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| incident_name = Roswell Crash Incident | | incident_name = Roswell Crash Incident | ||
| incident_date = | | incident_date = July 2, 1947 | ||
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| location = | | location = [[Foster Ranch]] | ||
| state_provence = New Mexico | | state_provence = New Mexico | ||
| city_town = Corona | | city_town = Corona | ||
| country = | | country = USA | ||
| shape = | | shape = | ||
| contact = | | contact = Yes | ||
| alien_race = | | alien_race = | ||
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| case_file = [[The Roswell UFO Incident Main Page]] | |||
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* UFO Crash at Roswell by [[Kevin D. Randle]] & [[Donald R. Schmitt]], Published 1991 by Avon Books | * UFO Crash at Roswell by [[Kevin D. Randle]] & [[Donald R. Schmitt]], Published 1991 by Avon Books | ||
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| summary = On the night of 2nd July 1947, [[Mac Brazel]] a rancher from near Corona, New Mexico heard a loud crash. The next day he went out Horseback riding with a neighbor and came upon a field with debris scattered about. | |||
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Latest revision as of 02:38, 18 April 2025
| Incident Name: | Roswell Crash Incident |
|---|---|
| Incident Date: | July 2, 1947 |
| Location: | Foster Ranch |
| State/Provence: | New Mexico |
| City/Town : | Corona |
| Country : | USA |
| Contact : | Yes |
| Case Files : | [[The Roswell UFO Incident Main Page]] |
On the night of 2nd July 1947, Mac Brazel a rancher from near Corona, New Mexico heard a loud crash. The next day he went out Horseback riding with a neighbor and came upon a field with debris scattered about. The debris field was 3/4 of a mile long and 300 feet wide. It was oriented in a northwest to southeast direction. There was a gouge in the northwest side of the debris field that was 500 feet long and 10 feet wide. The debris on the field mostly consisted of I-beams and parchment like, paper thin pieces of metal material. The material was very light in weight, a dull gray in color, and most pieces were 6 to 7 inches in length. Some pieces that were even thinner than paper could not be broken in half, cut or burnt.
Mac Brazel collected several pieces of the debris and went back to his ranch. On July 6, Brazel went into Roswell to report what he had seen and to show a piece of the debris to sheriff Wilcox. The sheriff decided to call the local air base. During this time Frank Joyce called in from the local radio station to see if anything newsworthy was happening around town. Brazel gave him the information about what he had found.
Major Jesse A. Marcel and a few other military personal arrived from the base only a few minutes after the sheriff had finished talking to the people at the base. Brazel and the military personal left and went back to the Ranch. The next morning (July 7) they went to the crash sight. The military retrieved some of the debris and returned to Roswell.
On July 8, the military came back and sealed off the area, they took Brazel into custody. That same day they found a second crash site two and 1/2 miles southeast of the first. Barney Barnett and 4 archaeologists had stumbled onto the new site a few minutes before the military had arrived there. At the site they found a "pretty good sized metallic dull gray object" and 4 small alien bodies(See Short Greys. They were 4 to 5 feet tall, with large pear shaped heads, small bodies and skinny arms and legs. They had two large eyes, no ears and no hair. Their skin was pinkish grey and leathery. They were wearing a one piece grey suits. The civilians were escorted out of the area when the military arrived.
On July 9th the military escorted Brazel to the radio station , there he told Frank Joyce that he saw a weather balloon. He left again with the military and didn't get back to his ranch until around July 15. Later when asked about what had happened Brazel said he had given a oath and could not talk about it.
The Incident remained closed and the public and UFO research organizations at large accepted the weather balloon story until 1970 when Jesse A. Marcel broke the silence and told his part in the story.
The case has been extensively researched by Stanton Friedman and independently by the team of Kevin Randle and Don Schmitt. Between them they have discovered around 200 witnesses who claim to have been involved in the recovery or subsequent handling of the Roswell material. Researcher John Keel has suggested that the Roswell material might be the remains of a Japanesse Feugo balloon, a balloon with a bomb attached launched towards the USA during World War II. These were still being discovered in remote parts of the USA in the late 1940s.
In 1994 at the request of US Senator Steven Schiff the General Audit Office started an inquiry into the incident and subsequent cover-up. The GAO required the US Air Force to reopen the inquiry. After a nine month study the Air Force announced that the Roswell object had not been a weather balloon but a balloon involved in a top secret project to study Soviet missile launches. Many UFO investigators remain unconvinced by this explanation.
Main source:
- UFO Crash at Roswell by Kevin D. Randle & Donald R. Schmitt, Published 1991 by Avon Books
