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this program is about unsolved mysteries whenever possible the actual family members and police officials have
participated in recreating the events what you are about to see is not a news broadcast taken to a hospital fractured
skull shattered legs possible brain damage 20 years later Jim Meade is trying to
find heroic nurse save his life in 1947 a strange craft crashed in a remote New Mexico field the metal debris and
sparkling property was covered with unusual markings witnesses claimed it was a UFO
melet's era here at wazzle Army Air Base in New Mexico immediately announced that
the object was a UFO within our change their story and said it was only a downed weather balloon the military
conceal the most astounding discovery of the century join tonight the season premiere on the south
[Music] [Applause] [Music] last season 34 cases profile and unsolved mysteries were song thanks to
information from our viewers one recent cases out of Charles Millay a 10 year veteran of the Slidell Louisiana
Police Department who disappeared over three years ago while free on bail on March 1st 1985 Neal a was arrested by
fellow officers local motel room where he allegedly molested a 12-year old girl at the time of his arrest he was a
sergeant in charge of sexual offenses for the Slidell Police Department his alleged victim was a young girl he was
assigned to counsel if your honor please considering the serious gravity of September 27th 1985 Charles moulay was
indicted on over 25 counts relating to the molestation and rape of six young girls he was released on 150 thousand
dollars bail eight months later on the morning that his trial was to begin moulay was reported missing five days
later a fisherman believed he saw moulay emerging from a swamp near Slidell this
was closely followed by a second sight this witness was shot at by a man dressed in hospital clothing a favorite
after the Malays we were convinced more than ever that Charles was alive that he
was in his area and he did not move far from this area for more than three years
Charles Millais whereabouts of remained a mystery [Music] Oh Charles Malay has been captured
within minutes of our July broadcast the FBI received several calls from viewers
who reported that Malay was living in Ocala Florida 30 miles south of Gainesville under the
assumed name Joseph John Tran scheana moulay had seen our broadcast left the Ocala area for approximately three weeks
when he returned on August 3rd he was arrested by FBI agents and Marion County Florida sheriff's deputies
a war in Vietnam for the first time helicopters played a pivotal role a crucial lifeline between base camps and
the soldiers in the field a skill and bravery of a helicopter pilot meant the difference between life and death and
freedom and captivity a POTUS chance of being killed was nine times greater than
any other soldiers and one out of every eight helicopter pilots in Vietnam lost his life these pilots truly were heroes
but there was another group of heroes in the get Nam war a group who remained largely unsung
those heroes were the skilled and patient military nurses who dealt with the wreckage of young bodies brought
back from the front and struggled to return those battered soldiers to a normal life this section of the National
Cemetery in Arlington Virginia is dedicated to nurses slain in battle as one of the few memorials we have in the
United States honoring them tonight we tell the story of an army helicopter pilot whose life was salvaged by a nurse
Lieutenant Betty Stephens for 15 years he's been searching for her but mysteriously there is no record of where
she went but he wants to say her the simple but eloquent words thank you perhaps someone watching tonight can
help him in 1965 18 year-old Jimmy jr. gave up a promising college career and volunteered
to serve in Vietnam we tried to talk him out of it the professors at University of Oregon try to talk him out of it
finished college and then go and the war will still be there after you finish college but he was determined and he
went Jim won his wings as an army helicopter pilot in the winter of 1967 it didn't surprise me to see him want to
give time to his country and being in helicopters and being in the rescue mission and what happy these were all
part of Jim Jim served in Vietnam for only three months transporting troops to and from
combat missions twice Jim was shot down twice he went back on May the 8th 1967 he was shot down for the third time this
time Jim need would not be able to go back [Music] [Applause] [Music] on May the 9th 1967 Jim's Paris received
a vaguely worded telegram saying their son had been placed on the seriously ill list because of a fractured skull he was
transferred to Madigan General Hospital in Tacoma Washington Jim's mother and father along with two of his brothers
waited in the hospital lobby Jim had not yet been assigned the room his family had no idea what to expect it was quite
difficult for me to just sit and relax and wait till they came and said to tell us that Jim had been put in a room so
myself and two sons I got up I said I'm gonna walk down the hallway for a while I just can't sit here and wait and
there's miles and miles of hallway and medical hospital [Music] and as I was walking down the hallway
here in the hallway was a gurney was a soldier on the gurney and he had bandages all over him from bottles
so I said to the other boys to sound like [ __ ] go to storage for all [Music] and after a while then the nurse came to
us and said okay we have your son in a room come go with me [Music] we went into that room and here was that
journey that guy that was tore all to hell was my son beyond recognition and there was nothing we could do that was a
that was a terrible thing there was nothing that we could do Jim it's mom it was just unbelievable he didn't look
like himself you know and of course he had all these tubes in him and all of these things I worked in an emergency
room and I've seen a lot of things but I don't think I have seen anything as horrible as my son bus
[Music] Jim was in a coma the helicopter rotor blade it fractured his skull he made
only animal-like sounds and flailed his arms involuntarily both of his legs had been shattered and were riddled with
gangrene the doctors feared that Jim would never come out of his coma as a last resort
we assigned him to a ward an amputee who had served in Vietnam the doctors asked
the man to talk to Jim and act as if he could hear him on the slim chance at the
constant exposure to other people might trigger a response the experiment worked
after 10 weeks in the world Jim came out of his coma he had no memory of his first 19 years Jim had even forgotten
how to talk and how to move his arms and legs I didn't know that I've been a helicopter pod I didn't know I've been
to Vietnam I didn't know that I've been injured so seriously I didn't know anything it was like a whole new world
happily Jim Meade continued to heal neither his leg was amputated today he's 42 years old and has made a miraculous
recovery Jim feels it is due in large part to the dogged determination of his nurse
lieutenant Betty Stevens who literally brought him back to life and who for one crucial year it was the most important
person in his life all right now start with this hand and this leg ready there you go good grip that man feel the match
keep your legs straight keep your legs straight there you can learn how to walk I first had learned how to crawl
lieutenant Stevens will get down on the mat with me and me right next to me because I didn't have any coordination
between my arms legs and the commands from our brain and so at the beginning she would work on me and teach me how to
crawl and and she was show me how to do it good I remember one time in particular there
were some basic trainees who had sprained ankles or whatever and we're in the hospital and learned physical
therapy and one time where I / series of sometimes falling on my face it served a
laughing at me and I remember her getting so angry what gives you the right to laugh at him that is a person
who has been at war he's trying to learn things that are very easy for you now I
want you both out of here right now come on get up just the way she yelled at him
and kicked him out maybe she was so mad meant alot to me just maybe want to do what she wanted me
to learn to do when I was in so much pain that the people couldn't take me in a bed
she would even come down and ask me how I was doing and I was in so much pain that I was very cross no you're hurting
but you can't give up and she responded that she knew that I was hurting her the
more you exercise the stronger you're gonna get and the less it's gonna hurt the most important thing that I remember
she held my hand and we're just showing her concern they're caring that made me want to give better to want to learn to
walk to want to learn to feed myself to want to learn things like how to shave how to comb my hair straighten it up
come on work hard come on I don't know if I would have learned to do these things without her I might have
eventually learned just out of the sheer survival factor but she made it important for me to
withstand the pain and frustration straighten it out good push work good good good good job because of her
patient load lieutenant evens could give gem physical therapy for only one hour each day she
felt you would benefit from going home for 30 days to work with his parents around the clock we couldn't have gone
as far as we did with him without her supervision there are certain things in physical therapy that you can do more
harm than good and so there for her as the professional was showing us how to do it the right way we're going to play
ball today but 12 grueling hours each day gyms Paris tried to improve his motor skills and teach him how to talk
all under the guidance of lieutenant Stevens even when I wasn't in the hospital when I was home with my parents
I'm calm bus and leave I always wanted to get better and learn things so I could go back to the hospital and show
her how much it improved it was always important to me [Music] nearly one year after Jim had first
arrived at the hospital lieutenant Stephens told him she was leaving the army she never saw Jim walk
independently or had any idea that she had set him on the path to recovery and over the years I've thought about her
many many times I'm not so naive to pretend that I'm the only soldier that she affected this way in fact she
probably affected all of us is what all of us that she worked with but she was really important to me and she always
will be building on the foundation lieutenant Stevens and his parents gave him Jim
Miri learned how to walk and talk and made a nearly complete recovery today he is a clinical psychologist working in
San Diego he would like to tennis Stevens to share in his triumph he would like to say thank you to the woman he
will never forget if I saw her now I don't know what I'd do cry maybe maybe just laugh a lot I don't
know I thought about a singer so many times it's like she never lives I never left whatever I don't know what I do I
just know this it's always been important for me that she knows that I'm okay the morning after our broadcast
Jimmy's 15 years search came to an end when he received a phone call from one of our viewers I was watching TV and I
saw Jim at the beginning of the program and I said to my family I treated that fella when I was in the service and the
next remark was that they were looking for lieutenant Stevens and I thought well that was my maiden name and at that
point I realized that this was going to be more than just a program to watch on September 25th nearly 21 years after
they said goodbye Jim and Karen really [Music] when Karen came to the door I went to
know if somebody else are they might say the Karen's changed 200% and my heart Karen hasn't changed a bit
[Music] and I'm glad to color thank you the reunion today has been everything I expected it to be
it's it will stand out as one of the most exciting days of my life it's thrilling to see someone that has come
back so far and made a success of their life but a lot of people had a lot to do
with Jim Meade's recovery and I was just a small part [Music] you'll be very difficult for me to put
into words what this day is meant to me it just makes the future that much brighter because I do know that now that
dreams do come true [Music] in a moment we'll examine the extraordinary and controversial story of
a strange craft that crashed in New Mexico in 1947 [Music] the surf for space here in Roswell New
Mexico the center of a controversy back in 1947 but over 40 years later still remains
unsolved remnants of a mysterious craft were found on a remote ranch allegedly stored here in hangar 84 to this day
there are many who believe it was a UFO when we first heard of the incident at Roswell we assumed it was just another
UFO sighting it could be easily explained a distant aircraft an errant missile or perhaps it was just a hoax
however eyewitness accounts and disturbing evidence suggest as something strange happened here at Roswell
something that cannot be easily dismissed July 2nd 1947 a violent electrical storm
sweeps over the desolate plain in south-central New Mexico at this time of year these storms are
almost nightly occurrences at his remote ranch house Mac Brazel patiently waits out the fury of the
storm Mac was a he was just an old-time cowboy I guess you'd say and he was pretty pretty serious if he told you
something you could pretty well depend on it [Music] apparently black brass were heard a
thunderclap that might that somehow sounded different the story is that Mac Brazel supposedly
heard a loud crash at some point during the storm and didn't know if it was related to the storm or not according to
his son Mac was on the range the next day looking to see which fields may have gotten precipitation the night before so
they could move the livestock to those fields because the grass would be better there and in his process of looking to
see where the rain had come down he found the debris field spread out near his ranch house
[Music] it was obvious is something had crashed in one of his pasture the night before
whatever it was was broken up beyond identification the debris field was approximately 3/4
of a mile long maybe as much as 2 or 300 feet in with scattered alone there were
bits and pieces of material we refused to call it metal because from the descriptions we have it was more of a
plastic black material very strong very lightweight the pieces of it were described as being three or four feet
long but as light as a feather stannis newsprint there were metal beams that were slightly flexible but very strong
and it was spread out all over the field some of the metal pieces appeared to have strange qualities and unusual
tensile properties [Music] later that day Mac drove over to his closest neighbors Floyd in a Rhetta
Proctor who lived ten miles away afternoon Floyd already Mac what brings you all the way out here for Mike he was
excited you know he just wanted somebody to go down and check it out and we should have had we didn't
take a look at that light a match to it you see what I'm talking about and he brought a little
sliver of good-looking stuff and him and my husband tried to cut it and burn it but it wasn't whittled and it wouldn't
burn well myth that's pretty damn good now I would say it look like plastic but back then why you know we didn't have
plastic and I guess it was more like a some kind of a lightweight wood the proctors urged Brazel to go to the
authorities the following monday Brazel reported his discovery to the sheriff who informed nearby Roswell Army Air
Base that afternoon Mac Brazel had two army intelligence officers to the crash site
one of the officers was major Jesse Marcel senior an experienced combat pilot whose primary duty in peacetime
was to investigate air accidents why did you stay there mr. brezel lieutenant even with his experience Marcel was
unable to identify what kind of craft it was Marcel died in 1982 but before his death he gave the following interview
for a documentary film about UFOs they were just fragments tuned all over the area in the area but three-quarters of a
mile long and several hundred feet wide so we proceeded to pick up the parts said I tried to bend mr. says it will
not Bend I even tried to burn that but not burn see stuff weighs nothing it's not in there thicker than 10 falling
pack of cigarettes since we even tried making a dent in it with a 16 pound sledge hammer still no dead in it one
thing I'm certain of being familiar with all our activities that it was not a weather balloon nor an aircraft nor a
missile it was something else which we didn't know what it was late on the night of July 7th major
Marcel drove back to Roswell his car loaded down with the unusual remains found on the ranch before going
on to the base he stopped by his home he wanted to show his family what he had found when he came back to the house he
had had a bunch of wreckage with the with him at the time and he brought the wreckage into the house actually awaking
my mother myself out so we could view this because it's so unusual it's about two o'clock in the morning as I recall
right and spread it out so he could get some basic idea of what it looked like what it was Jesse Marcel jr. was 11
years old at the time and remembers the incident vividly he is one of the few people still alive known to have handled
pieces of the debris no son I don't know what this stuff is we're all were amazed
by this debris that was there probably err cuz we didn't know what it was you know just the unknown the most
remarkable fragment was a short piece of eye beam which was covered with strange
symbols and embossed markings looks like some kind of hieroglyphics this writing
could be described as like hieroglyphics Egyptian type car gloves but not really
the symbols are in the eye beams were more of a geometric type configuration in various designs
it had a violet purple type of color and was actually an embossed part of the metal itself
years after this instant happened we would talk privately among ourselves about what the possibilities of this
what this thing was and I feel that we well I know that we came to the conclusion it was not of earthly origin
if I had not actually told pieces of in my hand I would not think there would be
possible but because I have to see this that's the only reasonably major Marcel took the wreckage to the Roswell base or
he was stationed Roswell was home to the 509th Bomb Squadron the Air Force's sole
atomic bomb group at the time it was a close base and personnel stationed there required a high security clearance
the following morning that is believed that some of the pieces were flown to Wright Field near Dayton Ohio with a
short stop at Carswell Air Base at Fort Worth Texas that same morning Colonel William Blanchard the commanding officer
made a crucial decision he went public with the story of the discovery made by Mac Brazel pas office was tenor loss
speaking this is Colonel Blanchard Colonel Blanchard yes sir what can I do for you sir second lieutenant Walter
Haught was a public information officer for the 509th at the time flying discs colonel Blanchard ordered him to issue a
press release telling the country how the armory had found a flying saucer I never questioned it yes in 1947 when a
colonel told the first lieutenant to do something the first lieutenant did that I'm sure that had I asked Colonel
blancher to see it he would have said no and that would have been the end of the
subject there's a little bit of difference who he didn't have any democracy back in 1947 in the military
establishment the press release read in part the many rumors regarding the flying discs became a reality yesterday
when the intelligence office of the 5:09 farm squadron was fortunate enough to gain possession of a disc through the
cooperation of a local rancher I took the releases in the town that was one of the things that Blanchard told me
to do take it in the town because if there's any validity to this he didn't want to lose me too to feel that we had
jumped over their heads and were not cooperating with that same day it was reported that an engineer for the Soil
Conservation Service made another remarkable discovery Barney Barnett of Socorro New Mexico died in 1969 but he
may have been the person who discovered what was perhaps the first positive proof that there was other life in our
universe Barney was just a real straightforward just what you would call a real straight
guy he would wouldn't tell you one story out of color or nothing that's why I was
really surprised when he related this information to me about Christ Azmi he told me that he come onto this spaceship
who was during the daytime was an oval-shaped similar to what had been identified you know in different
settings and so on and it had crashed and it had broken open there was beings laying about for beings
laying on the ground not in the not in the spaceship laying in there on the ground he did describe that the heads
were larger than the bodies by proportioned and they had some type of clothing on that looked a little bit
different not exactly like our spacesuits or that sort of thing but the four were laying on the ground and they
were scattered not too far from the object Barney told Verne that he reached the crash site about the same time as a
group of archaeology students who had seen the wreckage from their nearby dig the military had also apparently
discovered the second crash site after an aerial search but they arrived too late to secure the area sergeant get
those people out of there and in front of this Jeep now Barney Barnett of the students had a clear and the tail look
at the craft and its occupants when the army showed up they immediately escorted
these people from the scene and then at that time they give them a warning not to relate any information to anybody
from that time on Barney never mentioned it to anybody until the time that he told me about the thing ladies and
gentlemen it is my duty to inform you all efforts to track down members of the archeology digger be unsuccessful this
is a restricted area and from this moment on the Barnett story has only been toe second hand many
believe there is just too much supporting circumstantial evidence to completely dismiss it when he first told
me I was sort of flabbergasted I didn't know what to say but I believed it because of his integrity
I'd stake my life on his reliability he would never concoct any story that's why I believed it to be true
on July 8th 1947 newspapers across America published accounts in a UFO had supposedly crashed in New Mexico that
same day according to some investigators a cargo plane carrying a debris from the
crash site arrived at an air base in Fort Worth Texas but almost the same moment the army received the news of a
second crash site where alien bodies may have been found Brigadier General Roger
Ramey as the ranking commander of the 8th Army Air Force at Fort Worth within hours Raimi's office issued a new
press release stating with the material recovered in New Mexico was not a UFO but in reality the wreckage of a US Army
weather balloon my dad said obviously it was a cover-up story it was not a weather plume he was
a little disturbed about that but he had his own intelligence classification security classifications to protect he
could not really go public with hey this is not the real thing I mean this is not
a weather balloon so he had to keep that to himself but the UFO incident was still very much
alive from Mac Brazel at the time rumors surfaced that Brazel was held at the Roswell base until after the new cover
story had been circulated and generally accepted in Roswell Floyd Proctor and a friend saw Brazel
but he appeared to be unwilling or unable to acknowledge his friend Floyd and a neighbor was in Roswell and saw
Mack surrounded by some of the Air Force people and they walk right mom and Mike
wouldn't speak to them they you know kind of thought it was kind of kind of funny I guess really wondered what he
got into and Mike he wouldn't talk about it after he'd come back home but he did
say that he ever found something else he wouldn't report by the time Brazel returned to his ranch
all traces of the Roswell incident had apparently been removed from the area and taken the Wright Field in Dayton
Ohio everything went to right field that's where the art technical Intelligence Center was that was where
they could make the studies subsequent to that we think that the material has been sent elsewhere we think one of the
bodies has gone to Langley CIA headquarters we think another has gone to MacDill which is an Air Force Base in
Florida where they have an aerospace medicine facility we don't know where other stuff is gone we think some of it
is still left at Wright Field I think the reasons for the initial cover-up are pretty straightforward you
stop to think about remember this is two years after the worst war the planet had
ever seen you didn't think in terms of nice guys here to say hello kind of thing they didn't know how to deal with
them what could you tell the public it would have been totally irresponsible to say by the way we thought you'd like to
know that they're alien visitors to Planet Earth that we can't do a darn thing to prevent them from flying over
the country we don't know what they want or where they're from but we thought you'd like to know for this group of
people at that time to do that would have been totally irresponsible in spite of the circumstantial evidence there was
no real proof to dispute the Army's contention that the wreckage was in fact a weather balloon then more than 30
years later UFO researchers obtained a document which many contend proves the Roswell incident actually occurred in
1984 this top-secret document known as the mj-12 memo was mailed anonymously to a UFO researcher operation majestic 12
or mj-12 as it's called was a group of 12 people apparently established by the President to deal with the wreckage from
Roswell and the whole problem that that created what how did these things work where did they come from how can we get
more information how can we analyze the wreckage in the bodies and so forth and how do we interact with the rest of
society having that knowledge the contents of the report stunned researchers in part get read on oh seven
July 1947 a secret operation was begun to assure the recovery of the records aerial reconnaissance discovered that
poor small human-like beings had apparently ejected from the ground about two miles east of the wreckage site all
four were dead civilian and military witnesses in the area were debriefed and news reporters were given the effective
cover story that the object had been a misguided whether the government has consistently refused to comment on the
mj-12 memo and there was still no proof of its origin but if we are to believe the mj-12
document and the other accounts then we must ask ourselves a fantastic question did our government in 1947 Guidi
discover evidence that there is life in the universe outside our own atmosphere apart from Barney Barnett there is only
one man who has ever admitted to having seen these aliens my husband Oliver Henderson otherwise known as
Pappy in the Air Force he was entrusted with many of this country's top secrets and they were safe with him he never
told anything that he wasn't supposed to and therefore it was 34 years after this
incident happened that I heard about it captain Pappy Henderson was the man who piloted the plane that took the first
pieces of wreckage out of Roswell in 1981 two years before he died he told his wife that in spite of military
denials the Roswell incident really happened [Music] my husband told me the bodies were small
smaller than human bodies the heads were larger and the eyes were rather sunken and a little slanted clothing was of
material unlike anything he'd seen before they were strange they were not not of this earth
when my husband he was a man of truth who was trusted with 29 different army aircraft planes first pilot aircraft
commander tells me this story I believed him if this happened is the most significant event of the 20th century
and probably the millennium it would be akin to Columbus discovering the new world in Queen Isabella deciding not to
tell the rest of the world about the discovery of the new world more than 40 years of passes at hot
summer night and violent thunderstorm swept over the Brazel ranch the military declared that the remnants found on that
remote fief came from a downed weather but the people who actually saw and held the wreckage disagreed perhaps it was an
experimental aircraft that the military wanted to keep top secret at all costs but perhaps just perhaps it was
something else next week on unsolved mysteries will feature a special appearance by the
director of the FBI William sessions will ask for your help in tracking down several the most
dangerous fugitives in the United States we will visit Ambridge Pennsylvania where several parishioners of the Holy
Trinity Church claim they witnessed a miracle above the altar during a religious service and will profile a
clever con man who was targeted nudist camps across the country for his devious scams for every mystery there is
something somewhere who knows the truth perhaps it's you [Music]

Brief Summary

Jim Meade thanks nurse Betty Stevens for saving his life after a Vietnam injury, while the Roswell UFO incident remains unsolved.

Key points

Jim Meade's Recovery Journey. After a devastating injury in Vietnam, Jim Meade's life was saved by a dedicated nurse.
A Hero's Reunion. Jim Meade reunites with his life-saving nurse after 15 years of searching.
The Roswell Incident. In 1947, a mysterious craft allegedly crashed in New Mexico, sparking UFO theories.
Colonel Blanchard Goes Public. Colonel Blanchard made a crucial decision to announce the discovery of a flying saucer.
Barney Barnett's Discovery. Barney Barnett may have discovered the first proof of extraterrestrial life in 1947.
The Cover-Up Unfolds. The military quickly shifted the narrative to a weather balloon after the UFO sighting.

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