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Roswell: The Ultimate Cold Case: Eyewitness Testimony and Evidence of Contact and the Cover-Up
Two of the world's leading investigators declare definitively that the Roswell Incident happen and present their closing arguments.
For more than 70 years, the crash at Roswell and its ensuing controversies and cover-ups have been investigated and yet despite continually mounting evidence there are still disbilievers. Roswell: The Ultimate Cold Case is Carey and Schmitt’s final and commanding word on the case in which they declare victory once and for all.
The government has changed their official story on Roswell more than a dozen times, but the witnesses have not recanted. The evidence has not gone away. And won’t go away. The Roswell Incident is the most hotly debated and investigated UFO crashed in history with a never seeming end of evidence of eyewitness coming forward even years later. Finally, late in life people feel safe enough or feel a duty bound to reveal what they know, saw, and heard.
Roswell: The Ultimate Cold Case will bring all new exclusive eye witness testimonies to light as well as cover the:
Connection of astronauts Edgar Mitchell and Neil Armstrong to Roswell.
Connection of Clinton, Carter, Goldwater, Schiff, and Richardson to Roswell.
First time artist conception of impact site with craft and bodies based on firsthand testimony.
First time full-size model of crash survivor based on eyewitness testimony.
And more eyewitness corroboration....
For more than 70 years, the crash at Roswell and its ensuing controversies and cover-ups have been investigated and yet despite continually mounting evidence there are still disbilievers. Roswell: The Ultimate Cold Case is Carey and Schmitt’s final and commanding word on the case in which they declare victory once and for all.
The government has changed their official story on Roswell more than a dozen times, but the witnesses have not recanted. The evidence has not gone away. And won’t go away. The Roswell Incident is the most hotly debated and investigated UFO crashed in history with a never seeming end of evidence of eyewitness coming forward even years later. Finally, late in life people feel safe enough or feel a duty bound to reveal what they know, saw, and heard.
Roswell: The Ultimate Cold Case will bring all new exclusive eye witness testimonies to light as well as cover the:
Connection of astronauts Edgar Mitchell and Neil Armstrong to Roswell.
Connection of Clinton, Carter, Goldwater, Schiff, and Richardson to Roswell.
First time artist conception of impact site with craft and bodies based on firsthand testimony.
First time full-size model of crash survivor based on eyewitness testimony.
And more eyewitness corroboration....
320 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2020
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June 17, 2020
An extremely insightful look into the legendary Roswell Incident. After reading this book, I haven't a single doubt in my mind that it was most definitely extraterrestrials. I am curious to read the previous two books by these authors on this matter (they openly state that 'The Ultimate Cold Case' was the third act of a trilogy).
Honestly, this book has me wishing I was alive back then. Oh, but that I could have witnessed this event with mine own eyes, and be threatened by the men in black suits.
Honestly, this book has me wishing I was alive back then. Oh, but that I could have witnessed this event with mine own eyes, and be threatened by the men in black suits.
May 7, 2025
It should be noted that what actually occurred in Roswell back on July 7th, 1947, is indeed horrifying, and beyond human comprehension
I vividly recall the first time I came across and encountered a flying saucer. It happened in mid-August 2020 when I was a teenager.
To give you some insight, my uncle, his friend, and I fancied a walk, so we all decided to make a visit to one of the remote and distant villages located in the Royan district of Mazandaran province, Iran. Everything was safe and sound, and we were fooling around to have fun. However, things started to take a sudden and downright chilling turn!
When we pulled over, I decided to stay inside the car to listen to my shuffle, and meanwhile, they wanted to meet one of their friends in this village. It goes without saying that normally paranormal phenomena take place in the middle of the night or when the individual is at their most vulnerable. As I was vibing to the songs on the shotgun's side-view mirror, I saw an airborne ship, which I assumed was an aeroplane; however, the most odd part about it was the fact that it was floating mid-air, almost 65 feet above the pine trees. The shape entailed several different colors, such as " blue, orange, purple, and red."
It was actually changing its side colors so fast that I couldn't make out what I was looking at!
Instantly, I came to this realization that it was nothing but a UFO( Unidentified flying object).
Thankfully, I managed to capture several shots and photos of this object.
Somehow, it had no sound, and I only managed to capture pictures before it vanished into thin air. This was my testimony and when I felt the need to publicize the incident, but my uncle talked me out of it because it could be a matter of national security, and he told me about the possible persecution that would follow us.
That's where I realized why witnesses of the Roswell incident kept silent.
On July 7th, 1947, a UFO crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, USA.
A local rancher known as Mack Brazel arrives at the scene on a horse since he was a cowboy. He sees a saucer that had crashed, and all the remains of both the spaceship and the aliens were scattered all over the place, but the remains were preserved perfectly; however, out of four of the alien remains, only one of them survived and was still alive! The petrified local rancher calls the sheriff Wilcox instantly but he does not buy a word. The sheriff eventually arrives at the scene and contacts the Roswell Air base intelligence officer, Major Jesse Marcel, and he makes it in time with Lieutenant General Roger M. Ramey.
They were so baffled and terrified that they had to silence the poor rancher, and they threatened both him and his family, not to say a word or publicize it.
It was a life-or-death situation.
That being said, the USAF attempts to deceive the public and deceive them by making up a counterfeit and fake story as if it was a mere balloon crash. Here is some astonishing information I found in the book regarding both the incident and the first-hand witnesses:
I vividly recall the first time I came across and encountered a flying saucer. It happened in mid-August 2020 when I was a teenager.
To give you some insight, my uncle, his friend, and I fancied a walk, so we all decided to make a visit to one of the remote and distant villages located in the Royan district of Mazandaran province, Iran. Everything was safe and sound, and we were fooling around to have fun. However, things started to take a sudden and downright chilling turn!
When we pulled over, I decided to stay inside the car to listen to my shuffle, and meanwhile, they wanted to meet one of their friends in this village. It goes without saying that normally paranormal phenomena take place in the middle of the night or when the individual is at their most vulnerable. As I was vibing to the songs on the shotgun's side-view mirror, I saw an airborne ship, which I assumed was an aeroplane; however, the most odd part about it was the fact that it was floating mid-air, almost 65 feet above the pine trees. The shape entailed several different colors, such as " blue, orange, purple, and red."
It was actually changing its side colors so fast that I couldn't make out what I was looking at!
Instantly, I came to this realization that it was nothing but a UFO( Unidentified flying object).
Thankfully, I managed to capture several shots and photos of this object.
Somehow, it had no sound, and I only managed to capture pictures before it vanished into thin air. This was my testimony and when I felt the need to publicize the incident, but my uncle talked me out of it because it could be a matter of national security, and he told me about the possible persecution that would follow us.
That's where I realized why witnesses of the Roswell incident kept silent.
On July 7th, 1947, a UFO crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, USA.
A local rancher known as Mack Brazel arrives at the scene on a horse since he was a cowboy. He sees a saucer that had crashed, and all the remains of both the spaceship and the aliens were scattered all over the place, but the remains were preserved perfectly; however, out of four of the alien remains, only one of them survived and was still alive! The petrified local rancher calls the sheriff Wilcox instantly but he does not buy a word. The sheriff eventually arrives at the scene and contacts the Roswell Air base intelligence officer, Major Jesse Marcel, and he makes it in time with Lieutenant General Roger M. Ramey.
They were so baffled and terrified that they had to silence the poor rancher, and they threatened both him and his family, not to say a word or publicize it.
It was a life-or-death situation.
That being said, the USAF attempts to deceive the public and deceive them by making up a counterfeit and fake story as if it was a mere balloon crash. Here is some astonishing information I found in the book regarding both the incident and the first-hand witnesses:
Other civilians involved in the 1947 affair were intimidated and threatened by authority proxies enlisted by the military to fulfill their most heinous bidding. This would include Mack Brazel, whose discovery initiated the entire chain of events, which left him a broken, bitter man. (THOMAS J. CAREY AND DONALD R. SCHMITT)
During 1947, Arthur Farnsworth was a prosperous and highly respected businessman in Roswell who owned and operated the city's regional Ford dealership, Roswell Auto Company. In addition to their home in town, he and his family also owned a working ranch to the northwest. According to his family, Arthur was one of the numerous ranchers who made their way to one of the sites related to the crash. And as a result of that curiosity, the military paid him a visit at his auto lot not to buy a car but with another agenda. Much to the horror of his seven-year-old daughter, Sue, he informed the family that he was told “if we ever said anything to anyone about the incident, they would kill all of us. I went out there with some other ranchers soon after word of the crash got around, and we saw some things we weren't supposed to see.” Sue later admitted, “I never in my life saw my father so scared, before or since.” (THOMAS J. CAREY AND DONALD R. SCHMITT)
What Brazel said shocked the businessman: “They told me they would put me in an asylum for the insane if I revealed what I know. For the rest of my life! Those government boys came down on me hard and said they would also incarcerate my family. You can't repeat this to anyone.”
Susan Farnsworth, for instance. His father's testimony and expression after the incident was truly captivatingI never in my life saw my father so scared [about Roswell], before or since.
—SUSAN FARNSWORTH, daughter, Arthur Farnsworth, business owner, Roswell, 1947
Here is General Ramey's testimonyWe located a firsthand witness several years ago who had been stationed at Fort Worth AAF back in 1948. An enlisted crewman on a B-29, Marion Brimberry, was waiting on the tarmac to board his aircraft along with the rest of the crew. Also waiting with the crew on this day was General Ramey himself. One of the officers in the crew was overheard to ask Ramey about the 1947 Roswell events: “What about it, General? What was that stuff?” to which Ramey responded, “It was the biggest lie I ever had to tell.... [It was] out of this world, Son, out of this world.”24 Brimberry passed away in 2016 at the age of ninety-three.
(THOMAS J. CAREY AND DONALD R. SCHMITT)
Overall, what shocked me to my core is the part that states:
"The visitors are “from the future,” and “they may even be ‘us’from a future Earth.”
_THOMAS J. CAREY AND DONALD R. SCHMITT
Matin Payervan
May 7th, 2025
Tehran, Iran
March 3, 2021
I recently watched Roswell: New Mexico and have since been on a roll with aliens, desert nights, and isolation...which led to a short story I'm working on. This seemed to be one of the better books on the incident and has provided me with some ideas I might use for when I revise the story. On the whole, I found the first half or so pretty interesting because I knew next to nothing about the Roswell Incident aside from the government having changed its official story multiple times. The second half was much too repetitive though, with a lot of the earlier information popping back up (which might be beneficial for those who only read certain chapters).
January 18, 2026
This presents as a series of overlapping essays that regularly repeat or add to previous details. The evidence they give is exclusively witness interviews and comments. Often these witnesses are not first hand witnesses but rather children or other people connected to those who were associated with Roswell in 1947.
The writing style is a bit unstructured and could do with editing — not so much spelling or grammatical issues but coherence and structure. The authors are also clearly biased towards the answer they want. Together this made the readability suffer for me.
The idea that this is like a prosecution (“case closed”) doesn’t bear out. Firstly, there is no pretende at all defence. There are obvious questions that are left unaddressed. There is no physical evidence presented. The witness statements are of very variable importance and there is little citation or reference to how they can be checked - often it seems like they were given directly to the authors and the witness is now deceased- so there is an added layer of how much weight to give the authors’ reliability (and they are predisposed to believe what they want to hear).
Overall this was far from case closed for me, though some of the apparent statements from senior Air Force people of the time seem like strong evidence for “something” if they can be corroborated better.
The writing style is a bit unstructured and could do with editing — not so much spelling or grammatical issues but coherence and structure. The authors are also clearly biased towards the answer they want. Together this made the readability suffer for me.
The idea that this is like a prosecution (“case closed”) doesn’t bear out. Firstly, there is no pretende at all defence. There are obvious questions that are left unaddressed. There is no physical evidence presented. The witness statements are of very variable importance and there is little citation or reference to how they can be checked - often it seems like they were given directly to the authors and the witness is now deceased- so there is an added layer of how much weight to give the authors’ reliability (and they are predisposed to believe what they want to hear).
Overall this was far from case closed for me, though some of the apparent statements from senior Air Force people of the time seem like strong evidence for “something” if they can be corroborated better.
June 17, 2023
3 stars may be a bit generous, but I'm in a generous mood. Roswell : The Ultimate Cold Case is a book with a very definite point of view. There's no pretense of neutrality here : it firmly states that Roswell was absolutely, undeniably a non-human ship crashing. All the evidence that supports that view is presented as favourably as possible, while any other evidence is minimized.
That isn't necessarily a bad thing - there's absolutely room for non-fiction, or even journalism, with a firm point of view. And Roswell does seem to do a good job of collecting all the relevant data, even if you can't necessarily rely on their framing of that data. In short, it's a decent take on a deeply controversial subject.
On the other hand, this simply isn't a well-edited book. There's a surprising amount of repetition here, once or twice to the point of deja vu. There's also much polemic - we absolutely don't need several pages about how very reliable eyewitness testimony is, or how their evidence would convince a jury, or how Roswell technically fits the definition of a "cold case". All of this just adds to the impression of authors with an ax to grind.
That isn't necessarily a bad thing - there's absolutely room for non-fiction, or even journalism, with a firm point of view. And Roswell does seem to do a good job of collecting all the relevant data, even if you can't necessarily rely on their framing of that data. In short, it's a decent take on a deeply controversial subject.
On the other hand, this simply isn't a well-edited book. There's a surprising amount of repetition here, once or twice to the point of deja vu. There's also much polemic - we absolutely don't need several pages about how very reliable eyewitness testimony is, or how their evidence would convince a jury, or how Roswell technically fits the definition of a "cold case". All of this just adds to the impression of authors with an ax to grind.
June 23, 2020
It repeats the facts of the crash and because this was not written in narrative form.
The final few chapters are very interesting -they include the testimonies of the eyewitnesses and I came away with the impression that yes, Roswell happened!
I had a very, very Close Encounter of the 1st kind myself back in 1957/1958 in Chicago. I had 1-hour of missing time, but can't recall any of it. Therefore, I don't need further proof but for those of you who do, the final chapters of this book is for you!
The final few chapters are very interesting -they include the testimonies of the eyewitnesses and I came away with the impression that yes, Roswell happened!
I had a very, very Close Encounter of the 1st kind myself back in 1957/1958 in Chicago. I had 1-hour of missing time, but can't recall any of it. Therefore, I don't need further proof but for those of you who do, the final chapters of this book is for you!
August 10, 2023
I would say more like 3.5 stars.
I picked up this book when we went back to my honey's hometown of Roswell, NM and he totally indulged me and we did all the touristy alien things! I got this book in the official alien museum in the gift shop and we began reading it in the car driving back home in a different state.
This book started out with a lot of really interesting information, however, as it went on it felt like it got a bit redundant. It was an interesting read and even more so with recent events and the government finally admitting to the Roswell incident happening!
I picked up this book when we went back to my honey's hometown of Roswell, NM and he totally indulged me and we did all the touristy alien things! I got this book in the official alien museum in the gift shop and we began reading it in the car driving back home in a different state.
This book started out with a lot of really interesting information, however, as it went on it felt like it got a bit redundant. It was an interesting read and even more so with recent events and the government finally admitting to the Roswell incident happening!
November 3, 2020
Well I’m convinced - I mean I didn’t have any doubt anyway. It was all true, this book lays it all out with full testimony and even a written sealed statement that was opened upon death which I will not spoil.
I am so happy I read this book. We are 100% not alone in the universe they are here they have been here and sadly they have died here. Having read this book I personally think the tic tac sightings of today and the last decade are one and the same as the ship that crashed in Roswell.
I am so happy I read this book. We are 100% not alone in the universe they are here they have been here and sadly they have died here. Having read this book I personally think the tic tac sightings of today and the last decade are one and the same as the ship that crashed in Roswell.
January 25, 2021
I was pretty thrilled when I realized that this book was newly published because a lot of the UFO books I've come across and read are pretty old so it was nice to find a book with some new, up to date info. And I liked this book because it was very thorough and presented the facts, theories, and speculations in an organized and reader friendly way. UFO's and the Roswell incident have piqued by interest and I think that this is a good book to read if you're into that sort of read.
October 17, 2023
Carey, Schmitt and Randle have very strong materail on Roswell, but they keep publishing and adding very little to their new stuff. Sorry, but that is how I feel. Having said that the book is interesting, but if you read Witness to Roswell you perhaps could ignore this one. Children of Roswell or Cover up Roswell have more information. The one of Wright Patterson is also worth it. But this particular one I would skip it. My opinion.
August 19, 2021
Excellent presentation of the evidence!
Roswell is real! There can no longer be any doubt! Why? It happened and those who witnessed the events and reported them were telling the absolute truth. By piecing together all the statements made by those directly and indirectly involved, the weather balloon alibi begins losing air at an astonishing rate!
Roswell is real! There can no longer be any doubt! Why? It happened and those who witnessed the events and reported them were telling the absolute truth. By piecing together all the statements made by those directly and indirectly involved, the weather balloon alibi begins losing air at an astonishing rate!
October 24, 2024
Very convincing! My question though, that was 77 years ago, if other beings could get here before, where are they now? No follow up since? How have we not seen or heard anything since, even if the government is covering up?
December 14, 2025
Excellent book! Definitely, a must read one!! The proofs are there! The case is closed for good!
P.S.: the real book length is not 328 pages, rather 279. To the person who created this page on "Goodreads": please, correct such a mistake.
P.S.: the real book length is not 328 pages, rather 279. To the person who created this page on "Goodreads": please, correct such a mistake.
April 6, 2022
Feels like a remix of their previous books. Nothing new. Also not something I would recommend to someone new to the subject or even a fan. I'm not sure who this book is for.
March 4, 2024
I admit to being quite skeptical and only a little less so after visiting Roswell a few years ago. Now, however, I am completely convinced!
April 23, 2025
Finally the Truth explained
All those people couldn't be wrong,78 years later people want to know the truth and not be treated like naive helpless children . Great read
All those people couldn't be wrong,78 years later people want to know the truth and not be treated like naive helpless children . Great read
June 9, 2025
This is particularly good. I recommend it?
September 15, 2021
Over the years I have read many books on the subject, some better than others but this one is a standout because it involves a thirty year investigation by Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt of all of the eyewitness accounts, evidence that was in the newspapers at the time, whistleblower accounts, many of which were revealed to their families and the authors near their deathbeds.
One of the reasons Roswell still haunts us after seventy later is because if in fact, it was a weather balloon, why all the secrecy? The idea that trained military personnel allegedly could not tell the difference between balsa wood and string and neoprene and metal that could change shape seems a bit more concerning about the state of the military to me.
This book also describes the tactics used by the military to keep the residents of Roswell under control under the guise of National Security. This involved, death threats, physical abuse, having people detained for weeks or even a year in a mental facility, which they had no authority by the Constitution to do. No martial law had been declared. Why would there be if if was in fact a weather balloon?
The authors have researched this book as if it were, in fact, a cold case investigation from start to finish. I think they make their case very clearly. It was 1947, just a few years after World War II and the military was still basking in the glow of their victory but did they cross lines of civil rights to cover up what really happened at Roswell. I think it's time they come clean. We have a right to know! Two Thumbs up for me! I will say that there are a lot of people involved in this case, in the Military and the civilian population but it is worth a read for sure.
One of the reasons Roswell still haunts us after seventy later is because if in fact, it was a weather balloon, why all the secrecy? The idea that trained military personnel allegedly could not tell the difference between balsa wood and string and neoprene and metal that could change shape seems a bit more concerning about the state of the military to me.
This book also describes the tactics used by the military to keep the residents of Roswell under control under the guise of National Security. This involved, death threats, physical abuse, having people detained for weeks or even a year in a mental facility, which they had no authority by the Constitution to do. No martial law had been declared. Why would there be if if was in fact a weather balloon?
The authors have researched this book as if it were, in fact, a cold case investigation from start to finish. I think they make their case very clearly. It was 1947, just a few years after World War II and the military was still basking in the glow of their victory but did they cross lines of civil rights to cover up what really happened at Roswell. I think it's time they come clean. We have a right to know! Two Thumbs up for me! I will say that there are a lot of people involved in this case, in the Military and the civilian population but it is worth a read for sure.
December 20, 2025
Loved this!
A really well researched, in depth fascinating look at the Roswell event.
A really well researched, in depth fascinating look at the Roswell event.
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