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- From: mcgrew@dropout.rutgers.edu (Charles Mcgrew)
- Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
- Subject: Re: Roswell Testimony
- Message-ID: <Jan.21.20.26.10.1993.3027@dropout.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 01:26:11 GMT
- References: <memo.875023@cix.compulink.co.uk> <1993Jan19.110625.15855@shannon.ee.wits.ac.za>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- wayne@concave.cs.wits.ac.za (Wayne Smith) writes:
- Concerning this case: with all the apparent debris lying
- around, and all the people who were supposed to have been at
- or near the site, why isn't it that someone kept some of the
- strange material as a keepsake?
-
- ... Bill Brazel seems to have been someone who did - what happened
- might be instructive:
-
- BB: I rode out there [the field where the wreckage was found] on
- the average of once a week, and I was riding through that
- area, I was looking. That's why I found these little
- pieces. I never did really go looking for anything. I did't
- figure it was worth it anyway. But just curiosity, and I'd
- see something that didn't belong there and I'd get off and
- stick it in my chaps pocket. I might keep it there for a week
- before I'd reach in there.
-
- DS: Did your father know you were collecting the pieces?
-
- BB: Oh, yeah. I showed it to him. He said, oh, yeah, that's some
- of that thing I found.
-
- DS: But he didn't tell you to be quiet about it?
-
- BB: What the hell good is a little old scrap? A little piece of
- garbage? I was in Corona in the bar and the pool hall that
- was kind of a meeting place for that little town. That's
- where everybody got together when they went to town.
- Everybody was asking me... they'd all seen the papers... and
- they were all asking me about it. I said I'd picked up a few
- little old bits and pieces and fragments. Well, what are
- they? I said, hell, I don't know. And lo and behold, here
- comes the military.
-
- KR: In uniform?
-
- BB: Yeah. I still am not really sure, but I'm almost positive
- that the officer in charge, his name was Armstrong. A real
- nice guy. Now he had a sergeant with him that was real nice.
- And I think there were two other enlisted men. THey came out
- to the ranch and they were talking to me and they said, we
- understand your father found this weather balloon and I said
- yeah. And they said we understand that you found some bits
- and pieces of it. I've got a cigar box that's got a few in
- there. And this, I think he was a captain as best I can
- remember, said, well, we would like to take it with us. I
- said, well. He smiled and said, your father turned the rest
- of it over to us. You know he's under oath not to tell
- anyone. I said who knows better than I do. Well, he said, we
- came after those bits and pieces. I kind of smiled and I said
- its kind of like when I was in the Navy. We want volunteers.
- We want you, you, and you. I said okay, you can have the
- stuff, I have no use for it.
-
- He said, how well have you examined it? I said well enough to
- know that I don't know what it is. He said we would rather
- that you wouldn't talk much about it.
-
- KR = Kevin Randl, DS = Don Schmitt, BB = Bill Brazel. This is
- extracted from "UFO Crash at Roswell", pg 130-131. These events,
- according to the book, occurred in the summer of 1949, two *years*
- after the main Roswell events.
-
- ... so it would seen that somebody in the military was thinking about
- souvenir-hunters as well (and pretty thoroughly, to keep at it for 2
- years), and taking actions to 'correct' it. Its clear from what Mr.
- Brazel said that he would have been coerced into giving up what he had
- found if he had not handed them over. (Why send up 4 people to do
- such a trivial task?) Curious, yes?
-
- Charles
-