Greg
Lawson was the guest today. He is a former police officer, former soldier, former
airman and former sailor. He has been studying the paranormal for decades, and
Greg Lawson
has a special interest in the Roswell UFO case. His book, Roswell: The After
Action Report is different from the other books in that he attacks the
question as a police investigator rather than as a UFO researcher. It means
that he comes at the case from, well, a different perspective. You can listen
to the show here:
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/47299923
He
did surprise me by suggesting that Thomas DuBose, the Chief of Staff for the 8th
Eighth Air Force in Fort Worth in 1947 was a major witness, and maybe the most
important of the witnesses. He thought that because DuBose was on both ends of
the coverup, whatever the cause of the coverup was, he would have a special
insight. Others who fit into that category such as General Ramey and Colonel
Blanchard had died prior to the renewed interest in the case. DuBose left some
video evidence about what he had seen and done.
We
also talked about Jesse Marcel, Sr. and his involvement in the case. I’d just
gone through the interview with Bob Pratt done in 1979. You can see Pratt’s
notes and transcript of that interview here:
http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2013/09/jesse-marcel-sr-bob-pratt-and-interview.html
The
pages of the interview are at the end of the posting. You can see Marcel’s
words, and the way the notes were taken. That provides some insight into this
aspect of the case.
Having
gone through that interview again, I was a little disturbed by some of the
claims Marcel had made about his military service and his educational
background. These have been reported on in the past, including Marcel’s claim
about shooting down five enemy aircraft. No record of his claim exists, and as
I learned, records of this sort of activity do exist. The Air Force (okay, the
Army Air Forces) kept track of that during the war. One sergeant flying as a
gunner in a bomber is recorded as having shot down 17 enemy planes. The list begins
with those having downed a single enemy craft but Marcel’s name does not appear
on the list anywhere.
That
and other embellishments would be devastating to the Roswell case if there were
not other witnesses to the crash. That means, simply, that if Marcel was stand
alone, his testimony about the crash could be dismissed, but there are,
literally, dozens of other witnesses to some aspects of the case. That includes
the majority of Blanchard’s primary staff, to other officers and enlisted
soldiers who participated in some aspect of the recovery and civilians who found
debris or witnessed some other aspects of the case. In other words, Marcel’s
tale of the UFO crash and the look of the debris is corroborated independently
by others.
We
eventually got around to Mogul and the Air Force offer of the balloon arrays as
the culprit in the recovery. Here, I probably should mention, again, that
everyone agrees that something fell near Roswell. It’s the identify that is in
question. I’m not going to report the list of reasons that Mogul doesn’t work
here again. Those interested can pick up a copy of Roswell in the 21st
Century for a detailed analysis, or just type Mogul into the search engine
on this blog and you’ll have more than enough information.
There
were many other things that I wanted to explore, but we just ran out of time.
The conversation was interesting, at least for me and that’s what counts (well,
it’s really the audience interest that counts. My interest is a gauge of that).
I’ll have Greg back on the program in the future so that we can hit some of the
other points.
Next up is the long-promised interview with Stan Gordon. We’ll get his take on the Kecksburg UFO crash. And the following week, I’ll talk with Dr. Peter Strassburg about his book, When Einstein Went to Roswell.
