15. The Hottel memo may have been over the so-called Roswell Incident
Since 1947, when an object crashed to earth in New Mexico near Roswell, ufologists have created various stories covering crashed UFOs and alien bodies in the possession of the USAF. In March 1950 Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Guy Hottel sent a memo to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. According to Hottel, an informant, described as an Air Force investigator, told an FBI agent that three UFOs had been recovered by the USAF. Each of the three contained three crew members, “…dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine texture”. The bodies were further described as being “…of human shape but only three feet tall”. The ships from which they were removed were described as “…circular in shape with raised centers, approximately fifty feet in diameter.
It was these bodies later described as being held by the Air Force at Wright-Patterson, along with the wreckage of their ships. The memorandum became famous among ufologists as proof of the existence of alien spacecraft visiting Earth, and it remains popular among ufologists and conspiracy theorists. Hottel explained the crash of the three ships as being caused by powerful radar installations operated by the Air Force (according to the informant). The radio waves emitted by the installations had an adverse effect on the aliens’ control systems, causing all three to crash. The agent reporting the information to Hottel had undertaken no further investigation into the matter, and his name, as well as that of his informant, is redacted from the memorandum which can be read here.
