I wonder, maybe he had thought better of what he'd been trying to develop, and secretly distorted all his efforts???The uranium on board U-234 was unenriched uranium, and was useless for making an atomic bomb in that state. Don't believe idiots like Cook and Wikowski.
It was probably appropriated by Project Manhattan, but probably too late to be included in either of the WWII bombs. It may have been used in later bombs, though.
In Ufology, his main area of expertise is the alleged Roswell saucer crash of 1947, which he has been studying since1994. He is perhaps best known for his work on reading the telex photographed in Gen. Roger Ramey's hand as Ramey tried to debunk the Roswell crash as a weather balloon. Ramey's memo mentions "THE VICTIMS OF THE WRECK" and dealing with something "IN THE ‘DISC’" (perhaps “CADAVERS”), words and phrases which he and others consider to be smoking gun proof that a saucer crash really happened and bodies were recovered.
I would be inclined to agree, but a least he is focusing on the known facts instead of pretending to a tabloid that his grandfather summonsed him for a deathbed confession and told him he had been at Roswell in 1947 and had communicated telepathically with the spirit of the deceased aliens etc etc can I be paid in cash, please?This reading of the telex always seemed like wishful thinking to me. The phrase "victims of the wreck that you forwarded" doesn't even sound right in itself and to me it looks more like "finding of the [...] that you forwarded", with the blank being "materials" or something along those lines.
DR and sanity... is that not an oxymoron?Some rare sanity amidst all the mania:
"David Rudiak....
The genesis of our purported 'debris switch' can be identified.The whole 'debris switch' thing results from creative interpretation of a phrase used by Marcel that the debris in Ramey's office wasn't the same as the debris he had found. The context of the comment suggests that Marcel meant merely that they were displaying the "less interesting" debris rather than that they had actually switched it with some weather balloon components.
There are plenty of examples of Friedman 'maintaining the mystery' when it was no longer appropriate. It is very difficult to assume he was acting in good faith.In 'Flying Saucers and Science' (2008), by Stanton Friedman, he discusses the interviews with Major Jesse Marcel and does not cite any evidence that Marcel ever spoke about the genuine debris being substituted for Marcel's photographs.
Nonetheless, Friedman proclaims:
"Ramey's boss in D.C., General Clements McMullen, instructing Ramey to send the wreckage to D.C. with one of his couriers, to get the press off their backs in any way possible, and never to talk about it again. When Marcel arrived, General Ramey instructed him not to say anything. Pictures were taken with phony wreckage, and the cover story went out from Ft. Worth-not Roswell-within hours".
It all originates from Friedman alone.
Likewise, I once thought so and recall posting a similar view re Marcel's expression!Look at Major Marcel’s face in his famous newspaper picture.
I interpret his look as “ what the crap is this stuff “.
If they had proper healthcare in the US maybe they wouldn't have to make up stuff to sell to the papers...Jesse Marcel's grandson talks to the Sun with more of the usual (ie a mish mash of the Barnett "second crash site" story plus he knows where one of the fabled amazingly light, amazingly strong beams is, apparently)
https://www.thesun.ie/news/13361309/roswell-second-ufo-crash-site-alien-breathing/
I cannot now remember where I saw it, but wasn't there a story from someone that Marcel had kept some of the debris and concealed them (in a water tank? Under the floor?) in his house?
The grandson's "I know where a beam is but I can't get to it" story sounds suspiciously like this.
from September, 2001.sod all evidence
Nevertheless.Believe or not something big did happened near Roswell.
I think you are spot on. For decades I have argued that what happened at Roswell was nothing to do with alien craft and that it was basically a clever cover-up of an advanced project. In that period the US had acquired not only the top Nazi expert on advanced projects, Hans Kammler, but also several prototypes including a disc shaped craft. If you check out the books of Henry Stevens (Hitler's suppressed and still-secret Weapons, Science and Technology is a good intro), Nick Cook (The Hunt for Zero Point), Igor Witkowski (The Truth about the Wunderwaffe), and Lowery et al (The HIdden Nazi), it all points towards this scenario: Sometime a year before the end of the war, Kammler started making contact with US agents in Spain, offering them all the secret weapons and the documentation thereof, and this included a German sub which was taking highly enriched uranium to Japan for their atomic project in occupied Korea. He delivered, was granted immunity and a new name (no doubt -- nobody knows what), plus, Cook thinks, he took over the role of overseeing the security of all US advanced projects. This would explain the clever cover up at Roswell but also at other black project disasters. I am in no doubt that UFOs, UAPs, whatever you call them, do exist, but the fact that many advanced project disasters could be behind not only Roswell but RendleshamNevertheless.
I've found Edward J. Ruppelt the only credible source of info on the flap that Roswell popped out of. He was employed by the US air command to investigate the reports of aerial phenomenon. I'm sure you've heard of Projects Grudge and Blue Book. His findings were that though there are apparent flying objects behaving unusually in earth's atmosphere, there is no evidence that they are of interplanetary origin.
The audiobook is about 14 hours long. He does address the event at Roswell 1947, but it didn't really stand out from the many many other reports occurring throughout that period. For all the reasons Roswell has become the legend it is today, there's no empirical evidence of alien visitation from that or any other reported ufo event.
Roswell today is more of a socio-psychological phenomenon than a historical event. Some might say it's developed over time into the realm of myth, which, arguably, can be more impactful than historical fact. It's not a religion as there's no figurehead unifying the apostates, but it takes some of the forms of religious belief. For one thing, the believers love to demonise those who challenge their faith, be they formal authorities like military and government leaders or interested bystanders like me. It's nothing personal, guys. I apply critical thinking and lean on hard proof.
Jayz. Which nation?Russian female fighter pilot Marina Popovich was famous in Russia for her UFO encounters which provides evidence for Roswell.
Marina defended Russian military base Kapustin Yar from an UFO attack and became a National hero.