Ancillary Characters: Mason Rose

Long-time Townsend Brown inquirer Jan Lundquist – aka 'Rose' in The Before Times – has her own substantial archive to share with readers and visitors to this site. This forum is dedicated to the wealth of material she has compiled: her research, her findings, and her speculations.
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Ancillary Characters: Mason Rose

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Looking at Townsend's associates, we see a few with whom we know he had a relationship over a period of years, based on correspondence and Linda's memories: Beau Kitselman was his closest friend and the one who made him laugh the most. Robert Sarbacher provided his lab in DC and chauffered him home on weekends. Ed Hull was the "model maker" who initiated the mid-fifties wave of anti-gravity articles in the aerospace press.

There are a few others with whom he had briefer connections. Mason Rose IV and Bradford Shank were each identified as his business partner in different enterprises. Mason Rose also "wrote" a document now known as the Rose Saucer design. However he had no scientific background nor interest, so I suspect Townsend gave him the description and the specs.

However, in Rose IV's bio, there is no mention of his partnership, nor of his saucer document. He is also another of those with a sketchy to non-existent bio for the WWII years. Given his inherited name and his educational background, I suspect he served with the OSS or Oh So Social, as it was called, and may have continued his clandestine career later on a full or part time basis.

https://prabook.com/web/mason_h.rose_.iv/1696609
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Re: 2 curious snippets about Mason

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I will have to find source for this but he was once listed as part owner of an experimental seaplane:
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And he was once arrested for cattle-rustling.
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Re: The Mason Rose Saucer Document

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The scan of this document can be found at https://web.archive.org/web/20140602175 ... n_Rose.pdf
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