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The Hunt for 928
> Something that occurred to me goes back to one of the original stupid
> reasons for chasing after this. There are any number of stories out there
> of crashed UFO (Unidentified Flying Object)s. If you buy all of them, then
> the damn things must be falling out of the sky everywhere. Something that's
> always been in the back of my mind (and probably many others) is “Wouldn't
> it be fun to try and track down one of these things?” Well, after investing
> all this effort into searching for a terrestrial (although very spacey
> looking) craft, I'm pretty skeptical that any remnants of an actual saucer
> crash (assuming one really occurred) could be found. I was dealing here
> with an event I knew had occurred, which had a reasonable amount of
> documentation, was in favorable, open terrain, and proved nearly impossible
> to find. If a saucer ever did plop down somewhere, I suspect not a trace
> would remain. Still, it would be more fun than hunting snipe …
>
“The Hunt for 928 [1]”
Quite a long article about trying to find a crashed A-12 [2], the precursor
to the SR-71 (it's a bit shorter, only room for a single pilot and a smaller
flight range, but faster and can fly higher than the SR-71).
Briefly, Tom Mahood heard about the A-12 crash, and decided to test Merlin's
Laws:
> 1. There is always something left (Applies to UFO crashes only if there's
> a real crash!)
> 2. There is almost always a road to the crash site.
> 3. Newspaper information is not to be trusted.
>
If he could find evidence of a top-secret CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)
[3] spy plane (even if it did crash some 35 years previously to his searching
for it) then it might be possible to find an actual UFO crash site. But given
that he spent not only two years but:
> * Personal trips out there: About 20
> * Money spent on aerial photos: $500
> * Additional money to replace sunk truck: $6,000
> * Cumulative searchers involved over entire hunt: 9
> * Other wrecks found during the search: 3
>
The chances of finding a possible UFO crash are very slim indeed.
And the article is well worth reading (even if it is a bit on the long side).
[1]
http://www.serve.com/mahood/a
[2]
http://www.serve.com/mahood/a-12/a-12s.htm
[3]
http://www.cia.gov/
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