Roswell Reflections: Boldra and Kromschroeder
According to the information that I have, Major Ellis Boldra, an engineer stationed at Roswell after the UFO crash, discovered samples of the debris in a safe in the engineering office in 1952. In the course of his experiments with it, he tried to burn and melt part of it with an acetylene torch but it only got warm and didn’t glow. He tried to cut it with a variety of tools but failed. He described it to others as being extremely thin and when crumpled, it would quicky return to its original shape. One of Boldra’s friends said that it wasn’t any kind of metal that he could identify.
Dr. John Kromschroeder told me in an interview in interviews conducted in July and August 1990 that he had gotten the sample from Pappy Henderson and that Henderson had gotten it from Boldra. Kromschroeder said that this sample was gray and resembled aluminum foil but was harder and stiffer. He couldn’t bend it but had to be careful because the edges were sharp. He said that it didn’t seem to have a crystalline structure based on the fracturing of it. It hadn’t been torn. He also said that when properly engergized, it produced a “perfect” illumination.
Pflock seeks to discredit Kromschroeder by suggesting that he had an interest in UFOs and in the Billy Meier contact. This is guilt by association. Now we have Henderson, who, according to Pflock is a great practical joker inventing the story of the metal and finding something that Kromschroeder would not be able to identify. It is all a great joke, according to Pflock.
But he fails to report that Sappho Henderson said, of her husband, that when someone like him tells you that he’s seen the bodies of an alien flight crew and that he flew parts of the wreckage to Wright Field, you believe him. Certainly not the picture that Pflock paints of his reliability.
So, what we have here is the story, given to Pflock that Henderson liked to play practical jokes and information from a dubious source of an interview given by an associate of Henderson that suggested he had a piece of a V-2 that he used to show people telling them it was from a flying saucer.
All this and remember that Pflock told me, and others, that his first past at having Roswell in Perspective published was rejected because it wasn’t skeptical enough. Pflock then set out to get this more skeptical information. He did this by innuendo, guilt by association, and using the information developed by a man who has proven time and again that his information is not reliable.
This is all I have on Kromschroeder and Boldra. While Kromschroeder is first hand, meaning he told it to me, Boldra is, at best, second hand, coming from Kromschroeder.