Jud Roberts and the Mac Brazel interview
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| Date | 30 December 1991 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Crashes & retrievals (topic), Congress & law (topic) |
| People | Mac Brazel, George "Jud" Roberts, Kevin Randle |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 112 |
| Year | 1991 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1991 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 5 |
George "Jud" Roberts, manager of the Roswell radio station KGFL in July 1947, signed an affidavit in 1991 saying the station recorded an interview with rancher W. W. "Mac" Brazel, who had found the crash debris, and that a call from Washington warned it not to broadcast the story.[1]
The affidavit
In the statement, signed on 30 December 1991 and witnessed at a Roswell bank, Roberts said he was a minority stockholder and manager of KGFL. He said the station interviewed Brazel, kept him at the home of station owner W. E. Whitmore Sr., and recorded the interview on a wire recorder. The next morning, he said, he received a call from someone in Washington — possibly in the office of New Mexico Senators Clinton Anderson or Dennis Chavez — who warned that the station's licence could be in jeopardy, perhaps within three days, if it released the information. Roberts said he decided not to broadcast it.[1]
Other recollections
Roberts said he tried to drive to the crash site but was turned back by a military man who said it was a restricted area. He said there was "quite a clamp" on discussion of the event, and that the station staff kept quiet partly for the sake of base press officer Walter Haut, although they doubted the weather-balloon explanation, since weather balloons were launched about a block from the station every day.[1]
Context
The affidavit was published in Karl Pflock's Roswell in Perspective (1994) and became part of the Roswell narrative about official pressure on local media and witnesses. Brazel himself told the Roswell Daily Record in July 1947 that the debris consisted of rubber, tinfoil, paper and sticks. The recording has never surfaced, no records of the warning have been found, and the account was given more than 40 years after the event. In the 1990s the Air Force concluded that the debris came from a Project Mogul balloon train.[1][2][3]
People and topics
- Roswell — The New Mexico town at the center of the 1947 crash story.
- Mac Brazel — Rancher who found the Roswell debris in 1947.
- George "Jud" Roberts — Manager of radio station KGFL in Roswell in 1947.
- Kevin Randle — Roswell researcher and author of many books on crash-retrieval claims.
On the Timeline
- Ray Boeche's meeting with two DoD scientists (25 November 1991) — Two scientists tied to the DIA and NSA claim secret programs try to control non-human intelligence.
- Dan Sherman's NSA analyst training (1992) — Dan Sherman claims his NSA analyst training was cover for communicating with extraterrestrials.
See every 1991 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- "Affidavit of George 'Jud' Roberts" (1991), RoswellProof · roswellproof.com · archived copy
- Roswell incident — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- "Project Blue Book — Unidentified Flying Objects", U.S. National Archives · archives.gov · archived copy
- Roswell time line notes — Kevin Randle · kevinrandle.blogspot.com · archived copy
- Roswell investigation notes — Patrick Gross · ufology.patrickgross.org · archived copy
Further reading
- UFOs and the Air Force: records — National Archives · archives.gov · archived copy
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