MO41: The Bombshell Before Roswell

This book is interesting, but investigation of a 1942 incident lacked substantial facts. The book is repleat with “may have’s”, “would likely have’s” and other speculations of witnesses and events. Nevertheless, it is a plausible theory and story of what MAY have happened and WHO MAY have been there as a witness.It is worth reading, but has more circumstantial “evidence” than documented FACTS.

Having been born and raised in Southeastern Missouri (originally Chaffee, then Oran) I was extremely interested in reading this book.I had heard of the incident in the late 90's/ early 2000's from my Mother who had come across the Charlette Mann interview via the Internet.This book was extremely well researched. There seem to be so many pieces to this puzzle. The Author, Paul B. Smith brought everything together in an easy to follow format. From the words on the paper, I could easily picture that warm April night in Southeast Missouri.In the days before super media, cellphones, and the Internet, it would have been quite easy to cover something of this magnitude up. Many people in that part of the state, having not seen the incident would never have believed that sort of thing. So it would be easy for the people who did see it, or know something to keep quiet, not wanting to raise a ruckus. I'm sure the bullying from the Government would have kept many people quiet. They typically had large families to take care of, so it wouldn't have been worth it to "blow the whistle."I was amazed to learn what kind of impacts this crash had to the scientists and physicists of the 1940's. It seemed this crash affected more than just Southeast Missouri. The science behind MO41 has had impacts all over the world.I know that evidence MUST exist somewhere. I hope that someone will come forward to put the final pieces together. Goodness knows that Disclosure by the Government probably won't happen anytime soon. Who knows though... Stranger things have happened.I read that a second book is in the works. I am looking forward to seeing what kind of new information has surfaced.Overall, very informative book. Definitely worth a read to anyone interested in not only UFO's, but also those interested in the WWII and Roosevelt era.

I would like to start off by saying I love the research of Stanton Friedman, The Woods, and Linda Moulton Howe. These researchers are to me, some of the very best in the field. They did alot of the initial research on this case. Thank you!It took seventy five years for a full length paperback book to be written about this case. Its very obvious Paul Blake Smith did a ton of research looking into the history. The number of sources he references is truly staggering at the back of the book.I believe a crash happened in Cape Girardeau in 1941, based on several things. I believe Charlette Mann. I think the author did a fantastic job of finding collaborative evidence in government documents. I also believe the hard work of all the other researchers who have looked into the case.The book talks about strange deaths in and around Cape Girardeau after the crash. If these deaths had any link to the event, these people were heroes.This book has a lot of new information in it. I was so excited about this book I ordered it within half an hour of learning of its existence. When it arrived, I read the book cover to cover. I was not disappointed.This book is long overdue. I would like to encourage anyone with any information to get in touch with the author.I would like to thank the Author, all the other researchers, the grandchildren of the witnesses and most importantly, the witnesses themselves.The crash in Cape Girardeau in 1941 of an alien spacecraft was a historic event in World history. The people at the scene did humanity proud in their treatment of the alien victims.

The book is interesting but needs more proof provided. I bought the book because of his so-called "bonus chapter" which dealt with F.D.R.'s curious, according to him, death. The meat of the book surrounds the UFO event in Missouri. The narrative flows along, but there are not footnotes; and there is too much hearsay reported, especially from online chat rooms and email, which is not substantiated. More needs to be done, before I'll buy this book's premise/theory.The Roosevelt information is another matter altogether. The author asserts that F.D.R. shot himself due to his knowledge of the aliens, etc. of the UFO events previously described in the previous chapters. This is rubbish. The author has not done his homework, and is obvious when he discusses Roosevelt's health issues. He needs to investigate the matter thoroughly before coming out with such a preposterous theory of suicide. I'm not going to belabor the point, except to point the reader to several good well-documented books by physicians who actually know what was wrong with Roosevelt and what he died of. (See: "A Conspiracy of Silence: Franklin D. Roosevelt's Impact on History" by Dr. Harry S. Goldsmith; "FDR's Deadly Secret," by Dr. Lomazow.) Unlike those books, this one under review has the wrong information about Roosevelt's last hours in Warm Springs, and because he has no footnotes or index, and, knowing the full story from the doctors who have written on the subject, I simply cannot accept this author's assertion(s) as anything other than theory. Do not buy this book if you think you're going to learn anything new about Roosevelt's health. For the Missouri UFO landing, well, it's interesting, but not very well documented. It's based on too much hearsay and Internet Blogs, which are not that reliable, especially when the reader cannot verify that information.

I got approximately one third into this book when I just couldn't bear anymore. It reads like a P.I.'s notebook, where every moment of every minute of every hour of EVERYONE, was meticulously conjectured, surmised and repeated, to the point of almost knowing what they had for breakfast! The actual events, could have been covered in around four pages - I have not the time nor the patience to be this bored. I can't comment on the rest of the book, as I had to abandon it where I did for my sanity.. One can only hope it got better, but I doubt it

Heavily padded with trivia. The story could probably be told in about 75% less pages. Becomes boring quite quickly.

The book was good - well written and informative. I had not known of the earlier UFO crash in 1941. My only criticism would be the author spends too much time on personal history of the people involved - a bit long winded. Yet, the details do lend credibility. Recommended to anyone interested in the subject matter.

I really didn't know about MO41. I am an avid reader of ufo's, but this is a doosey.Paul Blake went through great depths to find witnesses and proof of this crashed craft and its pilots.If you want to find out more about a ufo before Roswell, this is it!

just a boring book