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30 Demolishing the Roswell Myth Demolishing the Roswell Myth 30 Demolishing the Roswell the numbers of alien bodies (three government, but by producers and duplication. For example, a story from Demolishing the Roswell `Alien' Myth living; three dead; four dead/one authors of television shows, movies, the Fort Worth Morning-Star Telegram `Alien' Myth living; three dead; one living; and, one and books. Klass tells how he has appears on pages 17 and 18, but again dead). The search for mortician Glenn repeatedly tried to get TV producers to (in its entirety) on pages 85 and 86. by David E Thomas Dennis's "missing nurse" (Naomi show formerly secret documents that The same goes for the McCoy briefing Marie Selff) is detailed, along with prove the US did not have any physical (page 175, and repeated on page 208). The question isn't "Did an strong evidence that she never existed. evidence of alien visitors, even after But the biggest flaw of the book is the alien spaceship crash at Roswell in Witness Anderson's diary copying and Roswell. And Klass tells how, time and material that's missing, such as Klass' 1947?" The question is, why do many phone-record tampering severely again, the truth has ended up on the resounding debunking of the supposed prominent UFO authors persist in damage his credibility. cutting-room floor. "Majestic 12" forgeries. (Klass's MJ- claiming the Roswell Incident is still Klass takes on all of the major Klass concludes the book by 12 exposës are nevertheless available UFOdom's best case? In case there pro-Roswell discussing his in book form, reprinted in the 1997 SI were still doubts, Phil Klass's new authors as work at anthology The UFO Invasion.) book should help settle them. His case well: Stanton Aviation Week When I give talks about against the Roswell "alien" myth is Friedman, and Space Roswell, I always show how Klass devastating. William Technology. found that President Truman's alleged Klass's previous books include Moore, Kevin Aviation Week signature on an MJ-12 letter was really UFOs: The Public Deceived and UFO Randle, has revealed just photocopied from a different, Abductions: A Dangerous Game, both Donald so many legitimate letter (see Skeptical published by Prometheus books. He Schmitt, and sensitive Inquirer, Vol. 14, No.2, Winter 1990). has spent over thirty years others. He aerospace As transparencies of both signatures investigating famous UFO incidents, clearly secrets that are overlaid, the audience always gasps hoping to find credible, scientific documents many in surprise as the different signatures evidence of extraterrestrial visitors. He how government blend into a single trace. Incredibly, currently publishes the Skeptics UFO Friedman, employees Stanton Friedman still maintains the Newsletter (SUN), and is a Fellow of Randle, and disparagingly validity of MJ-12. When I confronted CSICOP and chair of its UFO Schmitt all refer to it as him on a radio show last year, he said Subcommittee. Klass, in short, is well have changed "Aviation Klass's methods were shown false in qualified to separate the truths from the day Leak." Yet, his new book Top Secret/Majic. And the myths about the alleged Roswell rancher this fiercely what is Friedman's new attack on the crashed saucer. Through impartial Brazel independent signature analysis? "The signatures are research and meticulous brought the magazine has clearly not identical." Simply documentation, Phil Klass has written debris into Roswell from Monday, July never uncovered even a trace of a outrageous! Similarly, there was no the definitive book on the Roswell 7 (the actual day), to Sunday, July 6. sinister coverup of alien visitation. mention of the supposed alien autopsy. myth. They did so because that's the only This book is a very valuable I'm hoping that someday, some of these Klass starts off with way they could reconcile events with addition to the shelf of anyone with an gaps will be filled, and that we'll be contemporary accounts from 1947 -- witness Dubose's testimony that the interest in Roswell, or in the UFO treated to a second edition of this cold, hard facts that are not subject to famous photographs of the debris in movement in general. It does seem to excellent book. But even with its minor the whims of memory. He details the General Ramey's office were taken at hop around from topic to topic at times, omissions, this book destroys the UFO "craze" that swept the country in least two days after the debris was and there is some unnecessary "Roswell" mythos once and for all. the summer of 1947, the Army Air supposedly flown from Roswell to Force announcement of the capture of Fort Worth. (In actuality, the pictures a "flying disk," and the explanation of were taken the same afternoon as the The ‘X’ Media Group Opens The ‘X’ Media Group Opens the find as weather balloons and radar flight). Original reports, and Brazel's A Satellite Office In Downtown targets. Nowadays, UFO promoters comments that he came to Roswell to A Satellite Office In Downtown maintain that the announcement of the sell wool, clearly show that he did not St. Catharines, Ontario. "flying disk" came from high up the go into town on the last day of a (then) St. Catharines, Ontario. command -- Col. Blanchard himself. rare three-day weekend. Klass also (And, of course, top brass wouldn't describes how author Donald Schmitt The ‘X’ Media Group, the parent company of The ‘X’ Chronicles have been fooled by a "balloon.") But was caught faking his credentials. Newspaper, The International Paranormal Broadcast Network, Ghost Tours of original reports indicate that the "disk" The book also turns to UFO Canada and The ‘X’ Zone Radio and Television Show has opened a satellite claim came from the intelligence researcher Robert Todd's discovery of office in Downtown St. Catharines, Ontario. The new location comes after the office at the Roswell Army Air Force the connection of the debris to New recent move back to Niagara from Markham, Ontario. base -- namely, one man, Major Jesse York University experiments The address, located at 13 King Street, is the St. Catharines home of A. Marcel. performed in support of secret project InterPC, with InterPC’s main office located at 610 Elm Street in Port Colborne, After its correct identification Mogul, and the further evidence for Ontario. InterPC is a Niagara Internet Dial-Up server and offers high Speed as weather equipment, the Roswell this explanation developed by Internet throughout the Province’s of Ontario and Quebec. Also sharing the 13 event drew no attention for decades. physicist/balloonist Charles B. Moore, King Street offices is CheckSite Canada Inc., a Rapid Web Development Klass details how both leading UFO UFO author Karl Pflock, and by the corporation headed by the former webmaster of Target Canada, Les Corrigan. groups (NICAP and APRO) did not United States Air Force. The General Les has long been recognized as the webmaster and creator of media websites even mention Roswell in their lists of Accounting Office report was Newstalk 610 CKTB, Easy Rock 105.7 and HTZ FM. "most important UFO cases" portrayed by New Mexico People are invited to drop in and pick up the current edition of THE ‘X’ submitted for the Condon Report in Congressman Steve Schiff as leaving CHRONICLES NEWSPAPER or to chat about their paranormal experiences. 1966. unanswered questions regarding some The King Street location (at the corner of William Street) is open Monday Details of Marcel's earliest missing message traffic. But, Klass through Friday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Roswell interviews, in February 1978, points out that the bottom-line Rob McConnell and his faithful CHTV cameraman have done features are provided by Klass. Marcel did not conclusion of the GAO report was this month at Thorold’s “Screaming Tunnels” and a segment has been planned save any news clippings from this completely missed by most of the at Fort George with Kyle Upton of Ghost Tours of Niagara and the St. "historic" encounter; he couldn't even media: there is not one shred of Catharines Standard reporter, Don Fraser, who spent a very strange night, alone remember what year the incident took evidence in the archives of the federal in the fort, in the fall of 2000. place. government that lends any credence to Klass describes, and the supposed alien crash at Roswell (or demolishes, the accounts of the long any other locale). He also relates how string of witnesses who waited once pro-Roswell pilot Kent Jeffrey decades before coming forward to came to agree that the Roswell claim their 15 minutes of fame: Grady Incident was due entirely to Barnett, Glenn Dennis, Walter Haut, misidentification of weather Gerald Anderson, Jim Ragsdale, Frank equipment. Kaufmann, Frankie Rowe, Col. A major theme of the book is Thomas Dubose, and more. Page 105 the continuing coverup of the truth lists the wildly different estimates of about Roswell -- not by the