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Among RAND's earliest government reports was the — LeMay and | said, ‘General, | know we have a room at enigmatically titled "Preliminary Design of an Wright-Patterson where you put all of this secret stuff. Experimental World-Circling Spaceship". Could I go in there?’ I've never heard General LeMay get Curtis LeMay expressed deep interest in and concern _mad, but he got madder than hell at me, cussed me out about the flying saucer phenomenon. More than this, | and said, ‘Don't ever ask me that question again!'" he was a keeper of the purported 1947 Roswell UFO — Goldwater never did. crash debris. This was revealed in a stunningly candid LeMay was very well acquainted with the Roswell Army interview with the late US Senator Barry Goldwater. Air Field (RAAF) Commanding Officer, Colonel William Goldwater (a former US presidential candidate and a_ = “Butch” Blanchard. Blanchard oversaw the base at the command pilot with the rank of Major General) was __ time of the 1947 Roswell crash event. It is believed that LeMay’'s professional associate and close friend. Blanchard helped issue the original press release on the LeMay's UFO involvement was crash, which prompted the related by Goldwater in a live amous resulting headline, worldwide broadcast in 1994 ’ p “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer with CNN's Larry King. The Among RAND s earliest On Ranch in Roswell Region". USAF had just issued its report government reports was Blanchard's former wife and his h k R Il . . . i crash of 4 july 1947 a5 a Alogul | the enigmaatically titled highly afected and visibly upset balloon. Goldwater (who died “Preliminary Design of Dy the event. He repeated only just a few years later, in 1998) . at "those Russians have some informed King that he knew the an Experimental World- amazing things". The Mayor o ruth to be far different. He Circling Spaceship”. Roswell, William Brainerd, said hat Blanchard told him: "Wha because in the 1960s he had saw was the damndest thing approached the now General ‘ve ever seen!" To Ar LeMay about the crashed UFO issue. Goldwater—who = McQuiddy, editor of the Roswell Morning Dispatch in 1947, new this, he explained, no doubt himself held the highest security clearances— —_ Blanchard said when questioned: "I'll tell you this and old King: nothing more: the stuff I saw I'd never seen anyplace "| think at Wright-Patterson, if you could get into _ else in my life." certain places, you'd find out what the Air Force and the Pilot Ben Games related in interviews (with this government [do] know about UFOs. Reportedly, a author and to reporter Billy Cox) that he had flown then spaceship landed. It was all hushed up. I called Curtis Lieutenant General Laurence Craigie (Director of the US Army Air Forces’ Research and Engineering Division) to Roswel Army Air Field after the Roswel crash. Games said that Major General Curtis LeMay was well aware of Craigie's flight and that LeMay and Craigie were in close contac about the event. In his 1965 biography, Mission with LeMay, the now retired Genera LeMay speaks sparingly about the UFO subject. Of course, he discounts that there is a governmen cover-up about UFOs. But LeMay belies this with a brief and telling statement found later in the biography: “There is not a question about it: these were things which we could not tie in with any natural phenomena known to our investigators." As early as 1943, this abled airman was investigating unidentified flying objects. Found in Box 166 of General Hap Arnold's papers (at the Air Force RAND Corporation Headquarters Campus, Santa Monica, California government reports was the enigmatically titled “Preliminary Design of an Experimental World- Circling Spaceship”. 62 * NEXUS Among RAND’s earliest RAND Corporation Headquarters Campus, Santa Monica, California DECEMBER 2011 - JANUARY 2012 www.nexusmagazine.com