Roswell
Roswell, New Mexico, USA, 1947
It was July 1947 and Mac Brazel, a sheep ranch foreman, discovered metallic wreckage strewn across a wide area of about a mile of his ranch. The pieces were of different sizes and possessed strange properties. They had an ability to be folded like cardboard yet spring back instantly into shape (something which scientiests are only now experimenting with in the form of "smart metals"), and despite being hit with a mallett no denting or damage was visible. Brazels ranch was, as mentioned, some eighty miles from Roswell so it was not until three days later that he was able to drive his amazing samples into town.
Summising that the parts must be from some military device (this area was the heart of secret military testing for atomic bombs, rockets, radar etc.) Brazel took them straight to Major Jesse Marcel at the local air base. Baffled by the remains (Marcel was an experienced military technician and had seen nothing like them), he returned with Brazel and a flight Captain to investigate the sight further.
The men were able to collect huge quantities of debris some comprising of strange I-beams and some like thin yet incredibly strong foil. Before taking the debris back to base Marcel couldnt resist pulling in to his home to show his family the incredible find. Jesse Marcel Jnr recalled years later the incredible dull grey material with strange almost hieroglyphic etchings on some.
The next morning an unprecedented news released was issued to the press that detailed the discovery of a flying saucer by the military. The fact that this revelation had come from the military soon spread throughout the world press and within 24 hours a new release claimed that the discovery had in fact been a huge military weather balloon. Photographs of Major Marcel beside obvious balloon like materials was also presented and soon the matter was dropped and forgotten.
In fact the Roswell incident may well have stayed like that if a young Hughie Green (yes I mean that most sincerely folks!) had not written to The Flying Saucer Review in 1955. Green had been passing through the area in 1947 and heard the news reports updated through the day. Later however the issue became strangely silent and on discovering FSR he decided to relay the story to see if anyone had heard further. This account revitalised interest in the story and then in 1978 one of the airmen responsible for the initial news release decided to come forward to reveal his amazing tales.
After nearly 18 years of painstaking research and congress lobbying the trail of events now seems to point towards not one but two crashes in the area. What is more startling is that at least one may have involved the recovery of occupants. Grady Barnett, a civil engineer with the US Soil Conservation Society was on military assignment at the time and recounts an amazing story...
"There was a disc shaped craft some 25-30 feet in diameter... on the sand beside the craft were dead bodies. Their heads were round with slanting eyes and no hair... Their heads were larger in proportion to a human head and their bodies smaller. They were grey in color and wore bodyfitting one piece suits with no obvious zippers or buttons."
Further accounts relate how the local mortician received a strange call in the night requesting him to bring three small child size coffins to the base and when he reached the base he was hurried off by the military.
It is now believed that the craft and their occupants were taken by the airforce to Wright Patterson Airforace base (the base features heavily in UFO recovery accounts) where they were may reside to this day. Recent attempts have been made under the Freedom of Information Act in the USA to have the Amercian Congress release all the related documents of the times. However despite the legal requirement for the military to comply it is evident that not all materials have been offered up. Furthermore the US government recently ordered an investigation into the affair with the resulting findings reemphasising the old weather balloon theory. Most recently a fresh top level investigation has been promised and the UFOlogists the world over await its findings with great anticipation.
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