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From: Greg Long <greglong@PACIFICHARBOR.COM>
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 11:19:16 -0700
Fwd Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 11:13:49 -0400
Subject: -[For The Record]- P-1947: Death of Roswell

The Roswell case is now, in my mind, dead.

What was Roswell all about? It was the case to end all cases. It
was similar to those reports we used to get up through the
1980s--but no more--that there would soon be "revelations"
regarding UFOs from the US Government.

Such a revelation was announced during the Carter
Administration.

That "revelation" never came.

And so Roswell has now entered the long history of failed
revelations, failed "smoking gun" cases, the cases touted to
"blow it wide open."

If you recall, the Ed Walters lie was to be such a case, at
least, photographically. It, too, entered the trash heap of
history as just another hoax.

Roswell, at first--in its initial stages, with the first Schmitt
and Randle book--seemed promising. So many names, so many dates,
and supposedly, if one cocked his/her head the right way, one
could almost believe the "weather balloon" coverup story.

But, then, the second Schmitt and Randle book came out.

Now gray humanoids had entered the scene. Bodies! My God! And
the pieces of "crashed saucer" had been whisked away.

But, odd, every account, every report from UFO witnesses from
the 1947 area never mentions so-called "gray humanoids." In
fact, not until the mid-1960s and 1970s do the strange "grays"
enter the UFO scene. In fact, as one studies such documents as
Flying Saucer Review that has covered the UFO scene for decades,
interesting cases of small creatures with silvery suits and
glass helmets appear in the 1960s, sporting even oxygen
backpacks, quite reminiscent of images from the 1960s space
program and the 1969 moonwalk. Odd. But no grays with large,
black, sinister almond-shaped, slanted eyes in 1947.

Yet suddenly grays now infest the second Roswell book, The Truth
About the Crash at Roswell.

Quite clearly Schmitt and Randle, or their "witnesses," were now
"modernizing" the Roswell story.

Above all, ALL of Schmitt and Randle's witnesses offer no
concrete evidence of any crash at Roswell. One would think that
perhaps photographs of the crashed saucer, even photos of bits
and pieces of metal strewn on the ground, would be in their
possession. Perhaps, one photo would exist showing the military
cordoning off the crash site. Nothing. Perhaps there would be
documents, perhaps even one, demonstrating that something was
trucked from Roswell, then to Fort Worth, then to
Wright-Patterson--at least one document that was reliable. None.

And yet, proof exists of Project Mogul. Proof exists of certain
Mogul launches. Odd. They rose on air currents north, toward
Roswell. One vanished. Strange, could it have crashed near
Roswell?

Odd it was that Mac Brazel found balsa wood and dark-gray
neo-prene material. Strange. There were markings on wood. The
material looked like a flimsy weather balloon, or some type of
balloon material.

But no, this was an advanced alien alloy. In fact, material was
found that, when folded in the hand, miraculously folded back
into its original shape!

Incredible revelations! A balsa wood spaceship. Made, in part,
of tissue paper. And, no photos of the debris field. No photos
of military activity. No documents. But lots of "witnesses."

In 1997, I sat in the audience of a "Town Hall" television show
in Seattle. On the stage was Kal Korff and Kevin Randle to
"debate" Roswell. Months earlier it was revealed by an
enterprising reporter that Donald Schmitt, Randle's
co-researcher, had lied publicly about his education and
professional background. He wasn't formerly a police officer;
nor did he have a college degree.

After the rambling discourse ended and the show was over, Kathy
Andersen with MUFON, introduced me to Randle. She said, "This is
Greg Long. He's writing a book on Kenneth Arnold." Randle's face
instantly went hard and flat; a certain glare entered his eyes.
He said nothing. His behavior was odd. I couldn't quite
understand it. Was it because I had a brain?

Randle had been invited to join MUFON members and others
interested in the UFO subject to have a drink at a Seattle
hotel. As it turned out, a small entourage followed Randle
outside the studio. I was standing on the pavement near
Andersen; she had driven me to the studio, and she was my ride
back to her house where my car waited. She invited Randle to
join her and me in her car--she'd drive him to the hotel. Randle
shot a hard look at me, then at Andersen, and said, "No, thanks,
I'll join the others." And he caught another ride.

About a dozen people ended up at the hotel. Randle walked in. I
asked Randle a number of challenging questions. Among his
answers was that the material from a crashed UFO could be like
"a black box," so advanced that we might never be able to
understand it. I pictured in my mind the flimsy tissue paper,
balsa wood, and blackened plastic material. Clearly, Randle
should be investigating, not Roswell, but the government
conspiracy to hide the truth of Roswell; to find that "black
box." Yet, he didn't seem to be. I knew, in my mind, that he
couldn't. Because there was no government conspiracy.

Shortly, the subject of cattle mutilations came up; I asked
Randle his opinion. He said, in effect, that farmers are
ignorant people and that they are mistaking cattle that have
died of natural causes for mysterious mutilations. He said
something to the effect that farmers are stupid. I don't believe
Randle has ever investigated a mutilated cow.

Yet, I did read somewhere that Randle has written over 20 books,
if my memory serves me right, that have science fiction themes.

It dawned on me, "Greg, you are sitting in front of a science
fiction writer. You need to get a list of those books. Who is
Kevin Randle anyway?"

I thought back to an earlier meeting I had with Randle. It was
in Portland during a book signing for The Truth of the Crash at
Roswell. I approached him with a copy of the book and asked for
his autograph. Clearly, from his blank expression, it was a bit
of an imposition, I could tell. I asked him if he needed a copy
of Project Moon Dust documents. Stan Gordon had just secured
them on micofiche from the US State Department. I followed up
with my own FOIA, and I had just finished hours and hours of
printing them out at the local library. The mound of paper
stands one foot high. In none have I found reference to crashed
space ships, only crashed rocket boosters and satellites. Randle
looked at me with his hard eyes: "That? Our contacts already
have that." He swept away; a busy man with many things to do,
many media appearances to make.

About 10 minutes later, as he and Schmitt were signing books,
Schmitt and I struck up a conversation about balls of light. In
fact, Schmitt was quite interested in my work and had read my
book published by CUFOS. Randle interrupted our conversation:
"Stop talking! We have to sign books, we have money to make!"

I thought, Odd. Was this all just to make money?

Later, near July 4, 1997, I saw Randle on CNN. He was holding a
box from the Testor Corporation that held a model plastic
spaceship, I think designed from the "accounts" of what
"crashed" at Roswell. I thought, He's a science fiction writer.
He sells toys.

A day later I read an article that described the actions of a
woman who had traveled to the "actual" "crash scene" outside
Roswell. She picked up the soil at the site and wept.

And so Roswell has entered UFO history as the case that was to
"break it wide open," to "expose the truth," etc., etc. And now
it has come to two UFO museums in Roswell, T-shirts with gray
alien heads, and desert dirt.

A science fiction story? Yes, a compelling one. As I told Martin
Belderson of Four Winds Productions when he was shooting the
four-part UFO: Down to Earth series for Discovery, "It makes an
interesting story." His eyes brightened, "Yes, yes! It makes a
great story." Later, he proceeded to devastate the "story" in
the Discovery series, bringing it all down to earth: a crashed
Mogul balloon in the paranoid, fear-infested desert of early
post-war America.

Good bye, Roswell. Good-bye, Mr. Randle.



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Greg Long -- greglong@pacificharbor.com                        425-820-6978
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