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OKLAHOMA CITY – With the city of Roswell, New Mexico celebrating the 70th anniversary of the alleged “UFO crash” near that desert city, way back in July 1947, one author willing to follow the path of truth, wherever it takes him, is Nick Redfern.

And just in time for that anniversary, which will likely result in steady business at Roswell’s International UFO Museum and Research Center, Redfern has just released The Roswell UFO Conspiracy: Exposing a Shocking and Sinister Secret, published by Lisa Hagan Books, which Red Dirt Report reviewed here.

This new book is a follow-up and update to his groundbreaking 2005 book, Body Snatchers in the Desert.

Redfern is no stranger to the subject of UFOs and aliens, having written a number of compelling books on the topic over many years now. He’s an expert and well-regarded in the field of Ufology, at least among the intellectually honest folks who really want to know the truth.

And so for those who have spent their lives turning the alleged flying saucer crash at the Foster Ranch near Roswell into a sacred and holy event and one to never be questioned, Redfern’s research poses a challenge for those devoted to the "alien" angle.

Asked if he had originally planned to release the book this summer, to coincide with the 70th anniversary, Redfern, speaking to Red Dirt Report from his home in Texas, said not initially, as it was pretty much written last year. But when he realized 2017 would be a major anniversary, with talk of the “Roswell Incident,” on the lips of many, it made more sense to publish it now.

“You know, after Body Snatchers, I became public enemy number one in many of the chat rooms, particularly one called UFO Update,” he said, adding that since the new book has come out, the past 12 years have been kinder to his findings, as few if any negative comments have come out about The Roswell UFO Conspiracy.

Nevertheless, Redfern admits that much remains unknown, mainly because of documents covering the years 1945-51 are missing, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) efforts made in the 1990’s, after New Mexico’s Republican U.S. Rep. Steven Schiff prompted further investigations into what happened back in ’47.

“All outgoing messages from ’45 to ’51 are gone. They’re still gone. Can’t be found now,” Redfern said.

But why those six years, if the alleged UFO crash only happened in 1947?

“A lot is shrouded in mystery,” Redfern said. “Who go to the site first. What (rancher Mac) Brazel knew, the wreckage, the bodies … we still don’t have a full, clear picture of what happened.”

Despite all that, Redfern upturned tables in the Church of “St. Roswell” by taking the Roswell mystery toward a far more terrestrial direction. Not the military-sanctioned “weather balloon” cover story, but in a far darker place where human beings were likely used in pre-Space Age high altitude experiments that resulted in both Japanese prisoners of war and handicapped and disabled people being essentially used as guinea pigs in these experiments. And they were known to be kept at the notorious Fort Stanton. For Redfern it was all beginning to add up.

KATHY KASTEN

In the new book, Redfern does share information collected by fellow researcher Kathy Kasten, who passed away in 2012. But Redfern was fortunate enough to be given many thousands of pages of research and material in multitudinous files Kasten's family provided to Redfern, per her request before her death.

It was after Body Snatchers in the Desert was published, recalls Redfern, that Kasten connected with him and, after comparing notes, realized that their research – independent of one another – was matching up.

“It was so close to what I had been told, but none of my sources had talked to Kathy,” Redfern said.

Calling her a “funny and feisty character” who “didn’t stand for any nonsense,” Redfern said Kasten had initially been approaching the Roswell event as a possible alien saucer crash, with bodies aboard. But her research and her contacts – including, according to Redfern, the “Silent Partners,” who contacted Kasten psychically, via the Remote Viewing technique – directed her to Fort Stanton, New Mexico, a military facility located “a stone’s throw from Foster Ranch.”

These “Silent Partners,” likely trained Remote Viewers in Washington who wanted the truth to get out about Roswell, did so clandestinely, Redfern said, and led to her to discover that the aforementioned Japanese prisoners of war were made “offers they couldn’t refuse” to participate in these experiments in those murky, post-World War II years, as the Cold War heated up. Experiments giving LSD-25 to troops in Britain or placing handicapped people near atomic test sites in Australia, as the UK reportedly did during those years - if that could happen, and simply be human beings doing horrific things to fellow humans, why not Roswell being a test involving humans as well - perhaps even "enemy aliens" and not the "aliens" we think of today, like the Grays and so forth.

In any event, Redfern says that Kathy Kasten's research made a lot of sense. But some things were just too dangerous to even write down, he suggests.

“It’s intriguing because in Kathy’s notes it clear that things are missing,” he said. “There were things he dared not put down on paper. Whatever it was went with her to the grave.”

“I thin k the important thing to note is that if Roswell was a UFO event, even I can admit that there are a number of UFO events that are legitimately genuine … highly credible reports of craft we were not flying back then,” Redfern said, adding, "I'm honest enough to admit I can't be 100 percent for sure" on the Roswell case. "It's the honest path to take.

Continuing, Redfern said he "believes in Ufology" but that doesn't mean Roswell was an event involving extraterrestrials.

"Roswell has been elevated to number one in Ufology," he said, noting that while it's a "fascinating case," it still has been "inextricably tied" to the study of UFOs and nothing he can see at the moment will change that in the minds of researchers and the public - except to continue to write about and discuss other, more disturbing possibilities - that our government may have used human beings in ghastly experiments that had fatal outcomes for many involved - people who were vulnerable and handicapped in some cases.

Redfern is a prolific writer, writing about not only UFOs but Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster (in his native UK), alien encounters, Men in Black, government conspiracies and more. And while it would seem he is writing 24-7, Redfern assures Red Dirt Report that he keeps normal “business” hours, and has plenty of off time.

His next book, he said, is about “Shape Shifters,” and should be released in the autumn.

Check out Redfern’s work at his Nick Redfern’s World of Whatever at nickredfernfortean.blogspot.com. He is also a regular contributor to Mysterious Universe, which can be found here.

Despite the fact that most ufologists have dismissed the new MJ12 documents as garbage (which they are), I’m still getting emails and messages from people who just won’t let things go and who insist they are the real thing. Look, they are not the real thing. But, try telling that to those who prefer conspiracy-filled excitement to commonsense. Let’s try and put things to rest, by looking at a selection of theories for what these documents really are or may be.

1. The documents are real:

Nope, they’re not. How do we know that? Very simply because the documents are filled with glaring errors. At one point in the documents, we’re told that, regarding the Roswell affair, “…The authorities at the Roswell Field Army Air Forces Base were alerted by Mr. Brazel at 09:18 on 07 July, 1947 and two officers of the base were guided to the crash site by the ranch manager.” Wrong. William Brazel, who found the Roswell debris on the Foster Ranch back in 1947 did not contact the military at Roswell at all. He contacted the sheriff’s office and it was they who contacted the people at Roswell. Given that this document was supposedly written by insiders, with access to the most detailed aspects of the Roswell event, you would think they would surely have gotten even the basic facts correct. But, apparently not. As Kevin Randle notes: “The use of ‘Ultra Top Secret’ also raises questions. Ultra was the British code name for their operation to intercept and read high-level, highly-classified Nazi message traffic. This code name seems inappropriate for use by the US government or military.” Kevin also notes: “We are treated to a reference to the base at Flat Rock, Nevada, which, of course, was the scene of much of the action in The Andromeda Strain.” For those who may not know, The Andromeda Strain was a work of fiction from the late Michael Crichton.

2. The documents are disinformation:

Very often, when a collection of controversial papers like this one surfaces – and particularly when it contains errors – the word “disinformation” surfaces. Disinformation is described as follows: “False information which is intended to mislead, especially propaganda issued by a government organization to a rival power or the media.” Has disinformation played a role in Ufology – and particularly in the field of crashed UFOs? Yes, it has. Check out (a) the intriguing saga of the Spitsbergen UFO; and (b) the strange affair of Karl Pflock and the Aztec UFO. They are both suggestive of disinformation campaigns that had tales of crashed UFOs at their heart. These newly-surfaced documents, however, come across as bad science-fiction and will not (or should not) impress, manipulate or deceive anyone.

3. The documents are a hoax:

Over the years, the field of Ufology has had more than its fair share of hoaxes – some involving documents. The late Contactee George Adamski got into big trouble with the FBI when, in the early 1950s, he created what amounted to a hoaxed document by carefully altering a real one. Also on the matter of George Adamski, there’s the near-legendary hoaxed document which has become known as the “Straith Letter,” and which was orchestrated by ufologists Gray Barker and Jim Moseley. The list goes on and on. But, it’s important to note that we know for sure these documents were fabricated. Adamski crossed the line as a means to impress his followers. Moseley and Barker were just having a bit of fun during a late-night drinking session. The idea that the new MJ12 documents are the work of someone in Ufology who is desperate to see Roswell vindicated – as a UFO event, at least – is not out of the question. This is the “I want to believe” factor taken to its ultimate level by someone frustrated by the fact that – for the most part – Roswell has hit a brick wall. If a hoax, the creator is probably a fantasist, a socially-challenged adult male virgin with severe halitosis, and a chronic bed-wetter. And, yes, those words are intended to outrage the man behind this and to try and have him make himself known. But, those same words are probably true too.

4. The documents are an experiment:

There are two possibilities with this particular theory. Both possibilities revolve around the time-frame in which the documents surfaced. Let’s not forget that the 70th anniversary of the Roswell affair is just a couple of weeks away. Whatever the motivation for the new MJ12 documents, I’m sure the timing of the surfacing of the documents is not a coincidence. Somewhere, somehow, the date/timing is relevant. Maybe the documents are the creation of someone in Ufology who, tired of the fact that when it comes to Roswell, we have hit that aforementioned brick wall, has decided to take an alternative route to try and get the truth. Perhaps, by faking the documentation, they are hoping that it might force “the government” to respond – and that, in doing so, it may reignite the Roswell controversy and result in the release of something of significance. Not impossible, but highly unlikely. The other angle, which I think may well be the correct one, is that the documentation is the work of a UFO skeptic, someone who is looking to see the major figures in the Roswell field endorse the papers and, as a result, come crashing down. The skeptical creator will then state that his actions amounted to a kind of skewed social experiment, and were designed to see (a) how gullible, (b) how desperate for evidence that aliens crashed at Roswell, and (c) how easily manipulated the Roswell/UFO research community is. In that sense, the faker will claim the documents do not amount to a hoax, but are part of an effort to demonstrate how common-sense and rational, critical thinking can go out of the window when there is a yearning for Roswell to finally be solved. Fortunately, most Roswell researchers are not endorsing the documents, so that’s a good thing.

Maybe, in the near future, we’ll know who faked these documents and why. And, maybe, the answer will be one of those above. Or, perhaps, there are other motivations. Whatever the answer, it won’t take away the fact that the documents are bullshit.