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This Clinton Library FOIA release (case 2006-0476-F) comes from the White House email records file labeled "WHO (Roswell)" and covers December 1996 to September 1997. It includes withdrawal sheets and public emails sent to the President. One email is Nicholas Greene's December 1996 essay arguing that extraterrestrials exist, which cites Roswell, astronaut sightings and Michigan reports. Other emails forward a transcript of a Milton William Cooper speech and a Claude DiDomenica essay about Roswell and Corso.

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unexplained phenomenon. One of the most intriguing of the phenomenon is the
possibility of extra-terrestrial intelligence, and the question of have they
visited our planet. There is an abundance of evidence to support the
concept that outside intelligence has visited the Earth. This evidence
ranges from numerous sightings to accounts of alien abduction to evidence'of
90vernment coverup's of encounters. The exploration of these accounts is an
important step toward allowing everyone the chance to make a more educated
choice when taking a position on this issue. It is important to realize
that most people who make "sightings" are usually normal people, riot drunks,
or the hopelessly insane. This topic, once one of extreme speCUlation has
now begun to gather an immense amount of information under the study of
UFOlogy: To tackle the problem, "have we been visited by extra
terrestrials" an extensive amount of the resources resides in interviews
wi th people of first hand account's of encounters, while some resides in
.official documents or newspaper articles.
One of the nl'ost popular "contact experiences," occurred on July 2,' 1947 just
outside of Roswell New Mexico. This account contai~s some of the most
conclusive evidence to date concerning extra-terrestrials (ETs.) During a
severe thunderstorm on July 2, 1947 something crashed just outside of
Roswell New Mexico. On the following day William "Mac" Brazel, foreman of
the Foster Ranch, found the wreckage and returned with samples to a
neighbor's house. It was agreed that the wreckage was unlike anything they
had seen before. On July 6, Brazel presented wreckage to the Chaves County
Sheriff, George wilcox, who called the Roswell Air Force Base and presented
the find to Major Jesse Marcel, intelligence officer. Marcel subsequently
reported the information to his superior, Colonel William "Butch" Blanchard
who ordered the investiga'tion of the site by his officers. At this point
the events surrounding the incident began to spiral out of control with
lies, bribes, government/military coverups ..
Some of the most intriguing information describing the Roswell incident
resides in interviews of the Personnel directly involved. The interviews
can be divided into two groups, Ci~ilians and Military Personnel. Several
civilians had contact either directly or though family members in the
military to the. incident. The children of Mac Brazel, the locator of the
wreckage, told of pieces of metal "You could wrinkle it and lay it .back down
and. it immediately resumed its original shape .." They claimed their dad
stated "the Army had once told him it was not anything made by us." Glenn
Dennis, a mortician in Roswell in 1947 states that "on July 9 or 10, 1947,
[he] got several phone calls. from the Roswell AAF mortuary officer . . .
[for] bodies laid out in the middle of July, in the.middle of the prairie."
When Dennis visited the base Military Police (MPs) escorted him off the base
with the threat "You open your mouth and you'll be so far back in the jug
they'll have to shoot pinto beans [into you] with a bean shooter." Later
that night Dennis met with a nurse from the base. She described the bodies
she had worked on. "Their noses didn't prqtrude, the eyes were set pretty
deep, and the ears were just little indentations the upper arm was
longer than the lower. They didn't have thumbs, they had four ...
"tentacles."" Military officers have <:Ilso begun to come forward with
strange stories about the incident at Roswell. Major Jesse Marcel, the
first military officer on the scene, declares "It was quite obvious to me,
familiar with air activities, that it was not a weather balloon, nor was it
an airplane or a missile." Marcel also speaks of a metal with remarkably
similar qualities to that possessed by the children of Mac Brazel. Second
Lieutenant Walter Haut, a public information officer at Roswell AAF in 1947,
explains that ."Colonel Blanchard ordered Haut to issue a,press release
telling the country that the Army had found a flying saucer .... [he] took
the release into town." Many other officers'witnessed the strange
properties of the unidentified metal and some reported the existence of
three to four strange bodies (Roswell).
Several letters have surfaced from government record dealing with the
Roswell incident. In 1995 a report sent to Congress states that regulations
in 1947 required air accident reports to be made. The Navy reported no air
accidents during July of 1947. In this letter it was also revealed that
many records relating to Roswell 'had been destroyed (July 1995). On July
8, 1947, Roswell Daily Record released a press release informing that a
flying saucer had been found in Roswell (July, 8). This article suggests
nothing other than the wreckage was from a flying saucer. On July 9, 1947,
a second article released still upheld the idea that the wreckage was a
flying saucer (July, 9).
An abundant amount of informatio~ has been published on the incident at
Roswell. Most of the evidence on this incident I recovered pointed toward
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