Another Roswell Witness Comes Forward

Another Roswell military witness has come forward with his story.

Much like most of the rest of them, his story seems to confirm the legend of an unknown flying craft coming down containing multiple dead unknown creatures, and at least one live being.

At this point, I'll be the first to admit that the witness pool is tainted and probably unsalvageable. However, the fact that so many people continue to come out with basically the same intertwining story, despite the fact that they might lose their pensions for it, or suffer in some other way, seems to speak to the fact that they at least believe that they're doing the right thing by coming out with what they say they remember.

I think it's more than coincidental, and more than people hearing stories and believing that they remember the same thing, that keeps this story coming back over and over again. I think we are at a point in time where many of these people are coming out with what they know because they know it might be their last chance.

I guess at this point, Roswell is likely to go down as one of those stories that people will bicker about forever. Until proof is shown otherwise, I think I'll continue to come down on the side of something unknown to the local military having crashed in the desert.

There's a new post on documentaries and the media, which is a follow up to Stanton Friedman's recent article about a National Geographic show on Roswell. This one's by Dennis Balthaser, and details some of his problems with the recent show, and biased media documentaries in general.

Last summer I filmed with them here in Roswell for about 6 hours and not once during that time was I told by the film crew that the National Geographic special would obviously have an agenda that would be extremely biased by the time the one hour show ended after the editing was completed. I was also contacted several times by email and telephone requesting additional factual information about the Roswell Incident while the documentary was being prepared. I had a lot of airtime on the show and those that responded to me after viewing the show indicated that I came across honestly and sincerely in my comments that were used. I was thankful for that, but very disappointed with the overall show and factual information unfairly presented.

While I think it's great that "mainstream" media has been more interested in paranormal topics in general lately, I find it disturbing that so many of the pieces that claim to be doing fair shows are, in fact, really just hatchet jobs on the topic at hand. Not to say that there haven't been any good shows on paranormal topics over the last few years, there certainly have. However, I'm afraid that they're not the norm. Like both Mr. Friedman and Mr. Balthaser said, you really expect better from a respected name like National Geographic.

Stanton Friedman has posted a very thorough and exhaustive critique of a recent National Geographic documentary which seemingly attempted to debunk the happenings of Roswell. As he puts it they "abided by the 4 basic rules of debunkdom":

1. Don’t bother me with the facts, my mind is made up.

2. What the public doesn’t know, I won’t tell them.

3. If you can’t attack the data, attack the people.

4. Do your research by proclamation, no investigation is required.

I never saw the National Geographic documentary on Roswell, and I certainly won't waste my time with it after reading this.