FBI's Most Accessed Online Document Talks About Flying Saucers
The fascination with the pursuit of intelligent life outside the earth makes UFO lovers look for clues just like a needle in a haystack. Any kind of information can shed new light on the subject, even if the information is not always very accurate.
This is the case with a March 22, 1950 document. Called the "Hottel memo, " the file has been viewed nearly 1 million times since the FBI released it on an online public records platform. But what's so special about this file?
It was written by Guy Hottel, head of the FBI Washington office at the time, and addressed to J. Edgar Hoover - the then FBI Managing Director and one of the corporation's biggest names ever. In the memo, Hottel recounts his conversation with a US Air Force investigator in which "someone" would have told him about crashes involving flying saucers.
I want to believe
As you can already see, this is a great cordless phone. "Someone" says to the investigator, who told Hottel, who said to Hoover, who filed the memorandum without giving too much weight to the report. More than six decades later, however, the document rekindles the discussion about the existence of extraterrestrials.
“They [the discs] have been described as circular in shape and with the central part raised slightly. Each disk was approximately 50 feet [15 meters] in diameter and was occupied by characteristic shaped humanoids, but only 3 feet [90 centimeters] high. They wore a metallic fabric with a very fine texture, ”describes the Hottel memo.
The whole document appears to have come from some chapter of "The X-Files, " but the FBI claims that it cannot be used as evidence of the existence of aliens, as the story told by Guy Hottel has not even been investigated. Nor should the reports be compared to the alleged Roswell incident in 1947, since J. Edgar Hoover ordered an investigation of any alien suspicion after this case - and if he did nothing with the story narrated by Hottel, it was because there was no such thing. no evidence of the credibility of the report.
Who was the informant?
Some details corroborate the FBI's denial. First, the eyewitness accounts of the Roswell crash refer to wrecked ships in the desert of New Mexico, not three intact spacecraft, each with three alleged aliens. Moreover, although the FBI made these documents available on the Vault online platform in 2011, the story of this Guy Hottel report has been circulating to UFO researchers since the late 1990s. Would the FBI not suppress this document if it had any credibility? He is not even treated as a "Top Secret", but rather a common memo for the FBI!
To make matters worse, Hottel's informant's name has never been officially released, but experts believe it is Silas Newton, who fabricated various lying evidence about the existence of aliens to the point of being arrested in 1952 for fraud - he would have told the very same story. to Frank Scully, one of the writers of Variety magazine at the time.
* Posted on 12/08/2015
