Crash at Corona by Stanton T. Friedman

Author:Stanton T. Friedman [Friedman, Stanton T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781616406462
Published: 2004-10-31T09:07:56+00:00

ETAILS of the retrieval of wreckage and bodies from the Corona and Plains of San Agustin crash sites are skimpy.

D As this was all done by the military in remote areas where the few residents were consciously patriotic, it was a lot easier to keep secret the details than elements of the crashes that had been observed by civilians. Just who was involved, and where the remains were taken, is still a subject for investigation.

What is known is that Mac Brazel started it all by bringing a few samples of debris from the Foster ranch to the office of Sheriff George Wilcox in Roswell on July 6. After Major Marcel and CICman Cavitt left Roswell for the ranch, the samples apparently were left behind at the sheriff’s office, as there was no point in taking them back to the ranch. According to the daughters of Sheriff Wilcox, interviewed in 1990, the army arrived, created quite a stir, and took the strange pieces away.

They almost certainly went straight to the office of Roswell Army Air Field commander Col. William Blanchard.

Just what Blanchard did with the samples can only be surmised, but it seems increasingly likely that he had them flown to Eighth Air Force headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas, where 110

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Eighth Air Force commander Gen. Roger Ramey took control of them. According to retired Brig. Gen. Thomas Jefferson DuBose, interviewed in 1990 by Stanton Friedman, material from the Corona crash site was at Fort Worth two or three days before the July 8 press conference at which General Ramey promoted the phony “weather balloon” story.

Those samples could have arrived at Fort Worth while Marcel and Cavitt were still on their way to the Foster ranch, and while hardly anyone else in the world was aware that anything unusual had happened near Corona. This was probably the small amount of material that then-colonel DuBose saw wrapped in plastic and attached to the wrist of Col. Al Clarke, base commander at Fort Worth. With his precious cargo treated like secret diplomatic correspondence, Clarke was flown to Washington, D.C., on the direct orders of Gen. Clemence McMullen, acting commander of the Strategic Air Command at Andrews AAF. It was McMullen who gave the telephone order to DuBose to rush the scraps there by “colonel courier”

and to concoct a cover story to mislead the press. What happened to the material when it got to Washington is unknown, but it well could have played a major role in convincing those two thousand miles from the New Mexico desert that something of cosmic significance had happened.

When Marcel and Cavitt returned to Roswell Army Air Field early on the morning of July 8, they brought with them two carloads of debris. It was this, or at least most of it, that Marcel accompanied on a flight to Fort Worth AAF; he described it as

“half a B-29 full.” While a B-29 is a large airplane, it was designed to carry a load of heavy items—bombs—rather than a lot of lighter objects that might be carried by a cargoplane.

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