Mac Brazel & The Debris. An Opinion.

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If there was one thing I could never understand about the so-called Roswell Incident was that if the ragged scraps of
foil, wooden-supports for the targets the illustrated tape that held the silver material to the 'unbreakable' sticks and the
balloon itself, were just commonplace in that area of New Mexico, then why confuse the public by announcing you had
a flying disc?

Regardless of a classified project to acquire atmospheric particles to prove the Soviets had tested a nuclear device, why not
just say it was another weather balloon and fudge the records? In fact we can go further and ask why didn't the Roswell Army
Air force Base lazily comment that a test rocket had veered off course, nose-dived or exploded in mid-air?

A week before the Roswell Incident, on May 29, 1947, a modified V-2 rocket, called a Hermes B-1 vehicle, which was a highly
classified top secret project at the time, was launched and somehow inadvertently got wires physically crossed in the guidance
system.

Instead of heading up range toward the north as intended, the rocket headed south, slamming into the Tepeyac Cemetery across
the border in Mexico, a mile and a half outside the city of Ciudad Juarez. Travelling at the speed of sound, the crazy rocket blew a
25 foot deep hole in the ground and left damage 30 feet in diameter, which we can all agree should be something we quietly sweep
under the carpet.

It seems the Nazi scientists of 'Paperclip' weren't the geniuses we'd taken them for because it wasn't their first or last screw-up.
However, 120 minutes later, recovery teams had slipped over the border and retrieved what wreckage was left. Phew.

Two weeks before the US began unintentionally bombing Mexico, another Hermes B-1 rocket crashed out in the desert east of the
impact zone on the outskirts of Alamagordo, New Mexico. Being sparsely populated at the time, the tales of wayward flying torpedoes
get lost very easily and of course, records were immediately classified.
But it shows 'impact zones' were a thing and that Wernher von Braun's inventions had the capacity to not do what they were told.



To date, they were at least four others fired from the White Sands V-2 Launching Site known as 'Complex 33', but I'm sure there
were more. Again, the records regarding this place were classified until recently.

So was it these experimental rockets - ancestors of Wallfire's silo-sitting bad-asses, that the military were hiding...?
Was it the sensitive nature where testing can go awry that caused Col. Blanchard to phone his public information officer of the 509th
Bomb -Walter Haut and tell him to announce we had a flying disc on our hands?

It sort-of makes sense, a highly-secretive device comes down in a place where the US public could be in danger and to vent-off any
concerns, the military uses a trend of the time to titillate the media with 'men-from'Mars' and later retract it.
The material is unrecognisable, whatever the post-Nazi scientists were trying was classified, so a cover-story seems the natural way
to go.
But would you do that for a balloon...? Why not just say it was a balloon?

Just like the rocket that took a trip down Mexico way, I think the original narrative may have gotten its wires crossed. Mac Brazel had
already given his account of what he'd found on the Foster ranch to the local radio station and possibly to whoever else he'd come into
contact with.

Brazel didn't recognise the material, his comments of the unusual qualities of the material were a problem and if you throw in the
eye-witness 'glowing-lights-in-the-sky' reports of the evening before the wreckage discovery, maybe Blanchard thought that instead
of denying they had a 'disc' in their possession, he could take the story and control it.

Such damaged material would be flown out from Roswell for examination to see what went wrong and of course, to keep away from
prying eyes. It's a bit weak, I admit, but the only alternative was that the Base Commander was merely telling the truth.
And he may well have been telling the truth if he'd been kept out of the loop that anything from White Sands had disappeared from
radar-tracking and crash landed somewhere.
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In 1947 the radar equipment used at White Sands was said to be composed of SCR-584 mobile units.
These were classed as "modified and of an experimental nature". These units were set onto a trailer and though had a gross weight of
ten tons, known as mobile.
On 14th October 1947, these radar vehicles tracked Chuck Yeager in his record breaking supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 over Muroc Dry
Lake as he accelerated to a speed of Mach 1.06 at an altitude of 42,000 feet.

Some might wonder what radar has anything to do with a suspected downed flying-saucer, but since we tend to think of this kind of
technology as a single source transmitting and receiving electromagnetic waves in the radio or microwaves domain, what was going
on down in White Sands was completely different.

A 1991 book written by G. Harry Stine titled 'ICBM' explained that for the White Sands Missile Range V-2 testing program in the 1940's
there were cameras, radars (including SCR-584 Doppler radio positioning  system) and tracking telescopes linked with 100,000 miles of
open wires run by the US Army Signal Corps. All under the blanket of secrecy at the time and so, possibly unknown to Blanchard.

This means a vast electrical field-grid laying across that desert area and if this could interfere with a passing disc's flight, then we may
have the source why some of the early rumours that came out regardiing the Roswell Incident were that the Army had brought down
the unknown craft with the use of radar.

Not included in that on-base array were many interconnected "beyond the fence" remote sites. For example, in 1947 there was a radar
site for far-field tracking of missiles launched from White Sands located just north of U.S. 60 about forty-five miles west of Socorro,
New Mexico.
Again, an interference that we know little of when it comes to these discs, but if such a flyover took place, then surely the radar screens
would've registered its movements and maybe even where it crashed.
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But it's all still jigsaw pieces and whether the debris Brazel found and the possible larger crash-site near Capitan belonged to aliens,
the remains of a V2 rocket or just a storm-damaged balloon, the need to remove it from the Roswell base on the same day -or even
before, of the disc press-release is very telling.
And so it went to Fort Worth... where we should go next.

Here's the schedule for the White Sands missile launch.
It's curious on who these launches were for. Bell Telephones?