I'm going to tell you something I haven't told a lot of people before... I am obsessed with UFO's and conspiracies. I mean, if it is true that the government has alliens and UFO's in its posession, finding out about this and exposing it would have to be in the top 10 greatest historical events right?

Most of you have probably heard of the random 'UFO' sightings, either from watching a T.V show, the internet, or even, a friend. The truth is, most so called, 'UFO sightings' are usually either

1) A hoax some one does to fuck around and piss every one who takes the subject of UFO's off

or

2) It is a mistake and is usually a falling comet or some other crap that isn't a UFO.

But anywayz, why am I babbling on about this crap? Well it's to introduce the next conspiracy ( and probably not the last ) on Band of Brothers on, probably the most accurate and beliavable UFO event in history, Roswell.

The story of Roswell begins early in June 24, 1947. A professional pilot by the name of Kenneth Arnold was flying his private plane in the State of Washington when he noticed 9 un identified craft in front of him travelling at tremendous speed (we're talking 1300 miles per hour people). When asked by the media what he saw he quoted "[it] was similar to a saucer skipping across water" and so the term 'flying saucer' was born. This term is still being used today though a more common term nowdays is UFO's unidentified flying object which is exactly what these things.

If you say 'I saw a UFO' a lot more people would believe you than if you said 'flying saucer' because UFO can be anything at all ( not including alliens ) that you don't know what it is. Flying saucer is basically saying 'I saw an allien ship'.

Shortly after the Roswell incident things died down for about 30 years. The reasons for this are:

1) There were no telephones, no TV's, two radio stations and two newspapers. Not a lot of media so it would have been a lot harder for the information to reach citizens.

2) If the government told you to shut up for national security reasons you did it and that was all.

Anyway, I'm talking a lot of crap. Let's lok at a time line of what happened on July, 1947.

July 4th
We start off on a thunderstorm 11:30 at night on July 4th 1947. A ranch foreman ( I'm not sure I know what that means ) by the name of Mac Brazel hears an explosion but forgets about it and goes back to sleep.

July 5th
The next morning Mac goes on horse back to check on his sheep when he stumbles across a debris field several hundred feet wide by three quarters of a mile long. There was so much material that his heep didn't want to cross. He gathers some of the material and stores it in his shead.

July 7th
Mac Brazel heads to town with some pieces of the debris and stops by Sheriff Wilcox's office to see what the material might be. Wilcox didn't so they contacted Roswell Army Air Field and talked to Major Jesse Marcel, the Intellegence Officer of the 509th Composite Bomb Wing.

When Marcel learnt what the Rancher Mac Brazel had on his property he followed Mac back to his ranch with Captain Cavitt. Arriving at dusk, too dark for them to see anything, Marcel and Cavitt decided to wait the next morning, sleeping in an old building on the ranch ( man times were good then ).

Marcel and Cavitt collect as much material as they could fit in their vehicles to take back to the base.

Before returning however Marcel stops by his house to show his wife and children the debris at 1a.m. Some of the material was brought to the kitchen and spread out on the table. Later recounts from Jesse Jr. when asked to describe the material are : a small I-Beam type of material with writing similar to hierglyphics and very thin material, today would be referred to as a bake elite or plastic material. The material could not be bent, burnt or dented. When crumbled would return back to its original shape in seconds with no creases.

When Mac Brazel returned to his ranch the evidence of the debris was gone, picked up by the military and taken back to Roswell Army Airfield where 10 - 12 planes had "officially" taken the weather balloon out of Roswell.

Colonal Blanchard would soon write up a report as to what happened for distribution to the local media stating that the Roswell Army Airfield had recovered a flying saucer on a ranch near Rosewell, New Mexico. The article appeared in the Daily Record and several other newspapers West of Chicago.

To read the article click here

The cover up began when General Roger Ramey, in charge of 8th Air Force Headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas, summoned Marcel up to Fort Worth with some of the debris so Ramey could look at it and make a public announcement. According to what Major Marcel said ( 30 years after the incident ) Ramey invited Marcel into his office and told Marcel to put the debris on his desk. After that Ramey invited Marcel into the map room so Marcel could show him on the map where the incident happened. When Marcel returned to Ramey's office the debris was no longer there, and in its place, spread out on the floor, was a weater balloon.

Naturally Marcel asked what was going on to which Ramey responded 'you pose with the debris for the pictures and I'll answer the questions'. Up until the time Marcel died in 1986 he continued to state that the material that he had posed with in the photos were not the same material that he had found.

So General Ramey had started the cover up with photos to prove it. He made a public announcement which was soon released in the Roswell Daily Record stating that the 'flying disc' was actually a weater balloon and it was mid identified by Marcel. To read the article click below.

Link to newspaper article: Gen.Ramey Empties Roswell Saucer.

So that was it. The Roswell incident was over, for then. Reading this story some of you might actually believe that this was not a UFO but a weater balloon mistaken by the 509th. But before you leave, I have some more information I think you will be interested in which might slant your judgement a tad.

A conspiracy... really?

Let us begin the discussion about whether this was a conspiracy or not by examining Roswell Army Airfield as it was back in 1947. You probably did not know this but the people stationed at the Roswell base were the most unique group in the world. Mostly because they were the only atomic bomb group in the world and the same people who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Negaski, Japan. These were very good soldiers with a lot of experience.

So are you going to believe that such a highly qualified unit as the 509th Composite Bomb Wing would mis identify a weather balloon for a flying saucer? I think not.

The Commanding Officer of the 509th was Colonel William Blanchard. He was embarassed publically for his actions on the Roswell incident however he later went on to become a four-star general. Quite an advancement in position for some one who messed up mis identifying a weater balloon in 1947 don't you think?

The second piece of the puzzle is to do with KGFL radio station. Walt Whitmore, owner of KGFL decided to drive to Mac Brazel's house and took him back into town making a wire recording interview and keeping Mac at his house for the night. However the Federal Communications Comission informed the station that if the recording was aired they would have 24 hours to find something else to do because they would no longer be in the radio business.

Now if that doesn't sound like a conspiracy to you then I don't know what does.

After the military located Mac Brazel and took him back to base for several days for interrogation. When Mac was released his story had changed and he no longer talked about the incident. Obviously the military had interrogated him to a point where he did not talk about the incident until the time of his death.

We should also talk about a particular gentleman by the name of Glenn Dennis, a local mortician employed by the Ballard Funeral Home in Roswell at the time of the incident.

On July 5, 1947, Glenn said he received several phone calls at the funeral home from the base asking about the chemicals required in embalming fluid, and what effects bodies exposed to the elements would have on tissue, stomach contents, etc. He was also called and asked how many hermetically sealed children's caskets he had in stock.

According to Dennis, he took an injured airman out to the base in the funeral home ambulance, who had been injured in a vehicle accident in town. (Ballard Funeral home had a contract with the military base for ambulance service and funerals).

When he arrived at the base infirmary he noticed metal, (debris), in the back of several Army ambulances parked at the rear entrance of the base hospital. He asked questions when he got inside the hospital and was threatened by a 6' - 2" red headed Captain, basically being told "if you go in to town and spread any rumors, they'll be picking your bones out of the sand".

He also saw a nurse that he knew very well coming out of a store room with her face covered, nauseated, who told him "to get out of here before you get in trouble".

The next day at the nurse's request, Glenn met the nurse at the Officers Club, where she explained that she had been involved with pathologist, taking notes, during their examination of bodies. She described the beings to him, and according to Glenn Dennis, she drew a picture of an alien hand and face on the back of a prescription pad and gave it to him.

According to Glenn Dennis, the nurse was suddenly shipped out the next day, supposedly to Europe, where shortly thereafter it was reported that she had been killed in a plane crash. There is no record of a plane crash.

Also of interest are the photographs taken in Ramey's office in 1947 of the supposedly 'weather ballon' that 'crashed' at "Roswelll", ye..

Well, the one below you can see General Ramey on the left of Marcel kneeling down and if you look closely at General Ramey's left hand you will notice that he is holding a tele type message in his hand:

What's important about that tele type is that when magnified and enhanced with computer software one can read the words "discs" and "victims of the wreck forwarded to (blank) at Fort Worth".

Now what could that possibly be about?

After reading this you might think to yourself. How can so many people be involved in a cover up of this magnitude and no one squeals ( whistle blowers ). Well just remember that breaking the Enigma code involved 10 000 people and we found out about it only 25 years after the war.

The government had not admitted the existence of Area 51 till 1995 and that place was around since the 1950's.

A third excuse was given by the government on what happened in Roswell on September 8th, 1994. The Air Force released a 2 1/2 inch thick report entitled "The Roswell Report: Truth Versus Fiction in the New Mexico Dessert".

In this voluminous document, author Colonel Weaver stated that what the Air Force concludes is, "that what was recovered near Roswell wasn't a flying saucer with alien bodies, nor was it a weather balloon and radar reflectors as General Ramey stated in 1947, instead the wreckage probably consisted of balloons, radar reflectors, sonobuoys, and miscellaneous junk from a highly classified Project Mogul balloon assembly".

Project Mogul's objective, which was by the way started in 1946 and was highly classified, was to develop a constant altitude balloon which could monitor sounds produced by a Soviet nuclear explosion thousands of miles away. The first Soviet nuclear explosion didn't take place until 1949.

The fourth excuse, (but if you're a wagering person), probably not the last excuse, was ironically released 2 weeks prior to the 50th anniversary of the Roswell Incident in June 1997. Roswell and the UFO story was getting a lot of publicity for the 50th anniversary, and the Air Force timing was exceptional.

Many people had bought into the Mogul balloon story put out in 1994, and the Air Force would have been much better off leaving things alone, but when they came out with the report entitled "The Roswell Report: Case Closed" in 1997, they shot them self in the foot.

That report is an embarrassment to anyone in the Air Force and for those of us that have read it , it contains so much inaccurate, misleading and wrong information that there is no doubt that the Roswell Incident is not resolved based on the excuses and reasons provided by the Air Force. What they basically state happened near Roswell in 1947, in this 219 page report written by a Captain James McAndrew, is that it was a balloon dropping dummies......

I will not waste your time or mine to go into any details of this report dealing with the excuse given, that what happened in Roswell was anthropomorphic dummies. I think the report was an insult to the intelligence of the American public, and even though the report was titled "Case Closed", it isn't.

So, I guess that is all on my summary of the Roswell report. I must note however that much of my information came from the Truthseeker at Roswell - Dennis Balthaser website which you can visit by clicking on the link below. I would like to thank every one who has read it and please e-mail me with suggestions, praise, complaints or questions here.

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Truthseeker at Roswell - Dennis Balthaser