The big news in the
last few days is the announcement by Tony Bragalia, that the Pentagon had
confirmed to him that they had recovered UFO crash debris. Tony told me that he
has been chasing the “memory metal” that was described by Bill Brazel. When I
interviewed Brazel, he described three types of debris he had found in 1947.
Brazel’s father, Mack, said it looked like the stuff from the contraption he
had found on his ranch north of Roswell in 1947. One of those scraps was
something that looked like aluminum foil but when folded or wadded up and
released, would return to its original shape.
Bill Brazel
What that somewhat
complicated paragraph is telling us is that material from the 1947 crash had
properties that suggested metal with a memory, and Tony has been chasing that
lead for several years. More than three years ago he submitted a Freedom of
Information request to various government agencies. He asked for, “Associated
with the Department of Defense Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program
of the US Pentagon are warehouses in the Las Vegas, NV area scheduled to soon
hold metal-like alloy material recovered from Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.
This could include physical debris recovered by personnel of the Department of
Defense as residue, flotsam, shot-off material or crashed material from UAPs or
unidentified flying objects.”
All fairly specific. He
received nearly 150 pages of material in response. The trouble was that there
was no mention of alien spacecraft, UFOs, UAPs or anything like that in those
documents. At one point, there was a mention of extraterrestrial material, but
that referred using material found on other planets in construction of bases on
those planets. Tony did tell me that there was nothing in the documents about
anything alien.
According to him, the
important connection is made in the letter that accompanied the documents. The
FOIA officer, used the term, UAP in that response, and that, according to Tony
is the connection. You can listen to that interview here:
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/43724887
It didn’t seem all that
solid to me but I wanted more information. I contacted the expert in FOIA, John
Greenewald, who had read the documents that Tony had recovered and issued his
opinion on all this. John, like me, noticed no reference to anything alien in
the documents. He found that worrisome. You can listen to that interview here:
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/43725610
More importantly, when
I asked about the connection in the FOIA letter of response, John pointed out
that it seemed to be a cut and paste job. What he meant was that as the FOIA
officer wrote his response, he cut and pasted phrases from Tony’s original
request into that response. That tended to mitigate the importance of the use
of the term UAP in that response.
John Greenewald |
Tony had suggested that
the material that was to be sent to Las Vegas would be sent to Bob Bigelow of
Bigelow Aerospace for reverse engineering. Bigelow when asked about this said
that he had received nothing like that. He denied that he had any material
created by aliens or on another planet.
It boils down to what
the FOIA officer meant, and if the use of UAP meant that the Pentagon had
recovered debris that was going to be provided into American industry for
exploitation. Since many of the documents Tony received had already been
released, and given that the classification on them was For Official Use Only,
the lowest level of classification which doesn’t even require a locked drawer
for storage, it seems to me, that the revelation wasn’t as exciting as Tony
thought it was and didn’t actually confirm Pentagon possession of alien debris.
Turns out that this was a near miss.
Harry Drew writes about the Kingman AZ UFO legend, and is the scheduled guest on Coast to Coast AM tonight. Many believe the story to be a hoax, but it should be a fun episode nonetheless.
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