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SOLVED! What Really

Happened at Roswell

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Father Time, Flawed Memories

While the pro-UFO community and its Roswell
authors hype the number of purported
‘witnesses,’ even though such claims are not
true; another factor in their firm belief that an
extraterrestrial spacecraft crashed near Roswell
is the seeming consistency of these testimonies.
However, a careful reading of the
statements presented in The Roswell Incident
and other books easily proves that there are
serious discrepancies among these various
accounts which, when analyzed in detail and
taken collectively, completely destroy the case.
One undeniable truth that many UFO
advocates seem to easily forget is that when
have been touted as “witnesses” by pro-UFO Indeed, the only ‘proof’ one has that Brown was
Moore and Friedman first started interviewing
Roswell authors are not really witnesses at all. a “witness” comes from his daughter, Beverly
some of the original witnesses, the recollections
Here are just three examples: Bean, who first boasted about it years after his
of these people had undoubtedly changed. If
death. No other member of Brown’s family
nothing else, their memories reflected the
Lydia Sleppy: Claims she was operating supports her claim. Furthermore, a check by this
passage of nearly thirty-one years, if not more.
a teletype machine announcing the recovery of author of Brown’s military file reveals that he
Even the very first person interviewed, Major
the ‘flying disk’ when her teletype suddenly was just a cook who held no security clearance
Jesse Marcel, was not questioned by Friedman
went dead and broadcast an ominous message and never pulled guard duty, ergo he could not
until 1978, again almost thirty-one years after
from the FBI back to her ordering her to stop have ‘guarded’ the dead aliens contrary to what
the event.
broadcasting the story in the interests of national Bean says.
It is a fact that the passage of time erodes
security.
the accuracy of one’s ‘recollections’ of an event.
Truth: A check by this author with all *****
Despite this reality, pro-UFO Roswell authors
relevant FBI field offices and their headquarters
continue to stress just how “clear and sharp”
turned up no evidence that the FBI sent any such Major Jesse Marcel: The Hidden
their witnesses’ “memories” are, even though
message, nor did they have the monitoring Truth
fifty years had elapsed by 1997. Certainly
equipment in place in 1947 to do so.
whatever memories existed, they could not have
Furthermore, the type of teletype machine in use
improved. In my book, I published for the first time
by Sleppy at the time would have required her to
Perhaps the most absurd attempt to paint snippets from the military file of Major Jesse
throw a ‘receiver’ switch in order for her to Marcel, excerpts which prove that although
the Roswell eyewitnesses and their testimonies
receive an incoming transmission. There was no Marcel served his country honorably, he was
as ‘beyond dispute’ can be found in Randle and
way that the FBI could have “interrupted” her as
Schmitt’s The Truth about the UFO Crash at not a credible witness and should not be
she claims.
Roswell, which was later adapted for television considered as such. Despite this fact, Stanton
by Showtime, under the name Roswell. In Friedman and other pro-UFO Roswell authors
*****
drawing a parallel between the alleged UFO consider his every word to be gospel truth.
events at Roswell and the assassination of Marcel’s file is extremely incriminating,
Loretta Proctor: Neighbor of Mac
President John F. Kennedy, Randle and Schmitt Brazel, the rancher who originally discovered for it it clearly proves that he had a penchant for
state, “The Roswell memories are vivid and exaggerating things while repeatedly trying to
the Roswell debris. She claims she tried to bend, ‘write himself’ into the history books. Ironically,
detailed, despite the passage of so many years”
burn and break a piece of the material Brazel Marcel’s tendency to exaggerate issues was
and constitute a “snapshot memory.”
showed her but was unable to. Proctor’s
If this is the case, to use Randle and specifically noted in his military file by none
testimony is used by crashed saucer buffs to
Schmitt’s analogy, then these people forgot to other than the commander of the base at Roswell
buttress their argument that a spaceship made of
load film in their camera, for even the most during that time, in a review of his performance
unknown, exotic and extremely tough (yet
important ‘star’ witness to Roswell, Major Jesse that was signed just after the incident occurred.
flexible) material crashed near Roswell.
Marcel, when first interviewed, could not even
Truth: Loretta Proctor has changed her
remember the year of the alleged UFO crash, let story several times. She has transformed herself (Continued on Page 43)
alone the month! Common sense, if nothing
from being a “witness” who never saw any
else, dictates that if a person actually recovers an
debris, to one who now tried to bend, break and From the Pages of “Did You Know?”
‘alien spacecraft’ and ‘dead alien bodies,’ that
burn the “mysterious” material. She began by Rob McConnell:
they would at least remember the year and
changing her account after her husband, Floyd,
month of such a life changing and historic event.
who made it very clear in earlier interviews that DYK...69% of cake eaters eat the cake first,
Yet Marcel’s own answer as to when this
they had never seen any material, passed away. then the frosting.
supposed “snapshot memory” event took place
was simply “in the late forties.” DYK...The Cambodian language has 72
*****
In my book on Roswell, I systematically letters in its alphabet, the most of any
examined the accounts of all major “witnesses” language.
Sergeant Melvin E. Brown: Brown is DYK...Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under
presented in the Roswell Incident and 22 other
touted as a “witness” who saw “alien bodies” by his baseball cap to keep cool during games.
books written about this subject which sold any
Roswell authors Friedman, Randle and Schmitt, DYK...60% of pets in Great Britain have
decent quantity. For the first time, these
among others. some form of health insurance.
testimonies were exposed for what they are,
Truth: Melvin Brown cannot be
which is a mishmash of erroneous accounts,
considered a witness since he died in 1986 and
embellishments and outright confabulations. In Available at www.robmcconnell.ca
was never interviewed by UFO researchers!
fact, as I proved, some of the individuals who