THE ROSWELL UNDENIABLE TRUTHS--Debunkers finally "Give Up!"
Sir Arthur C. B. Wholeflaffers A.S.A.
Did an actual UFO crash outside of Roswell, New Mexico in July of 1947? 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 Brig. General
Roger M. Ramey's office at Fort Worth, Texas, as merely a downed weather balloon
with an attached radar reflector kite. The question, however, still remains,
which of the two announcements was the truth?
Until September of 1994 the Air Force has maintained that the balloon
explanation was the correct one. But now, we have a new official story, or
rather, a new official "theory". There were all too many conflicting reports in
the old version, so, due to pressure from Congressman Steven Schiff, the Roswell
books, the motion picture, and our own unceasing use of the media to attack the
credibility of the so-called "cover-up", the Air Force admitted they "lied"
about Roswell. But all they succeeded in doing was to redesign the original
balloon story. Project Mogul, though classified at that time, was nonetheless
comprised of very conventional materials that even a child could have
recognized. And for that matter, Mogul, itself, was declassified within days
after Roswell when the Pentagon conducted a demonstration for the press at White
Sands. A photo of a Mogul array was even published in the Alamogordo paper July
10, 1947. We are now asked to believe that this is the purpose for the
high-level security oaths maintained by the patriotic members of the 509th
atomic bomb unit even up to their death beds. I can't emphasize enough, all for
Neoprene rubber, one-sided, reflective foil, wooden sticks, bailing twine, and
masking tape. And yes, the tape had hearts and flowers painted on it which
confused everyone all the way up to Ramey. That's what they are asking us to
accept all over again. Neither the witnesses or we are convinced.
Through the course of our own investigation, we have amassed a continuously
growing number of over 500 witnesses associated with the events who support the
first account, that first claim of the flying saucer recovery. And despite what
the Air Force maintains is the truth about Roswell, when the truth about the U.
S. government's involvement in other coverups continue to surface, Roswell
remains shrouded in secrecy.
And one thing also remains constant; what took place outside of Roswell in the
summer of 1947 was not caused by a weather device.
There are other constants, other truths which the Air Force refuses to address.
Let's review some of the major aspects of the now legendary UFO crash at
Roswell:
1. On Tuesday, July 8, 1947, the Roswell Army Air Field base commander Col.
William Blanchard announced the recovery of a flying saucer. The press release
itself, was orchestrated in Washington, D.C. as a pretext to the pending balloon
explanation.
2. That same day, at approximately 4:30 P.M. CST., Brig. General Roger Ramey,
the commander of the Eighth Air Force at Fort Worth, presented the press a
counter story; a Rawin target device (weather balloon with radar reflective
kite).
3. W. W. "Mac" Brazel, the ranch foreman who first discovered the debris field,
was detained by the military for seven days while cleanup operations continued
at the site. He was denied access to a phone, given an Army physical, and
subjected to rigorous questioning and intimidation while under house arrest at
the Roswell Army Air Field.
4. Extreme security measures were exercised at both the ranch, and the impact
sites. Armed guards encircled the primary locations, a second cordon was placed
around the outer perimeter, riflemen were stationed on the surrounding hills,
and MPs posted on outlying roads.
5. Special unscheduled flights arrived from Washington, D.C., with additional
units arriving from White Sands in Alamogordo and Kirtland in Albuquerque.
Unscheduled flights from Roswell transported wreckage or bodies to Fort Worth,
Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio, Andrews in Washington, D.C., and Los Alamos
National Laboratory.
6. Senator Dennis Chavez of New Mexico, then chair of the Senate Appropriations
Committee, phoned Walt Whitmore Sr., owner of KGFL Radio in Roswell, to strongly
advise him to do as instructed by the FCC in an earlier call and not broadcast a
wire recorded interview with Brazel.
7. On July 9, 1947, military officials toured news media offices in Roswell,
Albuquerque, and Santa Fe to retrieve copies of the original press release sent
out by Roswell Army Air Field that revealed the Army had recovered a flying
saucer. The interview with Mac Brazel was also confiscated.
8. An FBI telax at 6:17 P.M. on July 8, 1947 out of the bureau office in Dallas,
Texas, first disputed General Ramey's announcement to the press that the special
flight transporting wreckage to Wright Field had been canceled, as well as the
new explanation of a balloon and hexagonal radar target.
9. Multiple firsthand military and civilian witnesses who independently
witnessed the crash have verified the date and approximate time of the event.
10. Multiple, independent firsthand military and civilian witnesses have
identified the location the impact and separate debris sites. Their testimony
coincides with each others.
11. Multiple firsthand military and civilian witnesses have given similar
descriptions regarding the size and shape of the crashed vehicle. It was shaped
more like a batwing than a flying saucer.
12. Over two dozen witnesses, both military and civilian sources, agree to the
unconventional characteristics of the debris. The material could not be cut,
burned, or even slightly damaged by conventional means.
13. Multiple firsthand military and civilian witnesses have presented testimony
concerning the five, humanoid bodies recovered at the impact site just 35 miles
north of Roswell.
14. Finally, the most shocking revelation to date: the U.S. military resorted to
extreme measures such as physical threats against civilian witnesses to insure
their silence. Children were terrorized and parents were warned that their
children would be killed if they repeated one word about the true nature of the
crash and retrieval. One confidential military source, now a civilian, has
received numerous death threats over the phone within the past three years
pertaining to his involvement at Roswell.
All of this over a MOGUL BALLOON? As long as there are firsthand witnesses who
continue to challenge the government's official new theory, the door remains
opened. I'd like to believe our efforts have had something to do with that.
jeff g.
"Sir Arthur C. B. Wholeflaffers A.S.A." wrote:
> THE ROSWELL UNDENIABLE TRUTHS by Donald Schmitt
Yes, there are conflicting stories. No, there's no evidence, only anecdotes.
Ugly Bob
"Sir Arthur C. B. Wholeflaffers A.S.A." <nos...@newsranger.com> wrote in
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Is that so? I was unaware of this.
> after Roswell when the Pentagon conducted a demonstration for the press at
White
> Sands. A photo of a Mogul array was even published in the Alamogordo paper
July
> 10, 1947.
You have evidence of this?
<GIGGLES>
alt.binaries.ufo.files
this is proof . go have a look
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Arctic Wolf
Did a Project Mogul Balloon Crash at Roswell?
by Kevin D. Randle
After 47 years of claiming that the artifacts found at Roswell, New Mexico
were nothing more spectacular than the remains of a neoprene weather balloon
with a radar reflector, the United States Air Force finally identified the
material. It was a... weather balloon. It was not an ordinary weather
balloon, but a special one assigned to the then top-secret Project Mogul. In
a twenty-three page report issued on September 8, 1994, the Air Force laid
out the evidence for their conclusion.
At the beginning of their research, Air Force investigators decided that
they were not going to attempt to interview all the various witnesses who
have been identified by UFO researchers. Given the numbers, this isn't
surprising. What is disturbing, however, is that they only interviewed five
people, three retired military officers, and two civilians who were involved
with Project Mogul.
One of the most important of those retired officers is Lieutenant Colonel
Sheridan Cavitt. According to Major (later lieutenant colonel) Jesse A.
Marcel, Sr., Cavitt accompanied him out to the debris field reported by W.W.
"Mac" Brazel. Of those three, only Cavitt is still alive and he certainly
holds one of the keys to the case.
I first interviewed him in January 1990 while Cavitt wintered in Sierra
Vista, Arizona. During that visit he told Don Schmitt and me that he had not
been in Roswell in July 1947 and that he had participated in no recoveries
of a flying saucer, V-2 rocket or any type of balloon.
In March 1993, Schmitt and I visited Cavitt at his home in Washington state.
During that interview he showed us copies of his orders from 1947. According
to Special Order No. 121 dated 11 June 1947, Cavitt was assigned to the
counterintelligence office at Roswell and that he had five days to
report,meaning he had to be at the base by June 16. Once he arrived, he
claims that he was given a leave so that he had been assigned to Roswell,
but that he was not physically present in early July 1947. Because of that
Cavitt said that he was not involved in any of the events now known as the
Roswell Incident.
We interviewed him one more time, in June 1994. He mentioned that he had
been visited by a Pentagon colonel (Richard Weaver) but he wasn't any more
candid about the events in Roswell. In fact, when I asked him why both
Marcel and Lewis Rickett, the former master sergeant who had served under
Cavitt, had identified him as the officer at Roswell, Cavitt said that he
didn't know. Although he had told Weaver he was there, had recovered a
balloon, and had, in fact, taken Rickett out to one of the sites, Cavitt
still insisted to us that he had no role in those events.
Now we learn from the Air Force report and the supporting documentation
including a transcript of Weaver's interview with Cavitt that things were
not as we had been told. Cavitt said to Weaver, "So, I went out and I do not
recall whether Marcel went with Rickett and me, I had Rickett with me. We
went out to this site. There were no, as I understand, check points or
anything like that (going through guards and that sort of garbage) we went
out there and we found it. It was a small amount of, as I recall, bamboo
sticks, reflective sort of material that would, well at first glance, you
would probably think it was aluminum foil, something of that type. And we
gathered up some of it. I don't know whether we even tried to get all of it.
It wasn't scattered, well, what I call, you know, extensively. Like, it
didn't go along the ground and splatter off some here and some there. We
gathered some of it and took it back to the base and I remember I had turned
it over to Marcel. As I say, I do not remember whether Marcel was there or
not on the site. He could have been. We took it back to the intelligence
room... in the CIC office."
Cavitt told Weaver that he recognized the debris as the remains of a balloon
immediately. He didn't explain why he had not bothered to communicate this
rather vital piece of intelligence to Marcel, nor did Weaver ask him.
Instead Cavitt kept this secret so that Marcel apparently misidentified the
debris as extraterrestrial and Colonel (later general) William Blanchard
ordered the announcement that the Army had recovered one of the flying
saucers.
Although Cavitt identified Rickett as the man he had taken to the site, the
Air Force investigators never tried to learn what Rickett had said. Rickett
died before the Air Force officers began their investigation, but he left
both an audio and video taped record of what he had seen and done.
Interestingly, Rickett talks of going out to the site with Cavitt, but he
doesn't remember if Marcel accompanied them or not. Rickett provided
testimony refuting some of Cavitt's claims. During an recorded interview
conducted on October 29, 1989, Don Schmitt asked "The roads were blocked?"
Rickett said, "Yeah, they had... on the road we drove on... MPs standing
there."
Rickett also described material that he had seen. He said that he didn't
think it was metal but that "It was damn hard." Describing it, he said, "It
wasn't bright and shiny on one side like foil is but it wouldn't wrinkle."
Clearly Rickett is discussing something tougher than the foil that would
have been used on the radar targets attached to the Project Mogul balloons.
Had Air Force investigators asked, we would have provided them with copies
of both the audio and video tapes of the Rickett interviews but they never
asked.
In the course of his interview with Cavitt, Weaver asked if he had been
sworn to secrecy. Weaver writes, "Lt. Col. Cavitt also stated that he had
never taken any oath or signed any agreement not to talk about this incident
and had never been threatened by anyone in the government because of it."
The simple response is that Cavitt, because of who he was and the position
he held would not normally be told, after an event, that he couldn't talk
about it. There is, however, a body of testimony ignored by Weaver, and the
Air Force investigators, that suggest that others were sworn to secrecy.
In July 1947 Major (later Colonel) Edwin Easley was the Provost Marshal at
Roswell. On January 11, 1990 I interviewed Easley for the first time. I told
him who I was and verified that he was the Provost Marshal at the base in
July 1947. When he confirmed it, I asked if he was familiar with the story
of the flying saucer crash. He said, "I've heard about it."
I asked, "Do you have any first hand knowledge of it?" Easley said, "I can't
talk about it." I changed my question and asked again, and Easley repeated,
"I can't talk about it."
I finally asked, "Can you tell me if you were at the crash site?" Easley
repeated, "I can't talk about it. I told you that... I've been sworn to
secrecy. I can't tell you that." ~ Weaver, in his report, mentioned that he
had reviewed The Roswell Events created by Fred Whiting of the Fund for UFO
Research. Included in there is a complete transcript of that interview with
Easley, but Weaver never mentioned it. He didn't ask for a copy of the tape,
available at the Fund, nor did he ask me for one. Instead he writes that
Cavitt had not been sworn to secrecy, suggesting that no one had been.
Easley's taped statements suggest that military officers were, in fact,
sworn to secrecy about these events.
We can take the idea of secrecy even farther. Colonel (later brigadier
general) Thomas J. DuBose was the Chief of Staff of the Eighth Air Force in
July 1947. Interviewed on August 10, 1990 by Don Schmitt and Stanton
Friedman and recorded on video tape, DuBose said, "Actually it was a cover
story, the balloon part of it... The remnants that were taken from this
location and [Colonel] Al Clark [base commander at Eighth Air Force in Fort
Worth in 1947] took it to Washington and whatever happened to them then, I
have no knowledge. That part of it was in fact a story that we were told to
give to the public and the news and that was it... We were told this is the
story [balloon explanation] that is to be given to the press and that is it
and anything else, forget it."
Had Weaver asked, we would have sent him a copy of that video tape. Not only
did government officials attempt to keep military officers from talking,
they also shut down radio reports. George "Jud" Roberts was the minority
owner of radio station KGFL in 1947. Majority owner Walt Whitmore, Sr. had
interviewed Mac Brazel and planned to broadcast that report. Instead,
according to Roberts, representatives of the FCC and from New Mexico's
congressional delegation called the station ordering them not to broadcast
the Brazel interview. If they did, Roberts reports that he was told they
would lose their license the next day. There was no talk of hearings, just a
threat to prevent the broadcast of the Brazel interview. Roberts has been
interviewed on both audio and video tape and had Weaver asked, we certainly
could have put him in contact with Roberts.
What this demonstrates is that there is a body of first-hand testimony
suggesting that both military officers and civilians were sworn to secrecy
and that the material recovered was not consistent with that from a Project
Mogul balloon array. Weaver had access to all this data but refused to
review it. While I certainly understand that he didn't want to interview
everyone we had, it would seem that he would be interested in what retired,
high ranking Air Force officers would have had to say. He wouldn't have to
rely on the interpretations of those interviews as filtered through us, but
could review them on tape. Certainly not as satisfactory as meeting them in
person, but a way of determining if, as he suggested, those statements had
been twisted, misrepresented, or taken out of context. There is no
indication that Weaver made any attempt to review this material. He rejected
it out of hand because it would show the weakness of the Project Mogul
explanation.
In examining the evidence for Project Mogul, it becomes clear that the case
is not nearly as strong as the Air Force would have us believe. The links to
Mogul are very weak and the Air Force investigators were unable to discover
any documents that would prove their point. In the end, it is speculation
based on a limited review of the evidence available.
For the Project Mogul explanation to work, we must believe that Major Marcel
was unable to identify a common type of balloon and the rawin target. We
must accept the idea that Cavitt did recognize the balloon but said nothing
to either Marcel or Blanchard or anyone else. We must accept the Air Force
theory that there was something special about the Mogul balloon arrays that
would have prevented easy identification by some, but obvious identification
by others including Mac Brazel's daughter, Bessie.
There are two important facts that impact on these assumptions. One is that
Marcel, as the intelligence officer was involved in Operation Crossroads.
This was the atomic tests held at Bikini in 1946. According Irving Newton, a
weather officer stationed at Eighth Air Force Headquarters in 1947, rawin
targets were used in atomic testing. Marcel was involved in this atomic test
and because he was the intelligence officer, might have had an opportunity
to see that particular equipment.
But more importantly is a discovery made near Circleville, Ohio at the
beginning of July 1947. Sherman Campbell, a farmer, found a balloon and
rawin target on his farm. He recognized immediately, but believed that,
because of the shiny foil, it might account for some of the flying disk
reports. He took it to the sheriff, who recognized it immediately for what
it was. Campbell then took it to the local newspaper office where it was
displayed for several weeks. The newspaper actually received another rawin
found by another farmer who also recognized it for what it was. For those
who wonder how the military invented the balloon explanation, it seems that
it was handed to them. The story was in the newspapers for them to see. It
also demonstrates that rawin targets being found are not the rare
occurrences that some would have us believe. And, it demonstrates that those
unfamiliar with the balloons and rawins were able to identify them as
mundane rather than leaping to the conclusion they were extraterrestrial.
Weaver then uses several of the affidavits published in Whiting's report to
reinforce his theory, but never uses all the information available. While
the Project Mogul material resembles, in a gross sense, that found by Mac
Brazel, it is not an exact match. This is demonstrated by a number of
statements made by those who saw and handled the debris.
Jesse Marcel, Sr., when he was shown two of the photographs of the alleged
debris taken of him in Brigadier General Roger Ramey's office said to Johnny
Mann, a reporter at TV station WWL in New Orleans, "That's not the stuff I
found." He recognized it as a balloon immediately from the photographs. Why
then, couldn't he recognize that same material on the Brazel ranch if that
was, in fact, what he had seen in 1947?
Marcel told reporters in various interviews, "I was amazed by what I saw...
It wasn't anything I was acquainted with... I could not identify [it], even
tried to burn it... [It] looked like balsa wood but [there was] no scorch an
any material we found... Looked like balsa wood but certainly wasn't."
Jesse Marcel, Jr., when he saw the pictures taken in General Ramey's office,
said that it did, in fact, resemble what he had seen, in a very gross sense.
The pictures were of foil and sticks, but were not of the debris he'd seen
in 1947. He described many of the strange properties others had noticed. He
also said that the symbols he saw on one of the small I-beams were purple,
not pinkish, and that they were about three-eighths of an inch high.
Professor C. B. Moore, a project engineer on Mogul, said the symbols on the
tape used to reinforce the balsa sticks of part of the Mogul array, were
pink and as much as three inches high. Again, a very gross resemblance, but
not an exact match.
Sallye Tadolini is quoted by Weaver. He writes that in her affidavit dated
September 27, 1993 and supplied to the FUND, she said, "...What Bill
[Brazel] showed us was a piece of what I still think as fabric. It was
something like aluminum foil, something like satin, something like
well-tanned leather in its toughness, yet was not precisely like any one of
those materials... It was about the thickness of very fine kidskin glove
leather and a dull metallic grayish silver, one side slightly darker than
the other. I do not remember it having any design or embossing on it..."
Weaver didn't bother with the next paragraph in the affidavit because it
would create too many questions. Tadolini had continued, saying, "Bill
passed it around, and we all felt of it. I did a lot of sewing, so the feel
made a great impression on me. It felt like no fabric I have touched before
or since. It was very silky or satiny, with the same texture on both sides.
Yet when I crumpled it in my hands, the feel was like that you notice when
you crumble a leather glove in your hand. When it was released, it sprang
back into its original shape, quickly flattening out with no wrinkles..."
When I interviewed Tadolini, she said that she had spent part of the morning
ironing. She was intrigued by the material's ability to resume its original
shape without wrinkles. It would mean that she wouldn't have to iron
anything again.
Bill Brazel had found some material on the debris field. When he showed it
to his father, Mac said that it looked like "part of that contraption I
found." Bill said, "The only reason I noticed the tin foil... [I] took it
out [of my pocket] and put it in the box and I noticed that when I put the
piece of foil in that box... the damned thing just started unfolding. Just
flattened out."
What all this demonstrates is that the situation in New Mexico in 1947 isn't
as Weaver and the other Air Force investigators would have us believe. There
were military officers sworn to secrecy as demonstrated by Major Easley's
audio taped statements, there was a cover-up as demonstrated by Colonel
DuBose's video taped statements, and there was a suppression of the news
media as demonstrated by Jud Roberts' taped statements and corroborated by
what he tells us today. Clearly the debris recovered at the Brazel ranch
site was not the remains of a neoprene balloon and rawin target device. All
this opens the door for questions but it doesn't completely eliminate
Project Mogul as the culprit in the events. It seems to suggest that
something other than a Project Mogul balloon array was recovered on the
Brazel ranch and there is additional information that underscores that fact,
the Air Force opinion to the contrary.
First it must be remembered that the Air Force claims that Launch No. Four,
made on June 4, 1947 is responsible for the debris. They imply in their
report that these balloons were something special. In fact, polyethylene, a
material that was developed for constant level balloons might have fooled
some of the less sophisticated witnesses because of its very nature, but the
descriptions provided by the eyewitnesses suggests it was not polyethylene.
However, the records show that the first of the polyethylene balloons were
not launched until July 3, 1947 and therefore couldn't have been responsible
for the material found on the Brazel ranch.
Balloon Launch No. 4, according to the diary kept by Dr. Albert Crary,
Project Mogul leader, was made of a cluster of regular meteorological
balloons made of neoprene. It did contain a "sonobuoy" or microphone, but no
"official" record was kept because no data of scientific importance was
recovered. Charles Moore told me that he believed they had lost track of
Launch No. 4. near Arabela, New Mexico which is twenty or thirty miles south
of the Brazel ranch site. Unfortunately there is no documentation to support
this claim.
The other important point, though the Air Force doesn't make it clear, is
that there was nothing special about the balloons in Launch No. 4. There was
nothing on it that would fool anyone. They were standard balloons, about 15
feet in diameter, and made of neoprene. Neoprene that, after exposure to
sunlight, would turn from a tan to a black. The color wouldn't be uniform.
The portions directly exposed to sunlight would blacken faster than those in
shadow. The point is that the rubber reacted to the heat and light from the
sun. Attempts to cut it, or to burn it, would have been successful. And
surely someone, if not Marcel himself, would have recognized the material as
having come from a neoprene weather balloon.
But what is important here is that the only documented record for Flight No.
4 tell us exactly what it was and there were no rawin targets to create the
metallic debris. Dr. Crary's diary suggests that the first flight containing
an entire array wasn't made until June 5 and that debris was recovered east
of Roswell. The Air Force maintains that the balloon laid in the field for
more than a month. The Roswell Daily Record suggests that Brazel found the
balloon first on June 14, ten days after the launch, but left it there for
another three weeks. This is in conflict with what ranchers have told me.
According to them, this sort of debris is not left on the pastures because
the livestock would ingest it. That sort of debris could kill the animals
and a rancher wouldn't leave it where the livestock could get at it. If
Brazel had found it on June 14, he would have picked it up on June 14. The
only reason to report it was left on the field was to provide an explanation
for what Marcel and Cavitt found on July 7.
A second problem here is that Bessie Brazel Schrieber reports that she, with
her father, collected all the debris, stuffing it into four burlap bags. If
that is true, then there was nothing for Marcel or Cavitt to see later.
Marcel told reporters, "We picked up what we could but most of it was left
behind." There certainly was more material than would be accounted for by a
Mogul balloon and array train.
The Air Force also implies that the reason there was a cover up was to
protect Project Mogul. While the project itself was highly classified, the
balloons, rawin targets, and other equipment were not classified. There was
little of intelligence value to be recovered by Soviet agents if they knew
that balloons were being launched from the Alamogordo Army Air Field.
In fact there was so little of importance attached to the balloons that a
story about them was published in the Alamogordo News. If Soviet agents were
interested in Mogul and balloon launches, that article provided more than
enough clues for them. There are photos of the balloon clusters, but more
importantly, Watson Laboratories and some of the men involved in those
launches were mentioned.
Had what Brazel found been nothing more than an experimental balloon, there
would have been no reason for the elaborate events that took place around
it. Brazel would have recognized it and disposed of it without having to
consult the local sheriff or the military at the Roswell base. This is
especially true if Bessie is to be believed. She claimed they had picked it
all up. If it was only a balloon, as Sheridan Cavitt now claims, why didn't
he mention it to anyone, saving the 509th from the embarrassment of
announcing they had a flying saucer, only to have that statement challenged
by the officers at the Eighth Air Force?
There is one other piece of evidence. Brigadier General Arthur Exon reported
that in 1947 he had the opportunity to fly over the impact site and debris
field. He said, "It was probably part of the same accident but there were
two distinct sites. One, assuming that the thing, as I understand it, as I
remember flying the area later, that the damage to the vehicle seemed to be
coming from the southeast to the northwest but it could have been going in
the opposite direction, but it doesn't seem likely. So the farther northwest
pieces found on the ranch, those were mostly metal."
His testimony corroborates two sites, the orientation of those sites, and
effectively eliminates Project Mogul. There is no way for Project Mogul to
create two distinct sites that are part of a single event. Nor is there any
way for Project Mogul to create the gouges mentioned by General Exon in
other conversations. Weaver ignored Exon's testimony because of the damage
it does to the Project Mogul theory.
No, Project Mogul, although highly classified, does nothing to explain the
events on the Brazel ranch. There is too much testimony from too many
first-hand witnesses. In fact, I have used only testimony gathered from
first- hand observations. When all the data are examined, it is obvious to
all that Project Mogul is inadequate as an explanation.
In fact, the GAO, in their review of the situation for Congressman Steven
Schiff examined the Air Force position and found it inadequate. The GAO
report said, "The Air Force report concluded that there was no dispute that
something happened near Roswell in July 1947 and that all available official
materials indicated the most likely source of the wreckage recovered was one
of the project MOGUL balloon trains."
It must be noted that the GAO did not endorse the conclusion, merely
reported on it. It other circumstances, when GAO investigations have
corroborated information, they have commented on it positively. In this
case, there were no such positive comments.
But there is one more fact that must be mentioned. With the release of the
1994 report, the Air Force claimed the report was going to be their last
word on Roswell. They had solved the case. However, a number of UFO
investigators report that Air Force officers are still gathering data, and
that they will suggest that the bodies recovered were the flight crew of a
crashed aircraft.
This ignores, of course, the Air Force statement in their 1994 report that
they found no records of aircraft accidents that could account for the
Roswell Incident. The question to be asked is if the Air Force solved the
case with their Project Mogul balloons, why are they still investigating?
None of this leads directly to the extraterrestrial explanation. Other
evidence takes us in that direction. But it must be remembered that all
terrestrial explanations have been eliminated by searches of military
records, private industry's research and development programs, eyewitness
testimony and a failure to find any documentation to support these other
answers. When the investigation is over and all the evidence examined there
is little room left for speculation and none for Project Mogul.
Archaeologists at Roswell Fact or Fiction?
By Kevin Randle
There are some interesting details concerning a group of archaeologists who,
in 1947, were digging near the alleged debris field when the crash occurred.
Kevin Randle reported that Tom Carey, a co-researcher of Randle's, made
contact with the archaeological team's leader, Dr. W.Curry Holden, in
November of 1992. He was able to supply details and said he'd seen it all.
According to one of Holden's men, the craft was not the classic saucer
shape, but looked like a "crashed airplane without wings." The
archaeologists saw only three of the five bodies. Two were outside the craft
and a third was visible through a tear in the side of the ship. Dr. C.
Bertram Schultz, a paleontologist from the University of Nebraska, was able
to confirm Holden's statements, remembering their conversation in 1947
regarding the crash. Randle was able to establish that they had attended the
meeting referenced by Schultz. Further confirmation came from Schult's
children, who remembered their father's telling of the incident. Holden's
information was also confirmed by Maj. Edwin Easley, the provost marshall at
the Army base south of Roswell, as well as by others.