ANOTHER ALLEGED ROSWELL researcher confirmed that the name given and armed guards rode in that bomb-bay

WITNESS TELLS HIS STORY by this witness is a name that can be posi- with the crate. When I removed the down
The following item comes via CNI News, tively linked to Roswell Army Air Field at lock, I saw a Major and a Technical
with thanks to George Filer (Majorstar@ the time of the Roswell incident. Sergeant in the bomb-bay and some others
aol.com), editor and publisher of Filer's The witness gave this account to George in there. They rode the whole trip in the
Files (www.filersfiles.com), for permission Filer: bomb-bay and did not return with us.
to reproduce this eyewitness testimony. We flew unpressurized at about 8,000
The item was first published in Filer's feet. Our bombardier made a safety check
Files #14, dated April 10, 2000. of the shackles which held the platform
There had also been secure. Those shackles were rigged so that

I
n answer to an inquiry from CNI News, the cargo could not be jettisoned.
George Filer explained that he had rumors for a couple of The Corporal tail gunner and I saw the
recently received an unsolicited e-mail days about a spaceship crate when we removed the down locks
from a Filer's Files reader, giving the name from the bomb doors. The crate was cov-
and e-mail address of a man allegedly crash, but we were only ered with a tarp when unloaded and taken
involved in the Roswell UFO incident of told it was classified away on a trailer at Carswell. I would
1947. guess the crate was about 12 x 6 x 6 feet.
Filer contacted the man—who wishes to cargo and to stay back. The engineer and I talked about weight
remain anonymous, but whose name is and balance. They evidently had not given
known to CNI News—and exchanged sev- him a firm figure on the weight. He said
eral e-mails, from which the following with a laugh, "As long as it isn't more than
account was assembled. To date, the wit-
ness has declined to discuss these matters
with Filer by phone.
I was at Roswell in 1947 to early 1950. I
was at the time a gunner in the 393rd
Bomb Squadron, 509th Bomb Group, and a
five thousand pounds, our center of gravity
should be okay."
We knew that Fort Worth was to be our
CNI News and several well-known member of Captain Frederick Ewing's B-29 landing point... Someone made a remark
Roswell researchers have requested direct combat crew, with tail number 44-7301 about carrying "the General's furniture".
contact with this man, but as of April 16 (Straight Flush). There had also been rumors for a couple
that request remains unanswered. On Wednesday, July 9, 1947, our crew of days about a spaceship crash, but we
Filer, an Air Force veteran, told CNI transported a crate to Carswell Army Air were only told it was classified cargo and
News that, while he cannot vouch for the Force Base, Fort Worth, Texas, in 1:55 to stay back.
authenticity of this witness, the man does minutes [from Roswell, a distance of about On the way home, I went forward to chat
sound as if he is genuinely familiar with 425 miles in one hour, 55 minutes]. The with Warrant Officer Landry about [a]
details of B-29 aircraft and flight proce- mission and cargo were classified. The minor problem with a prop. We had the
dures. In addition, a well-known Roswell crate was hauled into the front bomb-bay, Curtiss Electrics [people there] and there

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was concern that one of them was hunting plane to Carswell, as ordered by his com- wielded gold spears, etc. The city had
a bit. manding officer Colonel William apparently been abandoned ages ago, and
Major Jesse Marcel rode back to Roswell Blanchard, accompanying samples of the entire underground system looked very
with us and I talked briefly with him. He debris that the military would publicly ancient. It formerly had been lit, they
was always interested in the enlisted men identify as parts of a "weather balloon". found out by accident, by an ingenious sys-
on flight crews. He wanted gunners to be Marcel apparently had nothing to do with tem of lights fed by subterranean gases.
good observers when on long missions. I whatever was in the bomb-bay in the large They claimed to have seen a large, pol-
don't think his questions that day were box described by this witness, and might ished, round table which looked as if it may
probing... He asked if I was anxious to get have been part of an ancient council cham-
into B-36s [the newest Air Force bomber at ber, giant statues of solid gold, stone vaults
that time]. and drawers full of gold bars and gem-
We were told repeatedly not to talk of The city had apparently stones of all kinds, heavy stone wheelbar-
this incident, not even to our wives. I held been abandoned ages rows which were perfectly balanced and
that inside until 1988, when books began to scientifically constructed so that a child
appear. To this day, I am in touch with one ago, and the entire could use them, huge stone doors which
other member of our crew. Most of the underground system were almost perfectly balanced by counter-
others are no longer alive. Major Ewing weights, and other incredible sights.
was killed in a B-47 crash in Florida in looked very ancient. Bill and Jack also claimed to have fol-
1952. lowed the caverns upwards to a higher
Some time afterwards, about three to six level which ultimately opened out onto the
months later, the wives began talking face of the Panamints, about halfway up
among themselves about the clean-up not have known anything about it. the eastern slope, in the form of a few
detail. This originated from the wives of This account is consistent with previous- ancient tunnel-like quays. They realised
men on that duty. One such was a neigh- ly published claims that bodies and wreck- that the valley below had once been under
bor of ours in July 1947. They moved age from a genuine UFO crash near water, and they eventually came to the con-
across town, but I would sometimes see Roswell were flown in one or more large clusion that the arched openings were
him, and I asked him what he had seen out crates by B-29 to Carswell, from which ancient "docks" for sea vessels. They
there. He was upset and told me, "You they might then have been dispatched to could allegedly see Furnace Creek Ranch
don't want to know." Based on the wives' their final destinations, possibly including and Wash far below them.
gossip, we heard that he had seen a body. Wright Field (Wright Patterson Air Force They told Bourke Lee that they had
Later, I became a pilot, and while in Base) in Dayton, Ohio. ∞ brought some of the treasure out of the cav-
SAC [Strategic Air Command] was an (Source: CNI News, USA, telephone +1 erns and tried to set up a deal with certain
instructor in the aero clubs and moonlight- 970 282 7077, e-mail CNINews1@aol. people, including scientists associated with
ing as a crop duster. Aviation has been my com, website www.cninews.com/) the Smithsonian Institution, in order to gain
life. While in SAC...at March AFB, our help to explore and publicise the city as
crew had two weird experiences with ANCIENT CITY BENEATH one of the "wonders of the world".
something that officially wasn't there. CALIFORNIA'S DEATH VALLEY? These efforts ended in disappointment,

B
[Signed] A Roswell B-29 gunner ourke Lee, in his book Death Valley however, when a "friend" of theirs stole the
Men (MacMillan, NY, 1932), in the treasure (which was also the evidence).
George Filer adds this note: chapter titled "Old Gold", describes They were scoffed at and rejected by the
"The government claims what was a conversation he had several years before scientists when they went to show them the
brought to Fort Worth under guard was a with a small group of Death Valley resi- "mine" entrance and could not find it. A
Mogul balloon, [the type] that they dents. The conversation eventually turned recent cloudburst, they claimed, had altered
launched regularly from White Sands to the subject of Paihute Indian legends. and rearranged the entire countryside; the
Proving Grounds, with printed instructions At one point, two of the men, Bill and landscape no longer looked the same.
on the side for [how to obtain] a reward, if Jack, described their experience with an When Bourke Lee last heard from the
found. "underground city" which they claimed to two men, Bill and Jack were preparing to
"Our witness claims there were multiple have discovered after one of them fell climb the eastern face of the Panamints to
guards inside the bomb-bay. Even atomic through the bottom of an old mine shaft locate the ancient tunnel openings or quays
bombs did not normally warrant guards near Wingate Pass. high up the side of the steep slope. Lee
inside the bomb-bay, and certainly not an They said they found themselves in a never did see or hear from his friends
officer with the rank of Major." natural underground cavern which they fol- again.
CNI News notes that, assuming the testi- lowed about 20 miles north into the heart In 1946, a man calling himself Dr F.
mony is true, whatever was carried in that of the Panamint Mountains. To their Bruce Russell, and claiming to be a retired
bomb-bay was regarded by Roswell and/or amazement, they allegedly found them- physician, told a similar story about finding
Carswell military commanders as being of selves in a huge, ancient, underground cav- strange underground rooms in the Death
the utmost importance (perhaps more ern city. They claimed to have discovered Valley area in 1931. He told of a large
important than an atomic bomb). within the city several perfectly preserved room with several tunnels leading off in
Major Jesse Marcel flew on a different "mummies" which wore thick armbands, different directions. One of these tunnels

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led to another large room that contained encased in a smooth shell to create one of between building blocks. What they saw
three mummies. Artifacts found in the the first true pyramids. Situated 90 kilo- through the scope was another tunnel
room appeared to be a combination of metres (56 miles) south of Cairo, it rises directly above the first. And this one had a
Egyptian and American Indian design. nearly 100 meters (330 feet). Quite likely "corbelled" roof—a top built of overlap-
The most amazing thing about the mum- it was unstable from the beginning, and it ping blocks that rise progressively to a
mies, though, was the fact that they were seems never to have been used as a tomb. point. Such a roof would distribute the
more than eight feet tall. overlying weight and relieve pressure on
Dr Russell and a group of investors the open corridor below it. The new shaft
formed Amazing Explorations, Inc. to han-
Archaeologists have does not open onto the outside of the pyra-
dle the release and profit from this remark- discovered two previously mid, but it does head down towards the
able find. But, as stories of this type usual- unknown chambers and a two troublesome recesses.
ly go, Russell disappeared and the investi- Last year, the team used the endoscope
gators were never able to find the caverns tunnel that stretches nearly to explore beyond the end of the tunnel and
and tunnels again, even though Russell had 40 metres (131 feet) into above the recesses. What they found were
personally taken them there. The desert two identical corbelled chambers, one
can be very deceptive to anyone not used the heart of the enigmatic above each recess and the same width.
to travelling in it. pyramid. This rather clever, weight-distributing con-
Months later, Russell's car was found struction likely explains how the flat-
abandoned, its radiator burst, in a remote roofed recesses were made possible.
area of Death Valley. Russell's suitcase A tunnel shaft leads from the outside of Gaballah notes that the exact purpose of
was still in the car. the mostly collapsed pyramid to the burial the complex recesses, chambers and twin
The old TV series Death Valley Days chamber deep inside. But, as Gaballah Ali shafts is not clear: "The work is still in
once ran a short story about western pio- Gaballah told the Eighth International progress and we don't know what to
neers finding mummies in the desert. Congress of Egyptologists in Cairo on expect."
Since one of the scriptwriters stated that Thursday 30 March, two recesses near the In addition to Gaballah, the team includ-
"there had never been a script without a bottom of the shaft have confused archae- ed Mustafa El-Zeiri of Egypt and Gilles
solid basis in fact", it would be interesting ologists. (Gaballah is head of Egypt's Dormion and Jean-Yves Verd'hurt of
to find out what their source had been. Supreme Council of Antiquities.) France.
For now, these stories will have to be Each recess is about 1.7 metres (5.7 feet) (Source: By Robert Locke, 12 April 2000,
shrouded in mystery, along with the high and 2.1 metres (6.9 feet) across. An http://foxnews.com/science/egypt/egypt_
account of the 21,000-year-old bones unreinforced span of that size should be meidum.sml)
found in California's Imperial Valley, too great to sup-
which were also rumoured to have been port the enor-
spirited off by the Smithsonian. mous weight of
(Source: www.geocities.com/TheTropics/ the stone blocks
Lagoon/1345/valley.html) above it. But
the Franco-
NEW ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS Egyptian team
IN MEIDUM PYRAMID thinks it has

T
he pyramid of Meidum, one of solved the mys-
Egypt's earliest pyramids, is a com- tery.
plicated structure, even by ancient Examination
Egyptian standards. It was built about of the masonry
2600 BC, but its designers apparently along the top of
couldn't make up their minds on what it the shaft
should look like. revealed what
And now, French and Egyptian archaeol- looked like a
ogists, armed with a fibre-optic endoscope carefully con-
(like those which doctors use to peer inside cealed window.
the human body), have discovered two pre- In May 1998,
viously unknown chambers and a tunnel the researchers
that stretches nearly 40 metres (131 feet) slipped an endo-
into the heart of the enigmatic pyramid. scope—"a
The structure began as a step pyramid, device like a
with stair-step sides like a giant wedding long, flexible
cake, in the style of the famous "first pyra- telescope about
mid" built at Saqqara for Pharaoh Djoser. the diameter of a
Then the steps were expanded by adding human finger"—
another layer. Finally, its steps were through a joint

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