Crash/Retrieval
Foster Ranch, near Roswell, Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA.
2 July 1947

On July 2nd 1947 a Roswell family was standing outside their house when they saw a big glowing object traveling through the south-eastern sky. It looked like two inverted saucers faced mouth to mouth.

On a ranch 30 miles (48 km) from Coronaa, and 75 miles (120 km) north-west of Roswell, Mac Brazel who owned the ranch heard an explosion above the sound of thunder during a rain-storm. The next day while checking his sheep, Brazel saw some wreckage spread across his land. The debris consisted of a metallic, foil-like substance. This material was very thin, pliable and tough. It would not permanently bend or crease the material. There were some unusual markings on it too.

Brazel told the U.S. Army at Roswell about this object. The next day with troops on the sight, they kept everyone off the land until they had cleared it. One of the officers stated that he had never seen anything like it. It even resisted prolonged attack by blowtorch and a 16lb (7 kg) sledge hammer, despite its thinness and if crumpled it would slowly revert to its original form.

On the same day a civil engineer was working in the desert about three miles (5 km) from where the debris were scattered. He saw what he thought was a crashed aircraft. He found some sort of metallic, disk-shaped object about 30ft (9 m) in diameter, and split open. Around and inside it were a number of bodies. They were small, hairless humanoids with large heads, wearing gray, one piece suits without fasteners. Soon a US Army jeep drove up. The officer on board declared the area off limits and under military control.

There is considerable testimony that there were secret cargoes flown under heavy guard from Rosewell to Forth Worth, Texas and Wright Patterson AFB at Dayton, Ohio, over the next few days.

There was definitely something that the military establishment wanted to keep very secret. But the evidence will fit many scenarios that probably don't have any involvement with exterrestrial craft of aliens.

First the U.S. Army's story that the debris were from a balloon is a very possibility. At that time the U.S. Navy and the CIA were planing the Moby program. This program was to send high altitude balloons over the soviet Union. The military would have wanted this to stay a secret.

Second, Researcher John Keel noted htat in World War II the Japanese had developed balloons, made of very tough paper, that carried incendiary bombs. Witnesses said the writings on the Roswell debris were like the writing on firecrackers, and were arranged in columns.

The army was interested in Brazel's find for two reasons. The 509th Bomb Group at Roswell was then the worlds only nuclear-equipped attack unit, and anything that would suggest spying on it would have brought a very swift action by the US Army. But if the threat turned out to be a leftover from W.W.II, the cover up would have been to avoid admitting that the USA was still being bombed by Japan two years after the war had ended.

None of the solutions covered hear could explain every aspect of the Roswell case. There has been a lot of testimony and other evidence that has been circumstantial or fakes. Supporters of the crashed saucer forget to remember that the most likely cargo brought to Roswell were probably atomic weapons, or parts of them at least.

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