In the last couple of days I have been asked about
my opinion on the latest Roswell revelation. It seems that a fellow named Chase
Brandon (a name that is difficult to believe) has claimed that when he worked
for the CIA he had the opportunity to review, search, mosey around in a
classified area where he could snoop into whatever file, box or crate that he
wanted to.
This is a tale that reminds me of Philip Corso who
had the chance to see an alien body when the convoy taking the Roswell creatures
to Wright Field stopped overnight (RON, in military terms meaning Remain Over
Night) at Fort Riley, Kansas. Some buddy of Corso was prying open the sealed
crates that had been removed from the trucks and stored in a building for
better security (which obviously didn’t work). This sergeant friend of Corso’s opened
one, and then, in a further and more outrageous breach of military security,
told his buddy, Philip about it. Corso showed up and did the same thing
eventually telling the world about the alien creature he had seen.
So now we have Brandon entering what he said is
called Historical Intelligence Collection which is a vaulted area (meaning it
is like a bank vault) and that not everyone can get into it. He said he was
just wandering around in there, reading the handwritten labels when one caught
his eye. According to him, there was but a single word. Roswell.
Crapola, I say.
Why in the hell would they label this box of
significant history with a word that, until recently was the name of a Civil
War officer and the name of a couple of towns (not to mention Maggie Roswell of
The Simpsons fame)?
And, of course, in this box was everything to tell
him that it was an alien craft and not one of the super duper secret balloons
that had an intelligence function. Nope, there were photographs and documents
that proved this was an alien craft.
Of course he has nothing to back up his statement
on this except he is reported to have served as a covert operations officer in the CIA’s Clandestine Service for
25 years, and spent his last 10 years as the agency's official liaison to the
entertainment and publication industries (which is a real hint). I suppose if you work in the director’s office you have the authority to
poke around just about anywhere, even if you are only the liaison to the
entertainment industry.
The question that
springs to mind is where was this guy ten years or twenty years ago? How come
the GAO couldn’t find him to talk to him and how come the GAO didn’t get to
look in the Historical Intelligence Collection as they searched for
documentation about the Roswell case? Does this mean that the CIA lied to the
GAO when they said they had no records about it? Maybe that investigation
should be reopened.
The story does
provide us with the answer to those questions, however. According to Brandon,
he is hawking his science fiction book about alien contact and what happens to
Earth when the aliens arrive. Rather than just another first contact book,
Brandon now has a hook that will get people talking. He is writing with his
knowledge of a real event because he saw a box marked, “Roswell.” Maybe some of
this classified stuff made it into the book.
