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SOLVED! What Really

Happened at Roswell

by

Kal Korff Original Roswell Event While these double-digit figures are certainly
accurate, the presentation of this seemingly
In 1995, just in time for the 50th anniversary of For non-UFO buffs, ‘Roswell’ effectively began impressive number by itself, without
the mythical Roswell “UFO crash” of 1947, I after the July 4th holiday weekend in 1947 when qualification, is misleading. The relevant issue
wrote the expose book The Roswell UFO Crash: rancher William “Mac” Brazel reported to the here is not how many witnesses were
What They Don't Want You to Know local sheriff, George Wilcox, that he might have interviewed, but rather it is what type of
(Prometheus Books 1995 Hardcover, Bantam recovered the remains of “one of them flying witnesses these individuals are (i.e., firsthand,
Books 2000 Revised Paperback). To my saucers.” Wilcox, according to various accounts, secondhand), and how accurate and truthful
surprise, it remains the bestselling expose on then contacted military authorities at nearby their statements were.
‘Roswell’ to date even all these decades later. Roswell Army Air Field. Major Jesse Marcel Unfortunately, a careful reading of
The conclusions and final verdict it reached was assigned to investigate. Moore and Berlitz’s Roswell Incident reveals
have not only withstood the test of time, they Marcel and two Counter Intelligence that despite the impressive claim of having
remain vindicated. Being one of the four Corps (CIC) agents, Sheridan Cavitt and Lewis “interviewed more than seventy witnesses,” the
original Roswell investigators, I can and do Rickett, drove out to the ranch that Brazel testimonies of just 25 people are presented. Out
speak with authority on this subject. managed to examine and then collected the of these 25, only seven are firsthand sources
Now it is the year 2017, and the 70th debris. On July 8, 1947, the Public Information who claim to have seen the alleged saucer
anniversary of ‘Roswell’ has recently passed. Office at Roswell AAF made the startling debris, and one of these accounts is not credible.
Since American culture is keen on anniversaries, announcement that they had recovered the Of these seven people, however, only five
the subject of ‘Roswell’ was exploited once remains of a “flying disk.” individuals claim to have actually handled the
again, by everyone from UFO CONspiracy nuts However, by the next day the excitement material personally.
to of course Roswell city officials. Back in 1996 was over. Brigadier General Roger Ramey, who In fact, none of the original firsthand
when I interviewed them for my book, the had ordered the recovered wreckage sent to him Roswell witnesses ever described anything even
Mayor’s office sheepishly admitted that almost for examination at Carswell Air Force Base (also remotely resembling either a ‘spacecraft’ or an
20 percent of their revenues come from known as Fort Worth), held a press conference aircraft of any kind. None of them ever reported
exploiting this myth. During that time, there in his office with Major Marcel present, and seeing any ‘alien bodies,’ either! These
were two museums dedicated to it, and several announced that all the hoopla had been over a embellishments were made by UFO hucksters
purported ‘crash sites’ tourists paid money to mistaken weather balloon, and nothing more. and bogus ‘witnesses’ who jumped on the
see. With Ramey’s deflating announcement, Roswell bandwagon decades later, especially
Yet the Roswell UFO crash ‘mystery the Roswell ‘flying disk’ story was effectively (and not coincidentally) after NBC aired its then
was in fact solved in the late 1990s. No alien dead and would remain so for decades. popular TV series Unsolved Mysteries which
spacecraft was involved. What did stimulate the featured Roswell.
original report was, however, quite interesting, The remainder of the professed
“Hundreds of Witnesses”
although decidedly earthly. “witnesses” cited in The Roswell Incident are
According to widely held public opinion, either secondhand sources (whose testimonies
In the pro-UFO community, much fanfare is
most Americans believe that the U.S. constitute hearsay) or people who saw no
made about the “dozens” or even “hundreds of
government successfully recovered the remains wreckage at all or were never present at the
eyewitnesses” to the alleged UFO crash near
of a ‘crashed UFO’ along with its extraterrestrial “debris field” during the critical time. Put
Roswell. If this near-holy reverence for the
occupants near Roswell, New Mexico, in July another way, these people are not actually
number of alleged witnesses were limited to just
1947. In what is popularly known as the “the UFO buffs who have conducted no direct witnesses by any credible definition of this
Roswell incident,” the U.S. military is said to word.
research of their own, this situation might be
have quickly covered up the affair and continues
understandable. However, this is not the case,
to shroud it in extreme secrecy even today. (Continued on Page 42)
for the authors of numerous Roswell books also
What does one do with the numerous
play this deceptive numbers game.
claims about Roswell that have surfaced over
In the pro-UFO book The Truth About
the decades? How does one begin to determine THE ‘X’ ZONE TV SHOW
the UFO Crash at Roswell, Kevin Randle and
the truth about what really happened and sort the
Donald Schmitt note the fact that Bill Moore, Hosted by ROB McCONNELL
facts from the dominant widely promoted
co-author of the original book The Roswell Coming to The Small Screens
fiction? The Roswell incident, and all that Incident (1980), interviewed “more then seventy
surrounds it, is a complex web of events, not Across the United States and
witnesses who had some knowledge of the
easily understandable nor explainable until Canada
[Roswell UFO crash] event.” Indeed, both
examined fully and in painstaking detail.
Stanton Friedman and Moore, around the time Debuting December 2017
of the initial publication of The Roswell Check www.xzonetv.com
The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show Nightly On Incident, boasted that they had interviewed more
www.ZXBN.net than “ninety witnesses.” For Broadcast Dates and Times.