As we mentioned in our Photo of the Week from yesterday, the so-called “Roswell incident” happened 65 years ago this past weekend. The crash of a UFO onto the ranch of farmer Mac Brazel, which was then retrieved by Major Jesse Marcel is now legendary. It is still a very hotly debated issue, with a number of very reliable witnesses, an even larger number of pretty unreliable witnesses and fame-seekers, and a government that comes up with new explanations every few years, none of which make a lot of sense. Anyways, I suppose it’s not too surprising that on the anniversary of such a controversial legend, an ex-CIA agent has come forward to state that the Roswell event really was a crash of an alien spacecraft. It’s also not surprising that said ex-CIA agent is peddling a new book.
“Yeah, it was just a weather balloon. Yeah, that’s the ticket!”
Happy anniversary, Roswell, N.M. It was 65 years ago today that the Roswell Daily Record blasted an infamous headline claiming local military officials had captured a flying saucer on a nearby ranch. And now, a former CIA agent says it really happened.
“It was not a damn weather balloon — it was what it was billed when people first reported it,” said Chase Brandon, a 35-year CIA veteran. “It was a craft that clearly did not come from this planet, it crashed and I don’t doubt for a second that the use of the word ‘remains’ and ‘cadavers’ was exactly what people were talking about.”
Brandon served as an undercover, covert operations officer in the agency’s Clandestine Service for 25 years, where he was assigned missions in international terrorism, counterinsurgency, global narcotics trafficking and weapons smuggling. He spent his final 10 years of CIA service on the director’s staff as the agency’s first official liaison to the entertainment and publication industries. It was during this time, in the mid-1990s, that he walked into a special section of CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., called the Historical Intelligence Collection.
“It was a vaulted area and not everybody could get in it,” Brandon told The Huffington Post. “One day, I was looking around in there and reading some of the titles that were mostly hand-scribbled summations of what was in the boxes. And there was one box that really caught my eye. It had one word on it: Roswell.
“I took the box down, lifted the lid up, rummaged around inside it, put the box back on the shelf and said, ‘My god, it really happened!'”
What exactly did the box contain that had such a powerful impact on Brandon?
“Some written material and some photographs, and that’s all I will ever say to anybody about the contents of that box,” he said. “But it absolutely, for me, was the single validating moment that everything I had believed, and knew that so many other people believed had happened, truly was what occurred,”
None of this comes as a surprise to Stanton T. Friedman, a nuclear-physicist-turned-UFOlogist, who was the original civilian investigator of the Roswell UFO incident.
In the late 1970s, Friedman began to uncover former military eyewitnesses who had been involved with the original events that took place at Roswell in 1947.
Despite the fact that the military changed its story overnight, saying on July 8, 1947 that a flying disk had been captured but claiming on July 9 that a weather balloon had been recovered, Friedman’s early investigative efforts prompted many Roswell witnesses to come forward and tell their stories. Numerous researchers have dug up more facts in the years since.
“It’s been 65 years since things took place at Roswell,” Friedman told HuffPost. “How much more widely known could it be — everywhere I’ve spoken in the world, they ask about Roswell.”
“What we really need now is the Woodward-Bernstein of the UFO world to bring out the disclosure,” said Friedman. “Maybe Chase Brandon is a foresight of something going on.
“It’s time for the retirement of the mythical part — where we don’t have all the pieces — to be replaced by the true story of what happened, all the details, and we certainly don’t have them.”
Brandon is currently promoting his book, “The Cryptos Conundrum,” a science fiction story about the history of Earth, contact with extraterrestrials and imagined cataclysmic events on our planet.
He remains steadfast about the pieces of the Roswell puzzle he’s willing to share, and he emphasizes there’s no internal CIA policy that prevents him from revealing any details of what he saw in that box at the agency headquarters.
“Nobody tells any of us that we can’t say anything about sources, methods, classified information having to do with working for the Central Intelligence Agency,” Brandon said. “We all sign a secrecy agreement that says we understand we are forbidden to do that by law, and that is an inherent part of keeping and safeguarding what we do, how we do it, why we do it, out of national security concerns.
“I’m not reluctant to talk about it — I won’t talk about it. I’m telling you there was a box that had stuff in there having to do with Roswell, and I looked through it, and it validated everything I believed in, and that’s all I have to say about it. I will go to my grave being mindful of the two hats that I wear: My personal one and the one that will forever reside on my head as a former CIA officer.”
Once again, my bullshit meter is beeping pretty loudly. And I tend to fall into the category of people who believe that something strange did indeed crash into the New Mexico desert. The first thing that raises my suspicion is the fact that Mr. Brandon is releasing a new book. It’s a work of fiction, but tying it into this story, it’s getting a lot of press. Which is never a bad thing. But even if the book release is pure coincidence, I’m a little bothered by the fact that Mr. Brandon would say that he has unequivocal evidence that the Roswell crash involved an actual alien spaceship, state how he found that evidence, but then state that he can’t say any more because of security reasons. Even though he also states that there is no CIA policy that prevents him from saying more. Really? If you’re going to go 90% of the way, why not go 100%? I agree with Stanton Friedman, the excellent researcher who initially uncovered the Roswell story. Perhaps the time is coming where more higher-ups who were involved will start telling their stories in full. I believe something happened at Roswell. I believe it is completely possible that Mr. Brandon saw things that convinced him that the Roswell UFO was extraterrestrial. Major Jesse Marcel told everything. Why won’t Mr. Brandon?
