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Like most UFO incidents denied by
the U.S. Government, the 1947 Roswell
crash refuses to go away quietly.
Each time a government spokesperson
invents a new explanation to contradict
the theory that an alien spacecraft
crashed near Roswell, one or more
new witnesses come forward to support
the original Air Force statement.
That statement called the object a
’flying disc’ and left us with the
impression that the occupants weren’t
quite human.
Milton Sprouse, age eighty-five, lives
in Escondido, California. In 1947,
he was an engine mechanic and part
of the 393rd Bomb Group connected
to the 509th Composite Group at Roswell.
Milton arrived in Roswell during 1945
after serving on the Pacific Island
of Tinian towards the end of World
War Two. When the aircraft he was
servicing was moved to Roswell, he
was sent there as well.
As the lead mechanic for Dave’s Dream,
he didn’t find the area especially
exciting. “There was nothing there
but tumbleweeds blowing for miles,”
Sprouse said in a recent interview.
All that changed in July of 1947.
After returning from a brief trip
to Florida aboard Dave’s Dream, Milton
found himself thrust into a hurricane
of activity. Back at the base on the
day when the original ’flying disc’
statement was released, he remembered
how hundreds of men from the base
were sent out to the crash site to
pick up all the debris they could
find.
Milton was needed at the base because
of his position as lead mechanic.
However, five other members of his
crew went to the crash site. After
returning, they told Sprouse that
what they saw looked “Out of this
world.” They were describing the material
which looked like aluminum foil, but
refused to crumple and seemed almost
indestructible. The same description
was used by Major Jesse Marcel, the
officer originally sent to investigate
the crash scene. Although Sprouse
knew Marcel, he wasn’t able to speak
to him after the crash. Milton recalls,
“I could never get close to him.”
Most of the men knew about the radar
reflecting balloons and saw the material
that the Air Force tried to pass off
as what crashed in early July of 1947.
It wasn’t the same. The radar balloons
came down everywhere in those days
and most everyone that lived in Roswell
saw some at one time or another. What
they saw at the crash site was something
else, and the buzz around base wasn’t
just about strange metallic material.
Milton said that he heard talk about
odd bodies found out at the crash
scene. One of the men from his barracks
was an emergency room medic. He told
Sprouse and others that “humanoid”
bodies were brought in after the crash.
The medic’s story gave him the impression
that one or more of the creatures
might have been alive because he said,
“We don't think the humanoid ate food.”
Milton also remembers how everything
changed the day after the original
‘flying disc’ statement was made.
Milton recalls, “The next day, it
was published in the Roswell Daily
Record, and that night, all the generals
said the story was untrue." He continued
on to say that officers from the base
were sent into town to collect all
the copies of the press release and
newspaper with the original ‘flying
disc’ story in it that they could
find. The medic was transferred elsewhere
along with the doctors and nurses
that saw the odd-looking creatures.
What became of the humanoids? "They
took the bodies to a hangar, and there
were two guards at each door with
machine guns," Milton said. Sprouse
was referring to Hangar 84.
Milton Spouse left the base in 1956
and says that the people serving there
were still talking about the crash
at the time. That was years after
the rest of the world already accepted
the first of several official explanations
which indicated the object was a weather
balloon with radar reflecting material
attached. When he returns to Roswell
for the annual 509th Reunions, Spouse
says "The Roswell incident comes up
every year, but there's nothing really
new."
He may not be an eyewitness to the
1947 crash, but Milton Sprouse is
like so many others that were on the
base or in Roswell at that time. They
simply do not believe the official
explanations. That’s because people
they worked with, knew and trusted
with their lives told them the truth
about what happened based on their
own first-hand experiences. Even when
skeptics spin that information to
say that crash test dummies, children
or bloated bodies were responsible
for the humanoid body stories, the
explanations just don’t seem to fit.
As Spouse says, “You can believe what
you want, I know it’s true.”
About the Author
Bill Knell is a popular Speaker, Author
and Consultant with eclectic interests.
Featured in the Wall Street Journal;
seen on NBC Nightly News; heard on
Mancow and Howard Stern; consultant
to films like Men in Black and World
of the Worlds. BillKnell.com
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