Part 2 of the Stanton T. Friedman article
One of the first contacts Friedman had with the Roswell-incident was during a conversation with Lydia Sleppy, which was the person that recived the FBI-warning at the KGFL radiostation, where she was ordered not to send out the earlier pressrelease by Walter Haut over the teleprinter.
The second contact with the case was on February 29th 1978, when his good friend and radio/TV-producer, Johnny Allan, , during a coffebreak between interviews, gave him a tip to talk to Jesse Marcel Sr which was an old friend of Allan. Marcel has told Allan that he has held parts of a crasched UFO during his military-days. Day after Friedman calls up Marcel in his home in Houma, L.A., and is given the story that now has turned into a legend and cult.
Before this in 1972, Friedman was contacted by Vern and Jean Maltais after a lecture in Minnesota. The Maltais-couple gave Friedman a tip about Barney Barnett that had vlaimed to Maltais that he had been at the spot when they found the crasched UFO and the bodys. Friedman gave this information to his old friend and English-teacher since the late 60's, William “Bill“ Moore (they had been in the same UFO-association in 1969). But it wasn't until 1979 Moore and Friedman continued on the case. During 1979 and 1980 Friedman and Moore managed to locate and interview 60 witnesses of the incident, and their testimonys was used as foundation for the Bill Moore/Charles Berlitz bok The Roswell Incident. The year before Moore had released a book about the Philadelphia Experimentet with Berlitz. And Berlitz had just had great success with his book The Bermuda Triangle, which everyone wanted to profite on. Though Moore and Berlitz ended up in arguments about money, Berlitz used parts of Friedman/Moores-reserach for the book, but to loads of imaginary scenarios to fill it out...
After a couple of other bookcontracts that didn't take off, and an assistentjob for a movie that was supposed to be directed by Jaime Shandera, later UFOlogist and reciver of the Majestic-12-docments on microfilm (more about that later), Friedman went back to his reserach around nuclear-radiation - he had a family to support.
Bill Moore continued the research on his own, and was, among other things, fooled by a sergeant Richard Doty, that fed him the spectacular story of a group of 10 secret agents that worked within the national security, handling the UFO-matter, and topsecret project as SIGMA, REDLIGHTS a.s.o. All 10 agents had birdnames as cover, Condor, Falcon a.s.s. (even Moore is said in the February '96 issue of Saucer Smear to be a paid CIA-agent under the name of "Mockingbird"...) During a TV-show in October 1988 (UFO Cover Up? Live) this Doty is revealing that there is a EBE (alien) in custody within USA at the time, that loves Tibetan music and strawberry icecream...
Friedman was also a part of the show, but says that he felt run-over by the producers. Everyone was only allowed to read their lines of a TV-monitor, pre-written by the producer, and no-one was allowed to add any information apart from that at all. Also, Friedman had big problems to get money from the network for his planeticket. When he finally recived the check he notice that it is posted from Gray Advertising, New York, which Friedman knows is deep involved in the CIA... Adding to that, the TV-station didn't recive a single letter from the public, even though the adress was shown on the screen.
In dissapointment caused by the TV-show, Friedman decides to continue the research of the Roswell-case on his own. Through a woman that was researching the Gulf Breeze-sightings he got in touch with “Pappy“ Hendersons wife - Sappho (“Pappy“ was dead). “Pappy“ Henderson was a pilot within USAF that claimed he had flown a part of the crasched craft to Wright Field AFB. Mrs. Henderson gave Friedman a number of other names to look up. “Pappy“ also claimed that he had held, in his hand, a part of the craft as late as 1977!
One of these new names was Glenn Dennis, which at the time (July 1947), was a newly graduate mortician in Roswell which also was responsable for driving the ambulance for the AFB.
Dennis story goes like this: A officer at the Airbase phoned him up and wanted to know if he had any coffins in childsize. He also wanted to know about chemical preservation of half decayed bodies.
Dennis also says that he was "close to" one of the nurses at the airbase and that he took every chance to visit her. After the slight peculiar questions over the phone (that came back several times), he went out to the base to ask his “friend“ what was happening? She paniced when she saw him and asked him to leave immediatly. After that a couple of MP's pushed him against a wall and said: (according to Dennis) “-We use the likes of you as dog food!“ And then they pushed him back in his car. Friedman claims that he hasn't been able to locate this nurse even though he tried with all effort, although he has located a labassistant that remembers the nurse.
Kevin Randle said the same thing (about that he couldn't find the nurse) to the magazine OMNI last autumn and OMNI took it as a challenge to find the documents from the (claimed) 6 nurses and nurse “X“ (named Judy - according to Dennis) that Glenn Dennis was "close to" in July 1947. According to Kevin Randle, nurse "X" haven't been in any year-book of nurses from the base and the other five haven't been located. Or, as Don Schmitt said “- Once again it seems like “they“ has cleared all their tracks...“ With thios Randle and Schmitt wanted to give a picture of a cover-up saying that "they" (NSA/CIA) had taken all the records of the nurses of the arcives.
OMNI corrspondent Paul McCarthy did his research from his home on Hawaii. He had been given the names of the 6 nurses by Kevin Randle (including nurse “X“ that according to Randle was supposed to be named Naomi Maria Selff). It took him 3 days to find the documents from the nurses!
The nurses real name was: Major Claudia Ubele, Captain Adeline Fanton, First Leuitenant Angele LaRue, Colonel Rosemary McManus och Major Joyce Godard. The 6th nurse (nurse "X") couldn't be traced. And everybody was dead except Rosemary J. Browne (unmarried name - McManus), who was living at a nurseryhome. Her head was still clear (93 years old) and she couldn't remember any strange activity at all on the base at the time (july 1947)). She didn't know who nurse "X" was, haven't heard of her and no less worked with her. Rosemary said that she had been contacted right before OMNI's McCarthys visit by two other Roswell reserachers - Don Schmitt and his collegue (probably Brad Radcliff, Schmitts “assistent“ as Randle claims he hasnever heard of!!!)
When Randle is told this he tracks Schmitt down. Randle have been given Schmitt assignemnet to find the documents and Schmitt has told him they were “gone“... Schmitt lies to Randle who defends his co-searcher. But after some time Randle finds out that Schmitt has been lying all along, but accurently he thinks that the "cover-up" story is profitable and in his latest book ROSWELL UFO KRASCH UPDATE (came out may 1995) he avoids all these miscrediting facts about his own reserach. And Don Schmitt is no longer he's co-writer...
Friedmans coment:
- Kevin Randle has written 78 fiction books where he transforms probably scenarios faster that he blinks. Besides, Don Schmitt, instead of having a Ph.d. (Batchelor Of Science) and working on his masters degree - he has no degrees and is working fulltime as a post-deliverer for the United States Post Office...“ (and has had the job fulltime since 1983).
It's also rumoured that Don Schmitt has been forced to leave his seat at the board of J. Allen Hyneks researchteam CUFOS...