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    Uncanny Encounters: Roswell
    Uncanny Encounters: Roswell
    Uncanny Encounters: Roswell
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    Uncanny Encounters: Roswell

    By Stephen D. Sullivan

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    Where Fact Meets Fiction(tm). Join our panel of award winning authors as they explore the Roswell crash both historically and through the lens of science fiction & fantasy. History by noted researcher Nick Redfern plus stories by Robert E. Vardeman, Jean Rabe, and Stephen D. Sullivan. Believer or skeptic, this book is sure to provide new insights on the most famous UFO incident in history!

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    PublisherStephen D. Sullivan
    Release dateOct 25, 2010
    ISBN9781466161566
    Uncanny Encounters: Roswell
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    Stephen D. Sullivan

    Stephen D. Sullivan has written more than 50 books across many genres: fantasy, SF, horror, detective, movie adaptations, and more. Readers the world over enjoy his fast-moving prose style and hard-hitting action sequences. He has won numerous awards for his work, including the 2016 Scribe Award for his horror-comedy novel, Manos: The Hands of Fate.Not sure where to start? Try these:NEW! Manos: Talons of FateBEST SELLER: Manos: The Hands of Fate (2016 Scribe Award Winner)HORROR & MONSTERS: Daikaiju AttackFANTASY: Tournament of Death novelsSCIENCE FICTION: Heart of Steam & RustADULT: Elf Erotica (Elf Princess on Mars)OVERVIEW: Martian Knights & Other TalesThere are plenty of others to choose from, too. (Including some books from other authors published by Steve's Company, Walkabout Publishing.)Browse! Buy! Enjoy!

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      Uncanny Encounters - Stephen D. Sullivan

      RAAF Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell Region!

      The flying object landed on a ranch near Roswell sometime last week. Not having phone facilities, the rancher stored the disc until such time as he was able to contact the sheriff’s office, who in turn notified Maj. Jesse A. Marcel of the 509th Bomb Group Intelligence Office.

      Action was immediately taken and the disc was picked up at the rancher’s home. It was inspected at the Roswell Army Air Field and subsequently loaned by Major Marcel to higher headquarters.

      —Roswell Daily Record, July 8, 1947

      Find out what really happened in Uncanny Encounters: Roswell

      UNCANNY ENCOUNTERS:

      ROSWELL

      Jean Rabe

      Nick Redfern

      Stephen D. Sullivan

      Robert E. Vardeman

      & Jim Holloway

      Walkabout Publishing ● 2008

      UNCANNY ENCOUNTERS: ROSWELL

      Rabe, Redfern, Sullivan, Vardeman

      & Holloway

      • Walkabout Publishing •

      Smashwords edition.

      This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to the vendor of your choice and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      Individual stories © 2008-10 Jean Rabe, Nick Redfern, Robert E. Vardeman, & Stephen D. Sullivan.

      Cover art © 2008-10 Jim Holloway.

      Design & all other material © 2008-10 Stephen D. Sullivan.

      Uncanny Encounters & Where Fact Meets Fiction are trademarks of S.D.S.

      All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, scanning, or any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission of the author.

      Updated 10/26/10

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      For our many uncanny friends and fans.

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      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      Roswell, Part I: The Crash, Nick Redfern

      Vandals… Part I, Robert E. Vardeman

      Eighteen, Jean Rabe

      Roswell, Part II: The Cover-Up, Nick Redfern

      Last Call at Corona, Stephen D. Sullivan

      Vandals… Part II, Robert E Vardeman

      About the Contributors

      INTRODUCTION

      A Cosmic Watergate UFO researcher Stanton Friedman calls what happened at Roswell—a cover-up of the first known contact between the human race and alien beings.

      A Project Mogul balloon, the military insists. No flying saucer, no alien bodies, no unfathomable wreckage—just a secret military project covered up during the Cold War. After that, rumor became legend, and people’s memories started playing tricks.

      That’s the story, anyway.

      Which version of Roswell is true? Ask any two people and you’ll probably get different answers from both. UFO researchers side with Friedman; skeptics with the military. For most of us, it’s hard to tell where Roswell’s reality ends and its myth begins.

      In Uncanny Encounters: Roswell, our authors give you both. You’ll get the facts and the mythology from paranormal researcher supreme, Nick Redfern. You also get three speculative (or if you prefer fictional) takes on the events, supplied by authors Robert E. Vardeman, Jean Rabe, and Stephen D. Sullivan—storytellers with over 150 published books between them. Plus, you get a really nifty cover by renowned fantasy and Sci-Fi illustrator, Jim Holloway.

      Hopefully, this book will both enlighten and amuse you.

      After reading, you can make up your own mind where the truth actually lies. (And be sure to look for future books in the Uncanny Encounters™ series!)

      Enjoy.

      — Steve Sullivan

      Walkabout Publishing Founder

      December, 2008

      ROSWELL

      Part I: The Crash

      Nick Redfern

      RAAF Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell Region, was the headline that leapt from the front page of the 8 July 1947 edition of the Roswell Daily Record, a newspaper named after the small New Mexican town whose people it served. Amazingly, this was not some fanciful story concocted by an enterprising hoaxer. Rather, the newspaper caption was based upon the following, officially sanctioned, press release issued by Walter Haut, the Press Information Officer at the nearby Roswell Army Air Field:

      "The many rumors regarding the flying disc became a reality yesterday when the Intelligence office of the 509th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force, Roswell Army Air Field, was fortunate to gain possession of a disc through the cooperation of one of the local ranchers and the sheriff’s office of Chaves County.

      "The flying object landed on a ranch near Roswell sometime last week. Not having phone facilities, the rancher stored the disc until such time as he was able to contact the sheriff’s office, who in turn notified Maj. Jesse A. Marcel of the 509th Bomb Group Intelligence Office.

      Action was immediately taken and the disc was picked up at the rancher’s home. It was inspected at the Roswell Army Air Field and subsequently loaned by Major Marcel to higher headquarters. (1)

      Shortly after this astonishing news had spread quite literally around the world, another announcement was made: the whole thing had been a false alarm. What had in fact been recovered was merely the radar reflector from an errant weather balloon. To bolster this explanation, Brigadier General Roger Ramey, of the Eighth Air Force at Fort Worth, Texas, allowed press photographers to take shots of the debris from a stricken balloon, which had been laid out on the floor of a small office at the base.

      Despite the decidedly unimpressive-looking nature of the wreckage on display for the photographers, the media apparently chose not to express its incredulity that anyone could confuse what was obviously weather balloon-borne debris with something potentially more exotic. The official explanation was accepted and, at a stroke, interest in the story dwindled and the entire matter was laid to rest. That situation remained practically unchanged for thirty years.

      Stanton T. Friedman obtained his Masters of Science in Physics at the University of Chicago in 1956 and, for the next fourteen years, worked as a nuclear physicist for a variety of organizations, including General Electric, Aerojet General, Westinghouse, and General Motors. During that time Friedman developed an intense interest in UFOs and, in 1970, began to lecture on the subject on a full-time basis. (2)

      On 20 January 1978, Friedman was in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to give a lecture at the State University, and while in the city he agreed to take part in a number of media interviews that had been arranged by an associate. One such interview took place at a local television station. During a break Friedman was introduced to the station manager, who, as luck would have it, was a friend of the by-then-retired Jesse Marcel and basic details of the Roswell affair were imparted to Friedman. Acting on this information, he wasted no time in contacting Marcel, who had a most interesting story to tell concerning what happened back in 1947. (3)

      I saw a lot of wreckage but no complete machine, said Marcel, explaining that whatever the object was, it must have exploded in the air. "It had disintegrated before it hit the ground. The wreckage was scattered over an area about three quarters of a mile long and several hundred feet wide.

      I was pretty well acquainted with most everything that was in the air at that time, both ours and foreign, Marcel continued. I was also acquainted with virtually every type of weather-observation or radar-tracking device being used by either the civilians or the military.

      Marcel added that in his opinion the debris was not from a weather-tracking device, nor was it from an aircraft or a missile. What it was we didn’t know. We just picked up the fragments. Marcel was certain, however, that the debris was unlike anything he had ever seen before or since, and that it certainly wasn’t anything built by us. (4)

      During the course of his investigations Friedman hooked up with William Moore, a writer and researcher who expressed an interest in pursuing the case further and who had his own leads that seemed to have a positive bearing on the Marcel account. As a result of their inquiries, Friedman and Moore were able to confirm where the unusual debris had been found: the Foster Ranch, a remote piece of land located in an area some seventy-five miles north of the town of Roswell, New Mexico, and worked by one William Ware Mac Brazel. Regrettably, Brazel had long since passed away; however, his friends and family, some of whom still lived in the vicinity, recalled the incident well.

      Commenting on the strange material found on the ranch, Brazel’s son, Bill, stated that it was: "…something on the order of tinfoil except that [it] wouldn’t tear…You could wrinkle it and lay it back down and it immediately resumed its original shape. [It was] quite pliable, but you couldn’t crease or bend it like ordinary metal. Almost like a

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