civilians were warned not to talk about the case. No reason to bring in the FBI or to let even more people in on the secret.
That’s why this case breaks down. There is no need to compromise security by using a civilian agency, no matter what sort of governmental contract work they might be doing, or had done. There was no reason to take three truckloads of the stuff to Timken for testing.
If you are attempting to keep a secret, you simply do not involve people who have no need to know. You don’t ship it to a location to be put on trucks to be driven to a civilian plant. You protect it carefully and run the tests in isolation on military facilities. You don’t involve the FBI or anyone else, if you can avoid that.
Ben Franklin said that three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead. In this case, it seems that the Army was spreading the secret much farther than necessary.
And if they needed the special facilities at Timken to test the debris, there is absolutely no reason to tell the truck drivers what they are carrying. There is no reason to mention flying saucers or New Mexico. Just tell them it is a specialized aircraft from Dayton (location of Wright Field) and let it go at that.
In fact, there is no reason to give this information to the FBI agents. They could have done their jobs without knowing the material was from a crashed flying saucer in New Mexico. A cover story could have been invented… sort of like the Project Mogul story we’re saddled with today.
No, I am not buying this story, especially since there is no way to corroborate it. Without something more, we might want to note it in passing, but we certainly don’t want to add it to the lists of evidence proving Roswell was extraterrestrial. It doesn’t do that and it is an unnecessary diversion. Let’s just leave it at that.

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By Sherry BoardmanThe Joiner Report8-20-10      Michael C. Luckman is director of the New York Center for Extraterrestrial Research and the founder of the Cosmic Majority 2012, an organization that seeks to represent the majority of people on earth who believe in UFOs, life on Mars, and the paranormal. He taught the nation’s first college course on rock music.Luckman authored ALIEN ROCK: The

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Wendelle Stevens (image credit: Maritza Keefe)

Wendelle Stevens (image credit: Maritza Keefe)

UFO research pioneer, Wendelle Stevens passed today at 4:44 pm in his home in Tucson, Arizona.

Lt. Colonel (USAF Ret.) Wendelle C. Stevens was one of the world’s best known UFO researchers. Born in 1923 in Round Prairie, Minn., he enlisted in 1941 in the US Army and was transferred to the Air Corps in1942. He served in the Pacific Theater during World War II and subsequently in a classified project in Alaska to photograph and map the Arctic land and sea area, where the data collecting equipment onboard B-29s detected UFOs. Stevens also served as US Air Attaché in South America. He retired from the USAF in 1963 and worked for Hamilton Aircraft until 1972.

Wendelle Stevens was actively involved in ufology for 54 years, first as Director of Investigations for the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) in Tucson, Ariz., where he retired. He amassed one of the largest collections of UFO photos and investigated a number of contact cases, published in more than 22 books. His most famous one was the Billy Meier case in Switzerland.

In Dec. 1997 he received an award for lifetime achievement at the First World UFO Forum in Brazilia, capital of Brazil. He was a founder and Director of the International UFO Congress and recently transferred his extensive photo collection, library and archives to Open Minds Production.

Major Wendelle Stevens at WADC in Dayton, Ohio.

Wendelle Stevens as a Major at the Wright Air Development Center in Dayton, Ohio.

We will be posting additional stories, photos, and information about Wendelle’s extraordinary UFO research career over the next few days.

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It’s the myth that will not die! Although I’ve ‘busted’ it on numerous occasions, Phil ‘The Bad Astronomer’ Plait has once again claimed on his blog that astronomers “rarely, if ever, report UFOs”. I’m going to be flat out lazy here and simply answer the above with the relevant section from Chris Rutkowski’s A World of UFOs, which directly addresses the question of whether astronomers see UFOs (which I have a feeling may have been written ‘specially on account of Phil). Chris is one of the most respected UFO researchers out there, and has a background in astronomy himself.

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Two polls of professional and amateur astronomers respectively, on whether they see UFOs or not. There have been several public opinion polls in US and Canada, which have shown that 7-9% of the people think they have seen a UFO and almost 50% think UFOs are real -over the years the percentage has ranged from 35% to 57%, the highest was in a Gallup poll of May 1978. However, scoffers often counter-argued that astronomers, who are presumably more knowledgeable about observing and evaluating the skies than the general public, do not see UFOs. The following two polls of professional and amateur astronomers respectively, suggest otherwise…

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By Anthony BragaliaThe UFO Iconoclast(s)9-7-10     The role that was played by the Chaves County Sheriff in the Roswell UFO crash of 1947 -though of major importance- is even today not completely understood. It is also vastly under appreciated. Had George Wilcox not made the fateful call that day to the local Army base to alert them to a rancher’s discovery of unusual crash debris, the true

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factorfakedFollowing in the footsteps of the big screen, several UFO-themed shows are coming to television.

Hollywood is slowly being taken over by movies about UFOs and extraterrestrial encounters. There has been an increase in the number of UFO-related movies at the box office during the past couple years, and there are already a dozen or so movies scheduled to release next year dealing with the UFO phenomenon.

While the small screen has seen its share of UFO shows like X-Files and UFO Hunters, it appears that television is also experiencing a surge of programming exploring the UFO topic.

The SyFy Channel debuted its latest UFO-related show this year entitled Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files. The show follows a team of investigators as they attempt to determine if evidence is genuine, or if it has been manufactured. In the first episode of the show, the team investigated mysterious lights in the Arizona sky. Not only were they unable to recreate the lights, but the team also witnessed the lights for themselves.

William Shatner’s Weird or What? recently debuted on History Television. In this show, the former Star Trek captain attempts to explain mystifying events, in a tongue-in-cheek manner. Shatner believes in extraterrestrial life, and has a fascination with exploring the inexplicable.

syfyTheir show Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files apparently doesn’t meet their demand, because the SyFy Channel just announced that it is in the process of developing a new reality show called UFO: Unbelievably Freakin’ Obvious, starring Billy Ray Cyrus and his son Trace. The show will follow the father-son duo around the country as they offer “skeptical solutions to many theories.” According to Billy Ray, his son Trace has always had a “keen interest in this area.” Billy Ray seems to have his own interest in the topic, as he originally agreed to perform at the 2010 Roswell UFO Festival, but later canceled.

NBC’s much-hyped drama The Event debuts on September 20th, 2010. The show is described as a “high-octane conspiracy thriller” with a plot centering around the discovery of the government’s massive UFO cover-up.

Principal cast for The Event (credit: NBC)

Principal cast for The Event (credit: NBC)

This sampling of UFO-related television programming illustrates the high demand for such content, generated by the growing interest in the topic of UFOs and related phenomena. Screens, both big and small, are seeing a tremendous amount of UFO-themed content. Much of the content has already demonstrated a strongly skeptical and/or negative position, but whether this will be demonstrated in upcoming productions or not remains to be seen.

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