Roswell Smoking Gun, the Ramey Memo

Far and away the most important word of the entire message is “VICTIMS” on the third line (part of phrase “THE VICTIMS OF THE WRECK”). If there were “VICTIMS”, then this was no Mogul balloon crash. As the Air Force Roswell report itself noted (using splendid circular reasoning) reports of bodies being recovered couldn’t be true because the crash was of a Mogul balloon, which had “no ‘alien’ passengers therein.”

Of course Ramey’s mention of “VICTIMS” in 1947 also disproves the already preposterous “crash dummies” theory. The only way these 1950’s crash dummies could be “victims” is if they also time-warped back to 1947.

Another easily seen keyword and phrase is “DISC” and “IN THE ‘DISC” on the fifth line. Ramey is clearly describing the crash object as a “DISC”, not as a “weather balloon”, or a “Mogul” or a “radar target” or a “RAWIN” (jargon term for a radar wind target), or any other word or phase that in any way suggests some sort of balloon or balloon paraphenalia. In fact, the only mention of “weather balloons” and “RAWIN” targets comes at the very end of the message in the context of issued public statements and damage-control.

(The word “DISK” is also used on the first line in reference to what had been found, but this instance of the word is not so easily seen.)

Furthermore, the message refers to the subsequent shipment of something “IN the disc.” Neither balloons nor the two-dimensional, flimsy radar kites had anything “inside” that could be shipped. If Ramey had been referring to some piece of balloon payload equipment, then the phrase should have begun with “attached to” or “suspended from”, or “with”, etc. In speaking of “THE VICTIMS OF THE WRECK”,, using the word “DISC” for the crash object, and shipping something “IN THE DISC”, Ramey is clearly referring to something other than a balloon crash. The simplest interpretation is to take the words literally. There is no reason for Gen. Ramey to be describing events abstractly in a secret communication to his superiors. This was the actually crash of a so-called “flying disk” craft with a dead crew found on the inside, as corroborated by the testimony of military and civilian witnesses.

Ramey is quite explicit about the existence of bodies and the crash object being a “disc.” The only thing not made explicit in the message is the exact nature of the bodies or “disc.” Ramey probably does not refer to the bodies as “nonhuman,” “alien,” or some similar term. Nor does he use terms like “spaceship,” “craft of unknown origin,” etc. to describe the “disc.”

Among the theories about the Roswell incident is that this was the crash of some highly secretive government experimental craft piloted by a human crew. However, nobody has ever presented evidence that such an experimental disk-like craft ever existed or was tested in New Mexico at that time. It also seems highly unlikely that even a highly secret craft but with half-century-old technology would still be kept secret.

Further, it makes no sense that the government would be completely unaware of the crash of one of their own craft until some sheep rancher came into town to report it.

The same logic applies to the crash of something more conventional, such as a bomber carrying nuclear weapons (another theory sometimes proposed). The military would not wait for a local rancher to tell them about it nor would there be any need for continued secrecy into the present day. (Similar nuclear accidents have been declassified and are now in the public record.) And why would Gen. Ramey call it a “disc”?

Finally, both the Air Force and General Accounting Office (investigating on behalf of Congressman Schiff) in 1995 reported that air crash records revealed no plane crashes in that area during that time frame that could possibly explain the Roswell incident. In brief, there is simply no evidence for the crash of any conventional or experimental aircraft.