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When I first heard about the alleged crash of a flying saucer at Roswell, New Mexico, many years ago, I was sceptical. There were too many unanswered questions. But in the four decades that have elapsed, I have had to change my mind. Now, new evidence, just obtained under Freedom of Information legislation in the US, makes me certain that something extraordinary did occur at Roswell on 8 July 1947 and has been covered up by the military and the US government ever since.
What has changed my mind over the years is the steady trickle of testimonies from people who say they were directly or indirectly involved in aspects of the incident. Of course, we have to try to make a judgment about the credibility of each one, which is not easy. Some of these people testified when they were close to death and seemed to want to “come clean” about the secret they had carried with them over the years. Individuals such as Jesse Marcel Sr and retired Col Philip Corso , both of whom had direct involvement in the Roswell incident, went public with their accounts of what happened. Marcel described the material recovered as thin, like tin foil, but it could not be bent or damaged, even with a sledgehammer.
Corso, who wrote the book The Day After Roswell, says he was involved in work with the artifacts recovered form the crash site. Marcel’s son, Jesse Jnr, has written of his father’s involvement in The Roswell Legacy. To their testimony we can add that of astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon. Mitchell grew up in Roswell and tells us that he knows aliens have visited our planet and that the Roswell incident was for real.
However, an aspect of the Roswell case that I have never subscribed to is the claim that scientists have been able to develop remarkable technology and materials as a result of reverse engineering, having studied the alien spacecraft that crashed in New Mexico and was taken to Wright-Patterson Air Force base.
But now comes some astonishing news that has made me change my view on that topic, too.
Among those who were said to have seen and handled the flying saucer debris and commented on its unusual qualities was Elroy John Center, whose name will mean nothing to those outside the UFO fraternity. Because of the nature of his work as a research scientist at Battelle Memorial Institute, which was shrouded in secrecy, the only people he told, in confidence, were his family. Cross is also understood to have been researching UFOs for government agencies at the same time.
In 1960, he revealed to close relatives that he had “analysed metal from a fallen UFO”. It was not until 1992, after his passing, that they shared this information with others. It seemed to be just one more piece of a tantalising puzzle but nothing more. Like some other testimonies, it was not made public until the witness was no longer around to question, and attempts to verify it were unsuccessful.
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