1941 year. Missouri, UFO crash. This is one of the most mysterious stories related to the UFO crash and the alien bodies found, which preceded the famous Roswell incident by as much as 6 years.
This story was described by Leo Stringfield in his book: "UFO Crash / Retrievals: The Inner Sanctum."
He collected information about UFO crashed victims around the planet.
These mysterious cases are still being investigated and are under the close control of the Armed Forces.
The author received the details of the incident by a letter from a certain Charlotte Mann.
She described the confession of her grandfather, who in the spring of 1941 was called outside the city of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, to hold a memorial service for the pilots - victims of the disaster.
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Through the eyes of the pastor
The Reverend William Huffman, the storyteller's grandfather, was a Baptist evangelist for many years, and in early 1941 he was appointed pastor of the Red Star Baptist Church. Church records from those years confirm his ministry in the temple during the period in question. As soon as the pastor received the news of the accident, he immediately rushed to the service. After driving along the river bank through the forest for about fifteen miles, Huffman arrived at the epicenter of the tragedy. Upon arrival, he saw police, fire brigade, FBI agents, and photographers surrounding the crash site. He was ordered to perform the funeral service for three dead. As soon as the shepherd gathered his thoughts and looked around, he could not believe his eyes. He expected to see a small civilian or military aircraft, but saw a disc-shaped object. Huffman was able to look inside and found there many inscriptions in an unknown language, which were more like hieroglyphs. Then the pastor was shown three victims of the disaster, but not people at all, as expected. They were small alien bodies, completely bald, with large eyes and a narrow slit for a mouth.
As soon as the pastor said the prayer for the dead over the bodies, the military approached him and Huffman vowed to them not to disclose the secrets of everything he saw that evening. The other eyewitnesses were also interviewed.
Mrs. Huffman's confession
When the priest returned home to 1530 Main Street, he was still in a state of shock. Huffman could not keep what happened to him a secret and shared this mysterious story with his wife Floy and with his sons.
This nighttime family discussion helped the shepherd's granddaughter to learn about the fact of the alien ship wreck. In 1984, Charlotte Mann's grandmother was seriously ill with cancer and was undergoing chemotherapy. She called her granddaughter to her and for several days told her about the incident. Charlotte had heard fragmentary narrative facts before, but at that moment she asked to tell her the whole story from start to finish in great detail. Mann wanted to know everything, she knew that it was either now or never. Grandmother was dying, and the mystery of the mysterious shipwreck could be lost forever. Charlotte also learned that one of her grandfather's parishioners, presumably Garland D. Frohnabager, had given Hoffman a photograph taken that very night at the crash site of the unidentified object. This photo captured one of the dead aliens,supported by two men.
Memories of Charlotte Mann
Charlotte Mann, in her own words, told everything she knew in a documentary about this investigation.
Some of her quotes are given below:
Other witnesses
Besides Charlotte Mann, there are other witnesses. Among them is Charlotte's sister, who under oath has notarized the authenticity of the story.
Brother of Witnesses Clarence S. Shade, who served as Cape Girardeau County Sheriff in 1941. He also heard about the incident, but was not aware of the details of the crash. Clarence confirms that he heard the story of the "flying machine with little people"
In the archives of the fire service there is a record of a fire at the scene of the accident. This only confirms that the military removed all evidence from the crash site, and the witnesses vowed not to disclose.
Guy Huffman, Charlotte's father, made no secret of the information he had and repeatedly showed him a photograph of the deceased alien that he inherited from his father. Once he showed the picture to his friend Walter Wayne Fisk. A friend asked for a photo for a while, but as a result he never returned it.
Charlotte cannot contact Fisk, he does not return letters and calls. It was rumored that he was the President's Adviser. If this is actually the case, then it is easy to guess why he does not disclose the facts of the accident in Missouri.
There are many facts that indicate that this is a true story. Everyone who knows Charlotte Mann claims that she is a reliable person. This woman does not strive to create an empty sensation and enrichment on this fact.
Research is underway on the case of a UFO crash in Missouri. This gives us hope to learn more details about this very interesting incident.
Source: "UFO Crash / Retrievals: The Inner Sanctum." Leo Stringfield.
Westwood's investigation
02.18.04 The local UFO community is looking for additional information about the 1941 UFO crash.
Compiled by Peggy O. Farel, Southeast Missouri.
A Virginie resident is looking for evidence that a UFO crashed near Cape Girardeau in 1941.
“It was six years before Roswell,” said James Westwood. This means 6 years before the 1947 incident, the fact of which the government first admitted, and then, on the contrary, diligently concealed.
"It was in Cape Girardeau and it was a UFO."
Southeast Missouri has long been famous for its high UFO activity. Dr. Harley Rutledge, a retired former chairman of the physics department at Southeastern Missouri University, investigated reports of strange craft flying in the sky near Piedmont and reported a UFO to a friend. Project title: "The first research project that studies the UFO phenomenon." Rutledge also spoke to Westwood and explained to him that he had not heard of the 1941 incident.
Westwood, a retired sailor and engineer, is looking for people who can remember the crash of 1941. A certain aircraft reportedly crashed about 3-15 miles outside Cape Girardeau. James Westwood bases his investigation on a story by Charlotte Mann. A woman from Texas whose grandfather, the Reverend William Huffman, was the pastor of the Red Star Baptist Church from 1941 to 1944.
Leonard H. Stringfield, a renowned UFO researcher, recounted the Mann story in July 1991 in his Keynote Speech, a monthly publication on UFO activity and UFO research.
Mann told Strynfield that her grandfather had received a call at night and asked to accompany the police to the plane crash site. Presumably there were victims, and the presence of a priest was necessary.
“A car came for my grandfather, but my grandmother said it was not a police car,” Mann told Stringfield.
“When Huffman got to the scene of the accident, he saw there some kind of rounded object, without any seams. It was a very bright metallic silver color,”the woman said.
“There were a lot of police officers, people in civilian clothes, military officers. They stood in the middle of the rubble. On the other side, there were 3 bodies, but they were not human bodies."
“It was difficult for him to tell if the bodies were wearing suits or if it was their own skin, but the creatures were covered from head to toe with a material that looked like wrinkled aluminum foil,” Mann said.
“He didn't see the hair on their bodies, they didn't have ears either. They were small creatures, about 4 feet in height as a child. They had big heads and very long arms."
“The faces had large oval eyes, no nose, only holes, no lips either, instead of them there was a narrow slit,” Mann said.
“One of the officers approached Huffman and told him not to tell anyone about what happened, for reasons of national security. But upon returning home, the grandfather still told his wife Floy and his sons about what he saw. He never spoke about it again"
Huffman died in 1959. Before her death in 1984, his wife told this story to her granddaughter Charlotte Mann. A couple of weeks after the crash, Huffman was handed a photograph from the crash site. It showed two men lifting an alien. Father Mann gave this photograph to his friend and was not returned to him.
Westwood has studied all of Stringfield's publications and is now looking for those who have additional information on this case.
“All I need is one person who can say: I remember this,” says Westwood.
"Even if you have information that you have heard from someone, not first-hand, it is still an additional source."
According to Mann, the crash happened in the spring. Westwood compares the possible UFO crash with the fire department's records of a fire that happened around that time. “In the spring, the grass is wet enough and spontaneous combustion could not occur,” he says.
He also believes that the officers in the crash were called from the Sikeston air base. “When the UFO crash happened, the military and police probably didn't understand what happened. No alien activity has previously been seen in Rosewell. It is possible that this incident was deliberately covered up by the military for reasons of national security, it was at that time that the United States was preparing for World War II,”says Westwood.
“Everything seemed implausible, because the incident was presented as a plane crash,” he said when he began an investigation earlier this year. Westwood traveled to Cape Girardeau to research the recordings and find new sources. He was not very lucky. No one wanted to talk to him, and he was unable to inspect the accident site.
He found a report from the assistant pilot of an airplane that crashed near Morley, Scott County in May 1941. The pilot told him about another crash that happened at the same time, only in a different county.
Another problem is that the Huffman family left Cape Girardeau in 1944. There are records of their residence there between 1941 and 1944.
Stringfield, who investigated hundreds of UFO crashes, died in 1994. His family refused to hand over the personal notes of the famous ufologist for further study.
Westwood says he has never seen a UFO with his own eyes and has never come into contact with aliens.
“I have no doubt that UFOs are real objects from space,” he says.
As proof, he cites the testimonies of thousands of people who talk about their experiences of contact with aliens. The researcher also does not deny that there is a mass of false evidence and falsifications.
“It's a Sherlock Holmes-worthy activity to find a few nuggets among the pile of unnecessary and empty information,” says Westwood.
The story of the Roswell UFO crash is far from the only one. She's just the most famous.