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there was no way they could have been _ her a chance at playing top fiddle. By let- ADVANCED AEROSPACE regular airplanes. The "show" lasted for ting her have her way in this manner, he DESIGNS INSPIRED BY CRASHED more than half an hour and, in addition to was able to satisfy her urge to be "top dog". ROSWELL SPACECRAFT! my mother, my father, my brother Atlantis In keeping with his character, he certainly NI News thanks William Louis (Bill) and sister Gilgamesha, several other people didn't mind this at all, because by doing so McDonald for sharing this information, observed the display, too. The ships per- he could avoid some people fawning over _ which he acquired through private conver- formed various formation flights and very him—since they looked on him as the great —_sations with the late John Andrews of the unusual flight movements before some of master, a guru or something special. Testor Corporation. them simply disappeared; we could still | However, he finds such idolisation repug- McDonald, a private investigator and watch the others until they blended into the nant and extremely unwelcome. For this forensic composite illustrator who has darkness. reason, he continues his life withdrawn made detailed reconstructions of the Later on, in September 1982 when I was _ from the public. Roswell UFO based on eyewitness testimo- barely nine years old, I was standing next Hesemann: Thank you, Methusalem. ny, worked closely with Andrews on the to my father when a small footbridge was (Source: Michael Hesemann © 1999, design of Testor's Roswell UFO model kit being cemented across a drainage ditch at http://hesemann.m-n-d.com/, 29 Dec 1999) which was released in July 1997 on the the driveway of the shed. As soon as 50th anniversary of the Roswell inci- the work was completed, we left the dent. construction site to bring material for What began as a business relation- cordoning off the area to protect the "My opinion of my father's [Billy ship evolved into a deep, personal freshly cemented footbridge. friendship. In time, Andrews shared Silvano, who had gone ahead of us, Meier's] contacts has never information that confirmed elements suddenly came dashing around the wavered over the years. | am just of McDonald's Roswell investigation. corner of the shed and called out to Finally, McDonald says, he prevailed my father, because in the meantime as convinced now as I ever was upon Andrews to ask then-ailing Ben someone had actually stepped into that his contacts are real, and this Rich, late head of Lockheed's "Skunk the fresh cement. Papi griped and Works", to describe the relationship, ran to the construction site where we | IS @ logical consequence resulting if any, between possibly recovered noticed, only at second glance, that H " UFO materials at Roswell and the imprint of the shoe was exceed- from my own experiences. advances in aircraft design that ingly large—namely, more than 42 occurred, starting in the mid-1950s. centimetres [16.5 inches] long. McDonald resolved to withhold the Hesemann: Have you ever expe- answers while Andrews remained rienced or seen anything that would indi- CHINESE SCIENTISTS TRACK alive. Andrews died of cancer in early cate your father wanted to deceive others? LONG-HAIRED BIGFOOT 1999. McDonald's report follows. Meier: No. I have neither experienced anything like this, nor were there indica- tanding 2.5 metres (8 feet) tall, with William L. McDonald's Report tions that he had faked something. It is not long, brown-red hair and a taste for Now that legendary Lockheed engineer his nature to fabricate anything for other corn on the cob, Bigfoot is back and appar- and chief model kit designer for the Testor people or to cheat them. I am certain that ently running around a nature reserve in Corporation, John Andrews, is dead, I can my father is telling the truth in regard to his central China, according to a state media announce that he personally confirmed the contacts, and this also coincides with my __ report released on Monday 6 December. design connection between the Roswell own experiences. Chinese scientists are on the trail of the spacecraft and the Lockheed Martin Hesemann: What do you personally tell legendary ape-like beast after a hunter unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAVs), those people who accuse your father of reported seeing a huge, fast-moving crea- _spyplanes, joint strike fighters and space being a fraud? ture covered in long, red hair in Hubei _ shuttles. Meier: There is an old saying, "One can _ province's Shennongjia nature reserve two Andrews was a close personal friend of learn how to lie from hearsay". This months ago, the China Daily said. Skunk Works CEO Ben Rich, the hand- applies to most of those people who call According to the report, the scientists picked successor of Skunk Works founder my father a fraud. Very few of them have found 40-centimetre (16-inch) footprints, Kelly Johnson, and the man famous for the ever convinced themselves of the situation brownish hair and chewed corn-cobs at the F-117 Nighthawk Stealth fighter, its half- by going to the actual locations or delving spot where the hunter said he saw the beast, pint prototype the Have Blue, and the top- seriously into these matters. Andif they and concluded they were not left by abear. secret F-19 Stealth interceptor. Before have actually done so, they often showed Scientists have unearthed hundreds of _ Rich died of cancer, Andrews took my their jealousy because they couldn't handle fossilised teeth of giant apes in the area, questions to him. the fact that another person can experience and some speculate that Bigfoot could be a Rich confirmed: something that didn't happen to them. descendant of such primates. 1. There are two types of UFOs: the My father withdrew from the public eye (Source: Reuters, 6 December 1999, ones we build, and ones they build. We over the years, partially because of my http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters learned from both crash retrievals and actu- mother [Kalliope Meier] but also to give 19991206_283.html) al “hand-me-downs". The Government CHINESE SCIENTISTS TRACK LONG-HAIRED BIGFOOT tanding 2.5 metres (8 feet) tall, with long, brown-red hair and a taste for corn on the cob, Bigfoot is back and appar- ently running around a nature reserve in central China, according to a state media report released on Monday 6 December. Chinese scientists are on the trail of the legendary ape-like beast after a hunter reported seeing a huge, fast-moving crea- ture covered in long, red hair in Hubei province's Shennongjia nature reserve two months ago, the China Daily said. According to the report, the scientists found 40-centimetre (16-inch) footprints, brownish hair and chewed corn-cobs at the spot where the hunter said he saw the beast, and concluded they were not left by a bear. Scientists have unearthed hundreds of fossilised teeth of giant apes in the area, and some speculate that Bigfoot could be a descendant of such primates. (Source: Reuters, 6 December 1999, http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters 19991206_283.html) William L. McDonald's Report Now that legendary Lockheed engineer and chief model kit designer for the Testor Corporation, John Andrews, is dead, I can announce that he personally confirmed the design connection between the Roswell spacecraft and the Lockheed Martin unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAVs), spyplanes, joint strike fighters and space shuttles. Andrews was a close personal friend of Skunk Works CEO Ben Rich, the hand- picked successor of Skunk Works founder Kelly Johnson, and the man famous for the F-117 Nighthawk Stealth fighter, its half- pint prototype the Have Blue, and the top- secret F-19 Stealth interceptor. Before Rich died of cancer, Andrews took my questions to him. Rich confirmed: 1. There are two types of UFOs: the ones we build, and ones they build. We learned from both crash retrievals and actu- al "hand-me-downs". The Government 66 + NEXUS as convinced now as | ever was from my own experiences." FEBRUARY — MARCH 2000