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the (Roswell UFO crash) event (sic)." Indeed, both Friedman and
Moore, around the time of the initial publication of the Roswell
Incident in 1980, boasted that they had interviwed more then "ninety
witnesses."
While these double digit figures are certainly accurate, the
presentation of such a seemingly impressive number of witnesses by
themselves, without qualifications, is misleading. The relevant issue is
not how many witnesses were interviwed, but rather what type of
wtinesses (i.e., firsthand, secondhand, etc.) these people are and how
truthful and accurate their statements are.
Unfortunately, a careful reading of Moore and Berlitz's Roswell
Incident reveals that despite the impressive claim of having
"interviewed more than seventy witnesses," the testimonies of just
twenty-five people are presented. Out of these twenty-five, only seven
of them are firsthand sources who claim to have seen the alleged
saucer debris, and one of these accounts is suspect. Of these seven
people, however, only five of them claim to have actually handled the
material personally, and one of them is adamant that it was not from
an extraterrestrial spacecraft. 9
Researcher interviews of a few primary source "eyewitnesses": this
much the Roswell ET Myth and the Nazi UFO Legend have in
common. The problem thus posed by the mere existence of the Nazi
Legend in this context is therefore very significant: Why does one
event form such a stable and consistent foundation in t h r e
historiography of the ET-UFO Mythos, and why is the other
hypothesis so consistently avoided by the same community, when in
general, both the ET explanation of the Roswell incident, and the
Nazi UFO Legend are based upon not only the same types of
evidence, but initially, the same approximate quantity of evidence
Put differently, why is the ET Myth so predominant in all
"unofficial" explanations of the Roswell crash, and the hypothesis
of a terrestrially-originated though exotic technology as an
explanation consistently avoided
The answer I believe, lies in some peculiarities of the Majic-12
documents themselves.
9 Kal K. Korff, The Roswell UFO Crash, pp. 28-29.
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