(Blogger's Note: It is with some trepidation that I post the following, given the reaction yesterday to Tony Bragalia's name on the article. But here is additional information, important because of the allegation that the image we all had yesterday was painted on a photograph of a shelf in a museum. Today we have a source for the photograph that couldn't have been altered because of the timing of it. And, importantly, it is from another source.
I will note, that given the whole story, I'm not convinced that Benerd or Hilda Ray took the "original" slides photograph because that evidence is somewhat obscure, but this unfortunate child is the source of those slides. Who took the original photograph is unimportant given that we have identified the object photographed. The Rays could be called a red herring and as of today, are not important to this story. We can erase them from all that we know because, at best, they photographed a mummy and at worse, were blamed for the photograph because someone had a bunch of other slides they had taken.
Here, then, is another angle on the Roswell Slides and what they actually show.)
“ROSWELL
SLIDES” –
THE
FINAL CONFIRMATION THAT IT IS A MUMMY,
SOURCE
FOUND
BY
ANTHONY BRAGALIA
I can
now confirm that the
photo that appeared on the Net
(courtesy Jorge Peredo through his friend Jose Caravaca) that
shows the “Roswell Slides” body in a National Parks Service museum in Arizona
is that
of a child mummy that had previously been displayed at the Mesa Verde Museum in
Colorado and photographed by Bernerd and Hilda Ray.
Although
Jose and Jorge were not able to show with certainty that the photo was taken at
the Arizona museum, I have just made a discovery that does. I had in my previous
piece found a newspaper article by a travel writer who saw the mummy in Arizona
and recounted researcher David Rudiak’s timeline of the display and transfer of
the mummy within the National Park Service system. But now something that is
photographic proof has presented itself.
Working
with my German research associate ,and
by using a
deep review of
Google images and online
photo albums, and
by using key word searches on various search engines, this amazing confirmation
was found on the account of an elderly lady named
“Frances” who
had
posted on
the Picasa Web online photo album site.
She
has 43 albums online which include everything from reunions and
vacations.
One of
her trips was to the State of Arizona. And
on that trip, she photographed the “Roswell Slides” mummy, on display at a
National Park Service museum.
Found
buried in the albums is a photo marked “Photo 51” under “Arizona: 1957 &
1967” and posted to Picasa on September 7, 2008 is the “Roswell Slides” mummy
displayed at the Montezuma Castle museum / Yavapai Culture
Center:
This
conclusively proves that the image at the Arizona museum is not photo-shopped as
some defenders of the “Roswell Slides” such as Jamie Maussan are now
stating. It
was placed online in 2008 and it was taken in either 1957 or 1967.
