The Roswell wreckage of 1947 Facts from Fiction

nivek

As Above So Below
The Roswell “wreckage” of 1947 – separating facts from fiction

by Norio Hayakawa

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As far as I am aware, there were only a handful of people who had witnessed the actual Roswell “wreckage”:

Mac Brazel and his son Vernon Brazel (both witnessed it on June 14, 1947 at J.B. Foster ranch)

and then, on July 4, by:

Maj. Jesse Marcel and counter intelligence officer Sheridan Cavitt (who both witnessed it at J.B. Foster ranch)

Col. William Blanchard, Brig. Gen. Roger Ramey and weather officer Irving Newton (at J.B. Foster ranch, as well as at Gen. Roger Rameys’ office where parts of the fragments were taken to for display).

As I stated, Mac Brazel and his son Vernon Brazel were the first two who witnessed the “wreckage” on June 14, which was a debris field area, a large area of bright wreckage made up of rubber strips, tinfoil, a rather tough paper and sticks.

There was no sign of any metal in the area which might have been used for an engine and no sign of any propellers of any kind, although at least one paper fin had been glued onto some of the tinfoil.

There were no words to be found anywhere on the instrument, although there were letters on some of the parts. Considerable scotch tape and some tape with flowers printed upon it had been used in the construction:

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A press conference was held on July 5, 1947 at General Ramey’s office in Roswell.

Prior to the press conference, a weather officer by the name of Irving Newton (see photo) remembered seeing pieces of what he recognized as a weather balloon laid out in Ramey’s office:

In 1990, Newton told investigators:

“I remember Major Marcel chased me all around that room…..He kept saying things like ‘Look how tough that metal is….look at the strange markings on it’….While I was examining the debris, Marcel was picking up pieces of the radar target sticks and trying to convince me that some notations on the sticks were alien writings. But I was adamant that it was a weather balloon with a RAWIN (radar) target. I think he was embarrassed as crazy and he would like to do anything to make that turn into a flying saucer” – – from Mysteries, Myths, Mayhem and Money chapter of Gary Bates’ ALIEN INTRUSION.

That was the end of the whole story. “Roswell” became a non-issue……until more than 30 years later when a partially disinformative book entitled THE ROSWELL INCIDENT was published, and gullible folks (as well as the so-called UFO “Industry” and the UFO Museum in Roswell) played a role in propagating the story all over again.

Tall tales about Roswell (aliens, pilots, bodies, a nurse, hangar in Roswell, etc., etc., ad nauseum) started to circulate around 30 years or more after this incident, including unreliable second-hand, third-hand and fourth-hand “witnesses” who jumped into the bandwagon of “fame” after a popular, partially disinformative book came out in 1980 written by a known, self-claimed disinformation agent by the name of William L. Moore, i.e., THE ROSWELL INCIDENT:





By the way, it was also in 1980 (the very same year of the publication of THE ROSWELL INCIDENT) that William L. Moore visited Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque to collaborate on another “project” with another self-claimed UFO disinformation agent, Richard C. Doty who was working as an AFOSI officer at the base.

Roswell, 1947 – – creation of a modern myth, how it all started

Nothing crashed in July of 1947, outside of Roswell.

But something did crash around June 14 of 1947, about 35 miles northwest of Roswell and it wasnt’ a flying saucer.



(Stanton Friedman – – propagator of the “alien saucer crash” myth)

Here is the TIMELINE of the events that took place:

June 14 (Saturday):

(10 days before the world had ever heard of “flying saucers” or “flying disks”), a rancher by the name of W.W. (Mac) Brazel (pictured below) and his 8-year old son, Vernon, were about 7 or 8 miles from the ranch house of the J. B. Foster ranch, which he operates, when they came upon a large area of bright wreckage made up of rubber strips, tinfoil, a rather tough paper and sticks.

There was no sign of any metal in the area which might have been used for an engine and no sign of any propellers of any kind, although at least one paper fin had been glued onto some of the tinfoil.

There were no words to be found anywhere on the instrument, although there were letters on some of the parts. Considerable scotch tape and some tape with flowers printed upon it had been used in the construction.



(J.B. Foster Ranch was located about 30 miles southeast of Corona, NM – – the ranch was located about 35 miles northwest of Roswell).

At the time Brazel was in a hurry to get his round made and he did not pay much attention to it.

June 24 (Tuesday):

The famous Kenneth Arnold incident in Washington state:



July 4 (Friday):

Brazel, his wife, Vernon and a daughter, Betty, age 14, went back to the spot and gathered up quite a bit of the debris.

July 5 (Saturday):

It was on July 5 that Brazel first heard about the flying disks, and he wondered if what he had found (3 weeks before) might be the remnants of one of these.

July 7 (Monday):

Brazel came to Roswell to sell some wool and while here he went to see sheriff George Wilcox and “whispered kinda confidential like” that he might have found a flying disk.

Wilcox got in touch with the Roswell Army Air Field and Maj. Jesse A. Marcel:



Marcel’s commander, Colonel William Blanchard (pictured below) ordered Marcel and counterintelligence officer Sheridan Cavitt out to Brazel’s ranch.



Marcel and counterintelligence officer accompanied him home, where they picked up the rest of the pieces of the “disk” and went to his home to try to reconstruct it.

On viewing the wreckage, Cavitt immediately thought it probably came from a weather balloon, but Marcel had other ideas. Marcel had a pre-conceived notion that it must have been part of the flying disk that he had heard about.

July 8 (Tuesday) :

The public information office at the base made the announcement that they had recovered a flying disk (approved by Col. Blanchard). This created newspaper headlines – – it was a sensation!:



However, at the intervention of Brigadier General Roger Ramey (pictured below) who had also inspected the wreckage, a press conference was soon held that included Marcel. The army announced that the fuss was over nothing more than a weather balloon, pieces of which were duly paraded for public display:



Prior to the press conference, a weather officer by the name of Irving Newton (pictured below) remembered seeing pieces of what he recognized as a weather balloon laid out in Ramey’s office:



In 1990s, Newton told investigators:

“I remember Major Marcel chased me all around that room…..He kept saying things like ‘Look how tough that metal is….look at the strange markings on it’….While I was examining the debris, Marcel was picking up pieces of the radar target sticks and trying to convince me that some notations on the sticks were alien writings. But I was adamant that it was a weather balloon with a RAWIN (radar) target. I think he was embarrassed as crazy and he would like to do anything to make that turn into a flying saucer” – – from Mysteries, Myths, Mayhem and Money chapter of Gary Bates’ ALIEN INTRUSION.

July 9 (Wednesday):

Ramey’s statement appears on ROSWELL DAILY RECORD newspaper:



July 9 (Wednesday):

W.W. (Mac) Brazel’s statement of regret appears on ROSWELL DAILY RECORD newspaper:



(ABOVE ARTICLE:

W.W. Brazel, 48, Lincoln county rancher living 30 miles south of Corona, today told his story of finding what the army at first described as a flying disk, but the publicity which attended his find caused him to add that if he ever found anything else short of a bomb, he sure wasn’t going to say anything about it.

Brazel was brought here late yesterday by W. E. Whitmore, of radio station KGFL, had his picture taken and gave an interview to the Record and Jason Kellahin, sent here from the Albuquerque bureau of the Associated Press to cover the story. The picture he posed for was sent out over AP telephoto wire sending machine specially set up in the Record office by R. D. Adair, AP wire chief sent here from Albuquerque for the sole purpose of getting out his picture and that of sheriff George Wilcox, to whom Brazel originally gave the information of his find.

Brazel related that on June 14 he and an 8-year old son, Vernon, were about 7 or 8 miles from the ranch house of the J. B. Foster ranch, which he operates, when they came upon a large area of bright wreckage made up on rubber strips, tinfoil, a rather tough paper and sticks.

At the time Brazel was in a hurry to get his round made and he did not pay much attention to it. But he did remark about what he had seen and on July 4 he, his wife, Vernon and a daughter, Betty, age 14, went back to the spot and gathered up quite a bit of the debris.

The next day he first heard about the flying disks, and he wondered if what he had found might be the remnants of one of these.

Monday he came to town to sell some wool and while here he went to see sheriff George Wilcox and “whispered kinda confidential like” that he might have found a flying disk.

Wilcox got in touch with the Roswell Army Air Field and Maj. Jesse A. Marcel and a man in plain clothes accompanied him home, where they picked up the rest of the pieces of the “disk” and went to his home to try to reconstruct it.

According to Brazel they simply could not reconstruct it at all. They tried to make a kite out of it, but could not do that and could not find any way to put it back together so that it could fit.

Then Major Marcel brought it to Roswell and that was the last he heard of it until the story broke that he had found a flying disk.

Brazel said that he did not see it fall from the sky and did not see it before it was torn up, so he did not know the size or shape it might have been, but he thought it might have been about as large as a table top. The balloon which held it up, if that was how it worked, must have been about 12 feet long, he felt, measuring the distance by the size of the room in which he sat. The rubber was smoky gray in color and scattered over an area about 200 yards in diameter.

When the debris was gathered up the tinfoil, paper, tape, and sticks made a bundle about three feet long and 7 or 8 inches thick, while the rubber made a bundle about 18 or 20 inches long and about 8 inches thick. In all, he estimated, the entire lot would have weighed maybe five pounds.

There was no sign of any metal in the area which might have been used for an engine and no sign of any propellers of any kind, although at least one paper fin had been glued onto some of the tinfoil.

There were no words to be found anywhere on the instrument, although there were letters on some of the parts. Considerable scotch tape and some tape with flowers printed upon it had been used in the construction.

No strings or wire were to be found but there were some eyelets in the paper to indicate that some sort of attachment may have been used.

Brazel said that he had previously found two weather observation balloons on the ranch, but that what he found this time did not in any way resemble either of these.

“I am sure that what I found was not any weather observation balloon,” he said. “But if I find anything else besides a bomb they are going to have a hard time getting me to say anything about it.”)



Marcel didn’t agree with this conclusion, probably because this was unlike any weather balloon he had ever seen.

It was not just a “weather balloon”. It was a top-secret program called Project Mogul, which was finally and officially revealed in 1994):







(Other high altitude reconnaissance balloon projects from the era included Project Skyhook, Project Grandson, Project Genetrix and Projct Moby Dick, pictured above)

END OF THE WHOLE STORY.

UNTIL:

More than 30 years after the incident, a few die-hard believers in the ‘alien saucer myth’ started questioning again the explanation that it was a “weather balloon”.

(And they were right, it was not just a “weather balloon”. It was a top-secret program called Project Mogul, which was finally and officially revealed in 1994).



 
Norio Hayakawa is one of the most vociferous skeptics of ufology I've ever encountered. It's been decades since I read up on the Roswell incident, so I can't recall the specifics clearly enough to go through and deconstruct the narrative that he's presenting here. But I'm fairly confident that he's simply summarized the subsequent cover-up stories and taken them to be fact.

This isn't surprising to me - most people grossly underestimate the intelligence and the capabilities of the national security apparatus: if they wanted you to believe that your tomato garden was an alien invasion from Mars, they could probably pull it off.

For me it pretty much boils down to this: I could seriously entertain the possibility at Maj. Marcel was an inept buffoon as Hayakawa describes here, and I could probably dismiss his son's testimony as well, although he always struck me as a highly credible individual. But is it possible that Col. Blanchard was also so vacant and credulous that he would issue a press release claiming that they'd recovered a flying disc when all they had was some tin foil and balsa wood glued together? Not a frickin' chance. There's just no way that the commander of our only nuclear strike group could be so dumb that he could mistake some balsa wood and tinfoil for the wreckage of an alien device...and then go on to become a four-star general in the USAF and serve as the Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force. In other words, Col. Blanchard rapidly rose in the ranks because the Roswell incident represented a victory for the military, not a dismal embarrassment - and it was a victory because the cover-up worked.

And the simultaneous intervention of Gen. Ramey alongside the weather balloon explanation absolutely reeks of a serious cover-up operation. Why would a General get involved with a weather balloon incident in the first place, unless it was actually a major operation underway? It also appears that Ramey was embarrassed about having to lie to the public by claiming that they had only recovered a weather balloon.

I realize that these arguments are only based on circumstantial reasoning and logic. But I find them to be significantly more persuasive than the narrative that Hayakawa is proselytizing, because his version requires us to believe that A.) everyone involved including the rising star Col. Blanchard were all incredibly stupid people, B.) that Gen. Ramey would suddenly appear in the press to talk about a misidentified weather balloon, and C.) that the US intelligence apparatus couldn't have manufactured the weather balloon story and gotten a few key career military officers to play along with it under the banner of national security.

So I tend to side with Stanton Friedman and now Eric Davis on this. Hayakawa tells a good tale, but frankly I think we'd be foolish to think that our national security apparatus couldn't have written that tale and laid out all of the pieces to make it seem very credible.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
I tend to agree with you, although I do enjoy reading some of Norio's views, he can be a little too skeptical for my taste...I sometimes post some of his stuff here to add another flavour so to speak, another viewpoint, although I may not agree with it...
 

Sheltie

Fratty and out of touch.
I think part of the problem is that the eyewitness accounts have probably been embellished a bit over the years as oral accounts often are. That doesn't mean they aren't true.

But I definitely agree with Thomas Morrison's point, that in order to believe the official version of the Roswell Incident we need to accept the fact that all the civilian eyewitnesses and military personnel involved at the scene were basically child-like imbecils who could believe that balsa wood and paper was aircraft wreckage.

Jesse Marcel, Sr admitted in his later years that the whole cover story was so ridiculous that there was no way it could have been true.

 
I tend to agree with you, although I do enjoy reading some of Norio's views, he can be a little too skeptical for my taste...I sometimes post some of his stuff here to add another flavour so to speak, another viewpoint, although I may not agree with it...
Honestly although I favor an exotic explanation for the Roswell incident, I find it impossible to be certain either way. But the fact that all of the records that we'd need to see in order to arrive at an informed assessment have mysteriously vanished (I assume that they've been classified, despite the official claims that they were destroyed), strongly suggests a cover-up to me.

Here's what I find to be so troubling about the views of Hayakawa and the other very aggressive skeptics like him: they don't seem to possess the slightest skepticism of "official sources" - they focus all of their skepticism on the ufological explanations instead. So they're not actually practicing skepticism; they're practicing flagrant confirmation bias. Because actual skepticism requires a balanced and dispassionate scrutiny of all the data, not just the half that you don't want to accept from the start. These folks seem to operate under the blithe delusion that the government never lies to us, and never goes to great lengths to deceive us, which is an empirically unsupportable viewpoint.

Here's another thing that I've been thinking about today: the context of all this. I've personally seen a pair of objects defy inertia at high speeds and in perfect formation, and the amazing revelations of the 2004 Nimitz case feature the exact same kind of aberrant motion that I've witnessed with my own two eyes - I've even been using the same analogy for the last 40 years that Cmdr Fravor describes - it was like watching a ping-pong ball reflecting off of an invisible surface in the air: they didn't slow down or turn in a curve when they changed direction, it was visually instantaneous and at constant speed: no human technology can do that. And of course there are countless other stunning cases like the Zimbabwe school incident, which collectively convince me beyond any doubt that advanced exotic devices are in fact operating in our airspace occasionally. So given this well-established context where we now know that these devices are real, it's perfectly reasonable to consider that one or more of these things have crashed for one reason or another because no technology is totally infallible or impervious to all varieties of attack or operator error and so forth.

The Roswell skeptics assume that there's no such thing as AAVs in the first place, so all of their analyses are predicated on that false assumption.

So for me it's pretty much a moot issue. AAVs are real, no question. And even if Roswell was some mammoth blunder and hoopla about a weather balloon, which I strongly doubt, it's quite possible if not likely that one or more of these things has come down for one reason or another over the course of the last 70 years. And if that's true, then we absolutely should have our best minds working on it to figure it out. Because this may sound like hyperbole, but I don't think that it is: the survival and long-term success of our global civilization may depend upon our understanding and eventual replication of the AAV technology that's navigating our airspace on occasion. Keeping that stuff secret is a direct threat to the future of our country and the future of all mankind.
 
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The shadow

The shadow knows!
Is,Art' s parts. From the event in any way manner shape or form?
 
Is,Art' s parts. From the event in any way manner shape or form?
I had written off Art's Parts entirely because it visually looks exactly like industrial residue, and the original testing hadn’t found anything interesting other than the thin and alternating layers of bismuth and magnesium, which could’ve been created by any number of processes.

But recently this has gotten much more interesting. I should probably start a thread about it, because it’s been one new development after another lately.

First, Tom DeLonge talked about a layered bismuth/magnesium material that had been studied (presumably by Bigelow Aerospace as part of their work for the AATIP). He said that this material was not from the Roswell incident, but from a subsequent crash recovery operation in 1948. He said that this material was made with nonterrestrial ratios of isotopes, and that the atoms were aligned (the atoms aren’t aligned in any of our earthly metal manufacturing processes), and that when exposed to THz frequencies of light, the sample lost some of its mass. He also described a time-of-flight experiment that had detected an inverse gravitational field near the surface of this sample of material.

He said that the sample he was discussing was similar to the Art’s Parts material
, but that it was a different sample than the ones that Linda Moulton Howe has. At the time I had assumed that he was all mixed up, and conflating different stories and reading into them inaccurately.

But then Lue Elizondo confirmed the existence of the material and some of the anomalous properties of that bismuth/magnesium metamaterial, so I was forced to take this all much more seriously: he does not strike me as a man prone to confusion or confabulation. And as the Director of the AATIP, he’s intimately familiar with its findings.

And just recently, Hal Puthoff has discussed this metamaterial and his statements directly link Art’s Parts to the material that Tom Delonge had originally discussed on the Joe Rogan show. So it appears at this point that they’re either very similar materials from different recovery operations, or different samples from the same recovery operation.

So what I don’t understand at this point is: if this material is already in the public sector, then why can’t we see these effects tested in a lab? I assume that Linda Moulton Howe still has some of it, so what’s the problem? Her samples appear to be rather badly melted, so maybe that’s an insurmountable obstacle to testing the effects that he described. I can only assume that the sample DeLonge and Elizondo have been discussing were not melted/destroyed, but I can only speculate in this regard.

I wish I could be more definitive about all of this. But it’s still all rather unclear. My gut tells me that there’s something exciting in here, but the story is still developing so we’ll just have to wait and see what comes out next.
 
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The shadow

The shadow knows!
I am not a fan of Tom Delonge. A lot of questions are raised about him.
However if he has a verifiable evidence and report then this is indeed a game changer. L.M.H. is not the most trustworthy name. Her support of the Roswell slides and the nazca mummy is telling. I like you await the relese of the reports.
Then and only then can we judge.
 
I am not a fan of Tom Delonge. A lot of questions are raised about him.
However if he has a verifiable evidence and report then this is indeed a game changer. L.M.H. is not the most trustworthy name. Her support of the Roswell slides and the nazca mummy is telling. I like you await the relese of the reports.
Then and only then can we judge.
It's funny you should say this - just this morning I was pondering this strange story and thinking about the same thing: I think that Tom means well but he's way too easily misled by his own enthusiasm; Linda has a track record of unduly hyping stories even the hoaxes; and Hal's a sharp guy but I don't know how much reality factors into a lot of his scientific ideas so his claims usually go in my grey box until I can see something tangible. So the primary reason that I'm riding the fence with this story rests on Lue Elizondo's unexpected statements of confirmation about this alleged metamaterial's exotic nature. And he's not a physicist, so it's quite possible that he was misled by those around him...but on the other hand he does seem to be very prudent and circumspect about his public statements, so I think he must have seen some compelling evidence that verified a few of its anomalous features.

In any case we definitely need to know more, because we can't be certain one way or another yet. I appreciate your objectivity: usually my attitude of "let's just wait until the evidence makes things completely clear, either way" draws fire from both extremes, the cynical skeptics and the credulous believers. Sure, it's far more likely that this is all some kind of mix-up or something, than that we have a genuinely exotic piece of alien technology that represents a game changer for physics and technology. But y'know, if somebody went back in time 400 years with a ferromagnetic inductor and said "hey this little coil can make a magnetic field a billion times more powerful than that chunk of lodestone," it would've seemed like an outlandish claim. So although it's rare, shocking and radical advancements do happen on occasion. And clearly AAVs represent some shocking and radical advancements. So the question isn't "are the exotic properties of this material possible?" it's "do we actually have a piece of it?" And that remains to be seen.
 

humanoidlord

ce3 researcher
please dont hate me but, there are only 2 likely explanations for the roswell incident:
1: a japanese fugo balloon manned or otherwise that was covered up to avoid public conflict
2: a mogul balloon after all
the original accounts describe a balloon site crash, everthing else was added later as military disinfo
(also norio is a believer of the demonic UFO explanation, enough said)
 

Rick Hunter

Celestial
In my eyes, the biggest problems with Roswell are and always have been:

1. The USAF is now on their third explanation for what Mac Brazel found. First, they announced to the world that they had retrieved a flying saucer. The next day they retracted it and demonstrated weather balloon wreckage as the new explanation. Almost 50 years later in 1994 they decided to change their story again and said it was a crashed Project Mogul balloon. It would not be at all surprising if someday the USAF decided to revise their story again someday.

2. Roswell happened at a time when UFOs were front page news, in a time when people and governments were genuinely and openly concerned about them. The USAF was also considerably more willing to engage in dialogue about the issue. Even though they quickly retracted the UFO story, for several years after the USAF still investigated the matter and spoke with the press about it. Had Roswell happened post-Condon Report, I don't think they would even bother to issue a weather balloon story. The debris would be quickly and quietly removed and icy silence is all we would get out of them. So, maybe Roswell has received more attention than it actually deserves owing to the time and place in which it happened.

3. Most Roswell witness accounts came out years after the event. Memories can fade or become embellished, and people often remember things in a way that validates their own experiences and beliefs. Moreover, there is evidence to suggest that some memories attributed to Roswell are more likely from other unrelated events. For example, Glenn Dennis' claim that the base called his funeral home asking if they had any child size, hermetically sealed caskets available may have been a real event which happened after a years later airplane crash in which the bodies of the crew were badly burned.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
An actual photo of the Roswell crash site...Does that look like weather balloon debris?...

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Rick Hunter

Celestial
Where did this photo come from? Looks like airplane wreckage to me. Notice the girder with circular holes in the foreground and pieces of riveted sheet metal.
 

Rick Hunter

Celestial
Hmm,that's the first mention of a declassified Roswell photo I've ever seen. The source website doesn't really inspire confidence either.
 

Gambeir

Celestial
An actual photo of the Roswell crash site...Does that look like weather balloon debris?...

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I agree with Rick Hunter, Morrison, and others.

To me this image is clearly showing a crashed aircraft. That doesn't mean leap to the conclusion that is all it is, or that there aren't other photos showing something which clearly is not an aircraft, but I think this is yet another development in the disinformation campaign.

That's actually a good thing. Say's people are figuring out what the reality is. This cannot be an alien ship, nor can it be a missing aircraft, least of all a military one, and this is clearly a twin engine design that's crashed.

No aircraft of that size would have gone un~searched for; not in that epoch of time, not in that area of the world, I find that highly improbable, and no one is going to look at a crashed aircraft and conclude it's a balloon or a kite of some kind. They make it sound like the rancher had the IQ of a grasshopper. Farmers and ranchers might come off like thick skulled apes in the popular image, but it takes a lot of good sense to be one and to be successful, and I personally wouldn't underestimate one.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
Hmm,that's the first mention of a declassified Roswell photo I've ever seen. The source website doesn't really inspire confidence either.

I agree about the source, I wanted to do an image search but I'm over an hour away from home traveling back home, so I posted and will follow up later...

...
 

Gambeir

Celestial
Take some time and look over the information in this NICAP 1950 Chronology. The evidence is simply beyond refutation.
1950 Chronology

From the NICAP Link Above. This and tons more. Here's the lead in followed by the first post in the chronology.

"Created December 22, 2005, updated 23 Nov. 2016"
"This is a 34-page report on an on-going project involving a number of people. I want to thank all the members of the A-Team who made this possible. This was a very important year in UFOlogy. Some of the best photographic evidence was obtained that year: April 23, Red Bud, Illinois; April 27, White Sands, New Mexico (Cinetheodolite film taken by camera tracking station); May 11, McMinnville, Oregon (Trent photos); May 24, White Sands (Cinetheodolite films); June 27, Louisville, Kentucky (Hixenbaugh movie film); August 15, Great Falls, Montana (Mariana color film); August 31, Alamogordo, New Mexico (Project TWINKLE film). Even more important is the fact that the April 27 White Sands tracking was a successful triangulation!!! Then there were all the sightings and radar-jamming and radiation incidents at Oak Ridge (in particular, Oct 29 & 30th). The Oak Ridge story included the FBI being put on "immediate high alert". Last, but certainly not least, we have to thank Loren Gross for thoughtfully and diligently collecting data many years ago for his UFO Histories and supplemental notes, in particular here the year 1950. And a big thanks to CUFOS and Mary Castnor for housing them on the CUFOS site."

Jan. 6, 1950; Near Howard, Kansas (BBU)
2:10 pm CST. Gray and 2 other USAF crew of C-47 transport saw a 30-60 ft silver football-shaped object flying in straight level flight. (Project 1947; FUFOR Index)

Jan. 6, 1950
A new wave of Frank Scully-type hoax stories begin to circulate widely through the media nationwide, including TIME and Newsweek magazines (stories of the AF meeting live aliens, recovering crashed saucers, bodies of little green men). Apparently the new stories were inspired by AFOSI (AF Office of Special Investigations) as a disinformation operation to discredit the Roswell incident in advance, in case Roswell should leak. The AF was fearful that retired Navy-Marine officer-pilot and investigative reporter Maj. Donald Keyhoe, after his blockbuster TRUE article, was hot on the trail of uncovering Roswell, though he was not (the AF had no way of knowing that). AF viewed this as a Navy attack on the AF, exploiting inter-service rivalry and using dirty tricks, and expected more to come (Brad Sparks)
 
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