The truth is out there, and a North Carolina couple has worked for decades trying to uncover it.
Scott and Suzanne Ramsey recently completed and released their third and final book about the purported Aztec UFO crash in March 1948. It is titled “It Came to Earth at Aztec, New Mexico Revealed: The Recovery of a UFO.”
“It’s a chunk of a book at 418 pages,” Suzanne said in a telephone interview with the Tri-City Record. “It is very comprehensive look at everything we’ve gotten over the years.”
The couple’s other books are “The Aztec Incident: Recovery at Hart Canyon,” published in January 2011, and “The Aztec UFO Incident: The Case, Evidence and Elaborate Cover-up of One of the Most Perplexing Crashes in History,” published in 2016.
In those books, the Ramseys just put out the information they had at the time, Suzanne said, adding the new book has “a lot of stuff that’s new. We have more interviews. … There’s more information that we need to understand.”
The information includes a “gadget” found at the crash site by Scott and analyzed through scientific testing.
“We found an item at the crash site, and we are having it analyzed,” Scott said. “It’s been analyzed twice already, but we’re having it analyzed again.”
An entire chapter, which includes color photos, was dedicated to the gadget in this new book.
“We have a lot of colored photographs and diagrams,” Suzanne said.
Scott Ramsey became interested in the UFO crash on a business trip to Farmington in the late 1980s. He was with a client testing a generator and overheard two men talking about their plans for Halloween weekend.
“One was going to hunt in Hart Canyon, out by the old crash site,” Scott said. “I asked what crash type. They said it was an old wife’s tale that something crashed out there.”
Scott asked for a map to the site and his research into the incident began.
“Everything I dug up on it said it was hoax. I thought how can it be a hoax when nobody ever heard of it,” Scott said. “It was written off to be a hoax, with a paper trail behind it.”
There were files on Aztec kept at Maxwell Air Force Base, but Inspection of Public Records Act requests either went unanswered, rejected or denied.
“There’s some really juicy documents down there. … The FBI has an amazing amount of documents on Aztec. I’m hoping under this new Trump law they will free up a little more,” Scott said, adding he even made requests at the National Archives, but was told the documents were in Maryland not Washington, D.C.
“When you start having people slam the door in your face when you say you want these operation reports,” Scott said, “and they say they are not releasable to the public, if this thing is a scam or a hoax why not? That keeps me going.”
Scott helped the Aztec Library develop a UFO Symposium, which raised enough money to construct a new library, and that is how he met and married Suzanne.
Her family moved to Aztec when she was young, because her mother had read about the UFO crash in the 1950 book “Behind the Flying Saucers” by Frank Scully.
Incidentally, X-Files creator Chris Carter named character Dana Scully after Frank, and he wrote the Aztec crash into an episode.
Carter also reportedly has read the Ramsey’s books.
However, when the family arrived in Aztec no one would talk about the crash. “She started asking people, and people didn’t want to talk about it. She was so disappointed,” Suzanne said.
The crash has been a topic that many feared discussing. “It was worse than talking politics, religion or sports,” Scott said.
The Ramseys did get people to talk and many of those interviews are found in the book.
“We’ve met a lot of wonderful people who shared their stories – some were scared too. It’s a topic that up until recently was off base,” Suzanne said, adding that many “of the witnesses who never met each other had the same terminology or description.”
In the new book, “the story originates and is focused on Aztec, and there are parts of it with the documentation that take you all over the country,” Suzanne said, adding that after years of gathering information “we realize now that the world is more prepared for it.”
The Ramsey’s believe that the Aztec UFO crash is “a very special piece of history,” that needs to shared.
“We just put all our heart and soul into this book,” Suzanne said.
For more information visit www.theaztecincident.com.