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Subject: Klass Says Dennis' Roswell Story Flawed 1/2
Date: 21 Jan 1995 11:13:29 +1100
Organization: werple public-access unix, Melbourne
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Message-ID: <3fpjj9$qne@werple.mira.net.au>
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Summary: Phil Klass casts doubts on Glenn Dennis
>From _Skeptics' UFO Newsletter_ by Philip J. Klass. #31, Jan, 1995
404 "N" Street, SW, Washington DC 20024
[SIX ISSUES $15 for US/CANADA, OVERSEAS AIR MAIL IS $20/YEAR]
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_Mortician's Tale of Roswell Nurse, ET Bodies is Seriously Flawed_
The story told by former mortician _Glenn Dennis_, of ET bodies
brought to the Roswell Army Air Field in early July 1947, is the _only_
Roswell ET-bodies tale which is endorsed by _ALL_ prominent pro-UFO
Roswell crashed-saucer researchers. YET DENNIS' TALE IS RIDDLED WITH
FLAWS AND INCONSISTENCIES. Karl Pflock,_ whose "Roswell In Perspective"
report discredits two of Randle/Schmitt's key ET-bodies "witnesses,"
Ragsdale and Kaufmann, endorses Dennis' tale. The same is true of
Randle/Schmitt, whose books completely discredited _Gerald F. Anderson_,
a star ET-bodies "witness" of _Stanton Friedman_ and _Don Berliner_.
Friedman/Berliner also endorse Dennis' tale.
In July of 1947, the 22-year-old Dennis was employed by the Ballard
Funeral Home, which was under contract to provide mortuary service to the
Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) as well as ambulance service from the city
to the base. Although Dennis is a long-time good friend of _Walter Haut_
-- the young officer at RAAF who wrote and released the "Flying Disk
Recovered" press release on July 8, 1947 which "launched" the Roswell
incident -- _Haut_ told SUN that Dennis had never mentioned the ET-bodies
incident until late 1988 or early 1989.
Kevin Randle informed _SUN_ that he first learned about Dennis from
Haut in April 1989. It is not known when Stanton Friedman learned first
about Dennis. But when Friedman visited Roswell in early August 1989 for
filming of an "Unsolved Mysteries" TV show on the Roswell Incident, an
interview was arranged. Dennis' good friend _Robert Shirkey_ drove
Friedman to Lincoln, N.M. to meet with Dennis and sat in on the
tape-recorded interview. Shirkey, who was stationed at RAAF in 1947,
claims to have seen the crash debris.
The first public -- if limited -- disclosure of Dennis' tale came in
November, 1989 when Las Vegas TV station KLAS aired a series titled
"UFOs: The Best Evidence," produced by _George Knapp_. Knapp had visited
Roswell in August and interviewed Shirkey. In the TV show, Knapp
introduced Shirkey as follows: "Shirkey was the officer who ordered up
the B-29 that transported the strange debris....Shirkey also has
knowledge of _alien bodies_. The information is from a close friend who
ran the town funeral parlor in the 40s. _It has never been made public
until now_." Shirkey said he was asked [by Dennis] "Did you see the
sketches in the paper of the humanoids or the bodies? [The June 8, 1987
Roswell _Daily Record_ carried a front-page story on UFOs with two
sketches of traditional-looking ETs.] I said yes. He said, well, I can
tell you that's what they looked like. The funeral parlor supplied the
caskets for the Air Force to use because we had the contract. And they
came in and took all the baby-size or youth-size caskets we had." (_But
according to Dennis' later accounts, RAAF never came to obtain any
caskets, large or small_.)
_RANDLE/SCHMITT FIRST TO PUBLISH MORTICIAN'S NURSE'S TALE_
The first detailed account of the Dennis tale in which he was
identified by name appeared in the first Randle/Schmitt book, "UFO Crash
At Roswell," published in mid-1991. When _SUN_ interviewed Dennis in
Roswell on Dec. 9, 1991, we began by reading the R/S account from their
book, to verify its accuracy. Periodically Dennis would interrupt to
challenge the accuracy of the R/S version. _Later, when SUN discussed
these inaccuracies with Randle, he explained that by the time R/S first
interviewed Dennis in late 1990, their book manuscript had been sent to
the publisher and so their version was based largely on a transcript of
Friedman's August 1989 interview with Dennis which they had hastily
updated_.
For example, R/S reported [p. 91-92] that shortly after lunch,
Dennis received telephone inquiries from "doctor's at the base...asking
questions about preservation techniques....The mortician was told by the
military doctors that the bodies had been out on the prairie for a couple
of days, maybe a week....According to the mortician, he was told there
were three fatalities. Two of them had been mangled in the crash but the
other was in fairly good shape. The officers at the base wanted to know
if they could get ALL THREE INTO A SINGLE HERMETICALLY SEALED CASKET."
(Emphasis added).
Dennis offered a significantly different version to _SUN_: He said
there had been no mention of any fatalities and the caller -- the base
mortuary officer -- asked what was the _smallest_ sealed casket that
Ballard had and how many were in stock. "Then, about 30 minutes later,
they called back and wanted to know what our embalming procedures would
do to remains that had been laying out in the elements. Would it change
the blood content? Would it change the tissue? Would it change the
stomach contents?
CURIOUS QUESTIONS. IF RAAF HAD ET BODIES, EMBALMING FLUID WOULD BE
INJECTED ONLY IF THE ETs WERE SOON TO BE BURIED. HOWEVER, IF AN AUTOPSY
WAS PLANNED, EMBALMING FOR BURIAL WOULD BE DONE AFTERWARDS.
Because Dennis found so many errors in the R/S #1 account, _SUN_ will
here shift to highlights of Dennis' own version, given before a video
camera and incorporated in the video "Recollections of Roswell II,"
produced by the Fund For UFO Research. (FUFOR). According to Dennis,
shortly after the last inquiry from RAAF, he received a call to bring a
slightly injured airman to the base hospital. After taking the airman to
the infirmary, Dennis said there was, "one particular nurse that I was
pretty well acquainted with and I wanted to see if she was there and buy
her a coke....As I started back to see her her...she came out of one of
the examining rooms....She said: 'What are you doing here and how did you
get in here?' She said: 'My gosh, get out of here as soon as possible,
you're gonna get in a lot of trouble.'"
When Dennis sought an explanation, the nurse quickly returned to the
room which was guarded by a captain who asked Dennis to identify himself
which he did, explaining that "it looks like you had a crash here and I
need to go back and get preparations ready," he said he was told: "You
did not see anything. There was no crash here. You don't go into town
and making (sic) any rumors...that there was a crash." Two military
police (MPs) then escorted Dennis out.
The next day, Dennis said, he was curious to find out what had
happened and called the nurse several times, only to be told she was not
in. "About 11 o'clock she called the funeral home....And she said 'I
need to talk to you,'" and she suggested meeting at the Officers Club.
When they met there, according to Dennis, "She looked like death warmed
over. She said, 'You won't believe what happened....Before I tell you
anything...you have to give me a _sacred oath_ that you will not ever
mention my name or you can get me in a lot of trouble.' I said OK,
because I said I would definitely like to know what's going on."
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