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What Really Happened at Ramey’s subsequent announcement that the confabulating, likely because there is no
debris was simply a misidentified weather question that these recovered debris photos do
Roswell balloon. As noted, Marcel maintains that the not show an “alien spacecraft,” but instead a

weather balloon ‘explanation’ provided by conventional RADAR reflector target.
Ramey was a convenient cover story. Brig. Gen. Thomas J. DuBose
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Although Marcel’s credibility as a
truthful witness in the Roswell saga has now As mentioned earlier, Colonel Thomas J.
Here are just a few examples that prove
been impeached, there is no disputing the fact DuBose, who later retired as a Brigadier
that Major Jesse Marcel lied, and often. Marcel
that he accompanied the wreckage to Carswell General, was present when the wreckage was
claimed that he personally flew the UFO
(not as a pilot but as a passenger) and was brought into Ramey’s office. There’s no
wreckage to Carswell AFB for General Ramey
present in Ramey’s office with him when the disputing this fact, because DuBose met the B-
to inspect. This was not true. Marcel could not
weather balloon explanation was given to the 29 aircraft personally when it arrived at
have done this, for he was never a pilot. Despite
public. But was there a coverup as Marcel Carswell AFB (Fort Worth) from Roswell
this fact, Marcel claimed in numerous claims, and was the weather balloon story part of carrying the debris that Marcel had collected.
interviews with Friedman and former National that coverup? DuBose not only greeted the incoming
Enquirer reporter Bob Pratt that he was not only
According to Colonel Thomas J. plane, but hand carried some of the wreckage
a pilot but had managed to shoot down five
DuBose, who was General Ramey’s assistant remnants in a sealed canvas mail pouch,
enemy aircraft. If so, this would have made
during that time and was also involved in immediately escorting it to Ramey’s office.
Marcel an “Ace,” a distinction that certainly
“Roswell,” the weather balloon story was indeed In a revealing interview, DuBose puts to
would have been noted in his military file.
a lie, designed he says, to get the press “taken off rest the ‘mystery’ of the so-called substituted
Instead, there’s no record of this nor even
[Ramey’s] back in a hurry.” wreckage and exposes it for what it is — another
anything close, in fact it was General Ramey
If the Roswell incident did not involve Major Marcel myth. DuBose’s comments had
who specifically noted in Marcel’s file that the retrieval of wreckage from a genuine flying never appeared before in any book on Roswell,
because he (Marcel) was not a pilot, he would be saucer, then why was the weather balloon story until I wrote mine.
severely limited in his career opportunities in the
given as an ‘explanation,’ and what was the
Air Force.
reason for needing a coverup in the first place? Q: There are two researchers (Schmitt
This issue of limited opportunities is
What was there to possibly hide, since and Randle) who are presently saying that the
especially important where it concerns Major
the debris Marcel himself had helped recover debris in General Ramey’s office had been
Marcel, since he was stationed at Roswell which
was on display in Ramey’s office, it was even switched and that you men had a weather
was home to the elite 509th group which was the
photographed by the press? balloon there in its place.
only atomic wing in the U.S. military at that
A: Oh Bull! That material was never
time. The pilots who dropped the two atomic
Flying Saucer or Weather Balloon? switched! (Emphasis added)
bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Japan, came
Q: So what you're saying is that the
from the 509th. Put another way, some of the
According to the pro-UFO Roswell authors, the material in General Ramey’s office was the
best pilots were stationed there, but Jesse Marcel
debris photographed inside Ramey’s office is actual debris brought in from Roswell?
was not among these air supremos.
not the material Marcel and Sheridan Cavitt A: That’s absolutely right. (Emphasis
Marcel lied again when he said that he
recovered from the ranch. Instead, it is the added)
had earned a Bachelor’s degree in Physics and
remnants of a weather balloon that was cleverly
even named the two schools he attended.
brought in as a cover story to hide the true nature In a second and a third, final interview,
However, when I checked with those
of the Roswell incident. DuBose repeated his assertions that no wreckage
institutions, I discovered that one of them,
Unfortunately for pro-UFO Roswell substitution had taken place. More important, by
George Washington University, has no record of
advocates and conspiracy nuts, the source of this the time of this third interview, DuBose had
him. Curiously, while Marcel blatantly deceived
claim that the wreckage in Ramey’s office was looked at the photos of the recovered debris
UFO researchers about his mythical educational
replaced by that of a weather balloon is none taken at that time in Ramey’s office by J. Bond
background, he never dared make such false
other than, once again, Major Jesse Marcel and Johnson and one other photographer. DuBose
claims to the military. Indeed, in the signed
Stanton Friedman. Bill Moore, the original recognized the material in the photos and
statements contained in Marcel’s military file,
author of the book the Roswell Incident, identified it as being one of the same!
he replied “none” when asked under oath if he
disagrees and says that there was no debris
had a college degree. switch, but he does admit that there was a Q: Did you get a chance to read the
After my book was published, which
coverup story given to the public and media. The material and look at the pictures?
was the first to expose Major Jesse Marcel, his
question now becomes, why? A: Yes, and I studied the pictures very
son, Dr. Jesse Marcel Junior, who had also seen
The key to solving the truth behind carefully.
the debris his father collected, wrote me an
Marcel’s ‘bait and switch’ claim is a clear Q: Do you recognize that material?
email and admitted that, “My father did have a
understanding of the items shown in the now A: Oh yes. That’s the material that
tendency to exaggerate on occasion.” Marcel
famous photographs that were taken in General Marcel brought into Fort Worth from
wrote me from his AOL account, his admission
Ramey’s office by reporter J. Bond Johnson of Roswell. (Emphasis added)
was an understatement.
the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and others. Either
Having discovered the sad truth behind
many of the testimonies concerning the the photos show the real debris that Marcel DuBose’s comments cannot be
collected and says was part of a flying saucer, or underestimated, because they establish that there
recovery of alleged ‘flying saucer’ debris near
they do not. Clearly, both Marcel and Ramey was no ‘substituted wreckage’ and that the
Roswell, where does this leave us? With no
cannot be right, since the same material appears material Marcel recovered near Roswell was
known scientifically verifiable physical
in all the known photos taken in Ramey’s office later photographed and put on display for public
remnants to study, is there any way that one can
during that day captured by more than one view in Ramey’s office by Ramey himself.
determine the true nature and origin of the actual
photographer.
material that was collected? Fortunately, the
To determine definitively the (Continued on Page 45)
answer is yes, but we must first examine
truthfulness of Marcel’s substituted wreckage
additional evidence.
claim, I have analyzed in detail both the photos From the Pages of “Did You Know?”
and the testimonies of the other people who by Rob McConnell:
Air Force Coverup Begins
were in Ramey’s office when this collected
debris was photographed — Colonel DuBose DYK...On the day The Wizard of Oz’s Judy
The beginning of the Air Force coverup
and Warrant Officer Irving Newton. Newton Garland died, a tornado touched down in
concerning the true nature of what was
even appears in one of these pictures, and like Kansas.
recovered by Major Marcel started with Marcel, is also seen posing with the recovered
Marcel’s arrival at Carswell AFB and General debris. Major Jesse Marcel was once again Available at www.robmcconnell.ca