In the search
for documentation about the Roswell UFO crash, some evidence has surfaced,
though it is not the sort of thing that the proponents were looking for. Though
the documentation is not definitive, meaning that it does not mention Roswell
specifically (nor does it mention Aztec for that matter) it does affect the
overall notion that something alien fell out of the sky back in the late 1940s.
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| Colonel Howard McCoy |
This is a
letter, originally classified as “Secret,” written by Colonel Howard McCoy,
who, at that time in late 1940s, was an intelligence officer who operated at
the highest levels in the Air Force. He was at Wright Field in 1947 and was
probably the author of the Twining Letter of September 1947, which announced
that the phenomenon was something real and not illusionary or fictitious. He
conferred with General Nathan Twining on a regular basis, and as I have pointed
out repeatedly, was involved in studying these unidentified aerial phenomena
since the days of the Foo Fighters late in the Second World War and the Ghost
Rockets of 1946.
In a letter
dated October 7, 1948, and sent to the CIA, McCoy wondered if they had any
information about the UFOs and if they might have some sort of “domestic
origin,” meaning, quite clearly, he wondered if it was a highly classified
research project inspired by the CIA. McCoy wrote, “Your cooperation in so
doing might greatly assist in identifying our own domestic developments from
possible inimical foreign achievements.”
Okay, it really
doesn’t say much, but you would think that if there had been a crash of an
alien craft near Roswell (or Aztec for that matter), McCoy would be one of
those on the inside who knew about it. He wouldn’t need to consult with the CIA
to learn if they might know of some project that would account for the UFO sightings.
The last thing that he would want to do is create an interest in searching for
information about the flying saucers.
Don’t get fooled
by the red herring that Stan Friedman has launched. True, the letter was only
“secret” and we all suppose that the Roswell crash information would be “top
secret,” and therefore couldn’t be mentioned in a document with a lower
classification. But McCoy is asking for information and his request is
classified at the appropriate level. That McCoy made the request at all is the
important point here, not the overall classification of the letter. He could
request the information he needed at a lower level of classification without
violating any regulations and if the CIA needed to respond with top secret
information, they certainly could have done that.
That he asked at
all suggests that he didn’t have an answer, which, if Roswell was alien in
nature, wouldn’t be true. He would have known about it. Instead, he was worried
about some domestic program that might be under the auspices of the CIA. Had
Roswell happened, the CIA wouldn’t have been involved, and even if they became
interested at a later date, the Army had already collected the debris and moved
it up the chain of command. The destination would have been Wright Field and if
that was true, then McCoy would have been one of those officers who would have
been responsible for the reverse engineering and gathering other information of
intelligence value.
This letter does
not bode well for the Roswell crash proponents. I don’t believe that McCoy, or
anyone else in 1948, would have been writing these letters as a diversion in case
sometime in the future, flying saucer information found its way into the
civilian world. They assumed then that anything highly classified would remain
that way nearly forever because that is the way it had almost always been.
Civilians had no need to know or right to information that was the property of
the military. True, some was released, but these officers in 1948 knew that
information from the First World War was still highly classified. McCoy wasn’t
writing the letter to dupe us; he was asking the CIA for help in identifying
the problem… which was the nature of the flying saucers. He just didn’t seem
know and he should have if there had been the crash of an alien craft near
Roswell.
