| Thousands will gather in Roswell, NM, this summer | | | | the late Steven Schiff, a New Mexico |
| for the annual UFO Festival. Because it's been | | | | Representative driven to make the inquiry by calls |
| sixty years since the UFO crash, this festival will | | | | and letters from his constituents. The 1990s |
| be more important than most. Despite | | | | remained hot for Roswell with the 1997 publication |
| self-serving, ever-changing statements directly or | | | | of Colonel Corso's book, The Day after Roswell, |
| indirectly from the U.S. Government, no one really | | | | and the 1999 premier of Roswell, the TV Series |
| knows what crashed near Roswell in July of 1947. | | | | (1999-2002). |
| However, thanks to the courage of individuals | | | | Roswell is still a treasure house of undiscovered |
| that have come forward to speak about what | | | | secrets. Proof of that comes from the people |
| they witnessed or the role they played in the | | | | that still come forward with information about the |
| unexplained event, we can be almost certain of | | | | things that happened in the town. Last year I was |
| one thing. It was, in the words of the late Jesse | | | | contacted by a man living in California who I'll call |
| Marcel Sr., "not of this earth." | | | | Al. After listening to the rebroadcast of a radio |
| Marcel was an Intelligence Officer at the base and | | | | program recorded a few years ago with the late |
| had personal involvement with the investigation of | | | | Colonel Corso talking about the Roswell UFO |
| the material from the crash site. He is not alone in | | | | crash, Al began to give some thought to |
| his assessment of what crashed near Roswell. | | | | something that had occurred earlier in his life. |
| The late Retired Colonel Philip Corso offered his | | | | Al moved to San Francisco, California, in 1964. |
| own experiences as proof positive in a book | | | | Sometime in the winter of 1964-65, he was set |
| entitled 'The Day after Roswell.' Shortly after the | | | | up on a blind date with 'a good-looking young |
| UFO crash, Corso had an opportunity to view an | | | | blond woman.' While he could not recall her name |
| unusual cadaver preserved in some sort of blue | | | | or where they went on the date, he did |
| liquid while he was Post Duty Officer at Fort Riley, | | | | remember an unusual conversation they had at |
| KS. The body came from Roswell via Fort Bliss | | | | the end of the evening. At some point the young |
| and was en route to Wright Field | | | | woman asked Al if he believed in the existence of |
| (Wright-Patterson AFB, OH). | | | | other life forms or Alien life in the Universe. Al |
| It's important to remember that these are just | | | | said he did and gave a few reasons why, which |
| two of the many people that had first or second | | | | included the size of the Universe and the common |
| hand knowledge about the crash. Even a quick | | | | scientific probabilities of the day. The young |
| examination of the collective evidence would | | | | woman almost immediately gave affirmation to Al |
| indicate this event involved something more than | | | | by saying something like, "Yea, you're right," and |
| a weather, high altitude or radar balloon with a | | | | followed up with a most amazing story. |
| bunch of crash test dummies or cadavers aboard. | | | | She was the daughter of an Air Force Chaplain. |
| It was more than some crazy test vehicle that a | | | | The family lived in Roswell and her father was |
| bunch of super-intelligent children or midgets were | | | | serving on the base in the late 1940s. The young |
| piloting around the New Mexico desert during a | | | | woman told him that sometime during dinner two |
| violent thunderstorm. These facts make the | | | | men came to the door to get her dad. She |
| Roswell UFO Festival an essential event that has | | | | recalled hearing them tell him that his services |
| become an annual reminder of a great mystery | | | | were needed. The incident caused such a stir in |
| that remains unsolved. | | | | the household that everyone stayed up late until |
| Although I have been to Roswell over twenty | | | | he returned. |
| times since the early 1980s, I have never | | | | Seeing that everyone was still awake, the |
| attended the festival. My loss. However, I have | | | | Chaplain told his family that he was called to give |
| (by invitation) presented seminars in the town | | | | religious comfort to some sort of Alien Life |
| before the festival was organized and visited | | | | Forms near what seemed to be a crashed |
| occasionally since that time. Despite missing out on | | | | spacecraft. At least two of four creatures were |
| all the festivities, I have always enjoyed the calm | | | | still alive when he got there. He described them as |
| and mystery of the place without all the hoopla. | | | | looking a bit like adolescent boys, but obviously |
| I presented my first seminar in Roswell during | | | | not human. No one knew what the creatures |
| 1992. It was supposed to be a low-key event at | | | | were or precisely how to care for them. As a |
| a nice hotel and small convention facility for a | | | | result, all of the beings eventually perished. That |
| group of former military personnel (unrelated to | | | | was the crux of the story and the woman told Al |
| the old base) holding a reunion in town. They | | | | that the family never discussed it in-depth again. |
| invited me to speak after one of the organizers | | | | Despite the lack of details, it presents an intriguing |
| heard a guest spot that I did on an Albuquerque | | | | challenge and is typical of stories that pop up now |
| radio show the year before. Barely aware of the | | | | and again. |
| crash, the organizer was fascinated by my | | | | Even more stunning are the revelations of the |
| analysis of what happened at Roswell in 1947. He | | | | late Dr Michael Wolf, the ultimate U.S. Government |
| wanted those attending the reunion to have an | | | | insider. Introduced to him by my friend and fellow |
| opportunity to hear the same thing. | | | | paranormal researcher Dick Criswell about twenty |
| I arrived in town a few days before the event so | | | | years ago, I was initially skeptical of some of his |
| that I could snoop around as I usually did | | | | claims which included personal knowledge of |
| whenever I came to Roswell. Unfortunately, my | | | | various secret programs involving the |
| radio and television appearances in Albuquerque to | | | | government and aliens, technology gained from |
| plug a seminar I presented there alerted the | | | | UFO crashes and agreements with aliens, and a |
| media in Roswell. A noontime television interview | | | | UFO incident involving the late President John F. |
| that I did on a local Albuquerque news program | | | | Kennedy (his wife was related to the Kennedy |
| was simulcast in Roswell and that was the end of | | | | Family). |
| my ambiguity. With the story of the Roswell | | | | My skepticism vanished after a few conversations |
| Crash all over the map in those days and a | | | | with him over the phone and various |
| shortage of UFO researchers that spoke about | | | | demonstrations of his political clout. If wouldn't be |
| Roswell actually visiting their town, I was invited | | | | unusual to find him speaking over the phone with |
| to appear on a midday TV news show, booked | | | | Vice President Dan Quayle or former President Bill |
| for a guest spot on local radio and gave an | | | | Clinton (Yes, it REALLY was them, not a joke or |
| interview to the Roswell Daily Record. | | | | impersonation). I was also impressed by a mental |
| Fortunately, my seminar for the group holding | | | | exercise that he developed for the government. |
| their reunion in Roswell was also open to the | | | | He called it The Gateway Treatment. It was |
| public. And the public came out in force. I was | | | | disguised as a relaxation meditation that attracts |
| surprised because you would think that after the | | | | positive energy and certainly accomplishes that |
| publication of The Roswell Incident, an Unsolved | | | | goal, but it's basically a way to mentally summon |
| Mystery episode on the crash and all the media | | | | aliens. |
| coverage received, the people in town would be | | | | Notoriously camera and press shy, he |
| sick of hearing about UFOs. Instead, they couldn't | | | | nevertheless felt compelled to share some of his |
| get enough. | | | | amazing information and exploits with a few close |
| One of the people that attended my seminar was | | | | friends and trusted paranormal researchers during |
| Glenn Dennis. He was the funeral home worker | | | | the years shortly before his death in 2000. As a |
| that said he arrived at the Roswell Base just | | | | board member of the International Paranormal |
| after the crash in 1947. He took some time to | | | | UFO Society, I am thrilled to announce the release |
| speak with me after the seminar ended and said | | | | of the only known video interview recorded with |
| that my presentation about UFOs was the most | | | | Dr Wolf on DVD entitled, DR MICHAEL WOLF: |
| accurate and the best he had ever seen. Similar | | | | KEEPER OF COSMIC SECRETS. The video was |
| kudos were thrown my way by others in the | | | | filmed in 1998. |
| audience and those comments remain a highlight | | | | Those that look at the Roswell UFO Crash as |
| of my time as a paranormal researcher. | | | | case closed or believe that it a field that has |
| Most of the younger people that came out to my | | | | already been farmed too many times do not |
| seminar candidly told me that most of what they | | | | understand the nature of the UFO subject or the |
| learned about the crash came from TV specials | | | | power of the government cover-up. Years ago I |
| and occasional news reports. Given my first visit | | | | spoke to a UFO witness. The event he observed |
| to Roswell in the 80's, I believed them. Asking | | | | occurred while he was in the military. He received |
| about the location of the crash in those days | | | | calls at least once a month from people who said |
| tended to get you dirty looks. Roswell citizens | | | | that they knew what happened and that he had |
| were in a state of denial and even the history of | | | | better not talk about it. |
| the old Roswell Base seemed unimportant to | | | | Although he hadn't told anyone except his |
| them at that time. It was a lesson in how | | | | immediate superior about the incident, people in |
| successful a cover-up and government intimidation | | | | high places seemed to know about it and the calls |
| can be. | | | | continued for years. Imagine the power of that |
| Despite their lack of enthusiasm for local history | | | | kind of intimidation. Now imagine living in what |
| during my first visit to Roswell, I am happy to | | | | became a government town during the 1940s. It |
| report that the town has had a complete turn | | | | wasn't hard for anyone to imagine being locked up |
| around. Barely mentioned in the town brochure | | | | in some federal prison like Leavenworth if you |
| and considered a kind of local embarrassment in | | | | happen to run afoul of federal authorities. Retired |
| those days, the UFO Crash has become almost a | | | | military personnel had even more to lose. They |
| centerpiece of town history. The base, its | | | | could end up in prison and forfeit any benefits, |
| connection to atomic history and the former | | | | pay or pensions due them. |
| military members that served there have also | | | | Sixty years after the Roswell UFO crash, we still |
| received a lot more attention in the post | | | | do not have the entire story. However, that |
| no-nukes atmosphere of the 1970s and 1980s. | | | | doesn't mean there is no story. It just means |
| The people have changed as well. | | | | that the U.S. Government has managed to |
| A new generation seems to embrace the | | | | convince most people that the idea of alien life |
| attention that the UFO Crash brings each year. | | | | forms visiting us is just not probable and that |
| The 1994 Showtime Networks cable television | | | | whatever crashed near Roswell isn't something |
| film about the UFO Crash entitled, Roswell, | | | | we need to be concerned about. Well, I beg to |
| renewed a lot of local interest in the crash and a | | | | differ. The only thing that will come from trusting |
| reexamination of what really happened. That | | | | government officials to make all of the decisions |
| coincided with a call for the release of | | | | while we remain blissfully ignorant is tyranny. |
| government documents about the UFO crash by | | | | |