the roswell exhibit
TRANSCRIPT
The Origins Museum Institute presents
The Roswell Exhibit
Introduction
There are no surviving artifacts whatsoever nor have any official documents yet been found which provide conclusive evidence to the public that anything extraordinary took place in the small, rural town of Roswell, New Mexico during the summer of 1947. However, detailed testimonials of numerous individuals who had first-hand knowledge of the events of that week of July, including eyewitnesses, number in the hundreds. Most of them claim that harassment by the military and murder threats to their entire families kept them silent for some 30 years until, one by one, witnesses finally began to come forward beginning in the late 1970s. Following the U.S. Air Force‟s tradition of employing ridicule, many authors seeking publication have attempted to discredit the testimony of virtually everyone who claims to have some knowledge of the event. In fact, the majority of witnesses are highly credible sources of information and were respected members of both the military and civilian communities at the time. This includes army ranks ranging from lieutenants to brigadier generals, law enforcement officers (including both the county sheriff and the first Director of the Central Intelligence Agency), firefighters, archaeologists, and even the town mortician. Because of their credibility, the Air Force has been obliged to modify its mundane explanation for this controversial event a number of times over the past 50 years in its attempts to bring the subject to closure. The official explanation is that a neoprene balloon, trailing an aluminum foil and balsa wood radar target, crashed in the New Mexico desert and during its retrieval by the military was initially mistaken by overzealous imaginations as a space ship piloted by a small crew of extraterrestrial beings. Foremost among those accused of giddy misjudgment was the Chief Intelligence Officer of the Roswell Army Air Field, the home of the world‟s first (and supremely top-secret) nuclear arsenal. Yet for all the embarrassment that he and his commanding officer supposedly brought upon the Army and Air Force by their rash actions, they were both rewarded with promotion throughout their subsequent military careers. From time to time official-looking documents verifying the extraterrestrial nature of the event have surfaced, but the provenance of any of those documents has invariably been untraceable, rendering them as decidedly suspicious but not necessarily factually worthless, thus providing substantial ammunition to both sides of the argument. Through liberal use of the Freedom of Information Act, countless professional and amateur researchers have exposed the government‟s self-documented history of the deliberate use of deception and exaggeration for the purpose of assuring the public that “flying saucers” and alien beings are strictly figments of our imagination. Like the ancient tales of elves and fairies, the “Roswell incident” has gradually
become embedded deep within the heart of popular American folklore, and its appeal has spread worldwide. Although legends inspire faith within the cultures who adopt them, they are by definition not required to be factually true. Because of this, the most prominent national chains of bookstores customarily offer books on this subject exclusively in their occult sections alongside popular publications about witchcraft and vampires, at a respectful distance from the American History section. Those who believe that an extraterrestrial space craft actually crashed near Roswell in 1947 do so quite fiercely. Likewise, those who are convinced that it did not happen can rarely be persuaded otherwise. The most prominent skeptics commonly subject those who disagree with them to rigorous character assassination while the more distinguished proponents seem to indulge in endless cloak-and-dagger games with fringe elements from the secretive and deliberately confusing intelligence community. Close examination of the events surrounding the crash reveals
disturbing facts far removed from rumor, second-or-third-hand sources,
crackpots, and mere legend. Of the dwindling number of surviving
witnesses to the event and its hasty cover-up, Walter Haut and Glenn
Dennis co-founded a museum in Roswell dedicated to the history of the
famous incident.
Persistent claims of a crashed flying saucer in the New Mexico desert near the town of Roswell during the summer of 1947 have long since found their way into American legend. Firsthand testimony by credible eyewitnesses, both military and civilian, has come to light after 50 years of silence, insisting that the legend is fact -- from the crash and subsequent alien autopsy of one of the alleged casualties to a dark and massive cover-up instituted by President Truman which many believe persists to this day. Large digital photographs on canvas, streaming slide shows of UFOs through the ages, a chilling diorama reconstruction, sculptures, replica artifacts, popular toys and models, and controversial government documents bring to life the famous incident and its participants from the initial discovery of the wreckage and its extraterrestrial crew to its current place at the height of American folklore. Whether you are a skeptic or you simply want to believe, this fascinating exhibition is sure to inform your point of view.
1. World War II Foo Fighters
Throughout the European and Pacific theaters of operation,
luminous aerial anomalies performing non-aggressive but seemingly
impossible maneuvers around airborne military aircraft were commonly
referred to as “foo fighters,” after a popular cartoon expression “where
there‟s foo there‟s fire.” Documented sightings of the mysterious
unidentified objects (such as this one following a Japanese bomber over
Manchuria in 1942), appeared as early as September 1941, as reported by
seamen on board a British troop ship in the Indian Ocean, and continued
up to the end of the war in 1945. Both the Allied and Axis forces believed
the phenomena to be advanced secret weapons developed by the enemy.
In December 1944, pilot Lt. Donald Meiers reported to the New York
Times that two balls of fire “picked me up recently at 700 feet and chased
me 20 miles down the Rhine Valley... We were going 260 miles an hour,
and the balls were keeping right up with us.” In 1953 a CIA-appointed
panel dismissed them as electrostatic phenomena.
2-3. Los Angeles Air Raid and Headlines 1942
On February 25, 1942 from 2:25 a.m. until 7:21 a.m. the following
day, a military air raid warning and emergency blackout were ordered in
Los Angeles, California. The 37th Coast Artillery Brigade lit up the night
sky with searchlights and unleashed a barrage of over 1,400 rounds of anti-
aircraft fire into the air for about an hour, resulting in civilian casualties as
well as the destruction of numerous homes and businesses by falling shells.
Witnessed by hundreds of thousands of residents, the target was a large,
clearly visible unknown aerial object which remained unharmed while
hovering motionlessly over the city throughout the entire artillery assault
before finally vanishing in the direction of Santa Monica.
The following day, Sec. Of the Navy Frank Knox in Washington D.C.
called the incident a false alarm and blamed it on “war nerves,”
occasioning accusations by the national press of censorship.
4-5. Atomic Bomb and the 509th Bomb Group
The United States entered World War II following the bombing of
the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, by the Japanese Navy on
December 7, 1941.
Quietly developed in top-secret programs, two bombs were
detonated by the United States in the skies over the cities of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki in August, 1945, which forced the immediate surrender of Japan,
thus ending the war and ushering in the “atomic age.”
Alongside the secret laboratories in Los Alamos and the Trinity test
site at White Sands Proving Grounds, both located in New Mexico, the
nearby Roswell Army Air Field was home to the most elite air transport
unit, known as the 509th
Bomb Group, the keepers and deliverers of the
only nuclear weapons in the world. Their skill at maintaining absolute
secrecy produced worldwide astonishment overnight upon the revelation of
the existence of such awesome technology.
6. Kenneth Arnold
Although reports of mysterious aerial phenomena are as old as recorded history, the age of flying saucers began in the summer of 1947 on Tuesday, June 24
th at 2:57 p.m.
In pursuit of a cash reward for locating a lost C-46 Marine
transport plane that had gone down somewhere in the Cascade
Mountains, Kenneth Arnold, a respected pilot and member of the Idaho
Search and Rescue Flyers, encountered a chain formation of 9 shining
objects approaching Mt. Rainier at a calculated speed of over 1,700
miles per hour. Brightly glowing with a blue-white light, they had
neither wings nor tails yet their capabilities were beyond those of any
aircraft known by Arnold.
Fearing that they might be Russian in origin, he immediately
reported the sighting describing the discs to the press as flying “like
saucers when you make them skip on a lake.” Throughout the following
weeks, over 800 “flying saucer” sightings were reported by the national
press.
7-8. Roswell Welcome Sign and Main Street 1947
Described as “west of lost and north of nowhere,” the small, quiet
town of Roswell, New Mexico, was destined to be revered as the
“mother icon” of popular UFO lore owing to an event that occurred in
1947 on July 4th
. Eyewitness accounts of the now famous Roswell
incident were first gathered and chronicled by authors Charles Berlitz
and William Moore. Their staunch detractors, Philip Klass and Karl
Korff, contend that their own investigations prove conclusively that
nothing out of the ordinary ever occurred in Roswell.
The alleged UFO crash site has been identified as a remote stretch
of desert in New Mexico near Roswell, Corona, or Socorro, which share
the same desolate wilderness.
One eyewitness, the Mother Superior of St. Mary‟s Hospital,
noted in her convent‟s records “a flaming object that came down in a
curve north of Roswell” shortly after midnight on Thursday, July 3,
during a thunderstorm. Fifty years later over 350 witnesses had come
forward since the story was first published in 1980.
9. William “Mack” Brazel
Northwest of Roswell, near Corona, the foreman of the Foster
Ranch, William “Mack” Brazel, saddled up his horse and rode out on
the morning of Thursday, July 3, to check for storm damage from the
night before. He encountered a field of debris “bigger than a football
field,” consisting of strange metallic fragments ( the apparent aftermath
of an explosion), looking “as though the grass got burnt as it came
down” and separating his frightened sheep from their watering place.
Used to gathering up fallen weather balloons, which were
customarily returned to Roswell Army Air Field, Brazel collected some
of the debris only to discover that it was as light as foil, yet he could
neither cut it with his knife nor burn it. The exotic litter also contained
rods inscribed with hieroglyphs.
Worried about his thirsty sheep, which were afraid to cross the
trail of wreckage, he rode off to call for a truck to haul off the debris,
and to show his curious discovery to his neighbors.
10. Floyd and Loretta Proctor
Floyd and Loretta Proctor, Brazel‟s nearest neighbors, were the
first to be shown some of the material from the wreckage. In a sworn
statement filed in 1991, Loretta declared that “it was extremely light in
weight. I had never seen anything like it before... it was very flexible
and wouldn‟t crush or burn.”
Declining Brazel‟s invitation to ride out to the crash site, the
couple told him to go report it to the authorities and informed him that
a reward of $5,000 was rumored to have been offered for a piece of a
flying saucer. Since none of them owned a telephone, the Proctors
encouraged Brazel to make the hot, 3-hour drive to Roswell in the event
that the foreign inscriptions he had seen were Japanese or Russian and
of interest to the military.
After a few days Brazel decided to take their advice and go see
the sheriff. Over forty years later Loretta was to recall that “the day
after Mack went to Roswell it made all the news. And then it was
hushed up real quick... whatever they told him down there, he wouldn‟t
talk about it.”
11. Sheriff George Wilcox
Around 11 a.m. on Sunday, July 6, Brazel appeared at the office
of the Chaves County Sheriff, George Wilcox, with samples of the
wreckage just as a call came in from Radio Station KGFL in search of
news. The sheriff handed over the phone to Brazel, who candidly
described his discovery. Then Wilcox placed a call to the 509th
Bomb
Group at the Roswell Army Air Field to inform them.
Just before her death, the sheriff‟s widow, Inez, told their
granddaughter, Barbara Dugger, that Wilcox “went out there to the site;
there was a big burned area and he saw the debris... there were four
„space beings.‟ Their heads were large. They wore suits like silk. One
of the ‘little men’ was alive...”
According to Inez Wilcox, the military police came to the
jailhouse and told George and her that “if we ever told anything about
the incident... our entire family would be killed!” Dugger recalled that
the event shocked her grandfather. “He never wanted to be sheriff after
that. Grandmother ran for sheriff and was defeated.”
12. Maj. Jesse Marcel (as a Lieutenant)
The elite 509
th Bomb Group‟s intelligence officer, Maj. Jesse
Marcel, responded immediately to Sheriff Wilcox‟s call for assistance in identifying the curious material that Brazel had brought in.
Once he and his commanding officer, Col. Blanchard, had
examined the bits of wreckage from the Foster Ranch, Marcel was
dispatched to accompany the rancher to the site and collect all of the
remaining debris. After spending the night at the ranch, at 7 a.m. on
Monday, July 7, Brazel rode out to the field on horseback while Marcel
and another officer took their vehicles, which they spent the entire day
loading.
Three years before his death, Marcel was to confirm that “it was
all evenly spread out, as if something had exploded in the air... I don‟t
know what it was... for no matter how often one crumpled it, it regained
its original shape again. I still believe that it was not a terrestrial object.
It came to the earth, but not from the earth...”
13. Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr. Eleven-year-old Jesse Marcel Jr. and his mother, Viaud, were in
bed asleep on Tuesday, July 8, when his father arrived home after
midnight. Maj. Marcel was so excited that he immediately woke his
wife and son. Unloading some of the crash debris from his car, they
spread it out on the kitchen floor in the hope of reassembling the
fragments, which Maj. Marcel knew would soon be classified.
Under hypnosis over 40 years later, Jesse Marcel Jr. (then a
physician, helicopter pilot, and veteran Flying Doctor in the National
Guard) was to recall his mother picking up one of the rods, a small I-
beam, and exclaiming, “There‟s writing on this.”
Maj. Marcel told Jesse Jr. that it was “a flying saucer” and
admonished him to remember it all his life. After returning it to the
car, he cautioned his wife and son not to say a word to anyone about
what they had just witnessed.
14-15. Restoration of Inscribed I-Beam From the Debris Field
In May, 1990, Dr. Jesse Marcel, Jr. was hypnotized by Prof. John
Watkins in the hope of liberating more details from Marcel‟s childhood
memories of the night that his father woke him up to show him pieces
“of a flying saucer.” While under hypnosis, Marcel drew a sketch of the
cryptic violet hieroglyphic-like symbols that he had seen on a small
metal I-beam from the wreckage when he was 11 years old.
Based on Dr. Marcel‟s specific recollections during his regression,
industrial designer Miller Johnson reproduced the artifact in 1995.
16. Col. William “Butch” Blanchard As Commander of the 509
th Bomb Group and the Roswell Army
Air Field, Col. Blanchard ordered the Provost Marshal, Maj. Easely, to
station MPs to cordon off the highway as far away as Corona, in order
to secure both the debris field and the separate crash site.
Having notified the Eighth Air Force Headquarters in Fort Worth,
Texas, what he had in his possession, Blanchard spent the day of
Monday, July 7, fielding a flood of long-distance commands (until the
calls finally choked his phone lines) while receiving a stream of
incoming Pentagon officials sent to oversee the retrieval operations in
both locations, under the strictest secrecy.
Col. Blanchard dictated an official release to the base Public
Information Officer, Lt. Haut, and directed him to personally deliver it
to the local newspapers and radio stations. He ordered Maj. Marcel to
fly to Fort Worth with some of the wreckage for Brig. Gen. Ramey‟s
inspection. Declaring himself on leave, Blanchard then left the base and
hurried out to the crash site.
17. Lt. Walter Haut
According to the base Public Information Officer, Lt. Walter
Haut, Col. Blanchard was very particular about everything being given
out “exactly as he had dictated.” He dutifully typed-up and hand-
delivered perhaps the most famous press release in history, announcing
that the Roswell Army Air Field had retrieved a crashed flying disc,
alerting the public to a situation that was about to be obscured by the
highest security level ever enforced.
When KGFL Radio announcer, Frank Joyce, read the prepared
statement he immediately phoned Haut to warn him, “you don‟t want to
send this out like this,” insisting that the Army would not allow it. But
Lt. Haut‟s orders had come directly from the Base Commander. Once
the local radio stations telegraphed the news to both the Associated
Press and United Press, the town was inundated with phone calls from
as far away as Hong Kong. Now retired, Walter Haut and Glenn Dennis
are co-founders of the highly-attended International UFO Museum and
Research Center in Roswell.
18-19. Roswell Daily Record Front Page Headlines
July 8 - July 9, 1947
20-21. Replica Vintage 1947 Radio and
Historic ABC Headline Broadcast with Photo of Pres. Truman
Despite the fact that by 8:30 pm EDT on July 8, 1947, Gen.
Ramey had already announced the official story regarding the Roswell
incident, identifying the crashed object as a weather balloon, at 10:00
that evening ABC News Radio in New York City broadcast Headline
Edition with Taylor Grant announcing instead the earlier story released
by the Associated Press at 5:30 pm, basically summarizing Lt. Haut‟s
original press release from Roswell Army Air Field, beginning with:
“The Army Air Forces has announced that a flying disc has been
found and is now in the possession of the Army.”
Information added to the original statement mentioned that “A
few moments ago, I talked to officials at Wright Field, and they declared
that they expect the so-called flying saucer to be delivered there, but
that it hasn't arrived as yet.”
This rare surviving recording was discovered by Mark Rodeghier,
Scientific Director for the Chicago-based Center for UFO Studies.
22. Frank Joyce
Having disappeared after guiding the military to the crash sites,
when Mack Brazel showed up at Radio Station KGFL on Wednesday,
July 9, he was accompanied by two officers. The story he related in
person to radio announcer, Frank Joyce (which was recorded), differed
so radically from the version Brazel had told him on the phone from
Sheriff Wilcox‟s office a few days earlier that it amounted to a
retraction. Brazel, who appeared visibly stressed, told Joyce that “it
would go very hard on him if he did not cooperate.”
When Joyce pressed the rancher about “the little green men,”
Brazel assured him that “they weren‟t green,” and left.
Joyce received a threatening call from Col. Johnson at the
Pentagon demanding to know who had authorized him to release such a
statement. Equally angry, Joyce asserted that he was a civilian and that
“there was nothing the Colonel could do.” Decades later he would still
remember the Colonel‟s chilly answer, “I‟ll show you what I can do.”
23. KGFL Roswell 1947 After Brazel left the station on Wednesday, July 9, military
officers confiscated every item on the premises connected with the
incident. The Associated Press correspondent in Santa Fe, Jud Dixon,
had the same intimidating experience. In Albuquerque, telex secretary
for KOAT Radio, Lydia Sleppy, was in the process of typing the
announcement of the Roswell Army Air Field‟s retrieval of a crashed
flying disc when the teletype machine interrupted her with an incoming
message from the FBI warning her to “immediately cease all
communication.”
KGFL Station Manager, Jud Roberts, and Walt Whitmore, an
owner of the station, received a barrage of calls from Washington D.C.,
including calls from Sen. Dennis Chavez and Sec. of
Telecommunications, T.J. Slowie, threatening to terminate the station‟s
license “in as quickly as 3 days,” if they broadcast their recorded
interview with Brazel. Succumbing to the pressure, Whitman, Roberts,
and Joyce had no choice but to scrap the controversial broadcast.
24. Walt Whitmore
Suspecting that a military coverup was in progress, KGFL
Radio‟s primary owner, Walt Whitmore, slipped Brazel away from the
MPs on July 8 and held the rancher incommunicado overnight at
Whitmore‟s own home. That evening a candid interview with Brazel
was recorded, apparently consistent with what he had first described on
the telephone to Joyce.
Early the following morning 2 MPs showed up at Whitmore‟s
house to escort Brazel down to the radio station to record his statement.
He would remain in the Army‟s custody until the middle of July.
Afterwards Brazel complained bitterly to his neighbors about his
mistreatment while being held prisoner. The Army had threatened him
with prison, repeatedly insisting that what he found was nothing more
than a fallen weather balloon. But Brazel‟s friends noted that the
rancher, who knew a weather balloon when he saw one, drove away
from Roswell in a new truck with enough cash to buy his family a new
house in nearby Tularosa as well as a new business in Las Cruces.
25. Grady “Barney” Barnett
Surveying in the desert north of the Foster Ranch on Thursday,
July 3, Barney Barnett, a civil engineer and federal soil conservationist,
stumbled upon the wreckage of a disc, according to his closest friends,
Vern and Jean Maltais. Seeing 4 dead bodies lying on the ground
nearby, he attempted to investigate. The victims were small with large
heads and thin arms and legs, and did not appear to be human.
Before long Barnett was joined by a group of curious university
archaeologists in search of precolumbian artifacts, who thought they
had discovered a plane crash. As they gathered for a closer look, a pair
of military officers drove up in a truck and took control, ordering them
away from the craft. Lining them up and harshly threatening each of
the civilians, the officers informed them of their patriotic duty to
remain silent about what they had seen.
Although Barnett‟s work was usually concentrated further west
near Socorro, there are records of an archaeological research team near
Roswell at that time.
26. Dan Dwyer (2nd from left) and fellow Roswell Firemen
The Roswell Fire Department was called out at night to put out a fire in the desert north of town. According to Frankie Rowe and Helen Cahill (both children at the time), their father, fireman Dan Dwyer, told them that “something had crashed that was not from this earth.” He described strange metal scattered about, along with two corpses and a survivor who “looked so lost and frightened that he felt sorry for it.” Resembling “a child, rather lean,” the little person had large black eyes and no hair at all. Later a policeman visiting the fire station showed the firemen and the children a piece of dull gray metal from the crash site which, “when wadded into a ball... would unfold itself.”
After that, some MPs appeared at the Dwyer‟s home. Dwyer and
his daughters were questioned and threatened with being taken out into
the desert and shot if they ever spoke about what they had seen.
27-28. Model and Lithograph of the Roswell Craft
Struck by lightning during a violent thunderstorm, as illustrated by artist T. Weddel, or disabled by the military‟s radar, the craft that reportedly exploded over the New Mexico desert before impacting a cliff was reconstructed by William Louis McDonald, a distinguished forensic investigator, military aviation expert, and conceptual designer for television and film. His reconstruction was based on detailed technical descriptions provided by Frank Kaufmann, a former paramilitary agent sent to Roswell in 1947 by Brig. Gen. Martin Scanlon of the U.S. Air Defense Command to assist with the retrieval operation.
Kaufmann‟s description of the craft as “heel-shaped” matches both
Kenneth Arnold‟s description of his Mt. Ranier sighting on June 24, 1947, and
the July 7th
photographs by William Rhodes. When found, the badly
damaged craft was still energized, the hexagonal cells lining its underside
glowing bright blue. Once depleted of energy, the cells turned “a dark
manganese brown.” Inside the wreckage and scattered around it Kaufmann
allegedly saw 4 dead crew members and a survivor “cowering” on a nearby
rock. In 1997 a popular 50th
Anniversary commemorative model kit was
issued by Testors.
29-31. Glenn Dennis, the Nurse, and his Reconstruction
of her Drawing
Glenn Dennis, a young mortician at the Ballard Funeral Home, received
a call from the base on July 8, inquiring about the number of small caskets
available and the possibility of hermetically sealing them. A second call
followed, asking about the preparation of bodies without damaging their
chemical contents with formaldehyde, for which the mortician recommended
the use of dry ice.
Hurrying to the base he was met by a young lieutenant who was a nurse
and a friend of his. She looked very upset and warned him to leave
immediately but two MPs came along and roughly escorted him off base.
Later he met with the nurse at the officer‟s club, where she drew him a
picture of one of the crash victims in whose autopsy she had assisted that day,
which was so gruesome that it had to be moved to a hangar. When Dennis
tried to contact her a few days later, he was told that she had been flown out
and her plane had gone down.
32. Autopsy of Extraterrestrial Biological Entity (EBE)
Dr. Jesse Johnson was the base pathologist at Roswell Army Air Field
on July 8, 1947, when the bodies of the dead extraterrestrials are believed to
have arrived at the base hospital. All who assisted with the examination were
sickened by the stench. After a preliminary examination in Roswell, the
cadavers were packed in dry ice and shipped in crates to Wright Field where
an official examination and autopsy took place, purportedly conducted by Dr.
Detlev Bronk of MJ-12.
Weighing about 40 pounds, with long limbs and a thin torso, the
creature was described as measuring between 3 and 4 feet, with a
disproportionately large head and eyes. The ears, nose, and mouth were
reduced to vestiges. The hands and feet had 4 digits, slightly webbed, with
talon-like nails. The skin, described as pinkish-grey in color and reptilian in
texture, reportedly exhibited a mesh-like structure under a microscope and a
liquid with no blood cells pervaded the body. Originally designed and created
by veteran special effects artist Steve Johnson for the Showtime film Roswell,
this sculpture faithfully reflects the detailed descriptions.
33-34. Capt. Oliver Wendell “Pappy” Henderson
and His Douglas C-54 Transport
While shopping with his wife, Sappho, in 1981, Capt. Henderson saw an
article about the Roswell incident in a tabloid newspaper. Deciding it was no
longer a secret, he immediately told his wife that everything in the article was
true, ending his 34 years of sworn silence. He told her that not only had he
seen the wreckage and 3 bodies of “small creatures” packed in dry ice in the
hangar, he was in fact the pilot who loaded them into his C-54 transport and
flew them to Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio, on Tuesday, July 8, 1947.
With a Top Secret access level, Henderson was a trusted veteran pilot of
clandestine missions in the Pacific. The delivery to Wright Field of the
wreckage and casualties from the Roswell crash has been confirmed by Brig.
Gen. Arthur Exon (former Commander of the base), who was stationed at the
Air Materiel Command Headquarters there as a Lt. Colonel at the time of
Henderson‟s mission.
35. Brig. Gen. Roger Ramey
Upon being notified by Col. Blanchard of the situation in Roswell, as
Commander of the 8th
Air Force (which included the 509th
Bomb Group) in
Fort Worth, Texas, Brig. Gen. Ramey ordered the wreckage brought directly
to him, then immediately contacted the Pentagon. The next day, Tuesday,
July 8, Jesse Marcel arrived with the cargo.
Although the press release issued that morning by Lt. Haut focused the
public‟s attention onto the debris from the Foster Ranch and away from any
hint of the separate crash site near Corona, it was decided at the highest
levels that the story would be killed for national security reasons. Gen.
Ramey‟s solution was to discredit the original Roswell sources.
Maj. Marcel was ordered by Ramey to pose for photographs beside
pieces of a weather balloon which, according to the General, Marcel had
honestly mistaken for a crashed disc, while Lt. Haut was to be portrayed as
having been caught up in the excitement of the moment to have issued such a
sensational press release.
36-37. Maj. Jesse Marcel with Weather Balloon Debris
After Maj. Marcel delivered the debris to Gen. Ramey‟s office, Ramey
led him away to the map room for a few moments. When they returned, the
material Marcel had brought was gone. In its place, a distressed weather
balloon had been spread across the floor. Reporter J. Bond Johnson, sent by
the Fort Worth Star Telegram newspaper, took 2 photographs of Marcel posed
with the substituted debris. Headlines around the world heralded the news
that the crashed disc was nothing more than a common weather balloon. The
Major, along with his entire elite unit, bore their humiliation and dutifully
kept their silence for over 30 years until Marcel, diagnosed with a terminal
illness, finally told his story to authors William Moore and Stanton Friedman
in 1978. Journalists subsequently exaggerating his military, professional, and
educational careers have led to his being unfairly discredited. Of all the
witnesses to the event, he remains the most reliable.
38-43. Brig. Gen. Roger Ramey with Col. Thomas DuBose
and Closeups of the Ramey Telegram
On July 8, Fort Worth Star Telegram reporter, J. Bond Johnson,
photographed Gen. Ramey and his chief of staff, Col. Thomas Jefferson
DuBose, posing with the substituted weather balloon and its aluminum foil
rawin radar reflector. Gen. Clements McMullen, Vice Commander of the
Strategic Air Command, had directed them to immediately forward the
Roswell cargo to him in Washington, D.C. Under strict orders from
McMullen to “put out the fire,” Ramey concocted the weather balloon story as
a way to dispel the interest of the press, according to Brig. Gen. DuBose (then
Colonel).
Despite their best efforts at maintaining secrecy, digitally magnified
closeups of the casually held telegram in Ramey‟s hand reveal ghostly words
and phrases, faintly recognizable as “victims of the wreck... forwarded... Ft.
Worth, Tex... the „disc‟... PR... weather balloons...”
44-49. The Majestic-12 Documents
On December 11, 1984, Hollywood film producer Jaime Shandera received an envelope
anonymously mailed to him from Albuquerque, containing an undeveloped roll of 35-mm film
snapshots revealing several pages of what many consider to be the most startling secret
document ever uncovered. Dated November 18, 1952, it appeared to be an official briefing of
President-elect Dwight Eisenhower, describing the U.S. military’s retrieval of a crashed disc
from the New Mexico desert and the government’s prescriptions for keeping it secret. The
security designation was Above Top Secret. Abnormalities in the typed format and an
apparently forged signature of Pres. Harry Truman on a memo mandating the operation suggest
that the controversial documents, if not authentic, might well be an expertly contrived hoax
released by the counterintelligence community at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque as part
of an unofficial release of information (or disinformation) closely following the death of the sole
surviving original member of the Majestic-12 group.
50. President Harry Truman with President-Elect Dwight Eisenhower
On July 26, 1947, Pres. Truman signed the National Security Act,
establishing the Dept. of Defense (restructured from the Dept. of War), the
CIA (restructured from the Central Intelligence Group), and the U.S. Air
Force as a separate branch of the military, newly independent of the Army.
His presidentially appointed National Security Council superceded the
publicly elected U.S. Congress and Senate as the primary deliberative
institution for “military, diplomatic, and resource problems.”
Supposedly overseeing the retrieval and scientific study of
extraterrestrial crafts and their occupants (dead or alive) was an elite
committee of 12 highly distinguished men appointed by Pres. Truman,
representing the country‟s military, intelligence, and scientific communities.
Including the first 4 Directors of Central Intelligence, the panel was allegedly
designated as operation Majestic-12, also known as MJ-12 and MAJIC.
51. Rear Adm. Roscoe Hillenkoetter (1897-
1982)
First Director of the CIA
(1947-1950), Adm. Hillenkoetter
warned the New York Times in
1960 that “it is time for the truth
to be brought out. Behind the
scenes high-ranking Air Force
officers are soberly concerned
about the UFOs. But through
official secrecy and ridicule,
many citizens are led to believe
the unknown flying objects are
nonsense. To hide the facts the
Air Force has silenced its
personnel. I urge immediate
Congressional action to reduce
the dangers from secrecy about
Unidentified Flying Objects.”
52. Dr. Vannevar Bush (1890-1974)
Throughout the war, Dr.
Bush served as scientific advisor
to Pres. Truman, as Chairman of
both the National Defense
Resources Commission and the
Office of Scientific Research and
Development. From 1939-1941
he was Chairman of the National
Advisory Committee on
Aeronautics which ultimately led
to the establishment of NASA.
Appointed in 1949 to the
Intelligence Services Board by
Def. Sec. James Forrestal, he
allegedly oversaw the ultra top
secret investigations of alien
technology.
53. Gen. Walter Beddell Smith (1895-1961)
Former Chief of Staff to
Gen. Eisenhower during the war
and U.S. Ambassador to the
Soviet Union from 1948-1949,
Gen. Smith purportedly
replaced Sec. Forrestal as
military coordinator for the
Majestic committee in 1950,
following Forrestal‟s unexpected
death.
As second Director of the
CIA, Smith served from 1950-
1953 until his appointment as
Undersecretary of State. His
handwritten letters to Gen.
George Marshall employ the
same atypical dating format as
the one that has been disputed in
the Majestic-12 documents.
54. Gen. Nathan Twining (1897-1982)
Commander of the U.S.
Army Air Force‟s Air Materiel
Command at Wright Field in
Dayton and allegedly in charge
of recovering crashed UFOs,
Gen. Twining canceled his
appointments and flights for the
week of July 10, 1947, and flew
first to Kirtland Air Force Base
in Albuquerque, then on to
Roswell Army Air Field.
According to Twining‟s
apologetic letter to J.E. Schaefer,
Vice President of Boeing, the
cancellation of his scheduled
visit to the Boeing factory was
“due to important and sudden
matters that developed here.”
55. Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg (1899-1954)
After serving as
Commander of the U.S. 9th
Air
Force in France and on the War
Department General Staff, Gen.
Vandenberg served as second
Director of Central Intelligence
Group from 1946-1947, at which
time he was appointed first as
Vice Chief of Staff of the Army
Air Force, then as Chief of Staff
of the newly independent U.S.
Air Force from 1948-1953.
Charged by the President
with the protection of U.S.
aerospace, his alleged other
duties were secretly extended to
the detection and tracking of
Unidentified Flying Objects.
56. Dr. Detlev Bronk (1897-1975)
President of the Academy
of Natural Sciences (1950-1968)
and Chairman of the National
Science Foundation (1956-1964),
in 1947 Dr. Bronk was
Chairman of the National
Research Council and serving on
the Medical Advisory Board of
the Atomic Energy Commission.
It was Bronk who
allegedly performed the
examination of the recovered
Roswell cadavers (which he
formally designated as EBEs, for
extraterrestrial biological
entities) and conducted the
investigation of the biological
functions and behavior of the
survivor.
57. Dr. Jerome Hunsaker (1886-1984)
Chairman of the National
Advisory Committee on
Aerospace from 1941-1956, Dr.
Hunsaker was the foremost
aeronautics expert in the U.S.
After studying wrecked
zeppelins in the first World War,
Hunsaker designed the first
American airship, the
Shenandoah, followed by the
first flying boat to cross the
Atlantic, the NC4. He served as
Chairman of the Department of
Mechanical and Aeronautical
Engineering at MIT from 1933-
1951. His service as “MJ-7”
purportedly involved the
evaluation of technology from
recovered UFOs.
58. Rear Adm. Sidney Souers (1892-1973)
A personal friend of Pres.
Truman‟s, Adm. Souers served
as first Director of Central
Intelligence Group before
handing over the post to Gen.
Vandenberg 5 months later.
From 1947-1950 Souers was
Executive Secretary of the
National Security Council,
established by the same Act of
Congress that separated the Air
Force from the Army and
created the CIA.
The Admiral‟s alleged
involvement with Majestic-12
was concerned with the
coordination of the group‟s
internal security.
59. Gordon Gray (1909-1982)
Assistant Secretary of the
Army in the newly-formed Dept.
of Defense from 1947-1949, Mr.
Gray subsequently served as
Secretary of the Army from
1949-1950, after which he
became Director of the CIA‟s
top secret Psychological Strategy
Board in 1951. Special Assistant
to the President for National
Security Affairs, Gray later
served as Chairman of the
Boards of Piedmont Publishing,
Triangle Broadcasting, and
Summit Communications. His
MJ-12 function was supposedly
propaganda-oriented, including
the trivializing of UFOs and
ridiculing of witnesses.
60. Dr. Donald Menzel (1901-1976)
As a professor of
astrophysics at Harvard from
1939-1971, Dr. Menzel served as
Chairman of the Dept. of
Astronomy from 1946-1949 and
as head of the Harvard
Observatory for Solar Research.
In 1951, Dr. Vannevar Bush was
advised “of Dr. Menzel‟s
complete clearance” by the Air
Force Central Loyalty Security
Board. Menzel‟s alleged
connection with MJ-12 involved
the use of his influential
authority within the scientific
community as the country‟s
foremost debunker of UFO
phenomena, which he insisted
always had a mundane
explanation.
61. Maj. Gen. Robert Montague (1899-1958)
From 1942-1946 Gen.
Montague was Artillery
Commander of the 83rd
Infantry
Division. At the time of the
Roswell crash in 1947 Montague
was Director of the Anti-Aircraft
and Guided Missiles Branch of
the Artillery School.
In July, 1947, Montague
became Commanding General of
the Atomic Energy
Commission‟s Sandia Base and
White Sands Proving Grounds
in New Mexico. As MJ-11, the
General allegedly served as
liaison for all contact with AEC
laboratories, including the top
secret Los Alamos.
62. Dr. Lloyd Berkner (1905-1967)
Having served as
Executive Secretary of the Joint
Research and Development
Board under Dr. Vannevar Bush
from 1946-1947, Dr. Berkner
pioneered the development of
radar, navigation systems, and
early warning systems. His
expertise in radio wave
transmission and geomagnetism
purportedly made him
instrumental to Majestic-12 for
the creation of the military‟s
security grid of the aerospace, as
well as in the understanding of
UFO propulsion systems. A
member of the CIA‟s advisory
Robertson Panel at the Pentagon,
Berkner was actively involved in
debunking efforts.
63. Sec. James Forrestal (1892-1949)
Following his service as Undersecretary of the Navy from 1945-1947,
James Forrestal was appointed by Pres. Truman to serve on his newly
established National Security Council as the nation‟s first Secretary of
Defense in July, 1947, just 2 weeks after the events in Roswell. He was
immediately charged with the reorganization of the military forces, resulting
in the establishment of the Air Force as a separate branch from the Army.
Having argued on behalf of warning Japan about the destructive power
of nuclear weapons before deploying them, Forrestal was prone to disagree
with Truman to the extent that on March 28, 1949, the President replaced him
with Sec. Louis Johnson. The following day Forrestal‟s mental health began
to deteriorate spectacularly. In a paranoid state and claiming that “they‟re
after me,” he was flown by friends to the U.S. Naval Hospital in Bethesda,
Maryland, where he was placed on the 16th
floor. His tragic fall from a
window near his room on May 22, 1949, although officially ruled as a suicide,
remains shrouded in controversy. Psychologically unable to cope with the
“Cosmic Top Secrets” entrusted to him, Forrestal was allegedly eliminated
and replaced as MJ-3 by Gen. Walter Beddell Smith.
64-66. Washington DC Air Raid and Headlines 1952
The wave of events following the Roswell crash included the appearance
of a massive formation of discs over Washington, D.C. on the successive
Saturday nights of July 19 and July 26, 1952. Witnessed by the city‟s
population, the incident set off an armed Air Force response with two F-94
night fighter planes.
Alarmed control tower radar operators at Washington National Airport,
Bolling Air Force Base, and Andrews Air Force Base, conferred by telephone
as they tracked the objects together, their coordinates indicating that the
formation (which had exhibited rapid accelerations in excess of 8,000 mph)
was cruising leisurely over the White House, the Capitol Building, and the
Pentagon.
The Air Force was obliged to hold its largest press conference since the
war, at which Maj. Gen. John Samford, Chief of Air Intelligence, explained
the rash of sightings as the result of a temperature inversion, the natural
meteorological phenomenon responsible for mirages. This ad hoc explanation
was rejected by every radar operator at the airport and the two Air Force
bases.
67. Area-51, Groom Dry Lake, Nevada
According to Master Sergeant Richard Doty, Special Agent in charge of
the Air Force Office of Investigations at Kirtland Air Force Base in
Albuquerque in 1981, “The government is investigating UFOs and knows that
they are of extraterrestrial origin.” The recovery of several discs that
crashed or were shot down reputedly led to the establishment in 1955 of a
secret location in Nevada for the study of their technology and the detention of
their captured crews. Isolated by mountain ranges in the remote Nellis Air
Force Range and Nuclear Test Site, the 3-mile long dry bed of Groom Lake
provided an ideal location for the world‟s largest secret testing area.
Over 180 buildings were constructed by 1980, as well as extensive
subterranean facilities where government-sanctioned research by
extraterrestrials on abducted humans and animals is purportedly ongoing, in
exchange for exclusive access by the U.S. military to their advanced
technology. Known as “Dreamland,” the skies above Area-51 have been filled
with so many spectacular UFOs that the once secret site (privately guarded by
Wackenhut Special Security) swiftly became a major tourist destination,
inspiring the State of Nevada to dedicate former Route 375 as the
“Extraterrestrial Highway.”
68-69. Area-51 Warning Sign and Model Spacecraft
According to Robert Lazar, built into the side of a mountain in the
isolated S-4 section of Area-51 in 1988-1989 were a series of camouflaged
hangars containing 9 different types of extraterrestrial spacecraft. Assigned
to work on the highly-classified reverse-engineering of a specific craft of small,
sleek design with a 52 foot diameter, which he dubbed the “Sport Model,”
Lazar was forbidden to venture into its upper chamber and only once allowed
a brief glimpse of the other vessels.
Its phenomenally advanced propulsion system was powered by a
compact anti-matter reactor about the size of a basketball which operated
without waste, fueled by the exotic Element 115, a strictly theoretical
substance according to science. He was called outside one night to watch the
craft rise 40 feet in the air and hover silently over the Nevada desert. Capable
of generating, amplifying, and directing the vector of an intense gravity field
powerful enough to distort the fabric of space and time, the craft was
designed for the instantaneous traversing of vast distances spanning many
light years, as well as for short- range aerial navigation. This classic model kit
was issued by Testors in 1994.
70-71. Robert Lazar and his W2
On April 6, 1989, Robert Lazar, a civilian physicist from the Los
Alamos Meson Physical Laboratory working at the isolated S-4 test site in
Area-51, was caught taking his friend, renowned aviator John Lear, to witness
the regular evening maneuvers of a flying disc over the top secret desert range,
a serious security violation that cost him his employment and his marriage.
After being threatened, followed, and shot at, he went public with his story on
K-LAS TV in Las Vegas. Lazar claimed that he worked on a “reverse-
engineering” project in a hangar containing 9 different types of
extraterrestrial spacecrafts, all “propelled by gravity amplifiers that were
fueled by antimatter reactors” with 100% efficiency, in a process that distorts
the space and time between the craft and its targeted destination.
Overnight Lazar‟s scientific credentials vanished, including all records
of his education at Caltech and MIT and his employment by the government.
Further discredited by his arrest on charges of pandering, Lazar pled no
contest to avoid a possible prison term, and received 3 years probation.
Addressed to Lazar‟s Nevada residence, his 1989 Tax Statement ultimately
confirmed his employment by the U.S. Dept. of Naval Intelligence.
72. Surviving Extraterrestrial Biological Entity (Nicknamed EBE-1)
and Hybrid Fetal Specimen
A member of the elite Naval unit, Seal Team Six, Derek Henessy was stationed at Area-51 in 1987, where he was acquainted with 4 underground levels beneath the mountainside hangars at S-4. The 2
nd level housed a fleet
of captured discs along with a row of tall glass cylinders containing the bodies of several identical EBEs suspended in a fluid. Soldiers were restricted from the 3
rd and 4
th levels altogether.
The survivor of the Roswell crash was allegedly taken to a secret
laboratory in Los Alamos where he remained in the care of an Air Force
officer. Described as being “like a child, which had the mind of a thousand
men,” EBE-1 (as he was called) revealed that his home was a desert planet in
the Zeta Reticuli star system, where they live pueblo-style in housing hewn
into the rocks and below the ground, and religiously believe that
reincarnation “is the motor of the universe.” Masters of physics and genetics,
the Reticulans claim to have been systematically manipulating the human
population‟s DNA for tens of thousands of years. On June 18, 1952, EBE-1
died of unknown causes.
73. Betty and Barney Hill
While driving home from Canada on the night of September 19, 1961, two civil rights activists, Barney Hill, a mail sorter, and his wife Betty, a social worker, pulled off the densely-wooded New Hampshire Route 3 to better observe an unusual, erratically-moving light in the sky. As it suddenly approached them, the Hills returned to their car and fled in terror. Once recovered from their momentary panic, they discovered that 2 hours of time were missing. Suffering from anxiety and recurring nightmares after the incident, they sought psychiatric help. Hypnotic regression revealed that during their missing time the Hills had turned down a side road where they encountered a group of extraterrestrials who abducted them.
Taken aboard a glowing “pancake-shaped” disc, the Hills were
subjected to painful, terrifying physical examinations. Betty was shown a
holographic map of the visitors‟ home star cluster, which she later reproduced
in a drawing. The Hills reported the incident to Pease Air Force Base and
filed a report with the National Investigations Committee on Aerial
Phenomena. Betty‟s controversial “star map” roughly resembles a cluster of
stars, unknown in 1961, near the Zeta Reticuli system.
74-80. Desktop of a UFO Investigator: Classified 1947 Rhodes Photos
and FBI Memorandum
Every day from June 25 to July 1, 1947, sightings of a flying disc were
reported throughout New Mexico. On July 7th
, in Phoenix, Arizona, William
Rhodes successfully photographed it with his box camera. When his photos of
a heel-shaped aerial disc appeared in the newspaper, The Arizona Republic,
the FBI showed up with “Lt. Col. Beam from the Air Force” to interrogate
Rhodes and confiscate the negatives. When he later attempted to retrieve
them, Rhodes was told that the FBI had no record of the incident. Despite the
bureau‟s official denial, their possession of the Rhodes photographs and their
serious interest in them have both been confirmed by a declassified FBI
memorandum.
Among the most popularly visited websites on the Internet are those
which offer photographs, both credible and fraudulent, of UFOs. Readily
available at numerous sites, this amateur timeline illustrates the long history
of UFO sightings.
Posters and Computer Slide Show
of Internet UFO Timeline
81-83. Fifteenth-Century Madonna and San Giovanni
and Details of Aerial Object This controversial 15
th Century Florentine masterpiece known as the
Madonna and Child with the Infant St. John, hangs in the Palazzo Vecchio in
Florence, Italy. Variously attributed to Jacopo del Sellaio, Sebastiano
Mainardi, Lorenzo di Credi, and the school of Filippo Lippi (1406-1469), the
painting employs traditional allegorical symbols widely found in medieval and
Renaissance religious iconography. Glorious apparitions in the sky were
standard features in depictions of the Nativity, Annunciation, and Crucifixion.
Observed by a shepherd and his dog from a distant hillside in the
background, the airborne object in the sky behind the Madonna, with its
leaden color, domed hatch, and radiant emanations, curiously resembles
modern depictions of a UFO. Clearly less a spiritual apparition than a metal
vessel, its surveillance of the Madonna is thoroughly apparent.
A number of other religious works of the period depict various classic
disc shapes as sacred celestial apparitions, suggesting that such phenomena
may have been around for a very long time.
84-97. Miniature Extraterrestrial Entities and Spacecraft
The widespread popularity of merchandise with alien themes, which some earnestly believe to be part of a gradual program of global indoctrination, is apparent in this series of miniature figures produced in 1998 by Shadowbox Collectibles for children ages 4 and older, which depict a variety of described extraterrestrial species and photographed spacecraft. Modeled after countless reported descriptions and sketches by witnesses from around the world, the ubiquitous “Grey” alien races of Zeta Reticuli include the Ancient Insectoids, the typical Greys, the Neonates, the Roswell aliens, and the alien Hybrids. Other species include the Reptilians, the Chupacabras, the Nordics, the Men in Black, and the Robots. Based on photographed examples, the 4 spacecrafts represent a Beam Craft, a Daylight Disc, a Scout Craft, and a Delta Craft. According to popular UFO lore, some
extraterrestrial groups appear to be in pursuit of more
benevolent agendas than others.
98. Computer Video Clips of UFOs and Audio Clips of
Historic Radio Broadcasts Video clips featuring 12 fascinating examples of footage filmed by
NASA include the famous Columbia STS-75 “Tether Incident” of 1996 and
the 1991 Discovery STS-48 “Star Wars” incident. An additional 20 clips of
classic UFO footage are also featured, from Phoenix to Japan and Mexico City.
Audio clips feature Kenneth Arnold‟s historic interview by Bill
Berquette on June 25, 1947; the July 10, 1947 ABC Radio broadcast of The
Walter Klernon Report: Search for Flying Saucers; the May, 1949 CBS Radio
Special Report with Edward R. Murrow: Case for the Flying Saucers; the Col.
Charles Halt recording of the 1980 Rendelsham Forest Encounter as it
happened; and a recording of the sound of a hovering UFO.
99. Bust of a Zeta Reticulan “Grey”
Recorded in cuneiform writing on sun-baked clay tablets as ancient as
civilization itself, the world‟s oldest-known literary documents refer to beings
“who came to Earth from the heavens.” The Nefilim of the Hebrew scriptures,
referred to in traditional Biblical English translations as “fallen angels,” were
said to have interbred with human wives. Sculpted icons of mysterious beings
with disproportionately large eyes were common throughout the ancient
Middle East as well as in Precolumbian Central America.
Tales of the little people, wee folk, gnomes, elves, and fairies of
European lore, are rife with child abductions and romantic (and thus genetic)
interference with human affairs. In addition to the famous feature known as
“The Face,” other anomalous structures photographed on the surface of Mars
in both hemispheres suggest to some the presence of an ancient pyramid-
building culture on the desolate planet.
The indigenous Dogon tribe of Africa has long claimed descent from
beings who journeyed to Earth from Zeta Reticuli, also identified by Betty
Hill and, allegedly, by EBE-1, as the home of the Greys, of whom one Roswell
witness was to eloquently observe, “I can‟t forget the expression on the faces
of the beings... as if they had found a deep peace in themselves.”
100. “Seeing Is Believing” Poster
Project Sign, the first high national priority Air Force intelligence
investigation of UFOs, was established in January, 1948, intent on disproving
any extraterrestrial connection. In February, 1949, the name was changed to
Project Grudge, under which an official public relations policy of ridicule was
instituted. In March, 1952, under Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt‟s direction, it was
upgraded to Project Blue Book, which began as a serious investigation but
within a year was reduced to a campaign of debunking UFOs. Joined in
October, 1966, by the University of Colorado UFO Project, chaired by physicist
Edward Condon, Project Bluebook’s closure was finally announced by Air
Force Sec. Robert Seamans, Jr. on December 17, 1969.
In response to a U.S. General Accounting Office inquiry initiated by
New Mexico Congressman Steven Schiff, the Air Force released a report by
Col. Richard Weaver in July, 1994, admitting that the weather balloon story
was indeed a false cover for the top-secret detection of Soviet nuclear
detonations by sensitive microphones borne aloft by common, high-altitude
weather balloons, known as Project Mogul, followed in 1995 by the publication
of the 800-page The Roswell Report: Fact vs Fiction in the New Mexico Desert,
and again in 1997 by The Roswell Report: Case Closed, which explained that
the bodies witnessed at the crash site were actually anthropomorphic test
dummies employed in the Air Force‟s high-altitude research but omitted the
fact that such testing did not begin until after 1953. Air Force Lt. Col. (Ret.)
Raymond Madson, the Project Officer for Project High Dive at Holloman Air
Force Base in Alamogordo, New Mexico, has denied that the crash dummies
were kept secret, and stated that a standing $25 reward was offered to local
residents for their return to the base.
Neither explanation by the Air Force matches the 1947 descriptions
either of the debris or of the childlike beings found at the impact site. The Air
Force has devoted over 50 years to debunking the Roswell “myth.”
copyright 2004 by Marty Martin
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