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Roswell Daily Record for Tuesday, July 8, 1947

NO DETAILS OF FLYING DISK ARE REVEALED

The intelligence office of the 509th Bombardment group at Roswell Army Field

announced at noon today, that the field has come into possession of a flying

saucer.

According to information released by the department, over authority of Maj.

J.A. Marcel, intelligence officer, the disk was recovered on a ranch in the

Roswell vicinity, after an unidentified rancher had notified Sheriff Geo.

Wilcox, here, that he had found the instrument on his premises.

Major Marcel and a detail from his department went to the ranch and

recovered the disk, it was stated.

After the intelligence officer here had inspected the instrument it was

flown to higher headquarters. The intelligence office stated that no details

of the saucer's construction or its appearance had been revealed.

Mr. and Mrs. Dan Wilmot apparently were the only persons in Roswell who saw

what they thought was a flying disk. They were sitting on their porch at 105

South Penn. last Wednesday night at about ten o'clock when a large glowing

object zoomed out of the sky from the southeast, going in a northwesterly

direction at a high rate of speed. Wilmot called Mrs. Wilmot's attention to

it and both ran down into the yard to watch. It was in slight less then a

minute, perhaps 40 or 50 seconds, Wilmot estimated. Wilmot said that it

appeared to him to be about 1,500 feet high and going fast. He estimated

between 400 and 500 miles per hour.

In appearance it looked oval in shape like two inverted saucers, faced mouth

to mouth, or like two old type washbowls placed, together in the same

fashion. The entire body glowed as though light were showing through from

inside, though not like it would inside, though not like it would be if a

light were merely underneath. From where he stood Wilmot said the object

looked to be about 5 feet in size, and making allowance for the distance it

was from town he figured that it must have been 15 to 20 feet in diameter,

though this was just a guess.

Wilmot said that he heard no sound but that Mrs. Wilmot said she heard a

swishing sound for a very short time.

The object came into view from the southeast and disappeared over the

treetops in the general vicinity of six mile hill.

Wilmot, who is one of the most respected and reliable citizens in town, kept

the story to himself hoping that someone else would come and tell about

having seen one, but finally today decided that he would go ahead and tell

about it. The announcement that rhe RAAF was in possession of one came only

a few minutes after he decided to release the details of what he had seen.

The above is the Roswell Daily Record exactly as it appeared 50 years ago.

Fifty years ago, an incident occurred in the

southwestern desert of the United States that could have

significant implications for all mankind. The incident

was announced by the U.S. military, subsequently denied

by the U.S. military, and has remained veiled in

government secrecy ever since. Although it is in a

category fraught with false claims and hoaxes, it is not

a hoax or false claim, but rather a known event that is

thoroughly documented. It is the objective here to

summarize the details of that event, affirm the right of

all people throughout the world to know the truth about

what occurred, and propose a course of action that will

allow that truth to emerge.

The event took place during the first week of July 1947 and involved the

recovery of wreckage by the military from a remote ranch northwest of

Roswell, New Mexico. There is now considerable testimony from former members

of the military known to have been involved, including two brigadier

generals, that the recovered material was not of terrestrial origin.

Admittedly, such a claim taxes the limits of credibility for discerning and

rational individuals. It also tends to evoke a response of immediate

dismissal. The preponderance of evidence, however, indicates the event

occurred.

On January 12, 1994, United

States Congressman Steven Detailed information on the

Schiff of Albuquerque, New recovery of the wreckage at

Mexico, stated to the press Roswell and of related events is

that he had been stonewalled extensive. Some years ago

by the Defense Department when investigators were able to obtain

requesting information a copy of the 1947 Roswell Army

regarding the 1947 Roswell Air Field yearbook. This enabled

event on behalf of them to locate witnesses

constituents and witnesses. throughout the country. Newspaper

Indicating he was seeking accounts show that during late

further investigation into the June and early July 1947, there

matter, Congressman Schiff was a wave of reports of "flying

called the Defense disks" (UFOs) throughout the

Department's lack of response United States and Canada. Many of

"astounding" and concluded it those reports came from credible

was apparently "another witnesses, including pilots and

government coverup." other trained observers.

Sometime during the first week

of July 1947, a local New

Mexico rancher, Mac Brazel,

while riding out in the morning

to check his sheep after a

night of intense thunderstorms,

discovered a considerable

amount of unusual debris. It

had created a shallow gouge

several hundred feet long and

was scattered over a large

area. Some of the debris had

strange physical properties.

After taking a few pieces to

show his neighbors, Floyd and

Loretta Proctor, Brazel drove

into Roswell and contacted the

sheriff, George Wilcox. Sheriff

Wilcox notified authorities at

Roswell Army Air Field and with

the assistance of his deputies,

proceeded to investigate the

matter. Shortly after becoming

involved, the military closed

off the area for a number of

days and retrieved the

wreckage. It was initially

taken to Roswell Army Air Field

and eventually flown by B-29

and C-54 aircraft to Wright

Field in Dayton, Ohio.

Roswell Army Air Field was the

home of the 509th Bomb Group,

which was an elite outfit -- the

only atomic group in the world.

On the morning of July 8, 1947,

Colonel William Blanchard,

Commander of the 509th Bomb

Group, issued a press release

stating that the wreckage of a

"crashed disk" (UFO) had been

recovered. The press release was

transmitted over the wire

services in time to make

headlines in over thirty U.S.

afternoon newspapers that same

day. Within hours, a second

press release was issued from

the office of General Roger

Ramey, Commander of the Eighth

Air Force at Fort Worth Army Air

Field in Texas, 400 miles from

the crash site. It rescinded the

first press release and, in

effect, claimed that Colonel

Blanchard and the officers of

the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell

had made an unbelievably foolish

mistake and somehow incorrectly

identified a weather balloon and

its radar reflector as the

wreckage of a "crashed disk."

One of those two press releases had to be untrue. There is now solid

testimony from numerous credible military and civilian witnesses who were

directly involved, that the "crashed disk" press release issued by Colonel

William Blanchard of the 509th Bomb Group from Roswell was true and that the

subsequent "weather balloon" press release from Eighth Air Force

Headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas, was a hastily contrived cover story.

Those who knew and worked with William Blanchard say he was a solid,

no-nonsense, businesslike individual, and not someone who would make a fool

of himself and the Air Force by ordering a press release about something as

out of the ordinary and dramatic as the event at Roswell without being

certain he was correct. In other words, if Blanchard issued a press release

saying there was a crashed disk, there was a crashed disk. Colonel William

Blanchard would later go on to become a four-star general and Vice Chief of

Staff of the United States Air Force.

The first witness located by investigators who was willing to testify and

allow his name to be used was retired Lieutenant Colonel Jesse Marcel, the

intelligence officer of the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell. He was a highly

competent individual and one of the first two military officers at the

actual crash site. In a 1979 videotaped interview, Jesse Marcel stated,

"...it was not a weather balloon, nor was it an airplane or a missile." As

to the exotic properties of some of the material, he 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. So, I tried to bend the stuff. It

wouldn't bend. We even tried making a dent in it with a sixteen-pound sledge

hammer. And there was still no dent in it."

It is inconceivable that a man

of Jesse Marcel's

qualifications and experience,

the intelligence officer of the

only atomic-bomb group in the

world, would have mistaken any

kind of conventional wreckage,

much less the remains of a During his career, Jesse Marcel

weather balloon and its radar Sr., went on to other important

reflector, for that of a craft assignments, including the

or vehicle that in his words preparation of a report on the

was "not of this earth." Even first Soviet nuclear detonation,

if he had initially made such a which went directly to President

gross misidentification, he Truman. The late General Thomas

would certainly have been able DuBose was a colonel and General

to see his mistake later after Ramey's chief of staff at Eighth

it had been brought to his Air Force Headquarters in Forth

attention. When returning to Worth, Texas, in 1947. Before

the base, he stopped by his his death in 1992, General

house with a few pieces of the DuBose testified that he himself

unusual wreckage to show his had taken the telephone call

wife and eleven-year-old son. from General Clements McMullen

One piece, a small section of at Andrews Army Air Field in

I-beam, had strange Washington, D.C., ordering the

hieroglyphic like symbols on coverup. The instructions were

its surface. His son, Dr. Jesse for General Ramey to concoct a

Marcel, Jr., now a practicing "cover story" to "get the press

medical doctor and qualified off our backs."

National Guard helicopter pilot

and flight surgeon, remembers

the incident well. He has been

able to produce detailed

drawings of some of the

symbols.

This photograph of the wreckage, which appears to be

nothing more than aluminum foil and wood, was part of

the agenda to maintain the weather balloon "cover

story".

[this document has been written by someone independent from the Infovault]