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The Why Files

Documentary, Science Fiction, Life Sciences, Science, Society & Culture, Fiction

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🗓️ 10 April 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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In 2007, a writer named Lawrence Spencer opened an envelope he didn't ask for. Inside were military documents from Roswell Army Air Field, dated 1947. Duty rosters, memos, Top Secret stamps. And buried near the bottom, transcripts of interviews with a subject the US Army couldn't communicate with using any conventional method. No translator worked. No known language matched. The only person who could reach the subject was a nurse named Matilda MacElroy — and she did it without saying a word. The woman who sent Spencer the envelope was 83 years old and weeks from death. She had kept silent for six decades under threat of execution. Whatever she heard during those six weeks at Roswell, she carried alone. The people who knew her story were gone. The documents were supposed to stay buried. She decided that wasn't good enough. What Matilda described in those transcripts doesn't just challenge what we know about Roswell. It challenges what we know about Earth, about consciousness, and about every life we think we've lived. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.6	In 2007, Lawrence Spencer found a thick envelope in his mailbox.
0:36.2	It was full of military documents from the 1940s.
0:39.3	Some were routine duty rosters and schedule memos.
0:42.3	Some were stamped, top secret.
0:44.3	But all were from Roswell Army Airfield.
0:47.3	Spencer also found transcripts of strange interviews.
0:51.3	At first, they couldn't communicate with the subject.
0:53.3	The military brought in translators, scientists, even cryptographers, but nothing worked.
0:59.0	Finally, they learned the only way to communicate was telepathically.
1:03.0	And there are pages of predictions, warnings, strange technology, and a secret war.
1:08.0	Nothing made sense.
1:10.0	Then Spencer found a page that explained everything.
1:13.0	It said Roswell A-A-F, 509th bomb group, Alien Interview, July 8, 1947.
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