The Roswell Report

The Roswell Undeniable Truths

By Thomas J. Carey & Donald R. Schmitt

Did an actual UFO crash outside of Roswell, N.M., in July 1947?

	July 8, 1947: Gen. Roger M. Ramey (kneeling, left) and his Chief of Staff, Col. Thomas J. DuBose (sitting, right), pose with a weather balloon and tinfoil radar target allegedly recovered near Roswell, N.M. SOURCE: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON LIBRARIES, SPEC. COLLECTIONS DIV.

At first the military announced to the public that they had indeed recovered a flying disk on a remote ranch in the central region of the state. Within five hours they retracted the story and identified the debris displayed in Brigadier Gen. Roger M. Ramey's office at Fort Worth, Texas, as merely a downed weather balloon with an attached radar reflector kite. The question remains: Which of the two announcements was the truth?

Through the course of our own investigation, we have amassed a continuously growing roster of more than 600 witnesses associated with the events who support the first account, that initial claim of the flying-saucer recovery. Despite what the U.S. Air Force maintains is the "truth" about the Roswell incident, the event remains shrouded in secrecy even as facts about the U.S. government's involvement in other cover-ups continue to surface. Another thing also remains constant: What took place outside of Roswell, N.M., in the summer of 1947 was not caused by a weather device.

There are other constants, other truths that the Air Force refuses to address. Let's review some of the major aspects of the now-legendary UFO incident:

1. On Tuesday, July 8, 1947, Roswell Army Air Field commanding officer Col. William Blanchard announced the recovery of a flying disk. It is important to note that Blanchard was the officer entrusted with oversight of the first atomic-bomb strike force in the world, based at Roswell AAFB. Blanchard's press release was orchestrated in Washington, D.C., then later retracted in favor of the balloon explanation.
   
   
2. Later that day, at approximately 4:30PM CST, Gen. Ramey, the commander of the 8th Air Force and Blanchard's supervising officer, presented the press an alternative story; he claimed the Army had recovered a rawin target device suspended by a Neoprene balloon. ("Rawin" is a method of determining wind speed and direction by using radar or radio waves to track a balloon carrying either a radar-sensitive target or a radio transponder.)
   
   
3. W. W. "Mack" Brazel, the ranch foreman who first discovered the debris field, was detained by the U.S. Army Air Force for four days while cleanup operations continued at the site. Brazel was denied access to a phone, was given an Army physical, and was subjected to rigorous questioning and intimidation while under house arrest at the Roswell AAFB.
   
   
4. Extreme security measures were exercised at both Brazel's ranch and the impact sites. Armed guards encircled the primary locations, a second cordon was placed around its outer perimeter, riflemen were stationed on the surrounding hills, and MPs were posted on outlying roads that led to both locations.
   
   
5. Special, unscheduled flights arrived from Washington, D.C., with additional units arriving from White Sands AAFB in Alamogordo, N.M., and Kirkland AAFB in Albuquerque. Unscheduled flights from Roswell transported wreckage or bodies to Fort Worth, Texas; Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio; Andrews AAFB in Washington, D.C.; and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, via truck from Kirkland.
   
   
6. Sen. Dennis Chavez (D-N.M., served 1935-1962), Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, phoned Walter Whitmore Sr., owner of radio station KGFL in Roswell, to strongly advise him to do as he was instructed by the FCC in an earlier call and not broadcast a wire-recorded interview with Mack Brazel.
   
   
7. An FBI telex dated July 8, 1947, at 6:17PM CST out of the bureau's Dallas, Texas, office disputed Gen. Ramey's announcement to the press that the special flight transporting wreckage to Wright Field had been canceled, as well as Ramey's explanation of a balloon and hexagonal radar target.
   
   
8. On July 9, 1947, U.S. military officials searched news-media offices in Roswell, Albuquerque and Santa Fe to retrieve copies of the original press release or any other documentation that was contrary to the weather-balloon explanation. The recorded interview of Mack Brazel also was confiscated.
   
   
9. Multiple, first-hand military and civilian witnesses who actually witnessed the crash have come forward to tell their stories.
   
   
10. Multiple, first-hand military and civilian witnesses have suggested the location of the craft and separate debris-field sites. There was more than one site involved.
    
    
11. Multiple, first-hand military and civilian witnesses have given the same testimony regarding the actual size and shape of the unknown craft.
    
    
12. More than two dozen witnesses, both military and civilian, agree on the unconventional characteristics of the wreckage. The material defied all conventional means of damage.
    
    
13. Multiple, first-hand military and civilian witnesses have given sworn testimony regarding the bodies recovered at the crash site.
    
    
14. Finally, the most shocking revelation to date is that the U.S. military resorted to physical threats against civilian witnesses. Children were terrorized and parents were threatened that their children would be killed if they mentioned anything about the true nature of the incident.
    
    

All of this over a weather balloon?


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