Saturday, January 24, 2026

The Last of the Gilles/Randle Debate

Quick note... This is the last of this argument because, as I say at the end, Gilles refuses to listen, rejects facts and endorses unverified testimony.

Greetings Kevin (Galileo, I suppose?)

I made you "Chess and Mat", whatever your new post concerning the question I previously adressed to you.

You didn’t have Check and Mate, except in your own mind. And what about the questions that I asked you? You seemed to have missed those.


Tom Carey, center, on the Debris Field. Please note the terrain.


It is the same concerning "the flakes" question:Read Sunlitle 4-4.

Same when I'm correcting you regarding fight#5,then #4...

Same as Mann reusing the tape,

Same as you not presenting Dubose's statments in Pflock's book to your readers...

Well, let’s see… you ask questions but refuse to answer mine. This should be a two-way street, not just one in which you stand on the corner and shout insults.

I am truly sorry that you are incapable of understanding my responses. I tell you again, Flight #4 was cancelled. There was a cluster of balloons launched later in the day, but the documentation in various reports, all available thanks to the Air Force in their big book about Roswell confirm this. We learn what these clusters were and they were not numbered Mogul flights. Charles Moore said that Flight #4 was configured the same way as #5, and that it performed as well as #5, if not better. That makes no sense, since there was no data recovered because it was cancelled… and if it was cancelled, then it couldn’t have dropped debris on the ranch. How hard is that to understand?

I have explained to you that in the early 1980s, Johnny Mann believed the important case was the Pascagoula abduction and saved the raw footage. However, the tape of Marcel that was used in the broadcast was SAVED, and he was quite clear on what he had seen and his conclusions based on those observations. So, your point is misleading… and I remind you that Mann said that at the time of the interviews Pascagoula was more important than Roswell because Roswell had not been fully investigated. I now expect you to take that statement out of context, since that seems to be your technique… He told me that reusing the raw footage tape had been a mistake. Get it? Given the timing and the situation when he conducted those interviews, the world vision was different than it is today.

I did not use Shandera’s statements as published in Karl’s book because that information had been debunked. Shandera did not record his interview, nor did he take notes. If you know otherwise, please provide links to that evidence. Please note this is the same situation in which I found myself with Mann. You reject it because of no taped interviews. Why do you accept Shandera’s claims, which have been contradicted by several others but reject Mann’s, which in the larger context is, more or less irrelevant.

We have Dubose on tape; he told others that the material was switched. What you probably don’t know, and probably will not care about, is that Shandera and Bill Moore were touted their new witness, J. Bond Johnson, who took six of the photos in Ramey’s office. Although they interviewed Johnson, it was after I had located him and conducted two or three hours of interviews all on tape. Johnson told me, that the material in Ramey’s office was a weather balloon… but, after Shandera and Moore interviewed him, the story changed and the debris in the pictures was the real stuff and because of that, they needed Dubose to say that it hadn’t been switched. Given all that, and that I had tapes of Johnson saying six or seven times that the stuff was the weather balloon, they needed Dubose to change his story. So, all we have is Shandra’s statement, without benefit of tape saying the opposite. Since I know that the information is invalid, I saw no reason to confuse the issue with it.

I did notice that you didn’t bother reading Dubose’s affidavit about what transpired in Ramey’s office, which, by the way, confirms my version of events in Ramey’s office suggesting that it was not the real stuff. So, why don’t you mention the affidavit? Isn’t that more egregious than me not bothering to repeat the lies you are so fond of in Karl’s book? Shandera has nothing and I have Dubose’s affidavit (not to mention the tapes and other witnesses again) … Aren’t you obligated to mention all that?

How do you make the decision about what to believe? You reject Johnny Mann because I didn’t tape the interview but you accept Jaime Shandera’s claim, which were not taped. Double standard.

Don Schmitt and me on the Impact Site closer to Roswell. Please note the
difference in the terrain. If there were two site, then Mogul is eliminated.



Well, if a Alien (ET) crash in Roswell is still your Cup of Tea. Your belief is yours, the facts NOT.

My true belief is that there is currently no viable explanation for the material recovered by Brazel on the ranch, nor the evidence that was found on the second site. I have said that it does not take us directly to the extraterrestrial and I would like some additional evidence. I’m just not going to push a balloon explanation when the documentation, testimonies and other evidence argue against it.

You also wrote: "the experts claimed something but we later learned they had it wrong". And you are comparing you to Galilleo!

This is absolute bullshit… I was suggesting only that once rigidly held beliefs were changed when new and better information was found. I could use several other examples and I thought the mention of the Coelacanth would have demonstrated that. When the first was caught in 1938, the majority of the scientists rejected it because everyone knew the Coelacanth had been extinct for 75 million years… when a second was caught, they began to realize that they still existed and the tone of the argument changed.

Or you could tell me that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a huge meteor impact and you could point to some scientific evidence for that. However, new information tells us that some dinosaurs survived that catastrophe and evolved into birds. Just shows that scientific thought evolves and only those with closed minds reject new information when it becomes available. This is apparently a concept that confuses you.


Excepted you are one of the "past" expert, here.

I'm very sad how you have turned, but cause Roswell you have so time and ressource devoted: it is normal when chess and mat, you are summoning special card "Galileo"

I’m am very sad that you are unable to grasp simple facts, that you reject evidence that doesn’t fit your narrative without evidence to back up that rejection and that you often resort to insults… Oh, and you never answer any questions, just throw out more nonsense.

BTW: I am concluding this conversation at this point because it is a waste of time with someone who simply can’t understand the facts. I have provided accurate information, notes on sources, and documentation but you rely on debunked material, misconceptions about events in Roswell and Alamogordo, and change facts to suit your narrative. And as Mark Cuban would say, “For those reasons I bow out of this conversation.”

3 comments:

  1. Is there possibly some sort of language problem with Fernandez not being able to understand simple sentences? If not, I don't think I've ever seen anybody so dense that they're completely unable or unwilling to answer questions. IIRC, he has a doctorate in cognitive psychology, so that might explain things.

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  2. (Part 1 of 2) Kevin wrote:

    "I tell you again, Flight #4 was cancelled. There was a cluster of balloons launched later in the day, but the documentation in various reports, all available thanks to the Air Force in their big book about Roswell confirm this. We learn what these clusters were and they were not numbered Mogul flights. Charles Moore said that Flight #4 was configured the same way as #5, and that it performed as well as #5, if not better. “

    It's not just the original Mogul documents in the AF Roswell report. The absolute FACT that Flight #5 was the FIRST N.M. Mogul flight is also DOCUMENTED repeatedly in various early OFFICIAL histories by real historians, not a recent propaganda ploy by Air Force counterintelligence agents in the 1990s to derail a Congressional investigation into Roswell.

    I have previously published a list of such official histories on Kevin's blog, but have just gotten them up on my website (with links to the available online documents in case anyone wants to double-check ):

    www.roswellproof.com/Official-Histories--1st-NM-Mogul-Flight.html

    What documents do Gilles and other debunkers have to counter this? Absolutely nothing. Zero. Nada. Period. End stop. Go to Gilles blog (in French, but easily translated these days), where Gilles tries to rationalize this away:

    https://skepticversustheflyingsaucers.blogspot.com/
    https://skepticversustheflyingsaucers.blogspot.com/2019/04/why-usaf-1994-roswell-big-report-did.html

    Allow me to summarize. Well, you see, researchers Robert Todd and Karl Pflock originally proposed Mogul explaining Roswell (actually this was originally proposed as an unlikely possibility clear back in the first Roswell book by Berlitz and Moore in 1980) and the AF counterintelligence agents leaned into this, even consulting with Todd. Todd supported the AF Flight #4 debunking explanation, but, like the AF, was never able to produce a single, damn document showing a Flight #4 ever truly existed. After years of futilely trying to find such a document, Todd decided any Flight #4 documentation would have been stored away in:

    [Google translation] “The so-called archive box 00 of the Sign - Grudge projects 1947-1960.
    The archive box known as MIX-1011 - Rockfish , Mogul projects acoustical research 1946-1950. Note : Rockfish is the second name that was given to the Mogul project.”

    “...These documents had been stored in the archives of St. Louis, Missouri ( National Personnel Records Center ) since August 1960, on the sixth floor, at the time of his research. In 1973, the St. Louis archives were devastated by a fire, including this floor .”

    “...This would explain, at least for me, why investigators will never find anything... confirming 100% that the Mogul flight of June 4 (or that of May 29, 1947) explains these debris.”

    So, conveniently, the alleged 100% proof documentation burned up in 1973. Gilles obviously belongs to the “dog ate my homework” school of “scientific ufology” where if you can’t document your claims with what should be readily available material these days you make up lame excuses and still call it “scientific.”

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  3. (Part 2 of 2) Here is one simple refutation of the Gilles claim. If you check my list of official histories, 3 of 5 non-Mogul flight histories (stating Flight #5 June 5, 1947 was the FIRST such flight) were written BEFORE 1973. Usually professional historians try to find original source material. E.g., one of the histories I link to was about the early balloon projects at Holloman written by the base historian in 1957. It specifically states that his information came from B.D. Gildenberg, who headed the balloon projects there starting 1951 (and was with Project Mogul at NYU in 1947). Gildenberg told him:

    "The FIRST research balloon flight of any sort at Holloman had been slightly earlier, 5 June 1947 [i.e. Flight #5]; this involved a cluster of rubber-type balloons (interview, Mr. Gildenberg by Dr. Bushnell, 18 September 1957).”

    Pretty unambiguous I would think. But Gildenberg drastically changed his tune in the 1990s after the AF Roswell report came out, completely contradicting his 1950s self, and instead insisted that there was a Flight #4 that preceded Flight #5. I recently wrote up a detailed account of this, which Kevin published on his blog:

    https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2025/02/david-rudiaks-analysis-against-mogul.html

    Kevin: “That makes no sense, since there was no data recovered because it was cancelled… and if it was cancelled, then it couldn’t have dropped debris on the ranch. How hard is that to understand?

    Apparently impossible to understand for “scientific ufologists.” Gilles self-bio says he has a "PhD in Cognitive Psychology.” He also states [Google translation]: “He is actually [an] independent writer and lecturer in the domain of ‘why people believe weird things’ (such as pseudosciences, UFO, superstitions, modern myths, urban legends, etc.)”

    My experience with hard-core skeptics is that they seem to believe such thinking only afflicts lesser mortals, but they themselves are free of it. I presume Gilles’ graduate studies in psychology also included some mention of psychological denial and confirmation bias, but maybe he skipped those classes, or maybe he again thinks these sins afflict only others.

    So actual documentation from multiple official sources ALL points to there never being a Flight #4. But rigid-minded skeptics refuse to accept that. The Air Force’s “modern myth” of a Mogul Flight #4 MUST be true, because they got nothing else to try to explain what crashed at the Brazel ranch. Poor dears.

    But what about Roswell base putting out an official press release that they had actually recovered a “flying disc”? Well, for “scientific skeptics” that was due to Roswell being staffed by idiots like Marcel and Blanchard (what I call “drooling idiot theory”). They couldn’t tell simple balloon debris from an exotic flying saucer. Everybody else, civilian or military, speaking of such things as highly anomalous debris, non-human bodies, extreme security, and even death threats to keep people silent were liars, contaminated, attention seekers, every single one of them.

    And that’s how the true pseudoscience and modern myth of a Mogul Flight #4 gets perpetuated, not only in backwater discussions like this, but also in the pages of such places like Wikipedia. Psychological denial. Confirmation bias. And not a single real source to back up a “Flight #4”.

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