Roswell UFO Incident

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The Roswell Crash is allegedly an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) crash that took place near Roswell, New Mexico in July of 1947. It was found by rancher Mac Brazel, on the Foster Ranch.

The Roswell event is highly regarded as the Holy Grail of Ufology. Conspiracy buffs believe the United States government covered up the crash retrieval.

Contents 1 Importance 2 Air Force Report 2.1 Claims 2.2 Debris 2.3 Hidden in Plain Sight 3 Debris Analysis 3.1 Explanations 3.2 Witness Descriptions 3.3 Metal Qualities 4 Events 4.1 July 2, 1947 4.2 July 3, 1947 4.3 July 4, 1947 4.4 July 5, 1947 4.5 July 8, 1947 4.6 July 9, 1947 5 Roswell museum 6 Related articles 7 Further reading 8 External links 9 Relevant discussion threads

Importance

Even the United States Air Force has twice acknowledged the importance of explaining Roswell. First, in the mid 1990’s, a report was issued stating that the debris found was that of Project Mogul. Project Mogul (now declassified) was a project that used balloons, radar reflectors and other materials to monitor Soviet nuclear tests. However, witnesses who state they handled the debris describe materials very different to those used in Mogul. Furthermore, it is difficult to believe that trained military intelligence officers could somehow mistake balsa wood, aluminium foil, and balloon debris for something otherworldly. Yet, this is the contention of the Air Force.

When the first report failed to silence the issue of Roswell, the Air Force, in the late 90’s, then released another report, Roswell: Case Closed. In this report, the focus was on the eyewitness descriptions of bodies. The Air Force contention was that people were remembering incorrectly, and were describing 6’ tall human dummies in military flight suits for 4’ tall large-headed aliens. Furthermore, these dummies were used in Project High Dive, which took place in the early 1950’s, fully 4 or more years after the Roswell incident.

Air Force Report

Regarding the Roswell case, what many believe happened means the Air Force story does not hold water.

Roswell, NM. The incident long cited as THE UFO case of all time. Certainly, the name is synonymous with the incident. There’s been a lot said both for and against the crash being either an alien craft (or two) or a top secret balloon experiment. One thing that is undeniable, is that a crash of SOMETHING did occur. At least this much is even admitted by the military. So the question is of course, WHAT crashed?

First, we have the last official version of the explanation from the Air Force. This was in July, 1994, and can be seen here: Air Force Roswell Lastword Report. Frustrated with the publicity still surrounding Roswell, the Air Force releases another “last word” report on the incident.

Claims

This is one of the first claims:

The "unusual" military activities in the New Mexico desert were high altitude research balloon launch and recovery operations. Reports of military units that always seemed to arrive shortly after the crash of a flying saucer to retrieve the saucer and "crew," were actually accurate descriptions of Air Force personnel engaged in anthropomorphic dummy recovery operations.

Going into more detail, they clarify and reiterate that a Mogul balloon is what crashed. The following, is actually from a well-known skeptic site, illustrating the purpose of Mogul. CSI Mogul Article

Its classified purpose was to try to develop a way to monitor possible Soviet nuclear detonations with the use of low-frequency acoustic microphones placed at high altitudes. No other means of monitoring the nuclear activities of a closed country like the USSR was yet available, and the project was given a high priority. One of the NYU tasks was the development of constant-level balloons for placing the acoustic microphones aloft. After some preliminary flights in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in April 1947, which failed due to high winds, the project moved to New Mexico.

In June and early July 1947, numerous NYU balloon flights were launched from Alamogordo Army Air Field in New Mexico. Some of these flights consisted of very long trains containing up to two dozen neoprene sounding balloons, having a total length of more than 600 feet.

Perhaps the Air Force should have checked their calendars, as the Roswell crash occurred in 1947, YEARS before the early 50’s. Indeed, this was project High Dive, not Mogul. Likewise, in all my years of looking into Roswell, this is the first I’ve heard of “escape capsules”, an obvious attempt at establishing an air of ridicule to the accounts. Not to mention, they briefly include the notes of a prominent UFO researcher, but then fail to mention that the anthropomorphic dummies were regular human-sized, which of course would then destroy the “short humanoids in space suits” note. Now the apparent lie has become an obvious one. You can’t just stick the two different tests from different decades together and use that as a viable explanation. It doesn’t wash. There are other problems with the Mogul cover story of course. For this, we’ll look at the items used in Mogul.

Here is a schematic of the Mogul tests…

Here’s a photo of a similar reflector…made from tin foil and balsa wood such as the Mogul ones.

Debris

It is uncertain how plausible it is that the highest ranking intelligence officer at the base, Major Jesse Marcel, would mistake balsa wood and tin foil for the remains of an unidentified craft. Marcel stated it quite differently.

Major Jesse Marcel, intelligence officer of the 509th Bomb Group based at Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF), inspected the site shortly after Brazel reported the debris to the Chaves County sheriff in Roswell. Marcel described a big field: debris ". . . about as far as you could see—three quarters [of a] mile long and two hundred to three hundred feet wide." It was "scattered all over—just like you’d explode something above the ground and [it would] just fall to the ground." The shortest pieces were "four or five inches. It was [as if it were from] something of some greater area that had been together."

Project Mogul Hypothesis (which incidentally, has some excellent info for how it couldn’t be a Mogul balloon, as well.)

Before any mention of Mogul (this wouldn’t be till years later), the military stuck with a basic weather balloon story. After getting in hot water over the official press release issued (that the US Army Air Force had retrieved the wreckage of a “crashed disc”(words of the press release, not an inference), Army brass reacted quickly to do damage control. A retraction of the story was released, and the press was fed the coverup story. Here’s the now infamous picture of Ramey (along with Chief of Staff Dubose, not Marcel, as many sometimes assume) with the balloon debris.

Hidden in Plain Sight

While the staging contributes greatly to the effectiveness of the coverup, Ramey could not have known at the time, that eventually, technology would enable reading portions of the memo he is holding in this photo (in the red box).

Roswell Smoking Gun, the Ramey Memo

The message turns out to be a telegram from Gen. Ramey to the Pentagon and Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg, the acting AAF Chief of Staff at the time. Ramey is providing Vandenberg an update on the very fluid situation in-the-field at Roswell.

The first paragraph describes what had been found. Ramey starts by acknowledging "THAT A 'DISK' IS NEXT NEW FIND." He then adds that "THE VICTIMS OF THE WRECK" and something else (possibly just "A WRECK") had also been found near the recovery "OPERATION AT THE 'RANCH'." At the end it states that "YOU" (i.e. Gen. Vandenberg) had ordered the "victims" and/or the wreckage "FORWARDED" to "FORT WORTH, TEX."

So, while photographers are snapping pictures that will eventually keep the story buried for years, they unwittingly capture evidence of what really happened away from public eyes… Additionally, there is the testimony (as a sworn affidavit) of the other man in the photo other than the General, that proves to be an interesting read. Weather Balloon Cover Story

(1) My name is Thomas Jefferson Dubose

(2) My address is: XXXXXXXXXX

(3) I retired from the U.S. Air force in 1959 with the rank of Brigadier General.

(4) In July 1947, I was stationed at Fort Worth Army Air Field [later Carswell Air Force Base] in Fort Worth, Texas. I served as Chief of Staff to Major General Roger Ramey, Commander, Eight Air Force. I had the rank of Colonel.

(5) In early July, I received a phone call from Maj. Gen. Clements McMullen, Deputy Commander, Strategic Air Command. He asked what we knew about the object which had been recovered outside Roswell, New Mexico, as reported in the press. I called Col. William Blanchard, Commander of the Roswell Army Air Field and directed him to send the material in a sealed container to me at Fort Worth. I so informed Maj. Gen. McMullen.

(6) After the plane from Roswell arrived with the material, I asked the Base Commander, Col. Al Clark, to take possession of the material and to personally transport it in a B-26 to Maj. Gen. McMullen in Washington, D.C. I notified Maj. Gen. McMullen, and he told me he would send the material by personal courier on his plane to Benjamin Chidlaw, Commanding General of the Air Material Command at Wright Field [later Wright Patterson AFB]. The entire operation was conducted under the strictest secrecy.

(7) The material shown in the photographs taken in Maj. Gen. Ramey's office was a weather balloon. The weather balloon explanation for the material was a cover story to divert the attention of the press.

(8) I have not been paid or given anything of value to make this statement, which is the truth to the best of my recollection.

Signed: T. J. Dubose

Date: 9/16/91

Signature witnessed by:

Linda R. Split

Notary Public, State of Florida

Here is the separate pic of Marcel with the debris in Fort Worth.

There is a lot of talk about conflicting stories of material being switched, as stated by Marcel, etc. and this is usually seized upon by skeptics.

When Marcel arrived at Carswell, Brigadier General Roger Ramey, Commander of the 8th Air Force took full charge of the case. The debris from Brazel's field was taken into Ramey's office, and photographed. The photographer was James Bond Johnson. Marcel was in one photo with the real debris. Ramey took Marcel into another office, and upon their return to Ramey's office, some new and different material was spread on the floor. Marcel, under orders, stated that this debris was from a weather balloon. After more photos were taken, Ramey sent Marcel back to Roswell, along with a stern warning not to disclose anything he had seen at Carswell. It was then reported that General Ramey recognized the remains as part of a weather balloon. Brigadier General Thomas DuBose, the chief of staff of the Eighth Air Force, after many years of silence would state:

"[It] was a cover story. The whole balloon part of it. That was the part of the story we were told to give to the public and news and that was it."

There is sworn testimony by Dubose that the balloon story was a coverup that he had full knowledge of.

Debris Analysis

“I-Beams” as they are called: The skeptics claim that these sticks are the balsa wood framework of the Mogul radar targets. A piece of balsa wood, even a small child could break it between two fingers without effort.

(F&B, interviewed July, 1990) "The piece he [Mac Brazel] brought looked like a kind of tan, light brown plastic. It was very lightweight, like balsa wood. It wasn't a large piece, maybe about four inches long, maybe just a little larger than a pencil. We cut on it with a knife and would hold a match on it, and it wouldn't burn. We knew it wasn't wood. It was smooth like plastic, it didn't have a real sharp corners, kind of like a dowel stick. Kind of dark tan. It didn't have any grain, just smooth. I hadn't seen anything like it."-Loretta Proctor

So, it is easy to see the balsa wood connection. But, if this was the balsa wood debris from a Mogul balloon, surely a piece the size mentioned could be broken, cut, or burned very easily, even by a child.

(B&M; interview Dec. 1979) "There were several different types of stuff. ...it sure was light in weight. It weighed almost nothing. There was some wooden-like particles I picked up. These were like balsa wood in weight, but a bit darker in color and much harder. You know the thing about wood is that the harder it gets, the heavier it is. Mahogany, for example is quite heavy. This stuff, on the other hand, weighed nothing, yet you couldn't scratch it with your fingernail like ordinary balsa, and you couldn't break it either. It was pliable, but wouldn't break. Of course, all I had was a few splinters. It never occurred to me to try to burn it so I don't know if it would burn or not."

[Quoting his father] "Dad did say one time that there were what he called 'figures' on some of the pieces he found. He often referred to the petroglyphs the ancient Indians drew on rocks around here as "figures" too, and I think that's what he meant to compare them with."-William Brazel Jr.

Again, the material could not be cut. He states his father (Mac Brazel) who initially found the debris, saw pieces with some symbols on them.

(F&B) "A lot of it had a lot of little members [beams] with symbols that we had to call them hieroglyphics because I could not interpret them, they could not be read, they were just symbols, something that meant something and they were not all the same. The members that this was painted on -- by the way, those symbols were pink and purple, lavender was actually what it was. And so these little members could not be broken, could not be burned. I even tried to burn that. It would not burn."-Major Jesse Marcel

He drew the glyphs he saw…and they were on an “I-shaped” beam, which is VERY different than the framework for the Mogul targets (or any other such radar target). Marcel’s description…

Skeptics claim this was balsa wood, with colored tape (stating that they got the tape from a toy company, and it had flowers printed on it). Such as Mogul engineer Charles Moore’s description.

Explanations

However, this is not what Marcel and the others describe at all. One should easily tell tin foil taped to a piece of balsa wood, from something extraordinary. Moreover, the explanations offered fail to explain how the debris pieces could not be cut or burned.

Bessie Brazel is often cited by the skeptics, as she has mentioned seeing “tape”. However, that is not really what she said…

"There were what appeared to be pieces of heavily waxed paper and a sort of aluminum-like foil. Some of these pieces had something like numbers and lettering on them, but there were no words you were able to make out. Some of the metal-foil pieces had a sort of tape stuck to them, and when these were held to the light they showed what looked like pastel flowers or designs. Even though the stuff looked like tape it could not be peeled off or removed at all…. [The writing] looked like numbers mostly ... They were written out like you would write numbers in columns to do an addition problem. But they didn't look like the numbers we use at all. What gave me the idea they were numbers, I guess, was the way they were all ranged out in columns… No, it was definitely not a balloon. We had seen weather balloons quite a lot - both on the ground and in the air. We had even found a couple of Japanese-style balloons that had come down in the area once. We had also picked up a couple of those thin rubber weather balloons with instrument packages. This was nothing like that. I have never seen anything resembling this sort of thing before - or since..."-Crash at Corona-Friedman

A recent Disclosure Project witness, Brig. General Steven Lovekin, describing what he was shown during a Pentagon briefing around 1959. He also has signed a sworn affidavit to this testimony.

(During a Pentagon meeting discussing Project Blue Book materials)

"Colonel Hollobard [sp? perhaps Hollogard] brought out a piece of what appeared to be metallic -- it was a metallic piece of -- it looked like a yardstick. It had deciphering--it had encryption on it. He did describe them as being symbols of instruction. And that's as far as he would go. But he did infer that the instructions, whatever they might have been, were something that was important enough for the military to keep working on on a constant basis.

"It seemed giant-like when I saw it because it was the first time I had ever seen anything like this before. And all eyes were just peeled on that particular thing. And when he told us what it was, it was frightening, it was eerie there. You could have heard a pin drop in the room when it was first mentioned.

"He said it had been taken from one of the craft that had crashed in New Mexico. It had been taken from a box of materials that the military was working on. They didn't use the word reverse engineering at that time, but it was something similar to the reverse engineering they felt like they needed to work on and that it was going to take years to do this."

The additional witnesses concur with the pieces being shaped like an I-beam, and not at all like the framework described by the Mogul engineer Moore. Repeatedly, the witnesses are impressed that the debris pieces could not be broken, cut, or burned.

Foil was used for the Mogul targets, but it was “off the shelf” material, even as mentioned by Moore. Aluminum foil is hardly fantastic or non-recognizable, even to the public in 1947. Indeed, even children are familiar with it as the wrapping of a Hershey’s chocolate bar. Like the balsa wood, tin foil is also extremely fragile. This compares poorly to the debris described.

(H&M, FUFOR, 1979 television interview) "[There were] many bits of metallic foil, that looked like, but was not, aluminum, for no matter how often one crumpled it, it regained its original shape again. Besides that, they were indestructible, even with a sledgehammer."-Major Jesse Marcel

Witness Descriptions

Mogul is stated (even by skeptics) as using off the shelf materials, as the only thing classified about Mogul was it’s mission objectives…not its components. And yet somehow, this was so sensitive as to require it to be classified for almost half a century. This defies of common sense.

(F&B) "One of the pieces looked like] something on the order of tinfoil, except that [it] wouldn't tear.... You could wrinkle it and lay it back down and it immediately resumed its original shape... quite pliable, but you couldn't crease or bend it like ordinary metal. Almost like a plastic, but definitely metallic. Dad once said that the Army had once told him it was not anything made by us." "...a little piece of -- it wasn't tinfoil, it wasn't lead foil -- a piece about the size of my finger. ...The only reason I noticed the tinfoil (I'm gonna call it tinfoil), I picked this stuff up and put it in my chaps pocket. Might be two or three days or a week before I took it out and put it in a cigar box. I happened to notice when I put that piece of foil in that box, and the damn thing just started unfolding and just flattened out. Then I got to playing with it. I'd fold it, crease it, lay it down and it'd unfold. It's kinda weird. I couldn't tear it. The color was in between tinfoil and lead foil, about the [thickness] of lead foil."-Mac Brazel

(Pflock, FUFOR, from affidavit 9/27/93): "What Bill [Brazel Jr.] showed us was a piece of what I still think as fabric. It was something like aluminum foil, something like satin, something like well-tanned leather in its toughness, yet was not precisely like any one of those materials. While I do not recall this with certainty, I think the fabric measured about four by eight to ten inches. Its edges, where were smooth, were not exactly parallel, and its shape was roughly trapezoidal. It was about the thickness of a very fine kidskin glove leather and a dull metallic grayish silver, one side slightly darker than the other. I do not remember it having any design or embossing on it. Bill passed it around, and we all felt it. I did a lot of sewing, so the feel made a great impression on me. It felt like no fabric I have touched before or since'. It was very silky or satiny, with the same texture on both sides. Yet when I crumpled it in my hands, the feel was like that you notice when you crumple a leather glove in your hand. When it was released, it sprang back into its original shape, quickly flattening out with no wrinkles. I did this several times, as did the others. I remember some of the others stretching it between their hands and "popping" it, but I do not think anyone tried to cut or tear it."-Sally Strickland Tadolini (neighbor) in a sworn affadavit

(Pflock, FUFOR, affidavit 10/10/91) "All I saw was a little piece of material. The piece of debris I saw was two-to-three inches square. It was jagged. When you crumpled it up, it then laid back out; and when it did, it kind of crackled, making a sound like cellophane, and it crackled when it was let out. There were no creases.”-Sgt. Robert Smith (member of the First Air Transport Unit, which operated Douglas C-54 Skymaster four-engine cargo planes out of the Roswell AAF) in a sworn affidavit.

Warrant Officer Irving Newton’s description of the foil used in Mogul: Newton was the weather officer called in to identify the debris at Ramey’s press conference on July 8, 1947. (Note: Major Marcel and Chief of Staff Dubose contend that the balloon debris photographed was a coverup, as stated in Dubose’s affidavit). The interviewer is in italics, whereas the answers by Newton are in regular text.

(B&M, questioning Newton in July 1979 Interview)

Q. But wouldn't the people at Roswell have been able to identify a balloon on their own?

A. They certainly should have. It was a regular Rawin sonde. They must have seen hundreds of them.

Q. Can you describe the fabric? Was it easy to tear?

A. Certainly. You would have to be careful not to tear it. The metal involved was like an extremely thin Alcoa wrap. It was very flimsy.

Metal Qualities

The materials found in wreckage had memory metal qualities, would not burn or tear, and the beams could not be broken but were flexible, completely unlike tin foil and balsa wood. Either all of these (and those not mentioned here) people are lying (and in sworn affidavits), or the material found was not tin foil and balsa wood.

In addition to the wreckage that crumpled and would bounce back though, are other pieces of debris that could not be bent, marked, burned, etc. These pieces of debris were some of the larger pieces and are described below.

"This particular piece of metal was, I would say, about two feet long and perhaps a foot wide. See, that stuff weighs nothing, it's so thin, it isn't any thicker than the tinfoil in a pack of cigarettes. So I tried to bend the stuff, it wouldn't bend. We even tried making a dent in it with a 16-pound sledge hammer, and there was still no dent in it. I didn't have the time to go out there and find out more about it, because I had so much other work to do that I just let it go. It's still a mystery to me as to what the whole thing was. Like I said before, I knew quite a bit about the material used in the air, but it was nothing I had seen before. And as of now, I still don't know what it was.”-Major Marcel in an interview with Leonard Stringfield

'(R&S1) One man set a piece on the ground and jumped on it, trying to dent or bend it, and failed. "There was a slightly curved piece of metal, real light. It was about six inches by twelve or fourteen inches. Very light. I crouched down and tried to snap it. My boss [Cavitt] laughs and said, 'Smart guy. He's trying to do what we couldn't do.' I asked, 'what in the hell is this stuff made out of?' It didn't feel like plastic and I never saw a piece of metal this thin that you couldn't break."

'"This was the strangest material we had ever seen ... there was talk about it not being from Earth. ...A year later I was talking to Joe Wirth, a CIC officer from Andrews Air Force Base in Washington D.C. I asked what they had found out about the stuff from Roswell. He told me that they still didn't know what it was and that their metal experts still couldn't cut it."-M. Sgt. Lewis (Bill) Rickett (Prior to going into counterintelligence, Rickett was a highly qualified aircraft mechanic, inspector, and supervisor. During the war, he was sent to Europe as part of the team that studied German aircraft on site. Thus he was well-qualified in his assessment of the strange thin-metal he said he saw )

It appears that the skeptics are being selective in which pieces of debris they cite and compare to Mogul. None of the recently mentioned debris (such as unbendable metal sheets two feet long) is comparable to any materials used in Mogul, and indeed, seem to be beyond our capability at the time, and possibly even now, to produce. Oddly enough though, perhaps the greatest clue of all that this was not balloon debris, is provided by the military itself… If they flew fly balsa wood and tin foil to Wright Field or Fort Worth for analysis, even the base janitor could easily identify the materials if this is indeed what it was. The Mogul balloons were not using any kind of top secret gear, only its mission objectives were classified. That tin foil and balsa wood would be flown out at all makes no sense unless one recalls the words of Brig. General Steven Lovekin (as previously mentioned in his affidavit during a Pentagon briefing).

"It seemed giant-like when I saw it because it was the first time I had ever seen anything like this before. And all eyes were just peeled on that particular thing. And when he told us what it was, it was frightening, it was eerie there. You could have heard a pin drop in the room when it was first

mentioned.”

Events

Main article: Roswell crash timeline

July 2, 1947

At 9:50 P.M on July 2, 1947. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Wilmot see an oval object, "like two inverted saucers faced mouth to mouth,” pass over their house in Roswell, New Mexico. The object, moving at a high rate of speed, is heading Northwest. This is reported on the front page of the Roswell Daily Record for July 8, 1947 (as it was reported later, but the event occurred on July 2), the local paper, the same one featuring the sensational headline of the RAAF (Roswell Army AirField) capturing a flying disc.

Over the course of the next two days, two separate crash sites would be discovered. Rancher Mac Brazel found the most commonly regarded site, the Foster Ranch site. In numerous statements and interviews, Mac has described in detail the events leading to the debris discovery. A second site was discovered when the fire department and police were sent to investigate a crash. In addition to the sworn testimony of fireman Dan Dwyer, other witnesses (and affidavits) also attest to the two different crash sites. The military eventually takes over the site where the fire department is working, while Mac decides what to do about the debris. Witness Sgt. Melvin Brown (sworn testimony) attests to seeing the bodies in an Army truck at the military debris site.

The bodies are taken to the Roswell Army AirField, and pronounced dead by Dr. Jesse Johnson. Glenn Dennis (sworn testimony) attests to a request from the base for child-sized body bags and methods of preserving bodies. Former police chief L.M. Hall also corroborates his testimony.

July 3, 1947

Also on Saturday, July 3, 1947, Mac Brazel discovers the debris field. Also with him is William D. Proctor, young son of his closest neighbours. He takes some of the debris to his neighbours, the Proctors, and Loretta Proctor’s sworn testimony supports the attributes of the debris described by others. The lightweight, unbreakable, unbendable, and unburnable pieces are completely unlike anything associated with Mogul (which used off the shelf parts…only the mission was classified, not the materials). In addition, many witnesses describe debris pieces that are foil-like, can be balled up, but then unfold back to normal with no creases. The Proctors suggest taking it to the Sheriff (George Wilcox).

July 4, 1947

On Sunday, July 4, 1947, Mac takes the debris into Roswell and to the Sheriff. Sheriff Wilcox suggests contacting the military.

Glenn Dennis, the mortician, meets with a nurse at the Officer’s Club. This woman is later identified as Naomi Maria Self. While many skeptics seize on the inability to find this woman, there are other witnesses (and sworn testimony, such as that of David Wagnon in the Medical Unit of the RAAF) which corroborate a Nurse Self on duty at the time. She tells him about the aliens, and draws pictures of them on a napkin. They are described as grey-skinned, four-fingered, and with large heads and large black eyes, the typical “gray” alien…though way before these were common (or even heard of).

After some time, the military goes into action on this second site. Numerous witnesses, including William Woody (sworn testimony) state they encountered military officers cordoning off many ranch roads in the area. Under orders from Col. William Blanchard of the RAAF, Major Jesse A. Marcel goes to the Sheriff’s office investigates Brazel and the debris. Marcel is an intelligence officer with the 509th Bomber Group (at that time, the only such group that possessed nuclear bombs, so this was an elite unit). Marcel then goes to the Ranch, along with Brazel and Capt. Sheridan Cavitt (more sworn affidavits).

Major General Clements McMullen of the SAC has Blanchard seal the debris (from the Sheriff’s office) in a courier pouch and has this flown to Fort Worth Army AirField (this was all prior to the Air Force being created). This is when it was given to Col. Thomas DuBose (sworn affidavit) for transport to DC. Oddly enough, this is also supported by the infamous “Ramey Memo”, a memo held by Gen. Roger Ramey in the photos taken in Fort Worth with the debris, in the line "...THE WRECK YOU FORWARDED TO ... FORT WORTH, TEX."

July 5, 1947

As it takes time to travel, the main recovery at the Brazel site takes place the following day, Monday, July 5, 1947. The debris field is described as three-quarters of a mile long and two to three hundred feet wide. This alone would make it far larger than one would expect from a Mogul balloon. Again, the material described by witnesses is nothing like one would fine in Mogul. Jesse Marcel JR., son of the Major, was shown the debris, and has recounted (as have others) seeing strange writing on the beamlike pieces of debris. Skeptics contend that this was due to some kind of tape with flowers used for the project. However, skeptics have never been able to turn up this tape, and a 1997 documentary focusing on the Mogul explanation given in Popular Mechanics magazine showed the alleged Mogul debris and the tape was lacking such symbols.

Frank Joyce, at the local radio station, had interviewed Brazel at the Sheriff’s office on Sunday, and tells Walt Whitmore, Sr. Walt then (on Monday) picks Mac up later that day and Mac stays at Walt’s that evening. Much of the debris is on its way to the base, with Marcel.

July 8, 1947

The next day, Tuesday, July 8, 1947, is when the story breaks. That morning, Cavitt and Marcel visit with Blanchard at the base. Security is tightened around the crash sites, and MPs are sent for Brazel. Blanchard authorises a press release (released by Walter Haut) that the RAAF had recovered a flying disk. This is supported by the sworn testimony of close friend of Blanchard’s, Art McQuiddy. Blanchard is said to have stated, "I will tell you this and nothing more. The stuff I saw, I've never seen anyplace else in my life."

The full cleanup of the Brazel debris field is well underway. By noon, the press release hits the wires, and the famous headline proclaims, “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region”. The story is circulating the nation on AP news wires, etc.

Debris is loaded onto a C-54 plane from the First Air Transport Unit, and the wreckage is on its way to Wright Field (later renamed to Wright Patterson AFB). Other flights also carry the debris, including at least one flight to Fort Worth, this one, a B-29, and with only a small sample of the wreckage, along with Major Marcel. Lt. Robert Shirkey and Master Sgt. Robert Porter (in sworn testimony) and Pappy Henderson corroborate this.

General Roger Ramey gets involved and the cover-up story begins to take shape. This is also supported by the “Ramey Memo” and he and the Pentagon start to hint at a balloon cover-up (supported by an internal AP Teletype). Major E.M. Kirton and Warrant Officer Irving Newton perpetuate publicly, the balloon explanation.

Major Marcel is ordered to pose for pictures with the balloon debris. He has sworn testimony that this was the case, as does another man in the photos, Col. DuBose. These photos eventually produce the “Ramey Memo”, largely investigated by researcher David Rudiak.

July 9, 1947

Wednesday, July 9, 1947, cleanup at the debris fields continues and is wrapping up. Three to four more C-54’s are loaded up and flown to Kirtland to then go to Los Alamos, as stated by sworn testimony of Cpt. Robert Smith and others.

Mac Brazel is now in military custody, and is forced to alter the dates of the debris field, etc. He is later seen driving a brand new truck (on Tuesday, July 15) after being released.

For years following, many of the witnesses were sworn to secrecy. The balloon explanation stuck, and Roswell was swept under the rug. Decades later, through the initial efforts of Stanton Friedman, the amazing story began to come to light.

Other witnesses surface, such as other military personnel, even Generals (such as Arthur Exon), as the Roswell debris pops up from time to time in Intel circles.

The Roswell crash remains the one crash case with an amazing amount of substantiating evidence. A cover-up is not only implied, but also admitted by the U.S. Air Force (although the item being covered up is stated as Mogul). If one truly examines the evidence however, the Mogul explanation and the dummies of Project High Dive simply fail to fit the evidence, and we are left with more questions than answers about Roswell.

Roswell museum

Walter Haut and Glenn Dennis decided the best way to give their story to the public was to open a museum. Max Littell was then contacted to assist the organisation of the IUFOMRC. The UFO Museum is situated in Roswell, New Mexico.

Related articles

• Center for UFO Studies
• Case for Roswell, The
• Disclosure Project, The
• Mantell Incident
• Project Blue Book
• Roswell Daily Record
• Roswell Petition

Further reading

• Joseph P. Farrell, The SS Brotherhood of the Bell: Nasa's Nazis, JFK, And Majic-12, Adventures Unlimited Press (August 15, 2006), ISBN-10: 1931882614, ISBN-13: 978-1931882613
• Robert M. Blevins, The Corona Incident, Robert Blevins (2007) (novel)

External links

• International UFO Musuem and Research Centrer - founded on September 27, 1991.
• Adventure Books of Seattle - Novel combining known facts from the Roswell Crash with time travel, trying to explain what may have happened. 'The Corona Incident' by Robert M. Blevins

Relevant discussion threads

• The Case for Roswell - Consolidated
• national geographic is helping cover up roswell
• Roswell officer's amazing deathbed admission