作者uoiea (孤独者强)
看板paranormal
标题[新闻] FBI "Hottel Memo" Reveals UFO Hoax
时间Wed Apr 13 11:07:31 2011
反面说法出来了,各位看倌自行判断吧。不过这位Emspak先生的说法也没有任何引证,只
是单纯叙述而已,要说能完全推翻这份报告恐怕也未必。
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http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/110413/4/2ppsc.html
FBI幽浮档案解密?一场乌龙啦
更新日期:2011/04/13 03:00 陈文和/综合报导
中国时报【陈文和/综合报导】
近日英国八卦小报带头热炒所谓美国联邦调查局备忘录证实外星人曾造访地球的「新闻」
,但美国资深科学记者殷斯帕(Jesse Emspak)深入调查後发现,其实这是冷饭热炒的乌
龙事件,相信确有其事者都被一个近六十年前的骗局愚弄了。
殷斯帕的专文(
http://in.ibtimes.com/articles/132868/20110411/fbi-hottel-memo-reveals-ufo-hoax.htm
)揭露,这条新闻的依据「霍特尔备忘录」(Hottel Memo)虽然系由联调局特工霍特尔
撰写,也呈交当时联调局长胡佛过目,但从未被列为机密档案,许多媒体多年前就曾引述
。
联调局上星期新设立的线上公共档案阅览室「资料库」(The Vault),这份备忘录也被
收录,因此才再度为人注意,让小报见猎心喜。
更糟的是,备忘录中的情节是多手传播的道听途说,告诉霍特尔的人则是某位「空军调查
人员」,此人则是从自己的线民听说而来。而追根究柢,讯息的源头是两个骗徒纽顿(
Silas Newton)与葛鲍尔(Leo Gebauer)。
这两个金光党当年到处兜售一种宣称可以探寻石油、天然气和黄金等珍贵矿藏的神奇机器
「蚁狮」(doodlebug),夸口说技术是源自外星人的科技,并谎称一九四八年三月有一
架飞碟坠毁在美国新墨西哥州的阿兹泰克(Aztec)。
殷斯帕说,科罗拉多州丹佛市的富豪葛拉德(Herman Glader)当年被纽顿和葛鲍尔骗倒
,愤而控告两人诈欺。结果纽顿与葛鲍尔在一九五三年遭法庭判决有罪。
就算要拿霍特尔备忘录大作文章,也与一九四七年六月的「罗斯威尔飞碟事件」毫不相干
。两者人事时地物都不相同,只因後者远较出名,英国《太阳报》与《每日邮报》才硬将
两者牵拖在一起,目的显然只是耸人听闻。
By Jesse Emspak | April 11, 2011 7:51 PM IST
FBI "Hottel Memo" Reveals UFO Hoax
The infamous "Hottel memo" was posted on several sites, including the Federal
Bureau of Investigation's "vault." It was touted as "newly revealed" this
week. The memo supposedly confirms that alien ships landed in the U.S. in the
late 1940s and the information was covered up.
But in fact the infamous memo has been making the rounds for several years.
(It was never classified). The "vault" is simply a newer system put in place
by the FBI over the past week to make accessing documents easier.
The memo describes what was told to an FBI agent, Guy Hottel, who was the
special agent in charge of the Washington field office. It describes an "air
force investigator" who described finding a crashed craft in New Mexico, and
also said that alien bodies were found in it. Hottel only reports what the
unnamed informant says, not what his own conclusions are. The informant says
that the craft was disabled by "high powered radar" in the area.
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Not only is the information not first-hand and far removed from New Mexico,
it is connected to a 60-year-old hoax that resulted in a conviction for fraud.
The memo was the end of a long chain of tale-telling. The Hottel memo repeats
a story from the Wyandotte Echo, a legal newspaper in Kansas City, Kansas in
January of 1950, which was repeated to Guy Hottel by an Air Force
investigator who read the story (and pasted into a memo himself. Such
practices were common in the days before scanning documents was possible and
memos had to be typed out). That news story draws from the account of a Rudy
Fick, a local used car dealer.
Fick got the story from a two men, I. J. Van Horn and Jack Murphy, who said
they got the story from a man named "Coulter" - actually a radio station
advertising manager named George Koehler. Koehler got the story from Silas
Newton.
The hoax begins with Newton and his accomplice, Leo A. Gebauer. Newton and
Gebauer were peddling "doodlebugs" -- devices that could supposedly find oil,
gas, gold, or anything else that the target of the con was interested in
finding.
In an interview in 2003 for a documentary called The Other Side of Truth,
written and directed by Paul Kimball, the late Karl Pflock, a UFO researcher,
described the original hoax that led to the Hottel memo. Pflock notes that
the difference between Newton and Gebauer's con and many others that preceded
it was they said their doodlebugs were better because they were based on
alien technology.
The two men told Frank Scully, a columnist for Variety, about the UFO crash.
There were no other witnesses (local newspaper accounts don't show anything
for the relevant dates). Scully claimed in his book that Newton and Gebauer
told him the military had taken the craft for secret research.
Meanwhile, the story of the alien technology piqued the interest of J.P. Cahn
of the San Francisco Chronicle. Cahn managed to convince Newton and Gebauer
to give him a sample of the "alien" metal, which turned out to be aluminum.
Cahn's account of the alien ship hoax - and the two swindlers -- appeared in
True magazine in 1952. The result was that several people who had been conned
by Newton and Gebauer came forward. One of their victims was Herman Glader, a
Denver millionaire who had the wherewithal to press charges. Newton and
Gebauer were convicted of fraud the next year.
The Aztec hoax appeared again in 1986, when William Steinman and Wendelle
Stevens published a book called UFO Crash at Aztec. In 1998 Linda Mouton
Howe, a documentary filmmaker, claimed to have government documents proving
that an alien ship had landed in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. That proof was
the Hottel memo.
Several news outlets have repotted the memo as "proof" that the government
knew about crashes of alien spacecraft in Roswell. But not only does the memo
say no such thing, it isn't even connected to the town of Roswell.
There are several other clues that something is wrong. The FBI has several
documents that point to their knowledge of Newton and Gebauer both, as fraud
schemes involving mining were common in the southwest at that time.
In addition, an alien craft disabled by "high-powered radar" is implausible
given that ordinary airplanes can fly without incident through radar, and
"high power" radar is not enough to damage even conventional electronics.
(Radars were even less powerful in the 1940s). In addition, the description
in the Hottel memo does not match any of those given at the time for
purported Roswell UFOs.
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