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Typewriters and flying saucers

L.T. Hanlon5 Comments

At least for now, you can watch the TV movie “Roswell” on YouTube. There are excellent performances by Kyle MacLachlan, Dwight Yoakam, and Martin Sheen. The music in this production is incredibly creepy and adds a lot. 

This photo of a typewritten page contains the following text. Saturday, May 18, 2019. Chicago, USA. Hermes 3000 made in 1970. Smith-corona and the thing from another world. Ever since fifth grade I've been fascinated by UFOs. In junior high, my best friend and I even went to a meeting of the Denver UFO Society. And then I became obsessed with cattle mutilations mystery that still not been fully explained to this day. In the 1 980s, the so-called Majestic-12 documents came to my attention. Skeptic that I am, my inclination is these are a hoax. The papers purport to prove that in the late 1 940s, President Truman authorized the creation of a secret committee to deal with, among other unworldly things, the spacecraft and extraterrestrials allegedly recovered near Roswell, New Mexico. Supposedly, one damning detail that examiners found is that at least one of the documents was typed using a Smith-Corona machine not produced until many years later. According to Curt Sutherly in his UFO mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth (Llewellen Worldwide, 2001) , an expert concluded that the MJ-12 Truman memo was typed with a Smith Corona cartridge machine introduced no earlier than 1963. Clues to determining the typewriter year and model were the capital letters A and W, both of which, (skeptic Phil) Klass, said, tended to. tear the old-style carbon ribbon. This defect was corrected by Smith Corona in the model introduced in 1963. The mystery for me — and perhaps someone more familiar with Smith-Corona product offerings than I am can shed some light here — is that as far as I know, Smith-Corona didn't introduce its Coronamatic cartridge ribbon system until many years later in 1973. So either the company did make a cartridge typewriter in 1963 or someone made a typo and changed 1973 to 1963. A third explanation, of course, is that the same team investigating the Roswell Incident also worked on the Philadelphia Experiment and a 1973 Smith-Corona Coronamatic typewriter somehow timeslipped back into the late 1940s. Hey! Can you prove it didn’t happen?Note: Unedited. Typos are Easter eggs.

5 thoughts on “Typewriters and flying saucers”

  1. I share the same interest, and reside in New Mexico. I think it was mostly disinformation, so-called counter-intelligence. Still, there’s the mystery of James Forrestal’s so-called suicide. He was supposedly an MJ12 member. But as for the typeface, I’m not so sure. I think many of the Smith-Corona type faces spanned decades. It is interesting.

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    • Many years ago while moving from Wyoming to Arizona I spent half a day in Socorro. I stopped by the police department and asked how to get to where Sgt. Zamora had his sighting. I think they get a lot of these requests and they directed me to an area outside town (at least it was back in 19820. Just desert scrub terrain, nothing special. I’ve always been intrigued by the craft he described and its insignia.

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