On Sep 19, 4:11 pm, "Andrew W" <removethis_ajwer...@optushome.com.au>
wrote:
Two reasons why the Roswell crash could not have been a balloon.
1/ Balloons don't crash, they touch down. The official report was about the
crash of a sizable heavy object. In fact the original report, that is
before the military took control of the press, said that it was a vehicle.
2/ Balloons don't leave three quarter mile debris fields. More recently a
test was carried out using balloons to confirm this.
Well done. More proof:
THE ROSWELL UNDENIABLE TRUTHS by Donald Schmitt
Did an actual UFO crash outside of Roswell, New Mexico in July of
1947? At first the military announced to the public that they had
indeed recovered a flying disk on a remote ranch in the central region
of the state. Within five hours, they retracted the story and
identified the debris displayed in Brig. General Roger M. Ramey's
office at Fort Worth, Texas, as merely a downed weather balloon with
an attached radar reflector kite. The question, however, still
remains, which of the two announcements was the truth?
Until September of 1994 the Air Force has maintained that the balloon
explanation was the correct one. But now, we have a new official
story, or rather, a new official "theory". There were all too many
conflicting reports in the old version, so, due to pressure from
Congressman Steven Schiff, the Roswell books, the motion picture, and
our own unceasing use of the media to attack the credibility of the so-
called "cover-up", the Air Force admitted they "lied" about Roswell.
But all they succeeded in doing was to redesign the original balloon
story. Project Mogul, though classified at that time, was nonetheless
comprised of very conventional materials that even a child could have
recognized. And for that matter, Mogul, itself, was declassified
within days after Roswell when the Pentagon conducted a demonstration
for the press at White Sands. A photo of a Mogul array was even
published in the Alamogordo paper July 10, 1947. We are now asked to
believe that this is the purpose for the high-level security oaths
maintained by the patriotic members of the 509th atomic bomb unit even
up to their death beds. I can't emphasize enough, all for Neoprene
rubber, one-sided, reflective foil, wooden sticks, bailing twine, and
masking tape. And yes, the tape had hearts and flowers painted on it
which confused everyone all the way up to Ramey. That's what they are
asking us to accept all over again. Neither the witnesses or we are
convinced.
Through the course of our own investigation, we have amassed a
continuously growing number of over 500 witnesses associated with the
events who support the first account, that first claim of the flying
saucer recovery. And despite what the Air Force maintains is the truth
about Roswell, when the truth about the U. S. government's involvement
in other coverups continue to surface, Roswell remains shrouded in
secrecy.
And one thing also remains constant; what took place outside of
Roswell in the summer of 1947 was not caused by a weather device.
There are other constants, other truths which the Air Force refuses to
address. Let's review some of the major aspects of the now legendary
UFO crash at Roswell:
1. On Tuesday, July 8, 1947, the Roswell Army Air Field base commander
Col. William Blanchard announced the recovery of a flying saucer. The
press release itself, was orchestrated in Washington, D.C. as a
pretext to the pending balloon explanation.
2. That same day, at approximately 4:30 P.M. CST., Brig. General Roger
Ramey, the commander of the Eighth Air Force at Fort Worth, presented
the press a counter story; a Rawin target device (weather balloon with
radar reflective kite).
3. W. W. "Mac" Brazel, the ranch foreman who first discovered the
debris field, was detained by the military for seven days while
cleanup operations continued at the site. He was denied access to a
phone, given an Army physical, and subjected to rigorous questioning
and intimidation while under house arrest at the Roswell Army Air
Field.
4. Extreme security measures were exercised at both the ranch, and the
impact sites. Armed guards encircled the primary locations, a second
cordon was placed around the outer perimeter, riflemen were stationed
on the surrounding hills, and MPs posted on outlying roads.
5. Special unscheduled flights arrived from Washington, D.C., with
additional units arriving from White Sands in Alamogordo and Kirtland
in Albuquerque. Unscheduled flights from Roswell transported wreckage
or bodies to Fort Worth, Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio, Andrews in
Washington, D.C., and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
6. Senator Dennis Chavez of New Mexico, then chair of the Senate
Appropriations Committee, phoned Walt Whitmore Sr., owner of KGFL
Radio in Roswell, to strongly advise him to do as instructed by the
FCC in an earlier call and not broadcast a wire recorded interview
with Brazel.
7. On July 9, 1947, military officials toured news media offices in
Roswell, Albuquerque, and Santa Fe to retrieve copies of the original
press release sent out by Roswell Army Air Field that revealed the
Army had recovered a flying saucer. The interview with Mac Brazel was
also confiscated.
8. An FBI telax at 6:17 P.M. on July 8, 1947 out of the bureau office
in Dallas, Texas, first disputed General Ramey's announcement to the
press that the special flight transporting wreckage to Wright Field
had been canceled, as well as the new explanation of a balloon and
hexagonal radar target.
9. Multiple firsthand military and civilian witnesses who
independently witnessed the crash have verified the date and
approximate time of the event.
10. Multiple, independent firsthand military and civilian witnesses
have identified the location the impact and separate debris sites.
Their testimony coincides with each others.
11. Multiple firsthand military and civilian witnesses have given
similar descriptions regarding the size and shape of the crashed
vehicle. It was shaped more like a batwing than a flying saucer.
12. Over two dozen witnesses, both military and civilian sources,
agree to the unconventional characteristics of the debris. The
material could not be cut, burned, or even slightly damaged by
conventional means.
13. Multiple firsthand military and civilian witnesses have presented
testimony concerning the five, humanoid bodies recovered at the impact
site just 35 miles north of Roswell.
14. Finally, the most shocking revelation to date: the U.S. military
resorted to extreme measures such as physical threats against civilian
witnesses to insure their silence. Children were terrorized and
parents were warned that their children would be killed if they
repeated one word about the true nature of the crash and retrieval.
One confidential military source, now a civilian, has received
numerous death threats over the phone within the past three years
pertaining to his involvement at Roswell.
All of this over a MOGUL BALLOON? As long as there are firsthand
witnesses who continue to challenge the government's official new
theory, the door remains opened. I'd like to believe our efforts have
had something to do with that.
"The Roswell Report: Case Closed" 1997, Caplain James McAndrew,
Headquarters, Uruted States Air Force. 18$ from GPO. Reviewed by
Stanton Friedman.
This 231 page report is a fitting supplement to 'The Roswell Report:
Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert"-1995 by USAF Colonel
Richard Weaver, which is about 1000 pages long (no continuous
pagination) and was $52. Weaver certainly supplied the fiction. Both
are almost textbook examples of propaganda: Selective choice of data;
serious errors of omission; intentional acts of deception; and gross
inconsistency within different parts and with truth. My comments are
based on my investigation of the so called Roswell Incident which
began in 1978 with my conversation with Major Jesse Marcel. Major
Marcell was the intelligence Officer of the 509th composite Bomb
Group, stationed in 1947, at what was then known, before the USAF
became a separate portion of the Defense Department, as Roswell Army
Air Field.
I was the first talk to many of the key witnesses, and have written
numerous papers about Roswell. I also was a major contributor to the
first book "The Roswell Incident", was co-author (with Don Berliner)
of the 3rd book about Roswell "Crash at Corona", and sole author of
TOP SECRET/MAJIC. TOP SECRET/MAJIC is a detailed report of my
investigations of the Operation Majestic 12 documents, based on visits
to 15 Archives (now 17). I am convinced that some are genuine and the
most important classified documents ever leaked to the public. I had
been referred to Marcel by an old ham radio buddy of his who had seen
the original 1947 article, not, as falsely claimed by Weaver, by a
1978 National Enquirer article (which was actually published in 1980).
I have dealt in detail with some of the lies and misrepresentations of
Colonel Weaver in my September 26, 1994, 28 page paper "The Roswell
Incident, the USAF, and the New York Times" (included elsewhere in
this volume) and in TOP SECRET//MAJIC. The focus here will be on the
McAndrew opus. This volume clearly illustrates that there is much less
here than meets the eye. Many pictures of historic interest are
included. There is a 27 page list of notes, but still there are very
important omissions and misrepresentations. Many of the explanations
seem to be based on the idea that all witnesses are lying about just
about everything. I have elsewhere enunciated the basic rules for
debunkers: (A) Don't bother me with the facts, my mind is made up. (B)
What the public doesn't know, I am not going to tell them. (C) If one
can't attack the data, attack the people. (D) Do your research by
proclamation NOT by investigation. It is easier and nobody will know
the difference. Certainly Weaver earlier, and now McAndrew, have
followed these rules.
One must be curious as to why the USAF has come out with so many
different explanations and why there are so many "final claims" about
the Roswell crashed saucer story, 50 years later. On July 8, 1947, a
press release authorized by Colonel William Blanchard, Commander of
the 509th and of RAAF, stated that a flying disc had been recovered.
This was big news because there had been well over 1000 sightings in
the preceding two weeks of flying discs, or flying saucers, in at
least 44 states, several Canadian provinces, and a few other
countries. The release went out on the newswires at about noon New
Mexico time, too late for all the morning papers in the USA, but
making headlines in many Evening papers from Chicago west. A few
hours later General Roger Ramey, Blanchard's boss and head of the 8th
Air Force, based in Fort Worth, Texas, issued a statement (Explanation
2) that the wreckage, some of which had been brought to Fort Worth by
Major Marcel, on Blanchard's orders, was just that of a weather
balloon radar reflector. Ramey's chief of Staff, Colonel Thomas
Jefferson DuBose has, after 1980, made a sworn statement that he had
received a phone call from General Clements McMullen in Washington,
DC, Ramey's boss, telling him in no uncertain terms to cover up the
story. Ramey did so around 5PM, Texas time; this was too late for all
the US Newspapers, except for the Sunset edition of the Los Angeles
Evening Herald Examiner. The big headline, page wide, said "Army Finds
Flying Saucer." The smaller sub head said "General Believes It Is
Radar Weather Gadget".
The morning papers of July 9 had "Ramey Empties Roswell Saucer". That
same day the Air Materiel Command personnel at Alamogordo (NM) Army
Air Field and two other installations dutifully staged launches for
the press of weather balloons with radar reflectors. Leading to such
front page headlines on July 10 as "Fantasy of Flying Discs Explained
Here" in the Alamogordo Daily News. Also on July 9th the Roswell
Daily Record carried a front-page story "Harassed Rancher who located
'Saucer' Sorry He Told About It." This story has become the basis for
all USAF "explanations" since, despite the fact that there is
overwhelming evidence that it is a cover story with the rancher having
been fed it by the military to get the press off the Army AF's back.
It took until Sept.28, 1994, for the USAF to admit that they had lied
about the weather balloon explanation. They would not have said
anything at all, but they were concerned as to what the Final Report
of the General Accounting Office, about the sought after Roswell paper
trail, would say.
The new false explanation (number 3), and still champ, is that what
was recovered was a then supersecret Mogul Balloon train consisting of
93 weather balloons at 20 foot intervals interspersed with radar
reflectors, ballast containers and sonobuoys to listen for expected
Soviet nuclear explosions from a Mogul balloon train kept at a
constant altitude.
The article notes "a debris bundle consisting of tinfoil, paper, tape
and sticks making a bundle about 18 or 20 inches long and 7 or 8
inches thick with the rubber making a bundle 18-20 inches long and
about 8" thick. The entire lot would have weighed maybe 5 pounds.
There were letters on some of the parts, Considerable scotch tape and
some tape with flowers printed upon it had been used. No strings or
wires were found." The article also claims that the wreckage had been
found on June 14. And was scattered over an area of about 200 yards in
diameter.
My paper makes note of the many contradictions between what was in
this article and the truth. For example, the July 8 articles said
Brazel found the wreckage last week which could hardly be June 14,
though the latter matches an earlier balloon launch date. There are
many witnesses testifying to the fact that the original descriptions
of the material characteristics were altogether different and rule out
a balloon explanation; and that Brazel had been programmed to give out
a new story by the USAF who had taken him into custody. Books have
included supportive testimony given long before the Weaver lies were
published, by Brazel's son Bill, by Marcel's son Jesse Jr., by
Brazel's neighbor Loretta Proctor, by radio station manager Judd
Roberts, by Roswell reporter Frank Joyce. Funny thing is that all of
these people are still alive and not one of their names appears in the
index! The first three all actually handled material.
Considering that in 1947 it was a long haul over cross country ruts in
a field and dirt roads to Roswell from the Debris field, one has to
ask why would Marcel and Cavitt go back with Brazel when all this junk
could easily have fit in Brazel's old pick-up truck? There would have
been nothing to see when they went back. But Jesse described to me in
1978 an area strewn with wreckage and hundreds of yards long. And
there would be no reason to go back. No rancher would have left junk
like this for weeks for his sheep to ingest. Brazel had recovered 2
balloons earlier and is quoted in the article, (though the quote is
intentionally omitted in one of Weaver's misrepresentations). "I am
sure what I found was not any weather observation balloon." Marcel
stated.
McAndrew repeatedly uses the terms "UFO theorists" and "UFO
Proponents." The only way a careful reader would know that I am a
nuclear physicist and that Don Berliner, co-author of our book "Crash
at Corona" is an aviation and science writer, is that this is
mentioned in a newspaper article McAndrew includes from the Socorro,
NM, Defensor Chieftain, about our seeking new witnesses. He then
proceeds to lie about what happened when Don and I met with the 2
people who contacted us "Professor Charles B. Moore, a former US Army
Air Forces contract engineer, and Bernard D. Gildenberg. Retired
Holloman AFB Balloon Branch Physical Science Administrator and
Meteorologist. When they met with the authors their explanations that
some of the Air Force Projects they participated in were most likely
responsible for the incident, they were summarily dismissed. The
authors even went so far as to suggest that these distinguished
scientists were participants in a multifaceted government cover-up to
conceal the truth about the Roswell Incident. Do note the
qualifications given for the "good guys".
This is frankly horse manure. Don and I had very cordial separate
meetings with each. We did NOT dismiss them. When we discussed the
meetings later with each other, we did note that neither individual
seemed to know any more about what was observed then what was in the
July 9 "Harassed rancher" story and they both took the same approach
of trying to steer us away from a flying saucer explanation. Don and
I were both aware that Moore had himself had an excellent UFO
observation while using a theodolite tracking a balloon and in the
company of several experienced observers. This incident seems to be
ignored in all of Moore's subsequent testimony supporting standard
USAF anti-UFO propaganda. Standard tool of the propagandists is to
give glowing testimonials about the guys on their side of the question
and to use derogatory language with no mention of professional
qualification for the opponents.
A great deal of space is taken up with stories relating to the
supposed explanation for Gerald Anderson's and Glenn Dennis's
independent descriptions of a red haired SOB officer and a black
sergeant, out on the Plains of San Augustin for Anderson and at the
base hospital at RAAF both in July, 1947. But McAndrew never relates
how I was the first to hear of these descriptions independently a few
weeks apart. He never mentions the black sergeant, and brings in
another cover story character, the very distinguished pilot and
parachutist Captain Joseph W. Kittinger. A definite red head at the
time. McAndrew gives gory detail about an accident that happened with
a Balloon carrying Kittiner and others crashing near Roswell and the
wounded member being brought to the Base hospital. Of course, the
balloon had a ground escort which was on the scene quickly. Of course
this didn't happen in 1947 or 1948 or even 1949. It happened believe
it or not in 1959! The notion that Kittinger was the red head seen by
Anderson out on the Plains and/or the nasty security man seen by Glenn
Dennis at the hospital is absurd.
The other dummy drops all happened after 1953! In all cases the
dummies were comparable in size and weight to USAF pilots as the
pictures clearly show. The experiments would have been worthless if
the bodies were the size and weight of small child sized beings. There
is a picture of Retired USAF Lt. Colonel Raymond Madson. I met with
Madson in Albuquerque on September 10, 1997, because I had seen a
newspaper article quoting him as being one of the military people
heavily involved in the crash test dummy drops and saying there was no
way those dummies explained the alien bodies. He also was quoted as
saying that both he and his wife had heard independent stories of
small strange bodies having been brought into Wright Patterson Air
Force Base years earlier, while they worked there in the mid 1950s.
The colonel was adamant to me about the dummy explanation not making
any sense and about the stories about bodies at WPAFB being true. He
also stressed there was nothing classified about the crash test dummy
work. He did do some work connected with the U-2 project that was so
classified that his boss could not be told what he was doing!
It is interesting that McAndrew used the same map three times
"Anthropomorphic Dummy Launch and Landing Locations" p. 24,68,156.
They printed some of the interview with Gerald Anderson about his
experience in the Plains with the red headed officer, black sergeant
and 4 small bodies with 4 fingers big eyes, no real nose, or mouth or
ears, or hair. But there were no dummy launches or recoveries
anywhere near that location at any time no less in 1947. There were
none near the Brazel debris field either and neither Brazel nor Marcel
ever talked of bodies out there.
Frankly I was astonished when I watched in London, England, part of
the Televised press conference in which the Air Force, on June 24, put
forth this crash test dummy explanation with the little problem of the
time travel required to get the dummies back from 1953, at the
earliest, to 1947. One would almost think the air force balloon
people doing legitimate and important experiments were looking around
for a crashed saucer and making sure they didn't drop any dummies near
them.
Another disturbing feature of this report is the casual way in which
small selected snippets of witness interviews are used such as Barney
Barnett's niece, Alice Knight, and his friend Vern Maltais. No
mention of the testimony of Vern's wife, of Barnett's neighbor Harold
Baca, of Colonel Leed who had visited Barney and got his first hand
testimony about the crashed saucer in the Plains and the bodies next
to it and the intimidation of him by military personnel.
Many people, including numerous Journalists at the 50th Anniversary
celebration the following weeks in Roswell, have asked me why did the
USAF do this? Surely they would have known the public wouldn't accept
it. I think there were several reasons:
1. The Air Force has been lying about UFOs to the public, the press,
and Congress (as documented in TOP SECRET/MAJIC) for many decades and
gotten away with it. Why stop now? Lying works!
2. They really don't care what thinking people think of their
explanations. So long as the NY Times and the major media buy it, who
cares what the public thinks?
3. There was probably some pressure on the USAF as a result of Colonel
Weaver's silly remark that there need not be any consideration of
bodies since Mogul Balloons didn't carry bodies. One can imagine some
bigwig saying "surely we can do better than that", hence explanation
Four.
4. Perhaps some UFO proponent has infiltrated the Air Force and
suggested this utterly inappropriate approach in order to make the
USAF look silly…ant it worked!
Perhaps I should add that many media people in Roswell told me that
seeing the TV Press conference turned them on the Roswell story, not
off it. While I was signing books in Dayton, Ohio, and lecturing at a
conference in nearby Springfield in early September, several different
people quietly told me about hearing of strange bodies at nearby WPAFB
when they worked there. A number of the former Air Force and civilian
employees at the base in Roswell told me on Sept. 12, when I was the
speaker to their reunion group, that they just couldn't accept the
dummy explanation.
All things considered, the dummy explanation has probably done more
good for ufology than anything that has happened since the silly USAF
swamp gas explanation about sightings in Michigan in the mid 1960s.
What I would really like to do is a public debate (maybe with Larry
King or Ted Koppel as moderator) between myself together with a
professional scientist colleague, and Colonel Weaver and Captain
McAndrew. On June 27, 1997, the TV "Program Strange but True" held a
90 minute "debate" with Tim Good, Nick Pope, and myself, versus
professors of physics, astronomy, and psychology. The question was "Do
you believe Earth has been visited by aliens?" Call this number to
vote "yes" and this one to vote "no". Over 100,000 callers responded;
92% said YES. The studio audience of 300, voting prior to the program,
which included many interviews with pilots, astronauts, a cosmonaut,
debunkers and others, had only a 73% YES vote. Thank you Captain
McAndrew! - Stanton T. Freidman
Fifty Years Of Unanswered Questions by Donald Schmitt
********
How could an event such as a UFO crash in 1947 be kept a secret so
long? Surely the real story would have leaked before now, as has
seemingly happened to every government secret in the past twenty-five
years. President Nixon himself, with all his powers and resources,
wasn't able to prevent Woodward and Bernstein from uncovering the
Watergate conspiracy.
Secrets surely do leak but some secrets don't for long periods of
time. Consider these instances:
1) The F 1 17 Stealth fighter, aircraft, was developed in secret and
was flying at a time when the public was told the aircraft was still
on the drawing board.
2) Project Ultra, the Allied Word War II project that allowed us to
break the codes of the Germans and thereby hasten their defeat, was a
secret for almost forty years until revealed in the early 1980s.
3) Only recently have the numerous military accidents with nuclear
devices been disclosed, not because of a desire by the government to
admit the truth, but because of the dedicated probing of a civilian
organization.
So it is certainly true that the government can keep secrets, but to
what lengths are officials preparing to go to enact a cover-up?
Consider this one instance from an event that occurred during World
War II. The Boeing Airplane Company was then secretly developing the
B-29 bomber for the Army Air Force at its main plant near Seattle. On
February 18, 1943, a prototype B-29 caught on fire during a test
flight and crashed in Seattle onto a meat packing plant. The plane
actually passed over downtown Seattle during its rapid descent. All
members of the crew died, along with several employees of the plant
and some of the firemen who fought the blaze that engulfed the plane
and plant.
Thousands of people saw the plane coming down and the subsequent fire
and rescue efforts. Did the story of the crash of a secret aircraft go
out over the wires that same day, with accounts from these many
witnesses? Although it seems unlikely, the FBI succeeded in preventing
any but the most garbled information from leaking out. FBI agents went
so far as to intercept all copies of City Transit Weekly, an employee
newsletter that carried photos of the plane taken by a Seattle city
bus driver.
So the government does keep secrets, and it will take extreme measures
to protect those secrets in matters of national security. Could the
Roswell event have been sufficiently important to warrant such
treatment? We think so, and so must two men, one still living, whom we
have interviewed.
The Provost Marshal at the Roswell base, the equivalent of the chief
of police, was in charge of all security at the crash site in 1947.
When we located and then contacted him in late 1989, it was the first
time anyone had extensively questioned him about what had occurred.
The Provost Marshal did not tell us the weather balloon cover story,
nor did he give us a true account of the Roswell recovery. Instead, he
told us that he considered himself still sworn to secrecy about the
event -- after forty-three years!
The second fellow we interviewed was an agent in the Counter-
Intelligence Corps. He accompanied another intelligence officer on the
initial trip to the crash site and, we believe, wrote a report on the
incident for his superiors in Washington. At first, this intelligence
agent refused to admit that the event had occurred at all! There had
been no newspaper story, no fuss, not even the recovery of a weather
balloon. After much prodding, he was willing to admit that something
came down and was recovered, but that was as far as he would go. He
admits no personal involvement, even though other reliable sources
give him a central role. Now, he is considered the number one witness
for the Air Force, endorsing their Mogul balloon theory.
We admire how seriously these gentlemen took their oaths of secrecy
for almost fifty years, but we must raise this question: Why the need
to conceal the recovery of a weather balloon?
The government cover-up extends to the public records of the Air Force
UFO investigation as well. Those records were released in 1976, and
the file on Roswell contains but a single press clipping. No letters,
no notes, no investigative forms, no official weather balloon
explanation, nothing but that lone clipping. The file for the recovery
of an actual weather balloon in Circleville, Ohio, a week before the
Roswell event, contains far more documentation on its particulars.
Where is the material that should be in the Roswell file?
The evidence presented here, and that which will be shortly discussed
establishes that the Roswell crash was one of those events that had to
be kept secret by whatever means were necessary. Files and notes were
confiscated from reporters, 71 radio stations were warned not to air
stories, a phony story was concocted, and men were sworn to secrecy.
As you can well imagine, it has not been an easy task to reconstruct
what actually occurred in July of 1947. Many of the men (and the few
women) involved are now dead, and those living are quite old. Human
memory does not record events with complete accuracy, especially after
years have elapsed. As Kevin Tierney has explained in his book How to
Be A Witness, when someone has been asked to recount his memory of an
event several times, "For the most part what he says will be the same,
but there will generally be minor discrepancies between his
recollection on one occasion and the next." This is certainly true for
the accounts we have gathered concerning Roswell, and the natural
errors that creep into an individual's memory mean that some
inconsistencies exist in the testimony you will read. Nevertheless,
the general pattern of events we have recorded from essentially all
the witnesses does fit one consistent picture.
As those above the age of five at the time of President Kennedy's
assassination can relate, the moment when they first learned of that
gruesome event is permanently etched in their minds -- a snapshot
memory. Several of the Roswell witnesses have compared their memories
of the 1947 event to that of the assassination: the Roswell memories
are vivid and detailed, despite the passage of fifty years.
Government secrecy is not always something evil and unjustified. We
understand and support the practice of secrecy as it applies to
certain types of information. Some information should remain hidden,
such as nuclear firing codes, court records, police files, and
information about the intelligence agents working undercover, but
records documenting the recovery of a weather balloon hardly merit
such treatment.
What could have happened so long ago at Roswell to cause former
intelligence officers to abide by their oaths of secrecy today, even
though previous accounts of the recovery have been published and
broadcast? What kind of event required such high levels of security
that the intelligence officer who participated in the initial recovery
of the debris, and who was entrusted with the task of taking some of
the debris to higher levels of command, was not allowed to read the
written report upon his return. What caused the military to place the
ranch manager whom reported finding the debris under house arrest? Why
have the military records of men involved with the crash remains
disappeared? Why, indeed?
If the crash and retrieval of a UFO in New Mexico in 1947 actually
happened, shouldn't there be other reliable reports from other
reliable sources since then? The answer is yes, if the statement is
true. There should be many good, reliable reports from solid citizens,
from men and women whose credentials are impeccable. Men and women who
have nothing to gain by claiming they saw a flying saucer. And some of
those sightings should have been made by highly respected sources.
General Michael Rexrold said that he viewed Chester Lytle as one of
the great, unsung heroes of this country. Lytle was a key player in
the Manhattan Project and developed the radio commands that detonated
the first atomic bomb dropped on Japan.
In the years that followed, Lytle served in government designing and
engineering communication systems for the old Atomic Energy
Commission. The military called on him many times for secret projects
at different bases across the country.
Lytle is, therefore, one of those impeccable sources. Lytle said that
while he was on assignment at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in the
late 1950s, the base suddenly went on alert. Lytle and a number of
officers were escorted to a special radio room in the operations
building. Inside, while the military personnel worked, Lytle watched
an intercept on a small television monitor.
According to Lytle, one of the jet interceptors was equipped with a
television camera in the gun camera position. He was transmitting the
intercept to the operations radio room. In the clear daylight, Lytle
watched a smooth, metallic disk play cat and mouse with the lead
fighter. For a moment, Lytle thought he had to be watching some kind
of science fiction movie, but there was no doubt that the intercept
was real. Everyone around him acted as if the event was routine. Then,
suddenly, the UFO disappeared, leaving the interceptors far behind it.
Afterward, Lytle was told by the base commander that this type of
activity was a regular event, not only at Wright-Patterson, but at
other Air Force bases as well. In fact, over the years, Lytle had
heard numerous, similar accounts from both military officers and
governmental officials.
Today, Lytle, who is the president of a telecommunications company, is
adamant about what he knows to be the truth. What he witnessed defied
all conventional explanation. He faces the same problem that
researchers face - lack of physical evidence. While it is true that
all efforts by civilian researchers have yielded no tangible proof, it
is also true that Roswell demonstrates that the 'nuts and bolts'
evidence does exist. For the first time the 'smoking gun' has been
found. It has been documented.
With the Roswell case, the enigma of UFOs is no longer spurious or
abstruse. Answers, though known only by a select few, are still being
withheld. However, we can now, in total confidence and conviction,
direct the public to the undeniable source of the proof. Proof which
would enable us to finally lift the veil of secrecy that surrounds
Roswell. Put aside all political agenda, all preconceived opinions,
all bias, and consider the following:
* If the debris originated from a top secret test, why was there no
recovery or search operation under way until Brazel reported the
debris to Sheriff Wilcox two after the find? An aerial search over
open range and high desert would have taken only a few hours to locate
any downed object. This has been confirmed by retired military
officers, who were involved in actual search and rescue missions in
New Mexico. We, too, have flown private planes over the Brazel site.
Given that the debris field was three-quarters of a mile long, a
search and recovery team would have located it long before Brazel did.
* Weather balloons had fallen onto Brazel's ranch on a number of
occasions, and he turned them in for the rewards offered. In 1945, he
discovered the remains of a Japanese Balloon Bomb which he reported.
This time, however, he was angry because of the amount of debris. His
sheep would not cross the pasture because of the material. It is
interesting to note that weather balloons are still dropping on the
ranch. The current owners store them in an old silo. One large
balloon, about twenty feet in diameter, took one man two minutes to
retrieve it.
* After examining samples of the material, why did Brazel's neighbors
encourage him to report the crash as physical evidence of a flying
disk and not for the five dollar balloon reward?
* How did highly trained and experienced military officers, the elite
in their fields, mistake a conventional weather instrument for an
object they all, without exception, concluded to be an actual flying
disk? Those who believe that it was a special radar reflecting balloon
have said that the men, Blanchard, Marcel, and all the other officers
at Roswell were not familiar with the specialized equipment. Marcel,
however, had a radar interpretation officer assigned to his office. He
would have been able to recognize the balloon, even if the others were
fooled.
* What type of balloon could scatter debris over an area three-
quarters of a mile long and could make a 500 foot gouge in the tough
New Mexican soil of mostly shale and slate stone.
* What type of balloon would fill a 1942 Buick convertible, a jeep
carryall box, and then require fifty to sixty troops two days to
complete the cleanup?
* Why did the military check the site for possible radiation if the
downed object was nothing more than a common weather balloon?
* After he was found at the home of Walt Whitmore Sr. on the morning
of July 8, why was Brazel held in detention at the base for another
seven days? According to Brazel, he was not allowed to place any
outside calls, not even to his wife. He was also given a physical
examination. His family and neighbors remember that he later
complained how ahe had been asked the same questions over and over,
and that he described the experience by saying he "was in jail."
* Why the need for extreme security measures at the crash site of a
downed meteorological instrument? Measures such as: armed guards
surrounding the inner gouge area, another cordon around the perimeter,
riflemen posted on the surrounding hills, and MPs stationed on the
outlying roads.
* Why was Bud Payne, a hired hand at one of the neighboring ranches,
bodily removed from the Brazel ranch during the military occupation of
the site? As Payne was attempting to round up a stray cow, a military
jeep roared up to him and an MP physically forced him off the ranch.
* Why were there seven confirmed (possibly eight) flights to transport
the remains of a balloon? Most of the wreckage was flown out under
high security.