A Long-Lost Interview Details Albert Einstein’s Involvement with the Roswell UFO Crash

As part of their attempt to address the puzzle presented by the debris and bodies recovered from the 1947 UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico, the U.S. government enlisted the expertise of renowned theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, according to a previously-lost interview with a student aide who claims to have accompanied the famed professor on his secret mission to examine the craft. The professor and his aide viewed not only the wreckage but also the bodies, including a survivor that managed to communicate information about their mission before succumbing to its injuries.

Born in Chicago in 1929, Shirley Wright worked as a chemistry professor at Miami-Dade Community College for over 50 years and held PhDs in Chemistry and Physical Science. As a teenager, she attended Princeton University on a scholarship where she was a student of theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, and it was while Wright was working as the esteemed professor’s assistant that she says she accompanied him on an expedition to examine the wreckage of a crashed flying saucer and its occupants.

Wright kept this experience to herself until she was interviewed on the matter in November 1993 by Florida MUFON member Sheila Franklin; her story was featured in 1994 in UFO researcher Leonard Stringfield’s UFO Crash/retrievals: Search for Proof in a Hall of Mirrors: Status Report VII, albeit under the pseudonym “Edith Simpson” to protect Wright and her family’s privacy.

More recently, ufologist Anthony Bragalia contacted Franklin about Wright’s story to find that Franklin not only had the notes she had taken, but she had also made audio recordings of the interview. Unfortunately, Franklin was only able to find the tape of one interview, while the other could not be located. Bragalia has made the files he received available as part of Wright’s story on his website, UFO Explorations.

Although Wright said that it was mentioned that the craft was recovered from a crash in Roswell, she did not indicate where she and Professor Einstein examined the debris and bodies, just that the wreckage had been brought “to the other place” that “looked like an airport facility, where there was a rather good-sized building, a hangar where they had the spaceship, and where they had the bodies.”

Wright described the craft as “disk shaped” and “sort of concave,” and large enough to fill roughly one quarter of the building that it was being stored in. It appeared to be made of “a reflective material, but when you looked at it and you were close to it was rather dull, so it had to be energy reflective or translucent, or glowing.”

Wright says that the investigators were curious about the craft’s propulsion systems, communications and control devices, along with what sort of provisions the occupants might have brought along for their trip.

Although Wright wasn’t permitted to enter the craft, other members of the team that had seen the interior described it as having “a lot of equipment” that was “very trim, all along the perimeter,” including “things that would come up from the floor automatically, pods that would come out, things like that.”

Wright also said that she saw the occupants of the craft, describing them as being between five and five-and-a-half feet tall with a “grayish green” complexion. Their heads were large in proportion to the rest of their body, with large, “brown black,” “very, very dark” eyes.

“Their eyes were enormous, they were very prominent,” Wright remarked. “They were the most obvious thing you’d see on their face.” The face itself “had no nose, but they had markings where a nose opening would be,” along with a mouth and ears but “no eyebrows.” The beings wore a one-piece body suit with no visible seams or fasteners, made from a material Wright did not recognize, and had an insignia situated in the middle of the garment; Wright made a drawing of the insignia for Franklin, but the depiction doesn’t appear to have been included with the recordings received by Bragalia.

Wright said that there were nine beings recovered in total; eight were dead, but one was still alive at the time she and Einstein were present. The survivor was able to communicate telepathically with members of the investigative team, asking questions such as how long our lifespans were, and what sort of conditions might prove hazardous enough to kill us. The being also asked about our propulsion technology and how far into the cosmos we had been, to which the being was “very quick to let us know that we didn’t know anything.”

Wright pointed out that despite the seemingly ominous nature of the questions, “they did not menace us or threaten us at all, because they knew right away were intellectually” and “scientifically inferior.”

The beings indicated that they were from another galaxy altogether, on a mission to find a suitable world to colonize, having suffered “a problem where they are from, because of some physical condition, energy-wise,” Wright said. However, they had determined that “Earth was entirely unsuitable to them,” and that humanity was “not at their level at all, so they had nothing to fear from us.” Wright said that the entities indicated that they wished to visit Earth in the future, “however they had already almost discounted this as a desirable place to come.”

The being was unsure as to what had caused their craft to crash, just that “they knew that it was a malfunction of something.” The entity that was conveying this information apparently died while trying to go into more detail with the investigative team’s engineers and scientists. Although there were eight scout ships in their fleet, another ship apparently became lost and crashed in Siberia.

Wright said that she wasn’t present when the sole survivor of the crash eventually died; rather, she was at a motel in a nearby city when she was told the news. She said that Einstein, already having the appropriate security clearances, later submitted a report regarding their mission, while Wright was told to keep quiet on the subject. “I was just told to keep my mouth shut.”

Wright herself passed away in Miami, Florida, on July 01, 2015, at the age of 85.

Although it is unclear as to whether or not the beings Wright saw are from the same group, Whitley’s new book, The Fourth Mind, offers an in-depth examination of the physiology, abilities and potential motives of the Visitors, both from the perspective of his own experiences and a mysterious—albeit authentic-sounding—document that describes their physiology in great detail.