The Roswell Ufo Crash Sixty Years Later
(1947-2007): Secrets Yet To Be Revealed
Author: Bill Knell

Thousands will gather in Roswell, NM, this summer for the
annual UFO Festival. Because it's been sixty years since the UFO
crash, this festival will be more important than most. Despite
self-serving, ever-changing statements directly or indirectly
from the U.S. Government, no one really knows what crashed near
Roswell in July of 1947. However, thanks to the courage of
individuals that have come forward to speak about what they
witnessed or the role they played in the unexplained event, we
can be almost certain of one thing. It was, in the words of the
late Jesse Marcel Sr., "not of this earth."

Marcel was an Intelligence Officer at the base and had personal
involvement with the investigation of the material from the
crash site. He is not alone in his assessment of what crashed
near Roswell. The late Retired Colonel Philip Corso offered his
own experiences as proof positive in a book entitled `The Day
after Roswell.' Shortly after the UFO crash, Corso had an
opportunity to view an unusual cadaver preserved in some sort of
blue liquid while he was Post Duty Officer at Fort Riley, KS.
The body came from Roswell via Fort Bliss and was en route to
Wright Field (Wright-Patterson AFB, OH).

It's important to remember that these are just two of the many
people that had first or second hand knowledge about the crash.
Even a quick examination of the collective evidence would
indicate this event involved something more than a weather, high
altitude or radar balloon with a bunch of crash test dummies or
cadavers aboard. It was more than some crazy test vehicle that a
bunch of super-intelligent children or midgets were piloting
around the New Mexico desert during a violent thunderstorm.
These facts make the Roswell UFO Festival an essential event
that has become an annual reminder of a great mystery that
remains unsolved.

Although I have been to Roswell over twenty times since the
early 1980s, I have never attended the festival. My loss.
However, I have (by invitation) presented seminars in the town
before the festival was organized and visited occasionally since
that time. Despite missing out on all the festivities, I have
always enjoyed the calm and mystery of the place without all the
hoopla.

I presented my first seminar in Roswell during 1992. It was
supposed to be a low-key event at a nice hotel and small
convention facility for a group of former military personnel
(unrelated to the old base) holding a reunion in town. They
invited me to speak after one of the organizers heard a guest
spot that I did on an Albuquerque radio show the year before.
Barely aware of the crash, the organizer was fascinated by my
analysis of what happened at Roswell in 1947. He wanted those
attending the reunion to have an opportunity to hear the same
thing.

I arrived in town a few days before the event so that I could
snoop around as I usually did whenever I came to Roswell.
Unfortunately, my radio and television appearances in
Albuquerque to plug a seminar I presented there alerted the
media in Roswell. A noontime television interview that I did on
a local Albuquerque news program was simulcast in Roswell and
that was the end of my ambiguity. With the story of the Roswell
Crash all over the map in those days and a shortage of UFO
researchers that spoke about Roswell actually visiting their
town, I was invited to appear on a midday TV news show, booked
for a guest spot on local radio and gave an interview to the
Roswell Daily Record.

Fortunately, my seminar for the group holding their reunion in
Roswell was also open to the public. And the public came out in
force. I was surprised because you would think that after the
publication of The Roswell Incident, an Unsolved Mystery episode
on the crash and all the media coverage received, the people in
town would be sick of hearing about UFOs. Instead, they couldn't
get enough.

One of the people that attended my seminar was Glenn Dennis. He
was the funeral home worker that said he arrived at the Roswell
Base just after the crash in 1947. He took some time to speak
with me after the seminar ended and said that my presentation
about UFOs was the most accurate and the best he had ever seen.
Similar kudos were thrown my way by others in the audience and
those comments remain a highlight of my time as a paranormal
researcher.

Most of the younger people that came out to my seminar candidly
told me that most of what they learned about the crash came from
TV specials and occasional news reports. Given my first visit to
Roswell in the 80`s, I believed them. Asking about the location
of the crash in those days tended to get you dirty looks.
Roswell citizens were in a state of denial and even the history
of the old Roswell Base seemed unimportant to them at that time.
It was a lesson in how successful a cover-up and government
intimidation can be.

Despite their lack of enthusiasm for local history during my
first visit to Roswell, I am happy to report that the town has
had a complete turn around. Barely mentioned in the town
brochure and considered a kind of local embarrassment in those
days, the UFO Crash has become almost a centerpiece of town
history. The base, its connection to atomic history and the
former military members that served there have also received a
lot more attention in the post no-nukes atmosphere of the 1970s
and 1980s. The people have changed as well.

A new generation seems to embrace the attention that the UFO
Crash brings each year. The 1994 Showtime Networks cable
television film about the UFO Crash entitled, Roswell, renewed a
lot of local interest in the crash and a reexamination of what
really happened. That coincided with a call for the release of
government documents about the UFO crash by the late Steven
Schiff, a New Mexico Representative driven to make the inquiry
by calls and letters from his constituents. The 1990s remained
hot for Roswell with the 1997 publication of Colonel Corso's
book, The Day after Roswell, and the 1999 premier of Roswell,
the TV Series (1999-2002).

Roswell is still a treasure house of undiscovered secrets.
Proof of that comes from the people that still come forward with
information about the things that happened in the town. Last
year I was contacted by a man living in California who I'll call
Al. After listening to the rebroadcast of a radio program
recorded a few years ago with the late Colonel Corso talking
about the Roswell UFO crash, Al began to give some thought to
something that had occurred earlier in his life.

Al moved to San Francisco, California, in 1964. Sometime in the
winter of 1964-65, he was set up on a blind date with `a
good-looking young blond woman.' While he could not recall her
name or where they went on the date, he did remember an unusual
conversation they had at the end of the evening. At some point
the young woman asked Al if he believed in the existence of
other life forms or Alien life in the Universe. Al said he did
and gave a few reasons why, which included the size of the
Universe and the common scientific probabilities of the day. The
young woman almost immediately gave affirmation to Al by saying
something like, "Yea, you're right," and followed up with a most
amazing story.

She was the daughter of an Air Force Chaplain. The family lived
in Roswell and her father was serving on the base in the late
1940s. The young woman told him that sometime during dinner two
men came to the door to get her dad. She recalled hearing them
tell him that his services were needed. The incident caused such
a stir in the household that everyone stayed up late until he
returned.

Seeing that everyone was still awake, the Chaplain told his
family that he was called to give religious comfort to some sort
of Alien Life Forms near what seemed to be a crashed spacecraft.
At least two of four creatures were still alive when he got
there. He described them as looking a bit like adolescent boys,
but obviously not human. No one knew what the creatures were or
precisely how to care for them. As a result, all of the beings
eventually perished. That was the crux of the story and the
woman told Al that the family never discussed it in-depth again.
Despite the lack of details, it presents an intriguing challenge
and is typical of stories that pop up now and again.

Even more stunning are the revelations of the late Dr Michael
Wolf, the ultimate U.S. Government insider. Introduced to him by
my friend and fellow paranormal researcher Dick Criswell about
twenty years ago, I was initially skeptical of some of his
claims which included personal knowledge of various secret
programs involving the government and aliens, technology gained
from UFO crashes and agreements with aliens, and a UFO incident
involving the late President John F. Kennedy (his wife was
related to the Kennedy Family).

My skepticism vanished after a few conversations with him over
the phone and various demonstrations of his political clout. If
wouldn't be unusual to find him speaking over the phone with
Vice President Dan Quayle or former President Bill Clinton (Yes,
it REALLY was them, not a joke or impersonation). I was also
impressed by a mental exercise that he developed for the
government. He called it The Gateway Treatment. It was disguised
as a relaxation meditation that attracts positive energy and
certainly accomplishes that goal, but it's basically a way to
mentally summon aliens.

Notoriously camera and press shy, he nevertheless felt
compelled to share some of his amazing information and exploits
with a few close friends and trusted paranormal researchers
during the years shortly before his death in 2000. As a board
member of the International Paranormal UFO Society, I am
thrilled to announce the release of  the only known video
interview recorded with Dr Wolf on DVD entitled, DR MICHAEL
WOLF: KEEPER OF COSMIC SECRETS. The video was filmed in 1998.

Those that look at the Roswell UFO Crash as case closed or
believe that it a field that has already been farmed too many
times do not understand the nature of the UFO subject or the
power of the government cover-up. Years ago I spoke to a UFO
witness. The event he observed occurred while he was in the
military. He received calls at least once a month from people
who said that they knew what happened and that he had better not
talk about it.

Although he hadn't told anyone except his immediate superior
about the incident, people in high places seemed to know about
it and the calls continued for years. Imagine the power of that
kind of intimidation. Now imagine living in what became a
government town during the 1940s. It wasn't hard for anyone to
imagine being locked up in some federal prison like Leavenworth
if you happen to run afoul of federal authorities. Retired
military personnel had even more to lose. They could end up in
prison and forfeit any benefits, pay or pensions due them.

Sixty years after the Roswell UFO crash, we still do not have
the entire story. However, that doesn't mean there is no story.
It just means that the U.S. Government has managed to convince
most people that the idea of alien life forms visiting us is
just not probable and that whatever crashed near Roswell isn't
something we need to be concerned about. Well, I beg to differ.
The only thing that will come from trusting government officials
to make all of the decisions while we remain blissfully ignorant
is tyranny.

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