tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post2764558330193892200..comments2024-03-19T11:13:40.642-07:00Comments on A Different Perspective: Beyond the Rhodes PhotographsKRandlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-6773753834006293082016-03-29T21:56:16.246-07:002016-03-29T21:56:16.246-07:00I believe the Rhodes sighting and the Roswell cras...I believe the Rhodes sighting and the Roswell crash are related.It looks to me like the Phoenix craft was a search and rescue for their downed comrades in New Mexico.....ask yourselves, which direction were they heading?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16479713808192123267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-40118537382628410562016-03-01T08:13:25.536-08:002016-03-01T08:13:25.536-08:00Mr. Randle,
If it would help your research, I hav...Mr. Randle,<br /><br />If it would help your research, I have a photo of Rhodes together with Lewis Larmore who also took several photos of the unidentified object. Both were members of the Phoenix Observatory Association. Dr. J. Allen Hynek claimed that Blue Book had hundreds of photos of UFOs--I've been trying to track down the final disposition of some of these photographs.<br /><br />You can contact me at my email address, or you can find the picture and accompanying article which I posted yesterday on Whitley Strieber's FaceBook homepage....Rick Martelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18375925489094354764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-2797120042493803262015-06-07T09:03:37.845-07:002015-06-07T09:03:37.845-07:00William Albert Rhodes was my uncle. He passed away...William Albert Rhodes was my uncle. He passed away in 2007 at 90 years of age. His last wife (of six) Nancy lives still in their house on 13th place in Phoenix, she celebrated her 87 birthday last January. A long time resident of Arizona he lived in Phoenix when it was a small village of 35,000 people. In those days you were judged by what you knew and what you did rather than what a piece of paper said you knew. It was literally the Wild West at the time. Bill was friends with many leading people of the time including two men who were to become governors of Arizona. Intellectually Bill was brilliant and had many interests not limited to what I've read here. He was very active in the early radio music scene in Arizona. He played piano throughout his life at a very high level. He held many patents including the water welder, of which I have one in my garage. He worked extensively in the solar field and his home still has a hybrid solar panel for heating water and a "helioscope", which uses reflected light via mirrors to illuminate the inside of a building, among other innovations. He organized a "solar showcase" in Arizona in 1955, which while covered by the local media was a relative flop due, I believe, to entrenched corporate interests such as Arizona Public Service and Salt River Project. He was a "90 day wonder" and never said otherwise. No one who knew him even a little bit would think he didn't deserve to be called Dr. He invented Rhodes Gas and although it's now called Browns Gas it was his development and invention. He had some success in business but made many bad decisions and had no lasting business interests. He was used and abused business wise throughout his life. I know little about the UFO pictures having been born in 1947. He always kidded me and told me I was half alien. His personal life aside (obviously having had six wives) he wasn't the most stable of family men, but in the end he was one of a kind, complex, intelligent, flawed as most of us are. Bill Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13289197970993655712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-74180623963697786252010-10-17T17:58:59.660-07:002010-10-17T17:58:59.660-07:00I always thought it was interesting Arnold made ef...I always thought it was interesting Arnold made efforts to contact Rhodes and was quite excited when he saw his photographs published, as they looked very similar to the 8th craft, (2nd to last) Arnold saw, which apparently had a different shape than the others. Arnold said he'd kept the difference secret so as to recognise hoaxes(?). <br />There is discussion about Arnold embellishing his story about the eighth craft in Martin Shough's "The Singular Adventure of Mr Kenneth Arnold" Interesting nonetheless.Orkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09243462761133269504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-51856998004704023592010-10-08T11:24:54.317-07:002010-10-08T11:24:54.317-07:00Mr Rhodes company in Phoenix was (and is) Arizona ...Mr Rhodes company in Phoenix was (and is) Arizona Hydrogen Manufacturing, Inc.<br /><br />Contact info is readily available. I'm surprised no one contacted Mr Rhodes there.<br /><br />For several years prior to his death (re: Kevin) there are articles and forum disputes between a Mr William A Rhodes and Yull Brown regarding bragging rights about oxyhydrogen -- or, something like that. I know nothing about the subject. I'm just browsing around. This Mr Rhodes' claimed the "PhD", the label "Physicist" and an association (at what time I don't know) with Arizona State University.<br /><br />Images of Citigroup's William R Rhodes are often identified on the web as those of William A Rhodes.<br /><br />CDA...Palmer is not...how can I put this? Never mind 8-)<br /><br />"...was instead a headline on the Roswell crashed saucer, which featured prominently!"<br /><br />Sometimes it seems it's the skeptics who started the story that a flying saucer crashed at Roswell.<br /><br />Regards<br /><br />DonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-7046334876065448992010-10-08T10:59:20.594-07:002010-10-08T10:59:20.594-07:00CDA - I really can't let this go unchallenged....CDA - I really can't let this go unchallenged. While I know you don't accept it, there is testimony from a dozen or more civilians who have made this claim. Carey and Schmitt did not invent it. Reject it if you wish, but the testimony is out there.<br /><br />William Rhodes, according to my information, died in 2009 (or maybe 2008), so yes, he had a long life... and as you'll see in the next post, he did hold a number of patents. Something the Air Force didn't bother with. They were just to busy making fun of him.KRandlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-66288426049265166862010-10-08T10:43:29.184-07:002010-10-08T10:43:29.184-07:00The second photo does not appear to be our Mr Rhod...The second photo does not appear to be our Mr Rhodes. So, that is a false trail.<br /><br /><br />Regards,<br /><br />DonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-87669657809828251462010-10-08T10:32:59.188-07:002010-10-08T10:32:59.188-07:00Rhodes photos:
This looks like it was taken in th...Rhodes photos:<br /><br />This looks like it was taken in the 1960s<br /><br />http://www.hydrogen-gas-savers.com/william-a-rhodes.htm<br /><br />More recent:<br />http://123nonstop.com/pictures-Rhodes,_William_(I)<br /><br />Seems near the right age<br /><br /><br />Regards,<br /><br />DonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-83243367139192642472010-10-08T08:20:14.102-07:002010-10-08T08:20:14.102-07:00Lots of google hits on a William A. Rhodes from Ph...Lots of google hits on a William A. Rhodes from Phoenix, but 21st century dates on material written by him are common. So, either he is very long-lived or it is someone else.<br /><br />Regards,<br /><br />DonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-26448273972586010952010-10-05T08:19:13.271-07:002010-10-05T08:19:13.271-07:00shrift - short shriftshrift - short shriftAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-32573422459394886962010-10-04T13:55:51.353-07:002010-10-04T13:55:51.353-07:00An interesting sideline is that Ray Palmer, who sw...An interesting sideline is that Ray Palmer, who swore by the Rhodes photos, claimed in 1959 that he had heard that all copies of the "Arizona Republic" of July 9, 1947 (which featured Rhodes' photos) were seized by the military in a house-to-house operation, which explained why very very few copies were obtainable, so Palmer claimed. <br /><br />This was all bunk of course, but the sideline is that the headline on page 1 of that particular issue had nothing to do with Rhodes but was instead a headline on the Roswell crashed saucer, which featured prominently! The Rhodes photos were relegated to a minor story. <br /><br />Palmer's story reminds me of the similar claims, made in the recent Schmitt-Carey book (among others) about the military going around people's houses at the time threatening citizens while searching for debris from the Roswell UFO.<br /><br />Some things never change.cdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01005702597775594084noreply@blogger.com