Roswell Essay, Research Paper

Almost fifty years ago, an incident occurred in the southwestern desert of

the United States that could have significant implications for all mankind. The incident

was announced by the U.S. military, and denied by the U.S. military, and has remained

covered-up in the government for the past fifty and hopefully not another fifty years. It is

not a hoax or false claim, but rather a known event that is thoroughly documented. It is

the objective here is to summarize the details of the events and interviews of that event,

affirm the right of all people throughout the world to know the truth about what occurred,

and propose a course of action that will allow the truth to emerge.

It was July 1947, the day started out just like any other day. People of Roswell

were going off to work, going downtown shopping, and the little ones were at

playgrounds with their mothers. Day in and day out townspeople would drive by the

military without giving it much thought. However, this day, in Roswell, New Mexico

would change the course of history, and how the public thinks of themselves, God

and the outer limits of space!

Roswell New Mexico was in the middle of the desert. Here was a vast open land

where one could see miles around. On this afternoon something very strange was about to

happen. In the clear skies of Roswell a very large craft ended its flight. Was this a

weather balloon or an Unidentified Flying Object?

There were many eye-witness reports of alien creatures lying next to their

destroyed crafts. One or two may have survived for a few days. The military quickly

cornered off this area, removing the particles and the bodies. A local funeral director got

a call for numerous child size coffins. He was to deliver them to the rear of the military

base. Major Marcel was an officer on the scene who took part of the ship home. He

spoke to the press about the crash, but soon told never to discuss it again. What he saw

was a weather balloon. The press received a news release saying that a few officers had

jumped to conclusions.

To this day the government denies the fact that spaceships exists. Is this a massive

cover up or science fiction? My I-Search will delve into these questions. I will try to

obtain the truth and allow my classmates to decide if we are being visited from other

planets or not?

I chose this topic because of my interest in space and whether life exists on other

planets. Is Their technology is far more superior to ours? Why can’t we work together to

solve the mysteries of the planets? I believe these aliens do exist and I will try to prove it!

This will affect my life, because I’ve always wanted to know if anything or anyone

else exists in the universe. What if the government uncovered the truth? Would there be

total chaos or would we want to meet other space beings?

I hope to find out why the government is continuing to cover up the Roswell

incident. Why haven’t the Presidents told us the truth since 1947? I will write to

Washington and demand an answer.

Happenings in 1947

On July 2, 1947, during the evening, a flying saucer crashed to the ground at the

Foster Ranch near, Corona, New Mexico. The crash occurred during a severe

thunderstorm. ( The military base nearest to the crash site is in Roswell, New Mexico.)

Roswell is more closely associated with this event than Corona, even though Corona is

closer to the crash site.

On July 3, 1947, William ?Mac? Brazel and his 7 year-old neighbor Dee Proctor

found the remains of the crashed flying saucer. Brazel was foreman of the Foster Ranch.

The pieces were spread out over a large area, more than half a mile long. When

Brazel drove Dee back home, he showed a piece of the wreckage to Dee?s parents, Floyd

and Loretta Proctor, they all agreed the piece was unlike anything they had ever seen.

On July 6, 1947, Brazel showed pieces of the wreckage to Chaves County Sheriff

George Wilcox. He called Roswell Army Air Field (AAF) and talked to Major Marcel,

the intelligence officer. Marcel drove to the sheriff?s office and inspected the wreckage.

Marcel reported to his commanding officer, Colonel William ?Butch? Blanchard. Butch

ordered Marcel to get someone from the Counter Intelligence Corps, proceed to the ranch

with Brazel, and to collect as much of the wreckage as they could load into their

two vehicles.

Soon after this, military police arrived at the sheriff?s office, collected the

wreckage at Blanchard?s office. The wreckage was then flown to

Eighth Air Force headquarters in Fort Worth, and then to Washington.

Meanwhile, Marcel and Sheridan Cavitt of the Counter Intelligence Corps drove to

the ranch with Mac Brazel. They arrived late in the evening. They spent the night in

sleeping bags in a small out-building on the ranch. The next morning proceeded to the

crash site.

On July, 7, 1947, Marcel and Cavitt collected wreckage from the crash site. After

filling Cavitt?s vehicle with wreckage Marcel told Cavitt to go on ahead, that Marcel

would collect more wreckage, and they would meet later back at Roswell AAF. Marcel

filled his vehicle with wreckage. On the way back to the air field, Marcel stopped home to

show his wife and son the strange materials he had found.

Soon after, at about 4:00 p.m., Lyndia Sleppy at Roswell; radio station KSWS

began transmitting a story on the teletype machine regarding a crashed flying saucer out

on the Foster Ranch. Transmission was interrupted, presumably by the FBI.

The next day, July, 8, 1947, in the morning, Marcel and Cavitt arrived back at

Roswell AAF with two carloads of wreckage. Marcel accompanied this wreckage, or

most of it, on a flight to Fort Worth AAF.

Later that day, around noon, Colonel Blanchard at Roswell AAF ordered Second

Lieutenant Walter Haut to issue a press release telling the country that the Army had

found the remains of a crashed flying saucer. Haut was the public information officer for

the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell AAF. Haut delivered the press release to Frank Joyce

at radio station KGFL. Joyce waited long enough for Haut to return to base, then called

Haut there to confirm the story. Joyce then sent the story on the Western Union wire to

the United Press bureau.

July 8, 1947, in the afternoon, General Clemence McMullen spoke

by telephone from Washington with Colonel DuBose in Fort Worth. DuBose was

Chief-of-staff to Eighth Air Force Commander General Roger Ramey. McMullen

ordered DuBose to tell Ramey to squash the flying saucer story by creating a cover story,

and to send some of the crash material immediately to Washington.

On July 8, 1947, in the afternoon, General Roger Ramey held a press conference at

the Eighth Air Force headquarters in Fort Worth. He announced that what had crashed at

Corona was a weather balloon, not a flying saucer. To make this story convincing, he

showed the press the remains of a damaged weather balloon that he claimed was the actual

wreckage from the crash site. ( The obliging press did not ask why the Army hurriedly

transported weather balloon wreckage to Fort Worth, Texas, from the remote area of

New Mexico.[Jaworski interview])

The only newspapers that carried the initial flying saucer version of the story were

evening papers from the Midwest to the West, including the Chicago Daily News , The

Los Angeles Herald Express, the San Francisco Examiner, and the Roswell Daily Record.

The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune were morning

papers and so carried only the cover-up story the next morning.

At some point, an ample amount of soldiers were sent to the debris field on the

Foster Ranch, including a lot of MPs whose job was to limit access to the field. A wide

search was launched well beyond the limits of the debris field. Within a day or two, a few

miles from the debris field, the main body of the flying saucer was found, and a mile or

two from that several bodies of small humanoids were found.

The military took Mac Brazel into custody for about a week, during which time he

was seen on the streets of Roswell with a military escort. His behavior aroused the

curiosity of friends when he passed them without any sign of recognition. Following this

period of detention, Brazel discarded his initial story [Internet UFO.COM].

The Civilians

Loetta Proctor (Interview held in 1990)

Loretta Proctor, Mac Brazel?s nearest neighbor, was one of the first people to see

pieces of the wreckage Brazel had found. She was interviewed in 1990.

?Mac had this piece of material that he picked up. He wanted to show it to us and

wanted us to go down and see the rest of the debris or whatever, but we didn?t on account

of the transportation and everything wasn?t too good. He didn?t get anybody to come out

who was interested in it. The piece he brought looked like a kind of tan, lightbrown

plastic. It was very lightweight, like balsa wood. It wasn?t a large piece, maybe about

four inches long, maybe just a little longer than a pencil.

We cut on it with a knife and would hold a match on it and it wouldn?t burn. We

knew it wasn?t wood. It was smooth like plastic, it didn?t have a real sharp corners, kind

of like a dowel stick. Kind of dark tan. It didn?t have any grain, just smooth. I hadn?t

seen anything like it before in my life.? Loretta said.

The following statement by Loretta Procyor

suggests that Mac Brazel was bribed to keep quiet. [UFO.COM]

?I think within that year, he had moved off the ranch and moved to Alamagordo or

to Tularosa and he put something in a locker there. That was before people had home

freezers, and it was a large refrigerator building. You would buy beef and cut it up and

put it into those lockers and you had a key to it and you could get your beef out when you

wanted it. I think it would have been pretty expensive, and kind of wonder how he could

pay on rancher?s wages.?

Marian Strickland (Interview held in 1990)

Marian Strickland was a neighbor of Mac Brazel.

?Mac made it plain he was not supposed to tell that there was any excitement

about the material he found on the ranch. He was a man who had integrity. He definitely

felt insulted and mis-used, disrespected. He was worse than annoyed. He was definitely

under some stress, and felt that he had been kicked around. He was threatened that if he

opened his mouth he may get thrown into the back side of the jail. He gave that

impression, definitely,? Strickland insisted.

Bessie Brazel Schreiber

Bessie Brazel Schreiber is Mac Brazel?s daughter. This is her description of the crash site.

?The material resembled a sort of aluminum-like foil. Some of these pieces had

sort of tape stuck to them. She also said, ?it was unable to be peeled off or removed at

all.? Some of the pieces had something like lettering and numbers on them, but, were

unable to be made out. ?The figures were written out like you would write numbers in

columns, but they didn?t look like the numbers we use at all.? she exclaimed. Also she said

there was something that looked like heavy waxed paper [Randle 31].

William Brazel Jr.

William Brazel Jr. is Mac Brazels son. Here is his description of the wreckage from the

crash site.

?One of the pieces looked like something on the order of tinfoil, except that it

would not tear… You could wrinkle it and lay it back down and it immediately resumed

its original shape.. quite pliable, but you couldn?t crease or bend it like ordinary metal.

Almost like a plastic, but definitely metallic. His dad once said that the Army had once

told him it was not anything made by us.?

?There was also some threadlike material. It looked like silk, but was not silk, a

very strong material without strands or fibers like silk would have. This was more like a

wire, all one piece or substance.

There were also some wooden-like particles like balsa wood in weight, but a

bit darker in color and much harder… It was pliable but would not break. Weighed

nothing, but you could not scratch it with your fingernail. All he had was a few small bits.

There was no writing or markings on the pieces he had, but his dad did say one time that

there were what he called ?figures? on some of the pieces he found. He often referred to

the petroglyphs the ancient Indians drew on the rocks around here as ?figures?, too, and I

think that?s what he meant to compare them with.

His dad found this thing and he told him a little bit about it, but not too much,

because the Air Force asked him to take an oath that he would not tell anybody in detail

about it. He went to his grave and he never told anybody.?

At the time of the crash, William Brazel Jr. had been living and working in

Albuquerque, but returned when his father was taken into custody to run the ranch.

Glenn Dennis

Glenn Dennis was a mortician in Roswell in 1947. His boss provided mortuary

services for Roswell Army Air Field. Dennis drove a combination hearse and ambulance

for both civilian and military assignments. On July 9 or 10, 1947, Dennis got several

phone calls from Roswell AAF mortuary officer, who was more of an administrator than a

mortuary officer. The officer wanted to know about hermticall sealed caskets (?What was

the smallest one they could get? [Randle 11] ), and about chemical solutions. Dennis was

interviewed in August 1989 by Stanton Friedman.

?This is what was so interesting. See, this is why I feel like there was really

something involved in this, because they didn?t want to do anything that was going to

make an imbalance. They kept saying, ?OK, what?s this going to do the blood system,

what?s this going to do to the tissue [Alien.Com]?? Then when they informed me that

these bodies had laid out in the middle of July, in the middle of the prairie, I mean that

body?s going to be as dark as your blue blazer, and it?s going to be in bad shape. He

was the one who suggested dry ice. He?d done that a time or two before.

He talked to them four or five times in the afternoon. They would keep calling

back and asking him different questions involving the body. What they were really after

was how to move those bodies. They didn?t give me any indication they even had the

bodies, or where they were. All I knew was one of the bodies was in pretty good shape.

When he went to the AAF there were two MPs standing right there and started to

go in. He would have gotten as far as he did if he didn?t park in the handicap parking

space. He saw all the wreckage. He didn?t know what it was, but he knew there was

something going on. ?It looked like stainless steel when it is put on heat,? he said.

[UFO Technology ?Sightings?]

When he got inside, he noticed there was quite a bit of activity. When he went

back into the lounge, there was high ranking officers that he didn?t recognize. He wanted

to know ?who the heck I was? and how the heck I got in?? Any way he got past that and

met a nurse. She was involved in this thing, she was on duty. She told him ?How the

heck did you get in here?? He said ?I just walked in.? ?My god you?re going to get,

yourself killed.? she said ?They didn?t stop me? he said. He was going to the Coke

machine to get a Coke, and this big red-headed colonel said ?What?s this son of a gun

doing here?? [Randle 72-73]

He hollered at the MPs and they came running over and grabbed him by the arms

and carried him clear outside. And they told him to get my butt out of there. (They

followed him back to the funeral home.)

About three hours later they called me and said, ?if you open your mouth

you?ll be so far back in the jug they?ll have to shoot pinto beans into you with a bean

shooter.? He just laughed and said, ?Go to heck.?

The nurse told Dennis the next day that there were three little bodies, two of

them were dead, and the third was in pretty good condition.

The Police

Barbara Dugger- is the grand daughter of George and Inez Wilcox. George was the

sheriff who Mac Brazel contacted after discovering the crashed flying saucer.

Barbara?s grandmother said, ?Don?t tell anybody. When the incident happened,

the military came to the jailhouse and told George and I that if we ever told anything

about the incident, not only would we be killed, but our entire family would be killed

[Randle 72].?

They called her grandfather and someone came to the house and told him about

the incident. He went out to the site and he saw a large burned area with lots of debris

and three small bodies of space beings. Their heads were large and wore silk like suits.

One of the little space beings were still alive. After the death threat she never talked about

the incident to anybody ever.

The Press

Frank Joyce- worked at the radio station KGFL. He got a phone call from Mac Brazel,

who reported the wreckage on his ranch.

Mac called Joyce and asked him, ?What to do about it? He recommended that he

go to the Roswell Air Base [Randle 55].

The next thing he found out was that PIO, Walter Haut, came into the station

some time after he got the call. He handed him a news release printed on onionskin

stationary and left immediately. He called him back at the base and said, ?I suggest that

you not release this type of story that says you have a flying disk or flying saucer.? He

said, ?No it?s OK.?

He sent the release to the Western Union wire to the United press bureau. After

he returned to the station, there was a flash on the wire with the story: ?The U.S. Army

Air Corps says it has a flying disk.? They typed a paragraph or two, and then other people

got the wire and asked for more information. Then the phones started going berserk, He

referred them to the airfield

The wire just stopped and just hummed. Then a phone call came in for him and \

the caller identified himself as an officer at the Pentagon, this man said some very bad

things about what would happen to him. He was really pretty nasty. Finally, Frank got

through to him. Frank said, ?You?re talking about a release from the U.S. Army Air

Corps [UFO.Com].? Bang, the phone went dead, and the man from the Pentagon was

gone.

The next significant thing that happened in the evening was that he got a call from

Mac Brazel. He said, ?we haven?t got the story right.? Frank invited him down to the

radio station. Mac arrived not long after sunset. He was not alone, but he had a feeling

that they were being watched. He said something about a weather balloon. Frank said

?Look, this is completely different than what you told me on the phone the other day

about little green men,? and that?s when Mac said ?No, they weren?t green.? Frank had a

feeling that Mac was under a lot of pressure. Mac Brazel said, ?Our lives will never be

the same again. [Sightings]?

Lyndia Sleppy- was a teletype operator at Roswell radio station KSWS. The event about

to be described took place around 4:OO p.m. on July 7, 1947.

?If they had anything newsworthy, we would put it on the teletype machine, to

Mutual Broadcasting and ABC.? She was the one who did the teletyping.

?Mr. Tucker (the station owner) called for Lyndia and said ?I have a huge story for

you, I will send it via teletype.? But right after he started sending, it got disconnected and

intercepted. The message read, ?This is the FBI, you will cease transmitting.? She knew

whatever it was, it was a huge story. She was upset and didn?t get all the way through

transmission.

The Military

Jesse Marcel- Major Jesse Marcel was one of the first two military people to visit the

Corona crash site. The other was Sheridan Cavitt, who to this day has refused to even

acknowledge that he was there on the ranch with Marcel. Jesse Marcel died in 1982.

When they arrived at the crash site, it was amazing to see the vast amount of area

it covered. It was nothing that hit the ground or exploded on the ground. It?s something

that hit that must have exploded above ground, traveling above at a high rate of speed,

they didn?t know. But it scattered over an area of about three quarters of a mile long, he

said and several hundred feet wide. So he proceeded to pick up fragments that they could

fit in their Jeep Carry-All. It was quite obvious to him, familiar with air activities, that it

was not a weather balloon, nor was it a missile or an airplane. It was something he had

never seen before. They loaded the Jeep Carry-All but he wasn?t satisfied. He told

Cavitt, ?You drive this vehicle back to the base and I?ll go back out there to pick up as

much as could put in the car,? which he did. But he only picked up a small portion.

One thing that impressed him about the debris was that it looked like parchment.

A lot of it had a lot of little members with symbols that they had to call hieroglyphics

because he could not interpret them, they could not be read, they were just symbols,

something that meant something but they were all not the same. The segments that this

were painted on had symbols that were pink and purple. Actually the color was lavender.

These little segments could not be broken, and could not be burned. He even

tried to burn it, and it wouldn?t burn.

But something that is more astounding is that a piece of metal they brought back

was so thin, just like tinfoil in a cigarette paper. He didn?t pay too much attention to that

at first, until one of the GIs came to me and said, ?You know the metal that was in there?

I tried to bend that stuff, it wouldn?t bend. I even tried it with a sledge hammer.

You can?t even make a dent on it.? All of the material that they found they weighed

almost nothing.

This particular piece of metal was about two feet long and perhaps two feet wide.

That stuff weighed nothing, so thin it wasn?t any thicker than tinfoil from the bottom of a

cigarette box. So Jesse Marcel tried to hit it with a 16-pound sledgehammer, and still

there was not any dent on it. He knew much about the U.S. military materials that were

used in weather balloons and this stuff was not even close to it. Jesse Marcel he

died and still had no idea of what it was. So that?s how it stands!

Jesse Marcel Jr.- is Major Jesse Marcel?s son. major Marcel after he collected the debris

he came back to his house to show his 11 year old son and his wife what he had found.

Jesse Marcel Jr. is now a doctor and a reserve helicopter pilot who served in Vietnam.

?The crash and remnants of the device that I happened to see have left an imprint

on my memory that can never be forgotten.? Jesse Marcel Jr. stated.

When his dad came back to the house he had a bunch of wreckage with him at the

time, and brought the wreckage into the house. Actually wakened my mother and myself

out so they could view this, because it was so unusual. This was about two o?clock in the

morning as he recalled, and he spread it out so we could get some basic idea what it

looked like.

They were all amazed by this debris that was there, primarily because we didn?t

know what it was, you know, it was the unknown. Years after this incident we would talk

privately among themselves about what the possibilities of this, what this thing was. And

they feel that it was not of earthly origin.

Walter Haut- was the public information officer at Roswell AAF in 1947. Colonial

Blanchard ordered Haut to issue a press release to tell the country what the Army had

found a flying saucer. Here is the text of Haut?s press release [UFO.Com].

[?The many rumors regarding the flying disc became a reality yesterday when the

intelligence officer of the 509th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force, Roswell Army Air

Field, was fortunate enough to gain possession of a disc through the cooperation of one of

the local ranchers and the sheriff ?s office of Chaves County.

The Flying object landed on a ranch near Roswell sometime last week. Not having

phone facilities, the rancher stored the disc until such time as he was able to contact the

sheriff?s office, who in turn notified Major Jesse Marcel of the 509th Bomb Group

Intelligence Office.?]

F.B.- was an Army Air Force photographer stationed at Anacostia Navel Air Station in

Washington DC when he and fellow photographer A.K. were flown abroad a B-25

bomber to Roswell Air Field sometime during the second week of July 1947.

One morning his superior said, ?Pack you bags and we?ll have the cameras there,

ready for you.? They didn?t know where they were going.

After a few hours flight they got to Roswell and got in a staff car with some gear

they had brought along in the trucks, and they headed out. After about a hour and

a half we got there and there were a lot of people out there. They said ?Set you cameras

up to take a picture fifteen feet away.? They were telling them what to do. Shoot this

shoot that.

They told them to go into the tent to take some more pictures. What they saw

were alien bodies. All he remembered was that they had a dark complexion and that they

were thin and had big heads. He took about thirty pictures of the aliens and he said, ?It

smelled funny in the tent [Alien.com]?

A.K. came back in a truck that was loaded with debris. On the way back to

Washington DC the Lieutenant Commander made it clear to them that what they had seen

in Roswell, New Mexico, they hadn?t seen.

Earthly Explanations

Weather Balloon

* If what had crashed was a weather balloon, there would have been no need of secrecy.

According to the testimony, military officers admonished subordinates and civilians not

talk about what they saw.

* If what crashed was weather balloon, Major Marcel would have recognized the material

Mac Brazel showed him as weather balloon material, and would hove journeyed far out on

a remote sheep ranch with an officer from Counter Intelligence Corps to examine the

crash site.

* The wreckage described by Marcel and others was too voluminous, and spread out

over too large of an area, to have been the wreckage of a weather balloon.

* There is no reason the Army would transport the wreckage of a weather balloon from

the remote desert outside Cornona first to Roswell and then to Fort worth.

* Most of the witnesses who saw or handled the wreckage would have recognized the

remains of a crashed weather balloon.

Secret Rocket or Airplane

* If what crashed was any kind of secret military apparatus, one would expect

at least some of the pieces to have recognizable letters or numbers on the them.

Many of the witnesses say that some of the wreckage bore a very strange kind of

writing, but not one witness has said that any of the wreckage bore any recognizable

symbols.

* If what crashed was any kind of secret military apparatus, the Army would have said

simply, ?This is secret, and no more questions will be answered, period.? The Army

would not have concocted the flying saucer and weather balloon stories. In 1947,

Americans were less skeptical about the motives of their government, and the people of

New Mexico, including journalists and other civilians, were dependent for their livelihood

on secret military projects.

* If what crashed was any kind of secret military apparatus, the Army would not have

waited for a rancher to inform them of the crash before sending military personnel

to examine the wreckage, five days after the crash.

* Rockets and airplanes that were secret in 1947 are not secret now. If what crashed

was a secret rocket or airplane, it would have been revealed as such years ago.

(Incredibly, the Army is sticking to its weather balloon story, even though nobody

believes it anymore.)

* By July 1994, rockets launched from White Sands were fitted with self-destruct

mechanisms so that an errant rocket could be destroyed before leaving the test range.

The Corona crash site is about 75 miles from the nearest border of the test range.

* They did not fly secret airplanes in New Mexico in 1947. There was plenty of room

for that in California, where all the secret airplane projects were carried on.

* There is no reason the Army would transport the wreckage of a crashed rocket

or airplane to Fort Worth AAF, then to Wright AAF in Ohio. The wreckage of a

secret rocket would stay in New Mexico, and the wreckage of a secret airplane

would be sent back to California, if anywhere.

* Most of the witnesses who saw or handled the wreckage would have recognized

the remains of a crashed rocket or airplane.

MY CONCLUSION OF

THE ROSWELL INCIDENT

As I embarked on this project I was not sure what I would find. I have always had

an interest in U.F.O?S sin