'Alien Agenda With Gene P. Abel, Season 2, Roswell Part 1

Colonel Gene explores the 1947 Roswell incident, linking it to a 1941 UFO crash in Missouri that may have sparked government interest in extraterrestrials. He reviews military responses, eyewitness accounts, and claims from Lieutenant Colonel Phillip Corso's book, "The Day After Roswell." The 1947 incident involved radar anomalies, a mysterious explosion, and the recovery of a saucer-like craft and alien bodies. Corso's book and a History Channel episode support these claims. The military's response included a cover-up, with one alien reportedly surviving and communicating with a corpsman named Ariel. The episode ends with a cliffhanger, inviting listeners to the next episode for more details. Gene describes the sensitive nature of the White Sands Missile Range and Alamogordo, where the U.S. Army was testing nuclear weapons. In the days leading up to July 3-4, 1947, severe lightning storms over White Sands caused multiple radar blips, prompting the Army's counterintelligence corps to send agents. Given the tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during this period, the Pentagon was concerned about potential Soviet spying. Radar sightings revealed objects traveling at speeds unheard of then, with acceleration rates that would have been impossible for human pilots. On July 3-4, 1947, a radar blip darted across the display at White Sands, and an explosion produced a brilliant white light. Colonel William Blanchard of the 509th Composite Group dispatched a counterintelligence unit and a full recovery team to the crash site. The Roswell sheriff and fire department also responded, with one firefighter retrieving a piece from the crash site without military notice. Eyewitness accounts described a saucer-like light craft partially embedded in the ground, with three dead humanoid figures and a living creature seen crawling out. The military quickly recovered the wreckage and ordered civilians to forget the incident, similar to the 1941 crash in Missouri. Local journalist Wilfred Sloppy received a call from John McBoyle, the regional manager of KOA radio, about the Roswell crash. Despite the FBI's orders to cease communications, the Roswell Daily Record published a front-page story on July 8, 1947. Corpsman Matilda O'Donnell McClary claimed to have encountered a surviving alien at the crash site, which communicated with her using mental images. Corpsman McClary reported that the alien, named Ariel, was about four feet tall, with long and thin arms, an enlarged head, and big black eyes. The alien was in color and had three fingers on each hand, and McClary was directed to accompany it back to the base. McClary interviewed the alien from July 7 to August 1947 at Roswell, New Mexico airbase.To be a guest on Alien Agenda with Gene P. Abel, contact Debra Wallace at Debra@pcm.agency