Roswell Connection
UFO researcher, Robert J. VanDerClock, was an invited guest to my house for dinner. I did not know him, but a mutual friend from Massachusetts planned to visit me with three other people from New York, and Virginia. An informal get-together was planned for all of us to meet. The meeting ended with my interest to know more about Bob's research. So Bob presented a lecture at the Jersey Society of Parapsychology. As a result of his impressive and knowledgeable presentation, I asked if he would write some commentary and concluding remarks on the government secrecy concerning UFO's based on his personal research.
Robert J. VanDerClock has served three years in the military as a U.S. Army Intelligence agent who, following a year of Vietnamese language training at Virginia's Defense Language Institute, served in Vietnam as an "undercover" state department worker. He has a B.A. degree in Political Science from Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. Bob's interest in UFO's was triggered by the 1988 T.V. special, UFO "COVER-UP" LIVE which was his first introduction to the "Roswell Incident". The books entitled the "Roswell Incident" by Berlitz and Moore, and the "Crash at Corona"; The US Military Retrieval and Cover-Up of a UFO" by Stanton Friedman and Don Berliner added to his quest for knowledge.
He subsequently wrote a research paper entitled, "The Roswell Incident ,The Rush Towards Full Accounting". After a few public presentations on his UFO research, two private sources approached Bob with some stunning information concerning the Roswell events and their aftermath almost a half-century earlier. In March 1996, Bob released another research paper based on this new information he received from those private sources. This paper is called, "Roswell, The Mystery Deepens". In October 1996, Bob received an unexpected letter from Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr., currently the state surgeon of Montana, and holder of a top secret clearance as an Army National Guard helicopter pilot. Dr. Marcel's letter was astounding, it disclosed that he had handled some of the 1947 Roswell debris which was displayed to him by his father, one of the first two military men at the crash scene. Dr. Marcel’s letter increased Bob’s quest to an all-out search for the "truth" about Roswell. (Included in the letter was his request for Bob to cease public discussion of a confidential matter concerning his experience that both were aware of. Bob has since honored that request by Dr.Marcel.)
Why Is There so "Much ado about nothing" if There is Nothing? , is Bob's favorite phrase when addressing the topic of UFO's and the Government Cover-up. After nearly six years of determined research into the Roswell incident and other related subjects, Bob has determined several conclusions regarding the results of the investigation.
1. The continued cover-up by the US Air Force (and it's predecessor, the Army Air Corps) of the real nature of the Roswell incident, whatever the truth may be, remains a national abomination. While tangible proof has yet to be forthcoming, the web of circumstancial and testimonial evidence continues to tighten around the Air Force, whose 51 year effort to conceal the matter via denial, misinformation and ridicule, appears now to be in a state of disarray. This has prompted heavy speculation that an admission of "deceit" by the Air Force and by the U.S. Government concerning Roswell may be forthcoming in the near future.
2. The Air Force has produced three rather prosaic but decidedly different explanations for the Roswell incident during more than five decades. None of these explanations hold up to serious scrutiny. After of July 1947 press release claiming a "flying disk" had been captured by Roswell base personnel, the Air Force took only five hours to quickly discredit the initial explanation, calling the "flying disks" the misidentified remnants of a common weather balloon.
However, 47 years later a new explanation Top Secret Project Mogul Spy Balloon- was presented by the USAF in the middle of an official congressional investigative search for Roswell records among numerous government agencies. The next plateau for Bob's quest occurred in June 1997. He almost literally "devoured" a new book written by Colonel Philip J. Corso, retired, called "The Day After Roswell." Corso claimed that Roswell was definitely an event of extraterrestrial origin and among other things, many of our so-called "high tech" discoveries and inventions during the latter half of the 20th century came directly from what was found at the Roswell (Corona Desert) crash.
He also added that the US had fought, and eventually won , a supersecret war with extraterrestrials. (The result stemming from the Reagan Strategic Defense Initiative covering the period 1947-1985.-"Star Wars") The new conclusion by the USAF actually pre-empted it's supposed investigative partner, the General Accounting Office, whose participation had been solicited by New Mexico Congressman, Steven Schilf. Finally in June 1997, the Air Force released a new study explaining the supposed "recovered bodies" of aliens four feet tall were crash test dummies of over six feet in size, first used in high altitude parachute jump tests beginning in 1953, six years after the Roswell crash. Additionally, the "Alien wreckage" was actually materials from the high tech jump retrieval equipment, according to the report.There is no definitive or conclusive documentation in support of any of these suspicious contentions.
3. The Air Force officer that signed the 9/94 "Mogul Report" and the 1995 follow-up study "Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction In The New Mexico Desert" was now-retired Colonel Richard Weaver, revealed by Stanton Friedman in his 1996 book "Top Secret/Magic" to be a disinformation agent under the US Air Force Office of Special Investigations, Weaver additionally taught a course in the uses of disinformation to OSI field agents. This fact, and the implausible "crash test dummies" report (June 1997) lends further credence to the accepted suspicion that the Air Force knows far more than it is telling about Roswell
4. The late Colonel Philip J.Corso's ET explanation of the incident in his work, "The Day After Roswell" has not met with a single governmental word of official denial of his allegations. Corso's surviving co-author William Birnes said Corso believed he was permitted to publish the book as part of the gradual "conditioning" program to accept extra-terrestrial reality. Considering that Corso was a former National Security Advisor to President Eisenhower, his viewpoints carry considerable clout until they are disproved. No one except the usual skeptics appear in any rush to attempt to do so.
5. The credibility of the USAF on Roswell continues to decrease with each implausible conclusion for the incident. As Stanton Friedman commented after the release of the 9/94 Project Mogul Report, "if we weren't supposed to have believed them in 47 years, why believe them now?" 6. If,as the Air Force claims , there has never been a cover-up on the Roswell incident or flying saucers, why continue to lie about it? The answer is simply that there is a cover-up, and the cover-up is still on-going.
7. The "Project Mogul" balloon clusters consisted totally of 100% unclassified components. Why then, does the Air Force claim that Major Jesse Marcel, representing the world's only atomic airbase at the time, simply misidentified this contraption as a "possible spacecraft?" The USAF claim that "Marcel misidentified a classified balloon program he knew nothing about" is ridiculous, as Marcel had specialized radar training early in his career and, some six months after the incident was assigned to the Pentagon to help analyze air samples from Project Mogul! Considering Marcel's impressive background, his decision to "go public" in 1978 about Roswell should not have been treated nearly as a "non-event" by the media. The media in complicity here?
8. A most revealing clue concerning the Air Force's Roswell "stonewalling" is self-evident during the 1994 incident investigation. Despite USAF efforts to dissuade the General Accounting office to continue investigating after the "Mogul Documents" were released, the GAO for ten months persevered, learning that the Roswell Air Base outgoing and administrative records for a period from 1946-1949 were destroyed by unauthorized persons with no explanation as to who may have done this or under what authorization. Colonel Richard Weaver claimed in the 1995 follow-up report that some of the missing records had been found, "misfiled" in records repositories such as the one in St. Louis, Missouri.
Weaver then said almost nothing of the content of the suddenly "found" records. In short, the Air Force is still hiding something about the Roswell incident. With the Air Force practically eliminating most other alternatives themselves, we are left with at least two "plausible" explanations. 1. A secret military operation that failed miserably; perhaps at the risk of National security exposure, the Air Force created an extraterrestrial "cover story" to deflect attention from the true nature of an immense accident or unplanned deaths to many military personnel. 2. By process of elimination and with abundant circumstantial evidence in search of "proof", a possible extraterrestrial event. The March 1999 issue of Fate magazine contains written excerpts of Bob's third research paper. All three research papers are included in the Roswell Museum Library. The three research papers can be obtained for $ 24.95 from Robert J. VanDerClock and he is also available as a speaker. His mailing address is P.O. Box 41 ,Waldwick, N.J. 07463. Robert VanDerClock's e-mail is:almike13@juno.com