STANTON T. FRIEDMAN

- A cosmic watergate!
Or a view from the outside...

Stanton T. Friedman
Roswell has often been refeered to as "the sacred castle of UFOlogy".
And no incident has been so thoroughly dissected
without showing any physical evidence - only rumours.
Stanton T. Friedman, nuclear physicist and UFO researcher, has been investigating around the allegated UFO-crash
the first week of july 1947.

By Jorgen Westman


I want to start with saying that this article was originaly written in Swedish and was composed from a HUGE pile of information. In that information-pile I haven't been able to find all the quotes originaly written in English - therefore some of the quotes are translation from my Swedish translation - back to English and some words might fall wrong - BUT NOT THE CONTENT AND THE DIRECTION OF IT! Ok, here we go.

In an attemp to get a clearer picture of the latest news regarding the case, I got in contact with the one person that, in my view, should have the best knowledge at hand - Stanton T. Friedman - because something came down at Roswell in july 1947.

As I wrote this article, more "strange quotes" surfaced as I kept on reading the reports from various interviews with people involved in the incident. "Strange quotes" that I didn't get a chance to ask mister friedman personally about, I send him a fax regarding some of the quotes, but without an answer to this date.

Stanton T. Friedman started to write newsarticles about UFO's as early as 1967-68. After that he has written over 70 articles and papers. Beside that, he has been working as a nuclearphysicist for 15 years in the field of design, development and testing of high performance systems including nuclear aircraft, fission and fusion rockets, nuclear reactors and radioiostope sustems for space a.s.o. With other words - a pretty smart guy!
Crash At Corona
Mr Friedman is probably the most regular TV-spokesman of the UFO-scene since the 70's. He has also taught loads of university students in USA and Europe, including 600 collegues of the science-faculty on the topic of UFO's and “The Cosmic Watergate“.

He's written the book CRASH AT CORONA along with Don Berliner and right now he's working on a new book (again with Don Berliner) about the Majestic-12 documents called TOP SECRET/MAJESTIC, that is due in may. He's also working on another book called UFO SOURCE BOOK VOLUME 1, which is a coverage of all his papers and research. An update of the CD-ROM UFO’S ARE REAL is also on it's way.

A usual reaction from the students at his lectures are this:

- I check all my lecturer audiences and typicaly, at the end of my lecture of course, 10% belive they've seen one. But only 1 in that 10% has reported what he has seen. This matches pretty closely Gallup poles, which again show that 10% think they've seen one.

Roswell story in short...

Jesse Marcel Here's a fast summary of the Roswell-incident.

On the eavning of July 2nd 1947 a glowing, disc-shaped, UFO is reported seen flying over Roswell, New Mexico, in north-west direction. Following day (July 3rd) ranch-foreman William “Mac“ Brazel, along with his neighbours son Dee Proctor, finds debris scattered over a big area where Brazels sheep is usually kept. The sheep won't go near the outspread debris of tinfoil and balswood-similar pieces. Brazel drives Dee home, where he shows Dee's mother (Loretta Proctor) some of the pieces. Loretta advises him to contact the local Sheriffen in Roswell. As the ranchstation don't have eletricity or telephone it isn't until July 6 that Brazel is leaving the pieces of the debris at the Sheriffs office.
Sheriff (George Wilcox) gets in contact with Roswell Air Field and ask them to examine the pieces. During that time, the local radiostation makes an interview with Brazel where he suggests that the debris is from a UFO.
When Major Jesse Marcel agent Sheridan Cavitt is looking at the pieces and is astouned by it's behaviour (memory-shape a.s.o) they decide to follow Brazel home. When they get to Brazels ranchstation, late in the eavning, William Blanchard they decide to wait until next morning before they inspect the debris-field.
After they have inspected the debris-area (ca 700 squeremeters big) Marcel and Cavitt fills their cars with debris-pieces. Cavitt returns to the base while Marcel to his family where he shows his wife and son (Jesse Marcel Jr.) some of the pieces.

Immediatly after Marcel returns to the base colonel William Blanchard decides to send out an official pressrelease saying that Roswell 509th Bombgroup (USA's only bombgroup that carried atomic bombs that also dropped the bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki) had a crasched UFO in their possesion. Leiutenant Walter Haut was the public information officer that wrote the pressrelease.

Marcel turns scapegoat

Väderballongen (*Picture: General Ramey and Major Marcel shows the "weatherballon" to the press)
Marcel is ordered to accompany some of the debris on a B-29 to Wright Field (nowdays Wright Paterson AFB) in Dayton, Ohio, for investigation. At an intemediate landing at Carswell Army Air Force Base, Fort Worth, Texas (headqarters of 8th Airforce) 4,5 hours later General Roger Ramey releases a new pressrelease where he claims that Marcel has missinterpret the debris and orders him to, infront of a group, of journalists, display a weatherballon, that the airforce claims is what was found at the Brazel ranch and are the complete debris. At the same time the FBI is interupting the teleprompters for the radio/press, telling them not to spread the first message and thge military is driving around confiscating the first version (Walter hauts) of the pressrelease .
Rancher Mac Brazel is arrested by MP and is interrogated for several days after he asks the radiostation to be interviewed once more to correct his earlier statement. Now he knoes nothing...


La Paz finds the second site


During this, the military has blocked off the craschsite with double rows of guards all the way to the highway and is meticulously picking up all the debris. After a couple of days the meteor-expert Dr. Lincon LaPaz is flown in to judge the vehicles angle and speed when it hit the ground. He orderes an extention of the search-area and soon finds the second site with four aliens laying by the craft, which have crasched at a rocky-area at the San Augustin-plains (Stanton T. Friedmans version).
But a number of people has already found the craft and the aliens. And when the military gets there, these people are taken aside and threaten not to mention what they have seen. The four aliens (where one maybe still is alive) is being moved along with the craft to the Roswell AFB.

Up to here, the story is intact (sort of). It's at the second site that the story cracks in two directions.

On to part 2 of the article


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