Tuesday, August 12, 2008

USAF Colonel Robert Willingham Recounts The Night A UFO Crashed In Mexico


A retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and fighter pilot has recently made waves in the UFO community by claiming he was a witness to a 1955 UFO crash just over the Rio Grande on the Mexican side of the river. He is very detailed in his story and pretty convincing, especially given his pedigree and record:

A radio message warned Willingham and the others about a fast-moving UFO that was approaching Texas from the northwestern U.S. “Suddenly it came into their view, looking like an intensely bright light – like a bright star seen through a telescope,” Torres said. “It blazed across the sky past them, and everyone in all the planes saw it. But, because of the location of Willingham’s jet, he was in the best position to see what happened after the object flew by.”

Willingham estimated that the object was traveling at 2,000 miles per hour, and he saw it make a sudden 90-degree turn, without slowing down. As the UFO streaked toward the Texas-Mexico border, Willingham received permission to break from the formation and pursue the object in his F-86 fighter. Following the object’s vapor trail, Willingham followed it down to near Del Rio, Texas, where he saw it suddenly begin to wobble and descend rapidly.

As the pilot watched in stunned silence, the UFO plunged toward the Rio Grande River, plowing into the ground just south of Langtry, Texas and digging out a 300-yard long furrow before finally coming to rest alongside a sandy hill.

Willingham then claims to have returned to the base after completing his mission and switched into a small, private plane in order to go back to the crash site and check it out from the ground:

The aviator returned to the scene of the crash a few hours later, according to Uriarte. “They landed the small plane right alongside the crashed UFO and noticed that a large number of Mexican soldiers had already taken control of the crash site. They had cordoned off the area and would not allow Willingham or Perkins to approach the main part of the wreckage. However, what they were able to see and look at was so amazing that it forever changed their lives.”

Before being forced to leave the area by the Mexican military, Willingham picked up a chunk of strange metal debris that was about the size of a man’s hand. He later tried to burn it, cut it, and otherwise deform it, but he was not able to. “It was a piece of something not of this world,” Uriarte said.

According to one source, U.S. soldiers later showed up at this scene, killed the Mexican entourage, and carted the UFO remains to Area 51...

Now the obvious question I have after reading this is... what did Willingham do with the piece of metal he supposedly picked up? Anybody know?

1 comment:

Roswell Books said...

As one of the authors of the book in which Colonel Willingham tells his amazing UFO story, I feel a need to state that Willingham does not believe the Mexican soldiers were killed by the U.S. crash retrieval team. This, in fact, did not happen, and I'm not certain where this rumor originated. Also, with regard to the metallic debris found at the UFO crash site by Willingham, he turned it in for analysis to a metallurgic lab contracted by the military, and several days later, the lab suddenly closed down and all lab personnel disappeared. When he made inquiries about the lab, Willingham was told by military intelligence that it would be best for his health if he didn't ask any more questions about it. More info at RoswellBooks.com.