Roswell 1947 - Involved people

Alan D. Clark

(Al CLARK, Alan CLARK, Alan D. CLARK, Col. Alan D. CLARK, Alvin CLARK).

Biography:

In 1937, US Military Academy Class.
In 1938, Flight Training Class C.
Became Operations Officer of the 25th Bomber Group in Puerto Rico.
September 1943, became Deputy Commander of the 444th Bomber Group.
Through August 1944, commanded the forward base of the 444th.
Then assigned stateside to Tactical School Orlando, Florida.
In June 1945, Assistant to the Chief of Staff A-3 58th Bomber Wing, in Tinian.
In June 1947, Colonel Alan D. Clark was at Fort Worth Army Air Field.
On November 17, took command of the 7th Bombardment Wing, Very Heavy at Fort Worth Army Air Field (FWAA), replacing Colonel Wheeless.
(On September 18, 1947, the Army Air Forces became the autonomous United States Air Force.)
In 1948, he is still in command of the 7th Bombardment wing, in Fort Worth, and receipts the first operational B-36 strategic bomber, with General Ramey, Chief of the 8th Air Force.

Affidavits:

I did not locate any affidavit by Alan D. Clark.

Interviews and public statements:

I did not find any indication that Alan D. Clark ever stated anything in person about the Roswell incident.

Investigators' notes and comments:

Comments found on the Internet:

"Col. Alan D. Clark flies debris in a B-26 from Ft. Worth to Washington, DC for Gen. McMullen."

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"At the Fort Worth Field, DuBose and Col. Alan D. Clark, the base commander, meet the aircraft from Roswell. Clark receives the plastic bag of debris and walks it to a waiting B-29 to fly it to Washington."

No source indicated for this comments and similar comments found on the Internet in various Roswell incident timelines.

Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt:

According by the two Roswell incident investigators Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt, Colonel Thomas J. DuBose, General Ramey's chief of staff at that time, attested: "Actually it was a cover story. ... The balloon part of it ... the remnants [from Roswell] were taken from this location, and Al Clark (the base commander at Fort Worth) took [them] to Washington, [D.C.,] and whatever happened then, I have no knowledge. That part of it [the weather balloon] was, in fact, a story that we were told to give to the public and the news, and that was it."

Source:

"The Roswell Report, "...The Biggest Lie I Ever Had to Tell"", article by Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt.

Gildas Bourdais:

"Colonel DuBose personally controls the transfer of the bag on board of another plane (B-25 or B-26), which leaves at once for Washington. DuBose attached the bag to the wrist of colonel Alan Clark, commander of the base, responsible for this transport."

Source:

"Roswell et "La rumeur de Roswell"", article by Gildas Bourdais, October 1999.

David Rudiak:

"According to Dubose, this debris traveled from Roswell to Fort Worth and was transferred to another plane, with the Fort Worth base commander, Col. Alvin Clark acting personally as the new courier, obviously attesting to the importance attached to this shipment. This was then flown to Washington and from there to the aeronautical labs at Wright Field for further analysis. (The story of this shipment is mentioned in Dubose's affidavit, but confused with the other events of July 8. In other interviews Dubose made it clear that this shipment took place several days before when he was first made aware of the discovery at Roswell.)"

Source:

"Brig. Gen. Thomas Jefferson Dubose and the Weather Balloon Cover Story", article by David Rudiak, web page www.roswellproof.homestead.com/dubose.html.

Document history:

Version:	Created/Changed by:	Date:	Change Description:
1.0	Patrick Gross	July 20, 2003	First published.

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