John
Greenewald was the guest this week and I invited him on the show because he had
finally obtained an unredacted copy of the Hottel Memo. This was short note
about the crash of three UFOs in New Mexico sometime prior to 1950. John said
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that the unredacted version had the names of sources, though the names were not
those he had expected. You can listen to the show here:
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/51099167
Or
you can watch it here:
https://rumble.com/v1i63g3-a-different-perspective-with-kevin-randle-interviews-john-greenewald.html
Rather
than finding the name, Silas Newton blacked out, the names seem to indicate a
connection to Washington, D.C. law enforcement, though Washington, D.C. wasn’t
specifically mentioned. I wondered, given the timing, if the Metro Police being
mentioned in the memo might be Denver. On March 8, 1950, Silas Newton gave a
lecture at the University of Denver about three UFO crashes that had taken
place a couple of years earlier.
The
Hottel Memo mentioned New Mexico specifically as the crash sites and the source
of that information seemed to be Behind the Flying Saucers by Frank
Scully, and possibly a Time magazine article from January of that year.
Everything is rather vague and without the original sources, which were not
mentioned in the memo, nothing new can be learned.
That
is not to say, that the names in the memo won’t lead to those original sources.
All we have are the names of men who apparently received the story from others.
According John, the information was relayed to the FBI through the sex crimes
unit of the Metro Police. Yeah, we don’t know why sex crimes were mentioned.
We
also talked about NASA and its move into UFO research. I wondered if that
suggested that “Disclosure” might be closer. John noted that the NASA investigation
was going to be more transparent than that of the DoD. He said that the NASA
scientists who would be involved did not have the proper security clearances to
be fully “read into” what the DoD was learning. He thought this would inhibit
the NASA investigation because the solution of something strange could be a
clandestine project of the US military. Without access to that information, any
analysis attempted would be skewed. They wouldn’t have all the proper data.
Next
week, I’ll be talking about cattle mutilations from my perspective, which is
not the one that seems to be favored in the UFO community. I will note here
that that was inspired by some of the nonsense spread by Tucker Carlson, who
doesn’t seem to have a real handle on this. At the end of the month, I’ll be
talking with Chris O’Brien, getting his perspective on the mutilations and see
if we can’t find some common ground.