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by
David Calvert
Even world governments are not beyond dipping their toes into
the murky waters of deception. When it comes to UFOs and ‘national
security’ issues they are arguably the supreme masters. An obvious
example of this is the Roswell incident.
On July 6th, ‘Mack Brazel, who operated the Foster ranch near the
town of Roswell, New Mexico, turned up at Sheriff George Wilcox’s
office with pieces of odd wreckage that possessed out of the ordinary
properties. He had discovered them, and similar pieces, strewn across
a 1-kilometre area of the ranch earlier. The sheriff informed the Roswell
army base and spoke with Major Jesse Marcell, the Intelligence Officer
for the worlds only atomic bomb unit. Marcell also checked the
material and noted its very strange properties. He informed Colonel
William Blanchard, his base commander, of the find. Both Marcell, and
Counter-Intelligence Officer, Sheridan W. Cavitt, were ordered to visit
the site and collect the debris.
Marcell later stated, after viewing the crash site, ‘It was nothing
that hit the ground, or exploded on the ground. Its something that
must have exploded above the ground, travelling perhaps at a high
rate of speed’ … ‘It was quite obvious to me, familiar with air activities,
that it was not a weather balloon, nor was it a plain or a missile.’ He
and Cavitt filled their vehicles with as much debris as they could hold
and made their way back to base.
The following morning, after sealing off the area, Col. Blanchard
sent soldiers and military police to the ranch to make a detailed
search. Meanwhile, back at the RAAF base, Press Officer, Lieutenant
Haut issued a press release stating that a ‘flying disc’ had been
captured. The news was heard on local radio and made the evening
editions of the local papers. It was shortly after that the cover story
came into effect.
By now Major Marcell had been instructed to take himself and the
wreckage to Wright Field (now Wright-Patterson Air Force Base) in Ohio.
On the way he stopped off at the headquarters of the Eighth Air Force,
Fort Worth.
No sooner had he landed at Fort Worth when he was approached
by General Roger Ramey and told, ‘Don’t say anything. I’ll take care of
it’. He was acting on the instructions of Colonel Thomas Jefferson
DuBose, the Chief of Staff at Fort Worth, who in turn was acting on the
instructions of General Clemens McMullen, the Acting Director of
Strategic Air Command in Washington who had gotten wind of the
press release and had ordered DuBose to invent a cover story.
There then followed a photo session in which Marcell posed with
bogus wreckage of a weather balloon and radar reflector made of foil
and wooden sticks. The press were then told that a mistake had been
made and that it was not a flying disc that had been recovered, but a
radar reflector. This cover story went out at about 5 pm, central time,
and Marcell was sent back to Roswell and forbidden to speak to
anyone.
Claims that army personnel also discovered alien bodies and the
main body of the UFO at the site began to circulate. More recently a
counter claim that it was Brazel and several others who discovered the
remains of four extraterrestrials has come to light. If this were true
Cavitt and Marcell would have been informed of this by Brazel prior to
their inspecting the crash site.
The military has changed its story as to the provenance of the
so-called alien bodies on occasion. At one point they claimed they were
rhesus monkeys, used as part of a military space-travel experiment,
which later changed to artificial human crash test dummies, dropped
from high altitudes in human endurance experiments. The latter story
certainly isn’t true as test dummies were not used until the 1950s, nor,
would they account for the small stature of the alleged creatures found
at the ranch.
It is beyond dispute that the military were, and still are, trying to
keep secret what crashed that night at Roswell. Some researchers
believe that they may have been telling the truth when they said the
debris was from a balloon, even if the wreckage shown was not from
the actual balloon that crashed. At the time the US Navy and the CIA
were involved in the Moby Dick programme, which sent high-altitude
balloons over the Soviet mainland on spying missions. There was good
reason to keep this secret. However, the stumbling block to this theory
doesn’t fit the description of the size or disposition of the debris field
described by Marcell who, as we will recall, stated that ‘It was nothing
that hit the ground, or exploded on the ground. Its something that
must have exploded above the ground, travelling perhaps at a high
rate of speed’ … ‘It was quite obvious to me, familiar with air activities,
that it was not a weather balloon, nor was it a plain or a missile.’
It has taken 46 years for the truth to finally emerge regarding the
Lonnie Zamora sighting in Socorro, New Mexico. It turns out that the
landed UFO and its occupants witnessed by Zamora were nothing more
than an elaborate school prank.
While pursuing a speeding car, police officer Lonnie Zamora
heard a loud explosion. He thought that it might have come from a
nearby dynamite shack and broke off the pursuit to investigate. He saw
a cone of flame travelling over a hill and followed it. It led him to a
strange looking craft and two figures, dressed in “white coveralls”
walking around it. He pulled up about 100 ft from the landed, 20ft
“aluminium-white” oval object resting on structured “legs”. As he
climbed from his car he bumped his head and his glasses fell off. On
approaching the object the figures suddenly jumped out of sight.
Shortly after a flame appeared beneath the craft and it roared off over
the hill. There was a high-pitched whine and then silence.
On close inspection of the landing site, four “landing
impressions” were discovered along with areas of burnt bush, near to
where the craft had sat. When asked by an officer whom he had
radioed what the craft looked like he said, “It looks like a balloon.”
Socorro soon became embroiled in a media circus, including
officials from the US Air Force’s Project Blue Book and NICAP. Zamora’s
story received not only the attention of the national media, but also
the International media. To-date, it is still one of the most celebrated
cases in UFO history.
CORROBORATIVE EVIDENCE
• A large helium balloon resting on the desert floor with landing struts
attached, to be released on cue.
• The use of explosives, pyrotechnics, model rockets, thrown flares or
a flame device to simulate the ‘roaring’ or ‘whining’.
• Small students dressed in white lab coats acting as ‘aliens’.
• The ‘landing depressions’ were probably dug out by hand.
• The creosote bushes were torched deliberately.
• Surrounding soil and rock area ‘salted’ with silicon or trinitite from
the school’s geology lab.
• Zamora was probably lured to the site by another student, whose
car he had been chasing.
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