James Easton's UFO Blog

Who initially identified that the Roswell debris, was possibly from a meteorological device? The first published news of same, seems to have originated on 8 July, courtesy of a news bulletin, transmitted by the Association Press (AP) from Roswell and according to one newspaper's take: 'Record-Searchlight' (Redding, California) Tuesday July 8, 1947 ROSWELL, N. M., July 8.- (AP)-The army air force here today announced a "flying disk" had been found on a ranch near Roswell and is in army possession. Warren Haught, public Information officer of the Roswell army air field, announced the find had been made "sometime last week," and had been turned over to the air field through co-operation of the sheriff's office . "It was inspected at the Roswell army air field and subsequently loaned" by Maj. Jesse A. Marcel of the 509th bomb group Intelligence office at Roswell, "to higher headquarters." Brig. Gen. Roger Ramey, Eighth air force comma

Newspaper reports of Arnold's 24 June, 1947 sighting, comprise largely of articles based on their editorial version of the same newsfeeds from either the Associated Press (AP), or United Press (UP). Of paramount import is an early radio interview given to station KWRC by Kenneth Arnold, on the 26 June: First Radio Interview with Kenneth Arnold 26 June, 1947 NEWSCASTER: The nation, every newscaster, and every newspaper across the nation has made headlines out of it, and this afternoon we are honored, indeed, to have here in our studio this man, Kenneth Arnold, who, we believe, may be able to give us a first-hand account and give you the same on what happened. Kenneth, first of all if you'll move up here to the microphone just a little closer, we'll ask you to just tell in your own fashion, as you told us last night in your hotel room, and again this morning, what you were doing there and how this entire thing started. Go ahead, Kenneth. KENNETH ARNOLD: Well, about 2:15 I too

This is a statement from Major Jesse Marcel, as published in our first Roswell related book publication 'The Roswell Incident', by Charles Berlitz & William Moore: "Just after we got to Carswell, Fort Worth, we were told to bring some of this stuff up to the general's office - that he wanted to take a look at it. We did this and spread it out on the floor on some brown paper. What we had was only a very small portion of the debris - there was a whole lot more. There was half a B-29-ful outside. General Ramey allowed some members of the press in to take a picture of this stuff. They took one picture of me on the floor holding up some of the less-interesting metallic debris. The press was allowed to photograph this, but were not allowed far enough into the room to touch it. The stuff in that one photo was pieces of the actual stuff we had found. It was not a staged photo". Subsequently, we we have the publication of 'Crash at Corona', by Stanton T. Fried

I wanted to take one last look at the overall evidence for our first night’s circumstances. There remain ‘loose ends’ which are troubling and just in case something had been overlooked, or suddenly now, with hindsight made sense, or new information I was unaware of One fresh dilemma is that whilst official statements from Airman 1st Class John Burroughs, Master-Sergeant J. D. Chandler and Lieutenant Fred Buran, all document commencement of events on the morning of 26 December, as 0300, Staff-Sergeant Jim Penniston’s proclaimed original notebook, has an entry confirming events on our first night, began at 0002. Neither Penniston’s official statement, nor that of Airman Ed Cabansag, record the time at which an alert was raised. Burroughs is on record as accepting, that the incident could have been initiated earlier than he recalled. Buran writes, “The following statement is general in nature and may be inaccurate in some instances due to the time lapse involved and the fact that I was no

My formative days in ufology, like many others who grew up in the U.K., (in my case, Glasgow, Scotland) during the late 1970s and 1980s, largely consisted of reading everything ever written by the wondrous Jenny Randles, then graduating to computer bulletin boards, including the U.S. based FidoNet and ParaNet, where you could read the latest UFO conspiratorial rants from William (Bill) Cooper and John Lear, plus receive regular updates on Dulce, New Mexico, an allegedly covert underground base, jointly operated with aliens. This led to regular attendances at the yearly UFO Magazine conference in Leeds, England, where I first met and subsequently became good friends with the late Graham Birdsall, the magazine's editor. At Graham's invitation, I wrote several articles for the magazine and later on established a Yahoo based forum, The UFO Research List (UFORL), which existed from 1999 until 2004, when Yahoo ceased to offer a hosting service. During that time, I was regularly in t