Crash Landing at Aztec
Part 2

         Other oil workers said there were more bodies inside, charred a dark brown, and a helicopter was observed flying overhead. The bodies were small, like a child, someone said.
         Soon the military showed up, divided the onlookers into groups and told folks it was a national security matter and they were not to discuss it with anyone.
         Scott Ramsey, who has been researching the Aztec case for 25 years, located another eyewitness and interviewed him in 1999. Ken Farley told Ramsey that he and a friend were driving from the small town of Cidar Hill near Aztec. They heard of the commotion on Hart Canyon Road. They decided to have a look.
         They observed a huge object lying on the ground with people around it. From their clothing, Farley said, most of the people appeared to be oil workers. An older couple was also present, as Farley recalled. The couple warned folks to stay off the craft. No one paid attention to them. Later Ramsey learned the couple lived close to the crash site and their name was Knight. Like the other witnesses, they later said they had been sworn to secrecy.
         Ken Farley’s description of the craft was similar to the others the Ramseys had heard and read about -- circular, huge, a dome on top, lying on the mesa at an angle of 12 degrees due to another hump on the bottom.
         Another eyewitness was a minister from a small church in nearby Mancos, Colo. The minister, Solon Brown, had stopped at the crash landing site to see if he could be of help. Later that day, the minister told his deacon and a few board members in confidence what he had witnessed -- a large craft and dead bodies. The Deacon’s son, grown up, told Ramsey the incredible story which he recalled clearly, although it had been many years since that day in 1948.

Behind the Flying Saucers
         Chapter Two of the Ramseys’ book is titled Behind the Flying Saucers. It reviews Frank Scully’s book of that title discussed in Part 1 of this review and told how the military had recovered a flying saucer “virtually intact.”
         Scully learned this story from a mysterious “Dr. Gee” and Silas Newton, an oil man and investor.
         On a trip through the Southwest, Dr. Gee explained to Scully and Newton how the government had “tenescope observers” at Alamogordo and Los Alamos and other locations in New Mexico. The Aztec craft was observed, according to Dr. Gee. Military teams were alerted and sent to the crash landing site.
         Dr. Gee, a magnetics engineer and former government scientist, also explained to Scully and Newton about the several recovered flying saucers he had been privileged to observe in government laboratories, and about the Aztec craft, its dismantling and transport to a secure laboratory, believed to be Los Alamos. (Dr. Gee was identified as Leo Gebauer of Phoenix on another occasion by Scully and was also described as a composite of eight scientists who were at the Aztec crash site whose names have never been revealed.)
         The craft was powered by magnetism, Dr. Gee explained, and the craft itself was a giant capacitor. The outer skin of the craft was aluminum, but of a kind unknown on Earth, according to Dr. Gee.

Bella Martin at the Aztec crash site

         In the chapter “Did Cahn Con the Cons,” Ramsey wrote that writer Cahn vowed to “get” Scully when Scully refused to sell him Scully’s story. Cahn initiated a criminal suit against Scully in Denver. He asked the FBI to investigate Scully. He wrote an article in True Magazine calling Scully’s story a hoax. The government also called the Aztec story a hoax and the story died just as Roswell died when the military labeled it a weather balloon, eight months previously. But of course, Aztec wasn’t dead and -- like Roswell -- only waiting to be investigated.

The Man Who Knew Too Much
         Another key player in the unfolding story of Aztec is an oil man named Silas Newton. Newton was not only a geophysicist but a student of magnetic propulsion, according to Ramsey. It was Newton who first told Scully the Aztec story.
         While researching the Frank Scully archives at the University of Wyoming, the Ramseys discovered an unpublished autobiography by Newton in Scully’s archive. Ramsey writes that Newton was not only rich but well educated, literate, a man who understood that magnetic lines of force could propel a spaceship.
         The Ramseys describe the amazing talk which Newton delivered at the University of Denver on March 8, 1950. In this lecture, Newton not only told a packed audience that flying saucers exist; he said they were propelled by magnetics using the sun and Earth’s gravitational fields. One of these drawings is reproduced in the Ramsey book with notes by Newton. According to Ramsey, Newton devoted many pages of his autobiography to the science of magnetism and UFOs.
         Ramsey describes the “Kafkaesque” trial which Newton was forced to undergo and convicted at in Denver. Newton described the attacks on him as a “nightmare,” but he survived the trial with the only legal penalty the payment of court costs, $18,000. The jury said he was guilty of fraud with an investor’s funds. Apparently no mention of flying saucers was allowed at the trial. Ramsey obtained his information about the trial from court documents but also from researcher James Moseley, who was present at the trial.
         For the record, Newton, Scully and Dr. Gee maintained for the rest of their lives that the stories they told and wrote about were true; their only crime -- speaking about a subject, parts of which are Top Secret and remain so to this day.
         The primary difference between “the Aztec Incident” and the other two books about the case are that the Ramsey book is well organized and documented. The Ramsey book also includes numerous details not covered in this review such as finding the “lost” radar stations, the dismantling and transport of the craft over the probable route existing in 1948 and the replanting of the crash landing site after the recovery and burial of K rations and military artifacts found at the scene.
         Through their study of the Aztec case, the Ramseys conclude that Scully and Newton were courageous and honorable men who attempted to reveal the truth about UFOs when doing so was taboo.
         The book should take its place beside others by Dolan, Stevens, Friedman, Scully, Steinman, and all the other dedicated researchers who have labored to bring this and other UFO realities to the public awareness and into the light of day.
         Well done, guys.

        James Parsons, a former Air Force navigator, is a member of several UFO groups in New Mexico.       
 

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