Roger M. Ramey

U.S. Army & Air Force

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Air Force general who released a statement that crashed object near Roswell was a weather balloon which has been criticized by many as a cover-up.

Roger Ramey, a USAF general was one of the people sent by the military to investigate the 1947 crash near Roswell. According to a report released to the public from Ramey, the wreckage discovered was a weather balloon. In the 1990s, evidence of a telex message was discovered in which Ramey refers to the crashed object as a "disc" to his superiors. This caused some controversy as some people declared it was proof of a cover-up while others asserted that the language was too vague for the meaning to be determined.

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Thomas J. DuBose

U.S. Air Force

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Pictured together in the famous photo at Ft Worth AAF holding the alleged weather balloon debris.

John A Samford

U.S. Air Force & Intelligence

John A Samford

U.S. Air Force & Intelligence

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