A number of media outlets revisited (or visited) 50 Shades of Greys recently after its author was interviewed by Sun Online. In the book, published in January 2016, Szymanski begins with details of his first days on the job at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in 1973 when a mentor named Al introduced him to the Avionics Laboratory's Management Operations Office by asking, "Have you heard about our aliens?"
He said that in 1947 there was a crash down in Roswell and they brought the machines and the aliens here for inspection and said they keep them in secret tunnels under the base. When I asked him how he came to know about the secret, he responded, 'Everybody who works on base knows'. I was stunned. Me, a young co-op student barely into his first week, was now initiated into a small select group of 10,000 people and given their most incredible secret ever - that we have aliens and their craft in our tunnels on our base.'Szymanski says he then began a clandestine and at times overt investigation into what his mentor was talking about. While his onsite snooping ended with his retirement from Wright-Patterson in 2011, his search for evidence continued until the book was published in 2016.
In his recent interview, Szymanski does his best to avoid revealing details of what he's discovered while hinting at what he found.
For the next four decades I had dozens if not hundreds of brief conversations regarding the 'secret' I'd been given during my first week on base. The important fact established here is that not one single person at that time ever said, "We have no aliens here, you crazy son of a b*tch"... I saw lots of smiles but no denials. I've been basically investigating locations on the base that I think could contain clues to its history relative to extraterrestrials and UFOs ever since. By looking at evidence, which I document in the book in text and photographs, it would appear to me as if the stories are true.For more of this article, go here.
Reader Comments
I now live less than a mile from the base. The aliens and their equipment may have been brought to WP, but it is my opinion that they no longer are here. The security for the base isn't exactly stellar. Last year a guy walked willy-nilly onto the base and disappeared for THREE HOURS! If the alien stuff were here, I highly doubt that the security would be so lax. Only thing I'm absolutely sure of is that if there's a nuclear bomb aimed at WPAFB, I'm gonna go quick!
We were kids, it was a thrilling and puzzling tale known only to AF families at the time; without breaching any oaths, their dad affirmed the history.
It's anecdotal. And who believes anecdotes you read on the internets....?
Well, personally, I'm not so inclined to dismiss such personal memories and knowledge, having heard a highly credible 'insider' story first hand from some who were there - and before any info escaped out into the general public's ken.
In fact, if not for these many, many personal, anecdotal histories, Roswell would still be a small, unremarkable, unknown desert town in the back of beyond just along the road from a small, secretive AFB; Steven Spielberg would never have made Close Encounters, Stanton Friedman may have had a long career as a nuclear physicist, our world-views would have been a great deal narrower...