In article <aq5kmv08fhibqhh28o0ptac2daik670pjb@4ax.com>, David Patrick says...

Debunking debunkers like Flaffer by David Patrick

Just let them rant on. 

Patty, your "slip" is showing.  Please quit posting here,
you are NOT and have NEVER contributed anything
except noise.  We have to say NO to you and your
CULT of Useful Idiots.  Now I do hope and pray
I don't have to ask you again!!!

Now move along.  Good luck finding something
useful to do.  Perhaps you can eat mud
or whatever it is debunkers do in their spare time!!

Roswell 1999: What Now?
By Thomas J. Carey & Donald R. Schmitt
As the millennium draws inexorably closer, we can look back and see that the
50th Anniversary Year of 1997 witnessed unprecedented national if not world-wide
interest in the most famous and most thoroughly investigated UFO case of all
time: the alleged 1947 crash of a flying saucer near the town of Roswell, NM,
and its subsequent retrieval and coverup by the United States military commonly
referred to as The Roswell Incident after the title of the ground-breaking, if
not best-selling, 1980 book by Charles Berlitz and William Moore.  Countless
mainstream magazine articles appearing in such August publications from Time
magazine to Popular Science to Popular Mechanics gave Roswell the full-bore,
cover-story treatment, while just about every newspaper in the country, large
and small, devoted space to it.
On TV, magazine-style shows such as Hard Copy, Inside Edition and the like
devoted numerous segments to the case, while more politically-oriented shows
like the "cerebral" Nightline and the more rough and tumble Crossfire did at
least one show on the subject. In-depth treatment of Roswell was provided by
cable TV�s "educational" channels, The History Channel, The Learning Channel and
The Discovery Channel. The major network news shows at ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN
also did pieces (regrettably, to be sure, these concentrated more on the
sometimes bizarre hoopla surrounding the anniversary activities than on the
significance of what all the hoopla was about).
The climax came on the acknowledged 50th anniversary day of July 4, 1997 with
all-day, live TV coverage from Roswell itself by the cable network news station
MSNBC detailing the events taking place there that day. MSNBC�s anchor, John
Gibson, presided over a one-sided discussion of the Project Mogul hypothesis,
featuring a parade of the usual cast of characters [Col. Richard Weaver and Lt.
James McAndrew (authors of the Air Force�s conclusion concerning Roswell) ,
Roswell-debunking author Kal Korff who tried to demonstrate for viewers that it
was a Mylar-coated sponge that was found at Roswell, Charles Moore (of Project
Mogul fame) whose memory, unlike pro-Roswell witnesses, is never questioned,
Col. Joe Kittinger (of "dummies from the sky" infamy) who shamelessly tried to
suggest that he was the model for the "red-haired Captain" in Glenn Dennis�
story, an so on], as the explanation of the 1947 events.
Several major motion pictures released before and after the Roswell anniversary
(The Rock with Sean Connery, Independence Day with Jeff Goldblum, Will Smith and
a cast of thousands, Men In Black with Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith again) as
well as some recent TV series (Dark Skies, The X-Files, etc.) have all
prominently featured or mentioned Roswell in the development of their
story-lines. A plethora of new books with Roswell in their titles hit the book
stores in time to try to cash in on the "Roswellmania" of 1997: Beyond Roswell,
UFO Crash at Roswell, The Roswell File, and with at least one, The Day After
Roswell, making it to the New York Times best-seller list.
Case Closed?
Now, a year-and-a-half after those heady days, one may justifiably ask, what has
become of Roswell? As the song sung by Peggy Lee laments, "Is that all there
is?" No longer on evening news broadcasts, is anything going on, or have things
reverted back to where they were prior to the anniversary?  That would be a
sleepy little desert town proudly proclaiming, "Howdy, from the Middle of
Nowhere!", according to one pre-anniversary post card. Hardly. In the town of
Roswell, it can be reported that new motels continue to spring up at a brisk
pace to handle the anticipated continuous stream of visitors to the
International UFO Museum there.
Roswell is now included as a "must-see" stop in most tour packages to New Mexico
and west Texas solely because of the alleged 1947 incident. At the UFO Museum
itself, besides its own tour office, a growing research library and a regular
schedule of lectures, the exhibits continue to be expanded and updated as new
information is developed, and plans for a new, multi-million-dollar facility on
the edge of town are moving along. Recently, the Museum welcomed its 500,000th
visitor.  More and more in the minds of the public, the mere mention of the
town�s name is becoming synonymous with UFOs. But what of the Roswell Incident
itself? Is it over, passe or, less likely, solved? Has the Fat Lady, because of
the continued absence of verified "hard evidence", coupled with the passage of
so many years, finally sung on this one?
Disappointment
In 1994 and 1995, the U.S. Air Force offered up its first official comments
concerning the Roswell Incident since Gen.  Roger Ramey held his infamous
afternoon press conference on July 8, 1947 during which he "emptied the Roswell
saucer" by contriving to "identify" the wreckage retrieved from the J.B.  Foster
Ranch near Corona, NM by W.W. "Mac" Brazel [which was later described by Maj.
Jesse A. Marcel as being, "not from this earth"] as nothing more than the
prosaic remnants of a neoprene rubber weather balloon and its attending
aluminum-foil, rawin-type, radar target.
This time, the Air Force finally admitted that their original weather balloon
story was wrong, that the wreckage was really that of a neoprene rubber weather
balloon and an aluminum-foil, rawin-type, radar target [yes, Sports Fans, you
read it correctly] used in a then TOP SECRET project (Project Mogul) which was
attempting to detect Soviet atomic bomb detonations by means of constant-level,
balloon-borne acoustic sensors. While the project was indeed TOP SECRET, the
mundane equipment used in it was not and was easily recognizable to military
people and civilians alike. In the end, the project was a failure as the first
Soviet atomic detonation was detected two years later in August of 1949 by
atmospheric chemical analysis - not by acoustics.
In 1997, right before the beginning of the festivities in Roswell (the timing
was no accident in our opinion), the Air Force staged a press conference
announcing the release of a follow-up report concerning the Roswell Incident
which was designed to try to counter the rumors of alien bodies reportedly found
at the alleged 1947 crash site [the 1994 and 1995 Air Force reports did not
address this issue at all].  They should have left well enough alone. By
claiming that stories of alien bodies were probably attributable to
high-altitude parachute tests using anthropomorphic mannequins (i.e., "dummies")
conducted by the Air Force ten years after the Roswell Incident, the Air Force
and their eager supporters lost a lot of credibility in the on- going debate.
Reporters present at the press conference were taken aback in amused disbelief
upon hearing this latest official "explanation" of Roswell, and the so-called
"Dummies from the Sky" hypothesis still evokes howls of derisive laughter from
both Roswell proponents and skeptics alike. Unfortunately, the long-anticipated
Government Accounting Office�s (GAO) report on Roswell, released in 1995, was
inconclusive.
Tasked by New Mexico Congressman Stephen Schiff to try to locate a "paper trail"
pertaining to the 1947 Roswell events to see if the documents relating to it
were properly handled and classified, it was only able to discover and report
that all of the documents from the Roswell base encompassing the time-frame of
the 1947 incident had been destroyed without apparent authority. With the death
of Congressman Schiff in early 1998, the case lost an important public advocate
in the halls of Congress, and the momentum gained for official involvement in
the case seemed to have waned.
Renewed Energy and Commitment
In the Spring of 1998, the two authors met for the first time in several years
and agreed on the need to continue an aggressive, proactive Roswell
investigation, especially now, with an increased sense of urgency since
witnesses seemed to be "dropping like flies" at what is now becoming an alarming
rate. At some point in the not too distant future, there will be no first-hand
witnesses left to interview. Even now, we are talking with an increasing number
of children and grand children of deceased principals. We also felt that the
case, as it currently stands, is still incomplete and probably not entirely
correct [and we are not talking here about Project Mogul which had and has
absolutely no bearing on the Roswell events of July, 1947].
Believing that there was yet more to learn about those long-ago events, the
authors agreed to collaborate and, as a result, made two research trips to New
Mexico in 1998, one in May and one in October, for the purpose of "mining" for
new witnesses and re-interviewing old witnesses. Contrary to finding a stale,
over-plowed landscape populated with well-worn paths and dry holes, we were
assuredly impressed by the number of new leads that we were able to obtain, as
well as some surprising new twists in the testimony of "old" witnesses. Right
now, we believe that we are on the verge of a new, or at least a modified,
Roswell timeline and in possession of more leads than we can ever hope to follow
in our lifetimes, given our present resources. The following is the authors�
first collaborative effort and represents our consensus as to where we believe
the Roswell investigation will be heading as we approach the new millennium.
The Search for Physical Evidence
No aspect of the Roswell investigation has been more frustrating and less
fruitful than the efforts of Roswell investigators to turn-up or, in some cases,
try to pry-loose "a piece" of irrefutable hard evidence with "out-of-this-world"
properties that can be traced back to the 1947 incident. Time and again, hopes
are raised only to be dashed when the alleged possessor of such an item cannot
or will not deliver at the moment of truth; or the claimed hard evidence turns
out to be a complete fiction (or, to be charitable, a "misunderstanding") when
the claim is investigated more closely; or when an artifact actually does get
into our hands, it turns out instead to be an exotic piece of jewelry [such an
example can now be seen adorning a wall at the UFO Museum in Roswell].
During the Roswell Anniversary Days of 1997, Derrell Sims and Paul Davids held
an all too brief news conference to offer up a piece of metal that they claimed
came from the Roswell crash via the all too familiar "unnamed source". They
claimed that tests had been performed on the artifact in question which
suggested an extraterrestrial origin for it and that, additionally, there were
other such pieces then being tested "at respected universities" throughout the
land which would no doubt also prove to be of extraterrestrial "etiology". Dr.
Roger Leir, a member of that team, assures us that ongoing tests have also
proved positive. Unfortunately, in the year-and-a-half since the press
conference, Paul Davids has yet to learn the identity of the "unnamed source".
Not good.
In 1996, paranormal radio talk show host, Art Bell, came into possession, again
from an anonymous source, of small bits and pieces of metal claimed to have come
from the Roswell crash.  Metallurgical tests were performed, and the bits and
pieces of metal, known collectively as "Arts Parts", seemed to be made mostly of
aluminum but with a dash of a few other trace metals for good measure. Is that
it? Where do things stand now? It�s been three years now. More tests? Anybody
heard? No follow through. Fade to black.
When Roswell researchers obtain a lead that involves claimed physical evidence,
all other leads automatically go to the back of the "queue" until the lead is
exhausted (unfortunately, usually as indicated above). However, we are confident
that such physical evidence is "out there" somewhere, and one of these days,
hopefully, sooner rather than later - more rather than less, our frustrations
will be rewarded. At present, our investigation is in possession of several such
leads that we hope will bear fruit:
1.	We are presently trying to enlist the cooperation of a first-hand witness who
claims to have actually held a piece of something similar to Frankie Rowe�s
"memory metal" in his hands within the past two years. We have gotten as far as
having the witness agree to meet with us personally to try to coordinate with
the owners of the artifact to let us examine it. It is quite conceivable that by
the time you are reading this we will be meeting with all parties concerned.
2.	We know of a retired MP (military policeman) whom we will call "Dutch" who
claims to have a piece of the Roswell wreckage stored in his attic for safe
keeping and who will supposedly give up the piece to civilian investigators when
he dies. But when we talked to him, although in his late 70�s, he sounded like
he was still in pretty good shape. How long do we sit around and wait and do
nothing? [and we are NOT remotely suggesting anything like a Kevorkian
intervention here, folks].
3.	We have spoken several times to a relative of a well-known Roswell personage
who claims to know of parties who have pieces of the Roswell crash material.
When pressed further, he identified one of them as none other than himself. When
asked for its provenance, he stated that it came, not from the craft, but from
"one of the bodies" from the crashed craft and that it is currently being
analyzed by degreed professionals in the appropriate forensic fields. He claims
that the artifact is not a tissue or fabric sample, but "something else". He
plans on going public with this and other Roswell-related "evidence" in his
possession in 1999. We shall see.
4.	There are several "proactive" steps that we are planning to take to try to
secure physical evidence originating from the 1947 Roswell crash. These are in
the formative stages at the moment as each requires resources outside the normal
resource-range of most Roswell investigators, including us.

The first project involves a full-scale archaeological "dig" at the
Foster/Brazel Ranch, site of the so-called "debris field". Everyone agrees that
something came down there in July, 1947 (even the Air Force agrees). The
argument, of course, is about just what came down. Archaeological consultants to
our investigation have told us that if pieces of whatever came down in Brazel�s
pasture on that fateful day had lain on the desert floor for even a period as
short as one day, there is an excellent chance that rodents of one sort or
another [the area is inhabited by prairie dogs and jack rabbits] would have
carried pieces of it into their nests. We know that whatever the debris was,
there were many, many small pieces of it scattered, according to Jesse Marcel,
over an area 3/4 mi. long by several hundred feet wide. We also know that the
material had lain on the desert floor for not one but for at least four days,
maybe longer, ample time for eclectic rodents to conduct their business. Having
been to the Brazel site several times, rodent holes as well as small sink holes
indeed are in evidence [see photos]. We are also encouraged to learn from our
archaeological consultants that what we seek (whatever it turns out to be)
should in all likelihood be waiting for us at a depth of no more than 18 inches
in soil that they term, "pack rat midden".
The second project is also located at the debris field site located on the
former Foster/Brazel Ranch. A half-dozen or so first-hand witnesses have
reported a long, fresh "gouge" or "skid marks" running for some distance amongst
the debris that wasn�t there prior to July, 1947 [the thought being that
whatever caused the debris also caused the "gouge"]. The "gouge" was reported to
have been visible at least for a few years after 1947 by several eye-witnesses,
including Bill Brazel, Jr. and Gen. Arthur Exon who flew over the site in 1949.
It is not visible today, having been filled-in by deposits laid down by wind
erosion, heavy summer rains and livestock traffic over the ensuing years, but we
know its former location from living eye-witnesses. We also know from geologists
with whom we have spoken that we may be able to obtain a "fingerprint" of the
former "gouge", if there ever was such a deformation of the landscape, by using
a device known as a "GPR" (Ground Penetrating Radar) which traverses the target
area and produces a readout or "fingerprint" of anomalies depending upon the
depth of the strata being diagnosed. Results from such a test would amount to
either positive or negative physical evidence, corroborating or not
corroborating this aspect of the Roswell Incident. The problem, of course, is
securing the use of a GPR instrument for our purposes. At present, we have an
offer from a national laboratory for the loan of such equipment and have had a
meeting with a major university to sponsor and participate in such a project.
The third project resulted from a "town meeting" that we held in Corona, NM in
October, 1998 seeking informants and/or information relating to the 1947
incident. One of the items to come out of the meeting was confirmation of a
story that we had heard before but could not "pin down", a story of a young
fellow who lived in the Corona area at the time named Fred Miller [he was killed
in Viet Nam in 1967]. Young Fred, according to friends of his, had somehow
obtained a number of pieces of the Roswell debris from one of the crash sites
and had shown pieces of it around to a number of locals [confirmed by surviving
eye-witnesses]. As told to us, a piece of the "memory metal" that Fred had in
his possession had somehow made its way to the senior prom one June night at
Corona High School a year or so after the incident [where, according to
eyewitnesses, it was passed around for amusement]. Word had it that Fred
"stashed" all of his Roswell material, as well as anything else he did not want
others to find - including some stolen or contraband items - in his "personal
cave". The problem was and still is that there are many, many caves in the
Corona area - too many and too dangerous (rattlesnakes like to set up shop in
them) to try to examine for our purposes. To cut to the chase, on our most
recent trip to New Mexico, we were able to identify "Miller�s Cave". Do we have
any brave spelunkers out there?
Deathbed Confessions
In courts of law, so-called "deathbed confessions" are accorded special weight
and consideration from other testimony because of the belief that when a person
knows that he or she is checking out for good, that person will want, in the
end, to have consciences cleared and truth to be his or her lasting legacy.
Perhaps the most significant "deathbed confession" to date in the Roswell
investigation has been that of the former Provost Marshal at the Roswell Base in
1947, Maj. Edwin Easley. When first interviewed by Roswell investigator, Kevin
Randle, all Easley would say was that he couldn�t discuss the Roswell Incident,
that he was still sworn to secrecy. Over and over, Easley would repeat that same
phrase to each question that Randle asked. Sometime thereafter, while on his
deathbed, he in fact confirmed to family members his participation in the
recovery of an extraterrestrial spacecraft and crew ["Ohhhhhh, the creatures!"].
Just before he passed away in 1994, former Roswell base adjutant in 1947, Maj.
Patrick Saunders, wrote on a copy of The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell
(1994) that he sent to the book�s authors, Kevin Randle and Don Schmitt, this
cathartic statement, "This is the truth, and I still haven�t told anyone".
As participants in the Roswell events of 1947 expire at an increasing rate, it
should be expected that we encounter more confessions of the "deathbed" variety
as time passes, and such is indeed the case. A woman whose husband was an MP
stationed at Roswell in 1947 relayed to us the information that her husband, on
his deathbed four years ago, "confessed" to guarding the perimeter - but not
picking up the debris - at the Foster/Brazel ranch site, while another woman
told us that her husband, during the last year of his life, in 1995, finally
told her of his involvement in the events. After seeing a show on TV that
featured the Roswell Incident, she at last asked him, "Well, Dear, is it true?"
He answered, "Well, I suppose that it�s time I should tell you. I�ve been
meaning to for a long time".
He had been a cook with the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell in 1947 and confirmed to
her that he was simply grabbed one day and told to report to Building #84 (a
hangar) on the base. He was given a gun and told to stand guard at the hangar
with other similarly confiscated base personnel. While on guard duty, he stole a
look inside the hangar long enough to see debris scattered about and "small
bodies" being prepared for shipment elsewhere. Asked if she believed her husband
when he told her this, the woman stated without hesitation or reservation,
"Absolutely, he was telling truth to me when he knew he didn�t have much
longer." In another case, the granddaughter of someone involved in the Roswell
events (at this point, we do not know in what capacity he was involved)
contacted us to say that her grandfather had just passed away and had left
"documents" pertaining to Roswell that would prove something extraordinary had
happened there in 1947.
As this is being written, we have been negotiating for several months to receive
copies of some of these alleged documents prior to making an expensive trip for
a personal interview and to review the originals. Finally, as this is written,
we are aware of a former officer who was stationed at Roswell in 1947 who is
terminal and knows it. He has told his family that he would like to make a
statement concerning Roswell but at a time of his own choosing. We have been in
touch with the family who has assured us that they will let us know when it is
time.
Reluctant Witnesses
To qualify as a "reluctant witness", one must be believed to possess information
about the Roswell events, either by being involved directly, tangentially, or by
being a relative of someone who was, or by other means, and refuse to discuss it
at all (e.g., by citing a security oath, or by giving what is believed to be
false and misleading statements). By far, the most famous (or infamous) of the
"reluctant witnesses" still out there - at least according to Roswell proponents
- is the former base Counter Intelligence Officer, Sheridan Cavitt, who
accompanied the 509th�s Intelligence Officer, Jesse Marcel, to the Foster/Brazel
ranch to observe and retrieve material that Marcel would later describe as
having an extraterrestrial origin.
In 1994, Cavitt confirmed his involvement in the Roswell Incident for the first
time to the Air Force�s Col. Richard Weaver at the same time he was still
denying his involvement to civilian Roswell investigators. Cavitt told Weaver
that what he saw on the Foster Ranch that day in 1947 were the immediately
recognizable remnants of a weather balloon and radar target which they retrieved
in short order. Cavitt�s account, therefore, is in conflict with those of other
credible eye-witnesses to the same events as well as with his own prior
statements of non-involvement.
The aforementioned Edwin Easley originally qualified as a "reluctant witness"
but then ceased to be so described when he gave up his defense of, "I can�t talk
about it.", and finally "came-clean". We currently have a number of such
witnesses still out there who refuse to talk, but for whom we can only hope that
they will someday relent and tell us what they know.
Such a witness is a former member of the 1395th Military Police Squadron
stationed at Roswell in 1947. When located living in Pennsylvania near one of
the co-authors, he confirmed that, yes, he was stationed at Roswell in 1947 and,
yes, he was indeed involved in recovery activities there ["You mean that thing
that crashed into the side of a hill? Yes, I was involved, but that�s all I�m
going to tell you."]. When asked why, he replied, "I�m retired military, and I
like things the way they are." End of conversation.
Another fellow�s name was passed along to us as a first-hand witness still
living in Roswell. According to our intermediary, he drove a truck on the base
in �47 when he drove right into the recovery activities at the hangar (Bldg.
#84). After seeing the debris and the bodies, he was grabbed, stood spread-eagle
against the wall and threatened with his life. When questioned in person, all he
will tell us today is that he does not want to talk about it. Asked if he would
ever consider talking about it, he replied that he wasn�t sure, but that he was
sure that he wasn�t ready to talk about it now.  Wonderful.
Still another fellow, a former MP stationed at Roswell in �47 (confirmed by the
base yearbook), gave us a preliminary statement one evening after a lecture
about being shown one of the recovered bodies. Later, when contacted by
telephone for a follow-up interview, he denied being the person we were seeking
(because of his peculiar voice inflections, we knew we had the right person).
Nice.
There is yet another witness, still living at the relatively young age of 58
years-old, whose identity is known to all Roswell investigators. He saw
everything and could solve this case for everyone tomorrow [and put all of us
out of our misery in the bargain]. The problem is: we know who he is and where
he is, but no one has interviewed him as yet. Not for lack of trying, however.
He has the knack of being able to "disappear" every time an investigator gets
near, so far with a 100% success rate. How long can his luck continue? We keep
trying and hoping and are open to suggestions.
Finally, we received an E-Mail from a gentleman who claimed that his wife is
friends with a woman whom she met when both worked at Walker AFB (formerly
Roswell Army Air Field) in Roswell in 1960. According to the gentleman, his wife
said that the woman told her that she had been a nurse stationed at Roswell AAF
in 1947 and was there "when the little bodies were brought in to the base
hospital". In a follow-up phone call to the gentleman and his wife, the wife
made it clear to us that her friend, who is still living, will deny everything
if ever confronted with this information. As things now stand, we only know the
alleged nurse�s first name and the name of the town in which she resides:
Frustration City.
New Witnesses, Old Witnesses and a New Crash Scenario
In addition to locating new witnesses to the Roswell events of 1947 [about 20 in
number and still counting], our investigation has made a special effort to keep
in touch with "old" witnesses, such as Bill Brazel, Jr., Walter Haut, Glenn
Dennis, Frank Kaufmann, Frank Joyce, Frankie Rowe and Jack Rodden, people who
have already gone on record with their stories. By revisiting their testimony
with them when we are in Roswell, we have been able to glean new bits of
information from them concerning those long ago events which, when combined with
the new information that we are developing from the "new" witnesses, is causing
us to reconsider some prior conclusions as to what occurred, where it occurred
and when it occurred. Without giving the store away here, a future article will
suggest a new Roswell crash sequence while answering the nagging question as to
why the military kept "Mac" Brazel in "custody" for so long.
The Smoking Gun?
Mention must be made here of a recent development in the case which is not a
result of our own investigation [although we are now participating - but more
about that at another time].  It concerns several photographs taken of General
Roger Maxwell Ramey in his Ft. Worth office on the afternoon of July 8, 1947 at
his hastily-convened press conference during which he announced to the world
that what was recovered on the J.B.  Foster Ranch the day before by the Roswell
AAF�s Intelligence Officer was "really" a misidentified weather balloon and an
aluminum-foil radar target [see discussion above under "Disappointment"].
It has been known by Roswell investigators for years that, in all of the Ramey
photographs that were taken that day, he is shown in each as kneeling on one
knee beside the remains of a decaying weather balloon and a ripped-up [but an
otherwise pristine, off-the-shelf] radar target strewn about the floor of his
office. In each photo, Gen. Ramey is shown holding what appears to be a teletype
message in his left hand as if it had just been given to him prior to the start
of his press conference.
In all but one of the Ramey photos (did he realize his mistake?), the hand-held
teletype appears to be blank, but in the one photo (the first one taken?) it is
obvious that, although somewhat crumpled in his hand, the memo appears to
contain writing. Under low magnification, it can be seen that individual
sentences are distinguishable from one another on the memo, but their
constituent letters or words cannot be made out [it is interesting to point out
that we had already attempted to interpret the text of the Ramey memo in 1990
when we requested Richard Haines to computer-analyze the photograph; but back
then, Dr. Haines was only able to identify a few individual letters].
Today, combining extreme magnification with the latest computer-enhanced
analytical techniques, several teams of photographic analysts remarkably claim
to have been able to "decipher" parts of sentences [i.e., actual words] on the
exposed portion of the Ramey teletype. While the teams are not in total
agreement at this time as to what the entire memo says [e.g., one team claims to
see the word "Magdalena", while someone else reads it as "Roswell"], a single,
glaring phrase is clear to all who have had an opportunity to view an enhanced
picture of the memo, and in our opinion constitutes a "smoking gun". There is no
dispute whatsoever that the phrase, ". . . victims [emphasis ours] of the wreck
 . . forwarded to Ft. Worth, Tex.", can be seen on the Ramey memo and, to us,
indicates that a weather balloon - Project Mogul or otherwise - was NOT what
crashed and was recovered at Roswell in July of 1947.
The memo, in our opinion, appears to have originated with Gen.  Ramey and
probably went to either Col. William Blanchard, commander of the 509th Bomb
Group based at Roswell which was under Ramey�s direct command or to higher
authorities in Washington, D.C. The apparent "Ft. Worth connection" is also
especially interesting to us now since a new source to our investigation had
been leading us in that direction before news of the Ramey memo analyses
surfaced.
What is needed now is for at least two independent investigations with no
affiliations to Roswell, Roswell witnesses or the various Roswell investigations
to conduct their own objective and impartial analyses of the Ramey photo/memo
and to publicly present their findings, whatever they may be. Interestingly, the
usual cast of Roswell debunking characters, including the U.S. Air Force [all of
whom accept the Project Mogul balloon "explanation" for Roswell], has, to date,
been strangely silent concerning the Ramey memo.
Who "in the know" back in 1947 could have ever imagined that Roger Ramey,
"point-man" for the Roswell coverup, might one day a half-century later have
unwittingly provided us with the key to unlock the door to the ultimate secret?
Oh, irony of ironies. Go figure.

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