Mac Brazel & The Debris. An Opinion.

[ABNARTY]

Since we've done the 'what ifs's' on the immediate situation of Mac Brazel's findings on the leased ranch and how
initially, the 'hidden' narrative was simply that an unusual flying vehicle had taken a hit of some-sort and then possibly
crashed further out on the Chaves County area, it could be helpful if we applied that same rationale to what happened
later.

The key to all this is the dates, don't forget that. Newspapers need time to create their editorials and back then in 1947,
it wasn't a case of simply typing something. Text had to be changed into lead (metal) paragraphs, plates had to made
for the press and freshly-printed newspapers had to be tied-up, thrown in a vehicle and distributed.
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(8th July)
Two days after Brazel's visit to Roswell and with just a couple of scraps of material, Base Commander Colonel William
Blanchard instructed his Public Information Officer -Lt. Walter G. Haut, to announce to the world that they had nabbed a
flying saucer.

Some might think -with today's cynical-eye, that this would be a bit hasty. Sadly, a couple of pieces of foil -a saucer
doesn't make! This may be true, but I'd suggest it's mistakenly formed from our assumption that Blanchard was working
off his belief that Brazel's wreckage was the only proof. But what if he wasn't?

What if the Base Commander was actually reacting to information regarding a whole damaged craft discovered elsewhere...?
Something that had come down the same night as the Brazel debris and known of by the military from the start?

"Hold on..." I hear you say, "then why would Blanchard spill the beans? Wouldn't a new technology be a boon in the that
early Cold War era?" Yes it would. But again, we may be wrong in assuming that if flying saucers were somehow in the
Government-connected-'secret' zone back then, how far would Col. Blanchard be in the loop?

Here's Haut's release from Tuesday 8th July, four days after Brazel first found his scraps and three days after sightings
of military road blocks around the Capitan mountain area. At the very least, Blanchard -who we're supposed to assume
was in charge, had two-to-three days to muse over whether to tell everyone a disc had landed on his patch.

“The many rumors regarding the flying discs became a reality yesterday when the intelligence office of the
509th (atomic) Bomb Group of the 8th Air Force, Roswell Army Air Field, was fortunate enough to gain
possession of a disc through the cooperation of one of the ranchers and the sheriff’s office of Chaves County.

The flying object landed on a ranch near Roswell sometime last week. Not having phone facilities, the rancher
stored the disc until such time as he was able to contact the sheriff’s office, who in turn notified Jesse A Marcel
of the 509th Bomb Group Intelligence Office.

Action was immediately taken and the disc was picked up at the rancher’s home. It was inspected at the Roswell
Army Air Field and subsequently loaned by Major Jesse Marcel to higher headquarters.”...'

'Loaned'... pieces of a unrecognised weather-balloon loaned to 'higher headquarters'? That's quite a quick turnaround
considering we're supposed to be looking at sheets of foil with sticks taped to them. The narrative tells us the wreckage
went to Fort Worth Texas, where Brig. General Roger M. Ramey, 8th AAF commander and his trusty intelligence chief
-Col. Alfred Kalberer, realised the sun-burnt material was something scientists use.

By the way, this Haut announcement also tells us that the military did scour the Foster Ranch between Sunday 6th July
-when Brazel told the Sheriff and when Lt. Haut was told to type-up this press release on Tuesday morning 8th.

If we're to assume a newspaper works off a schedule that prints during the day and not like many others -where Journalists
collate information during daylight hours and prints and distributes during the night, then the 'loan' of a dumb-assed rancher's
bits of foil to the Carswell Base in Texas had already taken place sometime on Sunday night or Monday morning.

Or... something more important was sent to the Texas Army Air force base and the wide-eyed announcement had to be
retracted immediately when smarter-heads realised its potential. Could it be that those above Colonel Blanchard were
more invested in the flying saucer phenomena than Blanchard?
Let's go one step further... was Col. Blanchard actually in charge of the Base on the 8th July 1947?

Special Order Number 9, issued by Headquarters, 509th Bomb Group. Dated July 8, 1947, this official document refers
to a TWX (teletypewriter exchange) dated Sunday, July 6, 1947. It reads as follows:

"Pursuant to the authority contained in Hqs. 8th Air Force TWX number A1 1593 6 July 1947, the undersigned hereby
assumes control of the roswell Army Air Field, roswell New Mexico. Effective this date." The Special Order was signed
by Payne Jennings, Lt. Col. A.C. (Air Corps), commanding.

Again the dates... the dates tells us what's really going on. The above was typed on the 6th July, the day after Brazel found
his ranch-scraps. However, it's officially filed for the 8th July. But before we start whispering about conspiracies, this
act could've been merely a 'hand-over' instance.

Blanchard was going on leave and the Base works under a hierarchical system. The extra was that -not only is the person
responsible for the Haut announcement out of the way, taking one's leave gives the appearance that the Roswell event isn't
that important. However, it does seem an odd coincidence.

Oh, and don't worry about who Jennings is, we'll get back to him.

So after The Roswell Daily Record became the beacon for extraterritorial life on Earth, it issued this the next day.
(9th July and taken from Wikipedia):

"...The balloon which held it up, if that was how it worked, must have been 12 feet long, [Brazel] felt, measuring
the distance by the size of the room in which he sat. The rubber was smoky gray in color and scattered over an area
about 200 yards in diameter.

When the debris was gathered up, the tinfoil, paper, tape, and sticks made a bundle about three feet long and 7 or 8
inches thick, while the rubber made a bundle about 18 or 20 inches long and about 8 inches thick.

In all, he estimated, the entire lot would have weighed maybe five pounds.
There was no sign of any metal in the area which might have been used for an engine, and no sign of any propellers
of any kind, although at least one paper fin had been glued onto some of the tinfoil.

There were no words to be found anywhere on the instrument, although there were letters on some of the parts.
Considerable Scotch tape and some tape with flowers printed upon it had been used in the construction.
No strings or wires were to be found but there were some eyelets in the paper to indicate that some sort of
attachment may have been used..."

It's a balloon. Every word tells us it's a balloon. Those damned Reporters were click-baiting even back then!
The open narrative makes sense again.  A rancher finds some crap and everyone overreacts because of the current
flying saucer craze.
Back to work, boys and girls.
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But the real world keeps turning and since the 'weather-balloon' pill has been taken, then why did Mac's young son
Bill, arrive at the Foster Ranch a week later to find his father not there? It was Saturday 12th July and after checking
around the property to see what work was to be done, young Bill saw that all the debris had gone and the alleged
gouge had been filled in.

If you recollect, sometime during Sunday 6th July -as Major Marcell and Captain Sheridan Cavitt went about picking
up material on the ranch, employees from the local Roswell radio station (KGFL) arrived and asked Mac Brazel Snr.
to accompany them back to town for an interview.
How KGFL knew of the situation remains unanswered.

Arriving in Roswell, Brazel gave his exclusive interview -which was later confiscated when he was 'arrested' and
taken to the Roswell Army Air force Base. Oh, and the radio station was threatened with shutdown if they aired
the story.
According to Major Edwin Easley, the 509th Provost Marshal, Mr. Brazel was "assisting" the Army Air Force while
staying in "the guest house" on the base.

That 'assistance' took nine days from when the rancher was first picked up. He was only released on Tuesday 15th July
when he agreed to re-visit the Radio Station and recant his initial statement. But as Mac said later:
"I am sure what I found was not any weather observation balloon, but if I find anything else besides a bomb they are
going to have a hard time getting me to say anything about it."

Do you still want to think it was a weather-balloon?!

From the outcome seen the next day most likely military officers were in the process of convincing him not to say anything
about what he has seen and were trying to keep him out of the way of reporters.

The narrative had already begun changing on the Monday 7th July and now with the first-hand witness telling the public
that he was full of crap and just tried to get his name in the paper, the salvaged material from the ranch and a possible
larger chunk of a downed-craft from the Capitan mountain area safely tucked away in Texas, that turning world goes back
to sleep for another four decades.

Or did it? Maybe some of the bit-players who appeared when the incident was resurrected can help?
But we better be careful, that narrative has grown within those seventy years. Just look at this from the Smithsonian
website:

"...Accompanied by the sheriff and Brazel, Marcel returned to the site and collected all of the “wreckage.” 
As they tried to ascertain what the materials were, Marcel chose to make a public statement.
On July 8, Marcel’s comments ran in the local afternoon newspaper, the Roswell Daily Record, alongside
a headline stating “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell.”..."

Smithsonianmag.org:

How would a balloon of any sort leave a "gouge" in that soil? I was stationed out at Ft Bliss/WSMR many moons ago and had to dig many a-fighting position all over that area of West Texas/Southern New Mexico. The ground is hard as heck. Does not easily give way.  

A dirt poor rancher in the area would not have had the means or inclination to fill anything in. Shoot, it might even collect some water in the future.  

If the Army did it, they would have had to bring in equipment. My knowledge of the events do not extend to accurately  say one way or the other. 

If the gouge existed, why would they even bother filling it in right away?