|
 Enigma Issue 6: Roswell Timeline |
| As promised last issue, here is the concluding part of the timeline of events in the Roswell case. As George Wingfield's article shows, this case will not die - despite the Governments attempts to 'lay to rest'. To quote the classic line from the X-Files;
The Truth Is Out There! |
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Wed. 9th July 1947
Early | Officers from the base visit | General Schulgen requests
afternoon | newspaper and radio offices in town | FBI cooperation in solving
| and recover all copies of Haut's | the flying disk problem.
| original press release. | The War Department tells
| Brazel is taken to radio station | the FBI that the disks
| KGFL, where he gives a revised | do not belong to the
| version of his story. | Army or Navy.
| |
Late | Three fully loaded C-54's (5th-7th |
afternoon | Flights out) carry debris to Los |
| Alamos, NM, via Kirtland Field. |
| 4:00pm. The crate from Bomb Pit |
| Number One is transferred to a B-29 |
| and flown (8th Flight out) to Fort |
| Worth. | 5:00pm. Ball of light
| The Roswell Daily Record carries a | deposits odd metal on
| sanitized version of Brazel's story. | ground near Midland, MI.
| |
Early | | 6:00pm. Officers and a
evening | | mortician in Fort Worth
| | meet the incoming B-29
| | from Roswell; the flight
| | crew returns to Roswell
| | with Marcel.
| |
Late | 8:00pm. Marcel arrives back in | 11:30pm. Constable in
evening | Roswell (4th Flight in). | Grand Falls, Newfoundland
| | observes 4 flying disks.
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Thu.10th | |
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| Clean-up continues at the crash | A flight from Wright Field
| sites. | arrives in Fort Worth and
| Brazel continues to be interrogated | returns to Wright Field
| and held at a guest house on the | with more debris and a
| base. | large, metallic container
| [Remaining debris confiscated from | on board.]
| Sheriff Wilcox by military | FBI memo, Fitch to Ladd.
| personnel.] | Aborted V-2 launch at
| | White Sands.
| | [General Twining stops at
| | White Sands before return-
| | ing to Wright Field.]
| | President Truman derides
| | flying disk stories.
| | 4:00pm.TWA representative
| | sees flying disk at Harmon
| | Field, Newfoundland.
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Fri.11th | |
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| MPs and others involved in the |
| retrieval are debriefed and told to |
| forget that it happened. |
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Sat.12th | |
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| Bill Brazel Jr. returns to his | 6:30pm.Flying disk follows
| father's ranch; no evidence of a | a C-47 at Elmendorf Field,
| military presence remains. | Alaska.
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Late July | |
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| July 15 - Mac Brazel returns to his |
| ranch from the Roswell base after his| 20th - Silver-white disk
| interrogation. | moving at great speed
| | reported near Cumberland,
| | MD.
| | 26th - National Security
| | Act passes, which
| | coordinates the Army, Navy
| | and AirForce into a single
| | national military
| | establishment under the
| | Secretary of Defence. The
| | Army Air Force becomes
| | the U.S. Air Force.
| | 30th - The first Air Force
| | "estimate" of the nature
| | of the flying disks is
| | drafted by Gen. Schulgen
| | staff.
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August '47| |
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| Mac Brazel and Tommy Tyree spot a | 19th - FBI memo, Fitch to
| piece of debris in a sinkhole near | Ladd.
| the debris field. |
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Sept. '47 | |
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| Prof. Lincoln LaPaz, secretly charged| 5th - Gen. Schulgen tells
| with reconstructing the object's | the FBI that the disks do
| trajectory, arrives from Washington | not belong to the Air Force.
| and rediscovers the area of black- |
| ened ground with Rickett. | 23rd - Gen. Twining calls
| | for an official invest-
| | igation of the flying
| | disks.
| | 24th - Alleged memo from
| | Truman to Forrestal,
| | establishing Operation
| | Majestic Twelve. Vannevar
| | Bush meets with Truman.
| | 25th - FBI memo, Ladd to
| | Hoover, advising that FBI
| | discontinue flying disk
| | investigations.
| | 26th - Sidney Souers named
| | head of new National
| | Security Council, which
| | holds its first meeting.
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Oct. '47 | |
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| | 1st Oct - Truman letter to
| | Vannevar Bush, the sig-
| | nature of which matches
| | the MJ-12 memo of 24th Sep.
| | 28th Oct - Schulgen issues a
| | draft collection memorandum
| | that outlines the essential
| | elements of information
| | required to analyse flying
| | disk reports.
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Sep. '48 | |
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| LaPaz tells Rickett that he is still |
| convinced the Roswell debris was an |
| unoccupied probe from another world. |
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Summer '49| |
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| The gouge is still visible at the |
| debris field. |
| Mac Brazel, having found various |
| scraps of debris for the past two |
| years, mentions in Corona that he |
| still has the material. The next day|
| a Capt. Armstrong and three others |
| from the base confiscate the pieces. |
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1978 | |
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| | Pappy Henderson confides
| | to a close friend that he
| | had flown wreckage from
| | a crashed saucer to Wright
| | Field; he still has a
| | fragment of the debris.
| | Marcel, located by
| | researcher Stan Friedman,
| | says he is sure the debris
| | was nothing from earth.
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1980 | |
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| | In Search Of interviews
| | Marcel, who says he is
| | sure the Roswell debris
| | was nothing from earth.
| | Charles Berlitz and William
| | L. Moore publish their
| | report on the case, The
| | Roswell Incident.
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1982 | |
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| | Pappy Henderson tells his
| | wife Sappho about his role
| | in the recovery.
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1988 | |
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| Oct.- An Air Force pickup truck is |
| seen on the Foster Ranch; the driver |
| asks ranch hand Jim Parker if the |
| Roswell crash site is nearby. |
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1989 | |
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| Sept. 15-19 The Center for UFO |
| Studies conducts an expedition to |
| the debris field. |
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1991 | |
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| | Donald Schmitt's account
| | of the case, UFO Crash
| | at Roswell, is published
| | by Avon Books.
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Feb 1994 | |
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| | Congressman Steven Schiff
| | gets the General Accounting
| | Office (GAO) to initiate an
| | audit to locate all records
| | related to the Roswell incident
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Jan 1995 | |
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| | Alleged Autopsy film of the
| | Roswell crash is discovered.
| | Much controversy follows.
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