Once
again, I find myself wondering just what in the hell is going on, though I
suspect we are being set up. We have heard, in the last few weeks that the new
government investigation into UFOs, I mean UAPs, is only going to deal with
military sightings and then we’re told that they’re going to look at sightings
going back to 1996. There was a story that NASA was going to investigate
sightings starting in 1945. And now we learn that the government is going to
investigate the crash of a UFO in 1945.
This
latest is from Nick Pope who made the claims on Tucker Carlson’s show,
mentioning what he called the “Roswell before Roswell.” The problem is that
this refers to case that Dr. Jacques Vallee promoted in his book, Trinity:
The Best Kept Secret. It is the story told by a man, who in 1945 was a
child. He claimed that he, and his child-aged pal, stumbled on the recovery of
this avocado-shaped UFO that crashed near the site of the first atomic
explosion, known now as the Trinity Site.
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| Nick Pope at the Las Vegas Crash Conference |
Vallee
has contributed a great deal to the study of what we now must call anomalous
phenomena, which are, of course, the latest in a long list of names that began
with flying saucers. I do not understand Vallee’s interest in this tale, nor
his lack of critical thinking about it. He seems to have embraced it when the
evidence, from the source is dubious at best. I’ve gone through this at length
in the past and you can read my analysis of his book and the tale here:
http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/06/trinity-best-kept-secret-critique.html
Let
me point out here, that Reme Baca, the man with the story, approached Stan
Friedman and later Don Schmitt in the 1990s. At that time, the crash seems to
have happened over on the Plains of San Agustin. Baca wanted to know how to
sell the story. Neither Friedman nor Schmitt were interested in it after doing a
bit of the preliminary work. They recognized the flaws in the story, including
details that seemed to have been borrowed from the Roswell crash.
When
I heard about this story back in 2010, I was bothered by the military reaction,
or rather, their lack of urgency when presented with the crash of an aerial
vehicle that was obviously not of American design. The Japanese had bombed the
American mainland starting in 1944 which killed six Americans using balloon
bombs. These were the only deaths on the American mainland caused by enemy
action. The point is, this avocado craft could be the vehicle created to kill Americans
and destroy property. The military would have had no way of knowing anything
about this craft at the time but would know that it was critical for them to
find out immediately.
We
learn that Baca and his pal watched the military retrieval operation from
hiding off and on for a couple of days. Toward the end, when all, and I mean
ALL, the soldiers left the site, they were able to explore the craft. I can
think of no circumstance in which such an unknown vehicle, once loaded on the
flatbed truck for removal, would have been left unguarded. Why didn’t they just
drive off at that point?
And,
we are told that the boys, and later several adults, walked the site, recovered
samples of debris, some of which was later incorporated in Christmas
decorations. But, of course, all that debris has disappeared and is therefore
unavailable for analysis.
I
believe that no one reading the book, which presents scant evidence for the
event, would believe this fairy tale. It makes no sense at all. Vallee makes
the case for other such events in the book as a way of validating the Trinity crash.
But I have gone into that at length in other postings about some of that evidence,
which you can read here:
http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2005/03/aurora-texas-story-that-wont-die.html
http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2018/12/jefferson-airship-vs-aurora-crash.html
http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2013/09/ufo-crashes-fifty-years-before-roswell.html
And
you can listen to my interview with Vallee and Harris about Trinty and
other aspects of the UFO phenomenon here:
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/45140594
As
I said, this smacks of a set up. The government is now going to investigate
this tale of a crash seriously, only to discover that it is not based in
reality. They can then say, “Why, yes, we did investigate this, and like all
other claims of a spacecraft crash, we found that it was not true. Like
Roswell, there is no substance to this.”
Again,
as I have said in the past, this is right out of the debunking playbook
described by Dr. H. P. Robertson in 1953. He, and his CIA-sponsored panel,
after a week of reviewing the UFO evidence assembled by Project Blue Book and
the Air Force, decided that the evidence did not support the conclusion of
alien visitation. They suggested that the public be told of mysterious UFO events
and then trot out the explanations, removing the mystery. They suggested that
teachers not allow students to read books about UFOs for book reports. They had
a whole program to stimy interest in UFOs, which, for some reason they believed
posed a threat to national security… but all that is a discussion for another
time.
I
wonder if we can find parallels with this thinking in our government today… but
I digress.
Trinty is not a true story. It is based
on two first-hand witnesses, only one of whom is alive today. They incorporate the
statements of a second-hand witness or two in this tale. There are many better
cases for the government to research if they truly wish to understand what has
gone on over the last 80 years. If they’d like a list, I can provide one for
them… cases of multiple witnesses with physical evidence, interaction with the
environment, radar sightings and photographs and film (and no, I do not have a
single case will all those elements, but I can name several that do contain
multiple chains of evidence.)
However,
this story would not be on that list. And that’s the real point. Why waste time
on a case that even the most enthusiastic UFO researcher knows isn’t true?
