During a lightning storm on July 3, 1947, a mysterious craft crashed near Roswell, New Mexico. Multiple witnesses stepped forward. An Army base commander nearby approved a front-page story for the next day in the Roswell Daily Herald. It read “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region.” RAAF stood for Roswell Army Air Field. The story found itself yanked within five hours. A “weather balloon” substituted for the saucer and the biggest coverup in United States history quickly threw a thick “top secret” cloak over the entire story and silenced all witnesses.
Just a couple of months later, the CIA and Air Force would pop into existence on September 18, 1947, under the National Security Act, and both would pursue everything Roswell
The Roswell incident remained classified in 2021 despite a request to the Pentagon to release what they know about Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP.) Only a privileged handful of government officials and private aerospace contractors ever learned the truth about the mysterious Area 51.
The nature of the world-disrupting remnants of the crash became the most guarded secret. In Dayton, Ohio, an Air Force base called Wright-Patterson quietly received the crates full of the secrets from Roswell. Wright-Patterson boasted a long history of reverse-engineering foreign technology, including aircraft.
Not only did the world not hear the truth, but they were also lied to instead. Over seven decades ago, the Roswell secrets continue to slip into oblivion as the last witnesses close their eyes and meet their makers.
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) expanded in WW I and WW II to establish a rich history of essential military service.
Project Sign, called Project SAUCER initially, became WPAFB’s first official intelligence investigation of UFOs started just a couple of months later—a hint that the Roswell crash was not just a weather balloon. An assignment from President Truman, Air Force General Nathan Farragut Twining oversaw Project Sign. Project Grudge and Project Blue Book would follow.
The results of Project Sign came in saying that some flying saucers were interstellar and were reportedly burned to cover it up.
Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt in UFO Secrets Inside Wright-Patterson: Eyewitness Accounts from the Real Area 51 boldly stepped forward in 2019 to open up WPAFB’s secret UFO vault to the public to present new eyewitness testimonies from the files of Leonard Springfield concerning crash retrieval evidence. They also share news and insight from Carl Day, an Emmy-award-winning television reporter. Project Blue Book files, including investigations and photos, find themselves yanked from the vault and closely examined as well.
Senator Barry Goldwater claimed in an interview that he asked Gen. Curtis LeMay, in 1988, for a visit to the secret UFO room, the "Blue Room," at WPAFB. LeMay allegedly denied the request, and angrily told Goldwater not to bring it up again. [1]
Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton would try and disclose what happened at Roswell--and failed. President Trump talked about it, but did not pursue it any further.
I am in the process of researching summary and update books on Carey’s and Schmitt’s two books on this matter.
Scott Campbell
[1] Bernstein, Burton (25 April 1988). "AuH2O". The New Yorker
The following comes as an exclusive excerpt from Summary and Update: The Day After Roswell by Philip Corso .
For an update and summary, not a replacement, I selected Philip Corso’s The Day After Roswell because he promoted the idea that the Roswell crash not only happened but that we appropriated sophisticated alien technology-- and kept it all secret. If true, and because of our government’s nondisclosure of UFO facts, Corso’s intriguing story would be representative of one of the most important realizations--and biggest coverups-- in all of Human history.
Roswell desert lightning storms apparently played a huge role in what happened on Earth from July 1947 to the present day.
Corso researched the many versions of what happened with the crash, and here is a summary of his final evaluation, which represents a consensus of the “facts” to the best of his knowledge.
· July 1, 1947: strange radar blips, representing craft flying at high speeds and making unbelievable moves at the Army’s 509th airfield, Alamagordo, and White Sands. Pursuit by our aircraft proved futile.
· Local civilians experience UFO sightings.
· World War II operatives and intelligence personnel (CIG) descend on Roswell to bear witness and plan accordingly.
· The bizarre blips continued for days until the screens represented an explosion of one of the aircraft.
· An extensive team found themselves immediately en route to the desert to retrieve anything and everything from the wreckage.
· Campers, ranchers, and residents report a mid-air explosion and a brightly lit object descending towards the Earth near the town of Corona.
· To the military’s consternation, local police and the fire department are deployed to the site of the crash just as quickly.
· The crash showed plenty of small bits of debris, but the craft itself laid intact with but one large visible crack.
· The crash supposedly occurred the night of July 3, 1947.
· The crafted seemed small and appeared like an airplane wing.
· Three small humanoids, about 4.5 feet tall, dark grayish, laid on the ground, apparently dead.
· Another lay against a small hill in the desert sand, and another near the craft.
· The Army’s Steve Arnold peered inside the craft and later said it looked like daylight inside.
· The aliens at the sandhill partially recovered and tried to make a run for it. It was shot multiple times.
· The Army’s crew had orders to secure the area, discourage the presence of police and fire-fighting personnel and all other civilians, and pack up the aliens and their craft and get them to the base, and pick up all of the debris on their hands and knees if they had too.
· The craft, surprisingly light, found itself clumsily placed by crane onto a flatbed and covered with a tarp.
· The aliens had oversized heads and eyes, tiny mouths, ears, and nostrils, appeared gray or brownish-gray, and had no hair,
· Fireman Dwyer allegedly “stole” a piece of alien fabric that could remember its shape if folded and which he would show to his daughter, who would describe it to the public on television many years later.
· The civilians who visited the site were instructed not to discuss the incident or anything they saw with anybody.
· 509th commander Bull Blanchard authorized the dissemination of a story featuring a crashed “flying saucer” that quickly went worldwide but would be retracted by the next day and replaced by the famous “weather balloon” fabrication which a reluctant Major Jesse Marcel would tell, and who would retract his story towards the end of his life. He would confirm that it was, indeed, an alien spacecraft that crashed.
· His son would eventually share how his father showed him some of the debris, including a metal rod with purplish hieroglyphic-type symbols engraved upon it.
· Threats, including murder, bribes, and intimidation of all witnesses, followed for weeks until everybody had agreed to shut up about what happened that night.
· Some of the debris and the craft were flown to the Army’s Wright Airfield in Ohio, some to Fort Bliss, Texas, and the rest convoyed by truck to Fort Riley in Kansas.
Scott Campbell
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