15 "... the Commanding General of the Eighth Air Force..."
"General Roger M. Ramey was a major player in the Roswell Incident, but information on
him is hard to come by. Even though he became a fairly important Air Force general in the
early 1950s, for some reason the Air Force biographical Web page on their generals doesn't
list him.
Ramey was born in 1903 in Sulphur Springs, Texas, but grew up in Denton, Texas, about 40
miles north of Fort Worth. He graduated from North Texas State Teachers College in
Denton and wanted to study medicine. But he won a rodeo competition and "preferred
working on a ranch to books."
He was the mess sergeant in a local National Guard unit, and the captain insisted young
"Cowboy" Ramey take the competitive examination for entrance to the U.S. Military
Academy, winning the West Point appointment. He entered West Point in 1924.
July 26,1946: Ramey wrote Roswell intelligence chief Major Jesse Marcel a commendation
for his work during Crossroads, citing his important contributions to security, his handling of
complex intelligence matters, and the perfection of his staff briefings. A year later, Marcel
was to handle the initial investigation into the strange crash debris found by rancher Mac
Brazel near Roswell and fly the debris to Fort Worth for examination by Gen. Ramey.
June 30, 1947: Ramey and his intelligence chief were giving press interviews and
debunking the new flying saucer phenomenon.
July 6, 1947: Ramey spent all day attending an air show in his home town of Denton, TX
(and probably visiting relatives). Meanwhile, back in Fort Worth with Ramey away from the
base, his chief of staff, Brig. Gen. Thomas Dubose, said he first learned of the find at
Roswell by phone from SAC acting chief of staff Gen. McMullen. According to Dubose,McMullen ordered debris samples flown immediately to Washington by "colonel courier," first
stopping in Fort Worth. The whole operation was carried out under the strictest secrecy, said
Dubose. McMullen ordered him not to tell anyone, not even Ramey.
July 8, 1947: The infamous Roswell base flying disk press release and Ramey's subsequent
debunking of it as a weather balloon. According to Dubose, McMullen ordered the cover-up
in another phone call to Dubose from Washington. Both Dubose and Roswell intelligence
chief Jesse Marcel said the weather balloon was not what Marcel brought from Roswell,
being nothing but a cover story to get rid of the press.
-- Reference: Wikipedia.org
16 "... U.S. Women's Army Air Force..."
"The Women's Army Corps (WAC) was the women's branch of the US Army. It was created
as an auxiliary unit, the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in 1942, and converted to full status
as the WAC in 1943. About 150,000 American women served in the WAAC and WAC
during World War II. They were the first women other than nurses to serve with the Army."
-- Reference: Wikipedia.org
17 "...Flight Nurse"...
"The Flight Nurse Badge is issued in two different versions, one for the Navy and the other
for the Air Force. To be awarded the Flight Nurse Badge, a service member must be a
commissioned officer and a Registered Nurse and must also complete training normally
befitting the award of the Aircrew Badge. The Flight Nurse Badge is then presented after a
probationary period of in-flight instruction and observation."
-- Reference: Wikipedia.org
18
..."Sheridan Cavitt of the Counter Intelligence Officer"...
(Please see the following Footnote)
19 "... I was asked to accompany Mr. Cavitt, the Counter Intelligence officer, to the
crash site as the driver of his vehicle ...
"Most of the testimony in this (the following) document is from the 1992 book “Crash at
Corona” by Stanton Friedman and Don Berliner, published in the United States by Paragon
House. That book contains lots of other interesting material, including material regarding
another crash site in New Mexico.
Sequence of Events:
On July 2, 1947, during the evening, a flying saucer crashed on the Foster Ranch near
Corona, New Mexico. The crash occurred during a severe thunderstorm. (The military base
nearest the crash site is in Roswell, New Mexico; hence, Roswell is more closely associated
with this event than Corona, even though Corona is closer to the crash site.)
On July 3, 1947, William “Mac” Brazel (rhymes with “frazzle”) and his 7-year-old neighbor
Dee Proctor found the remains of the crashed flying saucer. Brazel was foreman of the Foster Ranch. The pieces were spread out over a large area, perhaps more than half a
mile long. When Brazel drove Dee back home, he showed a piece of the wreckage to Dee’s
parents, Floyd and Loretta Proctor. They all agreed the piece was unlike anything they had
ever seen.
On July 6, 1947, Brazel showed pieces of the wreckage to Chaves County Sheriff George
Wilcox. Wilcox called Roswell Army Air Field (AAF) and talked to Major Jesse Marcel, the
intelligence officer. Marcel drove to the sheriff’s office and inspected the wreckage. Marcel
reported to his commanding officer, Colonel William “Butch” Blanchard. Blanchard ordered
Marcel to get someone from the Counter Intelligence Corps, and to proceed to the ranch
with Brazel, and to collect as much of the wreckage as they could load into their two
vehicles.
Soon after this, military police arrived at the sheriff’s office, collected the wreckage Brazel
had left there, and delivered the wreckage to Blanchard’s office. The wreckage was then
flown to Eighth Air Force headquarters in Fort Worth, and from there to Washington.
Meanwhile, Marcel and Sheridan Cavitt of the Counter Intelligence Corps drove to the ranch
with Mac Brazel. They arrived late in the evening. They spent the night in sleeping bags in a
small out-building on the ranch, and in the morning proceeded to the crash site.
On July 7, 1947, Marcel and Cavitt collected wreckage from the crash site. After filling
Cavitt’s vehicle with wreckage, Marcel told Cavitt to go on ahead, that Marcel would collect
more wreckage, and they would meet later back at Roswell AAF. Marcel filled his vehicle
with wreckage. On the way back to the air field, Marcel stopped at home to show his wife
and son the strange material he had found.
On July 7, 1947, around 4:00 pm, Lydia Sleppy at Roswell radio station KSWS began
transmitting a story on the teletype machine regarding a crashed flying saucer out on
the Foster Ranch. Transmission was interrupted, seemingly by the FBI.
On July 8, 1947, in the morning, Marcel and Cavitt arrived back at Roswell AAF with two
carloads of wreckage. Marcel accompanied this wreckage, or most it, on a flight to Fort
Worth AAF.
On July 8, 1947, around noon, Colonel Blanchard at Roswell AAF ordered Second
Lieutenant Walter Haut to issue a press release telling the country that the Army had found
the remains of a crashed a flying saucer. Haut was the public information officer for the
509th Bomb Group at Roswell AAF. Haut delivered the press release to Frank Joyce at radio
station KGFL. Joyce waited long enough for Haut to return to the base, then called Haut
there to confirm the story. Joyce then sent the story on the Western Union wire to the
United Press bureau.
On July 8, 1947, in the afternoon, General Clemence McMullen in Washington spoke by
telephone with Colonel (later Brigadier General) Thomas DuBose in Fort Worth, chief of
staff to Eighth Air Force Commander General Roger Ramey. McMullen ordered DuBose to
tell Ramey to quash the flying saucer story by creating a cover story, and to send some of
the crash material immediately to Washington.
On July 8, 1947, in the afternoon, General Roger Ramey held a press conference at Eighth
Air Force headquarters in Fort Worth in which he announced that what had crashed at
Corona was a weather balloon, not a flying saucer. To make this story convincing, he
showed the press the remains of a damaged weather balloon that he claimed was the actual
wreckage from the crash site. (Apparently, the obliging press did not ask why the Army
hurriedly transported weather balloon wreckage to Fort Worth, Texas, site of the press
conference, from the crash site in a remote area of New Mexico.)
The only newspapers that carried the initial flying saucer version of the story were evening
papers from the Midwest to the West, including the Chicago Daily News, the Los Angeles
Herald Express, the San Francisco Examiner, and the Roswell Daily Record. The New York
Times, the Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune were morning papers and so carried
only the cover-up story the next morning.
At some point, a large group of soldiers were sent to the debris field on the Foster Ranch,
including a lot of MPs whose job was to limit access to the field. A wide search
was launched well beyond the limits of the debris field. Within a day or two, a few miles from
the debris field, the main body of the flying saucer was found, and a mile or two from that
several bodies of small humanoids were found.
The military took Mac Brazel into custody for about a week, during which time he was seen
on the streets of Roswell with a military escort. His behavior aroused the curiosity of
friends when he passed them without any sign of recognition. Following this period of
detention, Brazel repudiated his initial story."
--- Reference: http://ufo.jack.sk/unidentified-flying-objects/roswell/