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WHAT HAPPENED IN RAMEY'S OFFICE? Donald Schmitt & Kevin Randle 3
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WHAT HAPPENED IN RAMEY'S OFFICE?
By Donald R. Schmitt and Kevin D. Randle
Schmitt is Director of Special In- documentation. I don't know that. I don't know what
vestigations for CUFOS, the Center Shandera writes, "General DuBose's I wrote." Later he said, "I remember
for UFO Studies; Randle, a retired statements now sync-up (sic) perfectly that after I got out of the darkroom they
Air Force Officer, is the author of with the testimony given earlier by J. had several messages to call people.
The UFO Casebook. Bond Johnson, the Ft. Worth Star- That's what took up my time. I didn't
Telegram photographer whose state- even write an article then." And later
It seems that the activities in ments to Bill Moore and me opened up still, after reading it, he denied that it
Brigadier General Roger Ramey's of- the spectre of a revised view of what was his article altogether.
fice on July 8, 1947 have again taken occurred in Ft. Worth."
center stage. There are allegations, J. Bond Johnson was interviewed by riting in Focus, June 1990,
charges and questions about those ac-
tivities, and it seems that as we learn
more about what happened, the picture
us at length in February and March
1989. At that time, he told us that he'd
been "duped" by the Army into believ-
W Shandera and Moore report
that a bulletin came over the
wire about the identification of the
does not become clearer, as it should, ing what he'd seen at the Fort Worth Ar- debris as a balloon sometime after
but it becomes darker and harder to see. my Air Field were pieces of the actual Johnson returned to the office. "This
There are two factions, using the same wreckage recovered near Roswell. In a one spoiled all the fun. Ramey now says
witnesses, who come to completely dif- taped interview, he said, "I posed the flying disc was only a weather
ferent conclusions. However, an General Ramey with this debris. At that gadget. Soon the calls stopped. Bond
analysis of the entire picture might time I was briefed on the idea that it went home."
clarify it for those who have not been was not a flying disc as first reported Are we to believe then, that the
bombarded with information in the last but in fact was a weather balloon that reporter who was dispatched to get the
six months. had crashed." (For a transcript of the story and who took the photographs
It is illustrative to examine the open- interviews with Johnson, see the Inter- went home? That he went home without
ing paragraphs of the article submitted national UFO Reporter, Novem- ever writing the story about the inter-
by William Moore and Jaime Shandera ber/December 1990. Validity of view, regardless of what the story now
in the January 1991, MUFON Journal. transcripts verified by the Fund for was? This doesn't make any sense,
They castigate Joe Kirk Thomas UFO Research in a letter supplied to especially in light of Johnson's original
("Analyzing The Roswell Debris," MUFON Journal.) statements to us. If Johnson was the
MUFON Journal, January 1991) who Johnson also mentioned an article reporter who was in Ramey's office,
"commits some of the same grievous that was published on July 9, 1947. and there is no reason to suspect he
errors that first-year journalism students "Seven nine (July 9) is my story on the wasn't, and since he told us that he
and other would-be sleuths frequently front page that was earlier in the day." wrote the July 9 story on the evening
commit: he takes only the evidence he The last paragraph of that article said, on July 8, does it make sense to believe
wants to look at and completely ignores "After he took his first look, Ramey that he went home without writing a
the rest." declared all it was was a weather word about it. Who at the Fort Worth
With that in mind, let's look at the balloon. The weather officer verified Star-Telegram would have been better
article, "New Revelations About his view." qualified to write the story? A staffer
Roswell Wreckage: A General Speaks During our March 24 interview, working late and who hadn't been there,
Up," written by Jaime Shandera and Johnson made it even clearer. He iden- or J. Bond Johnson who went to
published in same issue of the MUFON tified, specifically, the article that he Ramey's office and spoke to General
Journal as the Thomas article. We can wrote. "Okay, this is the article that I Ramey?
see that the same criticism applies to wrote that was on the front page on We now know the truth. Johnson
Shandera's article. seven nine (July 9) and says, 'Disc- himself provided it for us. During the
But first, we must examine some of overy' Near Roswell Identified As March 24, 1989 interview, Johnson
the "facts" as established at the end of Weather Balloon by FWAAF Officer." said, "It would be entirely possible that
the article, and then we can look at the That is the article that ends with the other reporters ... See, I went there not
interview conducted with General statement that Ramey, after his first as a reporter but there was not anybody
Thomas J. DuBose. All facts reported look, declared it was a weather balloon. else there. I went ahead and got the
here are supported by taped interviews, When we asked Johnson about that facts and came back and there wasn't
newspaper articles and other assorted in May 1990, his response was, "Well, any other reporter who wrote it for the
Individuals
Calendar of UFO Conferences for 1991
+
Bill Braze!, personal interviews, February May 11 & 12 — UFO Expo West - Los Angeles Airport Hyatt Hotel,
1989, September 1990. Los Angeles, California
*Maj. Charles A. Cashon, PIO Fort Worth, May 17, 18 & 19 — Exploring Unexplained Phenomena III - University of
phone interviews, December 1989, June Nebraska Center, Lincoln, Nebraska
1990. May 18, 19 & 20 — Fifth Annual "Recontres Europeennes de Lyon"
Thomas J. DuBose, personal interviews, August Congress - Lyon, France
1990. (Video tape supplied to MUFON
June 27, 28 & 29 — 12th Rocky Mountain Conference on UFO Investiga-
Journal)
tions - University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
Stanton Friedman, personal interviews, July
1990. July 5, 6 & 7 — MUFON 1991 International UFO Symposium - Hyatt
Walter Haul, personal interviews, April 1989, Regency O'Hare Hotel at O'Hare International Airport near Chicago,
August 1989, January 1990, November Illinois
1990. August 16, 17 & 18 — Sixth International UFO Congress - Central
*Betsy Hudon, phone interviews, January 1989, Library Theater, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England
May 1989. October 12 & 13 — The UFO Experience - Holiday Inn, North Haven,
*J. Bond Johnson, phone interviews, February Connecticut
1989, March 1989, August 1989, November
1989, May 1990, December 1990. (Audio October 12 & 13 — Fourth Symposium on Ufology and Exobiology - Sao
Tape supplied to MUFON Journal) Paulo, Brazil
Paul Joseph, personal interview, February 1991. October 19 — Show-Me UFO Conference III - Holiday Inn Airport-West,
* + John Kromschroeder, personal interviews, Bridgeton, Missouri. Near St. Louis Airport
July 1990, August 1991.
*Johnny Mann, phone interviews, January 1990,
October 1990.
+
Jesse Marcel, Jr. personal interviews, August
1989, May 1990.
+
Viaud Marcel, personal interview, May 1990 CENTER FOR UFO STUDIES PHOTO EXHIBIT SCHEDULE
Irving Newton, phone interviews, April 1989, As of March 1, 1991
November 1990.
Robert Porter, personal interviews, May 1990, April 18-20, 1991 — North Park Mall, 10950 N. May Avenue, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
July 1990.
Dr. Van Tifford, hypnotherapist, August 1990. May 30, 31, June 1, 1991 — Sherwood Village, 5875 Rochdale Blvd., Regina,
Len Stringfield, personal interviews, June 1989, Saskatchewan, Canada
February 1990. June 3-8, 1991 — Parkland Mall, 277 Broadway, Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada
* + Robert Smith, personal interview, March June 10-15, 1991 — Swift Current Mall, #1 Springs Drive, Swift Current, Saskatchewan,
1990. Canada
Documents June 26-29, 1991 — Fort Saskatchewan Mall, 10420 - 98th Ave., Fort Saskatchewan,
Alberta, Canada, T8L 2N6
*Bettmann Photo Archives, letters and photo,
June 1990. (Copy of photo, caption and July 16-21, 1991 — Arnot Mall, 3300 Chambers Road, Horseheads, New York
receipt supplied to MUFON Journal) September 6-8, 1991 — Elkhorn Mall, 3601 E. Broadway, Suite 5-B, Tucson, AZ 85716
Clark, Jerry, personal letter from Bill Moore, September 19-22, 1991 — Central City Mall, 295 Central City Mall, San Bernardino,
September 29, 1990. California
The Daily Times Herald, Dallas, July 9, 1947.
Dallas Morning News, July 9, 1947. October 12, 13, 1991 — Omega Conference, Holiday Inn, North Haven, Connecticut
A characteristic property of plants in long pine needles were observed to are all of the grass family, so the
"crop circle"1 patterns is the gentle lay down or bend at the base when response of crabgrass may be typical.
bending of the plant stalks without mounted upright in the oven and ir- The mechanism for producing the lay
breaking. It appears this effect can be radiated. The green crabgrass was down effect in grasses and other plant
achieved by irradiation of the plants observed to flatten in 20 seconds and structures appears to be due to heating
with microwaves. the green pine needles took roughly 50 of the water in the plant tissues by the
Prompted by suggestions by Jean- seconds. Dry pine needles leaned over microwaves, causing loss of cell water
Jacques Velasco2 that some sort of after two minutes, though effects were and thus "turgor" pressure3, with con-
heating mechanism, such as microwave highly variable. In general, the more sequent loss of tissue strength. The
or infrared radiation, might cause the green the plants and thinner their cross change in plant tissue strength with
laying down of the crops (an opinion section, the more quickly they bent. change in cell turgor pressure is most
prompted by his finding heat induced The plant samples were mounted familiar in the case of celery, which
changes in the plant protein from crop upright in inverted paper cups during becomes soft if dehydrated, but
circles), the author was able to produce these experiments, in a 500 Watt, 2.45 becomes rigid again when soaked in
laying down of fibrous plant structures GHz carousel type microwave oven. fresh water in a "crisper." This loss of
using a kitchen model microwave oven, When green crabgrass was irradiated, tissue strength is general along the plant
set on high power. a characteristic odor resembling new- stalks, but structural failure will occur
In these "kitchen experiments," liv- mown hay was produced. The crops in- first at the stalk base, since this area
ing crabgrass and both green and dry volved in the crop-circle phenomenon carries the weight of the stalk and is
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What is important at this time is that
energy in plant tissue causes sha- the most characteristic effect associated Grant Cameron and
dowing effects, directing with crop circles, the bending of stalks T. Scott Grain, Jr.
microwaves at an angle could cause the without breaking, can be approximately Published by
stalks to lay down in the direction duplicated by irradiating the plants with Mutual UFO Network, Inc.
towards the microwave source since the microwaves. This can be demonstrated
stalk tissue would be slightly weaker on in a common kitchen applicance; a
the directly irradiated side. This latter microwave oven. Anyone attempting to
effect should be much more pronounc- duplicate this experiment is urged to ex-
ed for millimeter wave microwaves ercise due caution and treat it as if it
(lOOGHz and above), and could pro- was a cooking experiment.
Since no one has yet "solved" the vevers, which stem from an ancient sarna" sold in curio shops worldwide.
UFO enigma, I shall begin this article African rite, may have noticed mark- What might an advanced intelligence
by briefly repeating the communica- ings on the land similar to crop circle "mean," then, by throwing a large "Bell
tions concept enunciated in my article, designs, and may have imitated the of Sarna" into the woods beside a
"The Astrebus: An Intergalactic location and type of design in order to typical suburban small town? Perhaps
Language,"' which was published in propitiate forces which they do not the incident is qualitatively the same as
1977. understand. when a high school physics teacher
Upon examination of the context of hands a promising student a device
various UFO anomalies, it can be de- Sympolic Resonance which she knows is slightly beyond the
tected that the event itself is part of a student's present knowledge.
meaningful pattern of occurrences, and Perhaps an advanced intelligence is The purpose of presenting the enigma
can only be understood fully as a com- trying to tell human beings some "new" is twofold: a) It is a humbling ex-
munication similar to rebus puzzles. information. perience for the bright student, pre-
A rebus (RE + TffHMj^ ) is a form Like many effective teachers, this in- venting hubris; b) It spurs the student
of cryptogram in which pictures of telligence is letting us figure out the to figure out why s/he does not under-
objects and actions are substituted for rebus ourselves. Several theorists who stand it, and thus to learn something
syllables of words and/or other sec- have noted this deliberately cryptic new.
tions of the sentence.2 When Bruce quality have suggested that such The ancient alchemical motto is
Maccabee writes that the crop circles phenomena as crop circles actually simply: "As above, so below." It was
might more accurately be called arise from the collective "super- believed that systems of mental
"agriglyphs," he implies that these conscious" of the human race.4 discipline caused physical effects and
markings are parts of such a com- It has been suggested that planetary that the cosmic and particular states of
munication, like the hieroglyphs of an- "logos" or organizational conscious- being echoed one another.
cient languages. ness of the earth is linked somehow to This is not far conceptually from our
Actually, certain British crop circles the human superconscious and is modern idea about the "hologramatic"
do resemble the "vever" pattern used manifesting "emergency" UFO and organization of "superluminal
by voudoun (voodoo) practitioners to crop circle phenomena in the same way energies." Any small section of a
invoke the gods favorable to drum and that an individual mind/body link might hologram will reproduce the entire vir-
bell ceremonies.3 Other vevers used to manifest psychosomatic disease tual image if subjected to the correct
invoke the loas, or god-spirits of the symptoms. laser interference patterns.
voudoun religion, do not resemble the This theory detects an advanced level It may be no accident that the crop
crop circles, but are elaborate rectangle of causality but does not completely ac- circle patterns resemble invocation pat-
lattices and/or diagrams of hearts and count for other aspects of the UFO terns made to the spirits of music, and
boats. phenomenon, such as the reports and that the mystery object which fell at
The vevers are made on the ground pictures of solid, mechanical vehicles Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, resembles a
with meal or flour and resemble in this and the anomalous effects to radar and bell.
respect the sand paintings of the Hopi electrical equipment at crop circle If it is true that our universe is
and other southwestern Native Amer- and/or UFO report locations. somewhat "hologramatic" in potential,
ican tribes. The elaborate patterns are The Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, UFO5 then the overt shapes of these enigmas
not intended to be "permanent," but are — said to have been recovered by local may literally resonate some vital truth
constructed to invoke the gods or forces firemen and shipped to a military site about them.
associated with the traditional designs. for analysis — resembled a bell. This
Perhaps it is significant that the vou- resemblance was not simply the shape Pictures of Tulpas?
doun vever which accompanies musical of the object, but also the "bronze-like"
ceremonies most closely resembles the metal surface described by several The concept of a "rulpa" is often in-
crop circle agriglyphs. witnesses. It is appropriate to comment voked by intellectuals in order to ex-
I am not suggesting that a person who in this context that the odd "symbolic plain the existence of apparitions which
draws a vever or crop circle model on language" carved in a band around the have been visible to several persons
the ground will summon UFOs. I do giant bell resembles the carving on simultaneously.
suggest that the first makers of the Arabic and African bells, the "bells of "Tulpa" has been contributed to the
This is an update to the bibliography Books George Terence Meaden. The ex-
that Colin Andrews and myself pub- panded, hardcover edition of the Pro-
lished in the December 1990 issue of Circular Evidence. Pat Delgado and ceedings (see previous item). 208 pp.
the Mufon UFO Journal. It updates in- Colin Andrews. London: Bloomsbury UK £14.99 from Souvenir Press, 43
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periodicals, and adds many articles. At least three sources: (1) Phanes Press, 3PA, England.
(Due to space limitations, it leaves out P.O. Box 6114, Grand Rapids, MI 49516, The Crop Circle Enigma. Edited by
the articles indexed in December.) tel. (616) 281-1224. (2) Arcturus Book Ralph Noyes. Bath: Gateway Books,
Inclusion in this bibliography does Services, P.O. Box 831383, Stone 1990. 192 pp. $29.95 (note price in-
not imply endorsement. Mountain, Georgia, 30083-0023, tel. crease). At least four sources: (1) The
I am indebted to my contacts and col- (404) 297-4624. (3) Trafalgar Square, Great Tradition, 11270 Clayton Creek
leagues in England, Canada and the Vermont, NY, tel. (802) 457-1911. Road, P.O. Box 108, Lower Lake, CA
United States, who generously sent me Crop Circles: The Latest Evidence. 95457, tel. (707) 995-3906. (2) New
many of the articles listed here. I would Pat Delgado and Colin Andrews. Lon- Leaf Book Distributing Co., 5425
be grateful to receive any corrections don: Bloomsbury Press, 1990. 80 pp. Tulane Drive SW, Atlanta, GA
and additions, which will be included UK £5.99. Ordering information as 30336-2323, tel. (404) 691-6996. (3) In-
in future updates. above. land Book Co., P.O. Box 261, East
Readers will be frustrated at not be- The Controversy of the Circles. Paul Haven, CT 06512, tel. (203) 467-4257.
ing able to find many of the articles, Fuller and Jenny "Randies. UK £4.20. (4) Bookpeople, 2929 Fifth Street,
and by not knowing which are the most BUFORA, 103 Hove Avenue, Berkeley. CA 94710, tel. (415)
useful. I would be glad to put together Walthamstow, London, England. 549-3030. Also Arcturus Books.
an anthology of the best articles to be Crop Circles: A Mystery Solved. Paul Physical Traces Associated With UFO
xeroxed and distributed at cost, but Fuller and Jenny Randies. London: Sightings. Compiled by Ted Phillips,
somebody would have to volunteer to Robert Hale Ltd., 1990. 250 pp. UK edited by Mimi Hynek. Chicago, Il-
take the orders, and do the xeroxing and £13.95, US $30.95. (from Arcturus linois: Center for UFO Studies. 1975.
mailing. It would also require placing Books, see entry for Circular Evidence The National History of Stafford-
notices in MUFON and other journals. above.) shire. Robert Plott (spelled "Plot" on
This is an opportunity for someone to The UFO Report 1990. Edited by title page.) Oxford, 1686. (Pages 7-21
perform a vital and much-needed ser- Timothy Good. Sidgwick & Jackson, describe what may be 17th-century fairy
vice, and to gain access to good infor- 1990. See "The Celtic Cross," p. 91-94. rings or crop circles.)
mation, too. The Circles Effect and Its Mysteries. Passport to Magonia. Jacques Vallee.
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