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Happy anniversary, Roswell, N.M. It was 65 years ago today that the Roswell Daily Record blasted an infamous headline claiming local military officials had captured a flying saucer on a nearby ranch. And now, a former CIA agent says it really happened.
"It was not a damn weather balloon -- it was what it was billed when people first reported it," said Chase Brandon, a 35-year CIA veteran. "It was a craft that clearly did not come from this planet, it crashed and I don't doubt for a second that the use of the word 'remains' and 'cadavers' was exactly what people were talking about."
Brandon served as an undercover, covert operations officer in the agency's Clandestine Service for 25 years, where he was assigned missions in international terrorism, counterinsurgency, global narcotics trafficking and weapons smuggling. He spent his final 10 years of CIA service on the director's staff as the agency's first official liaison to the entertainment and publication industries. It was during this time, in the mid-1990s, that he walked into a special section of CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., called the Historical Intelligence Collection.....
...interesting that these high level government types keep disclosing the truth in the twilight years of their lives:
"It was a vaulted area and not everybody could get in it," Brandon told The Huffington Post. "One day, I was looking around in there and reading some of the titles that were mostly hand-scribbled summations of what was in the boxes. And there was one box that really caught my eye. It had one word on it: Roswell.
"I took the box down, lifted the lid up, rummaged around inside it, put the box back on the shelf and said, 'My god, it really happened!'"
"I'm not reluctant to talk about it -- I won't talk about it. I'm telling you there was a box that had stuff in there having to do with Roswell, and I looked through it, and it validated everything I believed in, and that's all I have to say about it. I will go to my grave being mindful of the two hats that I wear: My personal one and the one that will forever reside on my head as a former CIA officer."
Originally posted by Disconnected Sociopath
Nothing earth shattering here that we haven't heard before ...
Brandon is currently promoting his book, "The Cryptos Conundrum," a science fiction story about the history of Earth, contact with extraterrestrials and imagined cataclysmic events on our planet.
Originally posted by Diablos
That's great and all, but there is still no physical evidence at all and thus the most rational explanation still stands as a weather balloon/radar reflection combination. The simple fact he is ex-CIA does not add nor detract from the credibility of the story, as that Argumentum ad Verecundiam, or argument from authority.
At the end of the day, this is anecdotal evidence at best (assuming he is being honest of his experience), and we all know that is the worst kind of evidence in science.
The CIA has asked Jennifer Garner, the star of the television show, "Alias," to help recruit new CIA agents.
Chase Brandon is the CIA's liaison to the entertainment industry, and the person who brought up the idea of Garner being a spy recruiter.
CHASE BRANDON is a thirty-five year operations officer in the CIA’s Clandestine Service. He lived undercover for twenty-five years and retired from undercover assignments in 2006, but continues to consult with several intelligence community agencies, the Department of Defense, and numerous state and federal law enforcement organizations. In his final assignment, Brandon was a senior staff officer for the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, serving as an Agency spokesman and CIA's official liaison to the entertainment industry. He provided technical consultation to many feature films, television series, and documentary programs, such as Mission Impossible III, The Bourne Identity, Alias, and 24, and the Discovery, Learning, and Military Channels.
Originally posted by Bilk22
Originally posted by Diablos
That's great and all, but there is still no physical evidence at all and thus the most rational explanation still stands as a weather balloon/radar reflection combination. The simple fact he is ex-CIA does not add nor detract from the credibility of the story, as that Argumentum ad Verecundiam, or argument from authority.
At the end of the day, this is anecdotal evidence at best (assuming he is being honest of his experience), and we all know that is the worst kind of evidence in science.
Just read The Day After Roswell. It's all there in black and white. Anyone claiming Corso lied?