Greg Black Flashback: Roswell “Case Closed” 20 Years Later — Still Waiting
As the 50-year anniversary of the 1947 Roswell UFO incident approached in the summer of 1997, the U.S. Air Force sought to head off the hoopla by issuing a new report to explain what happened out there in the New Mexico desert that July.
On June 24, 1997, the Pentagon held a nationally-televised press conference on CNN to issue the conclusions of their “Roswell:Case Closed” report. For those who had studied the details surrounding Roswell lore, the press conference was a mind-boggling moment of cognitive dissonance. Air Force Col. John Haynes was sent out to deliver these conclusions and even did so with a straight face. Maybe he wasn’t in on the joke. But it was all too clear that the Air Force’s version of events did not add up.
Col. Haynes asserted that “air force activities which occurred over a period of many years have now been consolidated and are now represented to have occurred over two or three days in July 1947.” The report built off an earlier one from 1994 that suggested the alleged flying saucer crash was actually an Air Force balloon from a top secret research project. The Air Force upped the ante in 1997 by outlandishly claiming that witnesses who testified to seeing alien bodies were really only seeing test dummies from a series of “Project Mogul” ballon drops in the 1950s.
As CNN reported, Haynes went on to point to two specific incidents: “He said claims of bodies at the Roswell Army Air Field Hospital, which helped feed some of the speculation, were most likely a combination of two separate incidents: one in 1956 in which 11 Air Force personnel died in a KC-97 aircraft accident and the other in 1959 when two airmen were injured in a manned balloon mishap.”
The preposterous idea that incidents from 1956 and 1959 were mistakenly mis-remembered as 1947 clearly defies any notion of logic or rationality.
“If you find that people talk about things over a period of time, they begin to lose exactly when the date was,” said Col. Haynes. “I have no other explanation.” He also detailed how the report suggested that a serviceman who crashed in a test balloon 10 miles northwest of Roswell in 1959 suffered an injury that caused cranial swelling to make him resemble a classic “grey” alien of sci-fi lore, apparently leading decades later to tales of an injured extraterrestrial that walked under its own power into a military hospital.
Watching this press conference live at the time conjured a true sense of cosmic discovery as the Air Force basically admitted on national TV that the UFO cover-up is indeed all too real… IF you are savvy enough to read between the lines. Which the majority of Americans sadly are not. Maureen Dowd of the New York Times wasn’t buying it, although her view was of course relegated to the Opinion pages.
The Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) (founded by the late great Ohio State University Astronomy Professor J. Allen Hynek) deconstructed the Air Force report thoroughly. But CNN naturally didn’t talk to CUFOS:
As with the 1994 report, the new report is clumsily padded to make it appear to be lengthy and impressive. This is done by using a large font, many irrelevant photos, and wide margins. A great deal of research was done by the Air Force to gather information about balloon projects in New Mexico, including interviews with surviving members of the balloon teams. But as was the case in the 1994 report, no effort was devoted to interviewing still–living witnesses of the events from 1947. This makes a mockery of the claim by Secretary of the Air Force Sheila E. Widnall in the Foreword that “Our objective throughout this inquiry has been simple and consistent: to find all the facts and bring them to light.”
Read the full CUFOS analysis for a complete debunking of the numerous flaws and holes in the Air Force’s ludicrous report. CUFOS then concluded:
“In summary then, examination of this latest report demonstrates beyond a shadow of a doubt that it was NOT an objective inquiry. Regardless of one’s personal opinion of UFOs, it is plain to see that SOMETHING occurred that has resulted in two “final” AF reports within three years. One can only conclude that it is simply another government whitewash attempt, or worse, a clear case of incompetence and waste of taxpayer money.”
Renowned investigative reporter and UFOlogist Jim Marrs (author of the 1997 UFOlogy classic Alien Agenda) advocated a similar conclusion when queried about the Air Force’s “time compression” explanation at the 2015 Contact in the Desert Conference:
“The Mogul balloon tests and crash dummy tests didn’t even begin until the ’50s. So in a way, the people who are aware and who study the issue and become aware that crash dummies and Mogul balloons didn’t happen until the ’50s, they go, ‘Well the government’s lying to us.’ And then holy cow, that means it’s really true, there was a crashed saucer and there were alien bodies and they’re covering it up,” Marrs explained. “And yet, on the other hand, the government who has to answer to all the people, now they’ve also placated the ones who don’t wanna know about that and they can go to bed and sleep peacefully at night and say, ‘Well the government said it’s just crash dummies.’”
It’s up to you dear readers — do you want to know about it? Because the Truth is indeed out there… and it’s imperative that we the people demand it before that swine Donald Trump and his foul minions take humanity to hell in a bucket. If you’re not clear on why ending the UFO/ET coverup is so critically important, please visit The Disclosure Activists for more information.
