Frankie Rowe and the Children of Roswell UFO
Just imagine how our lives would differ if the government allowed the truth to be reported instead of covering it up. No American should be subjected to threats by their own government. The late Frankie Rowe, whose father Dan Dwyer was a lieutenant with the Roswell Fire Department and responded to the infamous 1947 crash site, poignantly stated years ago: “I think the world should be told all of the details from the beginning. But I don’t think this is the only incident [UFO crash]. I think there are others. And I think we are entitled to know about all of them.”
At a special gathering, for the first time, people came together from around the country to a house in Roswell to share memories of experiences that deeply affected and changed their lives forever. These individuals, known as the children of Roswell, finally had the chance to reconnect with parts of their past that had long been buried and deserved to be investigated and exposed. The Roswell Army Airfield, home to the 509 Bomb Group—the only military unit in the world equipped with the atomic bomb—experienced business as usual until the first week of July 1947. However, that was about to change.
Late one night, Jesse Marcel Jr., then 12 years old, was awoken by his father, the base intelligence officer, who showed him and his mother some strange debris he brought from the desert, claiming it was from a flying saucer. Jesse Marcel Jr. described what he found on the beam with the following words:
“I remember there are some writing or symbols of some kind, just imprinted along the inner surface of this beam or I beam. I thought that looks like hieroglyphics, but you look at no, it’s not hieroglyphics either. I don’t know what this is. It was a series of geometrical patterns.”
Frankie Rowe, also 12 at the time, recalled how her father, a Roswell fireman, told her about responding to a second crash site and seeing alien bodies. Frankie Rowe described what her father told her about the bodies he saw at the crash site with the following words:
“He said one of them was still alive and it was walking around and he said there were two other bodies but they were in body bags so he really couldn’t see them. Mother asked him what they looked like and he gave us a description about their size, said they were about the size of a small 10-year-old child.”
Rumors of alien bodies kept in a guarded hangar and crash debris secretly flown elsewhere quickly spread through Roswell. The government swiftly concocted a cover story, forcing Major Jesse Marcel to pose with the fake wreckage of a weather balloon for a staged photo fed to the newspapers.
The secrecy and pressure affected everyone in Roswell, including Deputy Sheriff Denise Clark’s family, who suffered from the inability to tell the truth. Loretta Proctor, who lived near the crash site, believed that atomic testing played a role in attracting flying saucers to the area. Despite initial interest fading, Roswell residents continued to share their stories, unable to hide the truth. Frankie Rowe’s life changed forever when she touched some crash debris, prompting a chilling visit from an officer who threatened her and her family to ensure their silence.
As the years pass and witnesses dwindle, the Roswell mystery remains unresolved. Frankie Rowe’s haunting memory of being threatened serves as a stark reminder of the lengths the government went to keep the incident quiet. The crash site, undisturbed for nearly 50 years, and Hangar 84 at the old army airfield, stand as silent sentinels of a failed coverup. The children of Roswell, including Frankie Rowe, believe that the world deserves to know all the details, not just of the Roswell incident, but of all such events hidden from the public eye.
