From: Neil Morris <neil.nul>
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 22:23:29 +0100
Fwd Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 16:22:05 -0400
Subject: Re: Just A Few Roswell Questions - Morris


>From: Ed Gehrman <egehrman.nul>
>To: <ufoupdates.nul>
>Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 13:23:34 -0700
>Subject: Re: Just A Few Roswell Questions

>>From: David Rudiak <drudiak.nul>
>>To: <ufoupdates.nul>
>>Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 10:40:10 -0700
>>Subject: Re: Just A Few Roswell Questions

Ed, David,

Just a couple of quick comments, I hope to address some of
David's earlier comments in more depth over the weekend when I
have more free time.

>>There is also one small, round unwrapped package lying behind
>>the middle chair in the Ramey & Ramey/Dubose photos, but moved
>>against the radiator in the Marcel & Newton photos. My guess is
>>that this one one of Porter's described "shoebox" size wrapped
>>packages.

This package has been opened and in fact seems empty, you can
see inside the open end in one of the Marcel images.

>>* Dennis Balthaser has made the interesting observation that the
>>brown paper rolled out on Ramey's rug isn't crinkled (nor has
>>any tape attached). In other words, it was fresh paper rolled
>>out for display, not debris wrapping paper as is usually
>>assumed.

Bond described this as ordinary wrapping paper, we are talking
1947 here, lot's of things didn't come pre-packaged and many
places where things needeed wrapping use to have large rolls of
brown wrapping paper to hand, even stores her in the UK up to
the 60/70's quite often still had counter fittings with these
rolls attached, so lengths could be torn off against an inbuilt
blade to wrap goods with. I'm sure even a USAAF base would have
normal brown wrapping paper to hand in 1947 to help stop a
General's carpet getting soiled.

>I disagree. This paper can be folded in a way so it wouldn't
>crease too much, besides, we don't see enough of the paper to
>make a decision one way or the other, and I can see creases.
>Look at the Bettmann copy.

>>* Marcel in his last interview with Linda Corley said they hid
>>the "real" debris and they weren't so stupid as to show it to
>>reporters.

>I agree, they hid the real debris but only after the Ramey photos.

>>* Nobody associated any smell with the debris, including Porter,
>>until Fort Worth. That's when Bond Johnson said the balloon
>>stunk up Ramey's office and he was surprised it would be there
>>instead of in some salvage yard. These decaying neoprene
>>balloons have a strong, pungent smell, and therefore I think it
>>noteable that no one commented on this before Fort Worth. Smells
>>like this tend to stick in your mind.

Bond's comment that he personally made to me on a couple of our
meetings, was that the smell he noticed in Ramey's office
reminded him of the smell he had noticed when he had covered
building fire stories as a reporter for the ST. I think it's
stretching a point to say this positively identified in
particular burnt neoprene rubber. We had a major building fire
on my route to work just a few weeks back, for a long time there
was a distinctive _burnt_ smell around the area, but it wasn't
_acrid_ or _rubber_ like, just _burnt_.

<snip>

>>"Lunch" to Porter could have meant nothing more than the lunch
>>they missed in Roswell as they prepped the B-29 for flight to
>>Fort Worth.

>I don't think that was the way it was in the Army. You didn't
>miss lunch. A meal missed could never be made up. If the plane
>left at 2:00 PM then Porter would have had lunch already and be
>ready for dinner or supper at FW.

Please also bear in mind that _both_ RAAF and FWAAF would be
running on DST _but_ both Roswell and Fort Worth civillians
would be running on _standard_ time 1 hour behind. It sounds
extreamly confusing but that's what the history books tell us
_was_ happening back then. The situation went on like this in
some places until the Unified Time Act of 1966 was finally
passed in the US.


Best Regards

Neil


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