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The Great Cover-up ernment on a long-term, elaborate, and highly sophisti- cated campaign of concealment and disinformation that has yet to be relaxed. Could it have sprung spontaneously from the first strange-sounding report of some unusual events in the wilds of New Mexico? Could the government have been capable of instantly springing into action to cut off all news of the crashes even before most of the details were known? Ts UFO CRASHES in New Mexico launched the U.S. gov- Could a lot of otherwise cautious and conservative generals and politicians in Washington have been completely con- vinced of the totally exotic nature of the crash remains and a ee Se SD ae ee a A events? When Lydia Sleppy was told by telephone (around 4:00 P.M. on July 7) by Roswell radio station manager Johnny McBoyle that he had been to a crash site and seen the wreckage, this was the first that anyone in the public arena had heard. Mac Brazel had shown a small amount of debris to Sheriff Wilcox in Roswell, and this led to the trip of Maj. Jesse Marcel and Capt. Sheridan Cavitt of the Counter- intelligence Corps to the Foster ae SE 5 SD Se eee nek ny: res BT ranch crash site. But the two government men were either still out there or on their way back, over poor roads and through almost-uninhabited country, when the teletype message was 130 spontaneously grasped the staggering significance of the