Book Claims Roswell Ufo Was Stalin Work

MAY 19, 2011 - There is a new book out that theorizes that the UFO that crashed near Roswell, New Mexicon in 1947 may not have been alien at all. Unless, of course, you consider Soviet aircraft to be alien. That's right, Soviet. The book is "AREA 51: AN UNCENSORED HISTORY OF AMERICA'S TOP SECRET MILITARY BASE" by ANNIE JACOBSEN. She was interviewed recently on NPR's Fresh Air, which you can listen can listen to here.

THE STALIN-UFO-ROSWELL THEORY, HOWEVER, IS ACTUALLY OLD NEWS.

A REPORT BY CLAUDINE ZAP ON YAHOO NEWS yesterday said that Jacobsen's new book is "already generating a ton of buzz says there was no alien spacecraft that crashed in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. Instead, Stalin did it--maybe." However, author Jacobsen is not the first one to suggest that former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was behind the UFO scare in New Mexico.

"STALIN WAS DEAD LONG BEFORE THE ROSWELL INCIDENT later came under public scrutiny," wrote Andy Lloyd in November, 2002. "The story had indeed been allegedly covered up in 1947 with the weather balloon in General Ramey's office, but the story didn't get properly aired until Stanton Friedman's initial investigation in the 1970s. In between, the Roswell incident had been long forgotten. So if Stalin had heard of the Roswell incident, Soviet Intelligence must have picked up the initial story in the summer of 1947 when it was published widely in the American press (Stalin died in March 1953)."

IN OTHER WORDS, STALIN MAY NOT HAVE EVEN BEEN AWARE of the Roswell UFO incident, much less engineered it. Does this mean Jacobsen's book is wrong? Maybe, maybe not. ZAP'S REPORT ALSO SAYS THAT JACOBSEN CLAIMS " the spaceship was actually a Soviet spy plane that came down during a storm. Jacobsen claims it was filled with bizarre-looking, genetically engineered child-sized pilots."

HOLD ON A MINUTE. A "Soviet spy plane?" Forget about the child sized pilots for a moment. How would U.S. intelligence - or even an ordinary soldier - mistake a "plane" for a saucer shaped craft? Jacobsen lost me right there, and her claims seem to get more bizarre.

IN HER BOOK, SHE THEORIZES THAT STALIN HOPED TO PANIC THE U.S. PUBLIC by faking an alien invasion because, says Jacobsen, Stalin saw the panic created by the 1938 radio broadcast by Orson Welles of "War of the Worlds." Stalin is known to have been fascinated by the possibility of extraterrestrial civilization and UFOs, but I think he could have figured out a better way to instill mass panic in the American populace. Again, Jacobsen loses me.

A FASCINATING ARTICLE IN PRAVDA, from November, discusses this. The article, "STALIN'S UFOS," said this about the U.S. Government's coverup of the Roswell incident: "The USSR believed that the story about a weather balloon crashing was just an attempt to hide the truth."

THE PRAVDA STORY CONTRADICTS JACOBSEN'S THEORY that the leadership of the USSR (Stalin) had staged the event with a "spy plane.... filled with bizarre-looking, genetically engineered child-sized pilots." If that was "really "the case, "then why would the Soviet leadership have considered the trumped up story about a weather balloon to be false"? IF the Soviets had done what Jacobsen says, they would instead have been laughing at the U.S. Government lies rather than being curious about the coverup.

"THE MILITARY UNIT THAT RECOVERED THE REMAINS OF THE UFO," said the 2002 Pravda article, "was believed to be America's best trained Air Force unit. This unit took part in super secret nuclear missions (it was this group that dropped the nuclear bombs on Japan); pilots of this group tested new planes and were experienced enough not to confuse a weather balloon with an UFO. In order to clear up the situation, Joseph Stalin ordered three Soviet scientists to research data obtained by the KGB in the USA and define to what extent such mysterious objects were dangerous for the Soviet Union."

FRANKLY, I THINK ANNIE JACOBSEN'S THEORY IS FULL OF HOLES (AND SOMETHING ELSE THAT I WON'T WRITE HERE). Her allegation that the UFO was really a Soviet spy plane is flimsy and unproven, but flimsier still is the part about the "aliens" actually being human children who were made to appear "alien-like" by means of horrific medical applications in Russia. The children, says Jacobsen, were aged 12 or 13. The Telegraph (UK) sums up Jacobsen's theory about the fabled Roswell UFO crash as nothing more than a "plane, remotely piloted by another aircraft, that "crashed and the Americans hushed up the incident. (Hat tip: AlienExaminer.com)

ONCE AGAIN: WHY WOULD PRAVDA HAVE REPORTED IN 2002 that the Soviet leadership did not behave as though the Roswell incident was of their own making. AGAIN, there would have been more effective ways for the Soviets to panic the American public. And we still have the testimony of RETIRED ARMY COLONEL PHILIP J. CORSO in his great book, "THE DAY AFTER ROSWELL." Col. Corso says he saw at least one of the dead alien bodies. Something tells me that experts who examined the body would have been able to tell that it was human, deformed or otherwise. I can't help but wonder whether Jacobsen is a professional debunker.