The Roswell Report: Case Closed

Fig. 8. Announcement from
the November 4, 1992 Socorro
(N.M.) Defensor Chieftan
soliciting witnesses of flying
saucer crashes in New Mexico.
When former Air Force
scientists responded to advise
the authors that Air Force
projects were most probably
responsible for the UFO
accounts, they were summarily
dismissed by the authors who
placed the announcement,
and then were accused of
participating in a cover-up.
Fig. 9. (Left) B.D. "Duke"
Gildenberg served as the civilian
meteorologist, engineer, and
physical science administrator
for the Holloman AFB Balloon
Branch from 1951-1981.
Gildenberg actively participated
in thousands of high altitude
balloon operations, including
the flights that dropped
anthropomorphic dummies at
off-range locations throughout
New Mexico. Gildenberg, the
"father" of Air Force scientific
ballooning, was instrumental in
identifying the many actual Air
Force activities now known as
the "Roswell Incident."
Fig. 10. (Right) Charles B.
Moore, Professor Emeritus of
Atmospheric Physics at the New
Mexico Institute of Mining and
Technology, was the project
engineer for New York University
under contract to the U.S. Army
Air Forces to develop high
altitude balloon technology for
Project MOGUL. Moore launched
the balloon train on June 4,
1947, that when combined with
other events, are now known as
the "Roswell Incident."
Authors seek UFO witnesses
Co-authors of a major book on
the 1947 crash of at least one alien
spacecraft in the New Mexico
desert will be at the Golden Manor
Motel in Socorro on Monday, Nov.
16 to seek. out additional wilnesses
to these events.
Nuclear physicist Stanton T.
Friedman and aviation/science
writer Don Berliner, whose "Crash
at Corona" is now in its second
printing, want to meet with people
having knowledge of the 1947
crashes.
Their book, being published in
August by Paragon House of New
York, is being prepared for a made-
for-TV movie. It is the story of the
discovery, retrieval, shipping and
cover-up of what the authors call
the most important scientific dis-
covery of the past thousand years.
It is based on dozens of inter-
views with first- and second-hand
civilian and ex-military witnesses
to various parts of what is referred
to as a very complex series of
events.
In order to strengthen their case
for government knowledge of what
they call "the truth behind almost
50 years of UFO sightings," the au-
thors are seeking out additional,
reliable witnesses. It remains their
policy to honor requests to keep the
names of witnesses private.
For more information, contact
Don Berliner, 1202 S. Washington
St., Alexandria, VA., 22314 (703-
548-0405); or Stanton T. Friedman,
79 Pembroke Crescent, Frederic-
ton, New Brunswick E3B 2Vl,
Canada (506 457-0232).
Witnesses arc invited to call ei-
ther author collect or to make ar-
rangements to meet them at any of
their stops in New Mexico, which
include the cities of Santa Fe, Al-
buquerque, Las Cruces, Alamo-
gonJo and Roswell.
Since many of the Roswell accounts and allegations were collected by
irregular methods and are not specifically documented, the series of events as
alleged by UFO theorists has become very complex and requires clarification.
Therefore, the following section will briefly examine some of the more confusing
elements of the Roswell stories, specifically, the multiple crash sites and complex
scenarios, in order to facilitate an objective analysis of actual events.
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