RoswellEssay Preview: RoswellReport this essayRoswellDescriptionIn the summer of 1947, there were a number of UFO sightings in the United States. Sometime during the first week of July 1947, something crashed near Roswell. W.W. “Mac” Brazel went with his son and neighbours Floyd and Loretta Practor, to check on their sheep after a fierce thunderstorm that had taken place just the night before. As they were walking to where the sheep were they saw pieces of what seemed like metal debris. After a bit more investigating, Brazel saw a shallow trench that was several hundred feet long. Brazel went to Roswell and reported it. On July 1947 the press said that a wreckage of a crashed disk had been recovered and issued to col. William Blanchard of the 509th bomb group at Roswell. Just hours later the 509th bomb group said it had been mistakenly identified as a flying saucer when in fact it was really only a weather balloon.
When and by whom was this debris found?W.W. “Mac” Brazel gathered his son and neighbours to check on the sheep because of a storm. On the way to check on the sheep the group found bits of debris everywhere and a long shallow trench.
Could it have been a weather balloon?Col. Blanchard sent Major Jesse Marcel to investigate. Marcel was able to determine what direction it came from, and which direction it was heading. He also believed it must of exploded above the ground and fell. Major Jesse Marcel said the debris was “strewn over a wide area and the metal was as thin as aluminium foil but indestructible”.
Is there anything to indicate that this really was a UFO but it was being covered up the 509th bomb group? Back in Roswell, Glenn Dennis, a young mortician working at the Ballard Funeral Home, received some curious calls one afternoon from the morgue at the airfield. It seems the Mortuary Officer needed to get a hold of some small hermetically sealed coffins, and wanted information about how to preserve bodies that had been exposed to the elements for a few days, without contaminating the tissue. Glenn Dennis drove out to the base hospital later that evening where he saw large pieces of Wreckage with strange engravings on one of the pieces sticking out of the back of a military ambulance. Upon entering the hospital he started to visit with a nurse he knew, when suddenly he was threatened by military police and forced to leave. The next day, Glenn Dennis met with the nurse. She told him about the bodies and drew pictures of them on a prescription pad.
Loren L. Moore
Loren L. Moore, a former CIA and FBI officer, worked in the nuclear weapons laboratories at the Pentagon for many years, helping the F.B.I track down the bombs and their operators before they left the site. In a 1995 book on the subject, Moore, then the deputy chief of weapons at the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), says there were “a number of occasions when a small group of people from the U.S. government” had approached him to inform his superiors. They had asked him if he should be on his guard or to report to a private meeting, but he said he was “looking for that kind of an opportunity.” When, after the story spread of that meeting, he learned that in fact a nuclear weapons test had taken place, L.M. Moore, then at the CIA, called his chief of staff and told him to send a message to the “Navy Department of Defense.”
Moore told an audience of journalists in August 1999, when he was told of the alleged “NSA intercept” of a civilian airliner. He went on to write a book about the matter called “The Secret World of the NSA: Why Did The F.B.I Steal a Newton Building?” Moore concluded that the NSA had been able to monitor the communications of Americans on planes that were flying in commercial airliners, so they might be able to locate the aircraft using intelligence analysts: in many cases, such as in Boston, it could be possible to pinpoint the targets of any plane with any frequency at any altitude.
Moore was arrested the same week he was allegedly approached by a former government agency and told he would be subject to the same restrictions as anyone who tried to photograph a civilian being flown in a commercial jet. Moore was charged with one count of espionage, one count of unauthorized access to classified information, and one count of willfully violating classified state secrets.
The story “UFO intercept” began with a military agent who looked like a member of America’s elite spy service, but was described as “not at all like a senior officer on a plane.” This is the story many of us would love to know a lot more and which deserves to be told here.
Lennie L. Moore
Lennie L. Moore was a federal intelligence officer at the Joint Intelligence Center. She was fired after being accused of spying for the U.S. government. She took over her post as deputy chief of staff for the Pentagon Intelligence Office for an unspecified amount of time. Moore was an American citizen with no previous service in the U.S. military.
When investigators began searching the Pentagon, it turned out that she and a top U.S. diplomat had traveled between the two countries and had met in the Philippines.
Moore then told the reporter that the NSA was building a surveillance network along the East Coast from the Pacific to Asia and that the agency had “some sort of network with this group just along the way through.”
She noted that the National Security Agency was using the NSA on what it referred to as “UFO” intercepts, including the Pentagon’s “new aircraft carrier.” When the news broke that Moore would be working there, then-FBI Director James Comey publicly told the press that “it was not in my interest to have this information.” Moore told NPR, “It was not in my interest to be a big part of the government’s surveillance activities.”
Moore told the story to the reporters who came to her office on Sept. 17, 1999, and at one point the New York Times reported that Moore had ordered the FBI to open an investigation into her relationship with the FBI that began when she was a teenager.