The Roswell case
The "Roswell case" is the most important and documented UFO incident of the modern era. While its exact dating is still uncertain, placing it between 2 and 4 July 1947, the places, events and protagonists who experienced them firsthand are certain. All this, despite the fact that the Pentagon decided at the time to cast a heavy blanket of silence on the case, which has been officially maintained to this day.
During the first ten days of that now distant July, the "Roswell case" ended up on the pages of all the main newspapers in the world, only to be forgotten. Only recently was it "unofficially" reopened by a group of researchers who retraced the facts millimetrically, reaching the conclusion that the accident really happened and that the US Government silenced it, as has been the case, over the course of the years, for the majority of witnesses who were directly involved.
The town of Roswell in New Mexico had an indisputable strategic primacy in 1947: it hosted an American Army air base nearby, within whose perimeter the 509th Bomb Group was stationed, the only bombing group in the world armed with nuclear weapons, the the same people who two years earlier had put an end to World War II with Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The "case" arose on July 2 - during the holiday weekend of the 4th, US Independence Day - when Mr. Dan Wilmot and his wife observed around 9.50pm a luminous discoidal object whizzing towards the town of Corona. A violent storm breaks out during the night, the sky is overcast, at times illuminated by flashes and shaken by thunder. It was in those hours, before dawn on July 3rd, that the accident probably occurred: a UFO (some researchers support the theory of two objects involved), for reasons never ascertained, crashed into the desert.
All occupants dead
In February 1950, civil engineer Barney "Grady" Barnett from Socorro confided to the Maltais couple, his old friends whom he asked to keep secret, that on July 3, 1947, while he was on duty in the desert in the area between Magdalena and Socorro, he suddenly found himself in front of a disc-shaped metallic object 7 to 9 meters in diameter, which he approached on foot, almost to the point of being able to touch it.
Meanwhile, other persons had arrived on site (including young people, perhaps students) who were part of an archaeological group from the University of Pennsylvania. Next to the crashed vehicle everyone had seen, projected outside, humanoid beings now lifeless, of thin build, with very large heads, light complexion and completely hairless. Shortly thereafter, a military truck loaded with soldiers entered the scene and promptly blocked and then removed the civilians, ordering them not to say a word about what they had seen ("for patriotic reasons of national security"), cordoning off the area. According to Barnett, the scene of the event was a rocky ridge close to the so-called San Agustin Plains, which has now become the site of the VLA (Verv Large Array) radio telescopes of the United States National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
The credibility of Barnett's testimony remained doubtful, as no one was ever able to question him on the matter, as he died when the Roswell case had not yet been discussed again. As for the group of archaeologists, it was not possible to verify the identities of any of them.
Wreckage on the Brazel field
On the same July 3, cattle rancher William W. "Mac" Brazel (whose ranch is located in the south-eastern part of the Corona region) found a quantity of "metal sheets" scattered on the land he owned and thought to an accident that occurred near the air base. He talked about the matter with a neighbor, Floyd Proctor, and therefore, not having a telephone, on July 5th he went to Corona, where people were already talking about "flying saucers" (the press had reported the news of Kenneth's sighting Arnold of June 24). Brazel links his discovery to the matter of the "discs" and on the morning of July 6 he decides to go to the city with fragments of the material to the Meteorological Office, where they invite him to contact Sheriff George Wilcox.
An unexpected "bend"
Wilcox takes note of the situation and immediately informs the military command of Roswell and the commander of the Base, Colonel William Blanchard, gives orders to the head of the CIC (counter-espionage corps), Major Jesse Marcel, to go to the location and begin investigations. Marcel talks to Brazel, who is still at the sheriff's office.
It is during this time that the farmer is interviewed by the local radio station KGFL. Marcel, accompanied by his collaborator Sheridan Cavitt (also from CIC), picks up Brazel in Wilcox's office and the three go by car to the location. Having spent the night at the breeder's farm, on the 7th they carry out a reconnaissance and find the presence of the mysterious fragments, of which Marcel collects a good quantity and places it in his car. In the night, before returning to base, Marcel stops by the house and shows his wife and son Jesse Jr. the materials.
Marcel Jr.'s testimony is of fundamental importance.
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July 7: WE Whitmore, owner of the KGFL radio station in Roswell, is about to air the interview with Brazel recorded the day before, but is blocked by a phone call from the secretary of the Federal Communications Commission in Washington ordering him not to. On the 8th, around 4.00 pm, John McBoyle, reporter for the KSWS station in Roswell, telephones Lydia Sleppy, teleprinter for KOAT Radio in Albuquerque and tells her to transmit the following news by teleprinter to the American Broadcasting Company (ABC):
"A flying saucer fell near Roswell... It's like a large basin, smashed... A farmer dragged it with a tractor under a livestock shed... The Army intervened and is preparing to recover it... The whole area is blocked..."
Password "forget"
Immediately afterwards Sleppy receives a phone call from McBoyle who tells her
"forget everything, you've never heard of it"
(later the reporter will tell Sleppy that he witnessed the take-off of a transport plane bound for Wright Field, containing the wreckage of the "disk").
Meanwhile, Maj. Hughie Green of the British RAF (Royal Air Force), traveling from California to Philadelphia, is crossing New Mexico from west to east by car, and from a local radio news program (perhaps KSWS) he learns that a "flying saucer" had crashed in the area and that "the sheriff and his men had come in sight of the wreckage".
One therefore wonders whether Wilcox and his men had not identified the central body of the UFO. At the same time "Mac" Brazel is taken by the military and held in strict custody until the 15th when he will be released, now convinced that he must change his version of events, to the point of not even confiding the truth to his wife.
The situation is not under control
On July 8th, pressured by journalists demanding details, Col. Blanchard called the base press officer, Lt. Walter Haut, and drew up an official press release with him.
Under the direct control of Maj. Marcel, the wreckage of the disk, initially placed in Hangar 84, was then transferred with a "B-29" from the Roswell base to Fort Worth (now Carswell) in Texas.
From here the material is sent to Wright Field (Ohio) on a transport plane with the pilot Capt. OW "Pappy" Henderson at the controls, by "superior" order carried out by General Roger Ramey. He will confirm to Col. Blanchard the Pentagon's opposition, expressed to him by Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg on whom he depended, towards the press release issued by Lt. Haut, and assumes operational control of a situation which, evidently, has already gotten out of hand military leaders.
On July 8, the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) intervened from Dallas (Texas) in a telegram, signed by an unidentified "Wyly", forwarded in copy to Edgar Hoover (head of the FBI) and to the SAC (Strategic Air Command) provides the following information:
"Information regarding the Roswell flying saucer and its transportation by the 8th Air Force HQ - flying saucer or sounding balloon to Wright Field Air Base (Ohio) - Censored news. Signed Wyly".
Counterinformation is triggered
At this point General Roger Ramey, on Fort Worth radio in Texas (WBAP), declares that the "flying saucer" was just a sounding balloon. Having then arrived in Roswell, Ramey summons the journalists and shows them - forcing Maj. Marcel to pose in silence for the photographers - the fragments of a weather balloon which is attributed responsibility for the accident.
The next measure was against Blanchard, who was sent on leave and replaced by Lt. Col. Payne Jennings, who was then lost on his plane headed for England while flying over the Atlantic in the Bermuda area. Maj. Marcel should have accompanied him, but was held back by the personal intervention of Col. Blanchard. Having retired with the rank of three-star general, Blanchard left the whole affair with extreme discretion. Lieutenant Haut will also maintain "due confidentiality" until his retirement. After her death, Blanchard's widow stated that her husband knew that "the wreck was not a weather balloon." But for the American military it remained so, with the approval of then President Harry Truman.
In reality today the facts tell us that the official versions are completely "tame" and fallacious. And, even apart from the sensational appearance of vintage film material (probably referable to the autopsy of two of the humanoid beings involved in the case) released in 1995 by the American Ray Santilli, it is now clear that something extremely anomalous and shocking was recovered in Roswell.
Gen. Ramey Clears the Roswell Disk
When on July 9, 1947 the "Roswell Daily Record" newspaper published the statements of General Roger R. Ramey, commander of the Eighth Air Force, from the headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas, the Roswell case for the Pentagon was officially closed. It was not the recovery of a crashed flying saucer and its crew, but a simple weather balloon. This version is still maintained today.
But the evidence about the Roswell incident, which has emerged since 1982, shows that it was staged on the orders of US military brass.
In 1989, an image of a supposed alien crash victim appeared for the first time. It is actually a reconstruction. New and more shocking documents will follow, until the disclosure of the controversial film of an autopsy on a humanoid not belonging to the Homo Sapiens species.
