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It is the height of intellectual laziness to completely dismiss what has been fully established as a social/cultural phenomenon not only in North America, but throughout the world.

It is far too easy to label anyone expressing an interest in UFOs as a 'nut', because it requires far more effort to actually debunk and prove as wrong the thousands and thousands of UFO incidents that have been taking place at an ever increasing pace since World War II. It is easier for skeptics to just engage in ridicule, rather than to actually attempt to disprove a phenomenon that cannot be readily explained.

There have been years where the number of sightings of such phenomena have slacked off, but the one thing that has NEVER happened is a wholesale lack of sightings.

For example, consider the recent UFO sighting at Chicago O'Hare, that isn't a case of drunken hillbillies mistaking the moon for a flying saucer, or 'ball lightning', that was a case of airline professionals witnessing a disc shaped object hovering over the 'C' concourse at O'Hare. Despite the obligatory FAA denials that anything out of the usual occurred, the number of witnesses defy the usual handy explanations of 'swamp gas', a 'weather phenomenon', or a 'mass hallucination'.

Now somebody whose mind is already made up, who fears looking into something that might have the potential to challenge or God forbid *change* their own beliefs about the physical universe, specifically the world we live in, is of course going to say "ahhh they're all crazy, it can't possibly be kept secret, the government leaks like a sieve, blah-blah-blah" but the fact is, our federal government is so massive, has so many different functions and facets that the public never sees, it IS entirely possible to keep something secret if it is deemed critical to our national security.

Unfortunately, Roswell New Mexico has become a punch line for far too many people when in fact that city may well represent one of the most profound occurrences to take place in the United States since the first detonation of the atomic bomb, literally 'just down the road'.

Consider this one item, if nothing else:

AFFIDAVIT

(1) My name is Thomas Jefferson Dubose

(2) My address is: XXXXXXXXXX

(3) I retired from the U.S. Air force in 1959 with the rank of Brigadier General.

(4) In July 1947, I was stationed at Fort Worth Army Air Field [later Carswell Air Force Base] in Fort Worth, Texas. I served as Chief of Staff to Major General Roger Ramey, Commander, Eight Air Force. I had the rank of Colonel.

(5) In early July, I received a phone call from Maj. Gen. Clements McMullen, Deputy Commander, Strategic Air Command. He asked what we knew about the object which had been recovered outside Roswell, New Mexico, as reported in the press. I called Col. William Blanchard, Commander of the Roswell Army Air Field and directed him to send the material in a sealed container to me at Fort Worth. I so informed Maj. Gen. McMullen.

(6) After the plane from Roswell arrived with the material, I asked the Base Commander, Col. Al Clark, to take possession of the material and to personally transport it in a B-26 to Maj. Gen. McMullen in Washington, D.C. I notified Maj. Gen. McMullen, and he told me he would send the material by personal courier on his plane to Benjamin Chidlaw, Commanding General of the Air Material Command at Wright Field [later Wright Patterson AFB]. The entire operation was conducted under the strictest secrecy.

(7) The material shown in the photographs taken in Maj. Gen. Ramey's office was a weather balloon. The weather balloon explanation for the material was a cover story to divert the attention of the press.

(8) I have not been paid or given anything of value to make this statement, which is the truth to the best of my recollection.

Signed: T. J. Dubose

Date: 9/16/91

Signature witnessed by:

Linda R. Split
Notary Public, State of Florida
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