Hello and welcome to the podcast UFO warning, today, I'd like to
talk a little bit about a site that was supposed to have taken
place back in the mid 1950s. It's called the Del Rio UFO
crash. This is one of those crashes.
That's kind of Taken on a life of its own.
And I did some research into it and get my notes on here, and I
think that it's really going to be one of those cases that fall
Falls into probably not provable if definitely just didn't
happen. It doesn't pass the test of as
we say, any time we do a UFO investigation or we have a
sighting. They were trying to record.
We want to know what where when and who well what happened?
Supposedly was that a UFO crashed UFO was intercepted by a
group of fighter jets? Who were escorting a bomber down
in South Texas? And supposedly.
This UFO was coming along at about 2,000 miles, an hour
veered in front of the flight group and ended up crashing just
across the Rio Grande and the Mexican border the dates of when
it happened. Varied it started out that it's
it was supposedly first reported that it occurred like I think in
1948 then the date went to 1950. Then the day 29 1955, 56 or 57.
Just Not quite sure. So we have a shifting date on
it, which causes some problems. And then the biggest problem is
who reports the site and this is a fellow called Colonel, Robert
Willingham. Now from what I could find and I
put links on the website UFO morning.com, it looks like he
actually was a colonel but he was a colonel in the civilian
silver, our civilian Civil Air Patrol and Pennsylvania, And I
put up a video there to have a conference.
There were some people that there's a been a book written
about this and the presentations interesting enough.
But they claimed that he was a WWII fighter pilot under patent
that he served in the Korean War, that he got hurt that he
came back to the States and that he was in the reserves, flying a
Texas when this happened. But the fellow that did some
actual research on it, which no one else seems to have done and
got ahold the Army records showed that he went into the Air
Force at the very end of 1945. So it's questionable, if you
would have you consider any combat, secondly, he did come
back to the States, but he wasn't in the Air Force Reserve,
he or the Army Reserve, whether it would have been back then he
was in the Civil Air Patrol and he was not stationed in Texas at
the time of that. At UFO crash supposing crash.
It was actually in Pennsylvania. So the dates don't match up
according to mr. Won't Willingham.
I listened to some of his interview.
He did an interview, he's passed away.
Now he was an old guy, he was born in 1926 and I listened to
an interview that he had done with.
I think it was Jeff France and it's on its online.
And the interview was done I believe in night in a 2010 and
in a couple different Aunt. The problem kind of becomes
first off. He describes that he was
escorting this bomber and the way he describes it seems a
little I'm not sure if passed the mustard test, he describes
that they all all all all the people involved all the there
were four fighter jets and this big bomber and they were doing
some kind of a military drill. You know?
It's cold war-era and they were preparing for a military drill.
They're flying this bomber escort group.
Poop into the Air Force Base there.
I can't think of the name offhand, but it was in say,
North Central, Texas North East Texas.
And he says that they see the UFO approaching from the left
basically, at a high rate of speed 2000 mph.
I think he estimates and then it just like Cuts immediate, right
angle at a possibly high speeds and cuts under them.
I think he says, and then he noticed that they notice the UFO
the saucer shape Flies to the right southbound crosses, the
Rio Grande River. There and crash is just on the
other side of the Rio, Grande River into the Mexico territory
and this is right across from the.
I think it's called the Roy beam Judge, Roy Bean Ranch.
There's a big big like State Park or something there now.
So it's it's a well-known area and you can see where I mean you
can Google maps that are watch any of the videos.
On this particular alleged crash and see exactly where it said to
have occurred at now. Mr. Willingham says that he gets
back to base and supposedly they're told that never
happened, don't say anything. But somehow he gets permission
from his commanding officer and he gets another pilot and they
take this little trainer Cessna and they fly across the river,
which is the US border and which he just Looks like still big
deal. I'm not sure how things were in
1955, but seems like just a fly across into the country's
airspace without permission. Might be a little bit of a deal,
he flies over there and earlier he has said in an interview that
this Reckless wrecked site, was just a complete Masters metal
scattered everywhere. He points out that on the
interview that that while the Roswell crash left, like a lot
of foil and like, lightweight stuff that this stuff.
I'd like actual pieces of metal chunks of metal lying about,
which is interesting because, you know, the crash site that he
describes as you would think of as a catastrophic failure.
Like there's not one piece connected to another but fast
forward. He says he says, however, he
says that when him and his is a passenger, find this little
Cessna type playing across the Rio Grande from the airport
bait. Basically, we're just at they
fly over the crash site, okay? With no concern about Factory
coming into another country. They flower the crash site, they
see the flight. They see the UFO crash down and
now he begins to describe it as if it's like a whole UFO that
gets intact. So he just it's like Indiana
Jones or something. He says that he lands the
airplane right out there in this flat area.
Well if you look at at this place on the Google Maps it
looks pretty rough and there's some Drone footage that when the
researchers did anyway we'll give him the credit will assume
that he was able to land this little airplane in a dirt field
where he never met before. Okay I'll just give you that
he's a skilled Air Force pilot. This is noon disputed so he
lands a plane with his friend they get out.
He says and he claims that he claims in the rinse interview
that he walked over to the UFO but first he says he gets out
and there's a bunch of Mexican soldiers around and they're not
going to let him near but then he says Makes a comment that
well, when the lieutenant came over, well, he's a colonel but
the guy with him is Lieutenant. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong
here, but I thought that the colonel was quite a ways.
Up the food chain from a lieutenant that parties makes
sense to me. So anyway, nevermind, he gets,
he gets over to the UFO. A claims and sees small
alien-like creature inside which contradicts earlier descriptions
where he claims that. He never got more than Within.
60 feet of the, the crashed UFO. So basically you have three
different versions, he's giving it first.
You says, yeah, there's the crash, it's on the ground and
it's a complete disaster pieces, laying everywhere.
Then he says, yep, I landed at the crash site and I but I
couldn't get with the 60 feet of it because the Mexican soldiers
wouldn't let me. And then by 2010 he says, well I
got to the crash site and once they saw my friend who was a
lower-ranking officer Say then they let me go over and have a
look. But there's no one here to
cooperate story and quite frankly, the gentleman has
passed away. So we have no way to cross
examine him. There's been some other stuff
brought up since his death. I think it's been since he's
passed away. That there was a research.
He's some kind of a scientist. I don't know if he's like if
he's if he's degrees in physics or whatnot.
Hobbit. I think it was something about
laser research and I'm supposedly, he had done an
interview with George Knapp and he had alluded to the fact that
rests that that material have been taken from the site.
But you know that's just one conversation and he hasn't done
anything right back at up. So I've looked the case over and
honestly you know it doesn't it doesn't pass the test as far as
the what happened. We have three different stories
as far as a where it happened. Well, we can identify that, but
it seems odd that the Mexican Government even in 1955,
wouldn't have put up a fight about a couple of Yankees just,
you know, flying across the border and demanding to see it.
First UFO that doesn't pass the smell test and then when it
happened, that's a real problem because the date shift, between
45 different dates, all the way from December 1st 1955 this back
to Spring a 55 back to nineteen or excuse me. 1948 crook 1957
have almost a 10 year range of dates in here and he keeps
changing the dates and then finally says, well I just don't
remember and then who had happened that gentleman's, you
know what he claimed to be and He actually was and sometimes in
these cases, you see people's military credentials being
inflated. And if you've ever known,
anybody who's legitimately been in the military, it's it's
enough of all experience. It seems like it puts such an
impact on people that they pretty much remember exactly
where they're at. I mean I can talk to guys have
been the military 40 years ago and they'll remember the bases.
They rat exactly some time down to speak to Dates things
happened. I mean, there's, there's never
any doubt about, you know, where they served at what dates, they
served here. I mean, just ask any even a
young military guy just asking, you know, where he was at a year
ago or a year and a half ago or two years ago, they're going to
know you know where the push was at where they served at.
And a lot of them are going to know the names of the guys they
served with or who their commanding officers were.
I mean this is just stuff that If it's legitimate military
record, there's never a question about head.
I mean, it's it's something, you know, it's an impactful thing
that happens to a person when they're in the military, that's
been my observation. So, I've never talked to a guy
in a military who couldn't remember where he was at during
a specific month or whatever week that he was in the military
he knew, or here's a hat. The only time he may not have
known where he was at was it is is when he was on.
Eve, but if he was on duty, he can tell you exactly where he
was on duty and he can tell you what he was doing.
And I'm not seeing this with this account, unfortunately, mr.
Gillingham claims to have been in the Texas Air Force Reserve,
but the only records that were discovered were from the
Pennsylvania. Civil Air Patrol.
It was flying an airplane, he wasn't more to, it was a skilled
pilot apparently. But the, the memory just doesn't
seem to match up with the records, and if there's
something out there, There that does that show something
different? I would love to tip here.
I have an open mind, but is it is unfortunately, from my
perspective, the Del Rio, UFO crash, does not pass the smell
test, and I'd have to say, as far as I'm concerned, it's not
real. That's all for today.
Eautiful warning over and out. There that does that show
something different? I would love to tip here.
I have an open mind, but is it is unfortunately, from my
perspective, the Del Rio, UFO crash, does not pass the smell
test, and I'd have to say, as far as I'm concerned, it's not
real. That's all for today.
Eautiful warning over and out.