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The Ramey Memo

FILE DATE 1947

CROSS-REFS 01

STATUS NEVER CLOSED

SUMMARY

A general holds a telegram in the Roswell photo. Enhancement wars rage over six words.

FULL DOSSIER

The Ramey Memo: in the famous July 8, 1947 press photo of General Roger Ramey posing with the 'weather balloon' debris, he holds a telegram facing the camera. Decades of forensic enlargement have produced contested readings — some claim the phrase 'victims of the wreck.' The photo is documented and archived at the University of Texas at Arlington; no reading has survived independent analysis. A perfect artifact: an actual piece of paper in the actual room, forever one resolution short of settling anything.

SOURCES ON RECORD

01Ramey/Marcel press photos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram (July 8, 1947), UTA Special Collections

02Rudiak Ramey Memo analyses

03Pflock, Roswell: Inconvenient Facts (2001)

CROSS-REFERENCED FILES

ROSWELL, 1947

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