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By Thomas J. Carey & Donald R. Schmitt
In July 1947, an interplanetary craft of unknown origin crashed in the high-desert region of southeastern New Mexico, 33.2 miles southeast of the small town of Corona, during a severe thunder-and-lightning storm. A local sheep rancher by the name of William Ware "Mack" Brazel found its strange debris — and something else — while riding his ranch the following day.
On the advice of his friends and neighbors, who had urged him to seek a monetary reward, as well as concerns for his sheep and a need to find someone
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Roswell investigator Thomas J. Carey.
PHOTO COURTESY OF TOM CAREY.
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Roswell investigator Donald R. Schmitt.
PHOTO BY TOM CAREY.
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responsible to clean up the mess, he drove 75 miles to the town of Roswell, N.M., to show pieces of the wreckage to civilian and military authorities, as well as to the local media. The Roswell Daily Record, in a front-page, headline article a few days later, stated that a flying saucer had been "captured" by the Army Air Force near Roswell — not Corona — and, as a result, we have referred to a "Roswell Incident," instead of a "Corona Incident," ever since.
The 509th Atomic Bomb Group based at Roswell Army Air Field was, in 1947, the only atomic strike force in existence in any country in the world. Its members were hand-picked for the task of delivering the atomic bomb to preselected targets in the event of war. It was the 509th, in fact, that dropped the atomic bombs on Japan to end World War II. Roswell Army Air Field, as the home of that era's premier elite military unit in the U.S. armed forces, was the Air Force's first SAC [Strategic Air Command] base.
Whether by mistake or by intention, the Air Force first declared that they had recovered a flying saucer, and that they were shipping it to "higher headquarters" for scrutiny. Within hours of that statement, however, the Air Force changed its tune and said that the 509th Command in Roswell and the local rancher were wrong — that what they had found was nothing more than a rubber weather balloon and a tinfoil radar target.
To enforce this new version of the story, the Air Force resorted to the time-honored practices of witness-tampering, intimidation, monetary rewards, new duty assignments and security oaths to silence military witnesses; and exhortations to civilians of patriotism, "national security" and, if those failed, outright death threats to them and their immediate family-members who claimed to have seen things the Army deemed they should not have seen. For the most part this strategy worked, but not perfectly; if it had, we would not be writing about it here.
Since then, the Air Force has admitted that they lied in 1947 with their weather-balloon story. They now say that the wreckage found was the remains of a rubber balloon and tinfoil radar target from the then top-secret project Project Mogul, which was trying to detect Soviet nuclear test-detonations by means of high-altitude, balloon-borne, acoustic sensors. (A plausible-enough top-secret project, to our modern point of view, but note that the balloon and radar target elements remain the same as in their previous cover story.)
In addition, to combat persistent rumors of "little bodies" allegedly found among the debris, the Air Force held a press conference in 1997 to declare that such stories stemmed from high-altitude parachute tests that employed mannequins — tests that the Air Force did not actually begin until the late 1950s. Yes, you read it right: ten years after the Roswell incident! When confronted with this discontinuity in their story, the Air Force insisted "mental time-compression" of disparate events by witnesses was the culprit.
To counter the Air Force claims, which have been accepted at face value by the establishment media — for example, by The New York Times, The History Channel and other reputable entities — as well as the halls of academia, there is a plethora of books on the market that make the case that it was indeed a UFO that crashed in New Mexico in 1947. The problem is, however, that the various investigations by private researchers have been uneven in their research methods and their use of allegedly genuine documents and eyewitnesses. Consequently, their respective scenarios and conclusions differ in many respects. It is no wonder, then, that the public at large remains confused about the case. Most people believe that something happened at Mack Brazel's ranch in 1947, but they are understandably not sure exactly what that event was.
Our mission, then, is to determine once and for all time — and within the foreseeable future — what the true facts of the so-called "Roswell Incident" really are. We are not there yet, but we promise to spare no expense, to leave no stone unturned and to follow every lead until the truth is known and revealed to you.
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