WELCOME
Issue 116
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This month we delve deep into an incident that occurred on a ranch in Lincoln County, New Mexico, in 1947 – an event that is a mix of rumours, speculation and claims of debris from a spaceship and alien bodies: the Roswell UFO incident.
Over the past 40 or so years, new claims and fresh leads suggest that what happened that summer wasn’t of terrestrial origin. “I found all this stuff, and I was told to keep my mouth shut,” said Major Jesse A. Marcel, who was sent to survey the crash site. “I held on to this premium for 32 years without saying anything at all. See, I was an intelligence officer. I handled intelligence and security for the base. I still hold an allegiance to my country, the vow that I took to keep my mouth shut about everything that might encroach on military secrets.”