Seeking Information
1941 Missouri Institute of Aeronautics
1941 Alleged UFO Crash Retrieval
1941 Cape Girardeau, Missouri
1941 Sikeston, Missouri
INTRODUCTION
Genealogical research uncovered unexpected coincidences between family history and a Missouri legend of an alleged 1941 UFO crash retrieval. In an attempt to dismiss this connection, I chose to investigate the incident further. Personal investigation only adds to the intrigue. Did an object of unknown origin, an alleged UFO, crash in the countryside of Southeast Missouri in 1941?
THE FIRST ROSWELL
An Internet genealogical query returned an abstract by Ryan Wood of www.majesticdocuments.com entitled The First Roswell. The abstract tells of an interview with Charlette Mann and references two signed affidavits that support Ms. Mann's recollections about a UFO crash in rural SEMO (Southeast Missouri). Based on Ms. Mann's letter to UFO researcher Leonard Stringfield, the abstract indicates Ms. Mann's grandfather -- Reverend William Huffman -- was a Cape Girardeau Baptist minister. On a spring Cape Girardeau evening in 1941, the Reverend received a call for assistance due to an accident. Upon arrival to the crash site outside of Cape Girardeau, the Reverend found it was evident something extraordinary had happened. Reverend Huffman indicated the local military personnel on site swore all to secrecy because the object was of unknown origin. It was, according to the respected Baptist Reverend, a downed space ship -- a UFO. Some researchers speculate Chicago received the UFO wreckage and the country's top scientists, like Einstein, worked on backward engineering the craft. The abstract suggests the UFO retrieval personnel would have been the 309th of the Sikeston Missouri Institute of Aeronautics.
After reading "The First Roswell", I looked at the picture of my father from the Missouri Institute of Aeronautics. A magnifying glass revealed the 309th on the patch on the uniform sleeve. Unsettling, I thought. Equipped with this coincidence of time and space, I embarked on my search...
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