13  "... Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF)..."

"In May 1946, the Army Air Forces (AAF) gave SAC the responsibility of delivering the
atomic bomb. Only one of the command’s bombardment units, the 509th at Walker Air Force
Base (then Roswell Field) in New Mexico, was trained and ready for the atomic bomb
mission. The 509th Wing, training on the B-29 aircraft, dropped the first atomic bomb on
Japan."

-- Reference: http://www.strategic-air-command.com/bases/Walker_AFB.htm

14 "...July 8, 1947, the Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) issued a press release stating
that personnel from the field's 509th Bomb Group had recovered a crashed "flying
disc" from a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico..."

THE FOLLOWING LIST OF WITNESSES AND TESTIMONY REGARDING THE
"CRASHED FLYING DISC" INCIDENT THAT MRS. MACELROY DESCRIBES IN HER
LETTER:

NOTE: Testimonial, Signed Affidavits, Photos And Other Resource Materials About The
Incident Can Be Viewed At The Following Website:

-- http://roswellproof.homestead.com/index.html

(Copyright ©2001 by David Rudiak. )
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"When we look at the contents of the message in conjunction with witness testimony, the
evidence clearly points to an actual flying saucer crash, as astonishing as this conclusion
may seem to many.

This testimony is gone into in much greater detail elsewhere in this Website. It consists
primarily of numerous and consistent descriptions of highly anomalous debris and to a
lesser extent of alien bodies. Here are a few key witnesses:

Major Jesse Marcel: Then the intelligence chief at Roswell and the first to investigate
sheep rancher Mack Brazel's find, Marcel confirmed in a number of interviews 30 years later
that the crash debris had highly anomalous properties and was "not of this Earth." Marcel
also spoke of Ramey's weather balloon cover-up at Fort Worth. Note particularly highly
laudatory post-Roswell evaluations by base commander Col. William Blanchard, Gen.
Ramey, and future USAF Chief of Staff Col. John Ryan.

Lt. Walter Haut: Former Roswell base public information officer who issued the base press
release. Haut's "deathbed" sealed affidavit has just been published. In it he confesses to
seeing the spacecraft and bodies in base Hangar 84/P-3 and tells us the mysterious press
release was General Ramey's idea to divert press and public attention away from the closer
and more important craft/body site.

Sgt Frederick Benthal: Army photographer flown in from Washington D.C., said he
photographed alien bodies in a tent at crash site and saw large quantities of crash debris
being hauled away in trucks.

PFC Elias Benjamin: Roswell MP, said he escorted the alien bodies from the heavily
guarded base Hangar P-3 to the base hospital, and saw a live one being worked on by
doctors; was threatened afterwards if he didn't keep quiet.

1st Lt. Chester P. Barton: A crypto specialist and assigned to an MP unit, Barton said he
was ordered to the crash site 45 minutes north of town to check on the cleanup, saw a
football-field-size burn impact area heavily guarded by MPs, scattered metal debris, was told
radiation was at the site, heard archeologists had first discovered it, and also heard bodies
were taken to base hospital and then to Fort Worth. Because of what he saw, he knew that
the balloon explanation was ridiculous and there had been a cover-up. However, Barton
was unusual in being a flying saucer crash skeptic, instead thinking that it was maybe a B-29
crash and nuclear accident.

Bill Brazel Jr.: Rancher Mack Brazel's son, Bill Brazel independently corroborated many
details of Marcel's testimony, including the strange debris, the large, elongated debris field,
and his father's story of an explosion in the middle of a violent electrical storm.

Louis Rickett: One of the regular Army CIC agents in Marcel's office, Rickett confirmed the
anomalous quality of the debris, a major cleanup operation at Brazel's ranch, high secrecy,
and being involved in a subsequent investigation to determine the trajectory of the craft. He
was also told by others about the shape of the main craft. Like Chester Barton, he placed
the main impact site a 45 minute drive north of Roswell.

Brig. Gen. Arthur Exon: Though not a direct participant, Exon was stationed at Wright
Field at the time, over flew the area soon afterwards, and was later commanding officer of
Wright-Patterson AFB. Exon when first interviewed flatly stated, "Roswell was the recovery
of a craft from space." Among other things, he confirmed the existence of two main crash
sites. Exon also said he heard that bodies were recovered and confirmed the debris was
highly anomalous based on testing done by labs at Wright-Patterson. Exon added that he
was aware of other crash-recoveries that occurred while he was C/O at Wright-Patterson.

Steven Lovekin (served in the White House Army Signal Corp during Eisenhower and
Kennedy administrations, 1959-1961) Although like Exon not a direct participant, Lovekin
said he received 1959 Pentagon briefings and being shown a metallic beam with symbols
from a 1947 N.M. crash (presumably Roswell) plus being told of either 3 or 5 aliens being
recovered, one initially alive. He also said he was shown very compelling photographic
and radar evidence of UFOs. He also testified of the threats against military personnel given
this information if they were to publicly reveal it. Finally, he told of Eisenhower's concern
over losing control of the situation with power falling into the hands of private corporations
given access to the materials.

Brig. Gen. Thomas Dubose: Gen. Ramey's Chief of Staff in 1947, Dubose handled the
high-level phone communications between Roswell, Fort Worth, and Washington. Dubose
went on record many times about the high secrecy involved (including the matter going
directly to the White House), receiving direct orders from Washington to instigate a cover-up,
Gen. Ramey's weather balloon cover story, and a highly secret shipment of debris from
Roswell to Fort Worth, Washington, and Wright Field. Dubose's damning testimony made
him a complete nonentity in the Air Force's 1995 Roswell report, which didn't even bother to
identify him in the photos taken of Gen. Ramey with his weather balloon. (Visit the website
to view Dubose's Air Force biography, his sworn affidavit, and a more detailed discussion of
his testimony which the Air Force was so eager to avoid.)

Sgt. Robert Slusher and PFC Lloyd Thompson: Crew members on a mysterious B-29
flight from Roswell to Fort Worth on July 9, 1947, transporting a large wooden crate in the
bomb bay surrounded by an armed guard. Upon arrival, the plane was met by high brass
and a mortician. This is probably the flight referred to in the Ramey memo that would ship
whatever was "in the 'disc'" to Fort Worth by a B-29 Special Transport plane. New witnesses
to the flight, including daughter of the head security guard, saying that alien bodies were
inside the crate.

Frank Kaufmann: A highly controversial witness claiming to be one of the exclusive
members of a special CIC-team (Army Counter-Intelligence Corp) in charge of the Roswell
recovery operation. Nonetheless, some of Kaufmann's claims seem to be corroborated by
the Ramey message, including the existence of such a team, the recovery of an intact "disk"
with bodies inside about 35 miles north of Roswell base, and the special team being
responsible for the initial Roswell base press release. Kaufmann also testified to knowing of
a wooden crate guarded in a hangar with the bodies packed inside awaiting shipment,
perhaps the same crate independently described by Slusher and Thompson.

Glenn Dennis: A Roswell mortician and another highly controversial witness, Dennis spoke
of receiving strange calls from the base about preservation techniques and child-sized
coffins. Dennis also claimed to be at the Roswell base hospital, seeing unusual debris in the
back of an ambulance including a pod-like object perhaps alluded to in the Ramey message,
and being threatened. He also claimed to know a Roswell nurse who assisted in a
preliminary autopsy at the base hospital and who described the aliens to him.

The nurse subsequently disappeared. However, attempts to identify the mystery nurse have proven to be a complete failure after Dennis provided a false name. However, also see some corroborative evidence immediately following Dennis' affidavit, such as David
Wagnon, a medical technician, who remembered the nurse fitting Dennis' description, as did
Pete Anaya, who said the pretty nurse he knew and encountered at the base hangar telling
him of the bodies there subsequently disappeared.

Roswell police chief L. M. Hall stated that Dennis was telling him of calls from the base about small coffins for the aliens only a few days after the crashed saucer story broke in the
Roswell papers. Similarly, S/Sgt. Milton Sprouse also said he heard of the coffin call from
Dennis and a medic friend told him of the alien bodies and autopsy at the hospital.
The medic and doctors and nurses involved in the autopsy all immediately were
transferred and their fate remained unknown. In addition, other independent witnesses
have provided first and second-hand testimony about small bodies being found with details
very similar to those provided by Dennis, including Walter Haut, Frederick Benthal, Eli
Benjamin, and relatives of "Pappy" Henderson.

Family and friends of Oliver "Pappy" Henderson: Henderson was one of the senior pilots
at Roswell. When the first public stories of a Roswell saucer crash began circulating in
1981, Henderson confided to family and friends of being the pilot who flew bodies of the
aliens and crash wreckage to Wright Field. He also claimed to have seen the craft and
bodies, and provided a description of the aliens.

Sgt. Robert E. Smith: A member of an air transport unit at Roswell, Smith said he helped
load crates filled with debris for transport by C-54's, including one flown by Henderson and
his crew. Smith was also among the witnesses to describe the mysterious "memory foil"
which he said was in the crates. He further described strangers to the base dressed in
plainclothes and flashing ID cards for some unknown project, perhaps part of the special
CIC-team mentioned in the Ramey memo and by Frank Kaufmann. Finally he claimed that
distant cousin of his was with the Secret Service and was there at the base representing
President Truman. (The same name was also provided by Kaufmann.)

S/Sgt. Earl V. Fulford: In the engineering squadron, Fulford said he participated in the large
debris field cleanup guarded by MPs, handled the mysterious "memory foil," saw what may
have been the tarped crash object on a flatbed truck being towed to Hangar 84, and in the
middle of the night was made to load a large wooden crate into an idling C-54.

Earl Zimmerman: Formerly with AFOSI (AF counterintelligence). While in officers' club
heard many rumors about flying saucer crash and of it being investigated under the guise of
an airplane crash. Several times observed Gen. Ramey and Charles Lindbergh being at
base unannounced in connection with this. Like Robert Smith, spoke of seeing an unknown
CIC man being at base. Col. Blanchard told him it was OK. Later worked with astronomer
Dr. Lincoln LaPaz and corroborated story of Roswell CIC man Lewis Rickett that LaPaz
investigated Roswell afterwards with the help of the CIC to try to determine objects
trajectory. Again an airplane crash was the cover story.

Lt. Robert Shirkey: Then the assistant operations officer, Shirkey witnessed the loading of
the B-29 that took Major Marcel to Fort Worth to see Gen. Ramey. He said he saw boxes of
debris being carried on board, including an I-beam with raised markings and a large piece of
metal, brushed stainless steel in color, obviously not part of a tinfoil radar target. He was
told it was from a flying saucer. Along with witness Robert Porter, he also stated that the
plane's pilot was Deputy Commanding Officer Lt. Col. Payne Jennings, who was now the
Acting C/O with Col. Blanchard officially on leave. Nine days later, Shirkey was abruptly
transferred to the Philippines to a post that didn't exist. Jennings personally flew him to his
next assignment.

Sgt. Robert Porter: Was on Marcel's flight to Fort Worth and was handed wrapped
packages of debris samples. Said that flight was piloted by Deputy base commander
Jennings. He was told on board that the crash material was from a flying saucer. Later, they
told him it was a weather balloon. Said debris was loaded onto another plane.
Art McQuiddy: Former editor of the Roswell Morning Dispatch. Said base commander Col.
Blanchard admitted to authorizing base press release and of strange material being found by
his men.

Judd Roberts: Co-owner of Roswell radio station KGFL owner. Spoke of how they wirerecorded an interview with rancher Mack Brazel for later airing, then withdrew it about
receiving warnings from Washington about losing their license. Testified to seeing a military
cordon around Brazel crash site.

William Woody: Another witness to a military cordon thrown up up north of town along the
main highway, blocking access to the west.

Lydia Sleppy: Albuquerque teletype operator and one of earliest witnesses. Stated that the
story phoned in from field by Roswell radio reporter Johnny McBoyle about seeing the
crashed saucer and hearing of bodies was intercepted and cut-off on the teletype wire by the
FBI.

Loretta Proctor: Neighbor of rancher Mack Brazel. Brazel told her and her husband of
finding strange material before going to Roswell, and showing them a wood-like piece that
couldn't be cut or burned. They advised him to go to Roswell and report it. Brazel was
detained at the base and complained bitterly of his treatment when he returned.

Sally Strickland Tadolini: Another neighbor of Brazel's. Although only 9 years old at the
time, remembered Mack Brazel's grown son Bill Brazel bringing over a piece of metalliclooking debris with memory properties to show to her family (incident corroborated by her mother). Described it as tough, resembled a smooth "fabric" like silk or satin, and, of course, unfolded itself to its original shape after being crumpled up. Independently corroborated Bill Brazel's story of finding material and also Marcel's of a metallic fabric material with memory properties which he could blow through (therefore not balloon material). Also remembered the adults talking about Mack Brazel's bad treatment at hands of military.

Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr.: 11-year old son of Major Marcel in 1947, recounts how his father
woke up his mother and himself in the middle of the night when he returned from the debris
field, showing them the pieces of a "flying saucer." Among other material, he distinctly
remembers a small metallic "I-beam" with purplish "hieroglyphics."
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