Parsing some bUFfOonery...

[onager]

I came across this while looking for info on that fine British product, the Dennis ambulance. (Don't ask why. I'm just weird, OK?)

Nancy Dennis is the daughter of Glenn Dennis. He's the Roswell, NM ambulance driver who made all sorts of booga-booga claims about that famous day in 1947 when the aliens landed. A Google will tell you more than you ever wanted to know, so I won't get into it.

Some of Ms. Dennis' statements in this article are...revealing:

One day in July 1947, her father, Glenn Dennis, got an ambulance call that would become part of local history..."He knew nurses, others who said aliens or something was retrieved from a crash site. As soon as the MP's knew he was there, he was threatened and told to keep quiet and to say he knew nothing," she said.

Aliens OR SOMETHING? Wonder what that "or something" could have been. BTW, Glenn Dennis only gave an affidavit about those events in 1991--44 years after the fact.

"He never talked about it," recalls Dennis. "I never heard a peep of the UFO business throughout my childhood from him or anyone in Roswell."

Say what? Roswell residents aren't exactly Trappist monks when it comes to their Big Historical Event. Judging by Internet entries alone, it seems like the whole town started flapping its gums about the crashed aliens in 1947 and never stopped.

But I'm sure Dennis is remembering accurately. When she was growing up in Roswell, people weren't talking about those events. Because most of them hadn't been invented yet.

It was as if the police and government officials told them to say they knew nothing and collectively the town forgot. "You could look at the headlines of the Roswell Daily Record that day and then wonder, what the heck? Nothing at all throughout the 50s and 60s," said Dennis.

Crashed space-craft, dead alien bodies littering the desert and PEOPLE FORGOT? Give me a break.

This reminds me of the hilaious Xian explanations about those events in the Gospel of Matthew when Jesus was crucified: earthquakes, total darkness on the earth, graves opened and dead people walked around Jerusalem chatting with the living. But nobody else in the world (or even Jerusalem) thought it was important enough to mention.

The book, "The Roswell Incident" came out in the 70's and interest in UFOs grew.

Maybe I'm just too cynical and suspicious, but I sense a connection here. Ah! There it is, in the very next paragraph!

It wasn't until the 80s that Dennis' father talked to her about that day. It is also when he became one of the people sought out by the media and researchers.

OK, so everybody "forgot" until the media came calling.

He, Walter Haut, another Roswell-local involved in the incident, and others opened the UFO museum in Roswell.

So it's not like he had a personal interest in making up stuff or anything. Nope...

http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/02-11-08HTdennis.htm

[frogmarch]

1. The "witnesses,"

along with the Roswell UFO torch bearers like Nancy Dennis, are either delusional - or lying through their teeth and giving each other a wink and a nod.

Those who believe the accounts told by these nutbags do so because they desperately want to, and by gawd, come hell or high water, they're going to. Most of the people I know are like that, and that's why I keep to myself a lot.

[Warpy]

2. Ever been there?

Rozzie doesn't have all that much to recommend it. Oh, it's a small town that's attractive to retired snowbirds and there's ranching and agriculture in those parts, but that's about it.

All the hooey about UFOs put it on the map and generates a lot of income for locals who've been poor too long.