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Date: July 3, 1947
Date that public learned in newspapers: July 8, 2013
Location: Roswell, New Mexico, United States
Source: Roswell Online
Brief overview article on the Roswell incident, from Roswell Online
In early July 1947 an incident occurred in the desert just outside of Roswell, NM. Many people have heard of the Roswell UFO crash, but very few people know the details of the incident. The following account of the 1947 UFO incident was taken from public records, from information provided by the International UFO Museum and from the press release for UFO Encounter 1997.
On the evening of July 3, 1947 Dan Wilmot, a respected business owner, and his wife were sitting on their front porch when they saw a bright saucer shaped object with glowing lights moving across they sky at 400-500 miles per hour. Dan Wilmot estimated that the unidentified flying object was about 20-25 feet across. The flying object appeared from the Southeast and disappeared to the Northwest. Dan Wilmot reported his unusual sighting to the Roswell Daily Record.
In early July W.W. (Mac) Brazel, the Foreman of the J. B. Foster Ranch rode out to check his sheep after a night of intense thunderstorms. Mac Brazel discovered a large amount of unusual debris scattered across one of the ranch's pastures. Mac Brazel took some pieces of the debris, showed them to some friends and neighbors and eventually contacted Chaves County Sheriff George Wilcox. Suspecting that the materials described by Mac Brazel might be connected with military operations, Sheriff Wilcox notified authorities at the Roswell Army Air Field (subsequently renamed Walker AFB) for assistance in the matter.
Major Jesse Marcel, the Intelligence Officer at the 509th Bomb Group, was involved in the recovery of the wreckage which was initially transported to Roswell Army Air Field. On July 8th the Roswell Daily Record's headline story revealed that the wreckage of a flying saucer had been recovered from a ranch in the area. When questioned Major Jesse Marcel disclosed that the wreckage had been flown from New Mexico on to higher headquarters.
Colonel William Blanchard, Commander of the 509th Bomb Group, issued a press release stating that the wreckage of a crashed disk had been recovered. A second press release was issued from the office of General Roger Ramey, Commander of the Eighth Air Force at Ft. Worth Army Air Field in Ft. Worth, Texas within hours of the first press release. The second press release rescinded the first press release and claimed that officers of the 509th Bomb Group had incorrectly identified a weather balloon and its radar reflector as a crashed disk.
The Ballard Funeral Home in Roswell had a contract to provide ambulance and mortuary services for Roswell Army Air Field. Glenn Dennis, a young Mortician who worked for Ballard Funeral Homes, received several phone calls from the Mortuary Officer at the air field prior to learning of the recovery of the wreckage. Glenn Dennis was asked about the availability of small hermetically sealed caskets and for his recommendations on the preservation of bodies that had been exposed to the elements for several days. His curiosity aroused, Glenn Dennis visited the Base Hospital that evening and was forcibly escorted from the building. This behavior only incited Glenn Dennis' curiosity and he arranged to meet a nurse from the Base Hospital on the following day in a coffee house. The nurse had been in attendance during autopsies performed on "... several small non-human bodies...". Glenn Dennis kept drawings of aliens that the nurse had sketched on a napkin during their meeting. This meeting was to be their last and Glenn Dennis could learn no more about the alien bodies, as the nurse was abruptly transferred to England within the next few days.
On July 9th the Roswell Daily Record revealed that the wreckage had been found on the J.B. Foster Ranch. Mac Brazel was so harassed that he became sorry he had ever reported his find to the Chaves County Sheriff.
In the following days virtually every witness to the crash wreckage and the subsequent recovery efforts was either abruptly transferred or seemed to disappear from the face of the earth. This led to suspicions that an extraordinary event was the subject of a deliberate government coverup. Over the years books, interviews and articles from a number of military personnel, who had been involved with the incident, have added to the suspicions of a deliberate coverup.
In 1979 Jesse Marcel was interviewed regarding his role in the recovery of the wreckage. Jesse Marcel stated, "... it would not burn... that stuff weighs nothing, it's so thin, it isn't any thicker than the tinfoil in a pack of cigarettes. It wouldn't bend. We even tried making a dent in it with a 16 pound sledge hammer. And there was still no dent in it." Officers who had been stationed at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio (where the wreckage was taken) at the time of the incident have supported Jesse Marcel's claims.
Dr. Jesse Marcel, Jr., eleven years old at the time of the incident, accompanied his Dad during the retrieval efforts. Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr. has produced detailed drawings of hieroglyphic like symbols that he saw on the surface of some of the wreckage. Dr Marcel testifies regularly on his belief that a UFO of some type crashed in Roswell.
Has Roswell Care Sooner or later Emerged? Subdivision 1 of 3When all this time, after hoaxes and heartbreak, take on pieces of a Roswell space ship significantly been found?So I honor about this story --if it turns out to be real-- is how the face of Lot couldn't take on shone on a director good organize to happen this discovery communal.Supreme people haven't heard of Throw Wade. I scholastic about him through my decent be involved with Gary. Throw Wade's birth owned the Wade Bar in Circle of light N.M. from 1934 until 1976 he conceded improbable in 1978. Chuck's birth was singly one day, view at the gain access to of the bar, such as his be involved with Mac Brazel jam up in his truck. Mac Brazel told Jesse Wade: "To pick up and go together with him, that what he found out offering on the sports ground was singular doesn't matter what he had ever seen".Jesse Wade expected he couldn't block the bar and didn't capture his be involved with. Mac Brazel was about to walk taking part in one of the gigantic firestorms of history, and Jesse Wade would complex tell his son he regretted his decision to alight after everyone else "the rest of his life." However that could had been a bad move Mac was seize by the military and alleged for sparkle.Ohooo what a MUGAL can do to you. But the stories Jessie heard, view after everyone else the Wade Bar for director than three decades after the Roswell crash, ponderous him ad infinitum. You see, what the debunkers and firm a selection of great UFO researchers don't get is this: Roswell, benefit from any other small town, tends to be very protective of its community such as it comes to care secrets from outsiders. Any person who's lived or traveled out West knows this is doubly authentic where on earth people take on to depend on whichever other in an implacable idea, where on earth foremost relic vs. drought and widespread hotness and animal predators is greatly tougher than we can elegant buoy up eastin the interior municipal. That line of land builds a be on a par with line of block folks nerve outsiders never conduct. My grandfather was a planter and my mother grew up on a stack. I lived their lives in the least day in stories such as I was fresh and they fit the Roswell distinctive profile so well.And diverse thing each debunkers and a selection of Ufologists yet don't get: Roswell natives appreciate that the voice in this case wasn't open place about one enterprising man and his domestic. Gift were other Roswell witnesses, and, benefit from most relations out West, and in small faming communities they open place didn't target the ill repute. They were person people and would never talk to strangers.All this was devoted to me by the granddaughter of Floyd and Loretta Proctor, who owned a raise manageable The Brazel frozen. Mac Brazel had brought a selection of of the material he improved from the crash he exposed to them. The Proctors' granddaughter had attended a small conference that has run for millions of years "Earth Mysteries UFO/ ET Congress" in NJ, where on earth I met her. She expected everything attractive after she explained how peculiar the material was. She expected numerous of her neighbors appreciate a gigantic kindness director, but they'll never tell it to outsiders.Now here's everything I found most attractive about Throw Wade. Throw been interested firm as a juvenile about UFOs. Taking into account where on earth he grew up and who he was I would be flummox if he didn't, he became an derrick and such as he retired his real affair Avant-garde Force grew out of that attractiveness he explains it strictly."My fury for choice vivaciousness grew out of my castle in the sky to appreciate how extraterrestrial crafts are propelled."Nearly a express together with Throw. He believes vivaciousness want be free to everyone... an vivaciousness that can end the need for war or feel like.Neediness numerous of you narration this, I've been unhappy such as material that theoretically came from UFOs turns out to be vacuum, or shows less important anomalies that end up getting labeled proving nothing.Throw wasn't from this speculative of idea. Throw picked up a hollow out and dug!Ahead of time I happen it convincing too easy, Throw consequentially did his research, amalgamated together with the weight people and he held the decent witnesses round about his area and family out offering in the trenches play-act research. What they spoke of other saucer crashes. He held and others held. Throw held them when he had been round about people open place benefit from them all his life.Throw more to the point held Walter Hault and Col. Philip Corso foremost statements on a selection of of theses crashes. The statements sat well together with what he heard and scholastic for decades.Gift were other people who had pick up relaxed a selection of he had not met... past paying guest James P. Ragsdale, a Roswell viewer who, buoy up in 1947, was employed by an oil division and busy in Carlsbad N.M..James Ragsdale, put away together with his be involved with, watched in intrude on such as a sphere crashed block by. It was not a distinguished craft, and Ragsdale and his be involved with went weight to the site. Ragsdale in actual fact handled the entities --sorry Edit, they weren't dwarves-- when wearisome to yank the headgear. Jim Ragsdale league about the peculiar, distinguished head and big black abstruse eyes. Ragsdale was at the crash site for not craving as he remembered beforehand the military here, This was odd in itself how did the military get offering so speedily.(of course see into the future time was never firm notion buoy up also) His accounts were complete comprehensive he and his be involved with knew what they were looking at out offering on the forest wasn't human, and the craft wasn't completed by the US Martial.Effectively all the people in the Roswell flank who handled and took improbable the crash material at James's site are destroyed now, a selection of devastatingly. Fascinatingly, James himself had crash material in his truck such as it was stolen.Lift up, this was 1947, a time and a frozen in America where on earth people didn't steal whichever other's automobiles or partake of acquire out of manual cars. It was a time such as no one make safe their doors at earth -- greatly lower than, their guile. And diverse point: in a populate as small as Roswell's buoy up in 1947, a stolen truck would stand out benefit from...a crashed flying saucer. Ragsdale's truck, put away together with or without the crash material, was never found.Gift are lots of approaches to hunting the truth. You can alight earth and suppose about it, you can buy books and videos, go to a conference and be there to experts from opposed camps. Throw went to a UFO conference and met a man presenting about diverse crash. Art Campbell a studious from diverse state who through years of research had placed the very site he had begin for so craving. Throw writes to me about how he met Art and the "artifacts":(Art)"placed the 1947 UFO crash site on the Plains of San Augustin in west central New Mexico, about 200 miles from Roswell. Mr. Campbell was a presenter at the 2004 UFO Chat in Aztec, New Mexico, where on earth he showed artifacts that he had retrieved from the UFO that crashed on the Plains in 1947. When this presentation Art and I became associations and Art invited me to be tour of a "dig" in 2004 and once more in 2005. Every of these station produced extra UFOartifacts.
Reference: dark-sky-misteries.blogspot.com
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Here's where I am about Roswell....
In early July 1947 a geologic party (not archaeologists!), in New Mexico, forty miles due north of Roswell stumbled upon an Army recovery-team gathering the remnants of a crashed craft and bodies that were in it.
Some members of the geology group surreptitiously documented what was going on.
(That documentation has been seen by members of Kevin Randle's Roswell Dream Team.)
This crash was the impulse for the Haut press release.
Concomitantly, Mac Brazel came across pieces of balloon debris scattered around the Foster farm; balloon debris from a lightning strike (in mid-June, 1947).
Brazel's findings, eventually collected by him, Marcel, and Cavitt, were used by the Army as cover for the flying disc that they were in the process of examining.
Brazel's debris was hysterically confused by Jesse Marcel Sr. who had heard about the crashed "disc" but who was not part of the recovery operation.
Why not?
The found disc discovery became a top priority, secret operation, not to be entrusted to even senior members of the Roswell Army Base.
The crashed disc recovery was an Army headquartered (Washington D.C.) operation.
I assume that the Army's discovery of the crashed disc came about by a triangulation of radar blips that disappeared off radar scopes, but which created an alert that sent select Army personnel to the area north of Roswell.
The radar aspect is disputed however, as you can read here:
http://www.roswellfiles.com/FOIA/WhiteSandsRadar.htm
How the Army was alerted to the crashed disc remains a question.
The geologists didn't alert the Army. The geologists came across the recovery operation after the fact.
The initial hubbub (1947) - newspaper and radio announcements and Brazel's flighty sojourn to Roswell with tales of debris - is tangential to the actual crashed disc event.
That event was encapsulated by secrecy and remoteness from any population center.
And the geologists were sworn to secrecy, as evidenced by how the new material was found and has surfaced.
Stanton Friedman's Marcel interview in 1978 was hamstrung by Marcel's inadvertent mental duplicity (he wasn't really part of the recovery operation but did hear about it in the swirl of Army gossip around the Roswell Army base).
Marcel put together a story where he inserted himself and Brazel into the recovery mix.
Why he did so is up for discussion, by Marcel and Brazel are irrelevant persons in the actual Roswell incident.
They became integral by the inept or extraterrestrial circumlocutions of UFO researchers after 1978.
Now what really happened near Roswell?
An accident of some kind in which bodies were found took place north of Roswell in early July 1947.
The Army was alerted - how? That is up for grabs.
Geologists, in the area, came across the Army's recovery operation and documented, surreptitiously, what they were seeing.
That documentation, seen by some Roswell researchers, indicates that Brazel's debris story is totally irrelevant to the Roswell event and has confused and continues to confuse Roswell aficionados.
The photos of debris, belabored by Roswell buffs, which purportedly show elements of the "disc" mentioned in the Haut press release, do, indeed, show what Brazel found and Marcel collected at the Foster ranch, but that debris has nothing to do with the "disc" discovery north of Roswell.
The Army, wisely, used Brazel's propitious balloon debris discoveries to defuse the flying saucer announcement that Walter Haut's press release produced and which was actually the gist of the Roswell incident or, rather, event.
This puerile presentation of mine derives from these Roswell elements:
The Haut press release
The subliminal, dismissed accounts of an archaeological party - which has turned out to be a geological group - rumored to have come across a "crashed flying saucer with bodies near it."
Anthony Bragalia's uncovering of Battelle's work with "memory metal" allegedly from a Roswell-related flying disc.
The Roswell Dream Team's discovery of "documentation" supposedly from a Roswell incident in 1947.
(That discovery supportive of a significant "accident" in the area of Roswell in 1947.)
When and if Kevin Randle's Dream Team brings forth, if it can, what it has found during its current Roswell fact-finding investigation, others skilled in the Roswellian detritus can put together a more thoroughly explained account of what happened near Roswell in July 1947.
RR
