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Did a UFO Crash in Missouri in 1941?
Missouri’s Brush With UFO Fame I WANT TO BELIEVE
Enthusiasts from all across the globe who believe we’re not alone in the universe celebrate World UFO Day on July 2 — and they believe extraterrestrial life has been found right here on Earth. The day marks the anniversary of the Roswell, New Mexico, incident in 1947, which some believe involved a UFO crash and massive government cover-up. But what if that wasn’t the first incident? In the 1980s, Charlotte Mann began claiming her grandfather witnessed a UFO crash site in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, in 1941. According to her, Rev. William Huffman was called to what he believed was a plane crash site to deliver last rites. When he arrived, he purportedly saw no ordinary crash site. A flying saucer was lodged in
the ground, and three extraterrestrial figures were lying outside the ship.
grandfather, but she claims to have seen photographic evidence.
Mann says her grandfather stated two of the aliens were dead, and one was barely breathing. They were your standard alien figures — gray and short with big heads and gigantic eyes. He prayed over the surviving creature while taking in the spaceship design with strange knobs, dials, and hieroglyphs. But before long, Mann recounts, the military arrived and cleared the scene after swearing every witness to secrecy. Huffman, however, was so unnerved that he told his wife and two sons. Sources differ on whether Mann learned the story from her grandmother on her deathbed or directly from her
A photographer present that night supposedly captured a picture of officials holding up a dead alien for inspection. “He felt like someone else besides himself should have a copy, and Grandad was the only one he trusted,” Mann told East Texas news broadcaster KITV. As luck would have it, the photograph has since gone missing, but Mann helpfully recreated it as a pencil drawing. Regardless of its accuracy, the story of Huffman’s encounter with aliens is now Cape Girardeau urban legend. So, what do you believe? On July 2, we should all take a moment to look at the sky and wonder what might be out there.
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