Lieutenant
Bob Walker, US Army
October 2000
Lieutenant Walker
was a 2nd lieutenant in the Army. After World War II at a NASA (then
NACA) open house he saw a 30-foot saucer-shaped craft which had been
brought back from Germany for study. On another occasion he was piloting
an aircraft for a TV station when a disc shaped object came in from
the west. He had his camera and climbed to 12,000 feet to take some
photos of it. After landing, he immediately had the pictures developed
and enlarged. The object turned out to be a football shaped silver
object with points at each end. His film was subsequently taken from
him under unusual circumstances. In his testimony he also speaks of
a time when he happened into a diner late at night near Ft. Campbell
in Kentucky and overheard conversations from MPs about how a flying
saucer had landed next to a nearby farmhouse and the MP’s were
there cordoning off the area. Creatures were present and were shot
at by the frightened farmhouse owner.
…I happened to catch a strange transmission
from the tower. The tower said that there was a disc shaped object
coming in from the west. And I thought, “Well this is a pretty
good opportunity. I will take a look and see if I can see it.”
I guess now if I were to estimate altitude the object would be somewhere
not less than 50,000 and on up.
So I called the tower after they were making people
alert of what was coming over the area. And the tower said, “What
do you want to do?” And I said, “If you don’t
mind, will you release me from 2,000 and let me go to 12,000, which
was my maximum altitude without oxygen. And they said, “Go
right ahead.” And it took me several minutes to climb from
two to twelve and I got up and about that time a silver ball was
passing over and I took a number of shots on 35mm film as it was
going over.
And the next thing that I knew it was gone. After
I had gotten down, I asked what happened and they said, “Well,
they had alerted the fighters at Langley to take a look at what
it was. And by the time they could get scrambled and get in the
air and get to that altitude, it was gone…
I didn’t make it known to anybody but somehow
somebody knew that I had this picture and I got a call, probably
about six or eight weeks later. And they said, “We are into
this area of gathering information on possible UFOs and I understand
that you took some pictures and would you mind loaning them to us
so that we could just take a look.” I didn’t ask for
credentials or anything like that and I said, “Well, in addition
to pictures I also have kind of an interesting collection of news
items that have come over AP for the past five years.” And,
they said, “Well, bring those along. We are interested. We
would like to look at that.”
The house was not furnished as though it was a home.
It was very lightly furnished. It was an older home and didn’t
have anything in it of any value, as I recall. No antiques and no
oriental rugs or anything. In fact, it was kind of shabby. It kind
of made me curious as to what he did and who else was in the house.
But I turned it over to him and I thought, “Well, call me
when you are finished or else I will come back and get it.”
And he didn’t call me for about two or three weeks. And I
thought, “Well, that is enough time.”
Since I didn’t hear from him and I didn’t
have his telephone number, I thought I would go on back to the house
and pick it up. Well, I got to the house and the house was empty.
I had no idea who the person was. I was very naïve- more so
because I didn’t keep a negative on it and I didn’t
keep a print. These were original things that I had. The newspaper
didn’t keep a copy either because when we did that we were
just doing it for our own interest. It wasn’t for print or
publication. And they disappeared from my life forever…
Another time,
I was interviewing the Director of NASA at Langley and we began
talking about flying saucers. I got the typical nebulous but not
evasive answers. And one of the things we were talking about was
different aircraft and UFOs and we were kind of blending the subject
in together very nicely. So I said, “Well what about aircraft
in the future? What are they going to be like? And he said, “We
have aircraft now. We have vehicles or aircraft now that we could
actually fly but they are so unique and so unorthodox that the public
would not accept them.
He was explaining that these craft were not conventional. I guess
he was referring to the fact, no rudder, no tail, no wings or whatever…