Noted Roswell Researcher, Dennis Balthaser Retires

A well-known UFO researcher whose tours of the
“Alien City” have intrigued thousands of people is retiring.

Dennis Balthaser has been described as an ambassador for the city. The Roswell UFO Tours he started seven years ago have shared in-depth and personal knowledge about the 1947 Roswell Incident and other historical aspects of the city with people from every U.S. state and from such countries as Yugoslavia, Russia, Australia, Italy and Germany.

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To hear author and UFO researcher Dennis Balthaser tell it, the tourist campaign and the gift shops are all a sleight of hand, an illusion, a way to keep folks from looking too deeply at the truth. The city, he says, is more interested in selling T-shirts

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than preserving history. He refers to the recent UFO Festival — an annual parade, costume contest, and concert, this year headlined by Billy Ray Cyrus — as a "circus," all spectacle and no substance.

Balthaser doesn't have time for a show — he, like so many of us, is after the truth.

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What’s Happening at Area 51?

By Dennis Balthaser www.truthseekeratroswell.com 1-1-15

     The secret base 85 miles northwest of Las Vegas Nevada, commonly known as Area 51, has been surrounded with mystery and rumors since it was first opened in 1955 by the CIA, to test the U-2 spy plane. We now know that every new aircraft developed since then has been test flown there before the public became aware of its existence. As an example, the F117-A Stealth Fighter arrived at Area 51 in 1977 for test flights, and was not made public until 1990, 13 years later.

In addition to our own aircraft being test flown at Area 51, captured and recovered Soviet aircraft are also there, such as the MiG-21, which are then back engineered and used in training exercises by our pilots.

The secrecy at Area 51 is like no other security anywhere in the world. Although many of us would like to know what actually goes on at the base, we must remember that revealing what transpires there could, and probably would be detrimental to our National Security, since “you can’t tell your friends something, without your enemies finding out.”

The name Area 51 is the most common name used when referring to the base, although over the years it has had many other titles, some rather amusing to me such as, “The Pig Farm”, “Paradise Ranch”, “The Box”, “Dreamland’, and others. The base is located adjacent to the Atomic Energy Commission test site where hundreds of underground nuclear and conventional bomb tests took place for years.
The public was finally made aware that the base existed in 1988 (33 years after it opened to test the U-2), when a Russian satellite photograph of the base became available.

Unlike any other industry or location in the United States dealing with toxic waste, Area 51 is not required to follow the law on handling such dangerous products by issuance of Presidential Determination Orders, started by President Clinton. The Determination Orders were necessary due to the government being sued after a few employees died due to radiation exposure while working at the base. The Determination Order exempts the base from complying with the law for National Security reasons. The Order has been issued every year starting with President Clinton, and continued to be issued during President George W. Bush’s term as President. I have not been able to locate a copy signed by President Obama.

Rumors about the base include such things as its containing at least 22 levels below ground, which is highly possible due to the fact that today’s satellites can read a newspaper from well above the earth, requiring military secretive work be done inside a hangar or underground. It’s also believed the base could be connected to other locations such as White Sands, Los Alamos, Edwards Air Force base and others, by an elaborate underground tunnel system. Today the closest observation point of the base from the surface is 25 miles away at Tikaboo Peak, after former mountain locations were incorporated into the base for more security. Many people for some reason try to connect Area 51 with New Mexico due to Roswell. I live in Roswell and in 2006 drove to Area 51, which was a long desolate trip of 891 miles from Roswell, so geographically there is no connection between Area 51 and Roswell.

Rumors about the base shutting down or moving have also been numerous over the years, however Area 51 has been expanding since its inception and is extremely active to this day.

In 2007, one of the biggest additions in years was noticed in the southwest corner of the base. A gigantic hangar was built with a pair of 175-foot doors, on each side of the hangar. Obviously some new large type aircraft is, or has been developed requiring such a large structure to secretly house it, perhaps a next generation bomber. We know both Lockheed-Boeing and Northrop Grumman have been competing for such an aircraft. In 2014, another huge hangar was discovered located at the edge of one of the runways, far away from the main facility and out of view from many of the Area 51 workers.

Additional runways have been added since the base opened. Today it appears there are 4, with various lengths of 10,000 ft., 11,000 ft, 13, 800 ft, and the longest somewhere between 24,000 to 30,000 ft. With that many runways of those lengths, one has to wonder what is being flown and tested at the base.

Two things that remain active related to the base include the security personnel, and the transportation for workers to get there.

Security remains as it has been for years, i.e. it’s taken extremely serious by the guards, the aircraft pilots that patrol the perimeter of the base, and the signs posted at the entrances stating in part, “the use of deadly force is authorized.”

There is a separate, recently enlarged fenced off area at McCarran airport in Las Vegas Nevada containing it’s own parking lot and terminal where employees board several former America West 737 airplanes that are painted white, and unmarked except for a red stripe down the side of the fuselage, and an aircraft identification number at the rear of the airplane. From this terminal, employees are taken to Area 51, Tonopah Test Range, Edwards Air Force Base and probably other secret locations. These planes are known as the “Janet” airline. The same security unit that guards the perimeter of Area 51 employs guards at the terminal. Just like NASA stands for “Never A Straight Answer”, Janet might stand for “Just Another Non Existent Terminal.”

I suppose I should terminate this editorial about Area 51 with a final rumor that has been floating around about the base for many years. Are extraterrestrial beings or alien craft housed at Area 51? Many believe they are, however, until verification of that is confirmed you will have to decide what to believe. There have been many accounts that there are ET’s and craft there, some by reputable people, and by others with less credibility. I feel Area 51 would certainly have the capabilities to study ET’s and back engineer recovered craft, due to the stringent security and secrecy surrounding the base for all these years. Hopefully, time and more verifiable information will come forward in the future to resolve that rumor.

In the meantime, we do know that Area 51 is alive and well and continues to expand and test new military aircraft for the defense of our nation. What else goes on there remains a mystery.

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TONIGHT, FRIDAY JULY 2 The Joiner Report: Live From Roswell! Jesse Marcel & Dennis Balthaser with Host Frank Warren

By Frank Warren
The UFO Chronicles
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In recognition of the upcoming 63rd anniversary of what has become known as The Roswell Incident, and corresponding festival in the city of the same name, I take great pride in announcing that my special guest for this week’s Joiner Report (Friday July 2nd) will be none other then Jesse Marcel Jr.

Jesse, like his father is a great American patriot: that said, no one could have predicted that after joining the Navy in 1962—42 years later he would be fighting in the Iraq War at the youthful age of 68!! Jesse in 2004 was called back to active duty; he flew over 225 hours as a flight surgeon for the 189th Attack Helicopter Battalion. He retired (again) as a full-bird Colonel.

Along with Jesse’s many accolades he has added “author” to the list; in 2007, after I wrote a review for his book, The Roswell Legacy, he explained to me that he had desired to write the book for some time, wanting to “set the record straight” in regards to not only his involvement and perception of what took place on the Foster Ranch in the summer of ‘47, but more importantly to give voice to his father and the actual facts as they happened. Being reminded of his mortality while in combat in Iraq, the book would soon come to fruition.

Anyone who has read my review knows that Jesse’s book didn’t disappoint and I highly recommend it! Jesse details his experience as not only the son of the first military officer present at the 1947 crash site, but as a witness and handler himself to some of the crash debris. He completes the tome by sharing his involvement in research up to present day and how The Roswell Incident has affected his life and that of his family.

This Friday’s show will be a special treat for me as I have the utmost respect for Jesse, and his father and am honored to be in his company; however, it doesn’t end there, as good friend and colleague, “Dennis Balthaser” will be on in the second half of the show.

Dennis is considered to be one of the top experts on The Roswell Incident, having moved to the town many years ago to pursue research. He is a popular, sought out speaker on the subject and along with his award winning web site, www.truthseekeratroswell.com he has appeared on numerous television and radio shows; as is the case every year during the Roswell festival, Dennis will be giving lectures over the long weekend; it’s with great appreciation that he has agreed to take time out of his busy schedule to join us this Friday night.

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Veteran Roswell Researcher, Dennis Balthaser Visits The X-Zone with Rob McConnell Tonight

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UPDATE:DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES THE SHOW IS POSTPONED TILL NEXT WEEK

     Noted Ufologist with focus on the Roswell crash, Dennis Balthaser stops by the Rob McConnell's X-Zone tonight at 9 pm - 10 pm PDT.

As a young man, Dennis Balthaser would look into the night sky and wonder at the secrets it held. Some years later Dennis bought a book about UFOs and his wonder turned to investigation. Today he has a library with over 90 books in reference to ufology.

Dennis served 3 years ('59-62) with the United States Army in the 815th Engineering Battalion.

After some 33 years in Civil Engineering, Dennis retired from the Texas Department of Transportation in 1996. Having been keenly interested in the Roswell Incident of 1947, Dennis decided to move to Roswell, New Mexico, to pursue his avocation: Ufology.

Initially Dennis worked as an Engineering Consultant in Roswell, volunteering his time at the International UFO Museum and Research Center on weekends. Nine months later he resigned from the engineering firm, assuming the duties of IUFOMRC Operations Manager. He served on the Board of Directors and became the UFO Investigator for the Museum as a full time volunteer from 1996 until 1998, then began his research as an independent researcher.

Due to his love of ufology, his dedication and his exhaustive work, Dennis is regarded as a leading investigator and ufologist by his peers, communicating regularly with such well known researchers as Stanton Friedman, Frank Warren, Scott Ramsey (scottr@ExpressWireServices.com), and others in their quests to find the truth.

Dennis is a Certified Mutual UFO Network Field Investigator, a member of Great Pyramid of Giza Research Association, and belongs to several ufology organizations.

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DOUBTS DISAPPEAR AFTER ATTENDING DULCE BASE DEBATE

By Janet Sailor
Access Media
© 5-4-09

     NEW MEXICO – On a scale of one to ten, my interest in the unexplained is definitely a ten. So when I learned of plans for a conference debating the existence of a secret military base jointly operated by extraterrestrials and the U.S. government near Dulce, New Mexico, my attendance was a foregone conclusion.

I had read and heard rumors about this secret base for years. The rumors began after a 29-kiloton nuclear explosive was detonated at a depth of 4,222 feet near the Archuletta Mesa on the Jicarilla Apache Indian reservation near Dulce in 1967. The detonation was an experiment jointly conducted by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, the U.S. Department of the Interior (Bureau of Mines) and the El Paso Natural Gas Company, and was known as Operation Plowshare. Part of the Atoms for Peace program, the experiment itself was dubbed Project Gasbuggy. According to a December 22, 1967 story in Time Magazine, the official explanation for Project Gasbuggy was that it was intended to produce underground routes for an estimated 300 trillion cubic feet of gas flow. Unfortunately, according to an August 29, 1959 follow-up report in Time, the explosion resulted in only a minor gas yield, worth less than the cost of the explosive. More important, the gas released from Project Gasbuggy was too radioactive for use.

By the mid-1970s, reports of unusual military activity, UFO sightings, higher-than-normal cancer rates, decreased fertility in women and cattle mutilations in the area had begun to surface. In 1980, physicist Paul Bennowitz, then president of the Thunder Scientific Labs adjacent to Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, made claims that extraterrestrials were transmitting signals to him from a base hidden underneath Archuleta Mesa just north of Dulce. At the same time, Bennowitz also investigated the case of a New Mexico woman named Myrna Hansen, who reported having been abducted by extraterrestrials near Cimarron and taken to an underground facility consisting of laboratories, high-velocity transportation vehicles traveling through underground tunnels, high-tech computing areas and cooperative activities between groups of extraterrestrials and humans. Hansen described seeing cattle being drained of their blood and vats containing both human and animal body parts.

By the 1980s, illustrations of a seven-level facility operated with self-sustaining magnetic energy, along with detailed descriptions of gruesome human-alien-animal biogenetic experiments and government cooperation with extraterrestrials were distributed to scientific and UFO researchers around the world. At about the same time, sinister rumors surfaced concerning the mysterious disappearance (or death) of Thomas Edwin Castello, who claimed he had worked as a security officer at the Dulce base, and that a revolt by human workers at the base in 1979 resulted in nearly 100 human and extraterrestrial deaths. The revolt, known as The Dulce War, has been detailed in a number of books and publications.

Armed with this factual and rumored data, cameras, laptop and a high level of curiosity, I set off for Dulce and the underground base conference at the Best Western Jicarilla Inn. The conference was hosted by Norio Hayakawa, a UFO researcher from Rio Rancho, New Mexico. Hayakawa’s goal for the conference was to determine whether an underground base at Dulce really exists.

Nearly 130 people from as far away as Hawaii and New York attended the conference –– more than three times the number expected. High-profile UFO and exopolitical experts such as Dr. Michael Salla, Dennis Balthaser and Gregg Bishop presented both pro and con arguments concerning the base. They were joined by eyewitnesses, law enforcement officers and local residents, all of whom presented credible and convincing testimony. In addition to the rumors about the base which have circulated for more than 30 years, new evidence and theories surfaced which provided lively discussion and much food for thought.

There were also low-flying military helicopters which slowly circled the hotel on the morning of the conference. According to local residents, seeing military aircraft in Dulce is not totally unheard of; however, what appeared to be close-up surveillance of cars in the hotel parking lot left many conference participants apprehensive.

Compelling Testimony
Area rancher Edmund Gomez spoke first, explaining how the Dulce mystery began in 1976 when he discovered mutilated cattle and found physical evidence of classified military activities on his ranch. He also discovered an air vent emerging from the Archuleta Mesa –– the first concrete evidence that something exists under the mesa. Eventually, dismayed by continued cattle losses and the mysterious disappearance of evidence he collected, Gomez said he felt forced to vacate his ranch.

Former New Mexico State Patrol officer Gabe Valdez also told of investigating cattle mutilations during the 1970s and 1980s. Although declaring they were not connected to either UFOs or aliens, Valdez alluded to other explanations which he described as “too sensitive for discussion.”

Gregg Bishop, author of “Project Beta,” a 2005 book detailing the claims of Paul Bennowitz, said he initially believed military disinformation precipitated the rumors of a secret alien-military underground base at Dulce. Bishop then admitted that recent insider information and additional research, along with the Gomez air vent discovery, make him doubt his previous skepticism. He said he now accepts the possibility of a Base at Dulce.

Expanding on astrophysicist Jacques F. Vallee's research relating to sidereal time and interdimensional wormholes, Keith Ealy then presented a theory involving a time-space portal as explanation for the many UFO sightings and other unexplained events near the Archuletta Mesa –– a theory unexpectedly supported by Hayakawa.


Hawaii-based exopoliticist Dr. Michael Salla spoke next, strongly advocating serious investigation of eyewitness and whistleblower testimony supporting the Dulce rumors, citing claims of human rights abuses and detailed descriptions of the 1979 gun battle at the underground base. Although he also suspects deliberate government disinformation is responsible for some of the rumors, Salla believes there is an underground base jointly operated by the U.S. military and extraterrestrials at Dulce.

Highly-regarded UFO and Area 51 investigator Dennis Balthaser agreed with Salla, concluding that an underground facility at Dulce not only exists, but that its existence corroborates much of the UFO activity in New Mexico. Balthaser also shared his belief that government disclosure is not forthcoming because it would involve an admission that the military is unable to understand or control vastly-advanced extraterrestrial technology.

Perhaps the most powerful testimony at the conference came from retired Dulce police officer Gabe Julian who emotionally described his feelings of powerlessness when attempting to do his job in the face of UFO activities in the area. He told of three UFO craft seen by himself, his police backup and multiple other witnesses –– and of not being believed. Trained in police science and forensics at Western New Mexico University where he was on the dean's list, with additional training as a firefighter and EMT, Julian expressed his frustration at being unprepared and unable to protect his community, despite all his training. Other local people also came forward to describe their UFO, cattle mutilation and military-intrigue experiences, with a Dulce teacher noting that UFOs and aliens are often found in the stories and artwork of local children.

My personal eye-opener occurred when a native-American man quietly showed me about 20 photographs contained in an old, worn photo processing envelope. Shot from several different angles, the pictures showed gruesome images of a grotesque creature. The creature had what looked like an “unfinished” human head, with lumps and hair on it, but without any definite features like eyes or ears, as well as appendages which looked like human arm stumps and small slender legs like those of a baby deer. What looked like a long black “tail” emerged from a darkened opening centered at the rear of the creature.

While no official conclusion was reached at the conference, it ended with overwhelming agreement that serious additional investigations into the Dulce mystery should be undertaken, and that close-up surveillance of cars at the conference by unmarked helicopters was unnerving. Strong beliefs that disclosure of governmental activities in the area is overdue were also expressed. Conference host Norio Hayakawa indicated his willingness to hold more conferences as new information is gathered; however, some Jicarilla Apache residents expressed misgivings about having more people disrupt their homeland.

With plenty of time on the drive home to consider all I had seen and heard at the conference, any doubts I had regarding the Dulce rumors disappeared. While I was persuaded by powerful witness testimony, what really did it for me were the military helicopters and the photographs. The images in those pictures remain with me and trouble my dreams, and I find myself considering the acquisition of a new license plate. Rumor or not, I believe SOMETHING is going on in or near the Archuletta Mesa at Dulce, New Mexico.

Those who wish to know more about the mysteries surrounding the alleged secret alien-government underground base at Dulce will find more than a half-million Internet sites devoted to the subject.

* Janet Sailor resides in Angel Fire, New Mexico, where she owns Access Media and is president of the non-profit organization Alliance Studying Paranormal Experiences (ASPE).

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Distinguished UFO Researcher, Dennis Balthaser To Speak at the Angel Fire Community Center

By Janet Sailor
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4-26-09

     Attendees will be in for a treat when Dennis Balthaser, one of the country’s top UFO researchers, presents “Scrutinizing Roswell, Area 51, Underground Bases and the Pyramids of Giza” at the Angel Fire Community Center (71 Valley Road in Angel Fire, NM) on May 9 from 2 - 4 pm. Admission is $20 (or $15 if you are over 60, under 18, in the Military, a Firefighter or an EMT). Balthaser's appearance is sponsored by Alliance Studying Paranormal Experiences (ASPE).

Balthaser (pronounced Ball-thay-sir) is highly regarded as a leading investigator and UFOlogist by his peers, and is also a popular symposium speaker and editorial columnist. In 1996, Balthaser retired from a 33-year civil engineering career and settled in Roswell, NM where he served as a board member and official UFO Investigator for the International UFO Museum before becoming an independent researcher, journalist and lecturer. Balthaser is a certified UFO investigator with the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and is a member of the advisory board for the Great Pyramid of Giza Research Association. His main areas of research include the 1947 Roswell Incident, Area 51, Underground Bases and the pyramids of Egypt.

“This guy is a rock star!” declared ASPE founder Janet Sailor. “Tune into any television or radio program dealing with the paranormal, and chances are, Dennis will be on it. When it comes to experts in the field, he’s definitely one of the best, and ASPE is honored to sponsor his appearance in Angel Fire.”

Since the fiftieth anniversary of the Roswell Incident, Balthaser has been interviewed for more than 350 television programs, radio programs and other media stories, including CNN, MTV, the SCI-FI Channel, The TODAY Show, Dateline, Nightline, NBC, ABC Nightly News, Jeff Rense’s “Sightings on the Radio,” Ted Loman’s “Off the Record,” Rob McConnell’s “X-Zone Radio Show,” Art Bell's “Coast to Coast AM,” the Discovery Channel, the National Geographic Channel, “UFO Hunters” and the History Channel.

In addition, he writes editorials pertaining to his research for 31 web sites and UFO Magazine, and also works closely with well-known researchers Stanton Friedman, Frank Warren, Scott Ramsey and many others. His award-winning web site, www.truthseekeratroswell.com, has had over one million visitors since 1998.

Proceeds from Balthaser’s appearance will benefit the September 11-13, 2009 Paranormal Symposium at Angel Fire, sponsored by ASPE. Visit www.aspefiles.org or call 575-377-2667 for additional information.

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Air Force Closes the Book on UFO Reports

By Air Force Times
6-24-08

     11 years ago, today, the following story appeared in Air Force Times. For years, people had wondered if U.S. government, and specifically, the Air Force had hidden secrets of a UFO crash in New Mexico.

Bunk, they said.

And they made it official.

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The Air Force wants its June 24 report disproving UFO sightings in Roswell, N.M., to clear up any possible mystery on the subject: The 231-page “Roswell Report” is subtitled “Case Closed.”

“We’re confident that this will be the final word,” said Col. John Haynes, the deputy chief of the Air Force secretary’s declassification and review team at the Pentagon.

But if the slew of telephone calls the Air Force received in reaction to the report indicates anything, it’s that to many UFO believers the Roswell case is far from closed.

“Most of the public is claiming that they still think something is out there,” said Staff Sgt. Donna Burgess, an Air Force community-relations officer at the Pentagon. “I had a couple of people just screaming at me that we weren’t telling the truth.”

The truth, according to the Air Force, is that the alien bodies that witnesses reported seeing removed from a crash site in the New Mexico desert near Roswell Army Air Field — closed since 1967 — were really anthropomorphic dummies used in high-altitude crash experiments in the mid-1950s.

The dummies seemed to match the witnesses’ descriptions of bald, four-foot tall beings with blank expressions, pale skin and holes for ears. Although they were rarely seen by the public in 1947, two such dummies — Vince and Larry — now star in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s “Buckle Your Safety Belt” campaign.

The creature that one witness reported to have seen walking into a Roswell hospital was probably a man who in 1959 was hit on the head by a balloon gondola and suffered a massive hematoma, according to the report.

“The injury that caused (Capt. Dan) Fulgham’s head to swell, resembling the classic science-fiction alien head, makes this account (and some others) that at first appeared to be the work of over-active imaginations, seem possible,” the report says.

The flying saucers witnesses reported seeing in 1947 were explained away by the Air Force in 1994 as the metallic parts of a weather balloon used for a then-classified reconnaissance mission.

The report goes on with hundreds of pages of events that, the Air Force says, explain various witness accounts. But that gives many people fodder to be skeptical of the Air Force. The Air Force is claiming that witnesses are combining the sightings of the balloon in 1947 with the sightings of the dummies in the mid-1950s with the sightings of the hematoma victim in 1953 — and mixing them up into one memory.

“You find that if people talk about things over a period of time, they begin to lose exactly when the date was,” Haynes said.

Dennis Balthaser, a “certified UFO investigator,” does not buy that explanation.

“I believe it’s the biggest insult to the intelligence of the American people to come along in 50 years. There are too many holes in it. The testing of the dummies was years after the Roswell incident,” said Balthaser, the operations manager of the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell. “The report is looked at by all the people I’ve talked to as outright garbage.”

His is the sentiment of most of the people who have called the Air Force to request a copy of the report, according to Burgess.

“I haven’t gotten any calls saying, ‘We believe your report,’ “ Burgess said. “They all say, ‘We do not believe your idea of weather balloons and dummies.’ “

According to Burgess, the “Case Closed” report has fanned the ire of UFO enthusiasts.

“Before the report came out, we just got requests for UFO fact sheets,” she said.

The Air Force provides, at no charge, a one-page explanation about UFOs, which can be found on its home page at http:// www.af.mil. The “Roswell Report” is not available through the Air Force. People who want a copy, Burgess has explained to hundreds of people, must call the Government Printing Office.

“I’ve been swamped by requests for the report,” she said. “But the Air Force provided free copies only to the media.”

Gloria Cales, an Air Force spokeswoman, also handles queries about Roswell. She is supposed to deal only with news organizations, but sometimes other calls slip through.

“One lady called me and said that she has aliens living in her back yard,” Cales said. “It’s very hard to get people like that off the phone. I sat and listened to her and then went through my normal pitch.”

Project Blue Book

Cales tells UFO witnesses to report any sightings to their local police department. The Air Force no longer takes reports because “Project Blue Book is over.”

Project Blue Book was the Air Force’s investigation into extraterrestrial life. The project began in 1947 and ended in 1969.

“Out of 12,618 reports from the public, only 701 could not be explained,” Cales said. “The conclusion was that none of these UFOs gave any indication of threat to our national security.”

Balthaser said that the conclusion of the project in 1969 gave him even more reason to doubt the new “Roswell Report.”

“They say they’ve done nothing with UFOs since they closed Blue Book,” he said.

“And yet they want us to believe a 1997 report (on the subject.)”

But he was happy to hear that Haynes, who presented the report during a Pentagon news conference, had fielded questions about Area 51, officially known as Groom Lake. That is a secret military site north of Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas.

The Air Force is rumored to be conducting experiments on aliens at this location. Stories of such experiments led screenwriters of the movie “Independence Day” to develop a subplot in which Americans used an alien spacecraft stored in Area 51 to fight off aliens who were attacking Earth.

When a reporter asked him about the veracity of Area 51, Haynes said he assumed the reporter was talking about Groom Lake and replied, “There’s classified stuff going on there, but I don’t know anything about it.”

“Hmmph,” Balthaser said when he heard of Haynes’ response.

“At least they’re admitting it exists. That’s a start.”

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Local UFO Researcher to be Interviewed on NBC Today Show

     NBC TODAY weekend show host, Lester Holt, Producer Kim Cornett and a film crew from New York were in Roswell last week to interview local UFO Researcher Dennis Balthaser for an upcoming segment to air Saturday, Feb 23 on the TODAY show. Holt requested the interview to discuss Area 51 and the 1947 Roswell Incident with Balthaser, in front of Bldg. 84 at the Roswell Industrial Air Center, which was referred to as Hangar 84 at the Roswell Army Air Field in 1947. Balthaser said he was impressed with the questions Holt asked and the professionalism of the film crew. Host Lester Holt told Balthaser he had studied his website www.truthseekeratroswell.com and decided to do the interview in Roswell due to Balthaser’s years of research about the Roswell Incident and Area 51 in Nevada.

Balthaser will also be emcee at the 11th Annual Aztec New Mexico UFO Symposium www.aztecufo.com March 28-30, 2008. He has been involved every year since 1997, as either a speaker or emcee for the annual event, which is sponsored by the friends of the Aztec Public Library. Balthaser thinks this years list of speakers is the best ever invited to the event, and will include: Stanton Friedman, Jesse Marcel Jr., Timothy Good. Ted Phillips, Ken Storch, James Carrion and Scott Ramsey. The alleged Aztec crash occurred in March 1948, 9 months after the Roswell Incident.

Balthaser has also been asked to speak at the Roswell Festival scheduled for July 2008.

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UFO Fervor Has Spread Far Beyond Stephenville

By Matt Frazier and Bryon Okada
he Star Telegram
1-17-08

     The Stephenville UFOs have gone beyond North Texas.

Thanks to dozens of reports of a strange, silent object over the town about 70 miles southwest of Fort Worth, UFO stories have filled newscasts, newspapers and online reports around the world.

"Dozens in Texas Town Report Seeing UFO," read an online headline for The Washington Post.

"Multiple reports of UFO-like sighting in Texas town," proclaimed Canada's CBC News.

UFO photos were among the top Yahoo searches this morning, along with Katie Holmes and Prince William's girlfriend.

The reported sightings have become a catalyst on blogs and in chat rooms, triggering scientific and philosophical debates, religious inquiries, conspiracy charges and bad Texas jokes.

"It's amazing how this has taken on an international profile," said Kenneth Cherry, president of the Texas chapter of the Mutual UFO Network. "I've had calls from Japanese and British newspapers. I'm supposed to be doing Larry King Live on Friday."

All this attention is not enough, says one group in New York, which believes this should be a top issue for the presidential candidates.

But in Stephenville, a dairy town of 15,000, most people just thought the UFO sightings were fun.

'Interesting today'

A UFO is parked outside a Stephenville business.

"It's been interesting today," said Treva Thompson with the Stephenville Chamber of Commerce. "My son and some of his friends made helmets out of tinfoil and are walking around town."

City Secretary Cindy Stafford has been going about town in a green alien mask. Some high school students are making alien T-shirts. One automobile dealership put up a sign saying UFOs could be traded in there.

It's not that people are making fun of those who say they saw a UFO, said Sara Vanden Berge, managing editor of the Stephenville Empire-Tribune. With such a small population, the witnesses, including county Constable Leroy Gaitan, are too well-known.

It's just that aliens are a fun and welcome change from cowboys and rodeos.

"There are some people who are taking it very seriously," Vanden Berge said. "But there is a large group of people having a good time with it. They are just having fun with the idea."

Others across the country are also having fun with the idea.

Some of the comments on the Internet and airwaves over the past couple of days:

Why did the Stephenville resident cross the road? To get to the other UFO.

Is the UFO over Stephenville looking for Jewel and Tasty BBQ? (The singer Jewel has been connected with legendary rodeo competitor and Stephenville resident Ty Murray.)

President Bush has hired real aliens to get rid of the illegal human aliens.

Taking it seriously

Not amused by the jokes is Dennis Balthaser, UFO researcher and former director of Roswell's International UFO Museum and Research Center.

"Once again the media is not taking this seriously, and that makes it difficult to investigate," Balthaser said.

Supporting this idea is the Washington-based Paradigm Research Group, which dedicates itself to getting the federal government to acknowledge and disclose information about extraterrestrials on Earth. This week it renewed its long call for the mainstream media to take the issue seriously, saying it should demand answers from the presidential candidates regarding the issue.

The group says it has compiled 1,700 news accounts of UFOs since 1947.

"What you discover is the local and regional press covered the issue pretty straight," executive director Stephen Bassett said. "The phenomena is laid out. But when it comes to the top tier -- the major networks and papers of record in the U.S. -- they have not done their job."

The problem is obvious, says one responder to a news blog: The media is conspiring with the government to keep the existence of UFOs a secret.

One post from South Carolina offered a different idea: "I don't know y'all, but it seems to me like a tourist attraction scam."

Spiritual questions

Is God an alien?

Can a Christian believe in UFOs?

Aren't UFOs mentioned in the Bible?

Questions like these have become popular as some struggle to reaffirm their place in the universe.

That is as it should be, said C. Scott Littleton, professor of anthropology at Occidental College in Los Angeles.

"People have been seeing anomalous objects in the sky for millennia, but for the most part they -- and their occupants -- have been perceived as gods, demons," Littleton said. "Indeed, I suspect that most if not all of our religions evolved to 'explain' these otherwise inexplicable phenomena."

Believing or not believing in UFOs is not so much a concern, said James K. Walker, president of the Watchman Fellowship, an evangelical group based in Arlington that debunks cults.

What is a concern are those rare instances in which unexplained phenomena result in the formation of a religious group or cult that professes to offer spiritual guidance, then spins off -- for whatever reason -- in a destructive pattern. "When they go off the deep end, they can take a bunch of people with them."

He mentioned the 1997 case in which Marshall Applewhite, leader of the Heaven's Gate cult, persuaded followers to commit suicide so their souls could ride on a spaceship trailing Comet Hale-Bopp.

Telepathic channeling with aliens is a common feature of UFO-based cults, said Walker, who included several UFO cults -- Chen Tao in Garland, Armageddon Tim Ark Base in Weslaco, the Raelians of Southern California to name a few -- in his recent book, The Concise Guide to Today's Religions And Spirituality.

"Faith is a good thing," the "unapologetically Christian" Walker said. "The object of your faith is what makes all the difference."

Report a UFO

The Texas chapter of the Mutual UFO Network plans to begin interviewing witnesses at 1 p.m. Saturday in a meeting room in downtown Dublin near the Dr Pepper plant. To report a sighting, call MUFON State Director Kenneth Cherry at 817-379-0773 or fill out a report form at www.mufon.com.

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Who Built The Pyramids?

© Frank Warren
10-20-07

     Regular guest “Dennis Balthaser” rides into the “Paracast Show” on a horse with different colors as demonstrated by his latest gig with co-hosts Gene Steinberg & David Biedny.

Most familiar with Dennis, or for that matter the Paracast show, are aware of the formers’ dedication and years of research regarding the field of Ufology, and the “Roswell Incident” in particular.

This week however, the topic of conversation isn’t about UFO’s and or their occupants, it’s about the pyramids in Egypt, and the mysteries behind them.

Friends and colleagues, as well as frequent visitors to his “award winning web-site,” are mindful of Dennis’ curio with the pyramids as well as his relationship with the “Great Pyramid of Giza Research Association”; however, listeners will certainly come to realize that Dennis has more then a passing interest in the subject.

Most would agree that the pyramids are certainly a fascinating topic of conversation; conversely the 60 minutes devoted to the matter will no doubt captivate the listener, and leave he or she scratching their respective heads.

Gene & David’s “to the point” inquiries elicited answers from Dennis that in the very least give the listener “pause” in regards to how history was written about the origins of the pyramids.

Most importantly, Dennis calls into question the date of construct of the pyramids and in particular the “Sphinx.” He talks about the scientific evidence that supports the construction of the Sphinx, which predates Egyptian society. The very idea that mainstream historians could be off by over 5000 years is mind-boggling!

Dennis’ career as a civil engineer comes into play in regards to his research, and he points out the ideologies offered by present day Egyptologists just don’t add up! He cites the flaws in the time allotted to construct the pyramids with a multitude of slave labor, and sheds light for the lay person with basics math skills, that what has been posed “just ain’t so!”

I found this latest dialogue stimulating, informative, enlightening and instilling a need to “know more,” however, there was one item I took issue with—it just wasn’t long enough!

The Paracast

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Supposed Flying Saucer Incident Marks 60th Anniversary

By Greg Flakus
VOA.com
6-29-07

Sixty years ago this July, something happened in the desert about 100 kilometers northwest of Roswell, New Mexico. A local newspaper at the time reported that a flying saucer had crashed and that the wreckage had been taken to the U.S. Army Air base just outside of Roswell. The military said it had been a weather balloon that crashed.

But many people who research UFOs -- unidentified flying objects -- think aliens from another planet crashed in New Mexico and they have made the Roswell incident a major focus of their attention. As VOA's Greg Flakus reports from Roswell, local people have decided to go along with all, much to their profit.

     There are some scenic places in New Mexico for tourists to visit. But they are all about a two-hour drive from Roswell. Very few tourists came here before the aliens arrived.

Roswell's big attraction now is the UFO Museum and Research Center. Sandy James is deputy director.

"Basically, a long time ago, if you came to Roswell, you were lost. Now, if you come to Roswell, you are coming to see the museum."

People from around the world flock here to see exhibits about the July 1947 incident and other UFO stories. They also buy lots of souvenirs. James explains the attractions. "Top items that people buy would be tee-shirts, first. Coffee mugs are second, then shot glasses and key chains."

A large family from India spent more than an hour looking at the evidence of alien visits and came away convinced. One of them commented on the museum, "I see all the pictures and all the signs and I heard before some stories about the aliens."

A skeptical boy in the family says, "I believe it somewhat, but not fully. The skin of the aliens is green and my favorite color is green."

Roswell, a town of some 50,000 people, will double in size during the four days of the 60th anniversary UFO Festival in early July.

Guy Malone is organizing the festival and a concurrent conference of UFO investigators. He says the city government realizes the importance of the whole UFO story to the local economy. "It seems 11 or 12 percent of the employment base in Roswell is now tourism and hospitality-oriented such as hotels, restaurants, museums, things like that. A decade ago that figure was zero-point-something percent."

Malone says Roswell's residents are divided between those who think the famous 1947 alien incident is a bunch of nonsense that can be exploited for tourist dollars and those who really do think something happened and that the government covered it up.

"You have a whole community involved here. You do have the serious side of researchers and witnesses that can actually give you the serious side if that is what you are looking for and then there is also the campy or schtick side, too."

One of the serious Roswell residents is former Texas civil engineer Dennis Balthaser. He says his investigations have convinced him that the U.S. military did recover a crashed alien craft 60 years ago and hid it from the public.

"The United States government has had a lot of practice keeping secrets. Good examples are the atomic bomb project, which was carried out right here at Los Alamos, north of Roswell. Fifty-thousand people were involved with that project for about 10 years and it was kept secret."

Balthaser thinks it may have been the first test of an atomic bomb, here in New Mexico in 1945 and the atomic bombs kept at the Roswell army base that drew the attention of visitors from another world.

He is aware that many people, here and elsewhere, view belief in UFOs as irrational, but he thinks this would change if the U.S. government followed other governments in revealing what it knows. "Within the past six months, the government of France and the government of England (Great Britain) have both announced that they are going to open up their UFO files. The United States has made no attempt to do that."

It is not likely that any dramatic new evidence will emerge at the upcoming UFO conference here to change anyone's mind one way or the other on the Roswell incident.

Guy Malone believes the town will be able to capitalize on it for a long time to come. "I think the mystery will always endure. The mystery will always be there. Nobody is ever going to have conclusive proof of what it was or wasn't."

Local business owners agree and there are now plans for a new, much larger UFO Museum in town.

But the questions about what happened here 60 years ago will never be resolved unless, of course, the aliens themselves were to pay a return visit just to clear things up.

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Roswell Incident; Once a Non-Believer, Facts Don’t Matter

By Dennis Balthaser
6-1-07

     With the approaching 60th anniversary of the 1947 Roswell Incident upon us, I’ve noticed the internet UFO lists are again becoming active, with those that refuse to accept the information already put forth pertaining to two specific accounts of the incident. Those two accounts being the debris found on the Foster ranch, by ranch foreman “Mack” Brazel, and the photographs taken in General Ramey’s office. Both are key elements of the incident. In my estimation they have been “put to rest” several times with good research and factual information, but the critics and non-believers apparently don’t want to accept factual information. I’ve also noticed that many times those individuals that don’t agree with the factual information have no new or counter information to offer, so the debate continues as it has for several years.

On the debris question I will rely on the research of David Rudiak http://roswellproof.com and a few others for the countless hours they have devoted to explaining away the balloon accounts with information they obtained, documented and previously shared.

On the photographs taken in General Ramey’s office I can speak from first-hand knowledge having met and interviewed James Bond Johnson, who actually took all but one of the photographs, and whom I seriously questioned about some of his statements and embellishments of his involvement, in interviews done previously, with David Rudiak, Kevin Randle and others.

A few of the points I would make about the debris is the fact that ranch foreman “Mack” Brazel was familiar with weather balloons, having prior to July 1947 recovered several and turned them in to the Army-Air Force for the small reward offered for recovering them. Would the top intelligence officer in the military at the time, (Major Jesse Marcel), be asked to go 65 miles away from the base with CIC operative Captain Cavitt to review the situation on a ranch for a balloon, and themselves bring debris back to the base, and shortly thereafter have Marcel fly some of that debris to 8th Army-Air Force headquarters in Ft Worth Texas for General Ramey to view? Would that same debris from a balloon then be flown on to Wright Field at Dayton, Ohio?

And why in 1994, after 40 some years, would the Air Force publish a report indicating that what was found on the Foster ranch in 1947 was not a flying saucer as reported by the media July 8, 1947 after the base press release, nor was it a weather balloon as General Ramey reported in the media the next day on July 9, 1947, but rather a Mogul balloon? Mogul balloons (left) were advanced planning intended to detect any future nuclear testing being done by the Russians as observed from high altitude, so the Mogul balloons were being launched to see if they could be kept at a constant high altitude level. To the critics and non-believers it doesn’t matter that the Russians didn’t do any nuclear testing until 1949, (two years after the Roswell Incident), which is similar to the crash test dummy excuse given by the Air Force in 1997. Of course they weren’t used until 1953, (6 years after the Roswell Incident). Finally, if the Mogul balloons were so secretive why was a phony Mogul launch carried out for the press at Alamogordo on July 9, 1947, the day after the flying disc press release. We’re certainly due another excuse by the Air Force, after the 4 we’ve already had.

The Mogul 4 balloon, which the non-believers, critics and debunkers claim was the debris found on the ranch, seems to be the only unaccounted for Mogul balloon launch that fits the time frame. However, according to a diary kept by one of the Mogul scientists, Flight 4 was cancelled due to cloud cover, which is also supported by weather records of that time. Flight 9 on July 3rd was also cancelled. Neither Flight 4 nor 9 are listed in the Mogul records kept for each launch. Once filled with helium and the flights cancelled, the balloons were simply released, because they couldn’t be reused and any reusable equipment (radiosondes, radar reflectors), used for tracking would have been removed before releasing the balloons. Consequently if there was no tracking equipment, the balloon release would be of no value and there would not have been any tracking done.

Charles Moore, Mogul Engineer, claimed Flight 4 was tracked (based on nothing more than his memory), but has never produced any substantial documentation to support it. As a matter of note, none of the equipment that would have been attached to a Mogul balloon was ever reported as being found at the debris field either. David Rudiak and others have re-calculated the trajectory of Flight 4, and Rudiak has indicated that Moore’s calculations for the trajectory would have missed the Foster ranch by 70 miles, while others indicate 17 miles away from the ranch, either one being a long distance from the debris site.

Besides Mogul balloons with occasional radar targets, weather balloons with radar targets were also launched from a weather station at Orogrande, south of Alamogordo, prior to the launching of V-2 rockets from White Sands. But neither a single balloon with a radar target nor a much larger Mogul balloon train with tracking and other equipment would satisfy the size of the debris field, described as being several hundred yards wide by ¾ of a mile long.

Over the years much has been said about the “flower tape” supposedly holding parts of the Mogul radar target equipment together, but none has ever been seen in the photos taken in General Ramey’s office by James Bond Johnson, strongly indicating the debris in General Ramey’s office wasn’t even part of a Mogul balloon assembly.

That brings me to photographer James Bond Johnson, and the controversy over the photographs taken in General Ramey’s office, when Major Marcel delivered some of the debris to the General’s office from Roswell, and the fact that Johnson embellished his involvement in various interviews he did.


I have made a few observations about the photographs myself, that I want to share with you. The brown wrapping paper on the floor in several of the photographs with the debris on top of it appears to me to have been removed from a new roll of brown wrapping paper. It’s surface is flat, indicating that paper was never a part of a wrapped up package brought to the General’s office by Major Marcel, as it would have had creases or been crumpled, from being wrapped around the debris material. Secondly, and again in several photographs, unopened packages are plainly visible, possibly being some of the debris Marcel brought, and not yet opened. If Major Marcel went into the map room with the General when he arrived in Ft Worth before the packages were opened as I understand it, did Johnson take it upon himself to open some of the packages, since he said he rearranged the pile of debris for the photo shoot as stated below in one of my questions to him.

Some of the questions I asked Johnson in my interview with him in 2001 were as follows. The complete interview is here


DGB: Who asked you if you had your camera available and told you to go to General Ramey’s office?

JBJ: I was assigned by my city editor, Cullum Greene, after he had just received a “flash” AP Teletype that a “captured” flying saucer was being flown to Ft Worth from Roswell, and wanted photos of the craft. According to Johnson other photographers for the newspaper were not available at that time.

DGB: For the record, I understand that you took 6 photographs (three different setups) on July 8, 1947 in General Ramey’s office. Agreed?

JBJ: Yes

DGB: You didn’t remember meeting or taking photographs of Major Marcel, until after you looked at the pictures at the University of Texas at Arlington library where they are archived. You then remembered taking Marcel’s pictures, and that was based on the markings on the film that was used for the other photographs you did remember taking?

JBJ: Agreed

DGB: The photograph of Irving Newton was not taken by you, agreed?

JBJ: Agreed

When I asked Bond about the unopened packages on the floor, he said, “that there hadn’t been time to open them all, and what was opened was in a pile, so he rearranged it for the photo shoot.”

Bond had made a statement that the paper in General Ramey’s hand in the photographs was a press release that he had handed to Ramey. In my interview with Johnson he admitted he was in error about that.

Bottom line for James Bond Johnson is the fact that he did take 6 photographs in General Ramey’s office, but not the one of Irving Newton, and he had no other involvement, although he embellished his involvement in various interviews he had done.

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