| Like most UFO incidents denied by the U.S. | | | | else, and the buzz around base wasn't just |
| Government, the 1947 Roswell crash refuses to | | | | about strange metallic material. |
| go away quietly. Each time a government | | | | |
| spokesperson invents a new explanation to | | | | Milton said that he heard talk about odd |
| contradict the theory that an alien | | | | bodies found out at the crash scene. One of |
| spacecraft crashed near Roswell, one or more | | | | the men from his barracks was an emergency |
| new witnesses come forward to support the | | | | room medic. He told Sprouse and others that |
| original Air Force statement. That statement | | | | "humanoid" bodies were brought in after the |
| called the object a 'flying disc' and left us | | | | crash. The medic's story gave him the |
| with the impression that the occupants | | | | impression that one or more of the creatures |
| weren't quite human. | | | | might have been alive because he said, "We |
| | | | don't think the humanoid ate food." Milton |
| Milton Sprouse, age eighty-five, lives in | | | | also remembers how everything changed the day |
| Escondido, California. In 1947, he was an | | | | after the original 'flying disc' statement |
| engine mechanic and part of the 393rd Bomb | | | | was made. |
| Group connected to the 509th Composite Group | | | | |
| at Roswell. Milton arrived in Roswell during | | | | Milton recalls, "The next day, it was |
| 1945 after serving on the Pacific Island of | | | | published in the Roswell Daily Record, and |
| Tinian towards the end of World War Two. When | | | | that night, all the generals said the story |
| the aircraft he was servicing was moved to | | | | was untrue." He continued on to say that |
| Roswell, he was sent there as well. | | | | officers from the base were sent into town to |
| | | | collect all the copies of the press release |
| As the lead mechanic for Dave's Dream, he | | | | and newspaper with the original 'flying disc' |
| didn't find the area especially exciting. | | | | story in it that they could find. The medic |
| "There was nothing there but tumbleweeds | | | | was transferred elsewhere along with the |
| blowing for miles," Sprouse said in a recent | | | | doctors and nurses that saw the odd-looking |
| interview. All that changed in July of 1947. | | | | creatures. What became of the humanoids? |
| After returning from a brief trip to Florida | | | | "They took the bodies to a hangar, and there |
| aboard Dave's Dream, Milton found himself | | | | were two guards at each door with machine |
| thrust into a hurricane of activity. Back at | | | | guns," Milton said. Sprouse was referring to |
| the base on the day when the original 'flying | | | | Hangar 84. |
| disc' statement was released, he remembered | | | | |
| how hundreds of men from the base were sent | | | | Milton Spouse left the base in 1956 and says |
| out to the crash site to pick up all the | | | | that the people serving there were still |
| debris they could find. | | | | talking about the crash at the time. That was |
| | | | years after the rest of the world already |
| Milton was needed at the base because of his | | | | accepted the first of several official |
| position as lead mechanic. However, five | | | | explanations which indicated the object was a |
| other members of his crew went to the crash | | | | weather balloon with radar reflecting |
| site. After returning, they told Sprouse that | | | | material attached. When he returns to Roswell |
| what they saw looked "Out of this world." | | | | for the annual 509th Reunions, Spouse says |
| They were describing the material which | | | | "The Roswell incident comes up every year, |
| looked like aluminum foil, but refused to | | | | but there's nothing really new." |
| crumple and seemed almost indestructible. The | | | | |
| same description was used by Major Jesse | | | | He may not be an eyewitness to the 1947 |
| Marcel, the officer originally sent to | | | | crash, but Milton Sprouse is like so many |
| investigate the crash scene. Although Sprouse | | | | others that were on the base or in Roswell at |
| knew Marcel, he wasn't able to speak to him | | | | that time. They simply do not believe the |
| after the crash. Milton recalls, "I could | | | | official explanations. That's because people |
| never get close to him." | | | | they worked with, knew and trusted with their |
| | | | lives told them the truth about what happened |
| Most of the men knew about the radar | | | | based on their own first-hand experiences. |
| reflecting balloons and saw the material that | | | | Even when skeptics spin that information to |
| the Air Force tried to pass off as what | | | | say that crash test dummies, children or |
| crashed in early July of 1947. It wasn't the | | | | bloated bodies were responsible for the |
| same. The radar balloons came down everywhere | | | | humanoid body stories, the explanations just |
| in those days and most everyone that lived in | | | | don't seem to fit. As Spouse says, "You can |
| Roswell saw some at one time or another. What | | | | believe what you want, I know it's true. |
| they saw at the crash site was something | | | | |