Walter Haut’s testimony recorded by the Disclosure Project, a UFO research group, as he speaks about the 1957 Roswell press release … ‘He did not believe that that press release was legitimate. UFOs: The Lost Evidence s1e6: Deathbed Confessions, Discovery 2019
Roswell, New Mexico: Near the site of the most famous UFO story in history. Eye-witnesses say something truly bizarre crashed outside Roswell in 1947. The most famous UFO story of all time is reported to have begun with a loud explosion over the New Mexico desert. UFOs Declassified s1e5: UFO Crash Sites
‘Jesse Marcel is the lead intelligence officer for the 509 bomb group.’ ibid. Don Schmitt
Jesse Marcel’s testimony about memory metal and other alien artefacts opens the floodgates. ibid.
In 1947 something crashed in the desert near the American south-west. Whatever the object was, it has created shockwaves still felt today. What crashed in Roswell, New Mexico? History’s Greatest Mysteries: Roswell: The First Witness I, History 2021
In the 1940s New Mexico was home to some of America’s most sensitive military installations, including where the atomic bomb was developed. ibid.
By late June 1947 more than a week before the Roswell crash, residents in the southern part of the state were spooked by nearly 70 sightings of UFOs. ibid.
‘Major Jesse Marcel said the first thing that struck him was the massive amount of debris. As he would say, there was just so much of it; it covered an area almost a mile long.’ ibid. Marcel’s grandson
Bill Brazel’s decision to collect his own souvenirs eventually brought the military to his door, just as it did with his father. The debris was confiscated and police told him to keep quiet about what he knew or had seen and he faced arrest. History’s Greatest Mysteries: Roswell: The First Witness II
Jesse Marcel is not the author of the journal. History’s Greatest Mysteries: Roswell: The First Witness III
Glenn Dennis was the mortician at the Ballard Funeral Home which provided services for the Roswell army base. Dennis says he assumed they’d been some kind of deadly accident involving children so he delivered three small coffins to the airbase. ibid.
Codebreaker Craig Bauer is starting to see patterns in the lettering [journal] – a clear signal that a message may be hidden in code. History’s Greatest Mysteries: Roswell: The First Witness IV
By 1990 a Gallup poll reported that nearly 70 million Americans believe alien spaceships had visited the Earth. ibid.
Interviewer: You’re still not divulging everything that you know.
Marcel: I can’t. For the sake of my country. History’s Greatest Mysteries: Roswell: The First Witness V, tape
Roswell: The Air Force’s conflicting reports about what was recovered at Roswell ignited the flames of a conspiracy theory that continues to this day. America’s Book of Secrets: The Ancient Astronaut Cover-Up s2e1, H2 2014
There were four aliens aboard I think and those aliens went to Los Alamos. Unacknowleged, Roswell witness, 2017
They said there had been over a hundred crashes in that Four Corners area. ibid.
It’s the one case that will not die. It is claimed that not only a UFO crashed, that there were dead alien bodies; it’s rumoured that perhaps one of those creatures on board did survive for a short period of time. Alien Autopsy: The Search for Answers, Philip Mantel reporting, History 2021
I think it was Stanton who coined the phrase The Cosmic Watergate. ibid.
‘My name is Ray Santilli. I’m the person responsible for marketing the alien autopsy footage.’ ibid.
‘There was almost a year or so before I was able to find the funding from a third party, who was prepared to take a punt.’ Alien Autopsy: The Search for Answers II, Santilli
There’s nothing you can pinpoint on that film that would disqualify it. The medical instruments looked real. ibid.
‘I think that over the years it’s probably done me more harm than good.’ ibid. Santilli
I knew the film was a fake but I just couldn’t prove it. ibid.
Kit Green [MD] says he was taken to the Pentagon and briefed and shown films that looked exactly the same as the Alien Autopsy film. Alien Autopsy: The Search for Answers III
Kevin Randle: Kevin did a cold case review just recently of the evidence and the witnesses who claimed to have seen bodies at Roswell, and he has come to the conclusion that it is not as solid as we might have imagined. Alien Autopsy: The Search for Answers IV
Roswell: The first and most controversial UFO conspiracy of all time. The truth shrouded in the shadows. Roswell: The Final Verdict I, Quest 2022
Day One, July 2 1947, 11.00 p.m.: Many believe more than lightning and thunder rumbled across the rural New Mexico sky. That night, rancher Mac Brazel claimed to have witnessed an event that should have changed the universe as we know it. ibid.
Mac takes home a few souvenirs and shows them to his son Bill. Bill in turn shows a piece to some peers. ibid.
Marian Strickland [neighbour] … ‘Bill Brazel brought a scrap of it up there’ … The AI predicts she is telling the Truth. The metallic debris had memory characteristics. ibid.
Rancher Mac Brazel will sit on his discovery for four long days. ibid.
‘For the first six months of that year there were more than 300 sightings all throughout the west coast.’ ibid. Heather Wade, UFO journalist
Sheriff Wilcox’s daughters … True … Mac Brazel takes the debris to Sheriff Wilcox. ibid.
Reporter Frank Joyce, KGFL radio … Telling the truth about his conversation with Brazel. ibid.
Frank Kaufmann … AI views Frank Kaufmann’s statement about the President as Untrue. ibid.
Did Jesse Marcel tell the truth? … ‘There was so much of it; it was scattered over such a vast area’ … True. ibid.
Bill Rickett [accompanied Marcel] … Rickett is also telling the truth about the strange characteristics of the debris material. ibid.
True: Marcel believes the material he found was from off the planet. ibid.
July 7th 1947: Five-year-old Gerald Anderson and his family are 25 miles from Roswell, New Mexico, when they discover the unbelievable. Roswell: The Final Verdict II
‘There was a large silver disc-shaped object’ … This claim from Gerald Anderson is True. ibid.
In this case there is testimony from a second unrelated witness, civil engineer Barney Barnett … After Barnett’s death his close friend retired Air Force officer Vern Maltais comes forward with the story … It’s True. ibid.
Anderson: ‘There were four bodies, not human … four and half feet tall’ … Gerald’s Anderson’s claim of seeing extraterrestrial beings is in fact True. ibid.
A similar claim is made by Barney Barnett [by Vern Maltais] … Maltais’s statement is True. ibid.
‘Two of them were obviously dead. One of them was obviously badly injured. One of them apparently suffered no ill effects’ … Was there a live alien at Crash site 2? … False. ibid.
Frankie Rowe: True .. Her father told her that government officials suppressed the evidence of extraterrestrial beings he personally saw. ibid.
The Men in Black: 44 years later Robert Smith, the Sergeant based at the airfield, testifies about knowing one of the Men-in-Black agents leading the mission … True. They were there. They were sent by the White House. ibid.
Jesse Marcel junior: His father returned from Crash Site #1 and showed him the mysterious debris he had recovered … True. ibid.
Sergeant Frederick Benthal, Army photographer: ‘There were four bodies … I took thirty shots. It smelt funny in there’ … ibid.
Lt Walter Haunt, public information officer: testifies about the first official press release … True. The press release he submitted was based on the existence of unidentifiable debris. ibid.