FBI β’ 2011
Silas M Newton Part 05
Silas Newton (1887-1972) was a wealthy oil producer and con-man who claimed that he had a gadget that could detect minerals and oil. He was cited as an authority in Frank Scullyβs book Behind the Flying Saucers, a work that claimed to report on several UFO crashes in the area of New Mexico. In 1950, Newton said that a flying saucer crashed on land he leased in the Mojave Desert; however, he revised his claim in 1952, saying he never saw a flying saucer but had only repeated comments he heard fro...
Declassified
Unexplained Phenomenon
Timeline
- Created
- Apr 20, 2011
- Released
- Apr 20, 2011
- Publication
- Apr 20, 2011
- Case number
- β
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Metadata
Document #
β
Case #
β
Document Type
β
Collection
Silas M. Newton
Release Decision
β
Original Classification
β
Sequence
β
Pages
16 pages
File Size
β PDF document, 314 kB (322,438 bytes)