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Almost
immediately after the announcement had hit the World
the F.B.I. insisted that all radio stations stop transmitting the
news. Walt Whitmore , the owner of Radio KGFL, received phone
calls from Clinton Anderson ( Congressman for New Mexico),
Senator Dennis Chavez - both threatening to withdraw his broadcasting
license if he transmitted an interview he had recorded with
Mac Brazel. |
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Radio
KGFL - The owner was told " Do not broadcast or
lose your license!
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The
newspaper announcement that shocked the world
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The
Roswell incident was of such interest that hourly radio
bulletins were issued. Here is an actual radio bulletin. Listen
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Meanwhile a team
of experts had arrived from Washington and the wreck was loaded
onto a plane to be taken to Wright Field . The pilot - Capt.
Oliver Henderson maintained that he saw 3 E.T. bodies still
in the hangar , stored in ice. At lunchtime Glenn Dennis
met the nurse from the base. She told him she had assisted
in the autopsies which were carried out by two doctors from
Washington on three little beings - they had big heads, sunken
eyes and four fingers. Due to the stench from the bodies the
autopsies were carried out in a hanger. [ left ] |
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Mac Brazel told
the chief editor of The Dispatch - "It was a mistake to
inform the authorities". The army made it quite clear
to Sheriff Wilcox that he was forbidden to talk about the matter.
Major Marcel flew some of the wreckage to Gen. Ramey [
left ] at Fort Worth and is amazed to see it swapped
with the remnants of a crashed weather balloon. Under
great humiliation Major Marcel told reporters - " It was
a big error, the disc is a weather balloon". General
Ramey of Fort Worth - ordered Marcel to report that the unknown
object was, in fact, a weather balloon |
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Major
Marcel and the substituted weather balloon.
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The Roswell
Daily Record (10th July 1947) - Brazel's story changes for
the Military.
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It is
interesting to note that General Hoyt Vandenburg - see Majestic
12 on this site received a message from General Ramey on
8th July 1947,referring to a crashed "disk".
This is the text of the message:
1)***********************************NEAR OPERATION AT THE
2) **RANCH AND THE VICTIMS OF THE WRECK YOU FORWARDED TO THE
3) ***TEAM AT FORT WORTH, TEX.
4) *****S*S IN THE "DISK" THEY WILL SHIP FOR A1-8TH
ARMYAF**
5) BY B29-ST OR C47. WRIGHT AF ASSIST FLIGHTS AT ROSWELL. ASSURE
6) THAT CIC-TEAM SAID THIS MISTAKEN MEANING OF STORY AND THINK
7) LATE TODAY NEXT SENT OUT PR OF WEATHER BALLOONS WOULD WORK
8) BETTER IF THEY ADD LAND DEMO RAWIN CREWS.
Signed Ramey
The message indicates there was a crashed disk containing beings
Or corpses inside and that the idea of claiming that the crashed
object was a weather balloon would work. |
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At
6-17p.m. an inter-departmental telex from the F.B.I.
stated that the weather balloon story was false
That evening Brazel and Frank Joyce
were compelled to broadcast an interview telling a very
different story from the original report. Brazel was
then taken into custody and interrogated.
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guest house on the base and not allowed to
go home - "It was like being in prison" he
remarked. At 8-00a.m. Wednesday 9th July Col. Blanchard
supervised the final clearing of the crash site and at
4-00p.m. the alien bodies were flown to Fort Worth. Gen.
Schulgen, chief of Air Force Requirements Division
asks the F.B.I. to assist in the matter of flying
discs - he assured F.B.I Director J.Edgar Hoover
- " the discs do not originate from Earth".
At approximately 6-00p.m. the bodies arrived at Fort
Worth - a crewman remarked - " we have just
made history". On Friday 11th July the debriefing
of the salvage crew took place - they were told - " That
was a matter of National Security and stands under
absolute secrecy- " Talk to no one about it
. Forget you even saw it". On Tuesday 15th July
Mac Brazel was again intimidated by the Army but
although he had lived in poverty it was noticeable
that he now had a brand new truck, money to buy a
new house at Tularosa and a cold store at Las Cruces. |
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Roswell [ left ]
at the time of the incident.
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Many of the soldiers and MPs involved
in the retrievals were soon transferred to other bases.
The nurse from the base was transferred overseas (U.K.)
but when Glenn Dennis tried to contact her by letter it
was returned by the Army - on the envelope was written
"Deceased".
In the 1980s Maj. Jesse Marcel still maintained that a
disc had crashed at Roswell and to this day his son , a
doctor of medicine, remembers his father showing him the
fragments - he will never forget his fathers words |
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