In 1941, a presumed airplane crash changed history. Immediately after, the US government covered it up. This thrilling book reveals the truth of America's first contact with aliens. There are plenty of books about the 1947 extraterrestrial encounter at Roswell, New Mexico. But only this one uncovers the full story of the UFO crash at Cape Girardeau, Missouri--six years before Roswell. Paul Blake Smith reveals how and why this crash was covered up--and where they took the evidence. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt knew about it. Harry S. Truman--Missouri senator at the time--knew about it. Did Albert Einstein know about it, too? Did the alien technology culled from the crash help refine the atomic bomb? This book presents meticulous research, historical documents, and thrilling witness accounts so you can decide what really happened that night.