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Scanned: Case Number 243544: 42-t-1127712-20060476F-001-001-2013

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This file, released by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library under FOIA request 2006-0476-F, holds White House correspondence records for case 243544. In a July 8, 1997 letter to President Clinton, Kent Jeffrey of the International Roswell Initiative submitted more than 20,000 signed copies of the Roswell Declaration, which asks for an Executive Order declassifying UFO information. On December 9, 1997 the Air Force replied that such an order was unnecessary because declassification under E.O. 12958 was already underway.

  • p. 36 …Worth from Roswell." In William Moore's book The Roswell Incident, Jesse Marcel, Sr., was interviewed…
MUFON UFO JOURNAL
Jesse Marcel,
Jr. under hyp
nosis. The ses
sions, all video
taped, were
conducted by
Dr. Neil Hibler,
a Washington,
D.C. clinical
psychologist,
January 10-12,
1997.
beam-like cross section. This was probably due
to a slight error in Jesse's recollection. His fa
ther, for example, remembered the small mem
bers as having a rectangular cross section. In a
1979 interview with journalist Bob Pratt, Jesse
Marcel, Sr., stated, " .. .it was a solid member,
rectangular members, just like you get with a
square stick." It is entirely possible, however,
that the particular member that Jesse, Jr., held,
could have had a ridge on its edges for some un
known reason.
The only other really significant discrepancy
was in the color of the member. Jesse remem
bered it being about the same color as that of the
foil-like material, while Irving Newton remem
bered it being almost white. Judging from the
pictures taken in Ramey's office, however, the
white that Newton recalled was probably accu
rate. According to Charles Moore, the project
engineer for "Project Mogul," the sticks were
covered with glue or glue-like substance. This
would probably have given them a different
color than that of raw wood, as well as a differ
ent feel or texture - probably to the degree that
someone who didn't know what they were,
might not recognize them as wood. The only
other discrepancies were minor, such as differ
ences in the size and spacing of the symbols.
For anyone who suspects that Irving Newton
is participating in a 50-year coverup and making
up the story about the symbols or flower pat
terns, all he needs to do is check out the July 9,
\947, Roswell Daily Record. Rancher Mac
Brazel is quoted as talking about sticks, foil, and
tape with flower patterns on it.
The Alleged Substitution .
Most of us have seen the now-famous pic
tures of the debris from Roswell taken in
General Roger Ramey's office at Fort Worth
Army Air Field. General Ramey, Colonel
Thomas DuBose, Major Jesse Marcel, and
Warrant Officer Irving Newton appear in the
pictures, posing with the debris. The debris is
clearly visible in all seven existing pictures.
There is absolutely no question that this is the
debris from an ML-307 radar reflector. [f this is
the same debris that was recovered from the
Foster ranch, then the Roswell case is closed,
period. It's over, end of subject.
In the January 1991 issue of the MUFON
UFO Journal, there is an article by Jaime
Shandera titled "New Revelations About the
Roswell Wreckage: a General Speaks Up." The
article included an extensive two-part interview
with General Thomas DuBose, who was a
colonel and General Ramey's chief of staff in
1947. DuBose met the plane carrying the mater
ial picked up outside of Roswell and personally
took it to Ramey's office. During the first of the
two interviews, Shandera realized that General
DuBose was not familiar with and had not seen
the pictures taken of the debris in Ramey's of-
June
Number 350
Page 12
1997

Cases discussed

  • Roswell Incident 1947
    Roswell Declaration on 1947 recovery at Roswell Army Air Field, weather balloon cover story

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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 47 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.