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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent research, 19 May 2008
This book is the culmination of years of research on the Roswell Incident, not just by these two authors. The picture which has built up over the years is thoroughly convincing. Schmitt and Carey have conducted hundreds of interviews with around 600 witnesses (firsthand and secondhand). The sheer amount of man hours that have gone into producing something like this puts the majority of Fleet St journalists to shame. Anyone with a rational mind reading this, trusting the authors, will conclude with 98% certainty that Roswell happened and was real.
It leaves the question - Where did all that alien technology go?
The US Army's Foreign Technology division at Wright Patterson Air Force Base.
And if you want to know about that it's in Col. Corso's book 'The Day After Roswell'. He worked for the Foreign Technology Dept in Washington DC.
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11 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Groundbreaking Book, 21 Jun 2007
Although the below may appear as my review, it is in fact the review written by David Rudiak for UFO Updates open internet list.
Review Of Carey & Schmitt's Witness To Roswell
Tom Carey and Donald Schmitt's new book, Witness To Roswell
just came out, which I just received from Amazon.com.
As the name attests, the book focuses on witness testimony, and
Carey and Schmitt have a slew of new witnesses to report,
including a few first-hand accounts of seeing the alien bodies.
There are also a ton of second-hand alien body stories, plus a
few to seeing the spacecraft either out at the crash site or in
the Hangar 84/P-3 at the base.
The hangar is the focus of many of the accounts, seemingly being
the centralized collection point for the debris, craft, and
bodies for further processing and transport out of the base.
The number of reports on alien bodies was surprising to me,
including several of a live alien. I had no idea there was so
much testimony along these lines.
The prize witness is Walter Haut, as most of us know, the
Roswell base public information officer, who put out Colonel
Blanchard's recovered flying disc press release on July 8, 1947.
Haut in 2002 filled out a notarized affidavit, to be sealed
until after his death. Here the affidavit is revealed in full.
Haut, as he first did in an oral history with Wendy Connors and
Dennis Balthaser in 2000, reveals seeing the crash object and
several small bodies with big heads at Hangar 84, being taken
there by Col. Blanchard. This was on Tuesday, July 8 in the
afternoon, after the press release had hit the wires.
Haut also reveals first hearing about the Brazel debris field
and another crash location 40 miles to the north, where the main
craft and bodies were, on Monday afternoon, July 7, after
returning to the base from home after the 4th of July weekend.
The northern site had just been found by civilians and rumors of
the two sites were beginning to break out in town and on the
base.
The following morning at 7:30, Haut attended the senior staff
morning meeting where everybody was briefed as to what was
happening. Marcel and Cavitt described their findings at the
Brazel debris field and Blanchard filled in everybody on the
second crash site.
Haut also states Gen. Ramey and Col. Dubose were there, meaning
they had flown in from Fort Worth.
Debris was passed around for everybody to handle and nobody
could identify it. Much of the meeting was devoted to discussing
how to handle the situation and what the public should be told.
Here Haut discusses some of the rationale behind the issuing of
the puzzling press release. According to Haut, it was Gen.
Ramey's idea to divert public attention away from the closer and
more important craft/body site. Haut felt Ramey was just
carrying out orders from the Pentagon.
Haut also states he went out to at least one of the sites and
brought back some debris of his own. He was aware of two teams
that went out for months afterwards to try to uncover any
physical evidence that might have been left behind. Although he
doesn't say it, Haut is here providing some corroboration for
various tales of debris confiscation afterwards, such as told by
Bill Brazel Jr.
Haut's affidavit plus other testimony below revives the crash
site 40 miles of north of Roswell where the main craft and
bodies were found.
Haut also presents a new timeline of the discovery of the site
on July 7, which means recovery began at this site at the same
time Marcel and Cavitt were out at the Brazel debris field
investigating it.
Another prize eyewitness is Sgt. Frederick Benthal. He was F.B.
in Crash At Corona, but here he is identified publicly for the
first time (or to me anyway). Benthal was the Army photographer
flown in from Washington, taken out to the body site, and who
photographed the alien bodies in a tent, with everybody else
cleared out.
Corroborating this was a first/second-hand account from an MP at
the site, PFC Ed Sain. He stated he was taken out to the site in
one of the ambulances and ordered to shoot anybody who tried to
enter a particular tent. His son said his father didn't like to
talk about it, but had told him he had guarded the bodies in the
tent until they were transported to the base.
Sain indicated that another MP, Cpl. Raymond Van Why, had gone
out with him to the site. Van Why's widow, Leola, said her
husband first talked about it in 1954 when he got out of the
service. He told her that he had been a guard at a crash site
and had seen the round spacecraft.
Sgt. Homer Rowlette was with the 603rd Air Engineering Squadron.
His son Larry and daughter Carlene Green said he told them about
it on his deathbed in March 1988. He was part of the cleanup
detail sent to the impact site north of Roswell. He handled the
infamous "memory foil" described by many others. He described
the ship as "somewhat circular" and said he had seen "three
little people" with large heads. At least one was alive (just
one of the 'live alien' stories).
PFC Rolland Menagh was another MP at the site, according to sons
Michael and Rolland Jr. He described the ship as egg-shaped and
seamless. Michael recalled him describing three dead bodies. His
father said they loaded the ship onto an 18-wheeler and covered
it with a tarp. He escorted it in a jeep as they drove it
through the center of town to the base and deposited it in a
hangar.
This brings us back to Roswell base.
S. Sgt. Earl Fulford saw his close friend, S. Sgt. George Houck,
drive off at 5:00 a.m. July 8 in a low-boy truck, which he
presumed was to pick up some wreckage, one of his standard
duties.
Fulford was an aircraft mechanic who often worked at Hangar 84.
During the day civilian mechanics from town kept questioning him
about the rumored spaceship with little spacemen. At 4:00 p.m.
as he left duty, Fulford saw Houck returning towing a lowboy
trailer and carrying a tarped object about the size and shape of
a VW Beetle. Houck refused to tell him what was under the tarp,
saying he had been ordered not to say. When Fulford tried to get
him to talk in the present-day, Houck still refused to talk
about it.
There was even more to Fulford's story. The next day he said he
was "volunteered" to be part of a work detail of 15-20 men taken
out to what we call the Brazel debris field to finish cleaning
it up. They were given burlap bags and ordered to pick up
anything "not natural".
He described an area hundreds of yards in extent and, like other
witnesses, said it was ringed with MPs. He said it had obviously
been cleaned up before, because there wasn't much left, and he
could see tire tracks from big trucks that had been there
hauling things away. He said he found only 7 pieces, and
described picking up and handling, like so many other witnesses,
the "memory foil" that returned to its original shape.
When he got back to the base, he was awakened at 2:00 a.m. the
next morning and ordered out to Hangar P-3. He was also a
forklift operator and was ordered to load a wooden crate, 7 feet
square, into an idling C-54. It handled as if whatever was
inside weighed very little.
Back at Roswell base, everything centers on Hangar 84/P-3.
Another eyewitness MP, PFC Elias Benjamin, described being
ordered to pick up his gun and go out to Hangar P-3 for guard
duty on the morning of July 8. He noticed unusually heavy
activity around base headquarters.
When he got to the hangar, the officer who had ordered him there
was being subdued by MPs. He later found out he had been to the
crash site, but when he saw the bodies at the hangar he had
flipped out.
Benjamin said he was placed in charge of escorting 3 or 4 bodies
covered with sheets to the base hospital. One of them appeared
to be moving. One of the sheets slipped and he saw a grayish
face and large hairless head of something that wasn't human.
When he got to the hospital and the sheets were removed, he got
a much better view of one of the bodies and gave a familiar
description of small body, large egg-shaped head, slanted eyes,
slit mouth, and two holes for a nose. He thought it was alive
and saw the doctors working on it.
Afterwards, he was debriefed, forced to sign a non-disclosure
statement, and told if he ever talked about it very bad things
would happen to him and his family. He still feared he would
lose his pension. His wife, who encouraged him to go public,
said he first told her the story in 1949 when they were married.
At the hospital, Miriam 'Andrea' Bush, 27, was a secretary to
the hospital administrator Lt. Col. Harold Warne.
According to her brother George and sister Jean, she came home
one night in a state of total shock. Finally she said that there
were a lot of strange medical personnel at the...
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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
After 60 years, is this their best evidence!!, 4 Aug 2007
Fortunately I didn't buy this book but read the numerous chapters placed on the Google Booksite. In my opinion, the book is obviously bias towards a pro-UFO crash regards of what the witnesses have to say.
For example they are 2 witnesses to an event. The first states that he was told by the second (a USAAF low loader driver) that he had picked up a UFO and brought it back to base. The second witness when asked by the authors if it was true, says it wasn't. Do they simply present the evidence and leave it for the reader to decide. No they imply the second witness is covering up what happened, even though they produce no evidence to confirm this insinuation.
And as for Haut, he has made two affidavits (An affidavit is a formal sworn statement of fact, signed by the declarant and witnessed by a taker of oaths, such as a notary public.) Both tell completely different stories as to what happened. So which sworn statement do we believe; the earlier one to which he stuck to for decades or the later one he made decades later. Which, is any, can we believe
Not a convincing book and one only for the UFO believer
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