The DesVergers case has been called "the best UFO hoax" and whe I read the accounts of "Sonny" and his fight with smelly grey aliens back in the 1970s I dismissed the report.
I was wrong.
I did not know that account after account was being based on semi fabricated versions of DesVergers own account and lots of rumours -false ones at that. It seems that DesVergers may well have been "unreliable" to a certain degree in other matters but he only mentioned a dream in which he had some kind of fight. I have no doubt that he told Captain Edward J Ruppelt of Blue Book and his colleagues about what he recalled but even with a very sympathetic inrterviewer much later he would only say that he saw a "creature" -he did not use that twerm but he nervously acknowledged that he had.
There are the accounts of the scouts involved who were supposed to have gone for help if their Scoutmaster did not return. They saw lights and, if a complete write up and analysios on the case is correct, it may just be that "boys being boys" they followed sneakily behind their scoutmaster -after all there was the excitement of a possible aircraft coming down. Is it possible that they also saw what happened to DesVergers?
Other UFO activity at the time and physical traces should be considered. As should a possible period of missing time.
Secret Blue Book files released show Ruppelt contradicting himself regarding the USAF/his actions and opinions and yet, in The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (1956), Ruppelt writes that the case was genuine.
Why the contradictions and what happened to the documents Ruppelt referred to in his official report notes that were never released? Double book-keeping?
There was the old dubious business practice (often the subject of old jokes, dramas and comedy shows) of keeping two account books -one was the book shown to taxmen which showed the "how bad I'm doing" situation (referred to as "cooking the books" and the second book showing the actual earnings that no one else saw. There is a twist in that there might be some "triple book cooking" -the second, official earnings, book would be 'found' if an official audit realised something was wrong. However, even that might not reveal the true earnings -those would be in a third book hidden away. So any auditor would thinbk the second book was the genuine item having caught the business owner out.
Bear with me -I know this can give you a headache! There was a similar practice in official circles regarding official reports. Now let's say that, as Ruppelt wrote, he believed that DesVergers had a genuine experience and there was evidence that could not be explained away. The USAF at that time and because of its policies and stance would not want that widely known and there really was a fear of another Orson Welles War of the Worlds panic or at the least phone lines being clogged up by reporters and civilians -in the middle of a Cold War.
So, there was the original report with all the attachments and photos that was classed secret. Then, for public consumption in case the air force ever was put in the position that it had to release their findings there was the second report which attacked DesVergers on most levels by including rumours and ignoring things that strengthened the case. The latter is what was released hence all the other missing documents. Then we have Ruppelt (inaccuracies included) own version for his book.
It is a very old trick and really works well where the data is all on paper.
DesVergers damaged hatand the man himself showing where his arm hair was singed
Years before Antonio Villas Boas and more than a decade before Betty and Barney Hill it seems that DesVergers may have had missing time and all that entailed. The USAF would have just classed this as a flying saucer with aliens and because no civilians carried out a serious investigation they had no idea of missing time or what that might mean. Did the boys see "something" if they followed DesVergers because although one might expect them to be concerned when he did not return they seem to have been in major panic.
DesVergers died in 1993 at the age of 70 and had never embarked on a talking tour or made money -he seems to have lost a lot in responding enquiries from people- and here is the thing -he kept his promise to Ruppelt not to reveal what he had encountered. Like the boys, DesVergers later statedd that he wished none of it had happened. Are any of those ex scouts still alive and has anyone ever asked them what might have really happened that night because, after 1993, the trail went cold.
I would urge anyone interested in reading the facts visit Saturday Night Uforia where the feature includes photographs and much more:
https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/thescoutmasterstale.html
Far, far too late for Ufologists now but I have had to reappraise the whole case and I believe something did happen that night and only the official (real) USAF report has those facts.
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