Unidentified flying objects -- Sightings and encounters -- New Mexico -- Roswell
Dennis recalled that the nurse was quickly and suspiciously shipped out
either the same day or the day after he met with her in the Roswell
AAF Officers’ Club. If this allegation was true, it certainly seemed
unusual—and verifiable. Therefore, the morning reports, the certified
daily personnel accounting records required to be kept by all Army Air
Forces units at that time, were obtained and reviewed. These reports
did not indicate that a nurse or any other person was reassigned on
the days alleged, July 8 or July 9, 1947.[40] The morning reports of
the 427th Army Air Forces Base Unit (AAFBU) Squadron “M,” the unit
that all the medical personnel at Roswell AAF were assigned in July
1947, did not indicate a sudden or overseas transfer of a nurse or
any other person. Records indicated that one nurse was reassigned on
July 23, 1947, over two weeks after the purported events described by
Dennis.[41] That nurse was transferred by normal personnel rotation
procedures to Ft. Worth AAF (now Carswell AFB), Texas, where she
remained on active duty until March 1949.[42] In fact, the Squadron “M”
morning reports revealed the strength of the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) at
Roswell AAF for July 1947 was only five nurses. Of these five nurses
none were transferred overseas or killed in a plane crash—the “rumored”
fate of the missing nurse.[43]
This review of the hospital morning reports also indicated that the
name of the missing nurse provided by the witness was inaccurate. The
witness stated in several interviews that he believed the nurse’s name
was Naomi Maria Selff.[44] A comprehensive search of morning reports
and rosters from the Roswell AAF Station Hospital indicated that no
person by this name, or a similar name, had ever served there. This
finding was supported by a search of personnel records at the National
Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in St. Louis, Mo., a part of the
National Archives and Record Administration. NPRC is the depository for
all U.S. military personnel records. The search at NPRC also did not
find a record that a person named Naomi Maria Selff had ever served in
any branch of the U.S. Armed Forces.
These findings were consistent with previous efforts of several
pro-UFO researchers who have also attempted to locate this nurse or
members of her family. They, likewise, were also unable to confirm
her existence.[45] While some UFO theorists continue to allege that
this absence of records regarding a nurse by this name is part of a
conspiracy to withhold information, the most likely reason for the lack
of records is that this name is inaccurate.[*]
[*] Interestingly, an article published in the Fall 1995 edition
of _Omni_ magazine, a publication that in the past has published
sensational “Roswell” claims, also independently accounted for all
five of the nurses and expressed a decidedly skeptical opinion of
the account of the “missing nurse.”
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