Friedman,S. Berliner,D. Crash at Corona. 1992
Friedman, Stanton T. and Berliner, Don. Crash at Corona: The U.S. Military
Retrieval and Cover-up of a UFO. New York: Paragon House, 1992. 217 pages.
In July, 1947, there was unusual activity at Roswell Army Air Field
in New Mexico. The public information officer announced that a "flying disc"
had been recovered on a ranch near Corona. After this went out on the wires,
they corrected themselves and said that it was merely a weather balloon.
The press dutifully lost interest for the next 45 years -- in 1947 it was
not considered proper to question the official line.
The rancher who found the wreck, William "Mac" Brazel, was taken into
custody for a week and then kept his mouth shut, but his son remembers
plenty. Another witness was Major Jesse A. Marcel, an intelligence officer
from Roswell who was dispatched to the crash site to pick up the pieces
(as light as balsa wood, flexible, utterly indestructible, and with strange
hieroglyphic markings on them). And there is Glenn Dennis, a civilian
mortician who normally did work for Roswell. He showed up one day in July
on routine business, and briefly exchanged words with a nurse on duty
("How did you get in here?") before he was forcibly ejected by MPs. The next
day, emotionally distraught, she described to him the three small humanoid
bodies that were being autopsied at the base hospital. Authors Friedman and
Berliner interviewed more than 100 witnesses, making this the most thorough
account of a crucial event in human history.
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