- I have been a researcher into the UFO / Alien mystery
for over 20 years, and have written for a number of internet based networks.
I have been webmaster of the UFO Casebook for over 5 years, and am presently
the UFO guide at www.about.com. I have written over 100 articles on the
UFO phenomena.I specialize in the study of UFO photographic and video evidence.
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- There have been numerous legends about UFO crashes:
some of them have quite a bit of documentation and eyewitness testimony.
Others are based mostly on legend and folklore. One of these cases is the
alleged Spitzbergen, Norway crash of 1946.
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- This case, more than anything else, is memorable for
its characters. The legend goes something like this: In 1946, General James
H. Doolittle was sent to Sweden by the Shell Oil Company, supposedly to
investigate the mystery of the "Ghost Rockets." Why an oil company
would investigate UFOs is beyond my understanding. Unless they felt they
could strengthen their profits somehow.
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- Somehow, Doolittle wound up in Spitzbergen. There are
a number of Internet sites which claim that there was a short lived article
published in America of a UFO crash in the Norwegian city about this time.
Some people claim to have seen the article. The really odd thing about
the tale of this case is the question must be asked what does Doolittle
have to do with anything, since he is only mentioned as being in the area,
and that is the end of his involvement.
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- The only redeeming part of this particular case is that
it was reported by Dorothy Kilgallen, celebrity for her years appearing
on the "What's My Line?" TV game show. She claimed that someone
in the upper echelon of the British government informed her that a UFO
had crashed near Spitzbergen, and was under investigation by the British
and American military. Supposedly, this informant was Lord Mountbatten.
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- Some investigators claim that since no mention of the
name Spitzbergen was found in the reports, that the location was mentioned
to cover up a UFO crash in Great Britain. However, a crash in Great Britain
during the same time period has no basis in fact.
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- In addition to being a game show regular, Kilgallen
also was a journalist of a sort, having written "gossip columns,"
but she also was well known for covering hard current events. She had covered
the headline grabbing Lindbergh kidnapping story. In the 1950's, she had
covered one of the top stories of her time, the Sam Sheppard murder trial.
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- Her last real claim to fame was in the 1960's when she
got an interview with Lee Harvey Oswald killer Jack Ruby. This interview
was carried by the "Los Angeles Examiner." She told friends that
she had information that would "break the case wide open."
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- On November 8, 1965, Dorothy Kilgallen, was found dead
in her New York apartment. She was fully dressed and sitting upright in
her bed. The police reported that she had died from taking a cocktail of
alcohol and barbiturates. The notes of her interview with Ruby and the
article she was writing on the case had disappeared from her home. Luckily,
she had given a friend a draft of her interview. Kilgallen was probably
fearful for her own life, since several other writers who had worked on
the Oswald / Ruby case had died under "unusual circumstances."
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- Kilgallen's reputation was the only thing that kept
the weak story of the Spitzbergen crash of 1946 alive. The last hope of
further research into the Norwegian mystery died along with her, as her
sources were never verified.
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- http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=1529
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