April 25, 2001: Recovered UFO & Alien Bodies - Deek Richards & James Gilliland
Richards details the three-day recovery operation involving wreckers, bulldozers, and personnel with no military insignia giving orders. He describes tubes protruding from a gash in the craft that oozed a luminescent green substance visible at night, and metal that would repair its own dents within seconds. The craft was loaded onto a 60-foot flatbed, disguised with lumber framing, and transported under cover of darkness.
Richard C. Hoagland then provides an Antarctic update, reporting that sources confirm a container ship carrying 138 truckloads of equipment departed for McMurdo. James Gilliland joins later to discuss his near-death experience and ongoing UFO research at his ranch in Washington state.
Key Moments
Reforger '82: bang, thud, and the unmarked recovery team: During the Reforger 1982 exercise near the Fulda Gap, Deek Richards describes a huge bang and ground vibration at breakfast, followed by helicopters landing with personnel in unmarked Army fatigues who order him and another wrecker operator to follow them cross-country.
Buried craft and five bodies smelling of ammonia: Richards describes a 60-foot rounded-triangle craft buried half into the dirt with five gray, bald, black-leotard-clad bodies scattered nearby - apparently having walked out before collapsing - emitting a strong ammonia odor that required gas masks.
Self-healing hull and dripping green ooze: Richards reports that shovel strikes on the craft's stainless-steel-like skin would briefly nick it, then the dent would vanish - and that luminescent green fluid dripped from severed tubes inside what he believed was the engine room.
Full-bird colonel's UCMJ threat at debriefing: Richards recounts being bused to an 11th ACR barracks where a full-bird colonel ordered the 50-60 witnesses to never speak of the event - not to wives or grandchildren - under threat of 20-30 years in Fort Leavenworth, while a security agreement was passed for signing unread.
Public appeal to 50-60 fellow witnesses: Richards estimates 50 to 60 ordinary soldiers from the 29th Supply, 24th Supply, 293rd Engineers, and 48th Maintenance were present, and uses the airtime to publicly call on any of them to email Art Bell and corroborate the account.