U.S. Secretary of State reports aliens -1939

[karl 12]

U.S. Secretary of State (and Nobel prize winner) Cordell Hull and Reverend Turner Hamilton Holt report witnessing alien bodies in the basement of a Capitol building,1939.

Cordell Hull and the UFO-Alien Problem During the Roosevelt Administration

What many of the UFO-alien-lore-challenged commoners do not know is that spooky and clandestine things had been going on long before the 1947 Roswell event took place. In fact, in 1939, Cordell Hull, Secretary of State for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, decided to show his cousin a little surprise. Hull brought his cousin, the Reverend Turner Hamilton Holt, into a sub-basement of the U.S. Capitol Building to show him something would shake him to his soul. Hull consequently made his cousin swear never to reveal what he was about to see. Though Holt swore to Cordell Hull that he would keep the secret, Holt feared that if he didn't tell his family what he saw, this information would be lost upon his death.

Hull took Holt into a room in that basement that contained four rather large glass containers into which a child could easily fit. In each of the jars was a creature of horrendous visage. The tiny humanoid-like creatures were floating in some sort of chemical preservative. The only word Holt could find to describe these beings was: creatures. No other detailed descriptions were forthcoming.

Near the preserved creatures was some sort of flying disc. It looked wrecked and as though someone(s) had been taking the thing apart to see what made it tick. An attempt was being made, no doubt, to see if the U.S. could glean information and useable technology that could be used.

According to Reverend Holt, Cordell Hull told him this had to be kept secret to prevent widespread panic among the American public. Holt asked his family to wait until both he and cousin Cordell were dead before revealing this information. Holt's children did just that.

Sometime in December of 1999, one of the Reverend's daughters, Lucile Andrew of Ashland, Ohio, sent a letter with this information to a prominent UFO Research center.

Credibility of witnesses always is one of the main proving grounds when anything like this is revealed. The amazing thing is that both of the principals involved, Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Reverend Turner Hamilton Holt, Th.D, had impeccable credentials as intelligent and honest men.

Cordell Hull revealed to his cousin a secret long before the idea of a UFO and its Alien occupants was even remotely a part of the common culture and public mindset. Remember, this took place in 1939 and Roswell happened in 1947. Hull was a Statesman extraordinaire with no motive to set up some elaborate hoax.

"Cordell Hull (October 2, 1871-July 23, 1955) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Tennessee. He is best-known as the longest-serving Secretary of State, having held the position for 11 years (1933-1944) in the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Hull received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945 for his role in establishing the United Nations, and was referred to by President Roosevelt as the Father of the United Nations."

With a doctorate in theology from Ashland Theological Seminary and the minister of a Christian Church in Greenwich, Ohio, Holt was also a book author and community leader.

Neither man had a reputation of being a person given to wild fantasies or outright lies.

A Capitol Building curator was able to verify that at the time the alleged event took place, there was indeed a sub-basement in the Capitol Building that was divided up into rooms.

http://www.ufocasebook.com/hull.html

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/447980/cordell_hull_and_the_ufoalien_problem.html?cat=37

http://www.seekingmoinfo.com/HoltHull.html

[BruiserBrody]

I just stumbled onto this case on accident elsewhere and it gave me goosebumps! 

[bison]

Cordell Hull was a respected figure, granted.  So too, one assumes, was his cousin, the Rev. Turner Holt. How certain are we that the informant, a woman claiming to be the latter's daughter, actually was, or that she heard this account from him?

[doctor wu]

1939...? 

This sounds very unlikely to me. My first question would be is this person making any money from this tale ?

[bison]

I'm also troubled by a couple of other things in this story:

1.) How was such a allegedly important secret attended with such poor security that Mr. Hull, on his own initiative, was able to show it to the Rev. Holt, his cousin, who had no apparent 'need to know' about it, and no standing in the government?

2.) If the Rev. Holt was so concerned that the story would die with him, why did he not provide a witnessed affidavit of what he was shown, to be revealed after his passing? As it is, all we have is an (alleged) second hand account by his elderly daughters, about fifty years afterward.

[Sir Wearer of Hats]

Sounds a bit like the “traveller to the mysterious orient, taken into a temple and shown “the ascended Masters”, who were encased in silver and no more then three feet tall”.

[taniwha]

How would any one deduce that the broken dismantled disc was a 'flying' disc?  The whole story sounds like a flight of fancy.

[Dejarma]

[+Hammerclaw]

Just another apocryphal tale with no supporting collateral data to substantiate it. 

[preacherman76]

If there was something written about it from the witness in the same year it supposedly happened (before anyone heard anything about aliens or flying saucers) and could be verified, it would be amazing. 

Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be any reason to think this is anything more then another unverifiable story that might have, but probably didn’t happen.