Thomas J. Carey - Witness to Roswell, Revised and Expanded Edition: Unmasking the Governments Biggest Cover-Up

This is the finest Roswell book ever, well told and utterly convincing. Besides being riveting reading, it is deeply disturbing on all sorts of levels. I had a hollow feeling in the pit of my stomach as I sat there with my eyes glued to the pages, unable to put it down. I have great admiration that Carey and Schmitt have been able to live with this for all these years. Through sheer investigative effort and tenacity, theyve made Roswells critics look small and ridiculous. My deepest congratulations on writing an instant classic.

Jerome Clark,
best-selling author of The UFO Encyclopedia

No two men have done more to drag the truth about Roswell out of the shadows and to expose the outrageous cover-up which has been droning on for 62 years now than Tom Carey and Don Schmitt. If the cover-up is ever going to have a stake driven through it and the Roswell case resolved once and for all, it will most likely be Tom and Don who will do it. Their prolific contributions to ufology constitute not only a bedrock of truth we can all be proud of, but demonstrate what dedication and sacrifice above and beyond the call of duty can produce. Their new book is another milestone in the deconstruction of the Roswell cover-up.

Jeff Rense,
nationally syndicated talk show host

This is a completely absorbing history. It makes the people and their testimony real. It is proof that would stand up anywhere, and I say this as someone who has been in law enforcement and investigations since 1975. Bravo, for a great achievement in this field.

James E. Clarkson,
30-year criminal investigator, Olympia, Washington

I think Witness to Roswell will prove to be the most important UFO book ever written. The evidence presented dovetails perfectly and makes a compelling case that an alien craft crashed outside of Roswell in 1947. After decades of controversy, the authors, through dedicated and persistent research, have finally come up with very strong circumstantial evidence that is tantamount to proof.

Richard H. Hall,
author of The UFO Evidence, Vol. I and Vol. II,
and past chairman, Fund for UFO Research

Witness to Roswell is a well-researched, well-documented, and well-written account of a very important issue.

Dr. Edgar Mitchell,
captain USN (ret.), Apollo astronaut, founder of IONS

Their book contains much information from new and credible witnesses who add more weight to the existing testimony and evidence that something extraordinary crashed in 1947...essential reading for anyone interested in the events of July 1947 at Roswell.

Dr. Mark Rodeghier,
scientific director, Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies

Revised and Expanded Edition

Unmasking the
Governments Biggest
Cover-Up

Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt

Foreword by Edgar Mitchell

Afterword by George Noory

Copyright 2009 by Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt

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...just the facts, maam.

Sgt. Joe Friday, Detective Division, L.A.P.D.

Record enough facts, and the answer will fall to you like a ripe fruit.

Franz Boaz, American anthropologist

To my loving wife of 41 years, Doreen, not only for suggesting
the title of this book, but also for believing in and
encouraging me to pursue my hobby
all these years.

TJC

To my loving wife, Marie, who inspires me to
go beyond the second star to the right,
and then straight on til morning.

DRS

This work is intended to inform those among you, the interested public, who desire to know the truth behind a truly extraordinary event that occurred 62 years ago as of this writing. A cover-up of the true nature of this event by elements of the United States military was immediately instituted, and still survives, leaking but essentially intact, to this very day.

The dedicated, proactive Roswell investigative team of Tom Carey and Don Schmitt remains committed to ferreting out and reporting to you the ultimate truth of the so-called Roswell Incident by developing and following every clue, lead, or hint, no matter how small or where it may take us. To that end, this work represents the third major publication of the Carey/Schmitt investigative teamstill representing a down payment on historysince it was formed 11 years ago, and will offer up yet more new information regarding the Roswell events of 1947 resulting from our still-continuing, intensive investigation into this remarkable case of apparent alien visitation.

We would like to thank all of the witnesses, as well as others with source information, who have come forward, many with great reluctance and some with fear for their own well-being, and have agreed to talk to us on the record about those long-ago events. Regrettably, because Father Time waits for no one, many of these have since passed away. Without their courage and cooperation, we could not have moved this case forward beyond previous works on the subject, and this publication would not have been possible. Special thanks must go to Julie Shuster, herself the daughter of a key player in the 1947 Roswell events, as well as her staff at the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, New Mexico, for their enduring assistance and support. The IUFOM&RC still remains our base of operations whenever we are in Roswell. Specific thanks must also go to Roswell photographer Jack Rodden, who has provided us with several key leads, and who has helped us gain access to especially reluctant witnesses; and to Roswell archaeologist Pat Flanary, whose knowledge of the Roswell region and surrounding terrain has been of immense help, especially in our search for the final Roswell crash site. We also thank:

John LeMay and Elvis Fleming of the Historical Society for Southeast New Mexico in Roswell for their kind assistance in locating relevant photographic images of life in Roswell and the RAAF during the 1940s.

Michael Schratt, for supplying our investigation with several new leads, and for connecting us with John MacNeill (whose computer simulation appears in ), to whom we also express our appreciation.

Gloria Hawker, for her assistance in facilitating interviews for the authors with reluctant witnesses, especially Elias Eli Benjamin.

The late Earl Fulford, a former sergeant at the RAAF in 1947 as well as a firsthand participatory witness to the UFO recovery operation, and who got to fulfill a lifes dream of finally talking about it and returning to Roswell where it all happened.