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The Other 1947 Roswell Newspaper 21 The Other 1947 Roswell Newspaper 21 Searching for the Truth Lt. Walter Haut wrote July 8, 1947 for media the following day July 9th, when the cover up was Searching for the Truth distribution as the Public Relations Officer at already in place. The Roswell Morning Dispatch Roswell Army Airfield, under orders of the base headline was two lines: commander Col. William Blanchard. (Always Telling the Truth By now everyone interested in the "Army Debunks Roswell Flying Disk (Always Telling the Truth Means Never Having to Roswell Incident is familiar with the Roswell As World Simmers With Excitement" Means Never Having to Remember Anything) Daily Record newspaper headline written by Haut Remember Anything) stating: "RAAF Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell Region" In a "sub-title" on the front page was another smaller headline that stated: By Dennis Balthaser "Officers Say Disk Is Weather Balloon" By Dennis Balthaser This headline was not only printed in the afternoon edition of the Roswell Daily Record, I thought it was interesting that the word THE OTHER 1947 but was also a major headline in many afternoon "Disc" was spelled "Disk" in the Morning THE OTHER 1947 newspapers west of Chicago July 8, 1947. Dispatch article. Perhaps other researchers had ROSWELL NEWSPAPER By the next day, (July 9, 1947), General previously found a copy of the July 9, 1947 ROSWELL NEWSPAPER Ramey and many others in charge of a cover-up "Roswell Morning Dispatch", but I had never seen When doing any research, and particularly story had the following headline ready for the it, so it was exciting for me to personally discover the 1947 Roswell Incident, its always exciting afternoon Roswell Daily Record and most it. Some of the other headline stories on the front when a new witness comes forward or other morning newspapers east of Chicago, which read: page included a photo of Sheriff Wilcox with a information not previously uncovered is found. I headline of: suppose that's what keeps some of us "digging" “Gen. Ramey Empties Roswell Saucer" into the events surrounding the incident that "Flying Disk Transforms Sheriff's Office to happened 62 years ago. Many have given up, or International Newsroom" moved on from researching the Roswell Incident, and however in my case and for several other "Object Found on Foster ranch causes researchers, we're not yet convinced that all the excitement" information has been brought to the table. After all, the 4 different excuses given thus far do not Both of these articles were large enough satisfactorily answer the many questions raised that they were continued on page 8 of the July 9th over time about what happened on the Foster newspaper. The Roswell Morning Dispatch had ranch northwest of Roswell in 1947. other disc articles through the July 11th editions First and second-hand witnesses are dying continuing the follow-up, including one with a at an alarming rate, due to now being in their 80's, photo of Kenneth Arnold. if still alive, so when a new witness is discovered, The microfilm machine I used to make it's critical to obtain as much information as General Ramey's headline indicated that copies of the Morning Dispatch articles was only possible and attempt to verify that information. the "elite" 509th bomb wing stationed at Roswell able to copy on 8 ½" x 11" paper, so to get a full Such was the case at this years Roswell UFO Army Airfield had misidentified a weather size print I had to tape individual sheets together, Festival July 2-5, 2009, when I was introduced to balloon for a flying saucer. however I'm hopeful that I can find a way to get a an 85 year old gentleman that "claimed" he was on For all the years that I've been doing full size copy of the front page done in the future, the airplane that transferred the debris from Roswell research I have known that there were to preserve it. Roswell to General Ramey's office in Fort Worth two newspapers in Roswell in 1947, (The Roswell It appears that the coverage of what Texas. He indicated that Intelligence Officer Daily Record and The Roswell Morning happened near Roswell in 1947 was not only of Major Jesse Marcel, military police and several Dispatch), and two radio stations (KGFL and importance to the media here locally in Roswell, wooden crates were on that same flight and was KSWS), that Lt. Walter Haut had contacted to but also across the country as indicated by the anxious to meet Major Marcel's son Jesse Jr., who release the original press release he had written. I many newspaper articles that have been I was able to introduce him to. Other researchers had never seen a copy of the "The Roswell discovered covering both the initial report that we have interviewed him and perhaps this adds more Morning Dispatch", so I began a search of several have a flying saucer in our possession, and the validity to the accounts we've been hearing for local archives to try and locate it, which included cover-up story the following day by General years. the Historical Society for Southeast New Mexico Ramey that it was only a weather balloon. Another group is in the process of testing Archives, the Roswell Public Library, The Chaves For me the evidence continues to mount some material obtained from the Foster ranch County Court House and the Roswell Daily that something of extreme importance happened during a dig that was done there several years ago, Record newspaper, which has become the only near Roswell in 1947, based not only on the with the University of New Mexico Archeological newspaper in Roswell, changing from an coverage it received in July 1947, but the group. If the material being tested should turn out afternoon paper to the morning paper, as it continuing efforts by many researchers during the to be of unknown origin, it would simply add remains today. Those searches required a lot of past 30 years with bits and pieces still coming more validity to the ongoing research being done asking questions and looking through July 1947 forward. My personal theory remains that what about the Roswell Incident, proving again that the microfilm. My search was finally successful when ever was recovered on the Foster ranch, and material recovered was not a weather balloon, almost by accident I located the July 9th, 1947 perhaps at other locations since, is still being back Mogul balloon, or crash test dummies as we've Roswell Morning Dispatch. Since the original engineered for the benefit of our military, and been told on three separate occasions by the Air press release went out about noon on July 8th, until that technology (propulsion, guidance, etc) is Force to explain Roswell. 1947 I knew the Morning Dispatch wouldn't have understood, neither the military or government That leaves us with the first excuse that anything for July 8th and I limited my search to will admit to the event. []