From: mcgrew@dropout.rutgers.edu (Charles Mcgrew)
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
Subject: Re: Too secret for the US President's eyes?
Date: 26 Aug 92 03:41:35 GMT
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Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


	kuch@reed.edu (Jerry Kuch) writes:
	Can you give some details of the incident?  i.e. what crashed,
	where, when, what supposedly happened after that, etc.?  What
	evidence is there to support any related theories...

OK, just a taste, but you're much better off getting the book, its in
paperback.

July 1, 1947	Sherman Campbell discovers a weather balloon near
		Circleville, Ohio.  [This is only included to contrast
		this with the "balloon" at Roswell.  Campbell was
		allowed to keep his balloon; pictures of it and his
		daughter appeared in newspapers.]

July 2		Around 10pm, a UFO is seen in the sky near Roswell
		by two sets of witnesses.  Mac Brazel and others hear
		an explosion near his ranch during a thunderstorm
		(that is, something they knew was not thunder.)
	
July 3		Mac and another (a 7-year-old child) discover the
		"debris field" in a pasture.  Brazel visits the
		Proctors (parents of the child), and shows them some
		of the stuff (light-weight, metallic).  That evening,
		Brazel takes a large circular piece of the debris
		and stores it in a shed.

July 5		Brazel goes to Corona, NM, and tells some
		acquaintances about what he's found.

July 6	 	Brazel drives to Roswell to tell Sherrif Wilcox.
		Wilcox calls the Roswell air field to report Brazel's
		find, and sends two deputies to find the site.
		That afternoon, Col. Blanchard, Maj. Marcel, and
		Captain Cavitt arrive at Wilcox's office to interview
		Brazel.  Marcel and Cavitt go back to his ranch
		to see the debris (and spend the night at the Brazel
		ranch.)  The two deputies return, having found an area
		of "blackened ground".  That evening, a plane with
		debris on hand (from Brazel) is flown to Fort Worth.


July 7		Brazel takes Marcel and Cavitt to the debris field.
		Marcel and Cavitt load their vehicles with 
		debris, and late in the evening, head back toward
		Roswell.

July 8		Marcel stops at his home (around 2am), and shows some
		of the debris to his wife and son, then goes on to
		the Air Field.  That morning, Col. Blanchard orders
		Maj. Easley to post guards to restrict access to the
		debris field.  Cavitt and M/Sgt Rickett go to the
		ranch and take Brazel to the debris field again.
		Troops are dispatched to recover everything in the
		debris field.  Around 11am, Col. Blanchard dictates
		the famous "Flying Saucer" press release to Walter
		Haut.  Haut distributes the release to local radio
		and newspapers -- around noon, the story hits the
		AP wire.  A team of (military) photographers is flown
		in to Roswell.  By afternoon, phone lines are jammed
		at the base, newspapers, and Sherrif Wilcox's office.
		Wilcox dispatches two more deputies to the debris
		field, but they are turned back by MP's.

		Brazel is brought back to Roswell, then flown back
		to the debris field; other reconaissance flights
		are occurring.  Later on, Marcel flies from Roswell
		to Fort Worth, with a few packages of debris.

[I'm leaving out tons of things, including the bodies.  This is not
the entire timeline, nor all of the days it covers.  Sorry, but you
should buy the book! :-] Anyway, there were a lot of planes flying
parts of whatever-it-was out of Roswell, and the amount of activity is
just not consistent with a fallen balloon (Maj. Marcel, who should
know, later said it wasn't a balloon at all.)

... while I'm at it, I'd also like to recommend "The Roswell Report: A
Historical Perspective", available from CUFOS -- a collection of
articles from CUFOS's Int. UFO Reporter that bear on the Roswell
story, many written by Randle and Schmitt, and which includes an
expanded timeline.

Hope this helps,

Charles
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