Any UFO (UAP) Experts Here?

[quinn]

Now this is a shot in the dark from far left field...
While I was researching the history of my Reg Mag carried by FBI agent Arlin Jones I noticed what seems like an unusual assignment in his work history. In the days leading up to the WWII, Jones was a "Road Man" assigned to surveillance over Missouri and Arkansas ordinance plants...searching for Nazi spies.

On March 27, 1940, Jones was assigned to Cape Girardeau, MO as a resident agent where he remained for a year. In researching in an attempt to that city to discern what he might have been doing there I discovered articles saying that a UFO crash occurred at that location at approximately that date. Might the FBI have sent Jones there to investigate the UFO reports? Jones' FBI file gives no clue. Also, no newspaper articles could be found mentioning the alleged crash. However, handed down accounts report two "plainclothesmen" were at the crash site in addition to police and army personnel.

So, I have reached a dead end. Any experts here? Thanks.

Site of the alleged UFO crash outside Cape Girardeau, MO

SA Arline Jones' RM #4950

Jones' RM in my display at the 2022 SWCA Symposium in Concord NC

 

[SupportTheSecond]

My Son works for Nasa and I did ask him are UFO's real? He plainly stated "YEP"

 

[03hemi]

I boarded the mother ship once.

 

[Geronimo Jim]

So much evidence. Think government is gradually leaking stuff
out to prepare people.

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[mckenney99]

The "Plainclothesman" were obviously the "Men In Black", there to greet their new resident "aliens".

 

[jeffrefrig]

Just like in the old B movies, the authorities had revolvers to counter-attack the aliens with their death rays. They also worked to no avail on Godzilla, Gamora, King Kong, and what ever the Japanese film makers could come up with.
These meetings will not be in any S&W letters, etc.
Oh, yeah, about UFO, I guess they were/are a pretty cool rock band, too.

 

[sigp220.45]

Small offices in the FBI are called RAs, for Resident Agency. It just means they are part of an FBI Division but located away from the headquarters city. In your guy's case he was in the Cape Girardeau RA of the St. Louis Division. There has been a Cape Girardeau RA for a long time, and there is still one now.

If there was any FBI involvement in this undocumented crash, it would have been whoever was assigned to the RA at the time. They wouldn't have permanently transferred an Agent there for one case, especially something as unlikely as a UFO crash. In big cases, like a high profile kidnapping, Agents are sent on a TDY basis to help out.

Was he a lawyer? Six years and out is pretty typical for a lawyer getting his ticket punched then going on to bigger and better things.

Hoover hated RAs. He felt without oversight Agents would come in late, leave early, and fish on duty. which is exactly why I spent most of my so-called career in small RAs.

 

[BigBoy99]

If the UFOs and aliens are real and have the technology to travel millions of miles through space, why do they only visit and abduct people who live in trailer parks?

 

[Protocall_Design]

I find it telling that all of our scientific instruments to search for intelligent life are pointed out to space...

 

[Imissedagain]

If the UFOs and aliens are real and have the technology to travel millions of miles through space, why do they only visit and abduct people who live in trailer parks?

They always have great Moonshine and Catfish fillets.
Only Earth has edible Catfish.

 

[quinn]

Small offices in the FBI are called RAs, for Resident Agency. It just means they are part of an FBI Division but located away from the headquarters city. In your guy's case he was in the Cape Girardeau RA of the St. Louis Division. There has been a Cape Girardeau RA for a long time, and there is still one now.

If there was any FBI involvement in this undocumented crash, it would have been whoever was assigned to the RA at the time. They wouldn't have permanently transferred an Agent there for one case, especially something as unlikely as a UFO crash. In big cases, like a high profile kidnapping, Agents are sent on a TDY basis to help out.

Was he a lawyer? Six years and out is pretty typical for a lawyer getting his ticket punched then going on to bigger and better things.

Hoover hated RAs. He felt without oversight Agents would come in late, leave early, and fish on duty. which is exactly why I spent most of my so-called career in small RAs.

Thank you for this information. It is very helpful. Jones was neither a lawyer nor accountant as his degree was in general studies. In Feb. 1945, Jones transferred from the FBI to the 8th Army's Far East command of the Counter Intelligence Corps as a civilian investigator in Tokyo. In a 1977 article published by Associated Press, Jones was identified as the arresting officer of "Tokyo Rose". His unit in Japan was charged with searcing for Japanese war criminals. After returning to the states he was appointed Sheriff of Hot Spring County, AR, during a major corruption probe. He then spent a number of years as head of security for a Reynolds Metals complex, later mayor of Malvern, AR.

 

[rockquarry]

What sort of background and credentials would qualify someone to be a UFO expert?

 

[quinn]

What sort of background and credentials would qualify someone to be a UFO expert?

I was hoping someone here could tell me. I just found the coincidence of the UFO story and the transfer intriguing. According to his file Jones was an outstanding investigator and recommended for dangerous assignments. He was rated an excellent marksman with all firearms including hip shooting handguns.

 

[Rustyt1953]

What sort of background and credentials would qualify someone to be a UFO expert?

A Slim Whitman record and an out of focus camera.

 

[smoothshooter]

If the agent was there to gather information on the UFO the entry you show and any related stories about the Germans could have been a cover story.

I do not know what to think about UFO’s, but I do believe most, if not all “ sightings “ are experimental or super secret highly developed aircraft of American, Russian, or more recently Chinese origin.

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[Faulkner]

I find it telling that all of our scientific instruments to search for intelligent life are pointed out to space...

I think we see evidence daily that outer space is our last best place to search.

 

[Golddollar]

How about ask Sheb Wooley?

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jV-E09efRE[/ame]

 

[CALREB]

We lived in southern Mo. in the early sixties 61, 280 acre farm. Dad just out of Navy after 20 years. Even then we were the only house for a several sections that had an indoor toilet. We had an outdoor also. Next door neighbor had/ran a still. Behind our place was a guy named Buck Henry who supposedly had been abducted by aliens. Had animal hair/ rocks no one could identify. All the good stuff. My older brothers would drive by his place with friends and talk about the weird lights. Cant imagine Cape Girardeau in the 40s. Must have been fun...