Well in an interview with a magazine in 2014, Joe McMoneagle made a pretty interesting comment on Roswell being a distraction. I'm not here to convince you remote viewing is real, I was curious about what he said about the "true" crash site, so I decided to do a bit of digging.
Joe McMoneagle is labelled as "remote viewer #001" in the government remote viewing program, here's a quick background on him:
So, according to Joe, Roswell was the distraction and the real site is at Socorro, along with it being visited 20 years later on. So, natural question would be, is this true?
Well he's right about it never being referred to because in my short time digging I could only find one piece on it:
But what about the other UFO crash in 1947, the one on the San Agustin Plains?
The story goes this way: at the very same time as the Roswell crash on July 3, 1947 something most peculiar may have happened somewhere on the San Agustin Plains.
The players in this drama are:
• Barney Barnett - resident of Socorro who worked for the Soil Conservation Service. Barnett, who died around 1969, was very well thought of and respected as a model of probity by all who knew him, many still living in this vicinity.
• Harold Baca, neighbor and friend of Barney Barnett and father of the
proprietor of Harold’s Store on South California Street in Socorro.
• Gerald Anderson, five years old in 1947, has an amazingly perfect recollection of the happenings in early July, 1947.
• Six or so archeology students from (maybe?) the University of Pennsylvania. Never identified and never located.
• Air Force personnel, identified only as a disagreeable red-haired officer and a black soldier.
Nothing at all was heard about any odd events on the Plains for many years. Fast forward two decades. Around 1967 or 1968 when he was very ill with cancer of the mouth and throat, Barney Barnett told Harold Baca that his cancer was caused by the flying saucer he saw on the San Agustin Plains. “Where?” a startled Baca asked Barnett, who replied, “The San Agustin Plains out past Magdalena. There was three little guys and I leaned down to look at them and I got some of that radiation.”
The Roswell Incident written by Charles Berlitz and William Moore includes an interesting account of Barnett’s encounter on pages 57 to 63 in which Barnett is supposed to have told several people about it in 1950.
According to the book, on or about July 3rd, Barnett was out working near Magdalena and came across “a large metallic object” with some not-exactly-human dead bodies around it. He described the bodies as having large round hairless heads with small eyes. Also viewing the remains were some archeology students from the University of Pennsylvania or the U. of Michigan. All were escorted away by Air Force personnel and cautioned strongly not to say anything about what they saw.
Enter Gerald Anderson who came forward in 1990 after viewing a segment of Unsolved Mysteries telling about the San Agustin Plains crash. Gerald Anderson was five years old in 1947 and claims to have been with his father, his uncle, his cousin and his brother on a summer morning when they came across “a silver object stuck in the ground at a weird angle.” Later in 1990 Gerald picked out a small hill on Dave Farr’s land east of Horse Springs and declared it the place. He remembered the archeology students and Barney Barnett and being chased away by the Air Force in the person of a nasty red-haired officer and a black soldier. He also reported that two of the four aliens were alive. Gerald Anderson passed a polygraph test in 1991 but his testimony is understandably disputed by some UFO experts. Note that Barney Barnett makes no mention of the Anderson family’s presence.
Crash At Corona by Stanton Friedman and Don Berliner, written in 1992, covers Anderson’s account on pages 87-97 and 105-108.
Stanton Friedman has done some speedy research on the incident at Horse Springs, as have several other UFO experts. But the lengthiest research, as yet unpublished, has been done by Victor Golubic.
Victor and I spoke with several people who resided in Horse Springs in 1947 and none remembered anything unusual that summer.
Several remembered a plane crash by the Armijos’ Old Horse Springs store sometime around 1945. No one could pinpoint the exact year, but one had a distinct memory of going to see the crashed plane. “It was a military plane and the pilot was dead,” said one resident of Horse Springs.
That site (Horse Springs), when Victor and I looked at it, yielded nothing, but 50 years wipe away a lot.
The Air Force was a presence in Catron County during the late forties, staffing what they said was a radar tower on the road to the Marvin Ake ranch. People remember seeing Air Force vehicles on the roads, but no one we spoke to spotted one carrying bodies of the extra-terrestrial kind.
From Quemado to Reserve to Datil and Socorro, in person and by telephone, Victor interviewed people who had lived in these here parts during those years and found nothing really conclusive regarding the San Agustin Plains UFO crash.
We heard many fascinating tales handed down over the years, but no first-hand knowledge.
A Quemado resident recalls a visitor in 1946 (a year before the famous crash) who said, “I just stopped in Magdalena and there was a thing from space. There’s people in it and they tell me one of ‘ems still alive.”
Another Quemado resident knew a man from Mangus who saw a shiny thing in the mountains one summer in the late forties.
A few Aragon residents recall hearing about the incident. “Just that there was tracks,” said one. And from another, “There were strange people. They were moving. It looked like a plate.” They admitted that this was hearsay, which they did not necessarily subscribe to.
Most remembered first hearing about the UFO crash in the 1980s when the investigators started appearing in Catron and Socorro counties. There must be people out there who saw or heard about something in the fifties or before. But where are they?
Instead of answers, there are questions.
Did Barney Barnett, whose Soil Conservation work usually took him west from Socorro, go east that day and come across the Roswell UFO crash?
Could the crash that Barnett saw be the main part of the crash that also left pieces at Corona?
Did the crash occur on San Agustin Plains but not near Horse Springs? This is the theory I prefer. Remember, **Harold Baca quotes Barney Barnett as saying, “out past Mag...
