Body Snatchers in the Desert by Nick Redfern

Author:Nick Redfern
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2005-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

ELEVEN

CORROBORATION

It is important to note that despite the controversial nature of the Colonel’s account, corroboration for it can be found in both documents and accounts by others. While it has long been acknowledged that rancher Mack Brazel was responsible for bringing the recovered debris from the Foster Ranch to the attention of the sheriff’s office and personnel at Roswell Army Air Field, much less is known about Brazel’s alleged personal knowledge of the solitary body that the Colonel asserts was also found on the ranch. Of course, if the Colonel’s testimony stood alone, then one could rightly question its veracity. However, it does not stand alone.

For example, the research team of Tom Carey and Donald Schmitt found a witness with important data pertinent to this aspect of the story. Before he died, Meyers Wahnee, who was a pilot and aircrew commander of the 714th Bomb Squadron, 448th Bomb Group, told his family of the 1947 Roswell events during the last year of his life.

“Of special interest to us,” wrote Carey and Schmitt, “is his testimony to his wife and two children about ‘decomposing body parts’ found among the debris at the Foster ranch. ‘It really happened,’ he told them.” 1

Similarly, and again according to Carey and Schmitt, in 1994 Dee Proctor inexplicably drove his ill mother, Loretta Proctor, to a remote location on the former Foster Ranch, where he told her that Mack Brazel had found “something else.” Carey and Schmitt stated: “This site is located about 2.5 miles east-southeast of the debris field. Loretta Proctor eventually recovered, but what was it that would cause a son to risk the health of his mother to embark on such a dangerous and uncomfortable trek? The question now seems to us to have been answered. Loretta will not volunteer anything beyond the ‘something else’ statement for now, and Dee, who is now 59, will not talk to anyone.” 2

Important data that may corroborate other aspects of the Colonel’s account comes from Timothy Cooper, a California-based writer and private investigator. In a telephone conversation with Colonel Paul Helmick, former commanding officer with the Alamogordo Army Air Force, Cooper was told “the Air Materiel Command was preparing for a series of high altitude experiments that were to augment a program at the White Sands Proving Ground, in late June of 1947.” Cooper stated that “[Helmick] did not say what was going to happen, only that the Atomic Energy Commission, the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project and the Department of Ordnance had secured portions of the Tularosa Range and the White Sands Proving Ground for a highly classified project.” 3

Cooper also questioned Helmick specifically on the issue of experimentation involving nuclear-powered aircraft: “Do you remember when the Army was testing an experimental aircraft at the White Sands Proving Ground and it crashed? The Armed Forces Special Weapons team from Sandia Base went to recover it.”

Helmick replied: “That was tested at Trinity some thirty miles northwest of Alamogordo. They test flew an atomic-powered craft near Trinity in July [1947 and] that is when they found something else in the desert.

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