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Reactions to the Roswell Slides

The above clip is part of the promotional campaign for both Jaime Maussan’s Be Witness live presentation –which will be featured on May 5th at the National Auditorium in Mexico city– as well as Adam Dew’s Kodachrome documentary. It shows (alleged) random reactions of passersby in Chicago, after they are shown what has purportedly been claimed to be 2 black-and-white slides of a humanoid being inside some sort of glass showcase –If you want to see a low-res image of one of those slides, click here.

If there’s one thing that’s clearly shown in the video, is how the images seem to perfectly conform with our pop culture assumptions of what an alien being is supposed to look –short stature, slim body and large cranium. What it’s not shown, though, is whether these images are as real as the Santilli ‘alien autopsy’ video of the 1990’s, which was equally hyped as the smoking gun that would finally unravel the ‘Cosmic Watergate’ behind the truth of UFOs and ET visitation.

To say these images are controversial is the understatement of the century. A lot of assumptions have been made with regards to the slides by the people behind tomorrow’s presentation. There’s the assumption that the slides were taken by Hilda Ray, who was a lawyer, a pilot, the wife of geologist Bernerd Ray; there’s the assumption that the couple’s illustrious careers and connections with the top elite of American society in the 40’s and 50’s, would have somehow made them privy to very sensitive material –like the retrieval operations of crashed saucers conducted by the Military.

And of course, there’s the majestic assumption –see what I did there?– that the body (or bodies) shown on the slides are of an extraterrestrial biological entity, AND that these entities were involved in the (in)famous Roswell event of July 1947. That’s enough ‘ifs’ to make your head spin faster than a Reticulan spaceship, which is why some of the most prominent researchers involved in the history of the Roswell affair –namely Stanton Friedman and Kevin Randle— declined to actively participate in what Maussan and Dew call “the biggest UFO event of all time.”

“Is this for real?”, one person asks after being shown the slides. That’s what Don Schmitt, Tom Carey, Adam Dew and Jaime Maussan keep telling us, and they promise to show us all the evidence to back that claim tomorrow onstage and via live streaming. I’ll be there to see whether they deliver the goods… or crash and burn trying.

  1. Roswell Slides
    You know, you want to be able to concentrate on the intellectual dishonesty displayed by so many of the skeptic crowd, but then the pro-UFO crowd keeps pulling intellectually indefensible stunts like the “Roswell slides” and asking supporters to not only suspend disbelief but ignore the fact that so many of their factual assertions cannot be confirmed as well. *sigh*

    1. True dat
      I’m trying really hard not to attend tomorrow’s presentation with an overtly skeptic attitude. A cousin of mine who is also interested in the UFO topic –though he was smart enough NOT to become overtly obsessed as I did– is coming with me, and I really want to see his reaction, as a way to gauge how people who are not privy to all the ‘inside baseball’ drama perceive the slides.

  2. I have to show respect to the UFO community
    I have to express my respect. UFO believers have shown record-breaking levels of doubt about the Roswell slides. That is encouraging: this case has revealed the epistemic values of many UFO buffs. Even the bellicose David Rudiak (Russian for “rude kodiak”) and the polemical Stanton Friedman (German for “likes to debate strawmen”) have been restrained and cautious.

    This has been a rare instance of bipartisan skepticism in ufology. And I encourage it.

    And once we see the “big reveal,” I know the UFO believers will be at the forefront of questioning the sliders’ assertions, for the believers will have the Roswell history at their fingertips.

    1. Believers & Skeptics
      IMHO part of the problem is how obsessed we are with labelling people as either a ‘believer’ or a ‘skeptic.’ You can find a lot of skepticism among the people who attend UFO conferences, as well as unquestioning faith among members of CSICOP 😉

  3. The circular firing squad that is modern UFOlogy
    Unfortunately, the level of skepticism in the UFO community has become *so* extreme in recent years than anything short of an actual alien body tends to trigger knee-jerk dismissals. Some of that is healthy, I know, but I have to wonder whether some genuine evidence could be slipping through the cracks these days as a result.

    1. An actual alien body
      I think that’s about right. Maussan and Dew should know better than to assume that in the XXIst people a slideshow could constitute ‘definitive proof’ of anything.

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