Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Stalin Engineered the Roswell Crash? Too Far Fetched Even for Me

Now this is one far out claim Annie Jacobsen new book Area 51.

According to Annie Jacobsen, the reporter who authored "Area 51," the spaceship was actually a Soviet spy plane that came down during a storm. Jacobsen claims it was filled with bizarre, genetically engineered child-sized pilots. Then-Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was hoping, Jacobsen alleges, that the new cause widespread panic in the U.S.

Well the first problem I have with this is how they got the spy plane into the US in the first place. The plane would have come a very long way just to crash in New Mexico. First they would have to put it on a ship then cross the Pacific and maybe set into somewhere in Central or South America and unload the plane and fly it over the southern border with the US.

I guess it is possible but it would be logistically difficult for a "scare tactics" mission. Also wouldn't the Soviets want to crash it in a place a little more accessible then rural New Mexico if they want to create "widespread panic?" Maybe it was headed to LA or somewhere when it crashed?  

The story gets even stranger: The leader of the USSR had apparently been inspired by the 1938 radio adaptation radio broadcast of the HG Wells story "War of the Worlds," produced by Orson Welles. The broadcast triggered panic in some listeners who tuned in and mistook it for a real-life alien invasion. (Though later students of the episode claim that the media of Welles' day vastly exaggerated the scale of public alarm over the broadcast.)

This seems like an odd motivation to launch what may have been an act of war while Russia was still rearming and fixing their infrastructure. He could have gotten the same sort of thing by planting NKVD agents (the KGB wasn't around until 1954)  in some rural place and taking over a radio antenna.

They could then broadcast an alien attack and it might have been picked up by the wire service and rebroadcast. By the time the authorities went to the station the agents would have disappeared. Maybe they could have even staged an alien attack at the station with burn marks and dead bodies and such. It is still a lot of work from the USSR when it was still picking up the pieces from WW2 which had just ended a few years before. If Roswell happened in like 1957 instead of 1947 then the Soviets could have been better able to pull it off.

And those ET-looking aviators? They were scientific experiments created by the "Angel of Death," Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, for the USSR after the war. The flight was piloted remotely, according to accounts in the book, and was filled with a crew of "alien-like children."

This is the part that had me scratching my head. Josef Mengele was taken as a prisoner of war by the Americans and pretended to be another soldier so that he could be released in June 1945. He was then smuggled into Argentina by ODESSA. I'm not sure how the Soviets were able to get him to work with them during the 2 years they had from when the war ended and when Roswell happened.

I mean the Soviets had to get him from the Americans or grab him off the the farm he was working on in Bavaria in 1947. Then they would have to set up a state of the art lab with science that the probably would never have been able to create in 1947. Then he would have had him whip up the "alien-like children" in only two years. Even if they had all of his research (which the Americans were supposed to have taken) and the lab ready it would still be too quick a time table.

Still more puzzling is how Mengele was able to escape the Gulag and get to Argentina like he did in 1949. ODESSA was supposed to be good at getting Nazis out of Europe but I'm pretty sure they would have had all sorts of problems getting him out of the Gulag system. I don't remember hearing of them springing  any prominent Nazi's from the the hands of the Soviets let alone one of the most infamous ones.

However, if the Soviets used a man like Shiro Ishii from Unit 731 (who was the Japanese equivalent of Mengele) I would have been more apt to believe it. I mean the Soviets could have used easily utilized Japanese geneticists captured in Manchuria before they were tried in the Khabarovsk war crimes trials in 1949. However, Unit 731 was more interested in biological warfare and not genetics so that might be a hard sell also.

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