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The book also notes that Friedman, even
as of this writing, has failed to refute these
devastating new revelations about his “star”
Roswell witness. Indeed, in what can only be
politely called lame rationalization, Friedman
counters that military records are notoriously
inaccurate. While this is sometimes true, the
comment is irrelevant, since throughout
Marcel’s file his signature repeatedly appears
indicating that he signed off on its contents,
certifying them to be true. Until Friedman and
other pro-UFO Roswell researchers bother
obtaining Marcel’s entire military file, they are had helped recover was on display in Ramey’s had collected.
in no position to make comments on it, let alone office? DuBose not only greeted the incoming
dismiss it. plane, but hand carried the wreckage remnants
In addition to disproving Marcel’s Flying Saucer or Weather Balloon? in a sealed canvas mail pouch, immediately
testimony, I also systematically dismantle and escorting it to Ramey’s office.
refute other Roswell “eyewitness” testimonies According to the pro-UFO Roswell authors, In a revealing interview, DuBose puts to
such as those of British Major Hughie Green, specifically Friedman, Randle, and Schmitt, the rest the “mystery” of the so-called substituted
Roswell mortician Glen Dennis, Rueben Anaya, debris photographed inside Ramey’s office is wreckage and exposes it for what it is — another
Frankie Rowe, Frank Kaufmann, Jim Ragsdale, not the material Marcel and Sheridan Cavitt Major Marcel myth. DuBose’s comments have
and others. In short, no credible evidence from recovered from the ranch. Instead, it is the never appeared before in any book on Roswell.
any witness has turned out to present a remnants of a weather balloon that were brought Q: There are two researchers (Schmitt
compelling case that the object was in as a cover story to hide the true nature of the and Randle) who are presently saying that the
Roswell incident. debris in General Ramey’s office had been
extraterrestrial in origin.
Having discovered the sad truth behind Unfortunately for the pro-UFO Roswell switched and that you men had a weather
many of the testimonies concerning the recovery advocates, the source of the claim that the balloon there in its place.
of alleged “flying saucer” debris near Roswell, wreckage in Ramey’s office was replaced by A: Oh Bull! That material was never
where does this leave us? With no known that of a weather balloon is none other than, switched!
scientifically verifiable physical remnants to once again, Major Jesse Marcel. Q: So what you're saying is that the
study, is there any way that we can determine the The key to understanding (and material in General Ramey’s office was the
true nature and origin of the actual wreckage unraveling) the truth behind Marcel’s “bait and actual debris brought in from Roswell?
that was collected? Fortunately, the answer is switch” claim is a clear understanding of the A: That’s absolutely right.
items shown in the photographs that were taken In a second and a third, final interview, DuBose
yes, but we must first examine additional
evidence. in General Ramey’s office by reporter J. Bond repeated his assertions that no wreckage
Johnson of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and substitution had taken place. More important, by
The Air Force Coverup Begins others. Either the photos show the real debris the time of the third interview, DuBose had
that Marcel collected and claims was part of a looked at the photos of the recovered debris

The beginning of the Air Force coverup of the flying saucer, or they do not. And if the photos taken at that time by J. Bond Johnson. DuBose
true nature of the object recovered by Major do not show genuine flying saucer wreckage, recognized the material in the photos.
Marcel started with Marcel’s arrival at Carswell and General Ramey’s weather balloon story was Q: Did you get a chance to read the
AFB and General Ramey’s subsequent true, then they depict a weather balloon. On the material and look at the pictures?
other hand, if the photos show neither item, then A: Yes, and I studied the pictures very
announcement that the debris was simply a
misidentified weather balloon. As noted, Marcel there was indeed a coverup and Ramey lied. carefully.
maintains that the Roswell debris was from a Clearly, both Marcel and Ramey cannot Q: Do you recognize that material?
flying saucer and that the weather balloon be right, since the same material appears in all A: Oh yes. That’s the material that
“explanation” provided by Ramey was a the known photos taken in Ramey’s office that Marcel brought into Fort Worth from Roswell.
convenient cover story. Although Marcel’s day. DuBose’s comments are significant,
credibility as a truthful witness in the Roswell In order to determine definitively the because they establish that there was no
saga has been impeached, there is no disputing truthfulness of Marcel’s substituted wreckage substituted wreckage and that the material
the fact that he accompanied the wreckage to claim, I have analyzed in detail both the photos Marcel recovered near Roswell was later
and the testimonies of the only other people who photographed and put on display for public view
Carswell AFB and was present in Ramey’s
office with him when the weather balloon were in Ramey’s office when the debris was in Ramey’s office by Ramey himself.
explanation was given. But was there a coverup photographed — Colonel DuBose and Irving I also present the testimonies of Irving
as Marcel claims, and was the weather balloon Newton. It appears that Marcel was once again Newton, who was also present that day in
story part of that coverup? confabulating. Ramey’s office, and Sheridan Cavitt, who
According to Colonel Thomas J. helped Marcel collect the wreckage from the
DuBose, who was General Ramey’s assistant, Testimony of Brigadier General Thomas J. ranch. After looking at the same debris photos,
the weather balloon story was indeed part of the DuBose they confirmed that they depict the material they
coverup, designed to get the press “taken off recalled seeing and that no UFO debris was ever
As mentioned earlier, Colonel Thomas J. there. In fact, both Newton and Cavitt make it
[Ramey’s] back in a hurry.”
If the Roswell incident did not involve DuBose, who later retired as a brigadier general, very clear in their interviews that they have been
the retrieval of wreckage from a genuine flying was present when the wreckage was brought misquoted by various UFO researchers, and they
saucer, then why was the weather balloon story into Ramey’s office. There’s no disputing this resent it.
given as an “explanation,” and what was the fact, because DuBose met the B-29 personally
reason for the coverup? What was there to when it arrived at Carswell AFB (Fort Worth)
possibly hide, since the debris Marcel himself from Roswell carrying the debris that Marcel (Continued on Page 83)