ROSWELL - UFO CRASH - 1947 - PAGE 2
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Containment Strategy:
Numerous military and civilian personnel have testified that an elaborate deception operation followed the recovery of the Corona wreckage. It is hard to believe that this was initiated solely to avoid compromising the classified Mogul project.
Thomas Jefferson DuBose was Chief of Staff to Major General Roger Ramey at Fort Worth Army Air Field during the Roswell incident. A colonel at the time, he retired from the Air Force in 1959 with the rank of brigadier general. In an interview with Billy Cox (whom I know to be reliable), DuBose confirmed that a `containment strategy' was ordered by Major General Clements McMullen, Deputy Commander, Strategic Air Command. `Knowing General McMullen,' said DuBose, `[the cover-up] was an effort to get it off the front pages, to keep people from thinking about it. I couldn't blame him for that.'
On the evening of 6 July 1947, after a stop over in Fort Worth and by order of McMullen, the debris was flown to Washington, according to DuBose. `[Some of] this stuff, this junk, this whatever you want to call it, came in a mail pouch,' he recalled:
I didn't look at it, I wasn't supposed to. McMullen told me to send it to him immediately, and for me not to say anything about it to anyone, to forget about it, and that was an order. I sealed it personally with a lead seal and handcuffed it to the wrist of [Colonel) A1 Clark, which is a rather unusual step, and he delivered it to McMullen. Later, after the whole thing was over, I asked Clements what happened to it, and he said he sent it out to Wright Field so they could analyze it . . . Following the press release issued by Walter Haut, the Roswell Army Air Field was deluged with calls. `It was getting ridiculous,' said DuBose:
There was a host of people descending on our headquarters [at Forth Worth] seeking information from Ramey, badgering him for information we didn't have. I didn't know what it was. Blanchard didn't know. Ramey didn't know - we were in a real bind. McMullen said, Iook, why don't you come up with
something, anything you can use to get the press off our back? So we came up with this weather balloon story. Somebody got one and we ran it up a couple of hundred feet and dropped it to make it
look like it crashed, and that's what we used. Now I imagine
privately, some people felt bad about doing things that way. But it worked. The story stuck.
There were also other reasons for the containment strategy. `You have to understand what was happening in this country at the time, things that had never happened before in the history of man,' DuBose explained to Billy Cox. `We had just gone through a world war. We had seen the firebombing of great cities, atomic bombs, destruction on an unprecedented scale. Then came this flying saucer business. It was just too much for the public to have to deal with.
Top-Secret Studies:
Brigadier General Arthur Exon (retired) is a former pilot with over 300 hours of combat during the Second World War. After the war he was assigned to Air Materiel Command HQ at Wright Field (later Wright-Patterson Air Force Base), and became commander of the base in 1964. In interviews with Kevin Randle and Don Schmitt, authors of two books on the Roswell incident, Exon confirmed that the peculiar fragments from New Mexico were secretly flown to Wright Field, and that laboratory chiefs established a special projects unit to study them. As a lieutenant colonel at the time, Exon says that he handled some of the wreckage. Various scientific tests were carried out, including `chemical analysis, stress tests, compression tests, flexing', he told Randle and Schmitt:
It was brought into our material evaluation labs . . . [Some of it) could be easily ripped or changed . . . there were other parts of it that were very thin but awfully strong and couldn't be dented with heavy hammers . . . It was flexible to a degree . . . some of it was flimsy and was tougher than hell and other[s] almost like foil but strong . . . The metal and material was unknown to anyone I talked to. Whatever they found, I never heard what the results were. A couple of guys thought it might be Russian but the overall consensus was that the pieces were from space.
Exon surmised that some remnants were still stored at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, most probably at the Foreign Technology Division (now the National Air'Intelligence Center). Interestingly, I have learned from a confidential source that even some recovered fabric was subjected to a process of analysis known as `reverse engineering', in an endeavour to discover the composition of unknown materials contained therein.
An unauthenticated `Top Secret/Eyes Only' memorandum (see p. 467) leaked to the researcher Timothy Cooper may shed further light on the initial studies of the recovered materials. Purportedly written by Rear Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, Director of Central Intelligence, and sent to the Joint Intelligence Committee, the memo states:
Currently, the core material is being secured at the Naval Research Laboratory hangar facilities at the White Sands Proving Ground, the Sandia Base facilities (Armed Forces Special Weapons Project), Alamogordo AAF and the Aero Medical Research facilities at Randolph Field, Texas . . . The research scientists at the Air Forces Research and Development Center, Wright Field, are utilizing their test facilities and a new biological laboratory in an on-going study program . . .
Majestic-12:
In December 1984 Hollywood TV producer Jaime Shandera received in the post a package from an anonymous source containing an undeveloped roll of 35mm film. When developed, the frames showed eight pages of an alleged preliminary briefing-paper prepared on 18 November 1952 for President-elect Eisenhower by Rear Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, the former CIA Director, and a 24 September 1947 memo from President Truman
to Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, supposedly authorizing
`Operation Majestic Twelve'. The briefing-paper, classified `'TOP
SECRET/ MAGIC/EYES ONLY', summarized what the alleged Majestic-12
committee had learned about the UFO problem up to 1952, including
details about the Roswell recovery.
In early 1987 I received a copy of the documents from an intelligence source in the United States, and these were published for the first time in my book Above Top Secret later that year. Some valid objections to the authenticity of the documents have been made over the years,'3 not least that the signature of Truman almost certainly was `lifted' from a
known-to- be-authentic document. And surely General Eisenhower, as Army Chief of Staff in 1947, would already have been given some details of the Roswell incident, at least. These and other apparent inconsistencies are discussed in exhaustive studies by Stanton Friedman and by William Moore and Jaime Shandera, who suggest that, even if the documents are bogus (which I believe to be the case), some of the details contained therein are factual: it is evident that whoever produced the documents had inside knowledge. For this reason, I regard the MJ-12 briefing-paper
as `positive disinformation'. I have been criticized for publishing an `obviously fraudulent' document. Still, it has to be said that at least one intelligence expert shared my original belief that the MJ-12 papers seemed authentic. In a letter to aerospace engineer Lee Graham, Richard M. Bissell Jr, a former
CIA Deputy Director of Plans who had been on President Truman's White House staff, wrote that, although he had no knowledge of Majestic-12, the Eisenhower briefing-document `certainly looks authentic', and added: `On the basis of the material you have sent me I personally have little doubt that it is authentic." Later he changed his opinion, explaining in a letter to sceptic Philip Klass that initially he had been `unaware that the authenticity of the material had been seriously questioned'.7
Yet even if both documents are bogus, several scientific and intelligence personnel have confirmed that a committee known as Majestic-12 (Majic-12 or MJ-12) did indeed exist, and that it dealt with the recovery of extraterrestrial craft. British-born Dr Eric A. Walker, for example, who died in 1995, was a Harvard graduate whose former posts included Executive Secretary of the Research and Development Board, Chairman of the National Science Foundation's Committee for Engineering, Chairman of the Institute for Defense Analysis, and President of Pennsylvania State Universitv. In a recorded telephone conversation with researcher William Steinman, Dr Walker confirmed that he had attended meetings at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (around 1949-50) concerning the military recovery of flying saucers and bodies of occupants.
`Did you ever hear of the MJ-12 group?' asked Steinman. `Yes, I know of MJ-12. I have known of them for forty years,' replied Dr Walker. `You are delving into an area that you can do absolutely nothing about,' he added. `Why don't you just leave it alone and drop it?'
French researcher Jean Sider reports that he too has obtained confirmation for the existence of MJ-12. `One comes first-hand from a retired American scientist, the other second-hand from a friend, himself an official, who received the information from a high-ranking military officer still on active duty."
The briefing-document names the alleged twelve original members of the MJ-12 panel, as follows:
Dr Lloyd Berketer: a scientist who was Executive Secretary of the Joint Research and Development Board in 1946 (under Dr Vannevar Bush). He headed a special committee to direct a study that led to the establishment of the Weapons Systems Evaluation Group, and was also a member of the CIA's `Robertson Panel', a scientific advisory panel on UFOs requested by the White House and sponsored by the CIA in 1953 (see Chapter 16).
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