Witness to Roswell
Below in italics is the blurb for New Page Books’ newly-published Witness to Roswell book by Tom Carey and Don Schmitt. A copy is on its way to me and a review will appear here as soon as I have read it.
And talking of books: tomorrow I’ll be reviewing Encounters at Indian Head, edited by the late Karl Pflock and Peter Brookesmith, and which focuses on the Betty and Barney Hill alien abduction controversy of 1961. This is an excellent book, and one that was a pleasure to read.
Witness to Roswell: Unmasking the 60-Year Cover-Up
Author: Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt
ISBN: 1-56414-943-9
256 pages, 5 1/4 x 8 1/4, Paper
$14.99
“There is no one on this planet who knows more about the Roswell Incident than these two guys.” —Larry Landsman, executive producer, The Roswell Crash: Startling New Evidence.
“Tom Carey and Donald Schmitt have devoted decades to unraveling Roswell - battling the multitude of phony witnesses, the desperate attempts by the government to cover the trail, and the silliness of the knee-jerk skeptics. Presenting the facts in clear language, [they] share astonishing discoveries about the epochal events of July 1947 and show why Roswell really is the Holy Grail of UFOlogy.” —Capt. R.J. Durant, retired airline pilot, UFOlogist and respected Roswell Incident researcher.
Witness to Roswell will hold you spellbound as you read the actual eyewitness testimony to an amazing event; the recovery of a UFO in 1947 just outside of Roswell, New Mexico. Witnesses will not only reveal that the alien crew were placed in body bags and packed in dry ice, but most astonishing of all, that one of them survived the crash.
Witness to Roswell exhaustively presents accounts of witnesses to the crash, the military containment and recovery, the high level of security surrounding all phases of the cleanup operation, deathbed testimonies, sealed posthumous statements, and the extreme measures the U.S. Government has taken to prevent people from telling the truth.
You will be shocked to learn:
• That the Air Force used death threats against civilian eyewitness and their children to silence them.
• That the Air Force turned a small New Mexico town upside down and inside out…in search of a weather balloon ?
• That the Air Force’s next “official” explanation for Roswell will be its fifth!
• The true number of witnesses supporting an extraterrestrial event at Roswell
versus those favoring the Air Force’s balloon explanation. Hint: It’s like comparing the Empire State Buildiing to a low-rise.
Witness to Roswell asserts that the truth cannot be forever suppressed: An alien vessel really did arrive, bodies were recovered, and they weren’t from here!
Donald R. Schmitt is coauthor of two best-selling books on Roswell, one of which
became the TV movie Roswell. He has appeared frequently on TV and radio, including Oprah, CBS 48 Hours, the Today Show, and many more programs. He resides in Hubertus, Wisconsin.
Thomas J. Carey has devoted significant portions of the last 16 years to proactively investigating the “Roswell Incident” and has authored or coauthored more than 30 published articles on the subject. Tom has appeared on Larry King Live, Coast-to-Coast AM with George Noory, and numerous other programs. He lives in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania.
Both authors were consultants for the Sci-Fi Channel’s documentary, The Roswell Crash.
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June 5th, 2007 at 6:59 am
I have just finished reading “Witness to Roswell” and find I have to agree with essentially everything these cover blurbs make claim of.
This is an utterly fascinating book; a very important book. The research in it is meticulous and, in toto, it sends the Air Farce version of those 1947 events crashing in flames like the vehicles hit by Hugh Marlowe’s sound rays in “Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers”.
Assembled by two researchers who have eaten, slept, and “lived” Roswell for a quarter of a century, this new book is a watershed in the study of the event.
It seems that the Air Farce itself opened the door to all this…unwittingly….with their claim of several years ago that this “body” business was born of psychological confusion…and “time-compression”…after people saw humanoid flight-test dummies and “mistook” them for dead aliens (a contention that is BEYOND stupid). The
AF tried so hard to dissuade the world of the reality of a UFO crash at Roswell at this time that the then Secretary of the Air Force actually issued a directive that SUSPENDED any US Code Title 18 action against any vets who were at RAAF in those days. I suspect this was because this Madam Secretary had been “assured” it was all an overblown “non-event” to begin with…and saw no reason to do without what was, in effect, a “blanket amnesty” for witness testimony.
With this issued, testimony started coming out of the woodwork, so to speak. People who’d been worried for years about going to Leavenworth, or losing their pensions, or other forms of government retaliation, started to talk a lot more freely….and Carey & Schmitt were there to listen.
Not only were there death-bed utterances, but there were family testimonies from witnesses already passed on. Sons & daughters told what had been told to them and no one else.
It was, in fact, a bit of a watershed.
And while an AF JAG officer at a military trial might shriek of “hearsay evidence”, there WAS no trial here and never could be…how do you “try” a “non-event”?
Among the things that came up were the threats of death against citizens…even children…even AFTER the whatsit was officially declared “just a weather balloon”. One MOST interesting case in point is that of a then 12-year-old schoolgirl named Frankie Dwyer who was literally terrorized and threatened with death in her own home by a military policeman.
Years later, after Carey & Schmitt had interviewed her on one occasion , they sat out to try and track down her ‘terrorizer’ using her descriptions of the man. They weeded through candidates until they came to one they felt convinced was Mr. Bad Ass….an MP from NY named Arthur Philbin. They then assembled a photo “lineup” with numerous
“suspects” and sent the package to the now Frankie Dwyer Rowe…with no “hinting” or “coaching” about who they were looking for. The packet came back to them from Mrs. Rowe with the head shot of one man circled…Arthur Philbin.
Cross referencing of over 600 testimonies began to add up to a followable story and time line…none of it dovetailing to official Air Farce BS. This story follows through and carries the book…and then comes the clincher.Walter Haut, the PIO (public information Officer) at Roswell Field at the time of the crash, told his family he was leaving behind a statement to be opened and read after his death.
At such time it WAS opened and read. Dated December 26, 2002, this statement can hardly be considered anything less than “Dynamite” re: the Roswell story.
This chapter, 23. “A Voice From the Grave”, is the capstone to the book…which is already a tour de force.
One “antsy” spot for me in commenting on this book is that its findings and conclusions (including Haut’s confessional) come out diametrically opposed to Nick’s “Bodysnatchers In the Desert” thesis. It becomes overwhelmingly clear that we are talking about what witness after witness describes as “creatures”…and not little deformed Japanese guys. It seems that the data the late Leonard Stringfield amassed on the subject was mostly accurate. Pebbly skinned beings 3 1/2 to four feet tall with largish eyes, long spindly arms and legs with 4 fingered hands down to the knees, NO reproductive organs and no digestive organs it would seem. The slit mouth had no depth to it and seemed to go nowhere. It ended behind the “lips” and opened into NO throat.
All witnesses agree there was NOTHING human about these entities and this works against the Japanese theory (which MAY be another disinfo ploy designed to replace the silly flight-test dummy contrivance that nobody was buying into).
Also working against the Horten-wing/Fugo concept is this…and I can’t BELIEVE I have MISSED this all these years!!!!!!: When you run a top-secret experimental project you have to stay “ON TOP” of it at all times. This in terms of both safety and security.
And you must have CONTINGENCY plans in place if something goes wrong.
And if you are flying some secret test aircraft it does not go up in harrowing weather (like this horrendous thunderstorm that knocked down the UFO)because you place your CHASE PLANES (which you WILL have) in jeopardy. And from Howard Hughes to Chuck Yeager and beyond…there ARE observational and photo-recon chase planes. So if something happens to your experimental flight, rescue and recovery efforts go into effect IMMEDIATELY. AND cover stories go into place as well.
But here NO rescue and recovery efforts went into play. NO calls for air searches for some “missing craft” (Horten or otherwise) went out that weekend. Yet if this hypothetical Horten/Fugo had gone down the chase planes would have reported immediately and you’d have likely seen an all-over-New-Mexico air search that would have rivaled the sea search involving Navy Fort Lauderdale Flight 19 two years earlier. But NOTHING got called in to anybody. Not to Roswell, nor, as near as can be told, to anywhere else.
As for the UFO crash, this…as a N.M. police officer pondered…seemed to have been known about for days by everybody EXCEPT the military….who’d be expected (in the event of a Horten/Fugo downing) to be out in force.
This all, to me, mitigates against Nick’s “Bodysnatchers” scenario, and suggests that he may have been getting “Bennewitzed” by the AFOSI and other alphabet-soup agency denizens.
In any event, read this book. It is a mind-blower.Come to your own conclusions.
June 5th, 2007 at 10:15 am
Hey Bill
Yeah a copy is on its way to me, but not arrived yet; so wil review soon as I get it. Looks very interesting.
I have never dened that the Japanese angle could be disinfo; however, sources still come out the wood work with broadly that story.
For example, Keith Basterfield, as Australian researcher, received a story practically identical to Body Snatchers but 6 months before publication of the book, from a man whose father worked in UK Intelligence.
Keith was able to out me in touch with the source personally and I had a long talk with him.
Interestingly, his story includes data on huge balloon arrays; handicapped people; and high-altitude exposure tests.
Re the issue of recovery efforts: we may never know the full story because of the time that has gone by now and the lack of official files; however, my sources did say that a recovery effort was launched.
This is what they said: that there was a large balloon array with a fixed-wing, flying wing style device below it that separated in mid air after there was a mid-air calamity.
I was told that the military knew immediately where the craft and bodies had come down and did secure that site.
But that the balloon array was seen as expendable (or at least it could be recovered later), as it was just balloon materials and so if someone stumbled upon it, it would just be perceived as balloons and nothing else.
So, it wasn’t that it was missed. Rather, it wasn’t seen as the priority - the priority was where the craft and crew came down.
However, the problem came when those involved in the experiment realized when they got to the vehicle crash site that some of the vehicle and human remains were missing - as a result of the mid-air accident and which had come down a few miles away - namely on the Brazel ranch.
So, then the race was on to find the additional materials and body remains. But Brazel had got their first.
So, it wasn’t that there was no search for the vehicle etc. There was; and the vehicle crash site was immediately secured. But the Brazel site was not, due to the mistaken belief that it wouldn’t matter if a bunch of balloon material was allowed to rest for a a couple of days before they could get there.
It was ironic, however, that with the missing body found on the ranch that this site turned out to be more sensitive in terms of the fact that it should have been the first to be secured (because it was on ranch land where the public would see it), not the last.
This is discussed from half way down page 112 of Body Snatchers to half way down page 116.
People may not agree with that of course; but if you read it carefully (and particularly the 3rd paragraph of page 114), I still believe that this explains precisely why a successful and quick recovery *was* made of the bulk of the vehicle and crew; but also why there was a delay in the recovery of the balloon and other material.
Interestingly, since publication of the book various people have come forward talking about how there was a link with the bodies found at the sites and certain activities at Fort Stanton, NM.
Have a look at my interview with the Daily Grail last week and scroll down to the Roswell section where I talk about the Stanton stories and the fact that (only miles from Lincoln Counyty) was a military place that house handicapped people and Japanese POWs.
Here’s the link:
www.dailygrail.com/node/4765
Have a look at the history of Fort Stanton discussed there, as well as the map showing its relationship to the crash site, as well as a story about biowarfare and a little boy - at Lincoln County, no less! - who died at Stanton and whose death was of great interest to US Intelligence because of suspicions concerning biowar research in the area. The files I reference at the Daily Grail are FOIA material that I now have in my possession on Stanton and the death of the boy.
Now, of course, it could all be disinfo, as could the Mogul balloon etc.
But the other issue that makes me think not is this: the Government in 1994 had the Mogul story in place; and the Crash Test Dummy story in place by 1997. So, why risk creating *another* cover-story to feed to me (and others - I was not the first to receive the “handicapped” angle) that then raises suspicions that Mogul and the Dummies were lies?
To me, that makes no sense for the government to create another cover, when it has Mogul already in place.
I must say, however, that I am definitely looking forward to reading the book and will give it a completely unbiased review because, after all, we are all looking for the truth of Roswell, not belief driven vindication (or hopefully we are not!)
June 5th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
Do read it, Hoss, because it is an eye-opener, and the effects of all the intimidation on these people in the area…over generations…seems considerable. The Title 18 “amnesty” proclamation seems to have really taken a “Sword of Damocles” off a lot or heads
and many (but not all) are coming forward to “spill their guts”. And a lot of them seem to be MAD! Not crazy mad, but angry mad.
I suspect this book and its revelations
will be a hot topic in Roswell this summer.
And you’re right…we are searching for truth here…no matter how hard it is to find.
June 5th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Bill
I am definitely looking forward to reading the book, athough I still think bets are off, for several reasons.
Number 1:
One thing that a lot of people fail to appreciate the significance of is this: the Roswell debris was described as being weird, memory metal, but that it looked like balloon-style foil. Now, by rancher Brazel’s owm admission and that of his family, on no less than 2 occasions prior to the Roswell Incident, Brazel had found foil materials from 2 *other* balloons flown by the Air Force. So, that being so,, we have to believe that on a ranch where 2 military balloons crashed, that there also crashed an alien spaceship that was also balloon-like in terms of material! What are the chances of 2 balloons flown by the military crashing, and then something from another world crashing in the *same place* that looks like balloon materials…but isn’t. To me, that is way too much of a coincidence - or even synchronicity LOL, and suggests a connection.
Number 2:
I now have official declassified files showing that in the *summer of 1947* radiation experiments were undertaken on dwarfs *(some with progeria) that were of interest to the nuclear aircraft people at Oak Ridge. If you do a Google Image search on progeria you will see that the condition leaves a person with a small body and a large bald head. So, in the *summer of 1947* dwarfs with enlarged, bald heads were subjected to radiation experiments, at the *exact same time* that we are to believe that dwarf aliens with enlarged bald heads crashed at Roswell.
Number 3:
I mentioned about the boy taken to Fort Stanton in 1949 who died there and whose case was investigated by Naval Intel, AFOSI etc (I have the official FOIA files on this). One theory was that this was due to plague that had been deliberately introduced to Lincoln County, New Mexico as a crude type of biowar. One theory is that it was the Hantavirus. I recommend a Google search on Hantavirus + Unit 731 and you will see that 731 were looking into Hantavirus issues. So, in Lincoln County, New Mexico, where the Roswell debris was found, we have a story that indirectly ties in with Unit 731 and a boy taken to Fort Stanton - which happened to be where Japanse POWs were held as were handicapped people, and only a short journey to the Brazel ranch.
Number 4:
Colonel Corso of “Day After Roswell” fame was close friends with Gen. Charles Willooguhby - who arranged for the transfer of tbe Unit 731 acquired files from Japan to the US.
So, those are just a few of my reasons why I consider the bets are still off; however, the problem is that both the alien theory and the human experimentation theory both allow for strange looking bodies; unusually shaped aircraft etc.
June 5th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
Bill
One other point, overlooked by practically everyone, is that in the summer of 1947 the FBI was making a link between foil like materials and Flying Disks, but suggesting that the dropping of foil like materials from disks was done to determine how the foil would confuse radar. So, we may have a situation where some of the human experiments (if that is what they were, of course) were undertaken on huge balloon arrays to see how effective they were at evading radar.
That would of course give the US an advantage when flying huge spy balloons over enemy lines if huge amounts of foil could confuse the radars.
Therefore, we have another potential explanation for the New Mexico foil materials that doesn’t rely on aliens.
To avoid any doubt in people’s minds that this theory was being discussed in official circles, consider the following:
In a 1947 FBI memorandum, the
Assistant Director, Edward A. Tamm, D.M. Ladd of the Bureau’s
Domestic Intelligence Division wrote:
“The Director advised on August 14, 1947, that the Los Angeles
papers were carrying headlines indicating that Soviet espionage
agents had been instructed to determine the facts relative to
the flying discs. The article carried a Washington date line and
indicated that Red espionage agents had been ordered to solve
the question of the flying discs, the Russians being of the
opinion that this might be some new form of defense perfected by
the American military. The article further recalled that during
the recent war pieces of tin foil had been dropped in the air
for the purpose of off-setting the value of radar being used by
the enemy forces and that these aluminum discs might be a new
development along this line. The Director inquired as to whether
the Bureau had any such information.”
Ladd advised Tamm that with regard to the theory that the
Soviets were looking, they had “no information relative to such
a story.”
However, what is particularly interesting is that this official
FBI memorandum and the news article makes a specific connection
between flying discs and pieces of tinfoil being “dropped” in an
attempt to foil radar - in the summer of 47.
So, again re stretching coincidence to the extreme, we have a situation that may involve man-made “disks” dropping tin foil, at the same time a “spaceship” crashes…with loads of tin foil style materials in the area. Hmmm….
June 5th, 2007 at 4:46 pm
I will certainly grant you this is all a tangled, confusing mess, and each “side” of it has many pros and cons attached to it.
It all reminds me, as I’ve mentioned to you before as an analogy, of the latest Jack the Ripper theory. Everybody’s got one and everybody can spin you a tale of how THEIR “candidate” was Old Rip, and not Druitt, Maybrick,Kosminski, or any of those “others”. It can mess your mind up trying to deal with it all.
So much gets thrown into the mix that unraveling it all is a job and a half.
I’ll make it clear to you, though, that this book will have Stanton Friedman dancing about a dozen Irish jigs.
The sealed after-my-death affidavit of ex-Roswell PIO Walter Haut is powerful.
Also impressive is info gathered on Dr. Lejeune Foster, a then well known expert on human spinal-cord structure who held a TS clearance and did consulting work for the FBI. It was discovered she had been flown to D.C. to examine one of these “creatures”. She was, intriguingly, gone for a whole month from her California clinic on this matter. She was, as the book says,”flown to Washington to examine the spinal structures of the bodies retreived near Roswell”. This would seem an odd thing to do if we were talking progeria cases. “Dr. Foster,” Carey and Scmitt continue, “…was to check bone structure, spinal cords, and vertebrae and to make comparisions between their and human anatomy…(as) there was tremendous curiosity regarding the cervical spine, and the thoracic spine below and behind the chest that anchors the ribs. (She) was asked to examine the spinal canal that protects the spinal cord itself. Of special interest were the spinal nerves that carry impulses to move muscles or carry information to the brain from the sense organs to the skin, muscles,ligaments, and internal organs.Dr. Foster observed differences in the number of vertebra, not so much with bone structure, but the absence of specific internal organs. She did not elaborate futher.”
She also seemed to suffer depression after this trip and confided to family she’d been threatened with the loss of her medical license if she spoke about what she’d seen…or even killed.
The “absence of specific internal organs” may well square up with the un-named medical sources of Leonard Stringfield, who alluded to “no apparent reproductive system and no genitalia. There was a colorless fluid present throughout the body”. Stringfield’s “Deep Throat” also spoke of no red cells in this fluid (”blood”).
“There were no lymphocytes. Not a carrier of oxygen. No food or water intake is known. No digestive system or GI tract. No intestinal or alimentary canal or rectal area described.”
Now, if true, this almost implies something not truly biological in the sense that we understand such things. Seems more like the half-biological,
half-android (or cyborg) that Whitley Strieber has speculated about the “greys”.
Who knows WHAT goes on here??!!!! This is why I’ve said this book comes out diametrically in opposition to the idea of malformed human. Even malformed humans have digestive tracts and anuses and such. And digestive systems. Otherwise they couldn’t stay alive through infancy.
Again, this is so much like a new Ripper revelation. What comes next and what does it mean???? Come, Watson…you, too, Abberline…the game’s afoot!!!
June 5th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
Bill:
The issue of these things not being what they seem, such as simple, constructed entity in some form is actually something I’m following up for a new book.
It’s a theory that is apparently very popular in certain official circles that the UFO issue has (literal) demonic origins and that Roswell was tied in with Jack Parsons’ “Babalon Working’, with invoked demonic entities from the “other side” staging a crash at Roswell to appear as vulnerable ETs.
And how do you do that? By creating “faked” body parts as a kind of “cosmic alchemy” to fool the Governemnt.
I would stress this is *not* my theory; but it *is* a theory that I now know for absolute certain has been taken seriously (particularly in DIA) by certain people, who vehemently believe that the “end is near” and that “ET” is a literal demon.
It’s a dark and weird tale of elderly military people living in fear of the afterlife, of what they believe lies at the heart of abductions (literal soul stealing in their view), and I hope to have it in print in a few months time.
June 6th, 2007 at 6:39 am
This soul-stealing and demonic entity stuff is precisely what that Nigel Kerner book, “The Song of the Greys” is about. And it IS dark and weird. It sounds like this that you’ve picked up re: DIA and company is also resonating “across the pond” with Kerner’s sources.
I’ve secured a PB copy of this thing and can send it to you if you’d like (I can replace mine easily enough).
In many ways all this back-and-forth with Roswell, George Hansen would say, “resonates” with “Trickster” characteristics: you get ample evidence that the situation is one thing…and equally ample evidence that it is not. And the dichotomy leaves you in bewildered perplexity; almost like running in place.