Roger Ramey
Air Force general linked to Roswell (1947) and the 1952 briefing
- Born
- September 9, 1903, Emblem, Texas
- Died
- 1963
- Commands
- Eighth Air Force, 1947–1950; Fifth Air Force from 1954
- Post in 1952
- Air Force Director of Operations
- UFO links
- Roswell 1947 press photos; July 1952 Pentagon briefing
Air Force general whose Fort Worth office called the Roswell debris a weather balloon in 1947 and who joined the 1952 Pentagon UFO briefing.
What is Roger Ramey known for?
Roger Maxwell Ramey was a bomber commander in the Pacific in World War II. He commanded the Eighth Air Force from January 1947 to May 1950, served as Air Force Director of Operations from 1950 to 1954, and then led the Fifth Air Force in the Far East.
In July 1947, when the Roswell Army Air Field announced it had recovered a 'flying disc', the debris was flown to Ramey's Eighth Air Force headquarters in Fort Worth. Ramey's office identified it as a weather balloon and radar target, and he was photographed with the material. The Air Force later said the debris came from Project Mogul, a classified balloon program. Believers in a crash cover-up have long focused on the paper Ramey holds in those photos.
On July 29, 1952, Ramey joined John Samford at the Pentagon press conference on the Washington, D.C., sightings, described as the largest since World War II.
Appeared with John Samford at the July 1952 Pentagon UFO press conference.
Mentioned on these pages
- Rabbit holeThe 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO Sightings
- PersonJohn Samford
Sources
- U.S. Air Force, 'Lt. Gen. Roger M. Ramey' (biography)Primary text
- Wikipedia, '1952 Washington, D.C., UFO incident'Reference
- Wikipedia, 'Roger M. Ramey'Reference
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