New Roswell Witness! [81 year old wife of involved sgt]

UNKNOWN COUNTRY Daily News of the Edge ^ | 11 APR 2003 | ANNE ROBBINS, ANNE STRIEBER ED

[Quix]

Anne Robbins now lives in Midland, Texas. She's the widow of a career military man who was stationed in Roswell during the Roswell crash in July, 1947. She remembers the description of the saucer that her husband, Technical Sergeant Ernest Robert Robbins, told her he helped recover and the three small beings that were found outside the craft. Now 84 years old, Robbins has never before spoken publicly about Roswell, but she now says that what her late husband saw was not a downed weather balloon.

Seated in a meeting room at the Odessa Meteor Crater Museum, she said, "We had been to a dinner party at the NCO [non-commissioned officers] club on the base and didn't get home until 10:30 or 11. We'd already gone to bed but weren't yet asleep when everything outside lit up like it was daylight. It was like that for what seemed like several minutes, and we both assumed that it was probably helicopters from the base with searchlights on." Soon afterwards, her husband received a phone call and told her he had to report to the base. "I just assumed that there had been a plane crash somewhere nearby," she says. "But I couldn't figure why my husband, a sheet-metal man who repaired planes, was called in."

She was even more puzzled when he returned home the 18 hours later, with his uniform wrinkled and damp. "I asked him what had happened to him, why he was so wet, and he told me he'd had to go through the decontamination tank at the base. I asked, 'In your clothes?' and he said, 'They were what I was wearing when I was out there.' He told me, 'Well, I guess you might as well know; it's going to be in the papers. A UFO crashed outside of Roswell.'

"I told him he was crazy. 'No,' he replied, 'I'm not.' I don't remember him being particularly shocked or very emotional about it. In fact, he seemed cool as a cucumber. He just made it clear to me that he wasn't going to talk about it."

The following morning, she says, "I asked him again if it was really true and he said, yes, it was." When she asked what the UFO looked like, he explained that "if you took two saucers and put them together, that's what it looked like." On the top layer, there were oblong-shaped windows all the way around the craft. He had not looked inside. "I asked him if there was anybody on it. He said, 'I can tell you this much: There were three people. One was dead and two were still alive. I can't tell you anything more.'"

It was not until several days later that Sergeant Robbins finally agreed to drive his wife out to the crash site. By then, all debris had been cleared away. "He didn't say much of anything until we got to a place where there was this big burned spot, a perfect circle so black that it was shiny. No normal fire could have made something like that." It looked like the sand had been melted and turned into a sheet of black glass. "This," he said, "is where I was for 18 hours."

"On the drive home," she says, "I asked him what happened to the spaceship, what happened to the people who were on it. He said, 'I can't tell you that; don't ask me any more.'" That was the last time he ever spoke about it, until he retired from the Air Force in 1961. He died of a heart attack in January, 2000.

Following his retirement, the family moved to Saginaw, near Fort Worth, and he worked first for General Dynamics, then LTV, as an aircraft repairman. "It was years later, when our kids were in high school, that our son Ronald was working on some kind of report on unidentified flying objects and asked his father to tell him about what happened back in Roswell. He didn't say much, basically just what he'd told me years earlier," she says.

"But you know how kids are. Ronald kept asking questions, like what the men found at the crash looked like. Finally, Papa [as she called him] got a pencil and drew this pear-shaped head with large black eyes. Their skin, he said, was brown and they had no nose, no mouth. When Ronald asked him what their bodies looked like, all he would say was, 'Son, you don't want to know about that.'"

She says, "[Ronald] wouldn't talk to you about it…Barbara, my daughter, tells me, 'Daddy's dead, don't bring it up.'"

"All I remember," says their daughter, Barbara Wattlington, "was Dad saying he was stationed in Roswell and that a UFO crashed there."

The last time Anne Robbins remembers her husband talking about it was a few years before his death, when they sat in their Saginaw living room one evening, watching a show about Roswell on TV. "I asked him, 'Was it a hoax?' and all he said was, 'It's the truth. It did land.' I asked him, 'Well, if it did, where is it?' He again said he couldn't tell me that."

She says, "I could never figure out why an airplane repairman would be called out in the middle of the night to participate in the investigation of a crashed UFO." Only after filing her husband's death certificate with military officials in Washington, D.C., did she learn that he had intelligence clearance during his time in Roswell. "That UFO they found didn't just fly away, so where is it?" she says. "And what happened to the people on it? I still say the Air Force knows what happened. Someday, I hope, we might find out the truth."

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[Quix]

"Puacity this, you little cretin."

INTERESTING.

THE ABOVE does NOT sound testy nor arrogant to you???

[Quix]

I'm mostly having fun with what HAS BECOME an important topic (out of 100's I'm interested in) to me.

But it's been a recreational topic a LOT longer than a Biblcial prophecy related topic.

[annyokie]

"Somehow I find your open-mindedness underwhelming.

But then, I don't have the luxury of the paucity of your experience or the paucity of your review of the evidence

in such matters"

In response to YOUR post, you idiot. Scroll already.

[Quix]

"Thanks! I am not familiar with Quix' posts. But, these jpg's certainly seem appropriate here."

And DO you REALLY consider this sentence to another poster to have absolutely

0.00000000%

LOGICAL INTEREST

nor

EMOTIONAL IMPORT

to me?

Fascinating blinders you seem to wear.

[gcruse]

In an age when it seems no one can keep a secret, I
am willing to bet a few bucks that if there were real aliens,
or their remains, we would be seeing them on Fox News.

I used to feel as you do concerning the inability to keep
secrets.  What it took to disavow me of this notion was
the impossible nature of the 'suicide' of Vince Foster in
Fort Marcy park.  No way, no how.  And yet, the
number of crimes that were involved in failing to bring to
light the real causes of this murder was a large number,
from medical doctors lying about the nature of their
hardware equipment to car keys magically self-
transporting to surveillance videotape disappearing.  I no longer believe in the need for humans to get truth out.

[Quix]

I'm beginning to wonder about your analytical capacities.

IT was OBVIOUS to me that you'd had orders of magnitude LESS of certain kinds of experiences and associations that I've had because of your posts and evident attitude.

Further, that you've evidently analyzed or probably not even read many orders of magnitude less documentation in the subject area than I have.

So, I was sort of chiding you for being so arrogant in your cheeky assertions based on such a paucity of such.

I stand by that construction on reality as it seems to fit you. Everything you've said since and your attitudes especially have overwhelmingly confirmed the above assessment, IMHO.

BTW, it didn't have to be construed as a negative initial reply of mine to you. You COULD have taken it as me saying merely that you haven't had as many of certain types of experiences as I have and you haven't read as many 100's of pages of documentation as I have. So what.

[annyokie]

Get over yourself and don't talk to me anymore.

[WFTR]

I understand that the government can make big mistakes and be sloppy, but this one doesn't add up. I'm an engineer and scientist by training, and I know how people are when conducting an investigation into something scientific. There would have been people going over that ground for weeks following the incident. If the government didn't want the public exposure of having them go over that ground in the open where they could be seen, then the government would have dug up most of the ground and preserved it for samples.

Another big hole is the notion that this guy was able to come home in a uniform that was suspected of being contaminated. Taking someone's clothes and giving him a new set is such an easy step in a contamination situation that there is no chance that it wouldn't have been done. If they didn't have other clothes available, they would have taken his clothes and sent someone to his home to get a second set of clothes. These steps are simple, and the notion that they wouldn't have been taken is silly.

Saving a Few Jobs
Bill

[Quix]

You may well be right.

But that was way back then.

Sure, they COULD have done all you said well.

But I'm not so sure THAT level of expertise AND foresight AND thoroughness

was readily resident AT THAT BASE AT THAT TIME.

It may have been. I just can't say to myself what you are saying to yourself near so confidently, if at all.

I've seen far too many government screwups by crack teams.

[WorkingClassFilth]

"...Roswell crash in July, 1947..."

Hmmm. Anybody know when the Clintons surfaced...er...I mean...were born?

[Quix]

I think

Dilldo and

her unroyal lowness,
her hideous heinous--
Bwitch Shrillery Antoinette
de Fosterizer de Reno-suckface
de Slithering-snake-belly
de Marx-idolizer de Beijing-agent
de Infanticide-glorifier
de Gestapo-leader
de Poopy-flinger de Sade

CRAWLED OUT FROM UNDER A ROCK

where hermorphadite rabid, drunken,
slugs had been having a half-hearted orgy.

And this must have been in the dark ages.

the satanic mobalized fossilized remains
are what we are having to put up with.

And THAT'S hazardous enough to life, limb, freedom and the pursuit of happiness and survival!

[Quix]

BOY YOU GOT THAT RIGHT ABOUT

FOSTER AND

her unroyal lowness,
her hideous heinous--
Bwitch Shrillery Antoinette
de Fosterizer de Reno-suckface
de Slithering-snake-belly
de Marx-idolizer de Beijing-agent
de Infanticide-glorifier
de Gestapo-leader
de Poopy-flinger de Sade

[Sam Cree]

"I no longer believe in the need for humans to get truth out."

Hey! Some of us, we do need to be honest. A lot don't, I guess.

[gcruse]

I know, Sam. But no matter how cynical I get, it's never enough. :)

[Sam Cree]

You're probably right about the cynicism.

"Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker." Ogden Nash

[potlatch]

You might need a lot of those tinfoil things, because a LOT of average people have seen some strange things! My grandparents lived in downtown St.Louis in the 60's [like The Brush mentioned].

They would go for a walk in the evenings and one night a dark object, flying low, passed over them without a sound. They said it was so large that it blocked out the whole sky! They offered no opinion because they had never seen anything like it before.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Hey Quix! Here's another piece of the puzzle...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/913343/posts

Sometime I'll have to tell you about the sister of one of my brother's friends who told me when I was a kid about an uncle of hers that was in the Army and worked with a guy who had gotten his plum job of driving brass around because he was a big-shot hero from exploits on a XXX super secret triple 007 project underneath the earth's crust where he was wounded battling space aliens and mole people. It's kind of a long story and even now I'm kind of skittish about relating the details since you never know who's reading stuff on the web - know what I mean? Anyway, its a spellbinder and sure to raise series questions about what is real and what is not...

[Quix]

Do you write novels or commedy?

Great stuff.

Cheers.

[Quix]

Thanks for a great post.

I suspect we'll all be seeing more of the giant ships before the decade is out.

Would prefer to be wrong.

[Quix]

I think you're right!