From Roswell, New Mexico, to Cleburne, Texas:
They called them, "Weather Balloons."
By Jason Leigh
The TV-News interviews which I have given over this past year, all wanted to concern the interview (and themselves) with the broad-daylight footage from June the 11th, 1995--not with the ten days earlier nighttime footage from June the 1st, of the gigantic UFO with the five to eleven smaller objects zipping downwards and upwards at great speeds (from the larger object) captured on 8mm videotape by this former professional News E.N.G. photographer . . .
Could you speculate, that if he were a former professional: that he could've hoaxed this video, although he has not been inside of a TV station for eleven years? But what if this video were compared to the NASA footage from the Space Shuttle Discovery taped on September 15, 1991, of many objects making impossible 90 degree turns and traveling at fantastic speeds which are unbelievable in today's technology, or even within a technology of 100 to 1,000 years from now?
Is seeing, believing--for you?
Having worked in TV-News, and being knowledgeable as to how competitive stations arrange their news stories, sports segments, and their weather segments; I set about videotaping, on the night of June the 1st., 1995, the 10p.m. News from the three major network affiliates in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. I was concerned with any news about the gigantic, UFO. . . At the beginning of each broadcast, they included "news-teasers" of "coming-up" stories. All three stations related the large object in the sky was a "weather balloon" and would be explained by the Meteorologists. With that, I knew which station to record first, second and third:
First came CBS: "It was a 'weather balloon' launched by the Weather Service."
Second came ABC: "It was just a 'weather balloon,' folks." (No mention as to who launched this supposed, 'weather balloon').
Third came NBC: "It was several 'weather balloons' launched by the Federal Balloon Agency to study the upper level winds."
I could not believe it. CBS and NBC gave two different names for the supposed agency who had presumably launched the fictitious "weather balloon," or "balloons." There is an actual agency (as I found out myself) which does launch weather balloons, down in the small town of Palestine, Texas, which is about 100 miles SE from Dallas, or about 115 miles ESE from Cleburne. The agency is called, "The National Balloon Base." In the month of June, 1995, the jet-stream winds were located along the Canadian border, over 1200 miles north from north Texas. Fort Worth is about 35 miles west of Dallas, Cleburne is 33 miles SSW from Fort Worth. Dallas is 66 miles to the NE from Cleburne. Rule-out "weather balloons" all together. To recapitulate:
1.) The jet-stream winds are 3 to 5 miles above the surface of land. These winds push weather balloons laterally, on a horizontal-plane.
2.) Weather balloons can not, "hover-in-place," for any amount of time; most certainly, not for over seven hours. If these balloons should begin to lose altitude from depletion of the hot-air within, they are remotely issued a, "fuel-burn," which then provides heat to within the balloon, allowing it to ascend at its prescribed rate of up to 200 feet per minute. As we all know from early childhood: Heat rises.
3.) It is against Federal and State Laws to fly a weather balloon over, "populated areas." Although helium is not flammable, when mixed with hydrogen and butane, the resulting fire is termed a, "flash-fire." If contained within a pressurized tank: a flash-fire then becomes an immense--shock-explosion . . .
4.) The Balloon Bases in the northern American U.S. states launch their balloons when the jet-stream winds are up in that area, and they in turn share the information with the other states.
5.) A weather balloon can not travel laterally without winds to push it along. How could a weather balloon travel 1200 miles to the north of Palestine, Texas, without these winds to push it that far? What if it crashed into a house in another state?
6.) There is, of course, a limited range to electronic remote-control. But, everyone knows that. Your cordless telephone has a limited range, just as your cell-phone does, or even a CB radio, or a car radio . . .
7.) I was told by the National Balloon Base in Palestine, Texas, that the recovery process of their balloons takes place outside of Waco (65 miles SSE from Cleburne) on privately owned government lands of about 65 fenced-in-acres, and far enough away in the country to be distanced from populated areas. They are retrieved by a Helicopter crew of four to six people.
So, why did the TV stations lie to us? Public panic over a gigantic, UFO?
I was told privately, from a TV-News producer, that there had been a, "No Flights," order issued to the TV stations with helicopters from the Air Force. That was why they could not fly up to the supposed, weather balloon, and show to the public on live-TV what a weather balloon looks like before it crashes into a neighborhood, with a 1600lb payload and a classified amount of highly flammable butane-hydrogen, mixed with helium. Why not? They show us live shoot-outs, burning buildings with real people jumping-out to their deaths, body-bags, car crashes with blood on the streets; so why not show us a gigantic UFO from another world? Could they have been afraid that the UFO may shoot them down from the sky for coming too close? Couldn't it also be said (in their defense) that their "News copter" could have also, on the other hand, crashed into a looming weather balloon (which is against Federal Laws to fly over populated areas) which has a strobe-identification-light on it's bottom side--which is worth well over one million dollars and is electronically remote-controlled from the ground--which soars straight up vertically to the jet-stream winds (when the jet-stream winds are in that area, at that time of year) at the rate of a mere 200 feet per minute, being then carried off laterally by the prevailing winds, not to remain "hovering in place" for well over seven hours--which the jet-stream winds wouldn't have even been in the north Texas area, but up near Canada on June 1, 1995--which is very similar in nature to what they told all of those dejected people in Roswell, New Mexico in July of 1947, who all knew better--which was a BS story presented as a "dog and pony show" from the very beginning.
They called them, "Weather Balloons," because, they could not tell us the truth, inasmuch as they did not know what the gigantically colorful UFO was, nor what its intentions were. But, we all love dogs and ponies. Don't we?
The people of Roswell, New Mexico have been living with their collective black-eye weather balloon since 1947 to now, regarding what I consider an actual crash of a spaceship from another world. The people of Cleburne, Texas have an undeniable videotape and sworn testimony of spaceships from another world, that the media called, " weather balloons." 'Sound like 'sister cities' in the making?
Once I was given interviews on TV-News: they would only agree to do the interview if we stuck to the broad-daylight footage from June the 11th, 1995 (ten days later), because, it is so obviously--not a weather balloon. Despite all of my factual findings and objective research which proved that the UFO was indeed a spaceship from another world: they left it, "Up to you, the viewer, to decide."
So, what do you decide to believe? Block Buster Sci-Fi movies, written off as being only a movie, or based upon the facts and what appears on videotape, before your very eyes?
~ This seventh article in the series, "Filming UFOs," is dedicated to the people of Roswell, New Mexico--both the living--and the dearly departed--from July, 1947 and into the future--when their truth will be known throughout the world. ~
Peace in numbers--Jason
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(c) 1997 By Jason Leigh
