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From: James Bond Johnson <JBONJO@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 19:56:51 EST
Fwd Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 08:54:47 -0500
Subject: RPIT Roswell Revisitation Report No. 1


RPIT Roswell Revisitation Report No. 1

PRIMARY PURPOSE: The primary purpose of this RPIT Report No. 1
is to present the findings of RPIT (Roswell Photo Interpretation
Team) photo analysts after five-months of intensive study of the
Roswell "flying saucer" photos taken in the office of General
Ramey on July 8, 1947, and then to invite the assistance of
UFOlogists who are willing to seriously address this question:
"What can all this evidence really mean toward resolving the
half century old Riddle of Roswell?" Even though the RPIT group
at this juncture is only presenting this evidence and offering
no final conclusions, it would appear that this may be the most
convincing close-up visual evidence of arrival of an ET
spacecraft on earth.

BACKGROUND: In May of 1998 Major George Filer, USAF-Ret., an
official in the MUFON organization and publisher of "Filer's
Files", contacted a fellow military retiree, Colonel James Bond
Johnson, USA-Ret., to voice a special concern. Filer had been
phone visiting with the widow of Lt. Gen. Roger Ramey,
USAF-Ret., and she had expressed concerns over what she
described as unfair treatment of her late husband in connection
with his part in the Roswell Event of 1947. At issue is whether
the general committed fraud upon the American people by
announcing during a special live radio broadcast that the object
first identified officially by the then Army Air Forces as a
"captured flying saucer" was in fact "only a weather balloon and
weather device." A few writers had even accused the general of
"switching" the actual debris with fake junk prior to allowing a
member of the press to examine and photograph the purported
wreckage.

	Johnson, who on the afternoon of July 8, 1947, had taken
a series of photos of General Ramey and two other officers in
the general's 8th Air Force HQ offices in Fort Worth, Texas, for
his newspaper, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, offered to revisit
the matter. Johnson only recently had obtained an enlargement of
a photo of one of the officers, Major Jesse Marcel, intelligence
officer of the 509th Bombardment Group, stationed at Roswell,
NM. Major Marcel had headed a recovery team of the "flying
saucer" wreckage from a ranch near Roswell and had been ordered
to courier the debris to General Ramey's office for examination.
Marcel had just arrived in Fort Worth by B-29 bomber and was
photographed as the debris was being unpacked from meat wrapper
paper packages in Ramey's office. The general was away from his
office but expected to return shortly. Two unopened packages of
debris lying in clear view, Marcel's soiled flight uniform,
scruffy field boots and his tie and uniform cap tossed across a
nearby radiator on a blazing summer day in Texas point to a
"fast breaking" and unresolved situation.

Reporter-photographer Johnson had arrived unexpectedly to
provide the sole photo coverage of what has proved to be the
"Story of the Century!" Johnson first assisted with the debris
unpacking and then "posed" Marcel with what later was described
by the major as some of the "less impressive pieces" of the
wreckage. When General Ramey returned to his office Johnson
photographed him alone examining the pieces of wreckage and then
he was joined in other shots by Colonel Thomas J. Dubose,
Ramey's chief of staff.

	Of special interest, the general in each of the four
pictures taken of him by Johnson is holding a letter-size paper.
In the first two pictures the general has the message folded but
in the last two shots it is unfolded and in a position to be
read. It has been speculated that Ramey was handed an urgent
message as he entered his office and that if he first had read
the message he never would have permitted the photos to be made.
In support of this theory, shortly after Johnson departed the
Ramey office, the general ordered his weather officer to report
to his office and to identify the debris as a "weather balloon
and radar device." Then, the general personally went to a Fort
Worth radio station that same night to make his dramatic
announcement that "shot down" the earlier official AAF "flying
saucer" "capture" story. And the Roswell debris NEVER has been
seen since by any member of the media during the next 51 years!

	The five month study by RPIT has been done in a
completely "Sunshine" climate with frequent updates being made
to the UFO community and research results being posted
independently on their web pages by each RPIT analyst. All of
these RPIT member web sites are linked to the link page of <A
HREF="http://www.ufomind.com/people/j/johnsonj/">James Bond
Johnson.</A> None of the RPIT analysts have sought any financial
profit from their findings and also they have borne their own
expenses to date in advancing this project.

INVESTIGATIVE ACTIONS TAKEN: After the call from Filer, Johnson
first examined the Marcel photo he had obtained from the
University of Texas at Arlington Library, depository of four of
the original Ramey office photo negatives. He noticed what
seemed to be never before noticed anomalous objects and symbols
in the debris. He then contacted two members of the MUFON Orange
County to show them his findings and then placed on the Internet
an invitation for others to assist in "revisiting" the Ramey
office photos. Selected as charter members of RPIT (Roswell
Photo Interpretation Team) were three volunteers from the United
States and two from the UK. The Team has since been augmented by
other volunteers from Australia to the former USSR.  The only
things the Team shares in common is an interest in trying to
solve the Riddle of Roswell; they all possess a computer and the
required software for photo analysis. The team members at the
beginning of the project were mostly skeptics regarding any ET
connection to the Roswell Event.

RPIT members independently obtained enlargements of the Ramey
office photos directly from UTA and began their investigations
under coordination by Ronald Regehr, Los Angeles area aerospace
satellite engineer and MUFON Orange County associate director.
Initial Team findings concluded that none of the several Air
Force explanations as to the details of the Roswell Event could
have been accurate. The Air Force had claimed recently that the
Roswell "UFO" was "likely" an experimental Mogul balloon train.
RPIT has determined that:

1) There was NO Mogul launch that reasonably could have produced
the kinds of debris seen in the Ramey office photos.

2) The Ramey office photos contain NONE of the items that would
have been found in the wreckage of a Mogul balloon train: sheets
of plain aluminum foil with balsa wood stick frames and all held
together by several hundred feet of string; this all was then
lifted by inflated helium filled neoprene balloons. Neither the
instructions in English included with each Mogul balloon train
nor any other English writings -- or any other known language
writings -- are to be found in the Ramey office photos.

3) The RPIT initial discoveries also included:

(A) foil like material that is covered by organized symbols or
glyphs such as would be utilized in "writings". The symbols are
described as similar to ancient Egyptian glyphs but have not yet
been deciphered. Some symbols are found repetitively in various
parts of the photos, which would virtually eliminate the
"chance" factor;

(B) beams which have very prominent organized symbols or glyphs
embossed in bas relief along several beams in the wreckage;

(C) The beams appear to be hollow and fabricated from some type
of possibly ceramic material -- but NOT balsa wood as used in a
Mogul train! -- which has been formed and drilled in several
places; and,

(D) Numerous other anomalous objects that would NOT be found in
a Mogul train or any other weather balloon or Rawin device.

CONCLUSION: Please forward any comments and suggestions for
further research to any of the RPIT members, including:

Ronald Regehr, Project Coordinator
email: Ronald.Regehr@Aerojet.com

Marilyn Ruben, Photo Analyst
email: MJ Ruben@aol.com

Neil Morris, Photo Analyst
email: Neil@adm1.ph.man.ac.uk

Ben Field, Photo Analyst
email: Ben@abcfield.force9.co.uk

James Bond Johnson, Project Director
email: JBONJO@aol.com

Submitted: November 1, 1998