Roswell : Inconvenient Facts and the Will to Believe

Cover
Title Page
Front Matters
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Chapters
	1. \"The Most Important Case in UFO History\"
		Speculation and Journalistic License
		Vallee\'s Law
		The Research That Got Me Here
		Putting Roswell in Perspective
		Notes
	2. The \"Conventional Wisdom\"
		The Discovery
		Brazel Reports His Find
		The Army Swings Into Action
		The Press Announcement
		Securing the Debris Field
		The Saucer and Its Crew
		\"Debris Lift\"
		The Autopsy and the Nurse
		The \"Crate Flight\"
		\"You Will Immediately Cease All Communication\"
		Enter Lincoln Lapaz
		Taking Care of Loose Ends
		Aftermath
		Notes
	3. Roswell As Some Would Have Us Know and Love It
		Bogey!
		The \"Campers\"
		Farmer and Son, Corporal, and Nuns
		The Army Moves In and Finds...?
		Securing the Site and Investigating the Find
		Mack Brazel, The Fly in the Ointment
		The Press Annoucement \"Explained\"
		Frankie Rowe
		Little Men and Jim Beam
		Revisionist Recap
		Notes
	4. The Revisionist Vision: Less Than Meets the Eye
		The Adventures of Jim and Trudy
		Fire—Or Fizzle?—In The Sky
		Sparse Shards and Bare Bones
		Most of the Truth About the Press Announcement
		Frankie and Ruben Meet Reality
		Notes
	5. Tales of Kaufmann
		Frank IA
		Frank IB
		Frank 2
		Frank 3
		Good Question, Frank
		Flawed Vision
		Notes
	6. What We Really Know and What It Tells Us
		The Wilmots\' Flying Saucer and Other Aerial Sightings
		Mack Brazel\'s Discovery
		Marcel and Cavitt on the Debris Field
		Notes
	7. The Rest of the Truth About the Press Announcement
		The \"Blanchard Factor\"
		Where\'s the Paper?
		Notes
	8. Recovery Operations
		Securing the Debris Field
		Crash Site?
		Recovery Recap
		Notes
	9. What We Are Told Went Where
		The Debris
		The Bodies
		Notes
	10. Rickett, LaPaz, and the CIC
		Orders, Interviewing the Vaqueros, Y Mas
		But ... Was Lapaz Involved?
		Jack Williams, Clair Miller, and Friends
		Less than Meets the Eye
		Notes
	11. Disposing of the Bodies
		Doubtful Tales
		Pappy\'s Little Joke
		Notes
	12. Glenn Dennis
		Reemerging Doubts
		The Name Game
		The \"\'Nurse\"\'s Drawings and What Probably Inspired Them
		There Was A Nurse
		Transforming Reality Into Pseudoreality
		Notes
	13. Not So Mundane
		Robert Todd Gets Curious
		Project Mogul and Flying Saucers
		What Goes Up...
		...Must Come Down—Somewhere
		\"One Hell of a Hullabaloo Out of Nothing\"
		--Plates--
		Notes
	--Plates--
	14. The Terror and Other Exaggerations
		Jail Time and Threats Most Dire?
		Disappearing Press Releases and Such
		Another Look at Lydia Sleppy\'s Story
		Hundreds of Witnesses?
		The Curious Case of Jesse A. Marcel Sr. and Donald R. Schmitt
		Notes
	15. The Formerly Classified Record and Other \"Minor\" Matters
		The Tale Told by the Once-Classified Files
		\"Watch the Skies!\"
		Forgeries for Fun, Fame, and Fortune
		Notes
	16. Bandwagon, Gravy Train, and the Will to Believe
		The Alien Autopsy Film
		Lieutenant Colonel Corso
		GIGO & Reading the Ramey Message
		Notes
	17. The Congressional Inquiry: Insights from an \"Insider\"
		Priming the Pump
		The Pentagon Run-Around
		Enter the GAO
		Roswell Central
		The Truth About the GAO Report
		Notes
Epilogue \"Our Revels Now Are Ended...\"
Appendices
	A. Jesse A. Marcel Sr., 12/8/1979, and Walter Haut, 7/11/1990
	B. Excerpts from Project 93 (NYU Constant-Level Balloon Project Technical Report #1)
	C. FBI Teletype Messsage 7/8/1947, Concerning the Roswell \"Disc\"
	D. Author\'s Sketches and Notes from 5/17/1993 Interview with Frank J. Kaufmann
	E. United Press Association Broadcast Wire Transmissions 7/8/1947
	F. 509th Bomb Group HQ Morning Report 7/9/1947
	G. NYU Flight 4 Ground Track 6/4/1947
	H. Roswell Witness Affidavits
		Glenn Dennis
		Thomas Jefferson DuBose
		Barbara Dugger
		Kathryn Goode
		L.M. Hall
		Walter Haut
		Sappho Henderson
		Jason Kellahin
		John Kromschroeder
		Arthur R. McQuiddy
		Jesse A. Marcel
		Bud Payne
		Robert R. Porter
		Loretta Proctor
		James Ragsdale
		George \"Jud\" Roberts
		Frankie Rowe
		Bessie Brazel Schreiber
		Robert Shirkey
		Lydia A. Sleppy
		Robert A. Slusher
		Robert E. Smith
		Sally Strickland Tadolini
		Elizabeth Tulk
		David N. Wagnon
		George Walsh
		William M. Woody
		Earl L. Zimmerman
	I. The Formerly Classified Record—Real and Bogus 10/1947 to 11/1948
Index
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	De-Fi
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	Na-Pr
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