TRINITY: The Best-Kept Secret

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Reme: Big, bulgy eyes…you know. Everybody calls them grays, I guess, but I haven’t seen a gray, so I wouldn’t know. Beneath the vast blue skies of New Mexico lies a tale less trodden but equally captivating as its famous Roswell counterpart: the Aztec UFO crash of 1948. While Roswell might dominate extraterrestrial discourse, the Aztec incident presents its own intricate web of mysteries, testimonies, and contradicting narratives. Paola Harris: So what makes us think that this piece, which has ridges and little circles, what makes us think that this is an ET piece or an extraterrestrial? You’ve had it analyzed? May 1, 2023 • 36 min read On January 13, 2023, the New York Times posed a question in its headline, inspired by specific claims about a purported UFO crash in New Mexico in August 1945. After a three-month investigation, I believe I have the answer, which I have superimposed on the book that promotes the claims. By Douglas Dean Johnson

This article, Crash Story: The Trinity UFO Crash Hoax, and the linked Crash Story File series, are based on my journalistic investigations (which had consumed three months, as of May 1, 2023). I present extensive documentation establishing that all three of the claimed “eyewitness” sources – Baca, Padilla, Brophy -- have propagated lies and/or fantasies that are absolutely fatal to their credibility. Because I have demonstrated, in my opinion, that the three primary sources have all engaged in multiple gross fabrications, it would be folly to attach any credence whatever to any of the oft-conflicting versions of the UFO crash-recovery events that they have described. Skinwalkers at the Pentagon - A conversation between authors Dr. James Lacatski, Dr. Colm Kelleher, and George Knapp a b c d Benjamin Radford (August 15, 2014). Mysterious New Mexico: Miracles, Magic, and Monsters in the Land of Enchantment. University of New Mexico Press. pp.68–. ISBN 978-0-8263-5452-5.Reme: I was not there. But Jose would know. It is my understanding that throughout the years, he became more unconvinced that it was a Weather balloon. Paola Harris: And in the last couple of years you’ve been really intent on how to do this. I mean, it’s been in your brain about how to get this, how to do it, how to present it, and so forth. But it’s something you’ve lived with 60 years. Paola Harris: Did you both ever, when you were discussing as kids, did you ever discuss the beings?

Reme: Under a stone, is where I first saw it. I pulled it out. It had its own mind. I folded it, and it unfolded, kind of unusual. Jacques Vallee has made impressive contributions to multiple fields over his long life (he is now age 84), including influential books of analysis and reflection on the nature of UFO phenomena. Vallee is widely respected among people who take aspects of the subject of UFOs seriously (among whom I number myself). A profile of Vallee in Jerome Clark’s UFO Encyclopedia 3 rd Edition (2018) stated, “Vallee as an elder statesman of ufology is an almost universally revered figure.” Reme: Well, Jose and I and both families are in agreement that the public needs to know about it and also we’re in possession of the piece. It really doesn’t belong to us. Never did. It belongs to somebody.

Original publication: June 24, 2023. 10:30 AM EDT. Any substantive updates or corrections added after the initial publication are logged at the end of the article. Latest update: August 2, 2023, 8 AM EDT. The Jacques Vallee Declaration: A Tale of Two Urchins: Truth and Consequences in New Mexico Ufology," by Jacques Vallee (September 23, 2023). Original post archived in PDF here. According to Scully, in March 1948 an unidentified aerial craft containing sixteen humanoid bodies was recovered by the military in New Mexico after making a controlled landing in Hart Canyon 12 miles northeast of the city of Aztec. The craft was said to be 99 feet (30m) in diameter, the largest UFO to date. Scully named as his sources two men identified as Newton and Gebauer, who reportedly told him the incident had been covered up and "the military had taken the craft for secret research". [3] [5] [6] Paola Harris: No, no, I understand. No, no, no, because I’ve heard this before. It’s okay. It protruded, right? So it was a protruding head and big eyes, and a kind of a slit for a nose. Maybe as kids, you didn’t even notice the nose because the eyes were so big. They were thin, you know, thinly means skinny. It was thinly built.