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- The Roswell Incident
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- I. Introduction
- A. Zeus
- B. American Indians
- C. Egyptians
- II. Background
- A. Time of the crash
- B. Witnesses
- 1. Mac Brazel
- 2. Sheriff George Wilcox
- 3. Roswell's 509th Bomb Squad
- 4. Initial recovery team
- III. Individual Testimonies
- A. Unnamed witness of Roswell recovery team
- B. Curry Holden
- C. Glenn Dennis
- D. Dan Dwyer
- IV. The Alien Autopsy Films
- A. Eighteen minute film at the autopsy center in Fort Worth
- B. Three minute film at Roswell site
- C. Researcher's opinions
- V. Conclusion
- The Roswell Incident
- The people of the world have always had a mysterious belief that Earth wasn't the only
- planet in the universe that supported life. This belief dates back to ancient times when heavenly
- and demonic stories were told of gods who strode across the skies on their golden chariots. Tales
- as far fetched as Zeus who threw lightening bolts from his fingertips to stories as credible as the
- American Indian's Cachinas, who supposedly taught them to farm and saved them from numerous
- disasters. The Egyptians, who built their mammoth pyramids with only the use of man power,
- used hieroglyphics. These same hieroglyphics have been unofficially documented as being similar
- to symbols found on unidentified aircraft wreckage found in several incidences over the past fifty
- years (Montgomery 225-32, 236-37). Are these stories all mere coincidence? Some researchers
- think not and have continued to unveil new evidence that is believably true. Recently, new facts
- have been brought up on the most documented UFO (unidentified flying object) sighting of all
- time: the Roswell Incident.
- The Roswell Incident is a UFO crash that occurred at 11:30 p.m. on July 4th, 1947 in
- Roswell, New Mexico (Randal 10). Mac Brazel, a local New Mexico rancher, discovered a
- considerable amount of unusual debris while riding out on horseback early in the morning to
- check his sheep after a night of intense thunderstorms. He reported to Sheriff George Wilcox
- after driving into Roswell, that the aircraft had created a shallow gouge several hundred feet long
- and was scattered over a large area. Sheriff Wilcox then notified authorities at the Roswell Army
- Air Field and with the assistance of his deputies, proceeded to investigate the matter. Shortly
- after the 509th Bomb Group arrived from their station 35 miles away (Walker 38), they closed off
- the area for a number of days and retrieved the wreckage. The debris was initially taken to
- Roswell Army Air Field and eventually flown to Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio (Jeffrey). Before
- the military could intervene, the event had already been witnessed by more than one-hundred
- people. Local police, fire squad, and curious members of the Roswell community make up these
- people. A lot of them were part of the initial recovery team and are now telling their stories that
- have been bottled up for nearly a half of a century (Randal 11).
- According to one unnamed witness of the Roswell recovery team,
- The crash site was littered with pieces of the aircraft. Something about the
- size of a fighter plane had crashed, the metal was unlike anything I'd ever seen
- before. I picked up a piece the size of a car fender with one hand, it couldn't have
- weighed more than a quarter of a pound and no matter how hard I tried I couldn't
- even get it to bend (Randal 11).
- This statement describes the type of material that was found at the site and has been described in
- this manner by numerous witnesses. The next statement was made by Curry Holden, an
- archeologist who was one of the first to arrive on the scene, "I saw a crashed airplane without
- wings and with a fat fuselage. There were three bodies. Two were outside the craft and the other
- one was still inside, visible through a gash in the fuselage" (Walker 38). Other bits of information
- have also been documented from locals arriving initially at the scene. First, there is the local
- undertaker, Glenn Dennis, who was asked by the base if he could provide child-sized coffins.
- Then there was the local fireman, Dan Dwyer, whose crew was called out to the crash site and
- who collected some of the mysterious metal debris. He told his family of also seeing two body
- bags and one still living being about the size of a 10-year-old child (Walker 38). So many stories
- are now being told, that it is hard to distinguish which ones are probable, but because of the
- amount of information now coming out, it is very likely that something out of this world did take
- place in Roswell, New Mexico, fifty years ago.
- There are two soundless films showing the autopsy of one of the beings, known as the
- gray variety ("UFO Crash"), found at the Roswell crash scene. One is eighteen minutes long and
- takes place in some kind of operating room. The other is three minutes long and was shot inside a
- tent in the half-light of emergency lanterns. Both of these videos were supposedly taken by an Air
- Force film technician at Roswell and at the autopsy center in Fort Worth. This cameraman is still
- undercover, but sold these tapes to British filmmaker Ray Santilli who has recently made these
- public and brought the Roswell controversy back into a full blown investigation by many
- researchers and some retired government officials.
- The first tape gives a fairly good visual of the gray variety beings. On an operating table
- in a small white room, the naked humanoid creature lies on its back with a bulbous stomach and a
- bald and giant head with lizard eyes. Six fingers lie slightly curled on the end of a respectively
- long arm and there appears to be a deep foot long gash in its right leg. Two unidentifiable
- humans in white contamination suits circle the creature using instruments to slice and saw through
- some body parts (Corliss 105). The flesh gives and bleeds, the joints flex, and the limbs bend.
- When the skull is cut into it reveals an unusually thick bone and the brain in fleshlike, but most
- unlike a human brain with its grooves and folds. Instead it looks like a chunk of liver on this
- grainy black and white film. Large elliptical slits are where the eyes would be on a human and
- are covered with a black film. When this film is removed, white orbs are revealed. Moving back
- to the pregnant looking stomach, there is no navel. When the stomach is opened up, there are
- female genitalia, but there are no coils of intestines (Walker 38). This seems convincingly to be
- the autopsy of some kind of being and it does not appear to be the creation of a Hollywood
- special-effects lab, especially for the time that this film is dated at. Dr. Paul O'Higgins, an
- anatomist from University College London, says,
- the anatomy appears human, though with several deformities. The large skull, he
- says, could be caused by fluid on the brain, often found together with low set ears,
- hairlessness, and lack of secondary sexual characteristics. On an anatomical and
- evolutionary basis, I find it impossible to believe these are aliens. Only the lack of
- a navel and the black membrane over the eyes bewilder me. (qtd. in Walker 38)
- This is the same opinion that many researchers share, they don't believe that the being is an alien,
- but there are so many things unexplained on the films that have no other explanation but for the
- being to actually be extraterrestrial.
- Researchers of the Roswell incident feel that it is highly probable that the government is
- withholding information on the crash. For a lot of the researchers, their primary goal is to get the
- matter into the open so that the truth can be conclusively determined, one way or another.
- Another thing that would help is finding the cameraman. There are many disputed questions that
- scientists want to ask him about the films. Questions that will probably never be answered unless
- he steps forward. Obviously something had to have happened at Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947,
- but the truth might never come out. So until it does, people can share their thoughts and stories,
- whether fact or fiction, and enjoy the memories of the most celebrated and best documented UFO
- event of all time. They can keep their wild ideas that somewhere in an alternate universe, Marvin
- and Mindy Martian are sitting down watching over us earthlings.
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- Works Cited
- Corliss, Richard. "Autopsy or Fraud-topsy?" Time v146 27 Nov. 1995: 105.
- Jeffrey, Kent. "Time for the Truth About Roswell." http://www.islandnet.com/%7Ebfidler/
- ROSWELL/roswell.html (9 Dec. 1996)
- Montgomery, Ruth. Aliens Among Us. New York: G. P. Putnum's Sons, 1985.
- Randal, Kevin. A History of UFO Crashes. Avon Books, 1995.
- "UFO Crash at Roswell, New Mexico." http://www.execpc.com/vjentpr./jroswell.html (9 Dec.
- 1996)
- Walker, Martin. "An Autopsy of the Third Kind." World Press Review Oct. 1995: 37-38.
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