I had a girlfriend who moved to Utah and wasn't thrilled by the Mormon Church. "Joseph Smith was certain he saw God in a sacred grove in New York," I said to her. "Yes," she answered pensively as we stood on a street in Salt Lake City, "and isn't it too bad he didn't keep it to himself?"
I burst out laughing outside that non-Mormon church of hers. That's a clever or at least original idea, and to me a very entertaining one. As with Mormonism, the Roswell "alien crash" brouhaha was set off by one previously ordinary man, a ranch foreman out in the middle of Nowhere, New Mexico. Just as my girlfriend wished Joseph Smith had kept his mouth shut, this rancher ended up really wishing he had done the same. Who was this guy? I'm convinced his life alone puts the lie to government insistence that no clear evidence of extraterrestrial life exists.
William "Mack" Brazel was born in 1899 and died in 1963, the same year as General Ramey died. Ramey was the Texas General who told the press it was just a weather balloon. A year later Marion Brimberry was an enlisted crewman waiting on the tarmac, one day the next year, to board his plane. Brigadier General Ramey was standing there with them. Brimberry overheard an officer ask, "What about it? What was that stuff?" Ramey answered, "It was the biggest lie I ever had to tell. [It] was out of this world, son, out of this world." Witness To Roswell, Thomas Carey & Donald Schmitt (whose name I have been misspelling Schmidt for years!), New Page Books, Pompton Plains, NJ, 2009, p. 214.
Mack before the crash was a poor rancher, or ranch foreman, since he worked for the H. S. and J.B (Jap) Foster ranch. The Fosters had large ranches also near Midland and Kent, Texas (Witness, p 75-77). A great-grandson, Cory Derek , told Schmidt and Carey the Foster brothers also "made a fortune off of oil," It appears that many of the mineral rights they held were obtained just after the 1947 incident, and Cory is convinced his relatives were paid off for their silence. This lends credence to the idea that Mack contacted his bosses before he went to the sheriff in Roswell. Geraldine Perkins ran a grocery store in Corona and had one of only two telephones in town. She says Mack used her phone to call his boss, J.B. Foster. Though the crash was on BLM land, Foster land surrounded it and was of limited use for some time because of military activity.
What did Mack tell his superiors? He believed until he died an alien flying saucer had crashed. There is indirect evidence he told them that. Cory Derek once asked his grandpa, "Papa," H. S. Foster's son, but learned nothing. Cory's uncle was more forthcoming, "Those boys up there told me they were certain without a doubt what they saw was a flying saucer."
J.B. Foster's daughter, Joann Purdie, believes Brazel contacted her father, saying in a 2008 phone interview he drove up there from Texas, "Whatever he saw or heard for himself, he didn't want to talk about it."
"My dad knew it was a flying saucer and never changed his story. Just as the Army warned and threatened Mack Brazel, they did the same to him." She encountered Brazel numerous times afterward and he wouldn't talk about it except "He would state that it wasn't any weather balloon." p 77 The second article in the Roswell paper about the incident says "Brazel said he had previously found two weather observation balloons on the ranch, but that what he found this time did not in any way resemble either of these."
'I am sure what I found was not any weather observation balloon."
All around him were families who owned their ranches and lived on them, but his bosses lived in Texas. Brazel had a wife whose name I don't know and a daughter, Bessie Brazel Schreiber, a son Bill and another son Vernon. He was 47 when his 15 minutes of fame landed on his ranch.
Role of Timothy "Dee" Proctor
After the crash he told the newspaper he originally found material in his fields on June 14, not early July. Schmidt says any responsible rancher would tell us there is not way Mack would have left discard wreakage of balloon material, any type, lying in the field because cattle and sheep, like goats, will eat anything in their path. Not good for the herd to leave it lying around. p 46 The Mogul balloons had their own reward notice from NYU.
Witness p. 34-35
Taken into custody by the Army for 4 or 5 days,
denied access to a phone,
given physical exam
rigorous questioning
intimidation p 41
42 six witnesses saw Brazel be taken under military guard to newspapers and radio stations to retract his claim of finding a flying saucer
Seen driving a new truck in Roswell not long after
Moved to another part of NM where he mysteriously had the money to open a business.
Lived 16 more years
1959 Howard Scoggin of Las Cruces Witness p 73 (interviewed 1999) Howard went to a restaurant with a friend, who pointed out Mack alone at another table. Scoggin walked up and asked him about 1947. "Without saying a word, the rancher clenched his fist . . . grimaced, and slowly rose out of his chair. Fearing for his personal safety, the surprised and now wary Scoggins backed away while Brazel slowly stalked past him . . . leaving his food on the table. "It was like watching one of those werewolf movies when Lon Chaney turns into the hairy monster," recalled Scoggin.
Witness, p 74 Radio station Bob Wolf happened to bump into Mack at a festival in Corona "mere months before he died." While chatting Wolf brought up 1947. "He looked as though he had seen a ghost," Wolf told researchers Carey and Schmidt in 1992. "Those people will kill you if I tell you what I know," Brazel burst out. He "stormed away" and soon left the gathering. Wolf hadn't seen him for years and didn't see him again. Note Mack said "kill you," not "kill me," though he was clearly afraid of what they would do to him. Little did he know "those people" wouldn't have very many weeks of opportunity to kill him before life itself did that job via "a massive heart attack" (Witness p 73).
So here we have the end of the story: raw fear, aversion to saying anything substantial, abruptly he breaks off the talk when "the subject" comes up.
List of who says they saw 1947 Roswell alien bodies
Phillip Corso
Mack Brazel
friends of Dee Proctor p 47
"Jack:" Sydney Wright, two sons of Thomas Eddington rancher,
one of rancher Truman Pierce's daughters
R Loveridge
Walter Haut
Military police Cassidy
Military police Lida
Sgt Rowlette
Harry Telesco
James Sain baker's dozen
Also a female archaeologist who wandered onto the crash site right before military arrived
Melvin Brown
George Wilcox sheriff last half dozen listed on Carey pp 233 - 236
B Rickett
Ed Easley
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