Did Howard Hughes View a Captured UFO and Its Occupants?
by Bill Knell
I have long pondered this question and there may now be an answer to it.
According to a former employee of Hughes Aircraft, he did. The visit allegedly
occurred not long after the crash of an alien spacecraft near Roswell, New
Mexico, in 1947. You may think this story belongs in the BELIEVE OR NOT file and
you may be right, but I feel compelled to pass
it on to you anyway.
After a recent radio show guest spot, I received an email from a person that
claimed to be the daughter of a former Hughes Aircraft employee. Having grown up
on Long Island where many government contactors are located, I am somewhat
familiar with that part of the aircraft industry and have known many people that
have worked on various U.S. Government contracts over the years.
That helped me to make the decision to write this article and tell this story.
Linda is a retired teacher. She taught in public and private schools for over
thirty years and has emailed me an impressive array of diplomas and
certifications. She also emailed a few photos and some paperwork that verifies
the fact that her father probably worked for Howard Hughes. Because she asked
for anonymity, I cannot say much more about her or divulge where she currently
lives at this time. I have encouraged her to come forward at some point and tell
her own story in her own words.
Linda says that her father was involved with Hughes Aircraft as early as 1942,
but the timeframe that concerns this story is the year 1947. It was during the
summer of that year that Howard Hughes was obsessed with getting his oversized
wooden seaplane nicknamed the "Spruce Goose” ready for a test flight.
Officially known as the H-4 Hercules, the aircraft flew only once on November 2,
1947. The amount of time and work that went into getting the Hercules ready for
that flight was unbelievable.
Her father worked closely with Hughes during the Hercules project and later
became a full-time employee of Hughes Aircraft. The two men met after he was
referred to Hughes by a mutual acquaintance just after the USA declared war on
the Axis powers and entered World War II. Linda told me that Hughes used as her
dad as a “problem solver.” He had a knack for being able to look at most any
mechanical problem and quickly suggest a practical solution. He also had the
kind of temperament that allowed him to work with the eccentric billionaire.
Hughes was besieged with a number of problems during the summer of 1947
including a U.S. Senate inquiry into the way he had managed funds for the
Hercules and XF-11 Photoreconnaissance Aircraft projects.
Linda says that shortly after he testified at the Senate hearings, Howard Hughes
returned to oversee work on the Hercules and spoke to her father about his
possible involvement in an important government project.
“My father and I frequently spoke on the phone during the early 1970s,” Linda told me. “We were very close and often bounced ideas off of one another. I do not recall the exact date, but I phoned to ask dad some questions about one thing or another and the subject of Howard Hughes came up. Howard’s face was constantly on the cover of most of the supermarket tabloids during that time and we began talking about the National Enquirer and how they kept hounding him (Howard Hughes).”
Linda’s father scolded her for wasting her money on the National Enquirer, but she said that her mother also purchased the tabloid.
“My mother thought it was amusing that the bogus stories about Howard almost always appeared on the same page as their standing reward for proof that UFOs and Aliens existed,” Linda continued. “Dad told me that Howard Hughes could have claimed that reward if he needed the money and laughed about the fact that he didn’t. When I asked him what he meant by that, he told me the story.”
According to Linda,
Howard Hughes and her father were not friends and her dad would probably not be
considered a part of Hughes‘ inner circle if such a thing existed.
However, he did spend a lot of time with Hughes during the Hercules project and
the two had a casual working relationship as long as her father delivered the
goods. She told me that her dad said he was busy brainstorming with some
engineers when Hughes summoned him into an empty office. Hughes had a kind of
inquisitively stern look on his face and that usually meant that he wanted some
advice on how to solve a problem or was about to start a new project.
Howard stepped away from the door to the office, but didn’t close it. There was
enough noise outside of the office so that no one could hear their conversation
anyway. Howard sat down on a stool near the window. Linda’s father stepped over
to where he was sitting and listened intently. Hughes hated repeating himself
and despised people that were not good listeners.
Hughes told her dad that he had been contacted by a “high ranking member of the
United States Armed Forces” while he was in Washington, D.C.
The billionaire was used to receiving unusual requests from the military. He was
known as someone that could keep a secret and solve complicated problems.
According to Linda’s father, this one might have been the mother of all the most
secret and complicated situations that the government ever faced. Hughes said
that he visited a military base on the way back from the congressional hearings.
He didn’t mention where it was located and provided few details about what
happened there.
Linda’s father said that Hughes seemed uncomfortable talking about his visit to
the base. He hated situations that he couldn’t personally control and seemed to
indicate that the entire event was orchestrated and controlled by the military.
With the exception of Hughes, no civilians were present. Howard said that they
showed him a new type of aircraft. Most of it was in pieces and it was obvious
that the thing had crashed or been shot down. Hughes assumed it might have been
something that the Russians cooked up.
It wasn’t until Hughes got closer to the material that he noticed it was
anything but conventional. He didn’t pick up or touch any of it, but told
Linda’s father that it looked like “the damnedest stuff I’ve ever seen.”
The military officers present told him that despite the fact that it was in
pieces, the material was extremely resistant to heat, cold and pressure. They
also said that it was almost impossible to penetrate, yet it might have been an
implosion that caused the crash. Howard never said if it had any writing on it
and provided no further details about the material or the aircraft.
Hughes told Linda’s father that the dead bodies of the crew members from the
aircraft had also been recovered by the military and were mostly intact. He said
they allowed him to view the bodies and described them as looking like “dwarves”
or “deformed midgets” wearing seamless flight suits.
He added no details about where or how they were being kept. Instead, he got
right to the point.
“They want me to figure this thing out and I want you on board,” Hughes explained.
That was the end of
their meeting.
A few weeks later Hughes took Linda’s father aside again and told him to forget
about their previous conversation in the office. He gave her dad the impression
that there were too many hassles and not enough money for him to get involved
with that project. Her father felt it was more plausible to believe that Hughes
wouldn’t have been able to run the show and didn’t want to get involved with
something he couldn’t fully direct.
Or, perhaps he knew or had learned something more about the project that turned
him off to it.
It wasn’t until many years after their conversation in that office that Linda’s
father came to realize that Hughes might have been talking about a crashed UFO
and, specifically, one that probably crashed or was shot down during the summer
of 1947.
Her dad had never shown any type of interest in UFOs or Aliens.
Linda believed he might have come across the information about one of the UFO
crashes from the tabloids that his wife read. The timing would have been correct
because I saved issues of the National Enquirer and other supermarket tabloids
during the 1970s and recall articles about alien and military encounters and UFO
crashes.
I asked Linda if her dad might have been kidding her about the Hughes incident.
“Oh, no,” she said, “Dad never told tale tales. He had enough true stories about Hughes and other important people he met throughout the years… He didn’t need to make up stories… I am certain he was telling me the truth.”
I also asked Linda how
many times they discussed that story after he first told it to her.
She replied,
“Not more than a couple of times… He wasn’t interested in UFOs… He told me the story on a whim because he thought it might give me a chuckle or two… Dad had nothing to add to the story and I believe that’s why we never discussed it much.”
Unfortunately, her
father passed away a few years ago. I doubt he realized the impact that the
story had on his daughter. Before she heard it, Linda barely gave the subject of
UFOs a second thought.
Afterward, she slowly became fascinated with the subject and told me,
“My father told me that what Howard said he saw sounded a lot like what the tabloids were describing as crashed alien spaceships… and the bodies that he viewed fit the descriptions of aliens… I do not believe everything that politicians tell me, but I never saw a reason to disbelieve what they were saying about UFOs. What would they have to gain by lying about them? It wasn’t until my father told me the story about Howard and the material that I began to doubt their denials…”
Linda said that she
started reading UFO articles published in some of the mainstream newspapers and
magazines. Those tidbits awakened a casual interest in learning more about the
subject.
However, after retired Colonel Jesse Marcel came forward to expose the Roswell
UFO cover up, she went out of her way to learn as much as she could about UFO
crashes and military encounters.
“I purchased a used copy of a book by Donald Keyhoe and read it cover to cover,” Linda told me. “That book opened my eyes… I now believe there is much more to the subject than what we‘re being told.”
I asked Linda why she waited so long to tell the story she heard from her father about Howard Hughes and the strange aircraft.
“I am a very private person… I believe in doing all I can to promote education and to encourage students to stay in school. I want them to go as far as they can in life… I do not want to become the poster child for government conspiracies… You seem legitimately interested in discovering the truth about UFOs and Aliens. I believe that if people have a chance to learn about the story that my father told to me, they might feel compelled to come forward and share their own experiences and information with you.”
I have a million more
questions for Linda, but it is obvious that her father was given little more
than a thumbnail sketch about Howard Hughes experience with a strange object and
its occupants. He was only able to tell her what Hughes had told him. Not the
best scenario, so I cannot say for sure that this story involves a crashed UFO
and it‘s occupants.
I can say that I believe Linda’s dad heard a story about a strange aircraft and
unusually tiny crewmembers from Howard Hughes and that he told it to his
daughter just the way he heard it, straight from the horse’s mouth.
I have been researching Linda’s story for about a week. I have spoken with her
over the phone on several occasions. With her permission, I recorded the calls
and subjected them to a voice stress analysis using an inexpensive testing unit
I purchased a few years ago. If accurate, the results indicate that she was not
being deceptive during our conversation.
As a experienced UFO researcher, I was pleased that she cooperated with various
requests I had for more information. That is almost always a good sign.
Linda has emailed enough documentation to make me believe that she is who she
claims to be and that her father was employed at Hughes Aircraft. The materials
she provided indicate that he probably worked for Howard Hughes on specific
projects as a consultant before he became a full time employee. Because Hughes
never told him that he actually saw an alien spacecraft or referred to the dead
crewmembers as aliens, we have to fill in the blanks with some careful
speculation.
If Linda’s story does anything, it proves that people out there are sitting on
important information about UFOs because they still fear the repercussions that
can result from coming forward to share it. The blame for that may be placed on
the doorstep of a news media that seems incapable of covering anything deeper
that where politicians attend church or how old they are.
They ignore real news and issues in favor of serve serving statements from
government flunkies bent on forwarding an increasingly outdated agenda.
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