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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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April 29, 2007: UFO Crashes - Ryan S. Wood

Apr 29, 2007
2h 37m
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Art Bell welcomes researcher Ryan S. Wood for an in-depth examination of UFO crash retrieval cases spanning decades of alleged government recoveries. Wood, who maintains a comprehensive database of such incidents, walks through the evidence behind multiple crash events, including lesser-known sites beyond Roswell like the San Augustine Plains and White Sands regions of New Mexico.

The conversation covers the methods Wood uses to authenticate documents related to crash retrievals, including his analysis of purported MJ-12 papers and other classified materials. He explains why advanced extraterrestrial craft might crash at all, pointing to factors like lightning interference, radar disruption, and even mid-air collisions between craft. Wood also discusses photographic evidence he has obtained through Google Earth showing unusual convoy routes and pentagon-shaped road formations near restricted military zones.

Callers contribute their own sightings, including a trucker who photographed what appeared to be a saucer-shaped object on a military flatbed traveling through Iowa. Art and Wood also discuss underground installations, the secrecy surrounding recovered materials, and why the government would maintain such extreme classification protocols around crash evidence for over sixty years.

Key Moments

  1. The Special Operations Manual: a 1954 ET retrieval how-to: Wood describes the most thoroughly authenticated Majestic document, a 32-page April 1954 manual titled Extraterrestrial Entities, Technology, Recovery, and Disposal.

  2. Convoy of trucks driving into a White Sands mountain: On a 1998 aerial photo of White Sands' Area 29, Wood spotted 10-15 semi-tractor trailers entering the side of a mountain, taken as evidence of a hidden underground complex.

  3. Why advanced craft crash: the Battle of LA precedent: Wood argues artillery actually does down UFOs, citing two craft that crashed during the 1942 Battle of Los Angeles, and suggests many are lightly defended probes.

  4. 1948 Devil's Hole crash and the runaway ETs: Wood recounts a recovered 1948 newspaper account of two miners watching a 24-foot silver disc crash near Devil's Hole, Nevada, with two small occupants in leather flying togs fleeing into the desert.

  5. The White Hot Report's neutronic power plant inventory: Wood reads from a September 1947 Magic Eyes Only document analyzing Roswell debris, listing uranium hexafluoride, U-235 metal, beryllium, plutonium powder, and an obsolete neoprene called NE-102.