This is the first time that I have had this report to review
and it is critically important because it is the first that led clearly to a
reported recovery. Yet little has been
done to track what happened to the data itself.
It certainly was not buried in this farmer’s field.
It all also happened before any military or government
agency had a reason to establish a response protocol at all. So that background should not contaminate the
evidence.
Somewhere there are real paper reports on all this buried in
archives. Why have they not surfaced? Otherwise, we have to believe that some folks
did pick up the bodies and then just buried them while also perhaps crushing
the craft and selling it for scrap. This
would be gross negligence even in the eighteenth century. It did not happen that way.
However it all disappeared and we are left with real
photographs dated from the time and place that simply could not have been
imagined then. In fact we waited a lot
of years to get equal information.
Before Roswell: The Cape Girardeau UFO Crash / Retrieval
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2012
The following is an update with added information to a previous post. Unlike
the Roswell
event, this incident had many civilian witnesses. There have been two
books and onedocumentary dedicated to this event...but far less attention
than the 1947 Roswell crash:
One of the most mysterious stories of a crashed UFO with alien bodies preceded
the well know Roswell
events by some six years. This case was first brought to investigators by Leo
Stringfield in his book UFO
CRASH/RETRIEVALS: The Inner Sanctum, Status Report VI
He opened a tantalizing account of a
military controlled UFO crash retrieval which is still being researched
today. The details of the case were sent to him in a letter from one
Charlette Mann, who related her minister-grandfather's deathbed confession of
being summoned to pray over alien crash victims outside of Cape Girardeau, Missouri
in the spring of 1941. Reverend William Huffman had been an evangelist for many
years, but had taken the resident minister reigns of the Red Star Baptist Church
in early 1941. Church records corroborate his employment there during
the period in question.
After receiving this call to duty, he was immediately driven the 10-15 mile
journey to some woods outside of town. Upon arriving at the scene of the crash,
he saw policemen, fire department personnel, FBI agents, and photographers
already mulling through the wreckage. He was soon asked to pray over three dead
bodies. As he began to take in the activity around the area, his curiosity was
first struck by the sight of the craft itself.
Expecting a small plane of some type, he was shocked to see that the
craft was disc-shaped, and upon looking inside he saw
hieroglyphic-like symbols, indecipherable to him. He then was shown the
three victims, not human as expected, but small alien bodies with large
eyes, hardly a mouth or ears, and hairless. Immediately after performing
his duties, he was sworn to secrecy by military personnel who had taken
charge of the crash area. [already we have a military response in
the face of the strange. - recall that the War of the Worlds broadcast
was then only three years before in 1938.
Unbelievably, this fear of mass panic really does date back to the 1938
broadcast and explains the military protocol – Arclein ] He witnessed these warnings being given to others at the scene also.
As he arrived back at his home at 1530
Main Street, he was still in a state of mild
shock, and could not keep his story from his wife Floy, and his sons. This late
night family discussion would spawn the story that Charlette Mann would hear
from her grandmother in 1984, as she lay dying of cancer at Charlette's home
while undergoing radiation therapy. Charlette was told the story over the span
of several days, and although Charlette had heard bits and pieces of this story
before, she now demanded the full details.
As her grandmother tolerated her last few days on this Earth, Charlette knew it
was now or never to find out everything she could before this intriguing story
was lost with the death of her grandmother. She also learned that one of the
members of her grandfather's congregation, thought to be Garland D.
Fronabarger, had given him a photograph taken on the night of the
crash. This picture was of one of the dead aliens being help up by two
men. -ufocasebook.com
Local UFO probe Researcher seeks answers to report of crash in 1941
A Virginia man is investigating the
possibility that a UFO crashed near Cape
Girardeau in 1941. "That would be six years
before Roswell," said James Westwood of Centreville, Va., referring
to the 1947 incident in which the government allegedly recovered and then
covered up a UFO crash in New Mexico. "That would put Cape Girardeau County
on the UFO map." he said.
Southeast Missouri already is known for UFO
activity. Dr. Harley Rutledge, a former chairman of the physics department at
Southeast Missouri State University who is now retired, has
investigated reports of strange sights seen flying through the skies near Piedmont and other UFO reports.
"Project Identification: The First Scientific Field Study of UFO
Phenomena" outlines Rutledge's research.
Westwood said Rutledge told him he has not heard of the 1941 incident.
Westwood, a retired Navy man and engineer; is looking for people who may
remember an incident from 1941 when some type of aircraft reportedly crashed
approximately ~3 to 15 miles outside Cape
Girardeau.
Westwood bases his investigation on an account by Charlotte Mann, a Texas woman
whose grandfather, the Rev. William Huffman, was the pastor of Red Star
Baptist Church
from 1941 to 1944.
Leonard H. Stringfield, a renowned UFO investigator, recounted Mann's story in
the July 1991 issue of his "Status Report," a monthly publication on
UFO activities and investigations. Mann told Stringfield her grandfather got a
call one spring night from police asking him to accompany them to the site of
an airplane crash outside town in case the victims needed a clergyman.
"A car was sent to get him, but grandmother said it wasn't a police
car," Mann said in Stingfield's recounting of the story. When Huffman got
to the crash scene, Mann said, he noticed one piece of the wreckage that
appeared to have a rounded shape with no edges or seams," and a "very
shiny metallic finish."
"Police officers, "plainclothes men" and "military officers
were already at the scene sifting through the wreckage, Mann said. Laid to one
side of the scene were "three bodies, not human," she recounted.
"It was hard for him to tell if they had on suits or if it was their skin,
but they were covered head to foot in what looked like wrinkled aluminum
foil," Mann said. [ This is
important because it informs us that they need to wear a faraday cage inside
the craft to protect them selves from powerful currents - Arclein] "He could see no hair on their bodies
and they had no ears. They were small framed like a child, about 4 feet tall,
but had larger heads and longer arms." Their faces had "large,
oval-shaped eyes, no noses, just holes and no lips, just small slits for
mouths," Mann said. Huffman was told by one of the military officers at
the scene not to tell anyone what he had witnessed for security reasons, Mann
told Stringfield. Huffman told his wife, Floy, and their two Sons what he had
seen when he returned home from the crash site but never spoke of it again,
said Mann.
Huffman died in 1959. His wife, who died in 1984, told Mann the story. A few
weeks after the crash, Huffman was apparently given a photo of two men holding
one of the corpses found at the scene. Mann's father loaned the photo to a
friend but never saw it again.
Now Westwood, who read Mann's account in Stringfield's publication, is looking
for other who may remember hearing about the crash. "What you need here is
another source, at least one other person who says, I sort of remember
this," Westwood said. "Even if it's second-hand account, you've at
least got another source.
"Mann's account says the crash happened in the spring. Westwood speculates
it may actually have happened in the fall because of the mention of a field
fire caused by the crash. In the spring, he reasons, vegetation would have
been too wet to burn easily. "But in the fall, it's very dry,"
he said.
He also speculates the military officers on the scene may have
been called in from an Army Air Corps base in Sikeston at the time. If the crash happened,
the military and police wouldn't have known what they were looking at, Westwood
said, because Roswell
and the other early UFO sightings hadn't happened. And the incident
may have been covered up for military security reasons since the U.S. was
gearing up for World War II, he said. "It wouldn't be implausible"
for the incident to have been reported as an airplane crash, Westwood
said.[!!! – no next of kin and little fuss - arclein]
Westwood began researching Mann's story at the beginning of the year.
He has been in Cape Girardeau
for the last week reviewing local records and looking for potential sources. He
hasn't had much luck. So far; no one he has talked to has admitted to knowing
anything.
"There isn't anything that I would consider even close," Westwood
said. He found a report of a student pilot's airplane crash near Morley in Scott County
in May 1941, and a local pilot told him about another crash near Oak Ridge that happened in
spring 1941.
The other problem is the Huffmans left the area not long after the alleged
crash. The Cape Girardeau
city directory lists the Huffmans from 1942 to 1944, but they aren't listed in
the 1945 directory. Records from the Southeast Missourian say Huffman became
the pastor of the church in September 1941.
And Stringfield, who investigated hundreds of reports of UFO crashes and
retrievals, died in 1994. His family has refused to release his files to other
researchers.
Westwood says he has never seen a UFO or been in contact with
extraterrestrials. "There's no doubt in my mind that UFOs are real flying
objects from outer space," he said. He points to similarities in thousands
of sightings and reports from people who have reported having contact with
extraterrestrials as evidence that something is out there. But what he calls
the "cultism" surrounding the study of UFOs and false reports by
attention-seeking hysterics detracts from evidence given by witnesses or people
who claim contact, Westwood says, "aren't any crazier than anybody
else."
Tracing UFO reports is "an interesting kind of detective story,"
Westwood said. "It's a Sherlock Holmes kind of thing in which you have to
sort through a lot of BS looking for those nuggets. In the end, some of the
things fit, and some Things don't"
The Roswell
crash and recovery isn't the only UFO crash in the annals of the study of
UFOs, Westwood said. "It's just the best known," he said.
- Peggy O'Farrel, Southeast Missourian (CSETI)
[ What this tells us of course it
that UFO retrieval has been an ongoing program that may7 even have begun before
this event. Certainly this photo was
taken before the troops arrived and likely avoided seizure that way. - arclein ]
NOTE: Here is the MUFON pdf
###
Summary: Interview with Charlette Mann, granddaughter of Reverand
William Huffman who was called in 1941 to pray over the bodies of alien crash
victims. Charlette recounts the experience as told by her grandmother before
her grandmother's death in 1984.
INTERVIEW WITH CHARLETTE MANN
Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Non-Human Craft and Bodies
Retrieval in 1941
Charlette Mann, Spiritual Counselor, Tyler, Texas, and Granddaughter of
Southern Baptist Minister William Huffman who began his ministry in Cape
Girardeau, Missouri
in 1941. "My father had this picture which I had seen I don't know when
I saw it the first time. I've seen it many, many times. And it was a picture of
a little alien being that was held up under the arm pits. There was a man on
either side and they had one hand under the arm pit and then further out on the
arm because the little guy had much larger, longer arms than we have. And I
grew up seeing that occasionally at home. I didn't think much about it as
younger. But as I grew older, I began to ask questions about it because I was
always very fascinated with the eyes. I wasn't afraid of them exactly, but they
haunted me.
My grandmother became ill with cancer and so she spent a great deal of time in
my home taking chemotherapy and staying with us until she was a little bit
stronger. That was shortly before her death that I began to ask her questions.
And I tried to make them very open ended. I didn't want to lead her into
anything and I asker her if she recalled that evening when grandfather had
received a call. And it took me quite a few days to even convince her after all
these years and grandfather having passed away quite some time ago to break
that bond or confidence that they had made. Grandfather and this is how it was
related by my grandmother and then I knew if it came out of my grandmother's
mouth, I knew it was correct.
WHEN WAS SHE ILL AND DYING, WHAT YEAR?
It was in 1983 to 1984 and passed away I'm not good with dates it was in the
year of 1984, I believe. She was here at my home. She lived in Missouri at the time,
but I brought her here and she stayed in my home.
IN TEXAS.
Yes.
AND DURING THAT TIME IN 1984 BEFORE SHE PASSED, THAT'S WHEN YOU WERE ABLE TO
HAVE SOME KIND OF CONVERSATION WITH HER ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN CAPE GIRARDEAU, MISSOURI
IN 1941.
Right.
DID SHE EVER SUGGEST A MONTH OR A DATE?
We talked about it and she thought, and I still strongly believe, that it was
the latter part of April. The reason being is that my mother and father were
there visiting grandmother and grandpa and she was expecting my sister. My
sister was born on May 3, 1941. And so, they had been there 3 or 4 weeks before
Mother delivered.
OK, APRIL 1941. WHAT DID SHE TELL YOU ABOUT WHAT SHE REMEMBERED?
Well, they were sitting around visiting and it was 8 or 9 o clock of the
evening. The phone rang and grandfather went to the telephone. He talked for a
little bit and hung up the phone. What was said at that time was that someone
from, had called the police department, or we assumed it was the police
department, and they had reported what they saw was a plane crash, that the
person whose property it was on had seen it. It had landed into a field and
there was some fire associated. So, they asked if grandfather would be willing
to go out with them to the scene in case there were some people who might need
prayer or assistance because they weren't quite sure what they were headed to.
So, he agreed to do that and a car was sent for him. They picked him up. I
don't know how long he was gone. She didn't ever tell me that, but for awhile.
It was later because they stayed up late to wait. When he came back, he was
very shaken and it took a lot to shake my grandfather. She said that he set
down and told her, 'I'm going to tell you what has happened. You can never
repeat it and I will never speak of it again.'
And he said that when he got out there that it wasn't a crashed plane at all.
There were some civilians. We assume probably people who lived near the farm
where it had crashed, near the people who had placed the call. Neighbors. I
believe there was a newspaper man from the newspaper. I believe there might
have been fire people at the time. But some civilian people.
Grandfather described what he saw was a saucer-shape that had broken in half
and you could walk up to see inside. He saw a lot of panel of things he didn't
know. Gauges, different things and small little seats that looked
children-sized. The thing that seemed to impress him the most and intrigued him
the most was there was a band around it of a type of metal that he was not
familiar with. It looked as if it had hieroglyphic, like Egyptian-type, writing
that he assumed was writing.
Southern Baptist Reverend
William Huffman, witness to the crash in Missouri,
began his ministry in Cape Girardeau,
Missouri in 1941. Photograph
courtesy Reverend Huffman's granddaughter, Charlette Mann, and Majestic-12
documents researcher, Ryan Wood. (credit: Genealogical Research)
THE SYMBOLS WERE ON THE WALLS INSIDE THE CRAFT?
On the inside. And that there were three beings, thrown. They were on the
outside and assumed they were thrown out (by the crash). One was still
breathing, was not dead. Grandfather knelt down next to him and he expired, but
he prayed over each and every one of them."
In 1999, Charlette Mann drew what she remembered seeing in the photograph that
her father kept of the 1941 incident. Around her drawing, she wrote: "My
Grandfather stated that the being was not alive at the time of this picture
being taken. The picture was approximately 9 inches by 9 inches and had
scalloped (white) edges. This is how the little Alien was being held in the
picture I saw of my grandfather's (incident). There were some trees. The grass
was ankle high and deeper in places. I was so fixed on his eyes I don't recall
as much other details as I might have." She also noted that the man on the
right in her drawing "had on dress slacks, wide brimmed hat. They both had
white shirts on." The man on the right had "his sleeves rolled up.
The other had a short waist coat jacket. There was no one else in the picture
except these three."
It seemed to be a child-sized being, probably 4 feet tall, maybe. It was
difficult to tell if it had on a metallic suit or if its skin it kind of
looked like crinkled aluminum foil, but soft. I stated in speaking about it
since then, he looked as if he had no bone structure, but kind of like octopus
tentacles would appear soft like that. Very large oval eyes. I have never ever
seen anything like it until at one point several years ago, I saw Whitley
Strieber's book cover on Communion, and that alien being, that face, was the
first I had seen not exactly the same, but fairly close. Larger head. The
dark oval eyes. Large eyes. It didn't really have a nose. It looked like two
little dots, like someone had taken a pencil. and marked two dots. I don't
recall the mouth. It was more as if you took a knife and slit across. No lips,
nothing like that.
I can't recall the feet because I never could hardly get past those eyes. I do
recall it had a small framed body. The arms were much longer than our arms.
Their hands I don't know how many fingers it had exactly, but I do recall
that it was not formed like our hand. But there were less fingers and much
longer.
DO I UNDERSTAND THAT THE MEN ON EITHER SIDE OF THIS NON-HUMAN WERE NOT DRESSED
IN MILITARY UNIFORMS?
Oh, absolutely not. They were there before the military got there.
WHO DO YOU THINK THEY WERE?
They were local people. The photograph itself was in a rural field-like country
setting. In other words, it was grass that is grown up, or wheat or whatever
happened to be in the field. I remember there being a large tree in one area of
it. There were no other people who were visible. There were two men, one on
each side, that were holding the alien up. Each one of them had one hand under
the armpit and then had hold of the arm further out, not quite reaching the
wrist, but fairly close.
AS IF DEMONSTRATING HOW LONG THE ARMS WERE, AS WELL?
I think so, because they went completely across their bodies and were still
extended further out.
The alien, I don't know how to describe it exactly other than to say it
actually did not look like it had on clothes, but there were no physical male
or female features. And it looked crinkled, kind of shiny, if you will, as if
it could have been aluminum foil and crinkled. So, I don't know if that was a
suit or his skin, but it covered every part of him. You couldn't see seams or
buttons or anything like that.
WHAT ABOUT THE NECK AND THE HEAD? WERE THEY COVERED AS WELL?
No, they were out just normal. As I said, the eyes were looked just huge oval
with blackness. No expression.
NO EXPRESSION. WHEN YOU SAY AN OVAL, IT COULD BE VERTICAL IN THE FACE OR
HORIZONTAL OR SLANTED. DO YOU REMEMBER IF THOSE EYES WERE SITTING HORIZONTAL,
VERTICAL OR SLANTED?
Vertical, up and down.
I SEE, VERTICAL OVALS.
Yes. And two little dots for what I would have called a nose and a slit for the
mouth.
AND NO EARS?
I don't remember no, no ears like we have ears. I can't say he had ears, no.
I couldn't see a side view of where the ear might have been, so I don't know if
he would have had the same little dots like for the nose. I don't know. But no,
not ears like ours at all.
IF THIS CRINKLY PART THAT SEEMED TO BE SORT OF METALLIC LIKE CRINKLED TINFOIL
WENT UP TO THE NECK AND THE FACE, BUT DID NOT COVER THE NECK AND FACE?
It did not actually that's why I say it's hard to know what you were looking
at because there was no seam. It wasn't like if you have a suit and there is a
collar with a seam. It just blended or moved into. I don't know how else to
describe it.
DID THE NECK AND FACE COLOR IN THE B&W PHOTO SEEM TO BE SIMILAR TO THE
COLOR YOU WERE SEEING AS CRINKLED TINFOIL OR WAS IT DARKER OR LIGHTER?
Being a B&W photograph, it's hard to distinguish. No, it was not darker. If
anything, lighter.
WITH THE DARK OVAL EYES. AND IN TERMS OF THE FACE, HOW BIG DO YOU THINK THOSE
OVALS WERE IN TERMS OF THE AREA THEY COVERED IN THE FACE?
Most of its face.
AT THE ENDS OF THOSE VERY LONG ARMS, WHAT CAN YOU REMEMBER ABOUT THE HANDS?
I do remember as if he had I don't remember seeing more than 3 fingers and
they were very, very long, much longer than ours. I don't recall seeing any
fingernails, but I can't swear to that because I was so taken with the face.
But I do know he did not have 5 digits. That I can tell you. It seemed to be
more like three and they were quite elongated and both hands were the same.
DOWN THE LEGS TO THE FEET?
I don't it's odd. I don't recall seeing his feet. I just was too taken with
the face. I noted that he was, I know he had legs. But I can't describe the
feet for you at all. I'm sorry, but I just didn't focus on them.
OK. DID YOUR GRANDFATHER SAY THAT HE KNEW THAT THIS BEING WAS DEAD IN THIS
PICTURE WITH THESE TWO CIVILIANS HOLDING IT? OR WAS THAT AN ASSUMPTION THAT WAS
MADE?
No, because he I think the picture was taken while he was ministering to the
one who he said still seemed to be taking short breaths. And so, the other two
were several said dead on impact. So, he knew it was one of those that the
picture was taken of. How he came about he wasn't aware that that picture had
been taken. But someone came to the house, this gentleman came to the house two
weeks later and he seemed, Grandmother said, 'Very, very frightened.' And he
wanted someone that he trusted to have a copy. Hew felt like someone should
have a copy of the picture and he asked grandfather if he would take it and he
did. So, that's how we came about to even having it."
Military Arrives and Orders Secrecy in the Interest of National Security
While this was taking place, all of a sudden, military just showed up,
surrounded, and overran the place. Grandfather was taken aside as were several
of them and they were told that they had not seen what had taken place, that it
was high security as far as the government (was concerned) national security.
So, they weren't to speak of it.
Nowadays, we probably wouldn't (obey). But in that day and time, if you said to
my grandfather, 'This is about our country and this is important and it will be
detrimental.' He truly never did speak of it again to our knowledge.
So, I think they (military) scared some of them much more than it did my
grandfather. My grandfather seemed to be more shaken with the fact that there
were alien beings. But anyway, they (military) dispersed them. Grandfather came
home. That would have been that, except one of the men, a photographers had
taken I guess a personal camera one of his own in addition to his
professional newspaper camera. He had taken some pictures. That was the one I
later saw.
THIS WAS OF TWO CIVILIANS OR FIRE WORKERS ...
No, they were not fire workers. They were definitely two civilian people
holding up one of the deceased aliens.
THE BEING WAS DEFINITELY DECEASED?
This one, yes.
AND YET IT HAD ITS EYES OPEN?
The eyes appeared just yes, they did. I don't know if they have eyelids. I
don't know. I can only tell you what I saw. I can't explain it. I don't try. I
don't want to tamper with it. I just give the account that was given to me. The
eyes were very visible.
DID YOU EVER HEAR ANY DETAILS ABOUT WHETHER YOUR GRANDFATHER COULD SMELL ODOR
FROM THE BEING, COULD FEEL TEMPERATURE, COULD HEAR ANY SOUNDS OR HAD ANY MENTAL
IMPRESSIONS AS HE BENT OVER THE LIVE BEING TO DO PRAYERS?
I don't think any of that in that kind of order was ever discussed. So, I don't
know about smell. He did say about the breathing, that's why he believed him
(alien) not deceased. There were a few short, shallow breaths. He did mention
that. I can only say that grandmother said he was forever changed by it. He was
a southern Baptist minister for 40 years of his life, but he became much less
rigid, much more accepting of unexplained things after that. Now, that was
relayed to me through my grandmother and my father. But none of the other that
you speak of, I'm sorry to say.
WHERE DID THE MILITARY TAKE THE CRAFT AND THOSE BODIES?
We never heard anything else after grandfather came home and gave his account.
There was never anything else mentioned.
BUT IF IT HAPPENED IN CAPE GIRARDEAU
AND POLICE AND FIRE AND MILITARY WERE INVOLVED, YOU WOULD THINK THE ENTIRE
COMMUNITY WOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY HAD HAPPENED.
Well, I would have thought that until the last few years in finding out what I
have about our government and our news media. If you can keep the bomb that was
dropped on Hiroshima a secret with the number of people involved and the number
of people who worked on that, then I'm convinced they can keep, they can really
quell a story if they desire to. And I think it wasn't just their ability, but
how it was presented to the people and how they accepted that responsibility at
the time. I don't believe it was covered in the newspaper as what it actually
was. I don't know if you went back and traced the papers if there would be a
mention of a plane crash or I don't know because granddad knew it had
happened. He didn't need proof for himself and he wasn't going to talk about
it. And my dad just didn't go after the facts. I'm not sure you have to be
kind of a researcher to know how you do that and I just don't know that he
knew. I guess it's just if you have seen the picture, and we had that, we
didn't need any proof and we weren't, my intent has never been I'm not out to
prove anything to anybody. I can't answer all the questions correctly. I can
only give the account of the picture I saw and what was related to me."
- Genealogical Research / Southeast
Missourian
East Texans Shares "Family Secret" Of UFO Sighting
"I was not a big UFO person, didn't know much about it other than my own
experience." Sitting in her Tyler, Texas home, Charlotte
man tells us about her experience, which she calls the "family secret,"
many of the details discovered on her grandparents deathbeds.
It was April, 1941 in Cape Girardeau,
Missouri. Around 9:30 p.m., Charlotte's grandfather,
Reverend William Huffman, got a call about a plane crash and was asked to help.
"When they got out there, it wasn't a plane crash at all. It was a saucer,
was how he described it," says Charlotte.
According to the story, 3 alien bodies lay on the ground next to the spaceship;
two already dead. "However, granddad said the third one when he got to
him, he was breathing very shallow and so he did pray with him. He did expire
as he was on his knees praying for him. He then went to the other two and
prayed over them."
Charlotte's
grandfather then took a closer look at the spaceship. "What he was most
impressed with was in the inside there were writings, but he did not recognize
it. He said it looked similar to hieroglyphics. The Egyptian
hieroglyphics," explains Charlotte.
Quickly, the scene was covered with military personnel and Reverend Huffman was
sworn to secrecy. Charlotte
says, "He was told, 'This did not happen. You did not see this. This is
enormous national security. You're not to ever speak of it again.'"
But the enormity of what he had witnessed was too much for a man. The shock on
his face told what his words, at first, did not. Then after gaining their
promise, he shared with his family what had happened. "Granddad was a
quiet man to begin with but grandmother said the look on his face was
different," says Charlotte.
A few weeks after the UFO crash, Reverend Huffman was given a picture taken
that night by a local photographer. "He felt like someone else besides
himself should have a copy and granddad was the only one he trusted. So he gave
him a copy of the picture. So I had seen that picture all growing up."
Charlotte goes on to say, "You couldn't see those big eyes and not be
affected. It wasn't anything I had ever seen."
That picture went missing years ago after her grandfather loaned it to a
friend, who never returned it. But seeing that picture and knowing the
integrity of her grandfather, Charlotte
believes the story is true. But, she never had any proof until a few years ago
while doing research for a documentary on the crash.
"We got validation by going to the archives in Washington D.C.
And to see a top secret declassified document that stated that there was in
fact a crash retrieval in 1941 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, for me, I have not
forgotten holding that paper in my hand and realizing that my family's story
was real, was solid, and for me was just an answer to a long time
question."
But Charlotte
knows some people will still be skeptical. "That's OK with me. I don't
have to convince anybody. I just have to know what's true for me. I think it's
arrogant to think that a God that we have that is so awesome, created just us.
I also don't think that we have to worry about a huge threat from them because
if that were their intention, that would have happened a long time ago."
Charlotte's story is one of many involving UFO's and she's quick to point out,
it won't be the last, saying the next extraterrestrial visit is not far away.
"I don't think that's a thing of the future. I just think we're going to
see more of it and Stephenville is just the beginning of it happening everywhere.
I think there will always be things that we are not aware of but we should
always keep an open mind for possibilities."
The UFO crash of 1941 in Missouri
continues to be researched and investigated today. So far, the story has been
included in two books and one documentary. - KLTV
