Thousands will gather in Roswell,
NM, this summer for the annual UFO
Festival. Because it’s been sixty
years since the UFO crash, this festival
will be more important than most.
Despite self-serving, ever-changing
statements directly or indirectly
from the U.S. Government, no one really
knows what crashed near Roswell in
July of 1947. However, thanks to the
courage of individuals that have come
forward to speak about what they witnessed
or the role they played in the unexplained
event, we can be almost certain of
one thing. It was, in the words of
the late Jesse Marcel Sr., “not of
this earth.”
Marcel was an Intelligence Officer
at the base and had personal involvement
with the investigation of the material
from the crash site. He is not alone
in his assessment of what crashed
near Roswell. The late Retired Colonel
Philip Corso offered his own experiences
as proof positive in a book entitled
‘The Day after Roswell.’ Shortly after
the UFO crash, Corso had an opportunity
to view an unusual cadaver preserved
in some sort of blue liquid while
he was Post Duty Officer at Fort Riley,
KS. The body came from Roswell via
Fort Bliss and was en route to Wright
Field (Wright-Patterson AFB, OH).
It’s important to remember that these
are just two of the many people that
had first or second hand knowledge
about the crash. Even a quick examination
of the collective evidence would indicate
this event involved something more
than a weather, high altitude or radar
balloon with a bunch of crash test
dummies or cadavers aboard. It was
more than some crazy test vehicle
that a bunch of super-intelligent
children or midgets were piloting
around the New Mexico desert during
a violent thunderstorm. These facts
make the Roswell UFO Festival an essential
event that has become an annual reminder
of a great mystery that remains unsolved.
Although I have been to Roswell over
twenty times since the early 1980s,
I have never attended the festival.
My loss. However, I have (by invitation)
presented seminars in the town before
the festival was organized and visited
occasionally since that time. Despite
missing out on all the festivities,
I have always enjoyed the calm and
mystery of the place without all the
hoopla.
I presented my first seminar in Roswell
during 1992. It was supposed to be
a low-key event at a nice hotel and
small convention facility for a group
of former military personnel (unrelated
to the old base) holding a reunion
in town. They invited me to speak
after one of the organizers heard
a guest spot that I did on an Albuquerque
radio show the year before. Barely
aware of the crash, the organizer
was fascinated by my analysis of what
happened at Roswell in 1947. He wanted
those attending the reunion to have
an opportunity to hear the same thing.
I arrived in town a few days before
the event so that I could snoop around
as I usually did whenever I came to
Roswell. Unfortunately, my radio and
television appearances in Albuquerque
to plug a seminar I presented there
alerted the media in Roswell. A noontime
television interview that I did on
a local Albuquerque news program was
simulcast in Roswell and that was
the end of my ambiguity. With the
story of the Roswell Crash all over
the map in those days and a shortage
of UFO researchers that spoke about
Roswell actually visiting their town,
I was invited to appear on a midday
TV news show, booked for a guest spot
on local radio and gave an interview
to the Roswell Daily Record.
Fortunately, my seminar for the group
holding their reunion in Roswell was
also open to the public. And the public
came out in force. I was surprised
because you would think that after
the publication of The Roswell Incident,
an Unsolved Mystery episode on the
crash and all the media coverage received,
the people in town would be sick of
hearing about UFOs. Instead, they
couldn’t get enough.
One of the people that attended my
seminar was Glenn Dennis. He was the
funeral home worker that said he arrived
at the Roswell Base just after the
crash in 1947. He took some time to
speak with me after the seminar ended
and said that my presentation about
UFOs was the most accurate and the
best he had ever seen. Similar kudos
were thrown my way by others in the
audience and those comments remain
a highlight of my time as a paranormal
researcher.
Most of the younger people that came
out to my seminar candidly told me
that most of what they learned about
the crash came from TV specials and
occasional news reports. Given my
first visit to Roswell in the 80‘s,
I believed them. Asking about the
location of the crash in those days
tended to get you dirty looks. Roswell
citizens were in a state of denial
and even the history of the old Roswell
Base seemed unimportant to them at
that time. It was a lesson in how
successful a cover-up and government
intimidation can be.
Despite their lack of enthusiasm
for local history during my first
visit to Roswell, I am happy to report
that the town has had a complete turn
around. Barely mentioned in the town
brochure and considered a kind of
local embarrassment in those days,
the UFO Crash has become almost a
centerpiece of town history. The base,
its connection to atomic history and
the former military members that served
there have also received a lot more
attention in the post no-nukes atmosphere
of the 1970s and 1980s. The people
have changed as well.
A new generation seems to embrace
the attention that the UFO Crash brings
each year. The 1994 Showtime Networks
cable television film about the UFO
Crash entitled, Roswell, renewed a
lot of local interest in the crash
and a reexamination of what really
happened. That coincided with a call
for the release of government documents
about the UFO crash by the late Steven
Schiff, a New Mexico Representative
driven to make the inquiry by calls
and letters from his constituents.
The 1990s remained hot for Roswell
with the 1997 publication of Colonel
Corso’s book, The Day after Roswell,
and the 1999 premier of Roswell, the
TV Series (1999-2002).
Roswell is still a treasure house
of undiscovered secrets. Proof of
that comes from the people that still
come forward with information about
the things that happened in the town.
Last year I was contacted by a man
living in California who I’ll call
Al. After listening to the rebroadcast
of a radio program recorded a few
years ago with the late Colonel Corso
talking about the Roswell UFO crash,
Al began to give some thought to something
that had occurred earlier in his life.
Al moved to San Francisco, California,
in 1964. Sometime in the winter of
1964-65, he was set up on a blind
date with ‘a good-looking young blond
woman.’ While he could not recall
her name or where they went on the
date, he did remember an unusual conversation
they had at the end of the evening.
At some point the young woman asked
Al if he believed in the existence
of other life forms or Alien life
in the Universe. Al said he did and
gave a few reasons why, which included
the size of the Universe and the common
scientific probabilities of the day.
The young woman almost immediately
gave affirmation to Al by saying something
like, “Yea, you’re right,” and followed
up with a most amazing story.
She was the daughter of an Air Force
Chaplain. The family lived in Roswell
and her father was serving on the
base in the late 1940s. The young
woman told him that sometime during
dinner two men came to the door to
get her dad. She recalled hearing
them tell him that his services were
needed. The incident caused such a
stir in the household that everyone
stayed up late until he returned.
Seeing that everyone was still awake,
the Chaplain told his family that
he was called to give religious comfort
to some sort of Alien Life Forms near
what seemed to be a crashed spacecraft.
At least two of four creatures were
still alive when he got there. He
described them as looking a bit like
adolescent boys, but obviously not
human. No one knew what the creatures
were or precisely how to care for
them. As a result, all of the beings
eventually perished. That was the
crux of the story and the woman told
Al that the family never discussed
it in-depth again. Despite the lack
of details, it presents an intriguing
challenge and is typical of stories
that pop up now and again.
Even more stunning are the revelations
of the late Dr Michael Wolf, the ultimate
U.S. Government insider. Introduced
to him by my friend and fellow paranormal
researcher Dick Criswell about twenty
years ago, I was initially skeptical
of some of his claims which included
personal knowledge of various secret
programs involving the government
and aliens, technology gained from
UFO crashes and agreements with aliens,
and a UFO incident involving the late
President John F. Kennedy (his wife
was related to the Kennedy Family).
My skepticism vanished after a few
conversations with him over the phone
and various demonstrations of his
political clout. If wouldn’t be unusual
to find him speaking over the phone
with Vice President Dan Quayle or
former President Bill Clinton (Yes,
it REALLY was them, not a joke or
impersonation). I was also impressed
by a mental exercise that he developed
for the government. He called it The
Gateway Treatment. It was disguised
as a relaxation meditation that attracts
positive energy and certainly accomplishes
that goal, but it’s basically a way
to mentally summon aliens.
Notoriously camera and press shy,
he nevertheless felt compelled to
share some of his amazing information
and exploits with a few close friends
and trusted paranormal researchers
during the years shortly before his
death in 2000. As a board member of
the International Paranormal UFO Society,
I am thrilled to announce the release
of the only known video interview
recorded with Dr Wolf on DVD entitled,
DR MICHAEL WOLF: KEEPER OF COSMIC
SECRETS. The video was filmed in 1998.
Those that look at the Roswell UFO
Crash as case closed or believe that
it a field that has already been farmed
too many times do not understand the
nature of the UFO subject or the power
of the government cover-up. Years
ago I spoke to a UFO witness. The
event he observed occurred while he
was in the military. He received calls
at least once a month from people
who said that they knew what happened
and that he had better not talk about
it.
Although he hadn’t told anyone except
his immediate superior about the incident,
people in high places seemed to know
about it and the calls continued for
years. Imagine the power of that kind
of intimidation. Now imagine living
in what became a government town during
the 1940s. It wasn’t hard for anyone
to imagine being locked up in some
federal prison like Leavenworth if
you happen to run afoul of federal
authorities. Retired military personnel
had even more to lose. They could
end up in prison and forfeit any benefits,
pay or pensions due them.
Sixty years after the Roswell UFO
crash, we still do not have the entire
story. However, that doesn’t mean
there is no story. It just means that
the U.S. Government has managed to
convince most people that the idea
of alien life forms visiting us is
just not probable and that whatever
crashed near Roswell isn’t something
we need to be concerned about. Well,
I beg to differ. The only thing that
will come from trusting government
officials to make all of the decisions
while we remain blissfully ignorant
is tyranny.
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