First in line is the Roswell
Incident. Roswell is a small and
sleepy village in the state of New
mexico, USA. The alleged UFO crash
in Roswell is the Mother of all UFO
and alien presence in the universe.
This is said to the first major
coverup in the history of mankind.
So lets see whatz going on
Roswell...

Roswell is obviously a highly
divisive topic in ufology. People
accept or reject it, often
emotionally, for reasons which seem
to the listener unclear, even after
patient attention. The possibility
of a crashed disk, and the necessary
astoundingly successful security
required, alternatively violates or
coheres with visions of reality held
dear by the loudest, and
occasionally less civil,
discussants. But these deeper
visions of reality, or what the
writers and speakers of these
schools want to believe, remain
largely undescribed. This paper
would like to pretend for the moment
that such individuals and their
constricting views of reality are
not part of the serious Roswell
exploration, as I believe they are
not, no matter how much we are
lumbered with them.
Forty-seven years ago, an incident
occurred in the southwestern desert
of the United States that could have
significant implications for all
mankind. The incident was announced
by the U.S. military, subsequently
denied by the U.S. military, and has
remained veiled in government
secrecy ever since. Although it is
in a category fraught with false
claims and hoaxes, it is not a hoax
or false claim, but rather a known
event that is thoroughly documented.
It is the objective here to
summarize the details of that event,
affirm the right of all people
throughout the world to know the
truth about what occurred, and
propose a course of action that will
allow that truth to emerge.
The event took place during the
first week of July 1947 and involved
the recovery of wreckage by the
military from a remote ranch
northwest of Roswell, New Mexico.
There is now considerable testimony
from former members of the military
known to have been involved,
including two brigadier generals,
that the recovered material was not
of terrestrial origin. Admittedly,
such a claim taxes the limits of
credibility for discerning and
rational individuals. It also tends
to evoke a response of immediate
dismissal. The preponderance of
evidence, however, indicates the
event occurred.
On January 12, 1994, United States
Congressman Steven Schiff of
Albuquerque, New Mexico, stated to
the press that he had been
stonewalled by the Defense
Department when requesting
information regarding the 1947
Roswell event on behalf of
constituents and witnesses.
Indicating he was seeking further
investigation into the matter,
Congressman Schiff called the
Defense Department's lack of
response "astounding" and concluded
it was apparently "another
government coverup." Most people are
not aware that there exists an event
of this nature so well
substantiated. In the next year
public awareness of the Roswell
incident should grow. A new
hardcover book has been released, a
television movie will premiere, and
a serious documentary is
forthcoming. Questions, controversy,
and a general distrust of U.S.
government policy in this area are
bound to increase.
Detailed information on the recovery
of the wreckage at Roswell and of
related events is extensive. Some
years ago investigators were able to
obtain a copy of the 1947 Roswell
Army Air Field yearbook. This
enabled them to locate witnesses
throughout the country. Newspaper
accounts show that during late June
and early July 1947, there was a
wave of reports of "flying disks"
(UFOs) throughout the United States
and Canada. Many of those reports
came from credible witnesses,
including pilots and other trained
observers.
Sometime during the first week of
July 1947, a local New Mexico
rancher, Mac Brazel, while riding
out in the morning to check his
sheep after a night of intense
thunderstorms, discovered a
considerable amount of unusual
debris. It had created a shallow
gouge several hundred feet long and
was scattered over a large area.
Some of the debris had strange
physical properties. After taking a
few pieces to show his neighbors,
Floyd and Loretta Proctor, Brazel
drove into Roswell and contacted the
sheriff, George Wilcox. Sheriff
Wilcox notified authorities at
Roswell Army Air Field and with the
assistance of his deputies,
proceeded to investigate the matter.
Shortly after becoming involved, the
military closed off the area for a
number of days and retrieved the
wreckage. It was initially taken to
Roswell Army Air Field and
eventually flown by B-29 and C-54
aircraft to Wright Field in Dayton,
Ohio.
Roswell Army Air Field was the home
of the 509th Bomb Group, which was
an elite outfit--the only atomic
group in the world. On the morning
of July 8, 1947, Colonel William
Blanchard, Commander of the 509th
Bomb Group, issued a press release
stating that the wreckage of a
"crashed disk" (UFO) had been
recovered. The press release was
transmitted over the wire services
in time to make headlines in over
thirty U.S. afternoon newspapers
that same day. Within hours, a
second press release was issued from
the office of General Roger Ramey,
Commander of the Eighth Air Force at
Fort Worth Army Air Field in Texas,
400 miles from the crash site. It
rescinded the first press release
and, in effect, claimed that Colonel
Blanchard and the officers of the
509th Bomb Group at Roswell had made
an unbelievably foolish mistake and
somehow incorrectly identified a
weather balloon and its radar
reflector as the wreckage of a
"crashed disk."
One of those two press releases had
to be untrue. There is now solid
testimony from numerous credible
military and civilian witnesses who
were directly involved, that the
"crashed disk" press release issued
by Colonel William Blanchard of the
509th Bomb Group from Roswell was
true and that the subsequent
"weather balloon" press release from
Eighth Air Force Headquarters in
Fort Worth. Texas, was a hastily
contrived cover story.
Those who knew and worked with
William Blanchard say he was a
solid, no-nonsense, businesslike
individual, and not someone who
would make a fool of himself and the
Air Force by ordering a press
release about something as out of
the ordinary and dramatic as the
event at Roswell without being
certain he was correct. In other
words, if Blanchard issued a press
release saying there was a crashed
disk, there was a crashed disk.
Colonel William Blanchard would
later go on to become a four-star
general and Vice Chief of Staff of
the United States Air Force.
The first witness located by
investigators who was willing to
testify and allow his name to be
used was retired Lieutenant Colonel
Jesse Marcel, the intelligence
officer of the 509th Bomb Group at
Roswell. He was a highly competent
individual and one of the first two
military officers at the actual
crash site. In a 1979 videotaped
interview, Jesse Marcel stated, ". .
. it was no! a weather balloon, nor
was it an airplane or a missile." As
to the exotic properties of some of
the material, he stated, "It would
not burn . . . 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
sixteen-pound sledge hammer. And
there was still no dent in it."
It is inconceivable that a man of
Jesse Marcel's qualifications and
experience, the intelligence officer
of the only atomic-bomb group in the
world, would have mistaken any kind
of conventional wreckage, much less
the remains of a weather balloon and
its radar reflector, for that of a
craft or vehicle that in his words
was "not of this earth. " Even if he
had initially made such a gross
misidentification, he would
certainly have been able to see his
mistake later after it had been
brought to his attention. When
returning to the base, he stopped by
his house with a few pieces of the
unusual wreckage to show his wife
and eleven-year-old son. One piece,
a small section of I-beam, had
strange hieroglyphic like symbols on
its surface. His son, Dr. Jesse
Marcel, Jr., now a practicing
medical doctor and qualified
National Guard helicopter pilot and
flight surgeon, remembers the
incident well. He has been able to
produce detailed drawings of some of
the symbols. During his career,
Jesse Marcel Sr., went on to other
important assignments, including the
preparation of a report on the first
Soviet nuclear detonation, which
went directly to President Truman.
The late General Thomas DuBose was a
colonel and General Ramey's chief of
staff at Eighth Air Force
Headquarters in Forth Worth, Texas,
in 1947. Before his death in 1992,
General DuBose testified that he
himself had taken the telephone call
from General Clements McMullen at
Andrews Army Air Field in
Washington, D.C., ordering the
coverup. The instructions were for
General Ramey to concoct a "cover
story" to "get the press off our
backs."
Retired General Arthur E. Exon was
stationed at Wright Field in Dayton,
Ohio, as a lieutenant colonel in
July of 1947 during the time the
wreckage from Roswell was brought
in. In a 1990 interview, General
Exon said of the testing,
"Everything from chemical analysis,
stress tests, compression tests,
flexing. It was brought into our
material evaluation labs. (Some of
it) could be easily ripped or
changed . . . there were other parts
of it that were very thin but
awfully strong and couldn't be
dented with heavy hammers. . . ." Of
the men that did the testing, he
said, " . . . the overall consensus
was that the pieces were from
space."
The testimony of Mr. Glenn Dennis
leaves little doubt about the nature
of what was recovered in 1947. Glenn
Dennis still lives in the Roswell,
New Mexico, area and is a respected
businessman and member of the
community. He is down-to-earth and
straightforward. In 1947 Glenn
Dennis was a young mortician working
for the Ballard Funeral Home, which
had a contract to provide mortuary
and ambulance services for Roswell
Army Air Field. Prior to learning
about the recovery of the unusual
wreckage at Roswell, he received
several telephone calls one
afternoon from the mortuary officer
at the air field. He was asked about
the availability of small,
hermetically sealed caskets and
questioned about how to preserve
bodies that had been exposed to the
elements for several days. There was
concern about possibly altering the
chemical composition of the tissue.
Later that evening, as a result of
unrelated events, he made a trip to
the base hospital. Outside the back
entrance he observed two military
ambulances with open rear doors,
from which large pieces of wreckage
protruded, including one with a row
of unusual symbols on its surface.
Once inside, he encountered a young
nurse whom he knew. At that same
instant, he was noticed by military
police, who physically threatened
him and forcibly escorted him from
the building.
He met with the nurse the next day,
and she explained what had been
going on at the hospital. She was a
very religious person and was upset
to the point of being in a state of
shock. She described how she had
been called in to assist two doctors
who were doing autopsies on several
small nonhuman bodies. She described
the terrible smell, how one body was
in good shape and the others
mangled, and the differences between
their anatomy and human anatomy. She
also drew a diagram on a napkin
showing an outline of their
features. That meeting was to be
their last--she was transferred to
England a few days later.
The main part of the craft
apparently came down some distance
from the "debris field" at the
Brazel ranch. Researchers were only
recently able to confirm this second
site because few people knew about
it. According to witness testimony,
this is also the site where the
bodies were found. Most of the
witnesses to this site have not, in
fear of government reprisal, allowed
their names to be used. A
prestigious law firm has recently
been retained to provide legal
counsel to any such witnesses who
might consider going public with
their testimony. Attorneys from the
firm have already met with several
Roswell witnesses.
In addition to Glenn Dennis, other
witnesses were physically threatened
or intimidated. According to members
of Sheriff Wilcox's family, he was
told by the military, in the
presence of his wife, that he and
his entire family would be killed if
he ever spoke about what he had
seen. The rancher who originally
discovered the wreckage, Mac Brazel,
was sequestered by the military for
almost a week and sworn to secrecy.
He never spoke about the incident
again, even to his family. In the
months following the incident, his
son, Bill Brazel, found and
collected a few "scraps" of
material, which he kept in a cigar
box. The material was eventually
confiscated by the military. |