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was concern that one of them was hunting a bit. Major Jesse Marcel rode back to Roswell with us and I talked briefly with him. He was always interested in the enlisted men on flight crews. He wanted gunners to be good observers when on long missions. I don't think his questions that day were probing... He asked if I was anxious to get into B-36s [the newest Air Force bomber at that time]. We were told repeatedly not to talk of this incident, not even to our wives. I held that inside until 1988, when books began to appear. To this day, I am in touch with one other member of our crew. Most of the others are no longer alive. Major Ewing was killed in a B-47 crash in Florida in 1952. Some time afterwards, about three to six months later, the wives began talking among themselves about the clean-up detail. This originated from the wives of men on that duty. One such was a neigh- bor of ours in July 1947. They moved across town, but I would sometimes see him, and I asked him what he had seen out there. He was upset and told me, "You don't want to know." Based on the wives' gossip, we heard that he had seen a body. Later, I became a pilot, and while in SAC [Strategic Air Command] was an instructor in the aero clubs and moonlight- ing as a crop duster. Aviation has been my life. While in SAC...at March AFB, our crew had two weird experiences with something that officially wasn't there. [Signed] A Roswell B-29 gunner plane to Carswell, as ordered by his com- manding officer Colonel William Blanchard, accompanying samples of debris that the military would publicly identify as parts of a "weather balloon". Marcel apparently had nothing to do with whatever was in the bomb-bay in the large box described by this witness, and might wielded gold spears, etc. The city had apparently been abandoned ages ago, and the entire underground system looked very ancient. It formerly had been lit, they found out by accident, by an ingenious sys- tem of lights fed by subterranean gases. They claimed to have seen a large, pol- ished, round table which looked as if it may have been part of an ancient council cham- ber, giant statues of solid gold, stone vaults and drawers full of gold bars and gem- stones of all kinds, heavy stone wheelbar- rows which were perfectly balanced and scientifically constructed so that a child could use them, huge stone doors which were almost perfectly balanced by counter- weights, and other incredible sights. Bill and Jack also claimed to have fol- lowed the caverns upwards to a higher level which ultimately opened out onto the face of the Panamints, about halfway up the eastern slope, in the form of a few ancient tunnel-like quays. They realised that the valley below had once been under water, and they eventually came to the con- clusion that the arched openings were ancient "docks" for sea vessels. They could allegedly see Furnace Creek Ranch and Wash far below them. They told Bourke Lee that they had brought some of the treasure out of the cav- erns and tried to set up a deal with certain people, including scientists associated with the Smithsonian Institution, in order to gain help to explore and publicise the city as one of the "wonders of the world". These efforts ended in disappointment, however, when a "friend" of theirs stole the treasure (which was also the evidence). They were scoffed at and rejected by the scientists when they went to show them the "mine" entrance and could not find it. A recent cloudburst, they claimed, had altered and rearranged the entire countryside; the landscape no longer looked the same. When Bourke Lee last heard from the two men, Bill and Jack were preparing to climb the eastern face of the Panamints to locate the ancient tunnel openings or quays high up the side of the steep slope. Lee never did see or hear from his friends again. In 1946, a man calling himself Dr F. Bruce Russell, and claiming to be a retired physician, told a similar story about finding strange underground rooms in the Death Valley area in 1931. He told of a large room with several tunnels leading off in different directions. One of these tunnels The city had apparently been abandoned ages ago, and the entire underground system looked very ancient. not have known anything about it. This account is consistent with previous- ly published claims that bodies and wreck- age from a genuine UFO crash near Roswell were flown in one or more large crates by B-29 to Carswell, from which they might then have been dispatched to their final destinations, possibly including Wright Field (Wright Patterson Air Force Base) in Dayton, Ohio. 0 (Source: CNI News, USA, telephone +1 970 282 7077, e-mail CNINews1 @aol. com, website www.cninews.com/) ANCIENT CITY BENEATH CALIFORNIA'S DEATH VALLEY? ourke Lee, in his book Death Valley B Men (MacMillan, NY, 1932), in the chapter titled "Old Gold", describes a conversation he had several years before with a small group of Death Valley resi- dents. The conversation eventually turned to the subject of Paihute Indian legends. At one point, two of the men, Bill and Jack, described their experience with an "underground city" which they claimed to have discovered after one of them fell through the bottom of an old mine shaft near Wingate Pass. They said they found themselves in a natural underground cavern which they fol- lowed about 20 miles north into the heart of the Panamint Mountains. To their amazement, they allegedly found them- selves in a huge, ancient, underground cav- ern city. They claimed to have discovered within the city several perfectly preserved "mummies" which wore thick armbands, George Filer adds this note: "The government claims what was brought to Fort Worth under guard was a Mogul balloon, [the type] that they launched regularly from White Sands Proving Grounds, with printed instructions on the side for [how to obtain] a reward, if found. "Our witness claims there were multiple guards inside the bomb-bay. Even atomic bombs did not normally warrant guards inside the bomb-bay, and certainly not an officer with the rank of Major." CNI News notes that, assuming the testi- mony is true, whatever was carried in that bomb-bay was regarded by Roswell and/or Carswell military commanders as being of the utmost importance (perhaps more important than an atomic bomb). Major Jesse Marcel flew on a different 68 + NEXUS JUNE — JULY 2000