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It is surprising to me that the recovery of crashed saucers in southeastern New
Mexico in July 1947 is still a major bone of contention in 2008. I began the
civilian investigation of the so-called Roswell Incident back in the early
1970s ....
Sherrif Jim Valenti advising 'hiding-in-plain-sight' Alien-Human Hybrid Max Evans:
"Watch your speed! Arrive alive!"
Source: Roswell (TV Series - 1999-2002)
"Roswell (TV Series) is set in Roswell, New Mexico, site of the 1947 Unidentified
Flying Object [UFO] crash popularly known as ... the Roswell Incident.
"Four teenagers are depicted as aliens who appear to be human.
"Central to the plot are Max and Isabel Evans, Michael Guerin and Tess Harding,
who survived the Roswell crash to hatch from incubation pods in 1989, with the
appearance of six-year-old humans, but secretly aware of their true origins.
"The relationships between the extraterrestrials and their human companions are
a central theme, particularly between leading characters [Alien-Human Hybrid]
Max Evans and [the very Human] Liz Parker."
— Wikipedia (adapted)
Tagline:
Hey! Roswell is where it's at, as far as UFOs (even lemon ones that crashed),
Bug-eyed Greys, Alien-Human Hybrids, and Alien Autopsies go ... and, maybe,
love as well between Hybrids and Humans!
by Paul Quek, from Singapore
MAppSci (CompSci), BBA (Hons)
[Master of Applied Science, Computing Science]
[Bachelor of Business Administration, Honours]
Incept Date:
13 April 2009
Rev'd Date:
02 March 2010
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1.0 Preamble
This webpage examines the topic of the Roswell Incident ... Here is a set of video clips of the Roswell Incident, available from the
YouTube video hosting site ...
Title: The Roswell Incident pt1 to pt5 From: jordancorey Added: June 24, 2007 Info-Description: Listen to first hand witness's talking about what happened at Roswell in
1947
2.0 Notes
Here are some notes on the 'Roswell Incident', available from Wikipedia, that fantastic, free, user-editable online encyclopedia ...
Roswell UFO Incident
The Roswell UFO Incident involved the recovery of materials near Roswell, New Mexico, USA, on July 7,
1947, and since the late 1970s has become the subject of intense speculation,
rumor and questioning.
There are widely divergent views on what actually happened and passionate
debate about what evidence can be believed.
The United States military maintains that what was actually recovered was
debris from an experimental high-altitude surveillance balloon belonging to a
classified program named "Mogul."
Many UFO proponents maintain that a crashed alien craft and bodies were
recovered, and that the military engaged in a cover-up.
Tags: Roswell UFO alien space area 51 cover-up crash
Title: Roswell crash recovery film From: zarnat78 Added: November 30, 2007 Info-Description: Hi there! This is just some CGI fun on my favorite subject, UFOs! ...
Continues the Wikipedia posting (online entry) on the 'Roswell Incident' ...
The incident has turned into a widely known pop culture phenomenon, and
for some, Roswell is synonymous with UFOs.
It ranks as one of the most publicized and controversial UFO incidents ever.
Background
On July 8, 1947, the Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) issued a press release
stating that personnel from the field's 509th Bomb Group had recovered a
crashed "flying disc" from a ranch near Roswell, sparking intense media
interest.
(Source: YouTube)
Later the same day, the Commanding General of the Eighth Air Force stated that,
in fact, a weather balloon had been recovered by RAAF personnel, rather than a
"flying saucer."
A subsequent press conference was called, featuring debris said to be from the
crashed object that seemed to confirm the weather balloon description.
The case was quickly forgotten and almost completely ignored, even by UFO
researchers, for more than 30 years.
Then, in 1978, ufologist [and nuclear physicist] Stanton T. Friedman interviewed Major Jesse Marcel, who was involved with the original recovery of the debris in 1947. Marcel
expressed his belief that the military had covered up the recovery of an alien
spacecraft.
His story circulated through UFO circles, being featured in some UFO
documentaries at the time.
Product Description: If UFOS don't exist, then they can't crash. But something did crash near
Corona, a tiny town not far from Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. And that crash
has been dissected and debated ever since. Aviation/science writer Don Berliner
and nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman, the original civilian investigator of
the so-called Roswell incident, have delved into the controversy to find the
truth. They sifted through once-classified government documents, interviewed
military and civilian witnesses, pieced together evidence, considered
alternative theories, and concluded that a UFO crashed near
Corona — and the
U.S. government knew it and covered it up. "Crash at Corona" proves that what
was found in the New Mexico desert wasn't a weather balloon or a secret
weapon — it was a UFO.
Author: STANTON T. FRIEDMAN is a nuclear physicist who has worked for General
Electric, General Motors, Westinghouse, and other corporations. He is also the
author of "TOP SECRET/MAJIC" and has appeared on Larry King, Unsolved
Mysteries, and Nightline, and was involved with the documentaries "UFOs Are
Real" and "Flying Saucers Are Real."
Author: DON BERLINER has written more than 300 magazine articles and 25 books on
aviation history and space and was also a staff writer for the National
Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP). He is board chairman of
the non-profit Fund for UFO Research, Inc., and is a delegate to the UFO
Research Coalition.
Continues the Wikipedia posting (online entry) on the 'Roswell Incident' ...
In February 1980, The National Enquirer ran its own interview with Marcel, garnering national and worldwide attention
for the Roswell incident.
Additional witnesses and reports emerged over the following years. They added
significant new details, including claims of a large military operation
dedicated to recovering alien craft and aliens themselves, at as many as 11
crash sites, and alleged witness intimidation.
In 1989, former mortician Glenn Dennis put forth a detailed personal account, wherein he claimed that alien autopsies
were carried out at the Roswell base.
In response to these reports, and after congressional inquiries, the General
Accounting Office launched an inquiry and directed the Office of the Secretary
of the Air Force to conduct an internal investigation.
The result was summarized in two reports. The first, released in 1995,
concluded that the reported recovered material in 1947 was likely debris from a
secret government program called Project Mogul, which involved high altitude balloons meant to detect sound waves generated
by Soviet atomic bomb tests and ballistic missiles.
The second report, released in 1997, concluded that reports of recovered alien
bodies were likely a combination of: innocently transformed memories of
military accidents involving injured or killed personnel; innocently
transformed memories of the recovery of anthropomorphic dummies in military
programs like Project High Dive conducted in the 1950s; hoaxes perpetrated by
various witnesses and UFO proponents. The psychological effects of time
compression and confusion about when events occurred explained the discrepancy
with the years in question.
The comprehensive further examination of the so-called "Roswell Incident" found
no evidence whatsoever of flying saucers, space aliens, or sinister government
coverups. — Headquarters, U.S. Air Force The Roswell Report: Case Closed (1997)
These reports were dismissed by UFO proponents as being either disinformation
or simply implausible. However, significant numbers of UFO researchers discount
the probability that the incident had anything to do with aliens.
Contemporary accounts of materials found
On June 14, 1947 William "Mac" Brazel noticed some strange clusters of debris while working on the Foster homestead,
where he was foreman, some 30 miles north of Roswell. This exact date (or
"about three weeks" before July 8) is a point of contention but is repeated in
several initial accounts, in particular the stories that quote Brazel and in a
telex sent a few hours after the story broke quoting Sheriff George Wilcox (who Brazel first contacted). However, the initial press release from the
Roswell Army Air Field said the find was "sometime last week," suggesting
Brazel found the debris in early July.
Brazel told the Roswell Daily Record that he and his son saw a "large area of bright wreckage made up of rubber
strips, tinfoil, a rather tough paper and sticks." He paid little attention to
it but returned on July 4 with his son, wife and daughter to gather up the
material.
Some accounts have described Brazel as having gathered some of the material
earlier, rolling it together and stashing it under some brush. The next day,
Brazel heard reports about "flying discs" and wondered if that was what he had
picked up.
On July 7, Brazel saw Sheriff Wilcox and "whispered kinda confidential like"
that he may have found a flying disc.
Another account quotes Wilcox as saying that Brazel reported the object on July
6.
Sheriff Wilcox called Roswell Army Air Field. Major Jesse Marcel and a "man in plainclothes" accompanied Brazel back to the ranch where more
pieces were picked up. "[We] spent a couple of hours Monday afternoon [July 7]
looking for any more parts of the weather device", said Marcel. "We found a few
more patches of tinfoil and rubber." They then attempted to reassemble the
object, but Brazel said they could not. Marcel took the debris to Roswell Army
Air Field the next morning.
As described in the July 9, 1947, edition of the Roswell Daily Record,
The balloon which held it up, if that was how it worked, must have been 12
feet long, [Brazel] felt, measuring the distance by the size of the room in
which he sat. The rubber was smoky gray in color and scattered over an area
about 200 yards in diameter. When the debris was gathered up, the tinfoil,
paper, tape, and sticks made a bundle about three feet long and 7 or 8 inches
thick, while the rubber made a bundle about 18 or 20 inches long and about 8
inches thick. In all, he estimated, the entire lot would have weighed maybe
five pounds. There was no sign of any metal in the area which might have been
used for an engine, and no sign of any propellers of any kind, although at
least one paper fin had been glued onto some of the tinfoil. There were no
words to be found anywhere on the instrument, although there were letters on
some of the parts. Considerable Scotch tape and some tape with flowers printed
upon it had been used in the construction. No strings or wires were to be found
but there were some eyelets in the paper to indicate that some sort of
attachment may have been used.
A telex sent to an FBI office from their office in Dallas, Texas, quoted a
major from the Eighth Air Force on July 8:
THE DISC IS HEXAGONAL IN SHAPE AND WAS SUSPENDED FROM A BALLON [sic] BY CABLE,
WHICH BALLON [sic] WAS APPROXIMATELY TWENTY FEET IN DIAMETER. MAJOR CURTAN
FURTHER ADVISED THAT THE OBJECT FOUND RESEMBLES A HIGH ALTITUDE WEATHER BALLOON
WITH A RADAR REFLECTOR, BUT THAT TELEPHONIC CONVERSATION BETWEEN THEIR OFFICE
AND WRIGHT FIELD HAD NOT [unintelligible] BORNE OUT THIS BELIEF.
News reports
Early on Tuesday, July 8, the Roswell Army Air Field issued a press release
which was immediately picked up by numerous news outlets:
The many rumors regarding the flying disc became a reality yesterday when the
intelligence office of the 509th Bomb group of the Eighth Air Force, Roswell
Army Air Field, was fortunate enough to gain possession of a disc through the
cooperation of one of the local ranchers and the sheriff's office of Chaves
County. The flying object landed on a ranch near Roswell sometime last week.
Not having phone facilities, the rancher stored the disc until such time as he
was able to contact the sheriff's office, who in turn notified Maj. Jesse A. Marcel of the 509th Bomb Group Intelligence Office. Action was immediately taken and
the disc was picked up at the rancher's home. It was inspected at the Roswell
Army Air Field and subsequently loaned by Major Marcel to higher headquarters.
Colonel William H. Blanchard, commanding officer of the 509th, contacted General Roger M. Ramey of the Eighth Air Force in Fort Worth, Texas, and Ramey ordered the object be
flown to Fort Worth Army Air Field. At the base, Warrant Officer Irving Newton confirmed Ramey's preliminary opinion, identifying the object as being a
weather balloon and its "kite", a nickname for a radar reflector used to track
the balloons from the ground. Another news release was issued, this time from
the Fort Worth base, describing the object as being a "weather balloon."
In Fort Worth, several news photographs were taken that day of debris said to
be from the object. The debris was consistent with the general description of a
weather balloon with a kite. Ramey, Col. Thomas J. Dubose and Marcel all posed with the debris. Brazel, in interviews that day with the Roswell Daily Record and Associated Press, dismissed the military's "weather balloon" assertion. Citing several other
weather balloons he had recovered previously on the ranch, he said: "I am sure
what I found was not any weather balloon."
Alien accounts emerge
New witness accounts and the emergence of alien narratives
In 1978, former nuclear physicist and author Stanton T. Friedman interviewed Jesse Marcel, the only person known to have accompanied the Roswell debris from where it
was recovered to Fort Worth. Over the next few years, the accounts he and
others gave elevated Roswell from a forgotten incident to perhaps the most
famous UFO case of all time.
By the early 1990s, UFO researchers such as Friedman, William Moore, Karl T. Pflock, and the team of Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt had interviewed several hundred people who had, or claimed to have had, a
connection with the events at Roswell in 1947.
Additionally, hundreds of documents were obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests, as were some apparently leaked by insiders, such as the disputed "Majestic 12" documents.
Their conclusions were that at least one alien craft had crashed in the Roswell
vicinity, that aliens, some possibly still alive, were recovered, and that a
massive cover-up of any knowledge of the incident was put in place.
[Stanton] Friedman, a nuclear physicist and noted "UFOlogist" ( Crash at Corona: The U.S. Military Retrieval and Cover-Up of a UFO (The Definitve Study of the Roswell Incident), Marlowe, 1994 ), examines the documentary evidence for the existence of a
clandestine government group called "Majestic-12" (sometimes shortened to
"MJ-12" or "Majic"), supposedly formed in 1947 to deal with the remains of a
crashed flying saucer near Roswell, New Mexico. The U.S. government has
consistently denied there ever was such an incident or group. Friedman attempts
to authenticate purported MJ-12 documents that mysteriously appeared in 1984
and 1994. He also refutes arguments by debunkers such as Carl Sagan and Phillip
Klass and criticizes the findings in Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt's
recent The Truth About the UFO Crash in Roswell (LJ 6/1/94). Included here for the first time is part of a 1984 "Special
Operations Manual" for the recovery and disposal of extraterrestrial entities
and technology. If authenticated, it would lend credence to Friedman's belief
in a governmental cover-up he terms a "cosmic Watergate." While this book is
speculative to some degree, Friedman operates mostly as a scientist, carefully
weighing all evidence before coming to a conclusion. Recommended for public and
academic libraries. — Gary D. Barber (1996)
SUNY at Fredonia Library
Numerous books, articles, television specials and even a made-for-TV movie
brought the 1947 incident fame and notoriety so that by the mid-1990s, strong
majorities in polls, such as a 1997 CNN/Time poll, believed that aliens had visited earth and specifically that aliens had
landed at Roswell and the government was covering up the fact.
Roswell. This is not just the name of a small New Mexico town. For many, it is a word
that taps into a deep-seated will to believe and evokes thrilling images. A
flying saucer crashes in the desert southwest in the summer of 1947, killing
its extraterrestrial crew. The U.S. military swiftly recovers the saucer and
bodies and wraps them in a cloak of cover stories, witness intimidation, and
super-secret research. There are hundreds of witnesses. There are highly
classified confirming documents. There are heart-wrenching stories of terror at
the hands of government agents. Everything has been repeated over and over
again on the television, in hit films, and in the press. — Karl T. Pflock Roswell: Inconvenient Facts and the Will to Believe
(Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York: 2001)
Just when it seems the market cannot bear another book on crashed UFOs at
Rockwell (sic), New Mexico, another book finds its way to publication, but this one [ Roswell: Inconvenient Facts and the Will to Believe ] will definitely need a place on the shelf. Pflock, a former Defense
Department official and CIA intelligence officer, presents a well-argued,
well-written, well-documented, and well-illustrated case against the 1947 crash
being that of an alien spacecraft. His approach is more tempered than those of
other skeptics, including Kal Korff ( The Roswell UFO Crash: What They Don't Want You to Know, 1997 ) and Philip J. Klass ( The Real Roswell Crashed-Saucer Coverup, 1997 ). Step by step, he identifies the weak points in supporters'
arguments, picks apart ambiguous evidence, reexamines critical testimony, and
finds little more than wishful thinking for an alien scenario. The best case
yet to explain the crash, according to Pflock? A Project Mogul balloon gone
astray. Is this the last word on Roswell? Probably not, since Pflock shades a
few questionable points in his favor, but an equally reasoned and comprehensive
argument will have to be presented to counter Pflock effectively. — George Eberhart
(American Library Association)
UFO researcher Pflock has written the definitive book on facts and fantasies
surrounding the now-familiar series of 1947 events at Roswell, N.Mex.,
interpreted by many as an air force coverup involving extraterrestrial bodies
at a UFO crash site. Over the years, in the fashion of urban legends, a modern
mythology has developed around Roswell, providing fuel for TV movies, feature
films, TV series and a full shelf of books, along with UFO museums and annual
celebrations that bring tourists to the town. A New Mexico resident and former
believer, Pflock offers exhaustive research, spanning eight years, a
fascinating probe that has transformed him into a skeptic. With photos,
drawings and interviews, Pflock focuses on secret high-altitude balloon
research conducted for the U.S. Army Air Force by New York University in 1947.
These balloon trains, taller than the Washington Monument, were launched from
Alamogordo Air Force Base, 90 miles southwest of Roswell. Assembling formerly
classified documents, along with 1947 United Press wire transmissions, weather
data and 28 witness affidavits, Pflock attempts to refute past "witness" tales,
expose claims made by other books on this subject and prove the U.S. government
has no physical evidence. He has succeeded at this in a major fashion, creating
an unusual and authoritative study. As Pournelle notes: "This is a courageous
and important book." Many who come to it will be persuaded that it cracks the
mystery, wipes the slate clean and exposes the hullabaloo about Roswell as
nothing more than a fabulous fairy tale, peaking in a delightful paragraph that
tracks the famed purple-pink "alien hieroglyphics" to a novelty company on New
York City's Canal Street. (June 30) Forecast: Reviews, controversy and
word-of-mouth will prompt both believers and nonbelievers to seek out this
title. — Publishers Weekly (2001)
Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Martin Sheen Director: Jeremy Kagan
As I indicated in my review of debunker Karl Pflock's Roswell book [ Roswell: Inconvenient Facts and the Will to Believe ], there is an
erroneous belief that if you can disprove the Roswell Incident, you have
automatically debunked all UFO reports. How ridiculous.
This is the case they feel they HAVE to crush in order to get a handle on
disempowering the pro-UFO/Alien lobby. When you watch this movie, you will
understand why.
Roswell is a very well made movie, with an excellent cast, which features some
powerful performances by Kyle Mac and Dwight Yoakam above all.
The UFO debunkers will hate it because it tells the story of an actual Alien
incident including the recovery of at least one semi-telepathic crash survivor.
Some contemporary UFO purists will have a problem because of the artistic
license taken and the fact that it seems like Marcel was stuck between a rock
and a hard place, having wanted to release the true account of the crash -
whereas now some people believe that Marcel was told to release an exaggerated
'crashed disk' report by Blanchard, which was then pulled/denied in true
disinformation style.
Whatever the theorizing, this movie tells a fairly traditional Roswell story,
which includes all of the main elements of the discovery and cover-up. If
anything, as another reviewer said, a worst case scenario.
The Project Mogul balloon that debunkers keep whining about, DID have a roughly
disk-shaped instrument gondola suspended way beneath it, but nobody in their
right mind could EVER mistake it for a craft that was capable of independent
flight, even if it had become totally separated from the mother balloon, which
seems not to have been the case, per their own debunking mythology.
This movie has a feel about it that just gets under your skin, and for many
reasons, flaws and artistic license or not, it flows more like a documentary of
Marcel's life than a piece of pure fiction. When you compare the flow and feel
of this movie with the infantile ramblings of debunkers such as the barely
literate Kal K. Korff (yeah, KKK), you cannot help but feel that the movie is
the closest thing we might ever know to the Truth.
The idea that the whole Incident was a piece of disinformation, to fool the
Russians or whatever, falls apart instantly for 10,000 reasons and is perhaps
the most ludicrous suggestion of all.
No, something unusual came down in Roswell, and until the Government comes
clean, and stops fabricating seemingly deliberately absurd 'explanations', the
story told in this movie may be considered a very reasonable possible scenario.
Very highly recommended.
— Steven Cain (Temporal Quantum Pocket)
First off, the entire UFO scene is corroded by "nit-pickers" who couldn't be
proven that cookies exist at a grocery store much anything more ("We have no
proof that cookies are always in the cookie aisle, sometimes they are seen in
the dairy department.."). Essentially they are wannabe-lawyers without
practical information to live life by; real people need good-enough information
to act on, and this film gives us just that. This is probably THE best UFO/ET
movie Hollywood has made yet, better than E.T., Close Encounters and all of the
other fairy tales. It takes what took place at Roswell in 1947; puts you there
with Major Jesse Marcel, and runs-with-it, to its full conclusion: the
worse-case-scenario that indeed alien craft crashed there etc. In an exciting,
and dramatic way you see how the truth is covered up with intimidation (Your
career will be ruined!) and fear and how the military/government was (is)
scared white by the UFO/ET phenomena as it should be. Civilians who seek
courtroom-level "proof" and "open-ness" are not so smart. There is a big
differance between National Security and a feel-good debating society.
The film works on many levels, authentic 1940s look/feel, excellent music, but
the key idea is the general concept of a cover-up and what do the men who hid
the truth do when they get old and are ready to die? Do they talk? Noone had
asked that question until the film. A few years later, Colonel Philip Corso
wrote a book from his end as an Army R&D developer (The Day After Roswell) just
before he died; so the question is; if someone hid the truth as a young man,
would we listen to him as an old man with nothing-to-lose? If we are wannabe
lawyers in our mentality, we certainly will be legalistic and not listen
because these folks have ruined their "credibility". Real people, not
UFOlawyers understand that in time of war you have to lie at times to protect
the common good and that people/situations change...as life is in some ways a
struggle, and when the time is right the truth might be able to be revealed.
That the USAF has already lied at least twice about Roswell (Weather balloons,
lately parachute dummies) should tell you something is not what it appears.
Those that say it was project MOGUL sensor balloons to monitor Russian A-Bomb
test, geee big deal. After the Russians declared they had "the bomb" most
people wouldn't care if you ran kites up to the stratosphere to measure
radiation. Why the secrecy now, then? We have spy satellites that everyone in
the world has known about since SPUTNIK. Its not the surveillance methodology
or the tidbit that we knew the Russians were testing A-Bombs that was worth
hiding/deceiving about. Why use stretchers to carry parachute dummies? You
simply throw them over your shoulder and walk.
The most compelling scene in the movie is when Secretary of Defense Forrestal
communicates with the so-called ET; consider this with the fact that he later
jumped out of a window (with assistance) to his death (murder). Suggest you
read Corso's book in conjunction with this video and consider that the "beings"
that are manifesting themselves are NOT cuddly Spielberg toys from outer space
and that there may really be indeed a very GOOD REASON why the
military/government covers up the UFO/ET mess. — Sam Damon Jr.
(Fort Bragg, NC)
The fact that this movie even got made is a miracle. It's not perfect, but you
have to realise how the US Gov't "intelligence" services (which we fund w/ our
taxes) tried amazing disinformation, threats and lies to keep not only the
honest folks of Roswell doubting their sanity, but all of America as well. Kyle
Mac does a really fine job as Jesse Marcel who had to 'smile and lie' and at
the same time either let others think he was crazy (couldn't tell the
difference from indestructible unearthly 'living' metals from a weather
balloon!?) or a big fat liar (collected boxes of this amazing stuff, then had
to deny it). And the man had attained the rank of Major at the world's (then)
ONLY heavy Bomb Army Air Force base in the world! The fine supporting cast via
flashbacks add drama and accuracy to all of what the authors had for
testimony...at that time. Since the July '47 Roswell was the final straw for
the government and the oil industry- the covering up of Truth that we have
galactic neighbors (who are smarter than us, but haven't destroyed us!), the
CIA, DIA, NSA were all created to smother ALL future UFO sightings and truth.
Go read some of the books on this as well as the other coverups. Welcome to the
Future. And go see www.DisclosureProject.org too. Mindblowing, the covering up
is still going on! You kids under 40 (ha,ha!) have to expose this now. — Mj Buckingham "StarAngel"
(SF CA USA)
A new narrative emerged which was at strong odds with what was reported in
1947. This narrative evolved over the years from the time the first book on
Roswell was published in 1980 as many new witnesses and accounts emerged, drawn
out in part by publicity on the incident. Though skeptics had many objections
to the plausibility of these accounts, it was not until 1994 and the
publication of the first Air Force report on the incident that a strong
counter-argument to the presence of aliens was widely publicized.
Numerous scenarios emerged from these authors as to what they felt were the
true sequence of events, depending on which witness accounts were embraced or
dismissed, and what the documentary evidence suggested. This was especially
true in regards to the various claimed crash and recovery sites of alien craft,
as various authors had different witnesses and different locations for these
events.
However, the following general outline from UFO Crash at Roswell (1991) by Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt is common to most of these
accounts:
A UFO crashed northwest of Roswell, New Mexico, in the summer of 1947. The
military acted quickly and efficiently to recover the debris after its
existence was reported by a ranch hand. The debris, unlike anything these
highly trained men had ever seen, was flown without delay to at least three
government installations. A cover story was concocted to explain away the
debris and the flurry of activity. It was explained that a weather balloon, one
with a new radiosonde target device, had been found and temporarily confused
the personnel of the 509th Bomb Group. Government officials took reporters'
notes from their desks and warned a radio reporter not to play a recorded
interview with the ranch hand. The men who took part in the recovery were told
never to talk about the incident. And with a whimper, not a bang, the Roswell
event faded quickly from public view and press scrutiny.
... the majority of UFO true believers will continue to believe what they want
[to believe], despite any facts to the contrary. My experience is that a
significant portion of the UFO hobbyist community use their obsession as a form
of excitement, for the feeling of being "in the know", and as a substitute for
a life. Deep down, they hope that we are being invaded by evil aliens! — Jim Keith Saucers of the Illuminati (Kempton, Illinois, USA: Adventures Unlimited Press, 1999, 2004)
3.0 YouTube Videos
3.1 Video Clips
The popular video hosting site, YouTube, carries a large quantity of videos about the Roswell Incident ... Here is a selection of those videos that I like and found to be
"instructive" (!), as the Sherlock Holmes character created by UK's Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, would say ...
Title: UFO - Roswell Saucer Crash & Aliens From: xyzmikey2 Added: January 13, 2008 Info-Description: Is It Really A Government Cover-Up?
Title: Roswell Debris Tested From: jaser7 Added: October 07, 2006 Info-Description: See actual debris from the Roswell spacecraft that crash landed in 1947.
Title: Roswell Alien UFO's 60 Years Later - VOA Story From: MyEarbot Added: June 29, 2007 Info-Description: Sixty years ago this July, something happened in the desert about 100
kilometers northwest of Roswell, New Mexico. A local newspaper at the time
reported that a flying saucer had crashed and that the wreckage had been taken
to the U.S. Army Air base just outside of Roswell. The military said it had
been a weather balloon that crashed.
But many people who research UFOs -- unidentified flying objects -- think
aliens from another planet crashed in New Mexico and they have made the Roswell
incident a major focus of their attention. Local people have decided to go
along with all, much to their profit.
There are some scenic places in New Mexico for tourists to visit. But they are
all about a two hour's drive from Roswell. Very few tourists came here before
the aliens arrived.
Roswell's big attraction now is the UFO Museum and Research Center. Sandy James
is deputy director. "Basically, a long time ago, if you came to Roswell, you
were lost. Now, if you come to Roswell, you are coming to see the museum."
People from around the world flock here to see exhibits about the July 1947
incident and other UFO stories. They also buy lots of souvenirs.
Roswell, a town of some 50,000 people, will double in size during the four days
of the 60th anniversary UFO Festival in early July.
One of the serious Roswell residents is former Texas civil engineer Dennis
Balthaser. He says his investigations have convinced him that the U.S. military
did recover a crashed alien craft 60 years ago and hid it from the public.
It is not likely that any dramatic new evidence will emerge at the upcoming UFO
conference here to change anyone's mind one way or the other on the Roswell
incident.
But the questions about what happened here 60 years ago will never be resolved
unless, of course, the aliens themselves were to pay a return visit just to
clear things up.
Title: UFO TECHNOLOGY FROM ROSWELL 1947 From: joeching Added: February 01, 2008 Info-Description: One Phillip Corso claimed he reversed engineered the technology from the
ufo crash in roswell. The U.S. Government says no. Who do you believe?
Title: UFO-Roswell with Colonel Phillip Corso Part 1 & Part 2 From: ringlerum Added: February 21, 2007 Info-Description: A Date Line Interview with Retired Colonel Phillip Corso who was one of
the Military men who recovered the 1947 UFO crash in Roswell New Mexico
The following video has been "... disabled by request" of the one who uploaded
to YouTube (most likely "2008albert") ... You can still view it in YouTube via
the following URL:
Title: Rosswel [sic] UFO crash 1947 From: 2008albert Added: June 03, 2008 Info-Description: Rosswel [sic] UFO crash 1947
In July 1947,an unusual craft crashed in the desert of New Mexico.
The Roswell Army Air base was involved in recovering the craft,possibly
including 4-5 bodies.
On July 8th,the Roswell newspaper published a Front Page Article - taken from
the official press release written by Lt. Walter Haut of the RAAF 509th acting
under orders of Col. William Blanchard - reading: "RAAF Captures Flying Saucer
On Ranch in Roswell Region"
Following orders from Col William Blanchard(and probably Gen Roger Ramey and
Washington higher-ups),Haut recanted the flying disk press release hours later,
claiming via the next day's paper that it was just a weather balloon recovered.
The Roswell Army AirField,509th Division was where America's then 15 nuclear
bombs were stored, including the only planes equipped to fly them,the only
pilots and bombers trained to release them,and at the time was the largest air
landing strip in the world.In other words,these were not a bunch of dorks
running around, manning the 509th.
They were among the best and most highly trained technical specialized military
America had to offer,adding much credibility to any testimony that would later
follow.
Something crashed.
It was covered up.
The following video has been "... disabled by request" of the one who uploaded
to YouTube (most likely "astromonkie95") ... You can still view it in YouTube
via the following URL:
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3.2.1 Video Summaries
Here are the YouTube video summaries for the above additonal video clips:
Title: Alien Autopsy Roswell UFO Crash (Original footage) 1/2 & 2/2 From: dvdme Added: January 08, 2007 Info-Description: Autopsy of the suposed [sic] Alien corpse of the Roswell UFO crash
I'm amazed that this video had reach 1000000 views!
Thank you all for watching.
Now, it is my personal opinion that this particular video isn't very true.
It somehow doesn't convince me.
Still, I believe in the possibility that UFO's and extraterrestrial life may
exist. I mean, why not? Why should this be a taboo question?
Title: Alien autopsy area 51 real and new -- Roswell UFO From: Jiobannimazuza Added: December 30, 2007 Info-Description: The true movie
Roswell Ufo
Area 51
Title: UFOs & Area 51 Exposed - Bullet Version From: UFOTVstudios Added: December 09, 2006 Info-Description: This video clip features the details of United States Military
involvement with UFO Technology at a secret test base known as Area 51 (aka;
Groom Lake, S4) and a filmed statement from former Secretary of Defense -
William Perry admitting to the existence of the base.
"We do have a military operation going on at Groom Lake, Highly Classified and
Highly Important to U.S. Security" - William Perry
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4.0 Postscript
This webpage examines, via YouTube video clips and notes, the Roswell Incident ...
Please do not assume or conclude that, just because I present many views (in
the form of textual notes and video clips) on this website, it means that I am
in agreement with or that I believe in the views offered-proferred ... That
would be displaying such a parochial and provincial attitude, towards this
website and towards me as well!
As an ex-military officer, I assure you that I am in the habit of reading,
viewing and digesting lots of stuff that I don't necessarily believe in ... We
call all the stuff we read, view and digest, 'military intelligence' ... The
same applies with 'business intelligence' in the business world, of course.
Our aim, as usual, is to find out what others (including our friends, enemies,
competitors, suppliers, strategic partners, business partners, etc.) believe in
... In order to do that effectively, we have to 'get out of the way', so to
speak ... we have to remove our humongous ego! ... else we will never ever
really have gotten started in our journey of exploration and discovery of the
Mysteries of the World
.
Here is a sentiment that I am wholeheartedly in agreement with ...
As I sit down to redo this book for an American audience, what rises before me
is last night's dream: I'm in a broad and beautiful land among many trees. It's
night. I look up at a huge old tree that's dark against the starry sky in its
detail of twig and branch. There is room enough here for all of us, I realize,
here in this big, intricately textured park. But I see that some want to cut
down the trees and level it out, so huge throngs of people can gather to gaze
up at the sun's glare. I watch dark twigs fingering the remote, untouchable
stars. A voice speaks: "Don't turn this into a Copernican Garden."
Waking up, I remember that I went to sleep wondering how to put this book
together. And I take "Copernican Garden" to mean a parking lot vista where
masses gather to honor the bright sun of traditional science with its old rules
as the center of the universe.
So I will not cut down the trees and level this book out. It is between you and
me [or you and I], a conversation as we stroll along in a moonlit fractal
garden past webby connections of thought that merge to patterned insight. Here
hidden delights nestle in scaling patterns of self-similar but never quite
repeating beauty. Here the tree of life hold stars in its branches. No matter
how huge, this garden stays human-sized because we have a place in it, you and
I. No need to cut down the connective forest and level things out for that
bright Sol [sun] of left-brain logic whose daytime dazzle — so
close and glaring — can blind us to the myriad constellations
beyond.
[...]
— Katya Walter,
Tao of Chaos
Sub-title:
Merging East and West
(1994, 1996)
Here is an observation (adapted) made in the Acknowledgement page of a book ...
It takes many minds to produce a book [including an e-book, of course].
Although most authors [especially of non-fiction books and articles] would
prefer not to admit this fact, fundamentally they are merely 'synthesisers' of
accumulated knowledge.
The process of synthesising may unveil a new reality map, or paradigm, which,
in due course, will be used by future pioneers to unveil further paradigms.
This principle was summed up by Sir Isaac Newton when he remarked: "If I have
seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants".
[...]
— Christian von Nidda,
Our Secret Planet
(2005)
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, 1997 ) and Philip J. Klass ( 
, 1997 ). Step by step, he identifies the weak points in supporters'
arguments, picks apart ambiguous evidence, reexamines critical testimony, and
finds little more than wishful thinking for an alien scenario. The best case
yet to explain the crash, according to Pflock? A Project Mogul balloon gone
astray. Is this the last word on Roswell? Probably not, since Pflock shades a
few questionable points in his favor, but an equally reasoned and comprehensive
argument will have to be presented to counter Pflock effectively. 
