Report of Air Force Research Regarding the Roswell Incident

happened (or if it did; it was controlled by a security
system so efficient and tight that no one, us or
otherwise, has been able to duplicate it since. If such
a system had been in effect at the time, it would have
also been used to protect our atomic secrets from the
Soviets, which history has showed obviously was not the
case) . The records reviewed confirmed that no such
sophisticated and efficient security system existed.
WHAT THE "ROSWELL INCIDENT" WAS
As previously discussed, what was originally reported to
have been recovered was a balloon of some sort, usually
described as a "weather balloon,• although the majority
of the wreckage that was ultimately displayed by General
Ramey and Major Marcel in the famous photos (Atch 16) in
Ft. Worth, was that of a radar target normally suspended
from balloons. This radar target, discussed in more
detail later, was certainly consistent with the
description of July 9 newspaper article which discussed
"tinfoil, paper, tape, and sticks." Additionally, the
description of the "flying disc" was consistent with a
document routinely used by most pro·UFO writers to
indicate a conspiracy in progress--the telegram from the
Dallas FBI office of July 8, 1947. This document quoted
in part states: ." .. The disc is hexagonal in shape and
was suspended from a balloon by a cable, which balloon
was approximately twenty feet in diameter .••• the object
found resembles a high altitude weather balloon with a
radar reflector .•.. disc and balloon being
transported ••. 11
Similarly, while conducting the popular literature
review, one of the documents reviewed was a paper
entitled "The Roswell Events" edited by Fred Whiting,
and sponsored by the Fund for UFO Research (FUFOR) .
Although it was not the original intention to comment on
what connnercial authors interpreted or claimed that
other persons supposedly said, this particular document
was different because it contained actual copies of
apparently authentic sworn affidavits received from a
number of persons who claimed to have some knowledge of
the Roswell event. Although many of the persons who
provided these affidavits to the FUFOR researchers also
expressed opinions that they thought there was something
extraterrestrial about this incident, a number of them
actually described materials that sounded suspiciously
like wreckage from balloons. These included the
following:
Jesse A. Marcel, NM (son of the late Major Jesse Marcel:
11 years old at the time of the incident). Affidavit
dated May 6, 1991. " .•. There were three categories of
debris: a thick,· foil like metallic gray substance: a
brittle, brownish-black plastic-like material, like
Bakelite: and there were fragments of what appeared to
be I-beams. On the inner surface of the I-beam, there
appeared to be a type of writing. This writing was a
purple-violet hue, and it had an embossed appearance.
The figures were composed of curved, geometric shapes.
It had no resemblance to Russian, Japanese or any other
foreign language. It resembled hieroglyphics, but it had
no anirnal·like characters .••••.
Loretta Proctor (former neighbor of rancher W.W.
Brazel). Affidavit dated May 5, 199 1 .. " •. Brazel came