In The Day After Roswell, published in 1997, retired Lieutenant Colonel Philip Corso, who served under Eisenhower, talks about the "insemination" of American industry with technologies found in studies of extraterrestrial aircraft and their fragments found in the United States.
Stranger call
This concept, as, indeed, the entire content of Corso's book, brought on him numerous accusations of falsification and manipulation. But the lieutenant colonel also had defenders. Among the latter was journalist Kenny Young, who at first was skeptical about everything related to UFOs, but only until a strange meeting took place, forcing him to change his position.
Retired Lieutenant Colonel Philippe Corso
In the spring of 1995, Young, who lived in Cincinnati, Ohio, received a phone call from a Springfield resident from the same state. The caller, without identifying himself, said that he was from the military, that he knew facts about some projects of reverse engineering - the recreation of manufacturing technology and the technique of using parts and assemblies of flying saucers, which a friend, a former employee of the Monsanto research corporation, told him about Research, located on Nicholas Road near Daytona, Ohio, and that he is ready to tell Young about it.
Interestingly, this conversation took place shortly after the Associated Press news agency published an article by Young in a number of Springfield newspapers in which he was skeptical about the possibility of alien visits.
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The phone call ended with an agreement to meet two weeks later and dine at a restaurant south of Dayton. Young contacted two of his acquaintances, Carla and Luis, also journalists who were interested in any unusual information. They willingly agreed to hear what the mysterious informant had to say.
Conversation with the guard …
The journalists arrived in Dayton an hour before the appointment and decided to track down the Monsanto Research Corporation and find out something about it. Thanks to the precise directions received from the informant, it was easy to find her. From the road, several buildings that looked like huge boxes, surrounded by a fence, were clearly visible. The buildings did not have windows, and their upper parts were entangled with air ducts, ventilation pipes and metal fences. However, the corporation now operated under the name Quality Camikel.
When the "sightseers" approached the main entrance, the guard put aside the sandwich, pulled up the trousers that had slipped from the impressive belly and asked sternly:
- How can I help you?
- We are working on a project to study corporations located in this region, and we would be interested to know if this organization was previously called Monsanto Research? - The answer and the question that followed should have allayed the clearly brewing tension.
- Yes, it was called that several years ago.
- Do you know what kind of research projects carried out here were? Young asked, hoping to hear something intriguing in response.
“No, I don’t know, but it was some kind of secret project for Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
After the guard apparently told everything he knew, including details of a number of major fires that had happened here a few years earlier, Clara and Luis thanked him warmly. The journalists made their way back under the strong impression that the guard mentioned a secret project carried out on the instructions of the Air Force. Despite his ignorance of the details of the work carried out, indirect confirmation was obtained that their customer was the US Air Force. The details were supposed to be reported during the meeting by the mysterious "revealer of secrets."
Book "The Day After Roswell"
… and an "informant"
This gentleman was sitting in his car near the restaurant. The journalists parked theirs next to his car, greeted and all entered the restaurant together. After hearing Young's story of how they had just talked to the guard, the new acquaintance smiled meaningfully and said:
- It's interesting.
“Now tell us about your friend,” Clara asked him after the waiter took the order.
“Now he is no longer alive … But he worked at Monsanto, and he had access to secret work,” the former officer said thoughtfully and continued: “As follows from his stories, parts and components were delivered to the Monsanto units parts of a flying saucer, and they have been there for several years. Everything was done secretly, and surprisingly, no system of strict security measures was introduced. Apparently, the absence of such measures provided a reliable camouflage for the top-secret project.
- Where did these parts and components come from? - followed by an obvious question.
“I don’t know, but we have all heard stories about Roswell,” the informant replied, and it was noticeable that he was trying to evade answers to uncomfortable questions for him and continue his chosen line of conversation. - In any case, a lot of other work was carried out at the enterprise at the same time, and over the course of several years a number of serious incidents occurred there. During one of them, an explosion of chemicals occurred, causing a massive fire.
Clara shot a quick glance at Luis as she spoke, remembering the obese guard's recent story.
- One of the incidents was the result of experiments with gravitational waves. Then my friend was injured, and he was taken to the hospital, where he was immediately subjected to a serious examination. By the evening of the same day he was released, but, they say, for some time he showed signs of disorientation.
Much of the research in reverse engineering has focused on gravitational waves. So, once I learned about the existence of a device in the form of a rod, similar to a police baton. If such a rod is directed at a massive concrete block, then it can be lifted into the air, as if by magic. There was also some kind of nuclear material that was produced there, on the spot, and then they were secretly transported by trucks to Jackes Flats, where they were unloaded and buried. Once they were infected the entire territory of the corporation.
- And this contamination was somehow connected with the components of flying saucers? Young asked, trying to get the conversation back on the UFO theme.
“I suppose it was at least partially,” our interlocutor replied uncertainly. The impression was that he was not well versed in all aspects of the corporation's activities.
The story of a mysterious visitor
“But the real sensation,” the man continued, “was the appearance of a very strange person there. As my late friend told me, there was a man who visited Monsanto accompanied by armed guards. From the late 1960s to the early 1970s, he visited there six times. This well-dressed man had a security clearance, which gave him the right to be on the territory of the corporation and to enter into contact with its employees. He talked to them, - explained the informant, - but he was an unusual person. This subject discussed with employees various issues related to their daily job duties, inspections, and also, more incomprehensibly, talked with them about their personal life.
- What do you mean when you call him an "unusual person"? Clara asked in a determined tone.
“I mean, he was an unusual person. That is, he looked ordinary, just like you or me, and even wore an excellent business suit, but he was not an ordinary person. Many people felt depressed after talking to him, and some even fell into severe depression. The fact is that he knew things about them that he should not have known. One day he talked to a friend of mine and said something to him that traumatized his soul for the rest of his life. His widow told me that from then on at night he often sat on the edge of the bed in a cold sweat, thinking about that strange man. And more than once he said: "He knew everything about me."
Summarizing
According to the information received from the informant, "parts and components", manufactured using exotic and unknown technology, were delivered to the top secret division of the Monsanto corporation from Wright-Patterson AFB and subjected to engineering analysis in a research laboratory. Then they made duplicates of these parts and parts, which were taken away somewhere for subsequent assembly.
Not satisfied with second-hand information, Young tried to find out more about the informant's late friend. As a result, Young learned that the wife of this friend had repeatedly talked with the informant, since she was also directly related to the aforementioned activities of the corporation, and such conversations continued for several years after the death of her husband.
The information received from the informant, even if it was reliable, could not be confirmed. However, Philippe Corso's reference to Monsanto Corporation in his book, published two years after the meeting described, coupled with the mysterious story of reconstructive engineering parts and components, may simply represent another piece of the warped and twisted puzzle that is too weird to be true. And if this is still true, then it is such that it is very difficult to believe …
Ilya KONSTANTINOV