Roswell Reviewed - Pt 5 ~~~~~~ Lady LaDonna

DR LINCOLN LA PAZ'S INVESTIGATION

An officer of the Counter-Intelligence Corps, Bill Rickett, who asked shortly after the crash to escort a meteor expert around the crash site. The expert was Dr Lincoln La Paz, head of the Department of Mathematics and Astronomy at the University of New Mexico, and was also the Director of the Institute of Meteoritics, which was formed in 1944 as the first institute in the world to be devoted exclusively to the research of meteorites and planetary samples. Dr La Paz was an acknowledged expert on trajectories of meteors and meteorites. His brief was to determine the speed and trajectory of the alien craft. Initially they examined some of the wreckage recovered from the Foster Ranch, and they found the material to be very strong and very light. It was flexible but they could neither break it nor put a crease or mark on it.

Dr La Paz seemed particularly interested in Mac Brazel's information that some of his animals had behaved strangely after the crash. When he was flown over the area, he determined from marks on the ground that the object had touched down a few miles from the initial crash site, and then taken off again.The sand at the spot where the craft had touched down had been turned into a glass-like substance, and they collected samples. They also found more of the thin foil-like material. Dr La Paz told Bill Rickett that he thought the craft had touched down for repairs and taken off again before exploding. He felt sure it was one of many similar craft and that the crash was due to system malfunction.

Despite his learning, Dr La Paz had an easy manner with people, and was also able to speak to many of the local ranch hands in Spanish. Some of them had noticed strange craft flying over the area very slowly, at a low altitude, two days after the crash. Dr La Paz felt sure they were searching for their downed craft. The local people noticed that their animals had also been affected.

Pickett and La Paz agreed that the Air Force's story of a weather balloon was untrue, but although they speculated on the possibility of a higher civilization checking on the Earth, Dr La Paz decided to leave any speculation out of his report.

The craft had gouged a furrow in Mac Brazel's field about 500 feet long and 10 feet wide, but it was not clear which part of the craft had done the damage. The power source was never found and the main body of the craft, which contained the bodies,was found some two miles away. It seems likely therefore that the power source and the main body had become forcibly separated, through either system failure or a lightning strike. And although the materials found were extraordinarily light, the furrow must have been made by a very heavy component - possibly the power source before it exploded, spreading its debris across Mac Brazel's field.

THE MILITARY WITNESSES

Despite what many Hollywood films would have us believe, most military operations, however small, involve a supporting cast of hundreds, even thousands, of minor, and usually unnoticed, players. Their role may be small in relation to the whole, but it can be crucial in reconstructing the event. The testimony of each individual contributes to demonstrate the undeniable actuality of the event. In the late 1980's therefore nuclear physicist and UFO researcher Stanton Friedman led the search to unearth some of the military people involved in the recovery and movement of the extraterrestrial detritus from the crash site to Roswell AAF, and on to Fort Worth AAF, in 1947.

Master Sergeant Robert Porter, brother of Mac Brazel's neighbor, Loretta Procter, was flight engineer on the first B-29 which flew the special cargo to Eighth Air Force headquarters at Fort Worth AAF, Texas, in 1947. He remembers that the deputy commander of the 509th Bomb Group, Lieutenant Colonel Payne Jennings, was on board with Major Jesse Marcel. One of the flight crew, Captain Anderson, said that the cargo was from a flying saucer. He recalls the extraordinarily light weight of some of the packages, as if they were empty.

After landing at Fort Worth, while the engineering crew performed routine maintainance checks on the plane and ate lunch, the packages were transferred to a B-25 that flew them to Wright Field at Dayton, Ohio. Master Sergeant Porter and the crew were told that the cargo was from a weather balloon - a story that they all knew had been concocted.

Staff Sergeant Robert Shuster was on the second flight to Fort Worth AAF, which carried the alien corpses. He recalls four armed military policemen on the flight (an unusual precaution for a weather balloon), guarding a specially made crate that was 12 feet long by 5 feet wide and 4 feet high.

The flight was also unusual in that the plane was flown at a low altitude between 4,000 and 5,000 feet, and the cabin was unpressurized - possibly an added safety precaution for an unusually precious cargo. The return flight was at the usual altitude of 25,000 feet, with the cabin pressurized. While it was rumored that the aircraft was carrying debris from the unusual crash, Robert Shuster was not himself aware of any bodies being transported.

Robert Smith was a member of the First Air Transport Unit, which was also based at Roswell AAF in 1947. He was part of the team that loaded crates of debris onto transport planes. During the operation, one of the team came across a fragment, between 2 and 3 inches square. The unusual material had jagged edges and could not be permanently folded or creased. Even when making it crumpled, it unfolded itself to its former shape, making a crackling noise as it did so, like cellophane. Despite the armed guard, Smith's colleague, a sergeant, was able to put the strange fragment into his pocket.

Most of the crates, which were loaded onto three or four cargo planes, were 2 or 3 feet high by 2 feet square. Smith recalls, however, that one was much larger than the others. It was about 20 feet long by 4 or 5 feet wide and 4 or 5 feet high. He recognized 'Pappy' Henderson's flight crew around the plane on to which the crates were loaded - Captain Oliver Wendell Henderson, known as 'Pappy' in the Air Force. The loading operation was supervised by a number of people in plain clothes who flashed a strange ID when challenged and said they were from a project whose name Smith could not recall. The loading crew was told that the crates were from a crashed plane, although crashed planes were usually taken to the salvage yard and not flown out in crates under armed guard.

'Pappy' Henderson was a highly respected Second World War bomber pilot who was based at Roswell AAF after the war. He was one of the very few pilots chosen to fly scientists and atomic materials from Roswell (which was close to Los Alamos) to the Pacific for atomic weapons testing. His work required a top-secret clearance and a level of discretion that he applied to all his work. In 1980-1981, while living in San Diego, he read a newspaper article about a UFO and alien bodies having been discovered outside Roswell in 1947. He showed it to his wife, Sappho, and asked her to read it. He confirmed that the story was true, and that he was the pilot who flew the wreckage of the UFO to Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. He told her that he had wanted to tell her numerous times and now felt that he could, since it was in the newspaper. He described the bodies that were being transported as being much smaller than humans, with large heads and eyes that were sunken and slanted. They wore clothing that was unlike anything he had ever seen before.

Further evidence that the material was taken to Wright Field is provided by Lieutenant Clolnel Arthur E Exon, who was stationed there in July 1947. Exon, who went on to retire with the rank of General, confirmed in 1990 that the Roswell wreckage was brought into their material laboratories, and that some of it was very thin but very strong and could not be dented with heavy hammers. He went on to state that the overall consesus was that the pieces were from space.

Sergeant Melvin Brown was a cook at Roswell AAF in 1947. He remembers that all available men were hurriedly taken out to guard a disc that had crashed outside Roswell. They later stood guard outside some hangars at the airfield itself. He travelled from the crash site back to Roswell AAF in the back of one of the trucks with another soldier. He was puzzled that some of the trucks were packed with dry ice.

They were ordered not to look under the covering, but it would be a most unusual person who could resist taking a peek, regardless of orders. What they saw utterly astonished them. Brown described the two dead alien bodies as smaller than normal men. They were about 4 feet tall with larger heads than ours and slanted eyes. Their bodies were yellow and asian-looking according to Brown. When asked if he was scared, Brown described the alien bodies as looking 'nice, almost as though they would be friendly if they were alive.



TBC

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