It’s Fourth of July weekend, which means at least this much: Tens of thousands of Americans have descended upon Roswell, N.M., for the little green men costume parties and outer space freak parade to commemorate the 69-year-old controversy that begat the annual UFO Festival. Bear in mind, it’s been nearly three months now since the press has bothered to ask Hillary Clinton — who’s abandoned all campaign instincts in her willingness to discuss The Great Taboo — about her stated plans for declassifying UFO records if she becomes president. But never fear, the media will do its best to keep us updated on breaking news from the streets of Roswell. The only real question here is who will earn the Jessica Flores Disembodied Head Award for UFO Journalism. De Void is betting the winner will have a) invoked the “Independence Day” sequel, b) described the Roswell scene as “out of this world,” or maybe a combination of both.
What’s a little bit different this year is how an unnamed benefactor has stepped up to offer a $10,000 reward to anyone who can decipher, without ambiguity, the so-called Ramey Memo. You can find the details at Kevin Randle’s “A Different Perspective” blog, but here’s the deal in a nutshell:
In July 1947, after Roswell Army Air Field issued a press release about having recovered flying saucer debris, military authorities went into spin mode within hours and said, naahh, its field investigators had screwed up, what they really found was a ruined weather balloon, sorry, buzz off. Brig. Gen. Roger Ramey, commander of the U.S. Eighth Air Force, went so far as to hold a press conference at headquarters in Fort Worth, Tex. That’s where he trotted out the crumpled remains of what he said was the exact same balloon that faked out his people back in New Mexico. Endless threads of fruitless debate and vitriol have dogged that assertion for decades.
More to the point, a photo of that hastily arranged press conference shows Ramey clutching a scrap of paper as he takes a knee next to the stage-prop debris. For 15 years, UFO researchers have attempted to interpret the blurred typeface on that note. Some have even called it the smoking-gun memo, on account of what they contend are the words quote “and the victims of the wreck” and quote “in the ‘disc’ they will ship.” Naturally that rendering has irked the living &*$! out of wet blankets who say there’s no way you can tease anything legible from that smeared image. But as indicated in the lead, De Void has done just that. Here’s how the rest of the Ramey Memo reads:
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