Body Snatchers In the Desert by Nick Redfern
01/09/2005 . Source: Geoff Willmetts 
pub: Paraview Pocket Books/Simon and Schuster. 248 page enlarged paperback. Price: $14.00 (US), $19.00 (CAN). ISBN: 0-7434-9753-8. Buy from Amazon US - Buy from Amazon UK
nb: US titles may only be available from Amazon US, and UK titles from Amazon UK. check out website: www.simonsays.com and for an interview with the writer, try: http://www.phenomenamagazine.com/0/editorial.asp?aff_id=0&this_cat=Area+51&action=page&obj_id=3452
Despite the title and even the icky cover that is more reminiscent of the 70s books on the arcane or weird material, the content is much more important. The subject is Roswell 1947. Author Redfern, during the promotion of another UFO book several years back, was contacted by an old lady with an interesting story about White Sands where she worked in the 40s. Over a longer period, he met some other people who were involved. None of them gave identical stories but all built up to build the evidence presented here.
Forget what you've read about a flying saucer with alien bodies scattered around the Roswell farms. What really happened is a little more insidious. In a similar manner to the Paperclip project where the Americans hired ex-Nazi German scientists for their rocket expertise, the same was also done with Japanese scientists. They were working on high altitude balloons and specifically with the effects on the human body. Considering they were also planning to use nuclear fuel, the same applied to radiation. Their guinea pigs weren't animals but humans, mostly adult progeria sufferers, physically or mentally defective people procured from hospitals or other such places in Japan. The USAF also took some of these people as guinea pigs themselves. This was also two years before a United Nations ruling about using people in such a way without consent. Knowing a ruling was going to happen, there was a necessity to get these tests done early and there were some mistakes and crashes around White Sands and Roswell. The principle crafts were high altitude balloons carrying saucer-shaped gondolas with small crew or pilots. Any of this ringing particular alarm bells?
If you're looking for real conspiracy theory what better way to disguise what was really going on down at White Sands than use the popular belief that alien spaceships had crashed and the bodies secured in a secret base than the more politically damning that the USAF had been using human guinea pigs and killing them. None of them survived by the way, all ending on the autopsy table. There is even a cross-reference to that alien autopsy film and those unusual eye shades - they were around at the time, a rather uncomfortable lens to protect the eye from nuclear flash.
Most of the records were destroyed although Redfern shows some copies of documents in the appendix that lends some credibility to the story.
Considering a couple of Redfern's previous books deals with the subject of UFOs, this is quite a contrast to lay at the American feet. The USAF can give credible deniability which after 80 years is hardly surprising as they would have had plenty of time to destroy the records. Checking our Redfern, I did come across a rather lengthy interview which you should be able to link into above and it does cover one particular point I was concerned about, namely would solving Roswell explain all other UFO sightings as being from a similar source? Redfern thinks not but equally does not commit himself to thinking aliens have landed neither. His belief is that this book will address other concerns and have other evidence looked at in a new light rather than totally disrupt other serious research on the subject.
I came away from this book feeling that he might have a point. I mean, America recruited German scientists in their 'national interest' as a well-known fact then it stands to think that the same would be done with Japanese scientists as well. Seeing the little grey aliens as no more than little deformed Japanese guinea pigs isn't that far removed in such thinking. Presuming the national papers rather than the trash-flash mags like the Enquirer getting their hands on this book, then there is going to be a certain amount of shit likely to hit the fan. If that happens, who knows what else might turn up.
I'm not prone to really pushing that many books about UFOs and I certainly think the title and cover don't really put this subject into the right light - maybe a change for the UK edition? - but if you want a different take on what happened at White Sands and Roswell, then this book will certainly interest you. I'm hoping it should also alarm our American cousins as to what does go on covertly in their name. It's about time what really went on around the Roswell area was finally put to rest and this might well be the book that will start this process.
GF Willmetts |
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