The (NOT) Roswell Slides Saga…
The only name for the child in the Park Service documents is “MOCA 1352”

The National Park Service just released to me 186 pages worth of documentation concerning the Montezuma Castle / Mesa Verde child mummy. The documents can accessed here: nps.gov/aboutus/foia/foia-frd.htm (PDF) (Facebook Gallery)
MUMMIFIED BODY OF TWO YEAR OLD BOY
At the time of burial the body was clothed in a slip-over cotton
shirt. Burial wrappings consisted of three small cotton blankets.
Loaned by Mr. S. L. Palmer, San Francisco, California.
48 HOURS that SHOOK the UFOLOGICAL world by Tim Printy
Historical Timeline on the Slide Placard Deblur
SOURCE: SUNlite Volume 7 Number 4 July-August 2015, eJournal (USA, New Hampshire) AstronomyUFO.com, UFOs, SUNlite
Excerpts from Printy’s Timeline:
May 8th
0157 AM EDT – The placard image was posted on the RSRG facebook page. …
9:29 AM – Nab reveals the deblur that clearly says “Mummified body of two year old boy.” …
5:16 PM – Nab Lator came up with the second line, “At the time of burial the body was clothed in a xxx-xxx cotton” and Lance Moody agreed. …
7:37 PM – Lance Moody: “Burial wrappings consisted of these small cotton blankets” …
9:18 PM Curt Collins reports putting up the findings on his blog because the image was accidentally leaked elsewhere.
10:12 PM Dew uploads the placard image file to his web site …
May 9th
12:33 AM Paul Kimball reports that Rich Reynolds is saying that Bragalia states the image is a fake.
12:47-1:02 AM Paul Kimball expressed concern over provenance and was thinking that it might be necessary to expose the source. …
He was concerned we were being “set up” with a fake image. Tim Hebert agreed. Paul wanted us to work under higher standards than UFOlogists.
1:05 AM Tim Printy pointed out that the proponents can prove the results are fake by releasing the high resolution images.
1:11 AM Curt Collins takes responsibility for making the call to go public.
1:16 AM Tim Printy reports that Adam Dew has now put the high resolution image of the placard up for all to see.
1:23 AM Dew sends Nab Lator a message – “Your photoshop work is not that good. smile emoticon even visually its obvious” …
2:08 PM Isaac Koi reports that Dew is referring to the RSRG as a “group of internet trolls” …
4:05 PM Jose Antonio Caravaca reports that Tony Bragalia has posted an article where he describes the group as rabid skeptics and that we were hoaxing the placard. …
8:58 PM Paul Kimball reports that Adam Dew stated on Kevin Randle’s blog: “I hope you guys are being fully honest about your work… because if you’re trying to pull a fast one… you’re going to set debunking back many many years.” This was one of the last statements made by Dew publicly for almost three weeks as he distanced himself from the debacle. Around midnight, Tony Bragalia posted an article where he accepted the RSRG’s findings. He adds that he has discovered the body was a mummified native American boy discovered in 1894 and put on display in the 1930s at the Mesa Verde museum.
Adam Dew or Joe Beason (whomever managed SlideBoxMedia.com) Accused RSRG of Faking Results:
Joseph Beason
The “Roswell Research Group” is a group of internet UFO Trolls, claiming to be searching for truth but repeatedly spreading lies.
Screen-shots circa 2015-05-09 with meta data of SlideBoxMedia.com claiming:
The “Roswell Slides Research Group” fake placard
This is the photoshoped original that the group
is claiming they worked from BEFORE the claimed debluring.
- Kevin Randle interviews Don Schmitt, Curt Collins, and Tom Carey, about the Slides (2016)
- The Roswell Slides – Who Got the Five Grand? Kevin Randle, A Different Perspective
- Dr. Richard O’Connor on Putting Away the Roswell Slides – Curt Collins, June 18, 2015
- Roswell Slides: It’s All Over but the Accountability by Jack Brewer, June 16, 2015
- Shepherd Johnson finds documents that finish the Roswell Slides – Curt Collins at BlueBlurryLines.com – June 13, 2015
- The Final Curtain for the Roswell Slides – Kevin Randle, June 13, 2015
- Shepherd Johnson has obtained another image of the child-mummy through an FOIA request to the National Park Service… (PDF) – June 12, 2015
- New Confirmation for Photograph of the Roswell “Alien” – Kevin Randle’s blog, June 11, 2015
- The Roswell Slideshow: Will Jaime Maussan Pay-Up? June 10, 2015
- “Free the Roswell Slide Documents Now!” by Adam Gorightly, May 31, 2015
- The Roswell Slides and the Mummy’s Placard – Kevin Randle, May 31, 2015
- The Roswell Slides: Chronicle of a Mummy Foretold by red pill junkie, 25 May 2015
- “What Can We Learn From The Roswell Slides?” by Adam Gorightly, May 24, 2015
- Tony Bragalia points a finger at Adam Dew – Exclusive from José Antonio Caravaca
- Don Schmitt Recants Apology – Jimmy Church’s Fade to Black Radio, episode 262


Best Post-Placard Interview Coverage – 2015
- TGR 05.11.15. The Final Word on the Roswell Slides, The Gralien Report


Slides Timeline Overview
- 1988 – Hilda Blair Ray passes away
1998 – Catherine “Cat” Beason procured the slides from an unidentified residence / estate outside Sedona, Arizona
- 1998 to 2008 – slides languish in obscurity within Cat’s attic
- 2008 – Catherine shows slides to brother Joseph Beason who shows them to Adam Dew who decides to produce documentary
- 2008 to 2011 – Beason / Dew investigate, Contact Carey & Schmitt
- 2011 – News of the slides existence leaks out due to a telephone call to Nick Redfern & via blog posts of Anthony Bragalia / RRRGroup
- 2012 – ???
- 2013 – November – Jaime Maussan sees the 2 slides first-hand in Chicago with Dew and Beason via Don Schmitt
- 2014 – November 12th – Tom Carey detracts from the scientific UFO conference with his “Smoking Gun Slides” announcement
- 2015 – Jaime stages Press Conference to announce the #BeWitness Cinco de Mayo event in Mexico City
- 2015 … and the beat goes on …
Jaime Maussan & Don Scmitt
“Welcome to the desert of the real”.[1]

The Backstory
- Roswell Investigation Dream Team by Kevin Randle, October 31, 2011
- Tony Bragalia Joins Roswell Dream Team by Kevin Randle, November 11, 2011
- Chris Rutkowski Joins the Team by Kevin Randle, November 19, 2011
- Roswell Dream Team – A Brief Update by Kevin Randle, November 30, 2011
- Death of a Dream by Kevin Randle, October 03, 2013
Death of a Dream by Kevin Randle, October 03, 2013 …
Then, earlier this year, Rich Reynolds published his piece about slides that had been found showing alien bodies, or I suppose, more accurately, a strange creature that might be a deformed human. Nick Redfern was the source of the information, which I had never heard until I read it on Rich’s blog. I sent Nick an email and he said I should call, which I did.
On February 10, 2013, I sent an email to the team, which must have struck most of them as odd, because it demonstrated my total lack of knowledge on the subject. I said:
I have no idea if any of you have been watching the nonsense over at Rich Reynolds’ UFO Iconoclasts blog. He is suggesting that he now has inside information of the Roswell events, which he will release in the near future… However, I noted today that he is suggesting that we all have entered into some sort of legal entanglement to cement our legacy and that we are prevented from disclosing what we know. I have entered no such agreement with anyone and have no inside knowledge that I have hidden from the group. If any one of you have done so (and no I don’t think you have) it would not be legally binding on the rest of us. …. I don’t know the purpose… Therefore, my advice is to ignore him completely (Ahh, had I just taken my own advise).
SEE ALSO: Roswell Slide Research Group, Philip Mantle, Curt Collins & Kevin Randle, 05-13-15
- Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt – 1995 Falling-Out
- Re: Roswell Vs. The Critics – Randle – UFO UpDates eList, May 2002
- Tony Bragalia Joins Roswell Dream Team – November 11, 2011
- Chris Rutkowski Joins the Team – November 19, 2011
- Roswell Dream Team – A Brief Update – November 30, 2011
- Bragalia’s online presence circa 2011 – archive.org
- The Roswell Undertaker’s Secret Revealed by Anthony Bragalia – December 26, 2008
- Roswell and the Quest for Physical Evidence by Anthony Bragalia – February 17, 2013
- Authentic Alien Images From Roswell Finally Found? by Anthony Bragalia – Friday, September 27, 2013 (archive / archive)
- The chainsaw blues By Billy Cox, Herald-Tribune / Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Tony Bragalia is one of the researchers. He’s a Sarasota hometown guy and we’ve talked on a number of occasions. He’s an executive talent scout and he knows how and where to root out information. He’s been on the Roswell trail for years and financed his research out of his own pocket. He says he’s met the owner of the photos and seen the pix personally. “They’re both in full color and extremely close,” he says.
Story in a nutshell: an estate-cleaning outfit discovers the slides stashed in an envelope inside an attic trunk belonging to a deceased and apparently respected geologist working the Texas-New Mexico region for oil exploration in the 1940s. The geologist and his late wife have no heirs. The slides are brought to the attention of the business owner, who has read Witness to Roswell by Thomas Carey and Donald Schmitt. The guy makes a few calls, out of curiosity. Bragalia gets pulled into the investigation last year. – Billy Cox, De Void
- Do Slides From 1947 Show a Roswell Humanoid? A Geologist’s Secret Exposed by Anthony Bragalia, Nov. 10, 2013
Don Schmitt & Tom Carey Digging for Roswell Evidence
- Kevin Randle, The Roswell Dream Team – Open Minds UFO Radio – Apr 17, 2012
- Tom Carey, Roswell UFO Expert – Open Minds UFO Radio – Jun 28, 2011
- Don Schmitt, UFOs and the Roswell Alien – Open Minds UFO Radio – May 03, 2011
- Donald Schmitt, Roswell Evidence – Open Minds UFO Radio – Mar 30, 2010
2011 Article Index
- Roswell Dream Team? Rich Reynolds, UFOcon, Nov 1, 2011
Anthony Bragalia should have been invited to join the dream team. He is one researcher who has discovered some important Roswell minutiae over the past few years.Moreover, Anthony Bragalia has recently found some revelatory and truly significant material – no, not about nitinol (that so-called memory metal).If what Mr. Bragalia has found turns out to be as real as it seems to be, Roswell may become as relevant, as some think it is, to the UFO enigma.I cannot disclose what Mr. Bragalia has uncovered in his exhaustive research; that is for him to do.But I assure you, that what he’s stumbled upon is not trivial and opens cans of worms that will cause some in the government, if its disclosed, to fill their pants with merde. I do not exaggerate here.So, dream team? Without Bragalia it’s just dreaming…RR
2012 Article Index
- Got any links? Please send them or post them in the comments for our review.
2013 Article Index
- Roswell and the Quest for Physical Evidence by Anthony Bragalia – February 17, 2013
- The Rumored “New Roswell Evidence” by Anonymous – UfoCon, September 24, 2013
- Kevin Randle: Not involved in investigation of slides by Jack Brewer – September 25, 2013
- The Roswell “Dream Team” Nightmare – Paul Kimball, September 26, 2013
- Authentic Alien Images From Roswell Finally Found? by Anthony Bragalia – Friday, September 27, 2013 (archive / archive)
- The Roswell Slides: My Perspective by Nick Redfern – September 27, 2013
- The Roswell Dream Team, Donald Schmitt, and the Broken Ethical Compass of Ufology – Paul Kimball, September 29, 2013
- Death of a Dream – Kevin Randle, October 03, 2013
- Death of a Dream… by self-inflicted wounds – Paul Kimball, October 04, 2013
- The chainsaw blues By Billy Cox, Herald-Tribune / Wednesday, October 9, 2013
You may have read about the latest Roswell controversy involving two Kodachrome slides rumored to show a dead alien recovered from the alleged 1947 crash site. The reason we’re hearing about it now is that a member of the small informal group of researchers — known as the “Roswell Dream Team,” an extremely unfortunate moniker — shared information with a trigger-happy outside player, and the whole thing blew up on the Internet before their investigation was complete. It’s easy to get lost in the details, but team member Kevin Randle issued a mea culpa summary last week. – Billy Cox, De Void
- Do Slides From 1947 Show a Roswell Humanoid? A Geologist’s Secret Exposed by Anthony Bragalia, Nov. 10, 2013
2014 Article Index
- Roswell UFO researcher claims to have picture of aliens by Alejandro Rojas, November 13, 2014
- Now let’s see them pix!!! by Billy Cox, Herald-Tribune, November 20, 2014
- American University Visits UFO Fantasyland – Bad UFOs: Skepticism, UFOs, and The Universe by Robert Sheaffer / Debunker.com, November 23, 2014
- UFO Author Hacked in Effort to Obtain Roswell Evidence by Anthony Bragalia – Anthony Bragalia, the Roswell Slides and the UFO Community, November 25, 2014
2015 Article Index
- Roswell Slides: An Update – The Public Reveal of the Roswell Alien Slides by Anthony Bragalia – February 01, 2015 (Kevin Randle’s blog)
- Roswell UFO alien photo details revealed (Videos) by Alejandro Rojas, February 4, 2015
- Roswell Slides and the Video Clips – Kevin Randle, February 07, 2015
- The petroleum geologist’s tale by Billy Cox, Herald-Tribune / Monday, February 9, 2015
- Roswell Slides Today’s (February 10) Update – Kevin Randle, February 12, 2015
- Roswell Slides – Adam Dew on WGN (Chicago) February 19, 2015
- WGN – Vivian Maier Meets the X-Files: Has Chicago Man Uncovered Secret Alien Pics? (Video), February 19th, 2015
- The Roswell Slides and Me – Kevin Randle, February 27, 2015
- The “Roswell Slides” Witness – Paul Kimball, February 27, 2015
- “Roswell Alien Slides” owner speaks out by Alejandro Rojas, March 4, 2015
- Adam Dew… Wrong Again! Paul Kimball, March 05, 2015
- The Roswell Slides and a Little Hypocrisy – Kevin Randle, March 05, 2015
- The Roswell Slides and Mummies – Anthony Bragalia, March 09, 2015
- “Roswell Slides” or Fraud Prints? by Curt Collins, March 16, 2015
- The Roswell Slides – A Matter of Provenance – Kevin Randle, March 18, 2015
- SUNlite Volume 7 Number 2 – March-April 2015, Tim Printy – AstronomyUFO.com, UFOs, SUNlite eJournal (USA, New Hampshire)
- Anatomy of a PR Debacle by Bryce Zabel, May 7, 2015
- ‘Roswell Slide’ Revealed to be Mummified Boy, Coast to Coast AM, May 11, 2015
- SUNlite Volume 7 Number 4 July-August 2015, Tim Printy – AstronomyUFO.com, UFOs, SUNlite eJournal (USA, New Hampshire)
2016 Index
Roswell in the 21st Century by Kevin D. Randle
- Roswell in the 21st Century – The Index, Kevin Randle, A Different Perspective
- The Roswell Slides – Who Got the Five Grand? Kevin Randle, A Different Perspective
The Slide Promoters

- Catherine “Cat” Cecilia Beason – Identified by Adam Dew as the discoverer of the slides (Video @ 56 minute mark)
- Joseph Beason – Brother of Catherine, friend and business associate of Adam Dew (See NevadaCorporates.com Info)
- Adam Dew – Sports Highlights Video Producer: VarsityTape.com (VarsityTape & PrepVideoPros on YouTube / Vimeo) & PrepChannel.com
“There was a major respectable U.S. monthly magazine that wanted to publish the slides years ago, but they weren’t offering any money and we wanted to at least find a way to bring some bit of funding into this project. People talk about these substantial packages and I just roll my eyes and laugh about what people think is the kind of money that’s involved in this. This has been a process that has cost me money out of my pocket, and I would certainly like to tell my wife that we at least broke even on this in the worst case scenario,” says Dew [OpenMinds.TV]
- Conferencia de Prensa Jaime Maussan beWITNESS / Sé Testigo Auditorio Nacional – Duration: 1:40:41. by tercermilenio
- Adam Dew, el encuentro de la evidencia / Adam Dew, the meeting of evidence – Duration: 3:11. by tercermilenio


- Now let’s see them pix!!! by Billy Cox, Herald-Tribune, November 20, 2014
- UFO Author Hacked in Effort to Obtain Roswell Evidence by Anthony Bragalia – Anthony Bragalia, the Roswell Slides and the UFO Community, November 25, 2014
- Kodachrome – A Documentary – Official Trailer (Video) – Feb. 4, 2015
- Roswell alien photo sneak peek by Alejandro Rojas, February 12, 2015
- RSRG Formed – Informal Facebook group, Roswell Slides Research Group, suggested by José Antonio Caravaca, Feb. 12, 2015
- Spying on the Roswell Slides by Nick Redfern, February 13, 2015
- Whatever Happened To The Roswell Slides? All About Occult – Ritoban Mukherjee Mar 8, 2015
- The So-Called “Roswell Slides” and Mexico City: Why I am Going – Richard Dolan, March 8, 2015
- [Eli Benjamin (Roswell first-hand witness) (Video uploaded Dec. 2010) – Richard Dolan’s previous interview with alleged Roswell crash body witness]
- ¿Es Esta Momia El Famoso “Extraterrestre” De Las Diapositivas De Roswell? José Antonio Caravaca, March 25, 2015
- Stan Friedman says “No” to involvement in Roswell slides May 5th circus – March 28, 2015
- Too Hasty on the Roswell Slides? – Nick Redfern, March 15, 2015
- Roswell Slides: A Murky Development – Nick Redfern, March 16, 2015
- Hilda Ray, Silas Newton and the Roswell Slides – Kevin Randle, March 16, 2015
- Link found tying Bernerd/Hilda Ray to the Aztec, NM UFO story? – Tim Hebert, March 16, 2015
- Roswell vs. Aztec – Kevin Randle, May 21, 2015
- Is This Mummy The Famous Alien In The Roswell Slides? by José Antonio Caravaca – March 25, 2015
- (Mobile Spanish version: Esos Misteriosos Objetos Celestes y sus Tripulantes)
Jaime Maussan’s Cinco de Mayo in Mexico
#BeWitness – May 5th 2015



Adam Dew: “So really where should the slides be right now?”
Catherine Beason: “In the dump.”



- Tom Carey describes testimony about the alleged beings appearance as a “Child of the Earth / Jerusalem Cricket” (Video @1:13:45)
- Roswell Slides and the “Ant People” by Nick Redfern, April 21, 2015 (Critique of Ufological analysis of “Ant People”)
- Too Hasty on the Roswell Slides? by Nick Redfern – March 15, 2015
Maybe, then, the creatures weren’t extraterrestrial. Maybe they were from…below.Something akin to Mac Tonnies’ Cryptoterrestrials theory… – Nick Redfern

- Dr. David Rudiak – Expert in Photographic Analysis
- Dr. Donald Burleson – Professor Specializing in Computer Enhancement
- Ray Downing of Studio MacBeth in New York – Shroud of Turin Analysis
- Col. Jeffrey Thau – Sent the Placard to Pentagon Photo Interpretation Department
. . .
To: SMiles Lewis <elfis@____>
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: Photographic Interpretation Services Attributed to Jeffrey Thau
. . .
Tom Carey also mentioned “the people at Adobe, Inc.” in his statement. Name-dropping without presenting any report, not even a short letter from them, detailing their methodology and opinion, is an indication that insufficient analysis work was done.
Dr. David Rudiak wrote on Kevin Randle’s blog that he “had no success with the previous deblurring programs he used.” From the information provided by Dr. Donald R. Burleson on his Facebook page, it appears that he simply sharpened, color-inverted and contrasted a rather low resolution image of the placard (765×280 pixels). Studio MacBeth (the company in New York in Tom Carey’s statement) has retracted the use of their name as an analyst.
Some people, including myself, who knew about state-of-the-art deblurring software, expected that the placard could be read. Robert Hastings warned in an article published on March 8th, 2015 that the “Roswell Slides time bomb is ticking”
- Analysis of the “Roswell Slides” (FAQ) – 18 May 15
Mystery Solved Within Hours
With SmartDeblur Software
Adam Dew accuses RSRG of Faking Results
MUMMIFIED BODY OF TWO YEAR OLD BOY
At the time of burial the body was clothed in a slip-over cotton
shirt. Burial wrappings consisted of three small cotton blankets.
Loaned by Mr. S. L. Palmer, San Francisco, California.
The Roswell Slides Research Group are:
- José Antonio Caravaca – Esos Misteriosos Objetos Celestes y sus Tripulantes (Spain)
- Isaac Koi – IsaacKoi.com (England)
- Nab Lator – Nabbed! (France)
- Lance Moody – NotAGhost.com (USA, Ohio)
- Tim Printy – AstronomyUFO.com, UFOs, SUNlite eJournal (USA, New Hampshire)
- Curt Collins – BlueBlurryLines.com (USA, Mississippi)
- Tim Hebert – DidItReallyHappen (USA, California)
- Paul Kimball – The Other Side of Truth / Red Star Films, Paul Kimball Media (Canada, Nova Scotia)
- Gilles Fernandez – Sceptiques vs. les Soucoupes Volantes (France)
- Chris Rutkowski – Ufology Research (Canada, Manitoba)
- Roger Glassel – @RogerGlassel (Sweden)
- S. Miles Lewis – AnomalyArchives.org / SMilesLewis.com (USA, Texas)
- Jeff Ritzmann – Paranormal Waypoint (USA, Maryland)
Thanks to our colleagues and associates Alejandro Espino, “Trained Observer”, Philippe Hernandez, Aaron John Gulyas, Irna France, Nick Redfern, and Fin Handley, as well as many, many more who offered help.
More Corroborating Evidence of the Mummy Having Resided at Mesa Verde


Public Apologies / Statements
- Adam Dew & Crew – Deleted Accusations then Silence (But his main biz gig is still going: VarsityTape & PrepVideoPros on YouTube and Vimeo)
- Jaime Maussan – Digging-In / Holding-out Hope:
- Tom Carey – Disbelief / Holding-out Hope: Roswell Slides Statement by Tom Carey with Note from Don Schmitt, May 12, 2015
- Don Schmitt – Apology: A Final Fatal Statement about the Roswell Slides: Statement from Donald R. Schmitt, May 14, 2015
Don Schmitt on May 14: I now realize that the image in the slides is a mummy as specified by the display placard. At this time I consider the matter concluded and intend on moving forward.
- Anthony Bragalia – Profuse Apology (To Some) & Donation to Charity: Tony Bragalia and the End of the Roswell Slides THE “ROSWELL ALIEN SLIDES” AND MY APOLOGY TO A DEAD CHILD OF THE MESA VERDE BY ANTHONY BRAGALIA, May 10, 2015
- Richard Dolan – Unapologetic Acceptance: Roswell Slides – Current Word, May 9, 2015
@BryceZabel May 6 – I was shown this so-called
#RoswellSlide months ago and asked to be part of the Mexico event. I just couldn’t do it. https://twitter.com/brycezabel/status/596150025534574593
The Fallout
- Bryce Zabel tweets about his being approached by the Slide Promoters – May 6, 2015
- Anatomy of a PR Debacle by Bryce Zabel, May 7, 2015
- New documentary claims Midland couple could hold key to aliens visiting Earth – Midland Reporter-Telegram, May 7, 2015
- The Roswell Slides Finally Solved? Nick Redfern, Mysterious Universe, May 8, 2015 (Video)
- The Last Not Roswell Slides Posting by Kevin Randle, May 11, 2015
- Fallout from the Fiasco by Kevin Randle, May 14, 2015
- The Backstage of the “Roswell slides” affair by Bryce Zabel (co-author with Richard Dolan of After Disclosure), May, 14 2015
- The Alien Mummy: The Oldest Hoax In UFO history by Theo Paijmans, May 15, 2015
- Roswell Alien Slides placard deciphered, says it is a mummy by Alejandro Rojas, May 19, 2015
- AU prof: The kids are alright by Billy Cox, Herald-Tribune, May 19, 2015
- Don Schmitt Back on Stage at MUFON PA by Jack Brewer / The UFO Trail, May 18, 2015
- A World Awakening: Author and UFO researcher Richard Dolan joins us!!, May 19, 2015
“It’s not even about learning the truth about aliens, who gives a shit” – Richard Dolan @37 min

Jaime Maussan Promotes Grave-Robbing?
Puts Out Bounty on Mummy!

Whitley Strieber … in Dreamland

Whitley,Ask and ye shall receive. http://slideboxmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/placard-TEXT1.jpgPaul Kimball
Whitley Strieber, Linda Moulton Howe, & Jaime Maussan
- The Roswell Slides – Whitley Strieber, May 6, 2015
- The Roswell Slides That Aren’t! by Nick Redfern, May 7, 2015
- Roswell Slides: Placard May Say It’s a 2 Year Old Human Child – Whitley Strieber, May 9, 2015
- Roswell Slides Appear to Be Mummy of a Native American Child – Whitley Strieber, May 12, 2015
- “The Most Astonishing Dreamland I have Ever Done”–Whitley Strieber / Unknown Country podcast (w/Jaime Maussan & Linda Howe), May 20, 20015 (MP3)
- Kodachrome Slide Controversy — “Alien Body” Does Not Match Entity Once Displayed in Closed Million Dollar Museum, White’s City, NM – Linda Moulton Howe, May 21, 2015
-
The hate mail comes rolling in. – Whitley’s Space, 05.21.15
The Biggest Problems with the Slides Saga…
- Provenance / Chain of Evidence – Lack of proof for backstory
- No Body to Examine – Images are all that is available (Science vs Speculation)
- Sloppy Investigation & Rampant Speculation
- Conflicting Claims Regarding Analysis of Body & Placard
- Problematic UFO Researchers / New Age Promoters
Provenance
“… the place of origin or earliest known history of something. … a record of ownership of a work of art or an antique, used as a guide to authenticity or quality.”

The Roswell Slides – A Matter of Provenance – Kevin Randle, March 18, 2015 …… February 20, 2015, Adam Dew, under the user name SlideBox Media, posted to Rich Reynolds UFO Conjectures blog the following:A quick timeline as I understand it: Hilda died in 1988. Slides were discovered when emptying out a garage outside of Sedona (Cottonwood we think) in 1998. Slides were deemed interesting (obviously old color slides) but not fully examined until around 2008. While I think that the home may have belonged to Hilda’s lawyer, there is no way to know for sure as the woman who found them [the slides] didn’t keep records of the homes she cleaned out… I don’t think the slides came from Hilda’s home.Could this be any vaguer? The home might have belonged to Hilda’s lawyer but they don’t know. The house might have been in Sedona, but they’re not sure. There is no way to verify whose house it was and there is little to link the slides to Hilda Ray other than some of the other slides were marked with her name. He doesn’t think they came from Hilda’s home.
Sloppy Investigation & Rampant Speculation
No Body to Examine / Just Pictures

On May 17th, during an interview in Cuarto Milenio, a Spanish TV program, Prof. Miguel Botella, anthropologist, Director of the Physical Anthropology Lab, University of Granada, Spain, presented as “an expert on mummies,” explained why he disagrees with the report by José de Jesús Zalce Benítez (video in Spanish). Analysis of the “Roswell Slides” (FAQ) – 18 May 15


Typical Weird-Body Hoaxes
- The Earth-like Mars By David Bressan, August 14, 2012 – Scientific American (blogs)
- The Alien Mummy: The Oldest Hoax In UFO history by Theo Paijmans, May 15, 2015

- The Minnesota Iceman: New Look At Old Exhibit by Dmitri Bayanov, International Center of Hominology Moscow, Russia
- The Long Lost “Minnesota Iceman” Resurfaces… in Austin, Texas! by Steve Busti, June 26, 2013
- MINNESOTA ICEMAN: Jul-Dec 2015, International Cryptozoology Museum, Portland, ME, on loan from Museum of the Weird. May 23, 2015




- Professor Bob’s Blieve It or Not! The strange and wonderful world of Professor Bob Slaughter, paleontologist, dreamer and “discoverer” of fairy fossils, demon footprints and leprechaun bones. Really. By Rod Davis – D Magazine June 1993

- Debunked! The FBI alien bodies memo – A case study in the reinvention of the wheel by Isaac Koi, Apr, 14 2011
- The Aztec UFO Scam – New Mexicans for Science and Reason
- Too Hasty on the Roswell Slides? – Nick Redfern, March 15, 2015
- Roswell Slides: A Murky Development – Nick Redfern, March 16, 2015
- Hilda Ray, Silas Newton and the Roswell Slides – Kevin Randle, March 16, 2015
- Link found tying Bernerd/Hilda Ray to the Aztec, NM UFO story? – Tim Hebert, March 16, 2015
-
Karl Pflock explains the Aztec UFO Hoax – YouTube – Paul Kimball


- What the WSJ didn’t tell you and the SEC needs to know. By Steve Kulls of SquatchDetective, April 25, 2015
- Bigfoot Showing at Alamo Drafthouse Angers Cryptozoologists By Jef Rouner Wednesday, February 5, 2014
- Autumn Williams’ Investigative Report: Anatomy of a Hoax – OregonBigfoot.com
- Fake Bigfoot On Ice – StrangeMag.com


Erich Von Daniken’s Legendary Times on the ‘Alien Atta’
- “Alien Embryo? Strange Creature Found in Chile’s La Noria Region” pages 10-11, Sources: Rense.com, mysteries-magazin.com, unsolved-mysteries.net / (#33 & #34) Vol. 7 No. 2 & 3 PDF VERSION – Legendary Times Books.

- Some “Starchild” Feedback by Brian Dunning – , Mar 19 2009 – March 10 episode of my Skeptoid podcast
Pye even had a DNA test done on the skull, which confirmed that it was boringly human (read the complete analysis here):
The sample taken from the Starchild Skull (SCS-1) has mtDNA consistent with Native American haplogroup C, as revealed through two independent extractions performed on fragments of parietal bone.
So I got an email from Mr. Pye after the episode came out, and it was clear that he disagrees with my conclusions, to put it mildly. His email was quite lengthy, and I won’t attempt to reproduce the whole thing. He did make a few valid points, and a lot of invalid ones. For example, I mentioned that the skull had been found in a cave:
A MINE TUNNEL, NOT A CAVE. WE’VE BEEN CLEAR ABOUT THAT FACT FROM DAY ONE. THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR THIS MISTAKE BY NOVELLA OR ANYONE ELSE.
- Alien Mummies Revealed On The Science Channel: Hoax Or Reality – , December 2, 2012
The program, which first aired earlier this week on the Science Channel, examines several recent cases of purported alien remains that have attracted world wide attention. Alien Mummies visited Metepec, Mexico, a small village in Central Mexico where a now infamous sample of alien remains first appeared in 2007.
A Mexican rancher named Marao Lopez claimed to find the 19 inch tall creature still alive in a trap. Instead of keeping the animal alive as a captured alien, Lopez inexplicably decided to drown the creature.
The case will be examined in detail along with several others on Alien Mummies. We won’t spoil the entire program for you, but we will tell you that the Metepec Alien is a very sick and cruel hoax. Independent investigators are convinced the alien is actually a poor little Squirrel Monkey who was skinned with some of its muscles removed. Now known to debunkers as the “Screamin’ Demon of Metepec,” the Metepec Mummy is a full-fledged, card carrying member of the UFO Hall of Shame.

- Grave Robbing for Fun and Profit (on James Moseley) by Curt Collins, May 26, 2015
- Found Him! Watch in Horror as Bigfoot Hunters Pass Off a Human Corpse as a Sasquatch Body By Greg Newkirk, June 4, 2015
Conflicting Claims Regarding Analysis of Body & Placard


Problematic UFO Researchers

- Jamie Maussan – UfoWatchdog.com / Ufo Watchdog Blog
- Don Schmitt – Discredited / Falling-Out with Kevin Randle in 1995.
- Tom Carey –
- Richard Dolan –
- James Hurtak –
The Roswell Slides
The “Roswell Slides” are images that a group of UFO promoters – including Anthony Bragalia, Jaime Maussan, Adam Dew, Donald Schmitt, Tom Carey, and Richard Dolan – put forward at an event held on May 5, 2015, in Mexico City, as proof positive of an extraterrestrial crash at Roswell in 1947 and the recovery and cover-up by the US government of alien bodies. These are claims that most of the aforementioned group have been making for over two years now. They have repeatedly said that the best experts they could find were examining the slides, and that they had determined the slides showed a creature that was of unearthly origin.
Nothing could be further from the truth. As many skeptics have been saying since the first rough image of one of the slides was procured several months ago as a screen capture from a promotional video released by Dew, the figure photographed and shown in the slides is almost certainly a mummified body.
We can now remove the word “almost” from the aforementioned sentence. The key to solving the mystery was in the placard seen in the slides in front of the body, a placard that the slides promoters assured everyone could not be deciphered despite extensive examination. Here is what Don Schmitt said on April 12, 2015:
This will be part of the event, part of the program in May, that all of these analytical reports, all of the analyses, all of the main experts as well as the photographic experts who examined- there’s a placard, very fuzzy, that can not be legibly read by the naked eye, yet we’ve had everyone from Dr. David Rudiak, to Studio MacBeth, even the Photo Interpretation Department of the Pentagon, as well as Adobe have all told us that it’s beyond the pale, that it cannot be read, it is totally up to interpretation.So, we truly feel we have performed due diligence; we have done everything we can to substantiate and prove what is contained within these slides, whether it is something of a human malady or something truly extraordinary.
It took us just a few hours to prove otherwise, once we received a high resolution copy of one of the slides (note: while our copy came from an inside source within the promoters’ group, slides promoter Adam Dew has now released it as well).
By using the commercially available SmartDeblur, a member of our group (Nab Lator), was able to significantly clear up the blurred text. Other members of the group helped narrow down the actual words.The first line was the most clearly resolved:
MUMMIFIED BODY OF TWO YEAR OLD BOY
There is no reasonable doubt that this is the true and correct text.
The other three lines of the text are more difficult to decipher, but seem to say something like:
MUMMIFIED BODY OF TWO YEAR OLD BOY
At the time of burial the body was clothed in a slip-over cotton
shirt. Burial wrappings consisted of three small cotton blankets.
Loaned by Mr. S. L. Palmer, San Francisco, California.
The entire effort only took hours, quite a difference from the “years” of research claimed by the slides promoters. The fact that the promoters did not release proper high resolution scans of the slides made our work more difficult, but in the end it was still relatively easy to decipher the key parts of the image.
The mystery of the placard is solved, and so is the nature of the body.
It was a boy, from Earth.
The question that remains is whether or not the Slides promoters have been deliberately deceiving the public in order to profit financially, or whether they were simply incompetent. Perhaps it was a mixture of both. Either way, their credibility as investigators and researchers has been destroyed.
The Roswell Slides Research Group are:
José Antonio Caravaca
Isaac Koi
Nab Lator
Lance Moody
Tim Printy
Curt Collins
Tim Hebert
Paul Kimball
Gilles Fernandez
Chris Rutkowski
Roger Glassel
S. Miles Lewis
Jeff Ritzmann
Thanks to our colleagues and associates Alejandro Espino, “Trained Observer”, Philippe Hernandez, Aaron John Gulyas, Irna France, Nick Redfern, and Fin Handley, as well as many, many more who offered help.
Ufologists Doubt “Roswell Slides” Show Aliens
Files:
- Analysis of the “Roswell Slides” (FAQ) – (printout circa 18 May 15)
- “Time line for slide deblurring (all times EDT) (draft later revised)
- SUNlite Volume 7 Number 2 – March-April 2015, Tim Printy – AstronomyUFO.com, UFOs, SUNlite eJournal (USA, New Hampshire)
- SUNlite Volume 7 Number 4 July-August 2015, Tim Printy – AstronomyUFO.com, UFOs, SUNlite eJournal (USA, New Hampshire)
Awesome job! Important work to show not only the timeline, but the anatomy of this fraud. Well done!
Great Timeline..and contributes substantially to scraping off the commercial aspects which the landlords and gatekeepers of the grand circus tent of ufology have been exploiting for decades, It is what it is. What worries me is not the decline of ufology and Blurrology but the devolution of science fiction. There seems o be a lack of ideas as the same material and themes keep repeating themselves..You may find that evident in Whitleys ,probably dependent on UFO forums for his scripts, as well as Lnda who really by now should stay away from photo forensics, way out of her league and exemplified by holding back alleged hi rez pix of an alien drone in the CARET hoax of 2007 to this very day and refuses to answer questions..like ….where are they?
This happened during the age of witch hunts that created considerable employment for a lot of people and when it passed, so did the jobs for torture tool makers and craftsman, devil hunters, carpenters, traveling hudges with their monile offices and kangaroo courts..etc a self perpetuating cottage industry.
Its well said that history repeats itself, and on many occasions even rhymes so apt here as well.
One of the few things about believers ,skeptics writers..alike like Frank, Whitley and Jim Marrs we can find common ground..are their taste in hats .
They are so …awesome! But I digress..
Thanx for a great blog writeup and thanx to JJ at Ufotrails for the heads up.
Cheers
Manny
aka sysconfig
Jack Brewer @TheUFOTrai
https://twitter.com/TheUFOTrail/status/602178114949636096
Curt Collins said “When the history of the Roswell Slides is written, this page will be a primary resource.”
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=839874109433057&id=554336521320152
If the perpetrators of this saga would have done 1/10 the work you put into this timeline, perhaps the fiasco could have been avoided. But, then again, how much money would be made if they actually did their due diligence. Also, several of the players were obviously looking for down-the-line money from this hoax, in the form of books and more “honorariums” for their appearance at ufo conferences.
And yes, your work here should be the go-to resource for all those who want to study and understand how this hoax matriculated, from A to Z.
Nick Redfern said “If you want the full story/timeline on the “Roswell Slides” controversy, check out this link from Stephen Miles Lewis who has done an excellent job of putting it all together”
https://www.facebook.com/nick.redfern.73/posts/10153850937455288
Thanks for including my work 🙂
Here’s my personal brush with the slides in an essay posted on LInkedIn: http://bit.ly/Alien-Slide
Bryce, I see that you were the only person involved who named Joseph Beason. Did you have any contact with him, or do you know what role he played from the shadows?
La Momia de Palmer-Wetherrill, 1896.
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Diferentes momias y ninguna al espécimen no humano de be witness.
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