According to Korff, “Jesse [Jr.] got that wrong. He was a little boy. He was only 11 years old… No other Roswell witness reported I-beams at all. None. Zero.”
Except, of course, for Robert Shirkey, who, in January 1990, in an interview described the scene as some of the debris was carried through the Operations building. In a telephone interview, Shirkey said, “Marcel was carrying a box that had the I-beams sticking up in one corner…
Much later, Steve Lytle, in an interview conducted with Don Schmitt and Tom Carey, used the term I-beams.
And another, though controversial witness Jack Trowbridge said, “It was aluminum in appearance. There were fragments of aircraft skin, or whatever the thing was and also some girders with pictures of hieroglyphics…”
So, Korff goes off on a tangent here, claims that no one else ever mentioned the I-beams and yet, without much effort, I was able to locate two additional witnesses. Trowbridge doesn’t say “I-beam,” but does say girders, which can be construed as an I-beam-like structure and that runs the score to three.
Finally, in this latest mishmash, Korff said, “The U.S. government did launch one [Mogul balloon] to spy on the Soviets…”
This isn’t quite right either. Yes, the purpose of Mogul was to spy on the Soviets, but they could never keep the balloons aloft long enough for them to drift over the Soviet Union, and the coming of the spy planes, and much later, satellites, did in the need for Mogul. It just never worked the way it was supposed to.
The real reason that I’m forced to post this here is that Korff, in his YouTube rants, disables the comments section. No one has the opportunity to suggest that maybe he’s off base on his claims. Had I been able to comment on YouTube, I would have done this there rather than use this forum.
Once again I apologize for dragging you all along with me on this, but then, sometimes it is fun to see how badly he muffs the ball.