Adelaide: MI5-Vater enthüllt Roswell-Experiment
In 2005 the UFO researcher Keith Basterfield spoke with a man in Adelaide whose father had worked for MI5. In 1959 the father told him of a secret US military experiment of 1947 near Roswell involving people carried by balloons.
Background
Background
On January 15, 2005, Keith Basterfield, a well-known UFO researcher, conducted an interview with a man in Adelaide, South Australia. The man related a story his British father had told him in 1959, when he was 12 years old. The father had worked for the British intelligence service MI5 after the Second World War.
The Story Disclosed
The father described a US military experiment of 1947 in which monkeys and pigs were dropped from stratospheric balloons in special devices fitted with retro-rockets. The aim was to prepare for future space technology. In one night-time test series, 2–3 living people with hydrocephalus (enlarged heads caused by an accumulation of fluid) were used, obtained from an institution. The retro-rockets failed, the balloon crashed, and a rancher found the wreckage along with one surviving person. A medical recovery team collected them.
Connection to Roswell
The crash site lay near Roswell, New Mexico. The official UFO story served as cover to keep the experiment secret. The account comes from sources such as Basterfield's blog and Nick Redfern's book The Roswell UFO Conspiracy (2017, pp. 153–163).
Significance
The account offers an alternative explanation of the Roswell event as a secret military project rather than something of extraterrestrial origin. It rests on a second-hand source with an intelligence background, but remains anecdotal and without physical evidence.