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The Curious Case Of The

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The Mystery To Solve

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Carey and Schmitt gave a PowerPoint
presentation. Doble testified that the body was
not human. The forensic scientists described the
anomalies they discovered.
Beason found BeWitness too much of a
spectacle to attend. Almost to prove his point, a
person dressed as a giant alien strolled the stage.
Then Maussan projected the two slides
on to enormous screens.
At first, there was little response from
the UFO world.
Though the slides had been on huge
screens in the auditorium, they weren’t easy to
see online. Many people noticed what appeared
to be a reflection of a woman’s leg and the
corner of a bench in one photo. It looked
suspiciously like something from a museum. No
one could tell for sure.
Three days after BeWitness, someone
involved in the show leaked a high-resolution
of the body spread on blankets not long after its but they played hocus pocus with the placard.
scan of one slide to a group of skeptics. The
discovery. We were given something that had been
next morning, Beason called Dew as he
The mummy was traced to the Chapin altered.”
prepared to leave Mexico.
Mesa Archeological Museum in Mesa Verde, “These guys would tell you they were
The placard they could never read had
Colorado. The museum confirmed the child’s being up front and honest, but they were
been deciphered.
A member of the Roswell Slides body had been on display for years. Which is controlling the slides,” says Schmitt. “I
where it seems an attorney and geologist named shouldn’t have trusted them as much as I did.”
Research Group posting under the screen name
Hilda and Bernard might have snapped photos But why?
Neb Lator examined the high-resolution image
of it in the later 1940s. “M.O.N.E.Y. That’s why [Dew] did it,”
using SmartDeBlur Pro, a software program
“The Smoking Gun: RIP To The Carey says.
easily found on the internet. Several hours later,
Roswell Slides,” screamed a UFO blog Night is falling outside the coffee shop
the placard’s top words had cleared enough to
headline. where Dew tells his story. He gazes into the
be deciphered.
“Fraud Put To Rest,” said another. inky darkness then shakes his head.
“MUMMIFIED BODY OF TWO
“Busted,” shouted one more. He says he and Beason did show
YEAR OLD BOY”
Further deblurring revealed most of the Schmitt a high-resolution version of the slides
The UFO world mocked Carey and Schmitt for early in their investigation, and the experts they
placard’s other writing:
not realizing their Roswell alien was a mummy approached were those recommended by Carey
“At the time of burial the body was
in a museum. “The whole investigation was and Schmitt. He insists he has always tried to
clothed in a (unreadable) cotton shirt. Burial
amateurish,” scoffs Kevin Randle, the UFO “remain neutral” about the slides, even as he
wrappings consisted of these small cotton
researcher and radio host. How could everyone and the others let their imaginations stretch
blankets. Loaned by Mr (unreadable) San
not see the pictures clearly came from a random pieces of Hilda’s background into
Francisco, California”
museum? Did they really think that even if believing they had the world’s only photos of a
Dew was stunned.
“No way could they read in two days Dwight Eisenhower somehow knew the Rays he Roswell alien.
what it took us three years trying to decipher,” would let them look at something as top-secret When asked if he wanted too much for
as a dead Roswell alien? the body to be an alien – something Carey and
he says.
Not long after the placard’s deciphering, Schmitt both admitted to me that they
The deblurring had to be phony, he
Carey was pulled from a prime speaking role at themselves did – and that he was willing to set
thought.
a top UFO conference. Humiliated, Carey and aside all good sense, he said: “I’m definitely
For a few days Carey and Schmitt, much
Schmitt apologized to the Roswell Slides guilty of not discouraging the talk [of it being
like Dew, refused to believe the placard actually
debunkers. alien]. It was good for the project.”
had been read. They accused the Roswell Slides
“I came back to the States thinking: the Beason has moved on, but Dew wants to
Research Group of photoshopping the placard.
Carey released a statement calling the members only redeeming thing is that 99% of the finish the documentary. He will call his film
“a cast of characters” and accused one of “being American press has no clue or idea about this or Kodachrome, a tribute to the red processing
that it happened,” Schmitt says. label stamped on each of Hilda’s pictures. It is,
party to a UFO hoax years ago”.
They wondered how they could have after all, the reason he dedicated four years to
But soon more information was
been so wrong. They considered the previous the slides and why he still clenches his jaw as he
unearthed. A better reading of the placard
three years, and concluded that Beason and denies Carey and Schmitt’s charge that he
identified the mummy’s donor as an SL Palmer.
Dew had duped them by distorting the slides manipulated the photos.
Debunkers located government records
and blurring the placard, making it impossible “They got their hopes up,” he says.
showing Palmer discovered the body in 1896
for anyone to read. They said Beason and Dew “They will never get the answers they are
near Montezuma Castle, a series of cave
dwellings cut into the Arizona cliffs about 30 only showed them a low-resolution photo that looking for. They dedicated their lives to this.
miles from the garage where Beason’s sister kept them from realizing the body was in a Me, I just go back to shooting high school
museum. football.”
initially found the slides. The records included
“It was a very sophisticated hoax,” He chuckles.
evidence that the child was Native American,
Carey says. “Dew manipulated the slides. The His laugh clanks empty under the vast
and photos of the burial site along with pictures
one clue we couldn’t figure out was the placard, night sky. []