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American Stig's backstory:
He was found walking about aimlessly by Major Jessie Marcel who bumped into "him" on July 3rd, 1947 while repairing a flat tire on the outskirts of Roswell, New Mexico. Later, Major Marcel recalled the stranger when his commanding officer General Roger M. Ramey proclaimed the newspaper report of the Air Force recovering a flying disk completely incorrect. Sensing a connection between this stranger and the odd events of July 2nd, Marcel decided to offer the stranger accommodations in a spare bedroom of his home.
The stranger always wore and refused to a remove a hood on his head and exhibited an extreme sensitivity to light. The small stature of the visitor enabled Marcel to dress him in his young son's clothing while a the addition motorcycle helmet and dark glasses sold the ruse of the visitor being a handicapped nephew to the local school board.
After hiding in plain sight in the Roswell school system, Marcel introduced his guest to an old friend, Kelly Johnson. Johnson immediately recognized the guest's remarkable abilities and invited him to live on a remote airbase Lockheed was building in the Nevada desert where his odd appearance and behaviors would be completely ignored by odd appearing and behaving aerospace geeks and test pilots.
The stranger lived and worked at Groom Lake participating in the development of America's most secret aircraft: the U2, A12, YF12, SR71, F117 and B2 just to name a few. During this time, radar techs at the base inadvertently fired a long range radar while the antenna dish was in its horizontal storage position. Fearing they had fatally irradiated a man walking across its path, the radar boys were flabbergasted that the man, our stranger, was completely unaffected by the powerful radar waves. Subsequent medical testing revealed the stranger's body had somehow absorbed the waves turning their energy into caloric fuel. Scientists used the strangers DNA to develop anti radar coatings for America's stealth aircraft.
For decades the stranger was able live "out in the open" at the highly secret Area 51 lending his considerable talents to the defense of the United States. It was ideal. Everyone who came into contact with the stranger held the highest security clearances and the base was the most secure place on earth. Then, the unimaginable happened: America elected a president so liberal our defense black budget was cut 60% and Area 51 personnel were being laid off.
It became apparent that the stranger could no longer enjoy the security of a secret government base and the prospect of exposing the general population to the stranger was fast becoming a worry for the base commander. A worry until base security reported that the commander's clerk had been caught using an unsecured internet connection.
It turned out the clerk was a fan of a pokey British motoring programme called Top Gear and was downloading illegal torrents of the English broadcasts. One of the Top Gear hosts, Jeremy Clarkson, had developed a race car driver character for the show. A driver who never spoke and never removed his helmet. The popularity of Top gear grew and this race driver character, called the Stig, was filmed all over England, then Europe. Soon the Stig was even filmed in Africa and the United States.
The clerk mentioned that a US version of Top gear was being produced in the U.S.....
It was obvious! Our stranger could not be seen in public without hiding his appearance and his sensitive vision required wearing dark glasses 24/7. Not exactly the easiest thing to pull off in open society. But, what if American Top Gear producers could be blackmailed, err "persuaded" to include a Stig on TGUS? An American Stig who always wears a a helmet and reflective visor 24/7. An American Stig, who through the promotional efforts of History and the BBC, would be able to finally hide in plain sight.
Hide in plain sight. Just like the United States' alien technology reverse engineering programs have been hiding in plain sight in the Nevada desert for over fifty years through the UFO disinformation promoted by the United states government.......
