UFO Crash At Ely
Circulating among dozens of UFO lists is an event that outshines pretty much every alleged UFO crash for sheer extraterrestrial body count. (The alleged Aztec, New Mexico crash of 1948 yielded between 12 and 16 bodies, depending on your source.) It’s said that on August 14, 1952 an otherwordly disc crashed in Ely. It’s thought that the craft was quickly recovered by military personnel, as were its contents: 16 humanoid corpses, which were presumably whisked off to the deep freeze storage at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.
Serious UFO researchers have uncovered no further information on the crash. Ely Times editor Kent Harper acknowledged the event’s 50 year anniversary with a light-hearted attempt to uncover the truth.
"We had an individual who lived here who isn't necessarily an Ufologist, he doesn’t believe in flying saucers from outer space visiting us, but he had an extreme interest in what the air force might be doing at Area 51,” Harper recalls. “He had talked to one individual who was a night watchman at our copper mine that had told him that he had seen the crash and then was interviewed by government people that told him to forget about it afterwards in the interest of national security.” The eyewitness claimed to have seen a glowing object fall out of the sky and crash into a mountain. Did the military tried to cover up the crash with a terrestrial explanation? In his article, Harper spoke with an old-timer in a local bar. “Back in the early 50s, an Air Force jet crashed on South Ridge overlooking Copper Flat and U.S. 50. He said a radar station was built atop the mountain afterward.” The Ely Times verified the story by heading out to Highway 50. “There in the dark in the middle of the valley midway between Robinson Summit and the Ruth turnoff was a chilling sight. High atop one of the mountains was the flashing light of the radar facility.” UFO or jet? And what about that body count?
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