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SUBJECT: Roswell Testimony FILE: UFO106
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PART 2
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1.2 Sequence of Events
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On July 2, 1947, during the evening, a flying saucer crashed
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on the Foster Ranch near Corona, New Mexico. The crash
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occurred during a severe thunderstorm. (The military base
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nearest the crash site is in Roswell, New Mexico; hence,
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Roswell is more closely associated with this event than
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Corona, even though Corona is closer to the crash site.)
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On July 3, 1947, William "Mac" Brazel (rhymes with
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"frazzle") and his 7-year-old neighbor Dee Proctor found the
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remains of the crashed flying saucer. Brazel was foreman of
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the Foster Ranch. The pieces were spread out over a large
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area, perhaps more than half a mile long. When Brazel drove
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Dee back home, he showed a piece of the wreckage to Dee's
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parents, Floyd and Loretta Proctor. They all agreed the
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piece was unlike anything they had ever seen.
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On July 6, 1947, Brazel showed pieces of the wreckage to
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Chaves County Sheriff George Wilcox. Wilcox called Roswell
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Army Air Field (AAF) and talked to Major Jesse Marcel, the
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intelligence officer. Marcel drove to the sheriff's office
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and inspected the wreckage. Marcel reported to his
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commanding officer, Colonel William "Butch" Blanchard.
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Blanchard ordered Marcel to get someone from the Counter
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Intelligence Corps, and to proceed to the ranch with Brazel,
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and to collect as much of the wreckage as they could load
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into their two vehicles.
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Soon after this, military police arrived at the sheriff's
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office, collected the wreckage Brazel had left there, and
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delivered the wreckage to Blanchard's office. The wreckage
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was then flown to Eighth Air Force headquarters in Fort
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Worth, and from there to Washington.
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Meanwhile, Marcel and Sheridan Cavitt of the Counter
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Intelligence Corps drove to the ranch with Mac Brazel. They
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arrived late in the evening. They spent the night in
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sleeping bags in a small out-building on the ranch, and in
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the morning proceeded to the crash site.
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On July 7, 1947, Marcel and Cavitt collected wreckage from
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the crash site. After filling Cavitt's vehicle with
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wreckage, Marcel told Cavitt to go on ahead, that Marcel
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would collect more wreckage, and they would meet later back
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at Roswell AAF. Marcel filled his vehicle with wreckage.
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On the way back to the air field, Marcel stopped at home to
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show his wife and son the strange material he had found.
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On July 7, 1947, around 4:00 pm, Lydia Sleppy at Roswell
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radio station KSWS began transmitting a story on the
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teletype machine regarding a crashed flying saucer out on
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the Foster Ranch. Transmission was interrupted, seemingly
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by the FBI.
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On July 8, 1947, in the morning, Marcel and Cavitt arrived
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back at Roswell AAF with two carloads of wreckage. Marcel
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accompanied this wreckage, or most it, on a flight to Fort
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Worth AAF.
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On July 8, 1947, around noon, Colonel Blanchard at Roswell
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AAF ordered Second Lieutenant Walter Haut to issue a press
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release telling the country that the Army had found the
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remains of a crashed a flying saucer. Haut was the public
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information officer for the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell AAF.
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Haut delivered the press release to Frank Joyce at radio
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station KGFL. Joyce waited long enough for Haut to return
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to the base, then called Haut there to confirm the story.
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Joyce then sent the story on the Western Union wire to the
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United Press bureau.
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On July 8, 1947, in the afternoon, General Clemence McMullen
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in Washington spoke by telephone with Colonel (later
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Brigadier General) Thomas DuBose in Fort Worth, chief of
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staff to Eighth Air Force Commander General Roger Ramey.
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McMullen ordered DuBose to tell Ramey to quash the flying
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saucer story by creating a cover story, and to send some of
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the crash material immediately to Washington.
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On July 8, 1947, in the afternoon, General Roger Ramey held
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a press conference at Eighth Air Force headquarters in Fort
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Worth in which he announced that what had crashed at Corona
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was a weather balloon, not a flying saucer. To make this
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story convincing, he showed the press the remains of a
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damaged weather balloon that he claimed was the actual
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wreckage from the crash site. (Apparently, the obliging
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press did not ask why the Army hurriedly transported weather
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balloon wreckage to Fort Worth, Texas, site of the press
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conference, from the crash site in a remote area of New
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Mexico.)
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The only newspapers that carried the initial flying saucer
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version of the story were evening papers from the Midwest to
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the West, including the Chicago Daily News, the Los Angeles
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Herald Express, the San Francisco Examiner, and the Roswell
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Daily Record. The New York Times, the Washington Post, and
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the Chicago Tribune were morning papers and so carried only
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the cover-up story the next morning.
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End of part 2
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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