Affidavit of Thomas Jefferson DuBose

In this affidavit, Thomas Jefferson DuBose, a retired Brigadier General of the U.S. Air Force, provides a personal account of events occurring in July 1947. At the time, DuBose served as Chief of Staff to Major General Roger Ramey, Commander of the Eighth Air Force, stationed at Fort Worth Army Air Field. DuBose recounts receiving a telephone call from General Clements McMullen, Deputy Commander of the Strategic Air Command, regarding an object recovered outside Roswell, New Mexico. Following this communication, DuBose instructed Colonel William Blanchard, the Base Commander at Roswell Army Air Field, to take possession of the material and transport it to Fort Worth. Subsequently, DuBose directed that the material be sent via personal courier to General Benjamin Chidlaw, Commanding General of the Air Materiel Command at Wright Field. DuBose explicitly states that the photographs of a weather balloon, which were presented to the press at the time, served as a cover story to divert public and media attention away from the actual flying saucer material.