In what I think of as a
special edition of A Different Perspective, I had the opportunity to
speak with Dr. Jacques Vallee and Paola Harris, authors of Trinity: The Best
Kept Secret. The program was an hour long, as usual, but we didn’t get to
half the questions or comments on my list. You can listen to the show here:
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/45140594
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We did get into the
background of the story and those of you who visit here, know the tale. Two
young boys see something crash, see the occupants of the craft, and then
witness the lousy attempts at retrieval by the Army. It is clear that both
Vallee and Harris accept the tale as authentic, with Vallee going into detail
at how well youngsters can recall an event without embellishment. Of course,
this overlooks the fact that the interviews were conducted, not with children
at the time of the event, but with men decades later. It is clear that there
are areas of contamination.
Much of the detail
seemed to be reminiscent of the Roswell crash including the claim that
lightning might have brought down the craft, about the Army recovery, and
finally the descriptions of the aliens as looking like Jerusalem Crickets. This
was the description provided by Frankie Rowe based on her experiences in the
Roswell case. To me it was one more proof that the tale told isn’t so much
about an observation by the boys but a borrowing of details from the widespread
literature from Roswell.
I did ask Vallee about
his use of the Aurora, Texas, UFO crash of 1897 as part of the history of UFO
sightings. I mentioned that I had been to Aurora before all those others
arrived, that I had interviewed some of the long-time residents who still lived
there, and that two, count them, two, histories of Wise County had no mention
of the crash. I have written about all that on this blog.
We did get to the
Socorro UFO landing. I asked about his support of one symbol over the other,
that Zamora himself had drawn, but again, the conversation diverted to other
matters. Trivia? Sure, but it suggests something about the scholarship in the
book.
There were many other
matters as well. In the end, however, it was clear that there were only two
witnesses who said anything about the crash who could be thought of as
eyewitnesses. The third witness interviewed for the book, Sabrina Padillo,
hadn’t even been born in 1945 to see the crash, but did inspect the alleged
crash site in 1960.
Rather than go on, I’ll
just point out that Vallee and Paola said that there was no documentation, the
physical evidence that was talked about didn’t exist in today’s world, other
than a couple of pieces that, when analyzed didn’t demonstrate an
extraterrestrial origin. In other words, it was metal that could have been
manufactured on Earth but that didn’t rule out an extraterrestrial origin,
according to the analysis.
I will mention a fourth
name, Bill Brophy, who talked about his father having flown over the crash site
in 1945 (Exon and Roswell springs to mine here). According to Brophy, his
father saw the two boys on the scene, the burned area and possibility the
crashed object. But, again, the information was second hand and I have been
working with those in Alamogordo in an attempt to verify both Brophy’s story
and try to find any of those others assigned to the base at the time. Given it
was 1945, and you can presume that nearly everyone assigned there would have
been at least 20 in August 1945. It means the likelihood of finding anyone
still alive is remote.
Next week, I’ll be talking with Kathleen Marden, who has an updated or expanded version of her book, Captured!. It deals with the Barney and Betty Hill abduction and we’ll see where it goes.
