The Air Force Coverup Begins
  The beginning of the Air Force coverup of the true nature of the object
recovered by Major Marcel started with Marcel's arrival at Carswell AFB and
General Ramey's subsequent announcement that the debris was simply a
misidentified weather balloon.
  As noted, Marcel maintains that the Roswell debris was from a flying saucer
and that the weather balloon "explanation" provided by Ramey was a convenient
cover story.
  Although Marcel's credibility as a truthful witness in the Roswell saga has
been impeached, there is no disputing the fact that he accompanied the
wreckage to Carswell AFB and was present in Ramey's office with him when the
weather balloon explanation was given. But was there a coverup as Marcel
claims, and was the weather balloon story part of that coverup?
  According to Colonel Thomas J. DuBose, who was General Ramey's assistant,
the weather balloon story was indeed part of the coverup, designed to get the
press "taken off [Ramey's] back in a hurry."
  If the Roswell incident did not involve the retrieval of wreckage from a
genuine flying saucer, then why was the weather balloon story given as an
"explanation," and what was the reason for the coverup? What was there to
possibly hide, since the debris Marcel himself had helped recover was on
display in Ramey's office?
  Flying Saucer or Weather Balloon?
  According to the pro-UFO Roswell authors, specifically Friedman, Randle,
and Schmitt, the debris photographed inside Ramey's office is not the
material Marcel and Sheridan Cavitt recovered from the ranch. Instead, it is
the remnants of a weather balloon that were brought in as a cover story to
hide the true nature of the Roswell incident.
  Unfortunately for the pro-UFO Roswell advocates, the source of the claim
that the wreckage in Ramey's office was replaced by that of a weather balloon
is none other than, once again, Major Jesse Marcel.
  The key to understanding (and unraveling) the truth behind Marcel's "bait
and switch" claim is a clear understanding of the items shown in the
photographs that were taken in General Ramey's office by reporter J. Bond
Johnson of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and others. Either the photos show
the real debris that Marcel collected and claims was part of a flying saucer,
or they do not. And if the photos do not show genuine flying saucer wreckage,
and General Ramey's weather balloon story was true, then they depict a
weather balloon. On the other hand, if the photos show neither item, then
there was indeed a coverup and Ramey lied.
  Clearly, both Marcel and Ramey cannot be right, since the same material
appears in all the known photos taken in Ramey's office that day.
  In order to determine definitively the truthfulness of Marcel's substituted
wreckage claim, I have analyzed in detail both the photos and the testimonies
of the only other people who were in Ramey's office when the debris was
photographed - Colonel DuBose and Irving Newton. It appears that Marcel was
once again confabulating.
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