Events
The 'Roswell slides' (beWITNESS, Mexico City, 5 May 2015)
Smoke, no fire What these labels mean →Two 1940s Kodachrome slides from the Ray family collection were promoted (by Jaime Maussan, Adam Dew, Don Schmitt, Tom Carey and others) as showing a Roswell alien body, and unveiled at the paid 'beWITNESS' event in Mexico City. Promoters said the placard beside the body was illegible. Within days, the Roswell Slides Research Group deblurred it (SmartDeblur): 'MUMMIFIED BODY OF TWO YEAR OLD BOY… clothed in a slip-over cotton shirt… three small blankets'. An NPS FOIA (Shepherd Johnson) traced the mummy to Montezuma Castle, Arizona (found 1896, Wetherill), long displayed at Mesa Verde. Some promoters issued public apologies.
Ties
| To | Role | Years | Verdict | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alien Autopsy film (1995) | the earlier hoaxed body evidence | 1995/2015 | Smoke, no fire | |
| Roswell incident (1947) | the latest 'body evidence' layer | 2015 | Smoke, no fire | |
| Suppression pattern | contrast: the 'illegible' placard was solved in hours by volunteers; an FOIA supplied provenance | 2015 | Concept |
Links
- Blue Blurry Lines: the placard, the final curtain
- UFO Chronicles: the child from Montezuma Castle
- The UFO Trail: all over but the accountability
- User-supplied Wikipedia URL (Roswell_slides) no longer resolves; content folded into 'Roswell incident'
Notes
| Claim | Record | Tag |
|---|---|---|
| The slides show an alien body | The placard reads 'mummified body of two year old boy' | alien body |
| The placard was illegible | Deblurred within days by the RSRG | 'illegible' |
| The mummy's provenance | NPS records via FOIA: Montezuma Castle (1896) | provenance |