What’s the Truth About the Roswell Crash? Pt. 2

Our previous newsletter covered all the pertinent details of the Roswell event.

But we left out two crucial clues that suggest there was something more going on behind the event than just a simple weather balloon recovery.

First off, there’s been a cascade of different and often contradictory explanations of the Roswell event. At first, the US Army Air Corps, the 1947 predecessor of the Air Force, claimed the debris was a simple weather balloon.

They’ve never explained how so many expertly trained high-level officers from the most advanced air unit in the world, the 509th Composite Bomb Group, could have been so badly mistaken. Yet those same individuals were never reprimanded for their gross error.

Instead, they continued to gain promotions, including Major Jesse Marcel, who was promoted before the end of the year, and lieutenant Colonel Arthur Exon at Dayton, Ohio, who was later promoted to base commander.

The second explanation came in 1994, when the US Air Force issued a report, somewhat optimistically titled ‘The Roswell Report: Case Closed’. It claimed the weather balloon was a top-secret balloon system from Operation Mogul, designed to pick up high-altitude sounds from Soviet-era nuclear explosions.^[1]

This explanation faces the same criticism as the original explanation: how could experienced intelligence officers like Major Marcel and Lt. Col. Arthur Exon, who saw the debris at Dayton, not be able to identify such material?

And why would even a Mogul balloon require such extraordinary cleanup as was seen at Mac Brazel’s ranch. As well as requiring military police to threaten witnesses, as they did to Roswell sheriff George Wilcox and his family, and hold them in custody, as in Brazel’s case for almost a week?

There is also some doubt as to whether a Mogul balloon was even in the air in late June 1947, which is the earliest the crash could have occurred. One Mogul array was launched on June 4th from Alamogordo, New Mexico,^[2] but it couldn’t have remained in the air for ten days until Mac Brazel heard a crash somewhere after June 14^th .

Nor would it have accounted for the loud boom that Brazel said accompanied the crash.^[3] Some reports suggest that Brazel didn’t hear the boom until early July, making the Mogul explanation less likely.^[4]

Then in 1997, the Air Force came out with a third story: that the ‘bodies’ that were claimed to have been seen by dozens of witnesses were actually crash test dummies from a later 1950s-era series of tests.^[5] This ‘explanation’ was in spite of the Air Force’s earlier claims that no bodies of any kind were ever involved in the Roswell incident.

In 2005, a fourth explanation was offered up by author Nick Redfern. In his book ‘Body Snatchers in the Desert,’^[6] he wrote that three unnamed whistleblowers, each one government- or military-connected, told him that the Roswell crash was part of a program using captured Japanese scientists from the infamous Unit 731.^[7]

It was using prisoners of war for experiments on the effects of high-altitude radiation. His sources suggested the ‘alien’ bodies were misidentified Asian victims of the test, which strains credulity to say the least.

A fifth explanation was put forward in 2011 by Annie Jacobsen in her book, ‘Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base.’^[8]

Her theory, not widely accepted, was that the crashed debris belonged to a Soviet propaganda craft, created by a captured Dr. Joseph Mengele. That it was designed to scare Americans into worrying about alien invasions, which would sow panic and confusion throughout the country.

Her claim was that the hieroglyphic writing that Major Marcel and his son Jesse Marcel Jr. saw was, in fact, Russian Cyrillic writing.

Despite these ever-changing stories and theories, there have been two major pieces of evidence that strongly support the underlying truth that something extraordinary really did occur at Roswell.

The first of these involves the famous image of General Ramey viewing the wreckage at the Fort Worth location, beside his Chief of Staff, Colonel Thomas E. DuBose (seen in the picture at the head of this newsletter).

In Ramey’s hand, he holds a teletype message with the text facing the camera. At the time, it would have been impossible to read the faint letters on the page. But in 2015, UFO researcher Kevin Randle led a team that digitized the original negatives of the photo, and used computer image enhancement to decipher the most likely possibility of the message.^[9]

With Martin Dreyer, a dedicated Roswell and UFO researcher living in New Zealand, they expanded on pioneering work begun in 2001 by David Rudia,^[10] and even earlier efforts done by Brad Sparks in the 1980s.^[11]

Though there are some discrepancies in interpretation between the different teams, overall they agreed that the teletype image includes around 74 to 78 legible words, which include the phrases ‘THE VICTIMS OF THE WRECK’ and ‘IN THE 'DISC.’^[12] The message also clearly indicated the words ‘WEATHER BALLOONS’ and ‘AT FORT WORTH TEX.’

This raises a significant question: why would General Ramey expose a top-secret message to possible capture by photographers?

The answer is simple: this isn’t the first time top-level officials accidentally allowed such sensitive material to be accidentally captured by cameras. And with this meeting, there were no reporters and only one cameraman.

It’s entirely possible he simply didn’t think such a message should be out of his sight, and didn’t realize the camera would record anything legible.^[13]

It should be noted that shortly before his death in 1991, Colonel DuBose, who retired as a Brigadier General, stated unequivocally that ‘It was a cover story, the balloon part of it. Anything else, forget it!’^[14]

Brigadier General DuBose remains the highest ranking officer to confirm that the Roswell weather balloon and Mogul cover-up stories are not the truth.

There is one additional piece of evidence that suggests the Roswell crash was something truly unique — or more precisely, a lack of evidence.

In 1993, New Mexico Congressman Steven H. Schiff asked the General Accounting Office for an investigation of all files pertaining to the Roswell incident. That’s what caused the Air Force to issue its previously mentioned 1994 report, ‘Case Closed.’ But something interesting happened when the GAO began digging.

They discovered that all of the incoming and outgoing messages to Roswell Army Air Field from October 1946 through December 1949 had been mysteriously destroyed. In addition, all of the administrative files, which would cover (among other items) the transfer and assignment of base personnel, from March 1945 through December 1949 had also been destroyed.

According to the Air Force’s own report to Rep. Schiff’s GAO request, there was no explanation of who ordered the files’ destruction, nor where or when it was carried out, nor by whom.^[15]

Skepticism about an unauthorized and undocumented destruction of such important files over such a critical point in this country’s history ran high. Even the GAO thought this excuse simply didn’t fly, and that the Air Force was withholding information, or worse, had destroyed vital documentation as part of its decades-long cover up.^[16]

This apparently intentional destruction of government files again suggests something far more serious than simply a misidentified Mogul balloon launch and recovery. Couple this with the Ramey memo which indicates there was an admission of ‘victims’ of a crashed ‘disc,’ and we seem to have the best example yet of a smoking gun.

If the US government ever wants to have its people trust it, especially where it comes to its current UAP and UFO investigations, it needs to start with Roswell. Though the chances of the Pentagon ever admitting they had recovered non-human technology, alien bodies, and possibly even a live alien and covered it all up for 75 years, are extremely slim indeed.

[1] https://www.af.mil/The-Roswell-Report/

[2] https://muller.lbl.gov/teaching/physics10/Roswell/USMogulReport.html

[3] https://unsolved.com/gallery/roswell/

[4] https://unsolved.com/gallery/roswell/

[5] https://www.element115.ai/article/roswell-incident

[6] https://books.google.com/books?id=aYic0WQY3DcC

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

[8] https://www.amazon.com/Area-51-Uncensored-Americas-Military/dp/0316132942

[9] https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2015/09/ramey-memo-update.html

[10] http://www.roswellproof.com/

[11] https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-ramey-memo.html

[12] https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2015/09/ramey-memo-update.html