Table Of Content“Witness to Roswell is a well-researched, well-documented,
and well-written account of a very important issue.”
—Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Capt. USN [Ret.], Apollo astronaut, founder of IONS
“If even 5 percent of the events described by this book actually happened,
it would be Earth-shattering.” —The Cut
“This book is the closest to the truth about the Roswell Incident you will ever
stumble upon.” —Paul Davids, executive producer of Roswell,
the Showtime original movie
Witness to Roswell is fi lled with hard-hitting eyewitness testimony of one of the most
important events of all time: the actual recovery of a UFO outside of Roswell, New
Mexico, in 1947. For more than seventy-fi ve years, government authorities have led
us to believe the wreckage is merely a very conventional weather balloon—but the
witnesses who were there continue to tell a different story.
Witness to Roswell provides a can’t-put-down written account of what really
transpired in Roswell decades ago. It pries loose the truth the government doesn’t
want us to know, including the revelations of public information offi cer Walter Haut.
This anniversary edition includes:
A growing litany of deathbed confessions describing the “little people”
recovered at the crash site
The identity of the Boeing engineer called in to examine the exotic
wreckage from the crash
What really took place at the Roswell base hospital and what nurse
actually ordered the children’s caskets
Witness to Roswell once again demonstrates to the world that no statute of
limitations applies to the truth: we are not alone.
THOMAS J. CAREY, an Air Force veteran, possessed a TOP SECRET/CRYPTO clear-
ance. He has been researching the Roswell Incident for more than two decades and
has appeared as a guest on many radio and television shows including Larry King
Live and Fox & Friends.
DONALD R. SCHMITT is the former codirector of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO
Studies, where he served as Director of Special Investigations for a decade. He has
been interviewed frequently in media including 48 Hours, CBS Morning News, Time,
the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, and on CBS, NPR, the Travel Channel,
and the BBC.
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WITNESS TO ROSWELL
7 5 T H A N N I V E R S A RY E D I T I O N
WITNESS
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ROSWELL
75TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
Unmasking the Government’s
Biggest Cover- Up
THOMAS J. CAREY and DONALD R. SCHMITT
FOREWORD BY EDGAR MITCHELL
AFTERWORD BY GEORGE NOORY
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Copyright © 2009, 2022 by Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt
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. . . [We want] just the facts, ma’am.
—SGT. JOE FRIDAY, Detective Division, LAPD
. . . Record enough facts, and the answer will fall to you like a ripe fruit.
—FRANZ BOAZ, American anthropologist
To my loving wife of fifty- four years, Doreen, not only for suggesting the
title of this book, but also for believing in and encouraging me to pursue my
“hobby” all these years.
—TJC
To my loving wife, Marie, who inspires me to go beyond the second star to
the right, and then straight on ’til morning.
—DRS
CONTENTS
Foreword by Dr. Edgar Mitchell .................................ix
Preface .................................................xiii
Acknowledments ..........................................xvii
Introduction by Donald R. Schmitt ..............................1
Introduction by Thomas J. Carey ................................3
1. The Ultimate Cold Case File .................................7
2. Falling on the Air Force Sword . . . Fifty Years Later ...............17
3. The Corona Debris Field: Much Ado about Something .............33
4. “They’re Not Human!”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41
5. “Afraid They Would Shoot at Us” .............................47
6. Harassed Rancher Sorry He Told: The Aftermath of a Balloon
Recovery—The True Story ..................................53
7. “I Should Have Buried That Thing!” ...........................63
8. “Nothing Made on This Earth” ...............................69
9. The Senator and the Aliens: “Get Me the Hell Out of Here!” .........75
10. Covering Up the Biggest Story since the Parting of the Red Sea .....85
11. “Some Things Shouldn’t Be Discussed, Sergeant!” ..............89
12. Loaned by Major Marcel to Higher Headquarters: From Complicity
to Cover- Up ..........................................109
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13. The Secretary and the Spacemen ..........................117
14. “Get These Over to the Base Hospital—NOW!” .................123
15. “What Did They Look Like, Daddy?” ........................145
16. “Who Goes There?” ....................................151
17. “Boys, We Just Made History!” ............................163
18. “If You Say Anything, You Will Be Killed!” .....................173
19. The Flying Saucer Takes a Train from Roswell ..................185
20. “It Wasn’t Ours!” ......................................195
21. “The Pieces Were from Space” ............................203
22. “Is That Where That Flying Saucer Crashed in 1947?” ...........211
23. Deathbed Confessions: “I Didn’t See the White Light, but I Did
See the Aliens at Wilford Hall” ............................217
24. A Voice from the Grave: The Sealed Statement of First Lieutenant
Walter G. Haut ........................................233
25. Searching for Roswell’s Holy Grail ..........................243
Postscript by Thomas J. Carey ................................249
Afterword by George Noory ..................................253
Appendix I: Map of New Mexico Key Points ......................257
Appendix II: Crash Site Stone Marker ..........................259
Appendix III: Major Patrick Saunders’s Confession .................261
Appendix IV: “Pentagon Admits It Has UFO Debris,” by Anthony Bragalia ..263
Appendix V: Sealed Affidavit of Walter G. Haut ....................271
Notes .................................................273
Bibliography ............................................295
Index ..................................................299
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FOREWORD
BY DR. EDGAR MITCHELL
I
grew up and went to school in the Pecos Valley of eastern New Mexico. I
attended elementary school in the small town of Roswell, and high school
in the even smaller town of Artesia, thirty- five miles to the south.
The Pecos River winds its way south from the Sangre de Cristo Mountains
of southern Colorado, down the eastern side of the state of New Mexico to
eventually join the Rio Grande River, which flows on the western side of the
state toward El Paso, Texas. The Rio Grande forms the Texas border between
the United States and Mexico. This area is rich with tales of the old West—
tales of pioneers, cattle ranches, cattle rustlers, and Indian lore. The small
towns and fertile farmlands in the Pecos Valley around Roswell, Artesia, and
Carlsbad were part of the wild Western lore surrounding Billy the Kid, Sher-
iff Pat Garrett, and Judge Roy Bean long before the Roswell Incident, which
is the subject of this book.
My local family at that time consisted of my mother, father, and two
younger siblings, plus my paternal grandparents, two uncles, an aunt, and their
respective spouses and children. In today’s vernacular, we were in the agribusi-
ness: farming, ranching, and buying and selling cattle and farm machinery.
The head of our clan, my paternal grandfather, was a traditional 19th-c entury
cattleman entrepreneur, known far and wide in the area as Bull Mitchell from
his primary interest in bringing registered Hereford breeding stock into the
West to replace the longhorn cattle that preceded them. My father and uncles
managed the two ranches, two farms, and two farm-machinery dealerships
the family acquired in the decade following settling in Roswell in 1935.
I was ready to begin my senior year in high school in the summer of 1947
when the Roswell Daily Record on July 8 proclaimed the recovery of a crashed
