Part 26 of a series reassessing the documentary record behind the 1933 Magenta narrative. TL;DR Frank Scully published stories about recovered saucers and small bodies in 1949, months before the two March 1950 FBI memos. An Air Force message from January shows investigators following a published version of the rumor. The March 31 memo names Silas Newton as a storyteller. The March 22 Hottel memo traces a similar account through a police investigator, Karl Howe. Howe’s informant remains uniden...

OUT NOW https://t.co/NJ4jMSTdLq [Quoted] 🚨BREAKING🚨: In March 1948, eight months after Roswell, the US military recovered an intact hundred-foot flying saucer from a mesa outside Aztec, New Mexico, with sixteen dead beings still aboard. The craft went to Los Alamos and then to Wright Field, and after decades of investigation, we can now name sixteen witnesses, nine scientists who worked on reverse engineering it, and the Air Force personnel who hauled it away. For seventy years, the case ha...

Did “recovered alien tech” begin as a 1949 con to sell fake oil detectors? Before Roswell became bodies and reverse-engineering, Silas Newton & Leo Gebauer seeded Aztec: Crashed saucer. Dead aliens. Secret technology. Aztec may be where the alien-tech sales pitch began. https://t.co/ZGIh0yUawI