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SUBJECT: NOTED EXPERT FINDS ROSWELL ACCOUNT FACTUAL FILE: UFO1929
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PART 5
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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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A WEATHER BALLOON?
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Forty three years later, Anderson smiles wryly when reminded of the
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Army's pronouncement, "A lot of people wondered why, if it was just a
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weather balloon, the military put the pieces under armed guard and flew
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them in a B-29 to Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio," he observes.
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Anderson believes the wreckage scattered near Roswell and the barely
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damaged saucer on the Plains of San Agustin are connected. "There was a
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gash in the side of the disc we saw, like it had been crushed in," he says.
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"The contour of the craft would fit into that gash perfectly - like another
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one of these things had hit it. I think two of these discs had a mid-air
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collision. One exploded and feel in pieces near Roswell, and the other
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crash-landed where we found it.
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With all evidence confiscated and the military steadfastly sticking
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by the weather balloon explanation, the story faded from the news by July's
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end. And Gerald Anderson says he tucked away the memory as he grew into
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manhood. "I learned you just don't go up to the average person on the
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street and say, "Damn, know what I saw?" The guy will go, "Get away from
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me, fool! Are you crazy?" In later life, he didn't mention it even to his
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wife until a few years after their marriage.
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Anderson joined the Navy in the late 1950s and served a dozen years in
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posts around the globe. He lived for a few years in Colorado, working as a
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paramedic and working toward a college degree in microbiology. In 1979, he
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moved to Missouri to better raise his daughter away from what he terms the
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"druggy" atmosphere of Denver. In addition to his law enforcement posts,
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Anderson has worked for two southwest Missouri trucking firms as a driver
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and instructor.
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Anderson also has been active in the Episcopal Church. He recently was
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elected to the vestry at Ascension Episcopal in Springfield and is studying
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toward becoming a deacon. A gold crucifix - a cross complete with a
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figure of the martyred Christ affixed to it - suspended from a chain around
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Anderson's neck is testimony to his faith.
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NO CONFLICT IN BELIEFS
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Although he concedes his account might make some fellow churchgoers
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uncomfortable, Anderson sees no conflict between what he saw with his eyes
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and what he believes in his heart: "When you're talking about the concept
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of God, you have to be talking in the context of a universal situations, a
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deity that built the whole universe. And why should we assume that this
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speck of sand in the backwater of space would be the only place that an
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all-perfect, almighty God could create life?"
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In fact, Anderson says he "wouldn't be one bit surprised to find out
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that, wherever this creature came from, there they have a very strong
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concept of a supreme being. Because of my contact with the creature showed
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a high degree of civilized sophistication, gentleness, compassion - all of
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the things we hold as ideals."
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Of the five Anderson men who ventured into the desert that day in 1947,
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only Gerald is still alive. Age, illness and accidents claimed the other
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four in recent years. But not only Anderson were at the scene, Gerald
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says, and he hopes his decision to come forth, albeit belated, will
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encourage others to tell what they know and spur official revelations about
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the captured craft and creatures.
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"I want to see the government stand up and say, 'Look, we're not alone
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in the universe.
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Let's make a 'Star Trek' really happen. Let's do go out there and explore
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the universe. That may be our only salvation. Because with what's doing to
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this Earth, we're not going to make it much past the year 2000."
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-------end of story--------------
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