See actual UFO crash debris tested and found to be truly extraterrestrial. The Roswell UFO crash of 1947 and the ensuing military cover-up set the stage for this explosive documentary about America’s reaction to our planet’s encounter with ETs. Going beyond the question “Did it really happen?”, this program counters 60 years of Air Force denials and focuses on the more compelling aspects of this cosmic mystery: scientific evidence, physical proof, personal testimonies, expert analysis and the cosmic implication of an alien presence here on Earth. Includes: photos, videos, documents and an amazing arsenal of spellbinding interviews with researchers, eyewitnesses and the best-known, most credible UFO authorities in the world today. Roswell: The UFO Uncoverup – Now on DVD, Cat# U438 – Go to www.UFOTV.com

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“Alien Secrets”, winner of the best feature film at the “International UFO Congress Film Festival” has its Galactic Premiere at the Galaxy 8, in Roswell, New Mexico. Showings at midnight on July 6th , with special premiere screenings on Saturday July 7th. In a special engagement celebrating the 60th Anniversary of a UFO crashing in Roswell, the Allen Theatre presents one of the most entertaining and informative films ever done on the subject of UFO’s and Alien/Human Hybrids.

Filmmaker J.J. Barmettler and controversial UFO Investigator Brandon Scott have captured the UFO subculture from the inside out working 43 artists, 23 abduction victims, 30 experts and 200 eye witnesses who have all had experiences in the chilling UFO Alien phenomenon. “This unusual subject matter is presented with wry humor including original songs and real UFO footage and it’s sure to be a cult fave,” Marci Marks of the Studio City Sun.

Alien Secrets, the Spinal Tap of UFO’s with a touch of truth, weaves Sci-Fi and reality in an epic portrayal of ones man’s search for an Alien/Human/Hybrid and his drive to save humanity. Based on his real life escapades as a Paranormal Investigator, Brandon Scott plays a parody of himself as he explores the UFO subculture with a biting edge and wit; while dogging a shifty shadow government agent bent on stopping his findings. With real footage of UFOs and actual underground encounters, we follow Brandon as he cleverly navigates his way through the world of Hollywood celebrities, renown experts in the UFO community and how he uncovers the truth about actual people claiming to be abductees and alien/human hybrids. Brandon will be guest on Coast to Coast with George Noory on Monday, July 9th.

For more information: http://aliensecretsmovie.com/roswell/

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More Ufo Press Releases

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The Roswell UFO Incident began in July of 1947 when a rancher discovered a large amount of unusual debris scattered across one of his fields. Many believed it to be the remains of a flying saucer crash, but the government quickly told the press that the discovery was the tattered remains of a fallen weather balloon that went down about 75 miles from Roswell, New Mexico. This cover-up is the target for satire in “The Top Secret UFO Project,” filmmaker R. J. Thomas’ parody of UFO documentaries in general and Roswell in particular.

“The cover-up makes for a good story, whether it it true or not,” Mr. Thomas said. “In many ways, the Roswell UFO Incident is one of the greatest comedies ever written.”

Based on Thomas’ 2004 novella of the same name, “The Top Secret UFO Project” chronicles the UFO-related events experienced by a tiny Colorado hamlet called Jasper. According to the film, the town dealt with one unusual event after another in the summer of 1956. After a farmer spotted a spaceship flying over his house, scientists rushed into Jasper to investigate, reporters rushed in looking for stories, and government officials rushed in to keep it a secret from the world.

In Roswell in 1947, Brigadier General Roger Ramey, the head of the 8th Army Air Force at Fort Worth, Texas, told the public that the debris found at the ranch was the remains of a fallen weather balloon and its’ aluminum foil radar target kite. A weather officer was brought in to make the identification official, the press bought the story, and debates began which still carry on to this day.

In “The Top Secret UFO Project,” government cover-ups are parodied mercilessly. After the farmer sees a spaceship over his house, an expert is brought in to say that the farmer saw a rare bird, not a flying saucer. When a gas station attendant sees a spaceship sitting in a canyon, the government tells the press it is really just a parade float hidden in the brush by its’ makers. And when a farmer finds unusual debris in one of his fields, the public is told that the mysterious pieces are the remains of a crash involving a truck that was carrying toxic chemicals.

Billed as “the movie the government doesn’t want you to see,” “The Top Secret UFO Project,” is a parody of specials you might find on the Sci-Fi Channel or Discovery, and the cheesy UFO documentaries of the 70′s and TV programs like “In Search Of.”

Mr. Thomas plays a documentary filmmaker who, in 2003, discovered (by accident) some top secret government films pertaining to the Jasper Incident of 1956. This inspired him to make a documentary about Jasper’s UFO story, and to discover the truth behind what really happened that mysterious summer in Colorado.

“In 1994, a UFO researcher came to the conclusion that the 1947 ranch discovery was really the pieces of a weather balloon,” Mr. Thomas said. “But, he added, the weather balloon went down because a flying saucer had crashed into it!”

“The Top Secret UFO Project” is available on DVD at

BooksAndSuchMart.com.

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One Phillip Corso claimed he reversed engineered the technology from the ufo crash in roswell. The US Government says no. Who do you believe?
Video Rating: 4 / 5

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Detailed answers please, thank you!

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In an attempt to provide the opportunity for MSF to answer the objec-
tions raised in the press release, ParaNet has talked with all three mem-
bers of the MSF team: William L. Moore of Burbank, CA, UFO investigator
and co-author of “The Philadelphia Experiment” and “The Roswell Incident”
(the latter detailing a UFO crash in 1947 which stands to be confirmed if
the MJ-12 documents are real); Jaime Shandera of North Hollywood, CA, an
independent television producer who had little to do with UFOs until team-
ing up with Moore in 1981; and Stanton T. Friedman of New Brunswick, Cana-
da, a nuclear physicist and UFO lecturer.
All three members of the team agreed that nothing brought out by Klass in the release conclusively showed Majestic-12 to be a hoax; i
n fact none of the members seemed to acknowledge that any damage was done whatsoever.
Below are some of the objections raised by Klass, and selected ans-
wers given by the team members.

o Item: Robert Cutler was in Europe at the time the Cutler-to-Twining Memo
was allegedly written.

Friedman: “That’s a stupid argument. The memo wasn’t signed by
Cutler. [But] he gave his people instructions to keep the ball
rolling while he was gone.
“We have two other memos from Cutler to Twining, which we’ve
gotten at the Library of Congress, one is signed and the other
isn’t. The one that’s not signed has an `/s/’ indicating where the
original was signed.”

Moore: “The absence of a signature on the document is consistent
with the fact that Cutler was overseas when it was written. If the
document had been signed, then we would have reason to worry.

o Item: The lack of the characteristic “Eagle” watermark found on all of
Cutler’s memoranda stationery.

Friedman: “But how many? They didn’t have at the Eisenhower Library
OR the National Archives, these two Cutler memoranda that we found
at the Library of Congress! Absence of evidence is not evidence for
absence.”

o Item: The lack of a Top-Secret registration number on the document.

Friedman: “Neither of the other documents we got from the Library of
Congress had registration numbers, either.”

Moore: “NONE of the Top-Secret Cutler memoranda we have seen have
registration numbers.”

o Item: The presence of typewriter key impressions through the back of the
document indicates it was typed as an original, not as a carbon.

Moore: “This just shows that [Klass] has not done a shred of
original research. He couldn’t have looked at the original. If he
had, he would have seen that the paper is definitely old, and the
ink on the paper is blue.

Friedman: “I have trouble with that. The ink is blue. Who uses blue
typewriter ribbons?”

o Item: The use of the security classification “Top Secret – Restricted,”
which did not come into use by the NSC until at least a decade later.

Friedman: “Well, that’s what these guys are saying, but I don’t even
know that that’s true. `Restricted’ can mean `nobody else sees.’
Also, in that same year of ’54, the Atomic Energy Act brought in the
use of `Secret-Restricted Data’ when you’re dealing with anything
nuclear…and Twining obviously thought there was a nuclear
connection with UFOs because in a 1947 memo he said all the data
should go to the AEC and the Nuclear Energy Propulsion Applications
Project.”

o Item: The Sept. 24, 1947 letter from Pres. Truman to Secy. Forrestal is
not consistent in format with other Truman letters to Cabinet members.

Moore: “Nonsense. We have a letter from a Congressional historian
that says that the form and style ARE consistent.”

o Item: The Truman letter was created by “superimposing a spurious message
on a photocopy of an authentic Truman letter.”

Shandera: “The 35mm film we have of the [Truman] document is very
clear, its a very good photo. If anything like that had been done,
it would easily show up.”

Moore: “He’s dreaming. The evidence is just the opposite. If you
look at the document on the film, there are some areas where a
different color ink was probably used, probably red, which contrast
highly with the rest of the document. If this were a [composite
photocopy], there wouldn’t be this much contrast.”

In the CSICOP press release, and previously in other media, Klass
has said that he has invited Moore and his associates to “join in his own
efforts” to get to the bottom of the MJ-12 scenario. Moore claims that
Klass “has never extended such an invitation to any one of us.”

Moore says that more information on MJ-12 will be released “toward
the end of September,” including a point-by-point response to the
objections raised by Klass in the release. As usual, ParaNet will be the
first computer-based media in the world to carry the story as it unfolds.

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April 11, 1979

Mr. Lee M Graham
526 West Maple
Monrovia, California 91016

Dear Mr. Graham:

It is true I was denied access to a faclity at
Wright-Patterson. Because I never got in, I can’t
tell you what was inside. We both know about the
rumors.

Apart from that, let me make my position clear: I
do not beleive that we are the only planet, and of
some two billion that exist, that has life on it. I
have never seen what I would call a UFO, but I have
intelligent friends who have, so I can sort of argue
either way.

Sincerely,
(Signature)
Barry Goldwater.
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Source: UFO Universe (magazine) Nov 88 page 41
See also page 3.
351 W. 54th ST. NY, NY 10012.
====
From Joe Holland to Dick Copits 2/3/89
Wright Patterson is plainly marked on my AAA Road Atlas as on
the east side of Dayton, Ohio. Everything should be so easy to
check! I had meant to look it up, but it never occured to me someone
would miss on a thing like that. Well, I’m the one who goes around
reminding people that things may be easier to check than you think,
and trying to get people to do it.
If that story is true about the crashed disk, then the disk went
somewhere. Why they would move it a long distance would be a
question, although there could be a number of reasons. If the
expertise for rebuilding craft existed back then at Wright-Patterson,
as it does now, then that’s a possible answer. Also, you say they
look at the space photos there.
However, it would have soon become evident, from your
description, that Wright-Patterson was not a highest security area,
so it would have been reasonable to move it.
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File prepared by Joe Holland, 2/23/89.

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FBI DALLAS 7-8-47 6-17 PM

DIRECTOR AND SAC, CINCINNATI URGENT

FLYING DISC, INFORMATION CONCERNING. MAJOR CURTAN, HEADQUARTERS

EIGHTH Air Force, TELEPHONICALLY ADVISED THIS OFFICE THAT AN OBJECT

PURPORTING TO BE A FLYING DISC WAS RE COVERED NEAR Roswell, NEW

MEXICO, THIS DATE. THE DISC IS HEXAGONAL IN SHAPE AND WAS SUSPENDED

FROM A BALLON BY A CABLE, WHICH BALLON WAS APPROXIMATELY TWENTY

FEET IN DIAMETER. MAJOR CURTAN FURTHER ADVISED THAT THE OBJECT FOUND

RESEMBLES A HIGH ALTITUDE WEATHER BALLOON WITH A RADAR

REFLECTOR, BUT THAT TELEPHONIC CONVERSATION BETWEEN THEIR OFFICE

AND WRIGHT FIELD HAD NOT xxxxxxxxxx BORNE OUT THIS BELIEF. DISC AND

BALLOON BEING TRANSPORTED TO WRIGHT FIELD BY SPECIAL PLANE FOR EXAMIN

INFORMATION PROVIDED THIS OFFICE BECAUSE OF NATIONAL INTEREST IN CASE

xxxx AND FACT THAT NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY, ASSOCIATED PRESS, A

OTHERS ATTEMPTING TO BREAK STORY OF LOCATION OF DISC TODAY. MAJOR

CURTAN ADVISED WOULD REQUEST WRIGHT FIELD TO ADVISE CINCINNATI

OFFICE RESULTS OF EXAMINATION. NO FURTHER INVESTIGATION BEING

CONDUCTED.

WYLY

END

CXXXX ACK IN ORDER

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Before we move on to a summary of new information, let us mention some-
thing we neglected to state in our earlier ravings: Apparently long deceased
Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter was the most important member of this group
of twelve, because his name comes first on the list (he is referred to as “MJ-
1″) and because he was allegedly the briefing officer who presented this
startling information to president-elect Dwight Eisenhower on or about Nov.
18th, 1952. Hillenkoetter, after retirement from his position as first dir-
ector of the CIA, became a member of the board of directors of NICAP, circa
1957. Can anyone seriously believe he would have dared to OPENLY join a pro-
UFO organization if he had the KNOWLEDGE of UFO reality that the “MJ-12″
briefing document leads us to assume???

We have already published our exclusive information from Dr. Ernest
Taves, a very close friend of Dr. Donald Menzel, who apparently was “MJ-10″.
Taves, like others who knew Menzel well, cannot believe that the long-de-
ceased former director of Harvard Observatory could have had this above-men-
tioned knowledge of UFO reality and still have written 3 anti-saucer books,
and still have debunked UFOs emotionally at every opportunity. Yet Moore and
Friedman see nothing amiss here, and have in fact written long, detailed re-
buttals re the “Menzel Connection” and all other negative evidence that has
been brought up in regard to “MJ-12″. They do seem to believe what they are
saying!

CUFOS, in an editorial by Jerry Clark in the May-June issue of the “In-
ternational UFO Reporter”, and in a more recent press release, seems general-
ly supportive of “MJ-12″, and claims that the “verdict is still open.”

MUFON has expressed various opinions, swaying pro and con. They used our
Taves material in a recent issue of their Journal, and in the August issue of
their Newsletter, edited by MUFON’s Massachusetts director James Melesciuc,
they state: “The results of the MJ-12 circus created by Moore, Shandera and
Friedman could be detrimental to the future of document research. The hunger
for publicity or for financial gain by any type of self-styled expert can be
as damaging to the subject as the crackpots and fanatics. Moore and Friedman,
of all people, should realize that by promoting evidence loaded with loop-
holes, will cause people to question the quality of their research and would
be disastrous to their reputations….”

Needless to say, CSICOP, as personified by Phil Klass, issued a totally
negative press release, based on insufficient information, in our opinion.
Much more interesting than the CSICOP release is the September issue of “Just
Cause”, published by Lawrence Fawcett and Barry Greenwood. In an article en-
titled “The MJ-12 Fiasco,” they give a vast amount of detailed negative data
that no student of this matter should overlook. (Address: P. O. Box 218,
Coventry, CT., 16238). To this Bill Moore’s only comment (to us, by phone)
is: “Sour Grapes.”

“Just Cause” introduces into the fray the name of a present or former
intelligence officer named Richard Doty, assigned to Kirtland Air Force Base,
New Mexico. The magazine alleges that Doty may very likely be Moore’s source.
Alas, when we said in our last “Smear” that “we believe we have the name of
the probably perpetrator”, it was Doty to whom we were referring. We have
thus been “scooped”, but never mind: Moore admits knowing Doty, but denies
that Doty is his source. So the mystery deepens!

Phil Klass, relying largely on information from British researcher Chris-
topher Allan, has made a big deal out of the fact that the “MJ-12″ briefing
paper uses an unusual format in writing the dates, which happens to be ex-
actly the same unusual format that Bill Moore uses in writing HIS dates. Our
comment is: Whereas the notorious Straith Letter Hoax of 1957 DID reflect
Gray Barkers’ stylistic peculiarities, since it was written late one drunken
night with no forethought, Moore would have to be remarkably stupid or insane
to make such a naive mistake. If the dating similarity means anything, it
more likely means that the REAL hoaxter was trying deliberately to frame
Moore!

So, to get to the point: It appears that most thoughtful Ufologists be-
lieve “MJ-12″ is possibly or probably a hoax, and some Ufologists, plus all
of the debunkers, believe that Moore & Co. are behind it. Our position is
that, although “MJ-12″ is a hoax in all probability, Moore’s group is NOT
behind it. On to our exclusive information:

Your humble “Smear” editor spent large parts of three days with Moore
and Shandera recently (Sept. 23-25), in Burbank, California, discussing “MJ-
12″ and related topics. We were left with the strong impression that they
are, if anything VICTIMS of a complex sophisticated hoax that has engulfed
them for several years – a DISINFORMATION campaign of some sort, for what
purpose we do not know.

Ufologists don’t seem to realize that Moore has been involved since 1980
in the receipt of supposed “inside” government information from first one in-
formant, and eventually several, on a more or less continuing basis. Like
“Deep Throat” in the Watergate Scandal, these informants do not always hand
him answers, but they tell him where to look. As a result, Moore has given up
his literary career, which looked very promising after the publication of
“The Roswell Incident” (with Charles Berlitz) in 1980, and has devoted all of
his spare time to research related to these ufological matters. He earns a
bare living by selling UFO books and his own tracts by mail order.

Shandera joined Moore in the quest in 1982. He too has largely given up
his career, which was in film and broadcasting. His financial situation is
better than Moore’s however, as his wife has a very good job in the TV in-
dustry.

Friedman is, it seems, a more passive partner, in that he is merely kept
informed of information received by the other two. He continues to work at a
normal science-related job in his home town in Canada.

Another thing that Ufologists don’t seem to realize is that Moore’s evi-
dence consists of a great deal more than what he has released so far. (Appar-
ently his sources tell him what he can release, and were he to disobey, he
would blow the whole ongoing relationship.) There are other documents, includ-
ing one he claims was given to him for exactly 20 minutes to do what he want-
ed with, and then was taken back. He photographed it and read it into a tape
recorder, in the presence of the agent who lent it to him.

There are also several videotapes. We were allowed to see one 20-minute
tape and most of another. These consist of a supposed agent talking in a tot-
ally disguised voice, answering a list of questions from a supposed newsman.
The agent is disguised, and the newsman has his back to the camera. The prov-
en identities of these two are known to Moore and Shandera, they say. No one
was present at the tapings except these two, plus Moore, Shandera, and the
producer.

The contents of the tapes are Way Out – literally and figuratively. We
have been asked not to print anything about the contents, so we will merely
comment that we find the material literally incredible without further evi-
dence to back it up. Moore & Co. apparently have such evidence and expect to
get more.

The scenario is that by the end of this year, Moore’s informants will
either come forth with more information and public disclosures, or else Moore
will give up on his informants and go public, himself, with all the inform-
ation he has obtained so far. In either case, we are in for some interesting
times!

There is much more to all this, but Space prevents us from rambling fur-
ther in this issue. Re our continuing “MJ-12″ quest: Our sincere thanks to,
among others, Tommy Roy Blann (who now says he has suddenly withdrawn from
the UFO field!); to Jim Speiser of ParaNet; to Antonio Huneeus for material
on the deeply mysterious “Humo Papers” which he has not yet sent (See Next
Issue!); and to the alleged Space People for making all this madness pos-
sible.

Also a tip of the “Smear” sombrero to the various zines that have seen
fit to reprint or condense some of our “MJ-12″ material in earlier issues:
“California UFO”; “Would You Believe?”; “The MUFON Journal”; and (ugh!)
“Skeptical Inquirer”.

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(IUR, International UFO Reporter, July/August 1994, Volume 19, Number 4.
Copyright 1994 by the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, 2457 West
Peterson Ave., Chicago, IL 60659, published bimonthly with a
subscription rate of $25/yr.)

In the complex story that comprises the Roswell incident, side
issues sometimes attain a momentary importance. For example, Gerald
Anderson, who claimed to have seen a crashed saucer on the Plains of San
Agustin in early July 1947, submitted a phone bill which purported to
document the length of a conversation with me. The length of the call in
and of itself was trivial. It became significant only when it became
apparent that the bill had been doctored. Without that bill and
Anderson’s subsequent admission that he had tampered with it, we might
still be debating the validity of his story. It revealed something
critical to our understanding of Anderson’ s testimony and its place in
the larger scheme of things. A discussion of the matter appears in IUR,
July/August 1992.

A new question, seemingly trivial but in fact important,
concerns the time Col. William Blanchard, commanding officer of the
509th Bomb Group, went on leave in July 1947. In his recent monograph
Roswell in Perspective (published by the Fund for UFO Research, Box 277,
Mount Rainier, Maryland 20712), Karl T. Pflock suggests that Blanchard
began his leave on July 9, 1947, instead of July 8, as Donald R. Schmitt
and I have insisted. Pflock writes, “According to the 509th’s
headquarters morning report and a tiny Associated Press story in the
July 10 Albuquerque Journal, the ninth (not the eighth) was the day he
began ‘a three week leave in Santa Fe and Colorado.’ . . . [H]e was on
his way north on a long planned vacation.”

Pflock continues:

Taken together, these admittedly fragmentary and in some part
questionable bits of testimony and documentation point to a delay
before the 509th was instructed to treat the Brazel discovery as a
sensitive matter. They also suggest Blanchard may have personally
conveyed this guidance to those in the field, perhaps as he was on
his way north on a long-planned vacation – although some have
contended he headed somewhere else entirely.

It appears that Pflock has misunderstood the significance of
Blanchard’s leave and the timing of the events. In fact, when examined
carefully, it becomes clear that the timing actually reinforces the
theory that the 509th was involved in the situation before rancher Mac
Brazel arrived in Roswell with the box of debris on July 6.

The first part of Pflock’s analysis can be resolved without
debate, varied interpretation of eyewitness testimony, or rancor. We can
review the situation and draw a valid conclusion about it based on all
the documentation currently available.

First, we have the testimony of Lt. Col. Joseph Briley.
(According to the unit history, Briley became the Operations Officer in
the middle of July. Prior to that he had been a squadron commander.)
Briley asserts Blanchard had gone to the crash site. Available
information indicates that this visit was made on July 8 and that
Blanchard’s leave began on July 8. The leave was actually a cover for
Blanchard’s activities revolving around the crash.

But Pflock attempts to refute this idea, drawing on Robert
Shirkey’s testimony:

It is entirely possible, even likely, Blanchard went to the debris
field to survey the situation personally. However, reliable
testimony suggests he did not do so on the afternoon of July 8.
First, according to Robert Shirkey, about mid-afternoon that day
he was with Blanchard in the Roswell AAF [Army Air Force]
operations building, where the colonel personally was overseeing
the dispatch of the B-29 which took Jesse Marcel and some of the
debris to Fort Worth. Second, Walter Haut vividly recalls
Blanchard['s] colorfully complaining to him that same afternoon
about not being able to place outside telephone calls because the
base switchboard was tied up with inquiries about the flying
saucer.

While this is interesting, it is not especially significant.
According to other testimony, the debris put on the aircraft arrived in
Fort Worth, Texas, about 4 p.m. local time, or 3 p.m. Roswell time.
Newspaper articles and testimony from J. Bond Johnson suggest the debris
was in Eighth Air Force Commander Brig. Gen. Roger Ramey’s office about
that time. It means, simply, that Blanchard was on the base at Roswell
until the flight’s departure, about 1:30 p.m. Roswell time, and then
left on his leave. There is nothing contradictory about this, and it
allows for both points to be correct.

Second, as Pflock suggests, the morning reports show that
Blanchard was present for duty on July 8 but had signed out on leave
before the morning report was created on July 9. These documents are
available from the Army in St. Louis, and I recovered a complete set of
the headquarters morning reports (which were indirectly supplied to
Pflock) from June 1 to July 31, 1947, through the Freedom of Information
Act.

This, too, does not contradict the proposition that Blanchard
went on leave on July 8. If Blanchard signed out on leave in the
afternoon of July 8, then the morning report would show him present on
the eighth and gone on the ninth – which is exactly what it does show.

The newspaper article Pflock quotes is interesting but probably
irrelevant. It is, after all, a newspaper article, and it shows, again,
that Blanchard was gone on the ninth. It does not tell us when he signed
out from the base.

The critical piece of evidence is Special Order Number 9, issued
by Headquarters, 509th Bomb Group, and dated July 8, 1947. It says,
“Pursuant to the authority contained in Hqs. 8th Air Force TWX number A1
1593 6 July 1947, the undersigned hereby assumes control of the Roswell
Army Air Field, Roswell New Mexico. Effective this date.” It was signed
by Payne Jennings, Lt. Col. A.C. (Air Corps), commanding.

Here is the definitive proof. Jennings assumed command on the
eighth. Therefore Blanchard went on leave on the eighth. If Blanchard
went on leave on the ninth, as Pflock would have us believe, then the
special order would reflect that. Eighth Air Force would not want to
create a situation whereby two commanders were on station at the same
time.

OTHER EVIDENCE

Some other points must be considered. What the Special Order
does is show military interest in the case days before July 8. It shows
that Blanchard’s leave was not long planned because the TWX was sent on
July 6, a Sunday. Had it been a long-planned leave, the TWX would have
been sent earlier. If it was a long-planned leave, there was no reason
to wait until Sunday, July 6, before sending the TWX. That date becomes
important when it is placed in the context of all the activities of that
critical weekend.

In fact. we can see that the military were interested in the
case before Mac Brazel’s arrival. If his arrival had been the reason for
that interest, nothing official would have happened on July 6. Brazel
arrived with debris that was interesting, but if we follow the
conventional wisdom, that is all it was, until Jesse Marcel and the
counter-intelligence agent returned late on July 7. If the headquarters
had waited for their return and for the cursory examination of the
debris on the morning of July 8, then the documentation would have been
dated no earlier than that day. The TWX demonstrates the military were
interested prior to July 8.

The TWX and the Special Order resulted from rumors circulating
in Roswell. Military officials, in both Roswell and Fort Worth, probably
in consultation with Washington, decided that Blanchard had better
monitor the activities. Their problem was, after the story began to
leak, the news media would have noticed Blanchard’s absence. Without
Brazel’s arrival and the rumors spreading through Roswell, there would
have been no reason to cover Blanchard’s absence or to grant him a
leave.

This leads to another point, one not lost on the military
planners. If the story was so important, if it involved a real flying
saucer, would Blanchard leave the base? Surely the commanding officer of
the 509th would not want to be off the base and out of town when the
biggest event of the twentieth century took place, unless his leave
itself was part of the cover-up.

On the other hand, if it was nothing more than a weather
balloon, as the military claimed publicly, then the absence of the
commander wouldn’t matter. Blanchard wouldn’t be expected to cancel his
leave over something so trivial as a crashed weather balloon.

So the TWX on July 6 becomes as important as the Special Order
because it demonstrates what was happening inside the military. They
were responding to the events of the day before. They were preparing for
what was coming. The TWX on July 6 suggests that the military already
knew about the crash on the sixth, and they knew because of what had
been found on the impact site by military officers on July 5.

Let us examine one more aspect of the case. By July 8, when the
press got interested in the Roswell case, the key players had been
removed. Mac Brazel was in military custody, held in the guest house at
the base, according to Maj. Edwin Easley, the 509th Provost Marshal.
Jesse Marcel, the only man mentioned by name in the press release, is no
longer in Roswell but on his way to Fort Worth, or already there and
insulated by Gen. Ramey. And Col. Blanchard? He was on leave, heading to
the north and into Colorado.

Even if we ignore the testimonies of Steve MacKenzie and Jim
Ragsdale, who describe activities on the impact site during the recovery
of the craft and bodies, we can still offer testimony to the 509th’s
involvement prior to the July 8 press announcement. Leo Spear, a
military policeman in Roswell in July 1947, reported hearing other MPs
return to the barracks talking about the crashed flying saucer. Like the
others who had not been used as guards, Spear thought they were making
up the story. But Spear says that when he read about the saucer in the
newspaper (July 8), a day or two after he had heard from his fellow MPs,
he changed his mind.

In other words, he had heard about the crash from the guards
prior to the press release. The release convinced him their stories were
true. This corroborates the reports of those who claim military
involvement on july 5 and supports the idea that the military were
preparing for contingencies on July 6. It suggests they knew a great
deal more much earlier than researchers have believed until recently.

SUPPORT FOR THE NEW TIMELINE

All of this refutes Pflock’s theories about Blanchard’s leave.
Pflock appears to have drawn his conclusions without having reviewed all
the relevant documents or testimonies. It is clear that the military
were active in the Roswell affair on July 5 and that they were planning
for all contingencies on July 6 by, among other things, putting
Blanchard on leave.

What we can do is restructure the timeline based on the
testimony of the participants and underscore the validity of those
changes with existing documentation. The old timeline suggested no
military interest until Mac Brazel arrived. After all, how could the
military begin a recovery before they knew a crash had occurred?

We now know they didn’t. They knew of the crash on July 5 and
commenced recovery operations then. Blanchard’s leave is the key to
understanding this. First we have to ask, why would anyone begin a leave
on a Tuesday afternoon? Or, even if we accept Pflock’s analysis, why
begin on a Wednesday?

Leaves normally start at the close of business on Friday
afternoon, allowing two extra days because of the weekend. With
Blanchard in a high-profile position, he might not have been able to do
that, but surely he would have signed out on Monday morning, not Tuesday
afternoon. The only exception would be an emergency leave, but that
doesn’t seem to have been the case. Nothing in the documentation
indicates that Blanchard was responding to a personal emergency such as
a sick family member. Based on the fragmentary documentation he
produces, Pflock concludes that the leave was routine.

The circumstances and the Special Order No. 9 refute that
notion. They show the military were responding to a critical situation.
Blanchard’s leave was neither routine nor emergency in the normal sense.
Blanchard was being freed to respond to the situation as necessary
without having to worry about awkward questions from reporters. To
summarize: Blanchard began his leave on Tuesday, July 8. It was not long
planned. It was a response to the events of July 5, when the military
recovered a flying saucer just north of Roswell. The situation became
critical when Brazel found the debris field and reported it, not only to
the military officers at the Roswell Army Air Field but also to the
local sheriff and a reporter for a radio station.

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Kevin D. Randle, an IUR contributing editor, is coauthor of The
Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell (1994).

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