If I keep this up, I might have to move to New Mexico.
I remind myself of my friend Gene, a very original spirit who came to Utah on a vacation, went back to the Bay Area, and was doing an hour-a-week radio show. He got into studying Mormonism because his vacation had accidentally exposed him to them in Utah, and he drove his listeners crazy because they weren't as interested in the subject as he was. I don't have any audience here, but I surely wasn't planning to specialize in UFOs, or even one UFO, for a while. A couple of times in recent summers, as I've driven around, I've found Roswell, NM in my path. So I stopped and did some reading, and these last eight or so blogs are the result. The Devil seems to be in the Details, and so each blog is a few details that prompts me to search out more.
The first type of coverup "covered" in the previous blog was censorship of the press. Now the second type has nothing to do with journalism.
Coverup Type Two: Intimidation of Three Groups of Witnesses Who Tell A Consistent Story
The Anaya Brothers. In early July, later-to-be New Mexico Senator Joseph Montoya, then Lt Governor, was on the Roswell Army Base for reasons not related to crashes when he called two of his Roswell supporters, Pete and Ruben Anaya. "Get me the hell out of here!" They drove him to Pete's house, where Montoya proceeded to drink himself into oblivion because his mind had just been blown. The Anaya brothers agreed afterward that Montoya told them he saw a spaceship and little bodies with big heads. Pete and his wife Mary later told Carey in an interview that soon Sheriff Wilcox of Roswell came and told the brothers they would be killed, and their families, too, if they talked about what Montoya had told them. See what a heart-warming story this is? Carey and Schmidt, p. 63-4.
So far we've been talking about people making wild claims about seeing things--nonEarth-made material or flying discs or radar blips showing impossible movements that defied our known laws of inertia. Here our trail stumbles for the first time across someone, later a US Senator--Senators always tell the truth. Ask Orrin Hatch. Across someone claiming to see bodies associated with the crash. I think it might have been nicer if the advanced aliens had just sent a drone. Less creepy.
Sue and Arthur Farnsworth. Sue was seven when she heard rumors and asked her dad Arthur what was wrong. He took her, the two of them on one horse, out to a spot where no one was around. "Your father was threatened by the military a few days ago." It's the kind of short declaration an impressionable child might recall word-for-word for the rest of her life. He went on to say that a flying saucer crashed on another ranch and he and other ranchers went out and saw more than they were supposed to see. They were told they'd be killed if they ever told anyone, and then Sue's dad told her never to talk. She waited until 2008--61 years--to come forward. I conclude the alleged threat worked. Carey and Schmidt, p 65-6 Did the threat cover up something? How plausible is the whole story? It seems a whole lot more likely these people are lying or deceiving themselves than that we were visited by crashing aliens.
On the other hand, suppose the claims of threats (we're going to tally more of them) were true. Here we are in the land of the free, where we can say Anything that's true without fear of consequence. Isn't America great?
Frankie Dwyer was 12 years old in 1947 and her dad was in the Roswell fire department. She recalls going to the dentist and then coming to the fire station to wait for her dad. Before he arrived, a cop named Robert Scroggins came in and showed what looked like a thin piece of tin foil. He crumpled it and dropped it on a table, where it landed without a sound. Then it magically spread out like quicksilver into a perfectly smooth piece of paper-thin material. All present handled it including Frankie. It couldn't be cut with a knife, scratched, burned with a cigarette lighter. Scroggins said he got it from someone up in Corona, the tiny town closer to the crash than Roswell.
A day or two later Frankie was at home with her mother when a tall man in an MP uniform came looking for "your daughter." "I have two daughters," her mom said. "Named Frankie." Two other MPs escorted mom into another room and the first man questioned Frankie about the incident. Then he drew out his billy club and smacked his open palm with it. "You did not see anything, understand? If you say anything, you will be killed and your family, too. There's a big desert out there and no one will find you."
Carey concluded it was likely Lt Philbin who talked to Frankie. He was 6'4" and handled security for the base whenever base activities extended into town. In 2005 he found a yearbook for the Roswell unit with 17 pictures of officers on it, including Philbin. He photocopied the page and sent it to Frankie, now age 70, asking if she felt any of those pictured was the man who interrogated and threatened her. A few weeks later Carey got Dwyer's answer--no letter but the photocopied page returned with a lone circle drawn around Philbin's picture. Children of Roswell, pp 86-89.
Dan Dwyer and Lee Reeves. Frankie's father Dan was a fire dept crew chief. A call came to the fire station that an aircraft was downed, but, before they could respond, a colonel from the base walked in, told them "an unknown object from someplace else" had crashed. Dan Dwyer took Lee Reeves in Dwyer's car and made a run out there. They found an egg-shaped vessel of a sort they didn't recognize. They saw a couple of bodies lying there, not human and about the size of a ten-year-old child. Then, even more startlingly, they saw "a live one" staggering off to the side. It seemed unhurt but dazed. Within minutes MPs drove up and came toward the fire fighters with rifles drawn and sent them away. Rifles drawn? Hundreds of miles from the border in peacetime US, to protect a military balloon? Rifles drawn? Back in town, CM Woodbury, a close friend of the Base commander, confronted Reeves and Dwyer, saying they were not to say a word. Apparently he was polite enough not to threaten killing the whole family.
In 1959 Ken Letcher (with that last name would you want him to marry your daughter?) married Frankie's sister Suzie. In 2012 Letcher confirmed the following by interview with Carey: Dan Dwyer sat him down and gave him the standard father-in-law chat for a future son-in-law. Dan then asked if his daughter had said anything to him about 1947. Ken didn't know what he was talking about. Dan told Ken that those of them who had been "out there" saw the alien wreckage and bodies which "weren't from here."
I guess I'm predisposed to believe the alien story, because the above doesn't prove the alien story, but I find these people credible. I doubt that my careful-thinking son Eric Rasmussen would be as impressed, or my very rational cousin Steve Rasmussen. We have statements by half a dozen people, in three groups that seem quite unrelated to each other, all saying about the same thing. Their statements were gathered many years after the fact, are backed up by no physical evidence, and are contradicted by the government. I haven't talked to any of these people myself, if they're still alive in 2017, but I'm certain there was a cover-up, a very nasty one.
As Kevin Randle said, we can prove the cover-up beyond a shadow of a doubt. Maybe there's a good reason why we can't prove extraterrestrial life beyond a shadow of a doubt? Pick your reason: a) because it doesn't exist b) even if it does, it hasn't visited Earth c) humanity at large is too likely to panic or have some other unfortunate reaction if the info got out d) the US and maybe other governments would hate to confess they've been hiding, for more than my entire 67 years of life, the single most incredible discovery of, say, the last several hundred years.
What are recent examples of the US government lying to us, covering things up? The NSA collecting data on everyone who used the Internet, including all of us in the US, and lying about it. Torturing of terrorist suspects or turning them over to other nations that would torture them and lying about it.
Off-subject: Torture. The problem with "enhanced interrogation" is if we can do it to one guy today, whether he wears a turban or not, we can sure as hell do it to you or me tomorrow. No one is safe and no one has guaranteed rights from that kind of government. If it's true that I can be tortured before I am tried, which at least has a spiritual kinship with cruel and unusual punishment outlawed by the Constitution, then why should I think I have some fluffy right like speech or assembly or religion or anything else American democracy declares sacred? Nobody is safe from an organization that is willing to torture. Maybe I'll see it differently later, but for now I'm sure that anyone advocating or performing torture has morally lost his way. So far as I read, we won World War II without using torture on our hell-spreading enemies. If we can get through that kind of a peril without it, we certainly can get through now without it, Donald Trump.
When we torture, we have less right to divine help.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment