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SUBJECT: NOTED EXPERT FINDS ROSWELL ACCOUNT FACTUAL FILE: UFO1926
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PART 2
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The second part of the Springfield newspaper, dated December 9th,
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1990 is as follows:
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Titled: Fact or Fantasy? Springfieldian seeks validation of UFO
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encounter 43 years ago.
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Written by: Mike O'Brien
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ALSO NOTE: the actual newspaper article shows a scene of the UFO
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crash drawn by Gerald Anderson and also a sketch of a creature he
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believes was a visitor from another galaxy.
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---------------begin story--------------
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To a 5-year-old kid from Indianapolis, the mountains and mesas
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and vast scrub land surrounding Albuquerque seemed an alien world.
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"I was in awe" recalls Gerald Anderson of his arrival in New
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Mexico with his family in July 1947. "I was in the wild
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frontier. There were real, live Indians out there."
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Then says Anderson, on his second day in the Southwest he
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bumped into real,live creatures from a truly alien world.
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There were four -- two dead, on dying, one apparently
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uninjured. The creatures were about 4 feet tall, with heads
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disproportionately large for their bodies by human measure and
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almond-shaped, coal black eyes. They huddled in the shadow of
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50-ft-diameter silver disk - a "flying saucer" that had crashed
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into a low hillside on the rim of what locals call the Plains of
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San Agustin.
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Anderson, a former police chief at Rockaway Beach and Taney
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County deputy sheriff who now works as a security officer in
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Springfield, is adamant about events on the hot midsummer day so
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long ago.
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"I saw them. I even touched one of the creatures. I put my
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hand on their ship. And I wasn't alone - my dad, my uncle, my
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brother and my cousin all saw the same things. And so did a lot
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of other people. But they aren't talking.
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Anderson is talking, publicly, after 43 years of silence.
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Among those listening most intently are some of the foremost
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researchers into unidentified flying object (UFO phenomena.
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These experts say Gerald Anderson appears to be an important link
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in a frustratingly fragmented chain of evidence concerning the
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most famous - or infamous - chapter in UFO annals: the so called
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"Roswell Incident."
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No one denies that "something" happened in July 1947 in
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central New Mexico, cradle of U.S. nuclear and rocket technology.
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However, military authorities insist reports of strange craft in
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the sky and bizarre wreckage on the ground were traced at the time
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to an errant weather balloon and other manmade or natural
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circumstance.
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Nonetheless, over the years, persistent whispered rumors grew
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into published articles and books, even movies, which fanned
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speculation that what actually occurred was a visit by creatures
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from another planet - an intergalactic expedition that turned to
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tragedy on the high desert and then into a massive cover-up in the
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highest circles of the U.S. government.
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Anderson says he was unaware of ongoing fascination and
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controversy over the strange episode from his childhood until one
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evening this past January when he was flipping through channels
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on his television set and stumbled across the popular program
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"Unsolved Mysteries."
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"I wasn't looking for any unsolved mysteries - I have enough
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mysteries in my life that are unsolved, and I don't need any
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more," Anderson jokes. He is a burly, barrel-chested man
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standing 6-4 and carrying a muscular 250-plus pounds, with
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reddish hair and a ruddy complexion creased from easy laughter.
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"But, bingo! On comes this story, and everything was wrong,"
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Anderson recalls of the TV show. On sudden impulse, he dialed an
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800 phone number that flashed onto the screen. "I guess I figured
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that if people were still interested in this thing, they might as
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well get it straight" is the only explanation he can muster for
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speaking up after years of keeping mostly mum on the matter.
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"These people don't know what they're talking about," Anderson
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told the operator on the other end of the long-distance line.
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"The shape of the craft is totally wrong. 'And how do you know
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that, sir?" she asked. ' I saw it, I was there,' I told her.
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"Whoa!" she said. "Thee are some people who will want to talk to
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you...'"
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Anderson's phone soon was ringing with calls from UFO
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researchers around the country. One in particular, Stanton
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Friedman, a nuclear physicist and popular lecturer who had
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advised the "Unsolved Mysteries" producers, was struck by
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correlations between Anderson's recollections and obscure
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details Friedman uncovered while sleuthing for a book to be
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published next year.
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------- continued ----------
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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