William E. Smith Interview, 11 July 2001(a)

WS

A satisfactory explanation. That would not be too extraordinary.

JK

Right.

WS

So the media wouldn't start involving—or getting involved in various aspects of this and getting people all in an uproar.

JK

And I think probably also to hold rumor down amongst the military personnel.

WS

Oh, absolutely. And we were probably some of the more credible people other than civilians, you know, like police officers, firemen. We're relatively credible people because we just came to observe. And when we start saying there is something out here that's not right, and I do recall so vividly how when I first approached my capsule with it, I was a little hesitant when I first approached my capsule, the captain in the capsule, they didn't want to hear it, they were not interested. "Now, Sergeant Smith, come on." "No, sir, here's what's happening. These are not normal phenomena. It's not doing what normal aircraft would do. It stops, it moves, it goes up, it goes down." It just does not do the right kind of thing for the kind of aircraft that we have today.

WS

I had been looking at the Discovery channel the other night, and from what I understand, supposedly, of course anecdotal things, but there was a lady's book on UFOs that I forgot to take down, but she was discussing the fact that the Germans, prior to World War II —no, well, I guess somewhere where either prior to or the beginning of World War II came across some UFO technology.

JK

Uh-huh.

WS

Extraterrestrial technology. We had knowledge of some of that, and by the end of the war, of course, they were making great strides. As you know, they started jet aircraft and other kinds of —This interviewer said that essentially when we came across this material at Roswell and other places, I guess that supposedly we were -- we had advanced some 250 years probably ahead of where we really should be right now. In microcircuitry, fiber optics and stuff like that that came from this technology. It brought all this stuff back again to me because I am saying, you know, well, that could well be true.

JK

I don't really want to discuss those cases because I don't think they're, either Roswell or the quote/unquote Nazi saucers, you know, the technological advancements. Now, there were some circular airframes that had been documented that were being developed by the Nazis. But, I haven't seen anything really documented that convinces me.

WS

Right. Well, anyway, I think it's all very interesting because it does sort of come full circle when people can surely see things and know what they see and can't be deterred

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