Written by Scott McMan for GhostTheory

I have never really decided if I believe the Roswell UFO Incident or not. There are some great stories surrounding the incident, some very believable while others are not. What few people know is there was a truck driver named Ralph A. Multer that was allegedly right smack in the middle if the mix. Ralph claimed he drove truck for the mega steel company Timkin. Timkin was the foremost authority on structural steel at the time and worked hand in hand with the government on many projects. One of those projects was Roswell according to Multer’s wife and daughter.

Full source: CantonRep

CANTON — Ralph A. Multer’s blue-collar life collided with the extraterrestrial in
Canton many years ago.

A wounded World War II veteran who walked with a limp, Multer exhibited a gruff
exterior. He liked to spin stories about his days as a gunner’s mate on a Navy warship,
including ones about the Battle of Iwo Jima. Multer worked on cars and rode a
motorcycle. His nickname was “Bear,” a reference to his large frame. And on occasion,
he enjoyed a few swallows of vodka.

At 22 and married, Multer worked hard to support his wife, driving a truck for the
Timken Co. If you have a truck accident please visit this website FieldingLaw.com for legal help.

He wasn’t normally given to far-flung tales of flying saucers and little green men. Until,
that is, the summer of 1947.

Multer is said to be Canton’s connection to the most famous UFO story in world history:
The alleged crash of an alien spacecraft near Roswell, N.M., in July 1947.

object was absolutely impenetrable.”

Metallic. Lightweight. Silver or dark gray. That’s how her father described the mysterious
material.

“We grew up with the story,” said Multer-Lingle, 58, who was born in Canton and lives
in Knoxville, Tenn. “Dad would put us up on his lap, and he would tell us the story.”

He never changed his story. Or added details, she said.

“Dad wasn’t a liar at all,” Multer-Lingle said. “I mean, if he told you something, you
believed it because that’s just how he was, and I heard this so many times and so much
that we never doubted it.”

Multer’s late wife told UFO researchers the experience left a lasting impression on her
husband. It “never left his mind from then on,” she said in an interview in the 1990s.

Seems there’s something to this. I’m not one to make snap judgments but I’m beginning to be drawn into this tale.

Multer’s story is difficult to verify. According to records from the Golden Lodge United
Steelworkers Local 1123, Multer left Timken in 1952. His daughter says that is when the
family moved to the Portsmouth area in Scioto County, where Multer then worked as a
railroad brakeman.

Timken spokeswoman Lorrie Paul Crum said Multer worked with the company in the
early 1950s, initially in the steel operations and later as a truck driver. However, a search
didn’t turn up all of the company records on Multer, Crum said.
“We didn’t have his beginning employment records,” she said.
“We had partial records. We don’t keep them for all the employees.”

Multer could have worked at Timken in 1947, said Tom Sponhour, editor of the Golden
Lodge News, noting records can be sketchy that far back.
“We talked with retirees and executives familiar with all facets of … Timken’s long-
standing relationships with government and scientific organizations serving as one of the
world’s foremost experts in metallurgy,” Crum said.

But “no one had any recollection of Multer’s story,” she wrote in an e-mail response.

The Repository contacted several Timken retirees who worked for the company in the
late 1940s and early 1950s.

Only one recalled hearing about Multer. Dominick T. Rex got a job at Timken in 1946 in
the roller bearings plant.
“It was just a rumor about a truck driver (who) did something,” Rex recalled. “He did
something, and it was Ralph.”

But the 84-year-old does not recall anything about a crashed UFO.

He told loved ones he hauled material from the crashed spaceship to one of the Timken
plants in Canton that summer. A Timken furnace could not dent, damage or melt the UFO
wreckage. Not even slightly.

An FBI agent made it very clear. Don’t tell anybody about the covert operation. Keep it
hush-hush.

That’s a fascinating story. A whopper. Is it true? Can it be verified? Especially when you
consider Multer died in 1982. Could a company of Timken’s iconic stature be complicit
in perhaps the greatest government cover-up of all time?

One thing that always helps to verify a story is if the teller never changes it over time. This is a long and involved story that in my opinion would not be conducive to consistency in multiple telling’s. Not only did Multer never change his story but he retold it time and time again with the same consistency. Up until now it would seem that Ol’ Ralph Multer is holding all the cards. However, it would seem it’s not that cut and dried after all. Then again are these stories ever? In the next excerpt it starts to get a little sketchy for Ralph.

July 8, 1947. UFO historians consider that a monumental date. It is when the Roswell
Army Air Field issued a press release that a crashed flying disk had been recovered in the
New Mexico desert.

The military quickly changed its story. A second press release stated the 509th Bomb
Group at the Roswell base mistakenly had identified a weather balloon as flying saucer
wreckage.

Legions of UFO buffs believe the Roswell story. Researchers and authors have
interviewed hundreds of people on the subject, including former military officers. Some
believers have obtained once-classified documents, connecting the dots to conclude that
the government concealed the crash and stashed away dead aliens with balloon-shaped
heads, large eyes and child-like bodies.

Others declare the Roswell story to be a ridiculous myth borne out of wild imaginations.
They contend its utter nonsense concocted by nuts that are loose with the facts and heavy
on speculation. They argue the UFO crowd has yet to produce hard evidence, such as a
hunk of the damaged flying saucer.

Multer was a believer. He became one 63 years ago while working a four-hour shift for
Timken.

Multer told his wife the story. Years later, he shared it with his daughter.

It was August or September. Multer had hoped to finish the shift and meet his wife for
lunch. But the normalcy of the day quickly faded.

Multer said he and two other drivers were asked to pick up loads at a railroad yard. Three
flatbed trucks, covered with canvas, carried the loads.

The load on Multer’s truck was the largest. The convoy of trucks was escorted by
officials of some type. Multer had some level of security clearance at the company.

FBI agents had met the trio of truck drivers. Multer asked about the loads. An agent told
him they were parts of a flying saucer recovered in New Mexico. The strength and
durability of the material would be tested in a super-hot Timken furnace.

“They talked to a person later who was there that night (at one of the Timken plants), and
they said they couldn’t cut it, they couldn’t even heat it,” said Sundi Multer-Lingle,
Multer’s daughter. “The piece of metal, well I don’t know if you can call it metal, the

Scott, one of the UFO investigators who co-authored the original story about Multer, said
she and the other researcher visited Timken in the mid-1990s to inquire about the former
truck driver and Roswell.

None of the retired management and engineer employees contacted by UFO investigators
had heard of the alleged Canton connection to Roswell, said Scott, who worked on
satellite photography in the 1960s for the Defense Intelligence Agency. She is a former
biology professor at St. Bonaventure University.
“I don’t have a firm conclusion,” she said of the alleged UFO crash.

The U.S. Department of Defense did not respond to a phone inquiry or e-mail from The
Repository seeking comment about Roswell-related events in 1947 and Multer’s story.
The agency forwarded the call Thursday to the U.S. Air Force.

As of Friday, the Air Force had not replied. In the mid-1990s, the Air Force issued two
in-depth reports, following an inquiry by the General Accounting Office, in an effort to
debunk the Roswell story.

So, is Ralph telling the truth? I got a little excited there for a while but that last bit of info was a real downer. Of course it just serves to bring us back into the reality of the situation. Outside of Stanton Friedman I don’t think there are too many that truly believe that a UFO crashed in Roswell NM in 1947.

Then again, maybe, just maybe there’s something to it. After all several witnesses have come forward with fairly believable stories and the Government has been so wishy washy about the whole thing over the years. I still can’t stand here and claim that Roswell never happened. What about you readers?

Source: http://www.cantonrep.com/newsnow/x1997911736/Canton-s-close-encounter-with-Roswell-UFO

Written by Scott McMan for GhostTheory