June Crain, Dr Lovelace and Howard Blum: Roswell or Related, #10

Howard Blum's conclusion.
 What I want to say about Howard Blum may be simpler, so he's first.  Blum had worked for the New York Times and had written one or more bestselling "deep research" books on news subjects when he got interested in not Roswell but whether there was a hidden gov committee trying to find out about UFO sightings.  There was, and they looked into Roswell.  We might get back to that, but Blum himself first.  He says je spent two years, 1987-1989, on the book, Out There, he published.  On the last page of his just the facts book, he offers opinion.  "At the end of my journey I have become a believer.  There are other worlds.  The day will come when . . . a noise, life shaped into a beautiful music, will travel across ink-black space and time, and into legend.  . . .Then [as the UFO believers expect], this story will end and the future will begin."

Blum hasn't found the proof of other life, but he has seen enough hints that he switched from skeptic to concluding it has to be Out There somewhere.  He doesn't say he believes they're already among us.  Yet he appears to suspect it.  p 279, Out There.

June Crain.
           Like Blum, Crain can't prove Roswell, but she believes it for completely different reasons.  Short version goes like this:  From 1942-1953 she had a top secret and later an even higher "Q" clearance and worked at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio in a unit that studied "way out" things.  She said nothing openly about that until the Air Force in 1997 released a report that any sightings of bodies might be sightings of crash dummies.  Problem with that idea is that the crash dummies didn't get started until about 1953, maybe five years after the 1947 incident.
The dummy report got June to come forward.  It pissed her off.  She said she had had it with the Air Force lying about extraterrestrial life when she had worked in a unit where they investigated, knew of, and took for granted that we have alien visitors.  June went to an author/researcher, one of these UFOlogist crusader-guys (why are they all guys?  because it's a fight and guys like to fight?), James Clarkson, write a book Tell My Story:  June Crain, The Air Force and UFOs.  She heard Clarkson lecture and decided she had had enough.  She declared the CNN program named Roswell: Case Closed a "dammed lie."  At her job she said she observed:
   1) Scientists, researchers, military personnel in the unit where she was stenographer, routinely speak as if they had seen clear evidence of extraterrestrial life from one or more crashes.
   2) One of them laughed out loud at the press falling for the Roswell balloon cover story.  How dumb can people be? he thought.
   3) A master sergeant named Clarence, to whose wedding June went, was having coffee with her and told her his "news of the day" was that he brought in two little green-blue men, about four feet tall, non-human and dead, on a transport.  Probably this same friend almost lost control and cried in describing the alien bodies he saw.
   4) Another military man in the unit later brought June parts from what he called a spaceship.  He said, "June, you're good.  See what you can do with this."  June was "good" because she was considered a sharp, capable member of the team.  These disciplined engineers and other such co-workers respected her abilities.  It was a weightless material that she tried to cut, tear and bend, to no effect.  She got scissors out and snipped at it but it couldn't be cut.  Light as a feather and a piece half the size of a business card.  Grayish, gun metal color.
    So how do you vote?  A weightless material that couldn't be cut, torn, or bent was made in 1951 by a) IBM  b) Polaroid  or c) Ford Motor Company or d) none of the above.

Dr Lovelace
        Despatched to Roswell in 1947 and didn't come back for a couple of days.  Unlike most assignments, he wouldn't talk about what he saw, except to say that at Roswell, "it was a new species."   I concede this is vague.  What was a new species and what kind of new species was it?  Yet in the 1947 Roswell context, it's more suggestive.  Also suggestive is the source:  I'm a respiratory therapist who spent my professional life working with medical doctors.  As a group, with exceptions, they're careful trained observers who don't rush to judgment.  To have one say "it was a new species" is no small declaration, and more credible to me than if an auto mechanic or fireman said so.  (Crain and Lovelace sources:  Children of Roswell, 173-175, interview of Crain by James Clarkson on majesticdocuments.com.  Crain's blue men story appears to be about a later crash than Roswell, about 1951-2.)

I concede that this kind of a post seems to be by a person wanting to believe.  Yet we have here three serious professionals, each giving credence to the UFO "thing," and two claiming to have seen evidence of nonEarth life or material.