Posted: 6/11/2009 7:07:31 PM EDT
| Anyone here ever wonder what was said to the rancher Mac Brazell? From my understanding he had something good to say but was nudged, not to say anything? |
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Anyone here ever wonder what was said to the rancher Mac Brazell? From my understanding he had something good to say but was nudged, not to say anything? I've been reliably told it was... "Ya know, if we play this right, the town can suck MILLIONS out of idiots from across the country". 
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Anyone here ever wonder what was said to the rancher Mac Brazell? From my understanding he had something good to say but was nudged, not to say anything? I've been reliably told it was... "Shhh, if we play this right, the town can suck MILLIONS out of idiots from across the country". I understand that but I wonder if it is like MIB, like threats of death to keep quiet or what? |
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Back in 1993, I was working for a security company right after I got out of the Army. I filled in at a lot of different sites. One place I worked the regular guy grew up in Roswell. At the time I hadn't heard anything about it. He started telling me all about the case. His dad was friends with the owner of the local mortuary. The one who delivered child size coffins to the base. We spent a shift where he regaled me with the whole darn thing. He told me about folks that knew stuff, that had seen stuff and were told by the Army to keep their mouths shut or they'd go missing in the desert.
At the time I thought he was  , and I just kind of forgot about it.
Many years later I was watching one of those "documentaries" about the crash and the story the people were telling was the same one I heard that night. Maybe it was all just local legend by then but... |
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Anyone here ever wonder what was said to the rancher Mac Brazell? From my understanding he had something good to say but was nudged, not to say anything? I've been reliably told it was... "Ya know, if we play this right, the town can suck MILLIONS out of idiots from across the country". how is it any dumber than any other national attraction? |
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Anyone here ever wonder what was said to the rancher Mac Brazell? From my understanding he had something good to say but was nudged, not to say anything? I've been reliably told it was... "Shhh, if we play this right, the town can suck MILLIONS out of idiots from across the country". I understand that but I wonder if it is like MIB, like threats of death to keep quiet or what? Well, it could be. I wasn't around in 1947, and don't know what the .mil politics were like back then. When I was in the USAF circa 1990, the politics within the Wing officer corps were incredibly vicious. Numerous times I was told by senior officers to keep my mouth shut about scandalous/criminal conduct or would be personally destroyed, like they had done to other officers, including full bird colonels. Of course, the news usually, somehow, leaked out, and someone sent lots of anonymous letters to the SAC IG. 
I was never seriously attacked. I knew how to play the game, and eventually amassed enough evidence to end the careers of quite a few Wing Kings, so they never tried to carry out their threats Several officers did "disappear overnight" because of behavior that was embarrassing to the Wing, and that could not be covered up. We all assumed they got immediate orders to Shemya or some other hellhole. No one publicly ever asked why, because it was a subject the Wing wanted buried, and trying to unearth those skeletons was hazardous to your career/health. Having a senior officer threaten to make you "disappear" was a threat to be taken seriously. I don't recall anyone ever dying under suspicious circumstances, but there were a lot of little Adolphs running around demanding to be treated like a god. |
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Anyone here ever wonder what was said to the rancher Mac Brazell? From my understanding he had something good to say but was nudged, not to say anything? I've been reliably told it was... "Shhh, if we play this right, the town can suck MILLIONS out of idiots from across the country". I understand that but I wonder if it is like MIB, like threats of death to keep quiet or what? Well, it could be. I wasn't around in 1947, and don't know what the .mil politics were like back then. When I was in the USAF circa 1990, the politics within the Wing officer corps were incredibly vicious. Numerous times I was told by senior officers to keep my mouth shut about scandalous/criminal conduct or would be personally destroyed, like they had done to other officers, including full bird colonels. Of course, the news usually, somehow, leaked out, and someone sent lots of anonymous letters to the SAC IG.
I was never seriously attacked. I knew how to play the game, and eventually amassed enough evidence to end the careers of quite a few Wing Kings, so they never tried to carry out their threats Several officers did "disappear overnight" because of behavior that was embarrassing to the Wing, and that could not be covered up. We all assumed they got immediate orders to Shemya or some other hellhole. No one publicly ever asked why, because it was a subject the Wing wanted buried, and trying to unearth those skeletons was hazardous to your career/health. Having a senior officer threaten to make you "disappear" was a threat to be taken seriously. I don't recall anyone ever dying under suspicious circumstances, but there were a lot of little Adolphs running around demanding to be treated like a god. Would you care to elaborate via IM, just perhaps a news story or something along those lines? If not its cool, and certainly very interesting. Did it impact your choice to leave the AF? |