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"Life" Photographer In Roswell During The Incident + Other Unknown Evidence

Found at the website of "Los Angeles Times":
http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/COMMENT/t000059455.html


COMMENTARY


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Thursday, July 3, 1997


Roswell UFO Report, Crash Test Dummies
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Re "Roswell Report Doesn't Fly," editorial, June 26:

I am a British ex-RAF pilot with service before and during World War
II. I also was a POW in Germany three years. In 1947 I was in La Jolla
and was a guest at the U.S. naval officers club in San Diego. One night
I was asked to dine with an officer and his wife at their home in
Coronado. That night her husband was on night operations, flying off
the carrier. About 8 p.m. his wife remarked her husband was awfully
late.

About 20 minutes later the phone rang and she excused herself to answer
it in the bedroom. I heard a sort of wail and she came into the living
room totally distraught. Her husband had crashed at sea and was
presumed lost. In the last radio report from him he said he was chasing
a UFO!

GEORGE PELLING

¿Laguna Hills




Some 50 years ago, as a staff photographer for Life magazine, I was
sent to Roswell, N.M., to photograph what the Life called a "meteor
hunt." All we knew at the time was that a "huge meteor" had crashed
somewhere in the New Mexico desert and the Air Force was searching for
it. I was assigned an Air Force pilot who would put me on the ground in
the vicinity of the sighting.

Landing somewhere in the desert on a makeshift runway, I was handed my
cameras and an automatic pistol in a holster. "What do I need that
for?" I asked. The pilot responded, "My orders were to see that you
were armed."

"Against what?" I asked.

He looked at me, smiled and shrugged his shoulders. "We don't know," he
said. I got into a Jeep with a driver and off we went into the sunbaked
desert on this mysterious search that is now known as the Roswell
incident.

Of course we never found the "meteor" and I have often wondered if I
had arrived too early or too late. Or, perhaps I was landed in the
wrong place.

ALLAN GRANT

Los Angeles




I developed an anthropomorphic dummy in my company, then in New York,
while a rival company in California developed another. This is not
about who was the first, it is about the fact that neither of us had
sufficient talent to place dummies, which we developed in 1953, into
balloons to carry them aloft in 1947, as stated by Col. John Haynes of
the Air Force.

On the subject of "crash test dummies," which became a staple in the
development of auto safety systems: For each life of a child or small
adult lost because of present air bag systems, 30 other lives are
saved. It would take several years of crash statistics to know whether
the speed of deployment is optimum or not. Such decisions should not be
made because biomechanically ignorant people appeal for cooperation
between opposing advocates.

SAMUEL W. ALDERSON

Beverly Hills



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