Cover-Up at Roswell by Donald R. Schmitt

Author:Donald R. Schmitt [Schmitt, Donald R.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: New Page Books
Published: 2017-06-19T04:00:00+00:00

The author (R) with archaeologists Richard Hill (L) and Pat Flanary at the impact site, 40 miles north of Roswell. PHOTO CREDIT: TOM CAREY.

Since May 2010, geologist Frank Kimbler has been our resident scientist in Roswell to continue the hunt during the periods between the full-scale dig projects. Assistant professor of Earth Science at New Mexico Military Institute, Kimbler has worked as a professional geologist for the past 30 years and at the high school and college level for the past 15 years. He has also worked as an oceanographer for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Aerial photographs can provide a high degree of information not apparent from the ground. Kimbler has spent years studying not only photographs made by the USDA Soil Conservation Service (now the Natural Resources Conservation Service) from November 19th, 1946, but also February 3rd and 4th, 1954. Unfortunately, there were no aerial pictures taken between these years. Still, for all intents and purposes, we do have before and after shots of the debris field.

Originally Earth Resources Technology Satellite, Landsat is the oldest source of satellite imagery of continental earth surfaces in the visible, near-infrared, shortwave, and thermal wave length. In our case, what is especially intriguing is enhancing the infrared over the debris field to highlight areas where the ground was disturbed. At our encouragement, we asked the University of New Mexico to test the soil of the debris field against a control of the surrounding area. The potassium level was lower at the debris field. It was suggested that the military, after the recovery operation, may have done something to “decontaminate” the site. The one cheap agent that they might have used for such an effort could have been household bleach. According to the Brazel family, the cattle wouldn’t graze at the pasture for five years after the incident. Even when they would haul bags of cow feed into the middle of the area they were still unwilling to even walk through it. The Landsat image of the debris field clearly shows a burn (disturbed area) at that precise location.

What Kimbler also studies is whether any of the linear features that might represent a once-visible furrow were present in 1954, but not in 1946. He has also determined, along with the consultation of other geologists, anomalies in the 1956 photographs that demonstrate major alteration of the landscape, specifically along the southern ridge, which appears to have been leveled over to some degree by heavy equipment. A sinkhole to the north also appears to have enlarged and is much deeper in comparison to the 1946 shots. All of these elements need to be studied at a much greater level of enhancement and determination as to what is natural and what is artificial.

In the field, Kimbler relies on high-resolution metal detection scanning of the debris field proper. The objective is to locate any buried or obscured metallic material that might represent remains of the “metallic-like” debris reported in 1947. Almost all metallic elements are at least moderately conductive; that is, metal detection should find it.

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