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Today's topic Cape Girardeau UFO.
Now this article comes to us from a while ago back in
February of 2015 by Bill Rickerson and the title is the
1941 Cape Girardeau UFO Crash. This can be found on Cape
Girardeau columbiatribune.com and it says on its website
ufocenter.com. The Seattle based National UFO
Reporting Center New Fork has accounts of 1857 UFO sightings.
I'm sure it's a lot more than that by now, observed throughout
most sections of Missouri since the early 1950s, because only
about 5% of UFO witnesses actually report their
experiences. The total number of UFO
encounters is no doubt much higher.
Well, certainly if you know you have 1800 UFO reported
sightings, and that's only 5%, my goodness, we must be looking
at 20 times that many, maybe 40,050 thousand UFO sightings.
That's really a huge number when you think about it.
It says an account of a UFO crash in southeast Missouri
preceded the well known Roswell, NM crash by almost six years.
In 1991, the late Leonard Stringfield, an early UFO
investigator and former civilian consultant to UFO operations at
Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, OH in the 1950s,
published an account of an alleged 1941UFO crash near Cape
Girardeau. Stringfield's article appeared
in July 1991 issue of Status Report, a monthly publication on
UFO activities and investigations.
The article based on information received from Charlotte Mann,
who was a young child living in Cape Girardeau in 1941.
At the at the time, Charlotte's grandfather, the Reverend
William Huffman, was pastor of Cape's Red Star Baptist Church.
So this is going back a long ways.
Just think about that 1941, this is, you know, whether we're in
the middle of or just at the beginning rather of World War 2
at pre cell phone, pre Internet. In fact a lot of people didn't
even have telephones. So this is this is going on now
almost 80 years ago, it says. Charlotte told Stringfield her
grandfather received a call in spring 1941 from local police
asking him to travel with them to the site of an airplane crash
outside the city limits to minister to the victims of the
crash. Now that might sound a little
out of the ordinary today, but from what I can gather, this was
kind of a common thing back in that time where people, they
would actually take a pasture with them to a car crash or a
plane crash where they knew there was no hope that these
people could recover. They were just on the way there.
And so they took the passion with them the same way they
might take an EMT with them. Today when the Reverend Huffman
arrived on the scene, police officers, firefighters, FBI
agencies, emergency medical crew and numerous military personnel,
presumably from the Army Air base in nearby Sikeston
reviewing what Huffman described as a disk shape object, the
interior of which contained a small metal chair, gauges dials
in hieroglyphic like inscriptions and writings around
the inside. Now this is odd because this is
a lot like what we heard about at Roswell.
The crash that happened six years later.
This hieroglyphic type writings on the inside of the craft and
this definitely falls into the category of a mechanical device.
And then we talk about the different types of Ufo's.
Well, this type of UFO is something that's there.
It's 3 dimensional. It's in the flesh, in this case
in the middle. Now it says he also saw three
entities or non human people. Well now here you go, they
called him non human people. Today we refer we would refer to
these as maybe aliens, extraterrestrials or even non
human entities. It says he also saw he also saw
three entities non human people lying on the ground.
Two were just outside the craft, with a third somewhat further
away. He decided the he described the
bodies as hairless, with large heads, big eyes, small mouths,
and very small ears that Reverend Huffman said the dead
individuals were about four feet tall and seemed to have no hard
bone structure but very long arms and fingers.
I'm not seeing just yet what color these things were, but
almost sounds like a classic Gray alien.
And the fact that they were laying outside the craft, the
craft crashed. We have to wonder if this was
just, you know, if they were, if they were discharged on impact
or if the military had already gotten there and and removed
these aliens out of the craft. It says shortly after viewing
the dead bodies, OK, and we know they're dead.
Reverend Huffman was asked to pray over them.
Upon doing so, he was escorted by military officials to a
nearby location where he was sworn to secrecy and strongly
warned to never discuss the crash with anyone.
Now some people might some of the skeptics might take issue
with well, this pastor was asked to pray for them.
Let's keep in mind this is 1941. Society wasn't nearly as jaded
it is today, and at that time, even even people that weren't
believers, you know, really would tend to show respect
toward a pastor. A pastor hadn't become an object
of ridicule at that time from Hollywood.
I mean, a pastor was considered to be a position of trust and a
position of respect in the community.
So it doesn't strike me out of the ordinary at all.
It's completely believable and completely normal to me.
This pastor would have been taken here to pray with these,
to prayer over these ails. That's what they did back then.
When they didn't, when they didn't know what else to do,
they prayed. And you know, maybe that would
have been a good idea a lot more often in the society that we
live in today, Maybe, if nothing else, it would have given people
a few minutes not to make the wrong decision.
Just if for no other reason. The pause and taking immediate
action sometimes is better. Sometimes it's better to do
nothing than to do something. But in this case here, this
whole, this whole story has a ring of truth to it.
That is exactly how I would have expected people in Missouri to
act at that time. To see this pastor called out to
help, to offer assistance and to be into have been treated with
respect and dignity is exactly what I would have expected in
1941. Now some people might might not
see that because they're not old enough to remember how things
used to be. But being a little older, I can
see that is exactly how things used to be.
Now it goes on. It says Huffman did not know.
Huffman did not know what was told to others at the scene, but
he was told this didn't happen. You didn't see this.
This is national security and is never to be talked about again.
That also sounds exactly like something that he would have
been told by the military on site.
Possibly the military on site had no idea that this pastor was
even going to show up, but they were containing the site and we
see this over and over again when the military gets involved
in a UFO encounter, or especially in a UFO crash.
Given the large number of individuals present, it was
highly likely the secret would eventually be revealed.
Well, that's true, but it wasn't going to be revealed for a long
time. Remember, the US government was
able to develop nuclear weapons without them being revealed
until they bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
I mean, they put up giant dams to generate the power to build
the bombs, all this sort of thing.
And they were able, they were so good at compartmentalizing
information that they were able to keep the whole thing top
secret right up until the time they drop the bombs.
So it what we see here is the military containing a UFO crash
site and doing what they do best and that is containing the
information about this wreck by compartmentalizing it.
And they were very good at it and they were successful at it.
It says given the large number of individuals present, it was
highly likely the secret would would eventually be revealed.
And although the Reverend Huffman intended to keep silent
regarding his participation in the affair, he was not
completely successful. Among those who eventually
learned the secret, Or his wife Floyd and his granddaughter
Charlotte. Or his granddaughter Charlotte
and their brother of Cape Girardeau County Sheriff
Clarence Shade, who partially confirmed the story in a
notarized sworn epidata. In addition to the accounts of
the UFO crash passed on to her by her grandmother, Charlotte
recalled one of the first situations in which she heard
about it. Quote.
Well, the first awareness that I had of it, the dead bodies, is
actually a picture that my father had, and it was at a
dinner party and I heard rumors and bits and pieces over
conversations. But it was a picture, an old
picture, because it had it was like the old Kodak with little
lions and scalps around it. There were two men holding up.
A non human is the best way I can describe it, a little
entity, a little person who appeared to be about 4 foot
tall. They had him underneath the
armpits with arms outstretched on either side of him.
Unfortunately, that picture was not in Charlotte's position and
the UFO researchers have been unable to locate it.
Now that sounds like something that might have been taken by
the locals when they showed up, you know, or even maybe at like
a local press person. I mean, it was not uncommon in
those days that there was a car wreck for pictures to be taken
of the car wreck and even pictures of the unfortunate
occupants who had expired to have had their picture taken.
So it'd be no surprise to me that if word had gotten out,
maybe on a police radio or somebody had called the local
newspaper person, that someone would have showed up with a
camera and taken a picture like this, and maybe they would have
gotten out of there before the military got on scene.
I mean, so this part is also very believable to me.
Goes on it, says UFO journalist BJ Booth says of the Cape
Girardeau story. This case ends like many others,
but it appears, by all indications, to be authentic.
All who have come in contact with Charlotte Mann have found
her to be a trustworthy person who is not given to
sensationalism, and she has sought to gain, and she has
sought no gain from her account. A Charlotte man moved from Cape
Girardeau to Tyler, TX. Based on his own analysis of the
Cape Girardeau episode, noted ufologist Ryan Wood says one can
reasonably conclude that there was a crash event.
The implications of this case, if fully proven, are part of the
larger picture. Namely, extraterrestrial
visitors are real, and certain factions of the government have
been hiding this fact since at least 1941.
What also says the final resolution of this case is still
out there. It may come in the form.
It may come in form of new physical evidence, but it's a
wreckage. New witnesses, historical air
photography, soil samples are archived research.
All of these fronts are being actively worked and there is
reason to predict success now. I would just say interject here.
You know, at this point in time when we have for profit UFO
research companies on the prowl, I mean, it's kind of like the
Mike and Frank of the UFO world out there looking for a UFO
artifacts, meta material, whatever.
If the stuff turns up, we have to wonder if we'll have a chance
of seeing it or if they'll simply sell it to the US Army,
US Air Force, Navy, whoever, and somehow monetize it.
That that's kind of the problem we have right now when we have
UFO pickers basically out there scavenging the countryside for
this stuff. It says for Ryan Woods in depth
analysis and extensive documents.
In this case Google evidence for a crash retrieval in Cape
Girardeau. Quite an interesting article
there. Now I have another article here
I did find and I posted a link to it on my Twitter account.
UFO Warning. And now while I'm on here real
quick, I just want to mention that I posted another link on
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Show us out there. It's Nick Pope, and I'm sorry
but I can't remember the other fellow's name.
Anyway, something UFO basement. I've watched a couple of the
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And I put a link there. They're on YouTube and I watched
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think they're either sponsored by or connected with New York
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But you can go to the website like I said, you can link there
from the anchor website right to my UFO warning Twitter account.
I think it's warning sub UFO. Anyway, if you want to do a
follow, do a follow and I'll and I try to always follow back but
you can link to that video and then you can link to this
article right here. And this comes from like four
years ago it's KFVS news KFV s12.com and it it says 75th
anniversary of alleged UFO crash in Cape Girardeau and they got
like a little minute long report which is fine and it says here
it's by Amber Rush and Kate Brosman April 12th, 2016.
It starts off it says an urban legend in Cape Girardeau is
believed to be an alien cover up and the crash before Roswell.
Now I have to say I would not call this an urban legend.
Okay. I'm not really sure that Cape
Girardeau was that urban. It's more of a it's more of a
UFO account that's been handed down over a couple generations.
Now it says April 12th mark the 75th anniversary of the legend
Cape Girardo UF crash of 1941. Of course we're four years past
that now, Cape Girardeau UFO researcher Michael Huntington
said. The story dates back to 1941,
when a reverend was called to what he thought was a plane
crash to read the last rites of the passengers.
The Reverend William Huffman, who was the minister there, was
called by the local sheriff to come assist in delivering some
sort of last rites at a plane crash.
That's when the Reverend was under the impression that he
that's what the Reverend was under impression he was going to
do. A car arrived at his house,
which was nearby the current Red Star Baptist Church location,
and they drove about 18 miles or so outside of Cape Girardeau,
closer to the Chaffee area. When they showed up on the
scene, it was not a plane crash. It was allegedly a flying
saucer, a classic silver round disc that it crashed that had
started a fire. There were police and fire there
to take care of the scene, put out the fire on a locals farmers
field, Huntington said. Their reverend arrived and saw a
classic flying disc with part of the side ripped open and two
alien bodies that were at least dead and one that may have been
dying, may have been alive. Couldn't breathe, he continued.
The Reverend looked inside the flying saucer and saw wires and
components of some sort of alien design.
There were strange hieroglyphics and bizarre knobs and dials.
The Reverend knew that he couldn't really give the the
last rites. About that time the Army Air
Corps arrived from Sikeston's field and cordon off the area
and swore everybody to secrecy and confiscated any pictures.
Well, apparently they didn't confiscate all the pictures
because we now have been told by the reverend's daughter that at
least one picture survived of two people holding up the alien.
Now it goes on and says the reverend knew that he couldn't
really give last rights by the time the Army Corps air arrived
from Sikeston's field and cordon off the area and swore everybody
to secrecy and confiscated any pictures.
There were pictures allegedly taken that night of men holding
one of the alien bodies, and somewhere out there are those
pictures. It became part of the legend.
It's Cape Girardeau's urban legend, Huntington said.
According to the legend, the story was kept quiet for years,
but witnesses told the story on their deathbeds.
The story got out through Charlotte Mann, who was the
reverend's granddaughter, who began to give accounts of the
story in the late 1970s, Huntington said.
This story has been known about by UFO researchers for as far
back as then. It was a deathbed confession,
Reverend Mann told to his granddaughter and she had seen
in pictures, I believe at one time, I believe at one time, of
the alleged aliens, years after the event, obviously, she told
the researchers. And they begin to look into it.
Now. You can hear from the previous
account that I just read, which actually honestly was a little
more professionally done, how the author described that.
The picture was the very old Kodak style where you had like
the little, you know, Half Moon indentions along the sides of
the picture that would tell me the picture was taken back like
in the 40s, like at the time. Whether you believe the stories
are not Huntington City crash is important to history, folklore
and culture. This story, whether you believe
it or not, is part of Cape Girardeau's history is part of
our culture. It's part of our religious, our
regional folklore. And it's part of a broader
history of UFO's, which is a part of American history.
Nobody can deny the influence of UFO culture, UFO stories, the
visuals of fascination. Nobody can deny that it's had an
impact on American culture and American politics, Huntington
said. Huntington asked that if you
have any information on this ledge crash, please contact him
or another researcher. And then he says here, if
anybody out there within the Cape Girardeau area or Jackson,
or especially folks near Chaffee, if you've heard any
stories, share them with us. Try to get ahold of me or some
of the other researchers out there.
The more information we have, the more we can get an idea of
what actually happened, Huntington said.
And like I said, I've linked to this article here and you can
find it on my Twitter feed account.
It's got a nice, it's got a, it's got a nice drawing here.
I'm not sure if that was done at the time, but it shows a saucer
with the classic Dome over it, and it has an alien sitting
inside of it. But there were four aliens.
They must have really been crammed in that thing.
You know, you kind of wonder. The fascinating thing about this
story is we have this alien interaction, and it seems like
it was kind of an ongoing thing from just as World War Two was
kicking off until after the war and then beyond that.
But it's another it's another trend that we see that when
there seems to be a lot of a lot of negativity in the air, such
as a war or such as what we're going through right now, it
always seems to correspond with UFO encounters.
And in this case, we have not just UFO encounters, we have UFO
crashes. And why these things were
crashing? Well, some people think it might
have had something to do with the radios being, you know,
towers being put up. I mean, the countries I was
being electrified or maybe it was even something to do with
the government themselves. You had Sykeston's Air Force
Base, they say. They seem to have showed up
there fairly quickly after the crash.
So we have to think that even back in 1941, the military, the
Air Force in particular, was monitoring these things.
If they had been monitoring these things, then you have to
wonder how they got there so quickly.
Unless, of course, maybe law enforcement had called them to
notify them of an airplane crash, thinking that it could
have been, you know, one of ours.
Either way, the whole article is very interesting and it's so
much fun to go back and look at these things that happened 6070
years ago and see how much they have in common with the same
kind of encounters that happen even today.
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