The missing years of Jesus – from age 12 to about 30 – are not “documented” but there has been some speculation that he visited places far-flung from Judea; India and even England have been suggested, with circumstantial hints supporting those scenarios.
But things are quite different when it comes to the Roswell episode in July 1947. No one has a clue why the Roswell story absolutely disappeared for thirty years.
There was no mention – nothing at all, anywhere – about the incident from 1947 until 1978, when Stan Friedman opened the Roswell can of worms after being confronted with a tale about the so-called flying disk crash from a “witness” (Jesse Marcel, Sr.).
Our concern here is not what has transpired since 1978 but why there is no reference, none, to the Roswell “crash” during those intervening years, between 1947 and 1978.
We’ve scoured our vast batch of UFO magazines, newspaper clippings, and other UFO materials for some inkling of Roswell, and have, like others, found nothing.
This strikes us as particularly strange, if a flying saucer had actually crashed near Roswell, and its significant army base.
The canard that the people of 1947 were subservient to some amorphous military order(s) to keep silent about what supposedly transpired – a flying disk from another world crash near their community – is patently silly.
The people of Roswell, like others in the Southwest, were a hardy, non-wimpy breed – persons who came from hardscrabble stock, tough to the core, unlikely to be cowed by orders to keep their mouths shut – for 30 years.
And, as we’ve posted elsewhere, why did no one sneak a fragment of the alleged debris that was so wondrous in nature?
And why did no one take a photo of that wondrous debris, or the purported crash site, when cheap Kodak cameras were extant, and ubiquitous?
The thirty-year hiatus in information or recollection and reminiscences makes no behavioral sense.
Joseph Capp’s gung-ho support of Roswell witnesses belies the obeisant stance that these Capp-lauded witnesses undertook and maintained for over 30 years. Is such reserve concomitant with the lofty natures that Mr. Capp and others attribute to the panoply of witnesses who’ve surfaced after Mr. Friedman and a few others “broke” the Roswell story and the assumed cover-up?
The story, the witnesses, the resultant Roswell mythos don’t quite compute.
It’s that thirty-year absence of anything Roswell-related that undermines the hypothesis that extraterrestrial beings had a mishap in the desert near Roswell in 1947.
No one, with any American bravado or ethical behavior, would have kept quiet for 30 years, despite some vague warnings from military types. Many of whom would have moved on or died long before 1978 arrived.
This is what makes Roswell, for some of us, hard to swallow.
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Anthony Bragalia replies:
Roswell was mentioned many, many times before 1978!
1) Flying Saucers on the Attack (Harold Wilkins 1954)
2) Flying Saucer Review (Vol 1, No. 1 Spring 1955)
3) UFOs-Serious Business (Frank Edwards 1966)
4) Frank Edwards Public Lectures (October 27, 1955; April 28, 1956)
5) The Flying Saucer Story (Brinsley LePour Trench, 1966)
5) Saga Magazine (Winter 1974) (First mention of the "Lydia Sleppy" Roswell story)
Additionally, in the 1957 "Contact with Space," Wilhelm Reich notes that on his way to Tucson for "weather experimentation" with his "cloudbuster" technology, he traveled through Roswell. He makes special note of Roswell, NM and that he spent time there working on "field observations" and noted the "imbalance" of "UFO energies."
Another corroboration for pre-1978 Roswell mentions: A University of New Mexico professor related that in the mid-1960s he approached Loretta Proctor (whose ranch some of the crash debris was found) to conduct an archaelogical exploration. Loretta granted permission, but not without first telling him, "if you find anything unusual, let me know!" She then told him the story of the Summer of 1947...
AB
But Tony, those references were devoid of the details that have encrusted the Roswell tale to date.
Moreover, the people who have surfaced as witnesses have been a little enervated about what they saw.
I would think that anyone who saw a UFO craft, or debris, and more importantly, alien bodies would be bit more excited or awed by what they experienced.
The Roswell crowd was and is too subdued, psychologically, in the context of what they were privy to.
RR
Flying saucer writer/lecturer Frank Edwards seems to have created
and perpetuated key elements of the Roswell myth during the 1950s
And 1960s, before Stanton Friedman’s book.
On April 28, 1956, in remarks in a question-and-answer session
following a lecture to a public meeting of the New York City group
Civilian Saucer Intelligence, Edwards said that at Roswell, "A farmer reported that he saw something strike a mountainside and crash".
Whether this was Edwards' spin on the Wilmot sighting of an apparent
bright meteor a coupe days before Roswell, the Brazel debris recovery, an amalgamation of the two or simply something that he made up isn’t clear.
In Frank Edwards' 1966 best-seller, Flying Saucers - Serious Business (p. 76): "There are such difficult cases as the rancher near Roswell, New Mexico, who phoned the Sheriff that a blazing disc-shaped object had passed over his house at low altitude and had crashed and burned on a hillside within view of the house... We were not told, however ... why the military cordoned off the area while they inspected the wreckage..." [Note the similarity to the recent Wilmot account in: Kevin D. Randle & Donald R. Schmitt, UFO Crash at Roswell, New York: Avon, 1991.]
Kevin Randle does not think that Edwards created things deliberately, but wrote from his memory without checking. (Letter, August 1, 1995) I believe that this may not always have been the case, as the direct quotations cited above indicate.
Whether deliberate or not, these distinct changes of meaning in the same popular, best-selling work in which new elements of the Roswell story seem to have first appeared suggest that Edwards may be a major early source, perhaps the major early source, for some key Roswell folklore. Namely: that it was a "crash"; that the burning disc-shaped object was witnessed in the air as it crashed, and that the military "cordoned off" the site. These details were not in the 1947 publicity.
Bob Young youngbob2@aol.com
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