Cape Girardeau, Missouri, April 1941 — Reverend William Huffman of the Red Star Baptist Church is driven to a rural crash site where a disc-shaped craft has broken in half. He prays over three small non-human bodies with large oval eyes and crinkled foil-like covering — one still alive, expiring as he ministers to it. Military personnel swear all witnesses to secrecy. Two weeks later, a frightened photographer delivers a personal photograph: two civilian men holding one of the beings, its long arms stretched across their bodies. The photograph is eventually lost. The account passes through three generations before Leo Stringfield publishes it in his Status Report VII (1991). Church records confirm Huffman's Cape Girardeau ministry in 1941. Source: Charlette Mann / Stringfield 1991; Southeast Missourian, Westwood 1999. thinkaboutitdocs.com.
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1941: 1st Alien Humanoid Retrieval – Cape Girardeau, Missouri
On an April evening in 1941, Reverend William Huffman of the Red Star Baptist Church in Cape Girardeau, Missouri received a phone call asking him to accompany authorities to the site of an aircraft crash outside town — they wanted a minister on hand in case the injured needed last rites. A car came to collect him. When he arrived at the rural crash site, 10 to 15 miles from town, he found police officers, firemen, FBI agents, men in plain clothes, military personnel, and photographers moving through the wreckage. The wreckage was not a plane. It was a disc-shaped craft, broken in half, with an otherworldly sheen to its exterior, small child-sized seats inside, instrument gauges and lights across the panels, and a band of material running around the interior bearing hieroglyphic markings he could not decipher. Three small bodies lay to one side. They were clearly not human — small-framed like children but with oversized heads, large oval dark eyes, no nose beyond two small holes, no mouth beyond a thin slit, no ears, and arms considerably longer than any human’s. Their covering — whether suit or skin — resembled crinkled aluminum foil. One of them was still breathing in short shallow breaths. Huffman knelt beside it and prayed as it expired. He prayed over the other two. He was then sworn to secrecy by military personnel. Two weeks later, a frightened photographer from the scene came to his home and gave him a photograph — two civilian men holding one of the bodies up between them, its long arms stretched across their bodies. Huffman kept it. He told his wife that night and never spoke of it again. The photograph eventually made its way to his daughter’s family. It was later loaned to a friend and never returned. In 1984, as she lay dying of cancer in her granddaughter Charlette Mann’s home, Floy Huffman told the story of that April night in full, for the last time.
Date: April 1941 (late April most probable — Charlette Mann notes her mother was visiting and expecting her sister, born May 3, 1941; investigators have also proposed spring or possibly fall 1941)
Sighting Time: Evening — between 8:00 and 9:00 PM (phone call received; Huffman gone for several hours)
Day/Night: Night
Location: Rural area approximately 10–15 miles outside Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA
Urban or Rural: Rural — wooded area, field setting, crash site
No. of Entity(‘s): 3
Entity Type: Small non-human humanoids
Entity Description: Small-framed, approximately 4 feet tall. Heads larger than human proportion. Large oval vertical dark eyes — described as most of the face. No visible nose — two small dots. No mouth — thin horizontal slit. No ears visible. Arms considerably longer than human, extending fully across the bodies of two men holding the being and beyond. Three fingers per hand, elongated. Covering — whether suit or skin — appeared as crinkled wrinkled aluminum foil, shiny; no seams, no buttons. One being still alive on Huffman’s arrival, expired as he prayed over it.
Hynek Classification: CE-III — Close Encounter of the Third Kind (animated beings associated with the craft, observed at close range). Note: This is a crash retrieval event; CE-III covers the entity observation component. The retrieval and secrecy elements are documented as institutional response, not a separate Hynek category.
Duration: Not precisely recorded — Huffman was gone for several hours after an 8–9 PM phone call
No. of Object(s): 1
Description of the Object(s): Disc-shaped craft, broken in half. Otherworldly sheen to the metallic exterior — brilliant, other-worldly quality to the outer surface. Interior visible through the gaping break: small child-sized seats, instrument panels with gauges and lights, a band of unknown material around the interior bearing Egyptian-type hieroglyphic markings. Appeared partially embedded in the ground from the impact.
Shape of Object(s): Disc — broken in half at crash
Size of Object(s): Not precisely recorded; implied sufficient to contain three occupants in child-sized seating plus panel instrumentation
Color of Object(s): Brilliant metallic exterior with other-worldly sheen
Distance to Object(s): Close — Huffman walked up to and looked inside the craft
Height & Speed: Crashed — on or embedded in ground at time of Huffman’s arrival
Number of Witnesses: Reverend William Huffman (primary); local police; fire department personnel; FBI agents; military personnel; plainclothes men; at least one photographer (Garland D. Fronabarger thought to be the photographer); civilians present before military arrived; Floy Huffman and sons (family deathbed disclosure recipients)
Special Features/Characteristics: Multi-generational disclosure chain: Huffman → wife Floy → granddaughter Charlette Mann; photograph existed — two civilian men holding one being, arms stretched across their bodies; photograph loaned and lost by Charlette’s father; Charlette drew the photograph from memory in 1999; Red Star Baptist Church employment records corroborate Huffman’s presence in Cape Girardeau in 1941; photographer (Fronabarger) delivered photograph two weeks after the event, described as very frightened; military secrecy orders issued to all present; Huffman changed in character after the event — became less rigid, more accepting of unexplained things; published by Leo Stringfield in UFO Crash/Retrievals: The Inner Sanctum (1991 Status Report); Southeast Missourian newspaper coverage of James Westwood’s 1999 investigation; Charlette Mann’s full formal interview on record
Case Status: Insufficient Data — PLAUSIBLE
Source: Leo Stringfield, UFO Crash/Retrievals: The Inner Sanctum, Status Report VII, July 1991; Charlette Mann interview (multiple, 1990s); Southeast Missourian, Peggy O’Farrell (reporter); James Westwood investigation (Centreville, VA, 1999)
Summary/Description: In late April 1941, Reverend William Huffman of Cape Girardeau’s Red Star Baptist Church was driven to a rural crash site outside town where he found police, FBI, military, and civilian personnel at the wreck of a disc-shaped craft. He prayed over three small non-human bodies with large oval eyes, elongated arms, and crinkled metallic-appearing skin or suits. One entity expired as he prayed over it. He was sworn to secrecy, told his family that night, and never spoke of it again. A photograph was delivered two weeks later by a frightened photographer and eventually lost. The account was preserved through three generations and published by Leo Stringfield in 1991. Church records corroborate Huffman’s Cape Girardeau employment in 1941.
Related Cases: 1947 Roswell New Mexico crash retrieval — direct structural parallel six years later | 1948 Aztec New Mexico crash retrieval | 1940 Gateshead England — entity body | 1937 Czernica crash claim
DETAILED REPORT
The Cape Girardeau crash retrieval of April 1941 is one of the most credibly sourced pre-Roswell crash retrieval accounts in the American record, and it derives its unusual evidential weight from a multi-generational disclosure chain that passed through multiple family members and was independently investigated by credentialed UFO researchers over a period of decades.
The primary source structure is as follows. Reverend William Huffman was present at the crash site and made a contemporaneous family disclosure that same night. His wife Floy was the first recipient. His sons were also told. The story existed as family knowledge — known in its outlines but not publicly disclosed — for decades. Floy Huffman, dying of cancer in 1984, gave Charlette Mann the full account over several days at her home in Texas. Charlette had known fragments of the story before — including having grown up seeing the photograph — but the 1984 deathbed disclosure gave her the complete narrative. She subsequently contacted Leo Stringfield, whose Status Report VII (1991) published the account for the first time in the UAP research literature. The Southeast Missourian’s coverage of James Westwood’s 1999 investigation added independent journalistic documentation. Charlette Mann’s multiple recorded interviews in the 1990s provide the most detailed source record available.
The institutional corroboration is limited but present. Red Star Baptist Church employment records confirm Huffman’s ministry there during the period in question. The church directory places Huffman at 1530 Main Street, Cape Girardeau, from 1942 through 1944. Westwood’s investigation confirmed church records placing him in the area in 1941. No contemporaneous newspaper record of the crash has been located — which, as Charlette Mann noted, is consistent with the kind of wartime institutional suppression that kept far larger secrets than a rural Missouri crash from the American public in 1941.
The photograph is the case’s most significant lost element. Charlette grew up seeing it — a 9×9 inch photograph with scalloped white edges, showing two civilian men holding a non-human body under its arms with its elongated arms stretched across their bodies. She drew it from memory in 1999. Her description of the being’s anatomy — vertical oval eyes dominating most of the face, no nose beyond two dots, no mouth beyond a slit, arms extending beyond the reach of two men who each had a hand under the armpit and a hand further along the arm — is internally consistent with her grandmother’s account and with the description Huffman himself gave his family the night of the crash. The photograph was loaned by her father to a friend who never returned it. Its current whereabouts are unknown.
The case’s source chain is three generations deep, documented in a major UAP research publication, covered by a regional newspaper, and corroborated in peripheral institutional detail by church records. It does not have a military document, a recovered physical artifact, or a living primary witness. What it has is the kind of familial testimony pattern — quiet, private, consistent, transmitted reluctantly across generations — that is the most common form of pre-Roswell crash retrieval documentation. The case predates by six years the event that would become the modern era’s definitive crash retrieval reference point, and structurally anticipates it in almost every particular: disc-shaped craft, small non-human bodies, military secrecy orders, institutional suppression of civilian witnesses.
RESEARCHER’S NOTES
The Minister at the Wreck — Cape Girardeau 1941 and the Pre-Roswell Retrieval Record
- Source Chain Assessment: Leo Stringfield is one of the most credentialed crash retrieval researchers in the UAP literature — his UFO Crash/Retrievals Status Report series, published between 1978 and 1994, is a primary research resource that applied rigorous evidential standards to a category of claim that much of the research community dismissed. His Status Report VII (1991) publication of the Cape Girardeau case through Charlette Mann’s letter is the formal entry of this case into the research record. Stringfield died in 1994 and his files have not been publicly released by his family. Charlette Mann’s subsequent formal interviews in the 1990s, conducted by multiple researchers, constitute an independent corroboration of the Stringfield material. The Southeast Missourian coverage adds a third independent documentation layer. This is among the better-sourced pre-Roswell crash retrieval accounts available.
- The Photograph’s Chain of Custody: The photograph delivered to Huffman two weeks after the crash by a frightened photographer — believed to be Garland D. Fronabarger — was a personal camera photograph taken before the military took control of the scene. Its subsequent path through the Huffman family, to Charlette’s father, to a friend who never returned it, is a documented chain of custody that ends in loss rather than suppression. If the photograph still exists in a private collection somewhere in Missouri or Texas, it would represent the only physical evidence artifact from this case. Charlette’s 1999 memory drawing is the closest approximation to its content currently available.
- The One Still Breathing: The detail that one of the three beings was still alive when Huffman arrived — taking short shallow breaths — and expired as he knelt beside it praying, is the case’s most humanizing and most carefully transmitted detail. Charlette reports it across multiple interviews consistently. The being’s eyes were open even after death, which she and her grandmother attributed to the possibility that the beings simply did not have eyelids. This level of observational specificity, transmitted faithfully across three generations and multiple independent interview contexts, is one of the case’s strongest credibility indicators.
- Pre-Roswell Structural Parallels: The Cape Girardeau case anticipates the Roswell account in virtually every structural element: disc-shaped craft, multiple small non-human bodies with large eyes and metallic-appearing covering, hieroglyphic interior markings, mixed civilian and military presence at the crash site, military secrecy orders to all witnesses, post-event institutional silence, and a single photograph that was subsequently lost or suppressed. The six-year separation between the two events and the entirely independent transmission chain suggests either that the Cape Girardeau account was retrospectively shaped by the Roswell narrative (which Charlette Mann denies, noting she knew the story before the Roswell era), or that both events describe the same type of phenomenon operating in the American interior in the same decade.
Reverend Huffman knelt in a Missouri field in April 1941 and prayed over a being that was not human as it took its last shallow breaths, and he came home that night and told his wife he would never speak of it again. He kept that promise. Floy Huffman kept it for forty years and then told her granddaughter the whole story as she was dying. Charlette Mann drew the photograph from memory in 1999 because the original was gone. Leo Stringfield published it in 1991. The church records confirm Huffman was there. The photograph that a frightened photographer delivered to Huffman’s house two weeks after the crash has not been found. Case Status: Plausible — Insufficient Data pending independent corroboration. The three beings from the Cape Girardeau field were retrieved by the military six years before Roswell made that sequence of events part of the American vernacular.
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.
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
Check out the short video clip below. It shows Charlotte Mann speaking briefly about her knowledge of the Missouri incident.
VIDEO: Covert Retrieval
