Source: UFO Iconoclast(s)
by Anthony Bragalia
A firefighter who was with the Roswell Fire Department in 1947 has confirmed that the mysterious crash in the New Mexico desert that Summer was in fact of an unearthly craft!
The firefighter, now age 90, related stunning information to this author in a lengthy interview conducted recently. Respected Roswell author Kevin Randle also talked with the involved fireman to confirm the details of his story.
Some time ago I located the son of Rue Chrisman. Rue was the Fire Chief for the Roswell Fire Department in 1947, passing in 1981 at age 98. Chrisman's son explained to me that he knew that the town's Fire Department was somehow involved in the crash event. But the son was sparse in his conversation, not really wishing to elaborate. When pressed, the son said, "It did happen. There was a big coverup. The crash was real." I asked him how he knew of this, he paused and said, "I knew too many who knew."
I then asked him if any Roswell Firemen from 1947 are still alive. He replied that there was still "one left." He only mentioned the surviving fireman's surname as "Smith" and that one of his family members attends the same church as the involved fireman. Working with Kevin Randle, we identified and located the elderly gentleman and sought his testimony.
When reached, the Fireman was somewhat hesitant to discuss the matter. But after some "small talk" he warmed up to discussion. In a far-ranging conversation, the Fireman related these incredible details:
- An intimidating Colonel from Roswell Army Air Field visited the Roswell Fire Department immediately after the crash. The Colonel explained to the fireman who were at the department that day that an "unknown object from someplace else" had crashed in the desert outside Roswell. The Colonel warned that no one was to speak about the event to anyone ever. He also commanded them that nobody was to go out to the site or respond to any inquiries about the event. He explained that "everything was being handled by the military."
- Dan Dwyer, another Roswell Fire Department firefighter, did manage to go out to see the crash site, defying the Colonels orders. He confirms some of the details that Dan Dwyer's daughter, Frankie Rowe, has related in numerous interviews over the years. Frankie maintains that her father was able to view the craft and its occupants.
- Dan related to him that the area surrounding the crash was secured and cordoned by armed guards. Firemen went out there on their own volition, not as a "department." The Fireman did not want to talk too much about Dan Dwyer and Frankie Rowe though.
- The crash was of a craft not from Earth. The Fireman explained that it was not a balloon or any type of military experiment. He said that it was a "UFO." When I said to him that the term "UFO" was not used back then...he said it was "unidentified- a flying saucer." I asked him how he knew this and he stated that he was certain it was because of "what I was told at the time it happened." He explained that the Colonel did not know what the craft was or from where it came...and that there was great concern over the situation.
- The Roswell City Manager knew about the event and came into the Fire Department to personally and forcefully order the department to say nothing of the crash. Although the Fireman could not recall the City Manager's name at the time, I knew who it was. When I mentioned the name "C.M. Woodbury" to him, he said that did seem to be the name. As it happens, C.M. Woodbury would have been a very intimidating individual with whom to reckon. This is because C.M. Woodbury was known as the "Iron Major" - a decorated War vet of the notoriously effective 752nd Tank Battallion. Woodbury was also very close friends with Butch Blanchard, the Roswell Army Air Field base Commander.
- The Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) base Fire Department was heavily involved in the crash recovery. The Fireman explained that "this is where the confusion comes from." The Fire Department that was most heavily involved in the crash retrieval was not so much the city fire department but the base's own Fire Department. He asserted that the RAAF firemen "knew the most" about the event. He was unfortunately unable to recall the names of these firemen.
- The Roswell Sheriff's Department was engaged in the coverup of the crash. The Fireman confirmed that Deputy Tommy Thompson was someone he knew at the Sherrif's office who was told to "keep the quiet."
- When asked how he "dealt with the fact that a craft from another world had crashed near Roswell," the Fireman replied that they had no idea what the implications were, "we just didn't really ever think about those kind of things at that time, but I do now."
The Fireman's testimony is nothing short of amazing. It confirms the unknown nature of the Roswell crash in 1947. It is, however, testimony. I appreciate the difficulties with "testimony." Testimony includes utterances that are presented as evidence for the claims they express. There is an inherent problem with all testimony. The speaker's reliability and sincerity are supported only by words rather than documents, photographs or other physical evidence. I appreciate that the Fireman's words are not sufficient to justify the belief that the crash at Roswell was extraterrestrial.
However, when testimony is given by an individual who is in fact who he says he is- and who did not come forward but instead was "found," we should pay attention to that testimony. And the truth of the event does not depend on taking the speaker's word alone as evidence of truth. But the Fireman's testimony is of special importance because he has never come forward publicly before with his story and he has no apparent reason or motivation to lie. The Fireman's full name will not be released until his death. He is in the last years of life, living out his days peacefully with close family. Author Kevin Randle also talked with the Fireman after I did, and agrees that a barrage of calls and contacts to the elderly man by skeptics and others would be a disservice to an old man.
It is said that when a man becomes a Fireman, his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished. In this case though, the old Fireman's greatest act of bravery was to tell what he knew about the Roswell event for the sake of history and truth.
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You know I am guilty, and have been, of not editing properly. Thanks for letting me know.
Oh heck, we all do it. I'm infamous for yesterday's date in the title of my posts. Then Google picks them up and oops - too late. lol
Just another claimant, who is not even able to see the discrepancy of his claims to the historical version of the story, as depicted in the GAO/USAF-report 'Roswell - case closed'.
Elder people start to mix up real experiences with stories, they heard or read about. That's common knowledge in geriatry.
However, it's very telling about the publisher, if he spreads such claims without any proof.
Pfft! I hope you get abducted and anally probed! Teach you a lesson for being a non-believer, I have seen six ufo's and I am only 17 for fuck's sake. I live in a remote area on the coast of WA in a small town, its not "weird" or uncommon here, dosnt matter if you were showed the footage, you'd just say its another whether balloon, or the telescope has a shiny metallic mist of dust in front of it which coincidentally perfectly resembles a UFO. Haha Or maybe the government will run through my house and murder me, and claim its suicide? Fuck, who cares.
Pathetic unintelligent morons, what the fucks the point of the human race existing, if there's no other existence of life in the whole of the never ending space, and why are there animals here? for fun? We live, we get manipulated by the government, fucked over, then we die, the end, that's the way we deserve it, we rape our children, murder our brothers, slaughter animals, hit our wives, and make war games up because we are so utterly pathetic, wait til 2012, I'll be laughing and spitting on the human race while we blow the fuck up! If not then, 2036! do your research, Apophis the meteorites coming straight for us, its huge, NASA is tracking it as we speak, they wanna see if they can get a space shuttle ride along side it so its gravitational pull will prevent collision, but if they blow it up, we'll probably die anyway. APOPHIS, dont disagree til you research it, lazy fuckers.
They wont release UFO or Alien progress seeing how their first test failed.War Of The Worlds, Public Response Test - All a cover up for attempted human preparation - Test Failed.
Many listeners tuning in late hadn't heard Welles introduce the play for what it was and took the events to be real. Thousands of families in New York and New Jersey fled their homes, freeways were jammed, people called each other on the phone to wish fond farewells, several distraught individuals tried to commit suicide, and groups gathered in New England, Harlem, and the Deep South to pray for divine intervention.
There were miscarriages, heart attacks, lootings, and brawls. In New Jersey, the National Guard was called out. The CBS switchboard was jammed with callers, some frantic with fear, others bravely volunteering to help repel the alien onslaught.
Even weeks later, Red Cross volunteers were trying to persuade families who had fled to the mountains that it was safe to return home. According to research based on interviews begun by Princeton University in the week following the broadcast, well over one million listeners, or more than one in ten of the audience, had been actively frightened by what they heard.
In the aftermath, CBS publicly apologized, Welles (saved from a sacking and police prosecution only by the skin of his contract) vowed it would never happen again, and the Federal Communications Commission passed rules to ensure that it never could. But legislating against human nature is not so simple. The panic triggered by Welles's superb performance exposed graphically the ease with which large numbers of people can be misled and driven over the edge into mass hysteria.
We had, unfortunately failed, Having done this, the government, FBI, CSI and even the black-ops, and outside government organizations, incontrovertibly withheld any and all information of UFO's, Extraterrestrials and many other unsettling events and matters of near simularities.
ROSWELL EVIDENCE FILES - - -
No Details of Flying Disk Are Revealed
Roswell Daily Record: July 8, 1947
The intelligence office of the 509th Bombardment group at Roswell Army Air Field announced at noon today, that the field has come into possession of a flying saucer.
According to information released by the department, over authority of Maj. J. A. Marcel, intelligence officer, the disk was recovered on a ranch in the Roswell vicinity, after an unidentified rancher had notified Sheriff Geo. Wilcox here, that he had found the instrument on his premises.
Major Marcel and a detail from his department went to the ranch and recovered the disk, it was stated.
After the intelligence officer here had inspected the instrument it was flown to higher headquarters.
The intelligence office stated that no details of the saucer's construction or its appearance had been revealed.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Wilmot apparently were the only persons in Roswell who saw what they thought was a flying disk.
They were sitting on their porch at 105 South Penn. last Wednesday night at about ten o'clock when a large glowing object zoomed out of the sky from the southeast, going in a northwesterly direction at a high rate of speed.
Wilmot called Mrs. Wilmot's attention to it and both ran down into the yard to watch. It was in sight less then a minute, perhaps 40 or 50 seconds, Wilmot estimated.
Wilmot said that it appeared to him to be about 1,500 feet high and going fast. He estimated between 400 and 500 miles per hour.
In appearance it looked oval in shape like two inverted saucers, faced mouth to mouth, or like two old type washbowls placed together in the same fashion. The entire body glowed as though light were showing through from inside, though not like it would be if a light were underneath.
From where he stood Wilmot said that the object looked to be about 5 feet in size, and making allowance for the distance it was from town he figured that it must have been 15 to 20 feet in diameter, though this was just a guess.
Wilmot said that he heard no sound but that Mrs. Wilmot said she heard a swishing sound for a very short time.
The object came into view from the southeast and disappeared over the treetops in the general vicinity of six mile hill.
Wilmot, who is one of the most respected and reliable citizens in town, kept the story to himself hoping that someone else would come out and tell about having seen one, but finally today decided that he would go ahead and tell about it. The announcement that the RAAF was in possession of one came only a few minutes after he decided to release the details of what he had seen.
The Apophis Meterorite NASA -
Private files made Public
99942 Apophis (2004 MN4)
Earth Impact Risk Summary
Torino Scale (maximum) 0
Palermo Scale (maximum) -2.42
Palermo Scale (cumulative) -2.41
Impact Probability (cumulative) 2.3e-05
Number of Potential Impacts 3
V impact 12.59 km/s
V infinity 5.87 km/s
H 19.7
Diameter 0.270 km
Mass 2.7e+10 kg
Energy 5.1e+02 MT
all above are mean values
weighted by impact probability
Analysis based on 2 radar delay, 5 Doppler, and
731 optical observations spanning 884.52 days
(2004-Mar-15.10789 to 2006-Aug-16.626954)
Orbit diagram and elements available here.
These results were computed on May 06, 2008
99942 Apophis (2004 MN4)
Estimated Date - 2036
Apophis Visibility - 80% by 2028
Feel Free To Use Any Of This Information,
Its All Publicly Reknowned Facts,
P.S To Anonymous 3/15/09
Of course you'd say that,
Your probably working for the government.
Believe What You Want,
But Remember,
All Good Things Come To An End.
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