It was inspected at the Roswell Army Air Field and subsequently loaned by Major Marcel to higher headquarters. Marcel of the 509th Bomb Group Intelligence Office.Īction was immediately taken and the disc was picked up at the rancher's home. Not having phone facilities, the rancher stored the disc until such time as he was able to contact the sheriff's office, who in turn notified Maj. The flying object landed on a ranch near Roswell sometime last week. The many rumors regarding the flying disc became a reality yesterday when the intelligence office of the 509th Bomb group of the Eighth Air Force, Roswell Army Air Field, was fortunate enough to gain possession of a disc through the cooperation of one of the local ranchers and the sheriff's office of Chaves County. On July 8, 1947, RAAF public information officer Walter Haut issued a press release stating that personnel from the field's 509th Operations Group had recovered a "flying disc", which had landed on a ranch near Roswell. Marcel boarded a B-29 Superfortress and made the flight to FWAAF. General Ramey ordered the material flown to FWAAF immediately. Blanchard reported the finding to General Roger Ramey at Fort Worth Army Air Field (FWAAF). On Tuesday morning, July 8, Marcel took the material to his base commander, Colonel William Blanchard. Marcel took the material home on Monday night. Brazel took Marcel back to the debris site, and the two gathered up more pieces of rubber and tinfoil.
The sheriff called Roswell Army Air Field, which assigned the matter to Major Jesse Marcel. On Sunday, July 6, Brazel dug out the debris and on Monday, July 7, he took it in to the sheriff's office in Roswell. When Brazel heard stories of silvery flying discs that Saturday night in Corona, he decided to gather up his prior find. Brazel previously had gathered it and pushed it under some brush to dispose of it. The debris – tinfoil, rubber, and thin wooden beams – had been scattered across a square mile of the ranch. Īs a result, it was not until Saturday night that Brazel connected debris he'd found three weeks earlier with the flying disks in the news. The ranch had no phone and no radio, leaving Brazel unaware of the flying saucer craze of the prior ten days. "Mac" Brazel made a trip from his remote ranch to town, Corona, New Mexico. On Saturday night, July 5, 1947, rancher W.W. Historians would later chronicle over 800 "copycat" sightings that were reported after the Arnold story was published. On June 26, media nationwide had reported civilian pilot Kenneth Arnold's story of seeing what became known as "Flying Saucers". The Roswell incident occurred amid the flying saucer craze of 1947. The city of Roswell, New Mexico has capitalized on the event the city's official seal now features a little green man while the city contains countless ufology attractions, events, statues and iconography.Ĭlass=notpageimage| Roswell was one of many Army Airfields in New Mexico when debris was recovered from a ranch near Corona. The incident has been described as "the world's most famous, most exhaustively investigated, and most thoroughly debunked UFO claim". A second Air Force report, published in 1997, concluded that stories of "aliens bodies" probably stemmed from test dummies being dropped from high altitude.Ĭonspiracy theories about the event nevertheless persist, and the Roswell incident continues to be of interest in popular media. In 1994, the United States Air Force published a report identifying the crashed object as a nuclear test surveillance balloon from Project Mogul. Ufologists began promoting a variety of increasingly elaborate conspiracy theories, claiming that one or more alien spacecraft had crash-landed and that the extraterrestrial occupants had been recovered by the military, which then engaged in a cover-up. The Roswell incident did not surface again until the late 1970s, when retired lieutenant colonel Jesse Marcel, in an interview with ufologist Stanton Friedman, said he believed the debris he retrieved was extraterrestrial. The Army quickly retracted the statement and said instead that the crashed object was a conventional weather balloon. On July 8, 1947, Roswell Army Air Field issued a press release stating that they had recovered a "flying disc".
The Roswell incident is the 1947 recovery of balloon debris from a ranch near Corona, New Mexico by United States Army Air Forces officers from Roswell Army Air Field, and the conspiracy theories, decades later, claiming that the debris involved a flying saucer and that the truth had been covered up by the United States government.
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