cover-ups by the higher authority
cover-ups by the higher authority
| The cover-ups began from the moment when rancher foreman William Mac Brazel reported to Sheriff George Wilcox about the unusual metal debris that he found over Foster Ranch near Corona. The sheriff immediately contacted the intelligence office of the Eighth Air Force at Roswell Arm Air Force. Major Jesse Marcel, Sr,, a intelligence officer of the 509 Bomb Group, along with counterintelligence officier, Captain Sheridan Cavitt, gathered as much of the materials at the debris field and returned back home. Later the military located Mac Brazel in town and took him to the base under guard for days of interrogation. Mac Brazel changed his story after he was released. According to the accounts of his family, he was forced to not mention about it any more. After that the debris site was closed until all wreckage was cleaned up and stored in a hanger, on the base. |
Used with the permission of Roswell Daily Records. |
| Before Mac Brazel met the sheriff, he was interviewed by Walt Whitmore, owner of radio station KGFL in Roswel of his experience at the ranch. He was determined to meet Brazel and made a wire recording of the whole story at his station. Unfortuantely, informed by the Federal Communications Commission, it was forbidden for that recording to be released. They theatened Whitmore that the radio station will be closed if he decided to put the interview on air, "you would have 24 hours to find something else to do, because you would no longer be in the radio business.". |
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On July 8, 1947, Lt. Walter Haut issued and published a press release on the Roswell Daily Record stating that the wreckage of a flying saucer had been recovered. Reporters from around the world demanded a true answer of the incident; Had the U.S. Army discovered a crashed flying saucer in New Mexico? The Commanding Officer of the 509th Colonel William Blanchard was believed to be the person behind all this. After he saw the debris himself, he sent Marcel to meet General Ramey with the wreckage. They then went back to the ranch and discovered only a weather balloon spread on the floor. The authorities were in a panic. Immediately Brigadier General Roger Ramey, Commanding officer of the Eighth air force called the original announcement a mistake and stated the flying saucer was actually a weather balloon. Marcel and others were told to remain a lifelong silence of this incident for the sake fo national security. |
| At an Air Force press conference held the evening of July 8, General Ramney ordered Major Jesse Marcel, Sr before topose for the newspaper photographs and keep silent of what he knew about the crashed flying saucer. He was told to hold pieces of a weather balloon instead of the materials that he had personally delivered to the base at Roswell earlier. Since the military base is known as the atomic bomb group which had dropped the atomic bombs on Japan at the end of World War II. Even though people were curious when the case was officially closed almost immediately, but they respected the government back then and trusted what they were being told. |  |
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Click here to hear the Contempory Radio Broadcast of the Roswell Incident in 1947.
Photos taken in General Ramney's office with Major Jesse Marcel, Sr. holding the weather balloon. |
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Both Photos taken by James Bond Johnson |
Major
Charles A. Cashon took the famous picture of Marcel with the |
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