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