Table of Contents
Foreword Dr. Edgar Mitchell ix
Preface xiii
Acknowledments xvii
Introduction Donald R. Schmitt 1
Introduction 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
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 Thomas J. Carey 249
Afterword George Noory 253
Appendix I Map of New Mexico Key Points 257
Appendix II Crash Site Stone Marker 258
Appendix III Major Patrick Saunders's Confession 261
Appendix IV "Pentagon Admits It Has UFO Debris," Anthony Bragalia 263
Appendix V Sealed Affidavit of Waiter G. Haut 271
Notes 273
Bibliography 295
Index 299