Ramey, left, holding letter, and DuBose looking over wind-forecasting device...
Major Jesse A. Marcel (looking right) of Houma, LA holding foil debris from...
Five airmen demonstrate a radar device being attached to a weather balloon...
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Photo collection featured in season 17 of Unsolved Mysteries on Netflix
The 17th season of Unsolved Mysteries, billed as Volume 4 and Volume 5, is part of a reboot revival of the long-running American television series, created by John Cosgrove and Terry Dunn Meurer. One of the goals of the series was to not focus solely on true crime, but also on the paranormal....
History Channel uses photo collection for multiple shows in 2020
Several History Channel shows used photos from our Roswell collection in 2020 for their explorations of the incident, including Ancient Aliens (Season 15, Episode 2: “The Relics of Roswell”) and The UnXplained (Season 2, Episode 4: “The Truth About UFOs”)....
McClurkin interviewed on 'X' Zone Broadcast Network
Kevin Randle and Brenda McClurkin, Department Head of Special Collections at the University of Texas at Arlington, discuss the tens of thousands of photographs taken by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram over the decades. She has worked with several people in an attempt to read what we all call the Ramey Memo, which is a document held by Brigadier General Roger Ramey in his office on July 8, 1947....
J. Bond Johnson strikes again
Since it has been suggested that Ramey had invited reporters from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram to his office, and since some of the quoted material came from a web site that hosted an interview with J. Bond Johnson, the reporter, I thought I could clarify some of this by posting the following. This is from my second interview with Johnson, made about a month after he called me, left his telephone number on my answering machine asking me to return the call....
Ramey Memo Update
The best case of provenance that I have ever seen is the Ramey Memo. We have a picture of Ramey holding the document, we have been able to interview the photographer, and we know the date on which it was taken because we have not only a dated document that was transmitted with the picture, but it appeared in newspapers around the country the next day....
Deciphering the Ramey Memo
During the first week in July, 1947, something fell to Earth near the tiny New Mexican town of Corona and was retrieved by members of the 509th Bomb Group of the U.S. Army Air Forces stationed near Roswell, New Mexico. Limited documentation about that event has been found and much of that submitted for examination lacks any sort of provenance.