John Lennon Describes His UFO Encounter On Video!
“There are going to be two UFOs in this talk,” said Schauer, a public relations specialist at YPG.
The incidents in question
happened in 1952. On April, 17, 13 soldiers on a field familiarization
hike three miles south of what was then called Yuma Test Station,
spotted a white object dart through the sky with a vapor trail at around
3 p.m.
The group was unable to get
information with instruments at hand at that moment or for a second
incident a few days later. On April 26, a report was made to YTS command
and made its way up to U.S. Army Air Corps Command at Patterson Air
Base. But why did such an incident garner interest at such a high
level?
Schauer hypothesizes that the answer lies in the historical moment during which the soldiers were living.
“I think it was that particular moment in history,” he said.
Schauer detailed how rocket
scientists in Nazi Germany began to build a rocket that was thought
capable of reaching U.S. shores in 1940. Such fears of a long range
missile attack were only amplified after the end of World War II when
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics became the primary adversary of
the U.S. in a period that became known as the Cold War.
“The fear of these men was that
they were seeing tests of Intercontinental Balistic Missiles being shot
from the Ural Mountains in Russia,” he said.
However, the Semyorka Missile —
the U.S.S.R’s first ICBM — was not tested until May 1957, a month before
the Atlas Rocket — the U.S. response to the Semyorka — was tested.
One clue was found from an
earlier incident at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. There,
an incident in April 1950 where the observers were able to capture
readings on their instrumentation, left some tantalizing clues.
The object was flying at an altitude around 150,000 feet in the air and at a high rate of speed.
Schauer went through a number of
armaments it was suspected of being but there was only one that came
close to being a possibility, and that appeared to fall short of the
mark in his eyes.
“One thing it could’ve been was
the Honest John, the first nuclear capable surface-to-surface missile in
the U.S. military,” he said. “It carried a war head that was about 20
mega tons in size, Hiroshima was 15 mega tons.
“But it only had a range of 15
miles,” he continued. “Theoretically, it could’ve been Honest John but
in all probability it was not.”
However, Schauer said it was most
likely the Lyrid Meteor Shower, a cosmic show that happens annually
approximately between April 16 and April 25. Its existence has been
known since the seventh century B.C., according to Schauer.
“It was probably a meteor,” he said. “But there was a fear that it was an ICBM from Russia.”
With the progression of the Space
Race and the Soviet launching of Sputnik — the first ever man-made
satelite in space — in 1957, as well as the recent events of the Second
World War, Korean War and a fear of Communism, probably led to such
high-level interest.
“Before too much longer, the idea
of ICBM’s permeated daily life in the U.S.,” said Schauer, showing a
slide of toys for children that were modeled on nuclear missiles.
As for the investigation, the paper trailed ended with no clear indication as to what the Army believed the YPG UFO to be.
“There was no determination,” said Schauer. “I suspect that they probably thought it was just a meteor.
“It was probably an out of this world visitor but not an intelligent one,” he continued, “just a meteor.”
“I wish they were little green men,” giggled one audience member in a hushed whisper.
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