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-=> On 01-03-98  11:44, Sheppard Gordon said to All,<=-
-=>"About Roswell Truth 9/9...,"<=-
 
Greetings, Sheppard;
 
After posting my previous reply to you, I saw and read your interminable
debunking of the Roswell incident.
 
First, I will concede what you say early in your effort to put Roswell to
rest:
 
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  It is an irrefutable fact that the passage of time erodes the accuracy of
one's recollections of an event. Despite this, the Roswell authors continue
to stress just how "clear and sharp" their witnesses' memories are, even
though nearly fifty years have now elapsed. Certainly these memories could
not have improved.
 
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I will add to that, though you did not, that people have a tendency to
embellish whatever they are telling about, particularly when it is a
matter which they consider to be very important.  This is NOT always
intentional, however: it is a characteristic of the human brain to fill
in holes in memory with something which sounds plausable.
 
There are some rather gaping holes in your effort, however.  For instance:
 
Is it not possible for the all-powerful American Trenchcoat Society, (FBI,
CIA, ASA, NSA et al), who can leap tall buildings in a single bound, to
alter all kinds of records, both military and civilian, forge signatures
on all manner of documents and otherwise hide, cover up, or destroy any
evidence they wish to keep hidden, and intimidate whomever they wish to
say WHAT they wish?  So all of the "But his college records showed..."
and "His military records clearly said..." entries must be taken with a
small pinch of sodium chloride.  This fact casts the shadow of uncertainty
upon at least 30% of your claims.  I am not saying they are all
fabrications of the Trenchcoat society, however I consider the
possability.  For instance you state re: Jesse Marcel:
 
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... The file is extremely
incriminating, for it it clearly demonstrates that Marcel had a penchant for
exaggerating things while repeatedly trying to "write himself" into the
history books. Ironically, Marcel's tendency to exaggerate was specifically
noted in his military file by none other than the commander of the base at
Roswell at that time, in a review of his performance that was signed just
after the incident occurred.
 
 - And as to whether he was a pilot -
 
Instead, there's no record of this or even anything close, and in fact it was
General Ramey who specifically noted in Marcel's file that because he was not
a pilot, he would be severely limited in his career opportunities in the Air
Force. It's no wonder, then, that Marcel would later "blame" Ramey for the
"UFO coverup" at Roswell.
 
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Gee, I wonder if a well-equipped crime lab were to carefully examine the
ORIGIONAL of said documents, would they conclude that the ink in that
comments by his commander were the same age as the other documents in his
record which carry about the same date?
 
You also state:
 
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... Major Marcel, when first interviewed, could not even
remember the year of the alleged UFO crash, let alone the month. Indeed,
Marcel's own answer as to when this supposed "snapshot memory" event took
place was simply "in the late forties"!
 
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I am in my 50's, and I clearly remember things which happened during my
youth, but I'll be damned if I can tell you the year OR the month!  When
was Sputnik launched?  I remember seeing it going overhead, but I could
only say it was in the late 50's.  I remember when President Kennedy was
shot, but damned if I could tell you more than "The 50's"!  When did our
astronauts walk on the Moon?  I clearly remember watching them walking
there on live TV, but I couldn't tell you just when, beyond "Late 50's."
So your assertion about Marcel not remembering when doesn't hold a drop of
water with me.
 
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  In a revealing interview, DuBose puts to rest the "mystery" of the so-
called substituted wreckage and exposes it for what it is - another Major
Marcel myth. DuBose's comments have never appeared before in any book on
Roswell.
 
  Q: There are two researchers (Schmitt and Randle) who are presently saying
that the debris in General Ramey's office had been switched and that you men
had a weather balloon there in its place.
 
  A: Oh Bull! That material was never switched!
 
  Q: So what you're saying is that the material in General Ramey's office was
the actual debris brought in from Roswell?
 
  A: That's absolutely right.
 
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And what's DuBose's claim to infallability?  For all I know, he could be
employed by the CIA.
 
OK, please answer me this: _IF_ it was "just a crashed weather baloon,"
WHY did they have a few truckloads of GI's out collecting every scrap they
could find, with armed MP's keeping sightseers away?  And why was all the
wreckage hauled away, then flown "somewhere" under armed guard?   Sorry,
but that just doesn't compute... not for a crashed weather baloon.  But for
a super-secret project like Mogul?  Ok, I'll bite...
 
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