When I walked in I thought, Why are you waking me up to look at some garbage here? He says, No, look at this carefully because this is not something you’ll ever see again. And he said, I think this is parts of what they call flying saucers. Jesse Marcel junior
A metal beam like a small miniaturised I-beam and it had these purplish-violent symbols on the inside edge of it. Jesse Marcel junior
The skies over New Mexico were full of unidentified flying objects during the last week of June 1947. Over two hundred sightings were reported that week throughout the United States. The Roswell Conspiracy
Suddenly Dan [Wilmot] noticed a big glowing object coming from a south-easterly direction at a very high speed. He called it to the attention of his wife saying, Look, darling, what is that? Wilmot described the object as oval-shaped like two saucers put together. ibid.
William M Woody of Roswell declared in a sworn affidavit that on that hot night of July 3rd 1947 both he and his father saw a large very bright object in the south-western sky moving rapidly northward. The object had the intensity of a blowtorch. ibid.
On July 4th three Franciscan nuns who served as nurses at St Mary’s hospital noted in their log-book that on the night of July 4th between 11:15 and 11:30 they saw a flying object on fire that came down in a curve north of Roswell. ibid.
Rancher Mac Brazel and his neighbours heard a loud explosion around 11:30 p.m. At the same time Jim Ragsdale and his girlfriend Trudy were camping in the desert some forty miles north-west of Roswell. Suddenly they observed a bright flash and what appeared to be a bright light source falling from the sky and moving toward the south-east. ibid.
Then there it was: a downed craft of unknown origin. They radioed Roswell Army Air Field of their find; they asked for a chemical team to be dispatched to the site to determine the safety of approaching the wreckage. The chemical crew arrived and examined the craft and gave clearance for the recovery to begin. Five alien bodies were discovered. One of the bodies was thrown free of the craft. One was found half in half out of the craft. And the other three were still inside. They were all dead. ibid.
Early on the morning of July 5th rancher Mac Brazel accompanied by Dee Proctor, the son of a neighbour, rode out to see the damage the storm from the previous night had done. The sight that met their eyes stunned them. There before them about five miles from the ranch-house was a debris-field some two hundred yards wide and over three-quarters of a mile long. Fragments of metallic parts lay everywhere. Something must have crashed there. A plane? Must have exploded. A weather balloon? Impossible. Brazel had already found over a dozen weather and test balloons on his land. It was clear to him this was something different. ibid.
On the morning of July 7th Mac Brazel, Major Marcel and Captain Cavitt were back at the Foster ranch to investigate the debris field. Marcel and Cavitt collected material all afternoon, filled their vehicles and made their way back to Roswell Army Air Field. On the way Marcel stopped by his home late that night. He woke up his wife and son, Jesse Junior, to share with them what he had found. He took a few pieces of debris into the house spread them out on the kitchen floor. ‘This is something very special,’ he said to his son. ‘It doesn’t come from this world. And I want you to remember this all of your life.’ ibid.
UFO believers feel that this is the biggest story of all time: and they may just be right. The World’s Strangest UFO Stories: Roswell, Discovery 2006
And those two press releases are where the stories gets so much of its juice; one day it’s War of the Worlds, and the next day it’s a weather balloon. ibid.
None of us would ever have heard of it if Stanton Friedman hadn’t met Jessie Marcel. ibid.
On page 302 the Air Force also came up with an explanation for Jesse Marcel’s mysterious symbols: they claimed it was Scotch tape with flowers on it donated by a toy company. ibid.
With all this talk about little green men you’d think the Air Force wouldn’t touch Roswell with a ten-foot pole. They explained it already: it was a Mogul balloon, right? In 1997 the Air Force came out with another three hundred page report; this one was called The Roswell Report: Case Closed. ibid.
Was the crash at Roswell really a Nazi crashed flying saucer? ibid.
On May 27th 1977 ... [I] received a call from a gentlemen from Oklahoma who had just found out that his dad had been stationed here at Roswell as a military policeman in 1947. He had a piece of metal that he obtained at the crash-site which no-one knew about all these years that he showed to his son; he told his son that people would kill over that piece of metal. So the son was very concerned about having it. He told us that his dad had been out at the crash-site. I had the opportunity to talk to the dad on the telephone. Took five pages of notes. He said he was at the crash-site; he picked up this piece of metal about half a dollar. Dennis Balthaser, researcher & lecturer
He told me he came under the spaceship. It was during the day-time. It was an oval shape. And it had crashed. And it had broken open. There were about four beings laying on the ground, not in the spaceship. And they were scattered not too far from the object. Vern Maltais, televised interview, friend of Barney Barnett
Well this is Hangar 84 and we have witnesses who have told us quite a bizarre story about this building: this is basically where alien debris and alien bodies were shipped from. Don Burleson, UFO researcher
It’s still the only time in the history of the United States where the government has said, We’ve got a flying saucer. Toby Smith, author Little Gray Men
Speculation about why the Roswell crash would be covered up is difficult to pin down. Some people talk about ... information that would be shattering to our world view. Nick Pope
The Roswell incident really begins in the 1970s when a documentary film about Roswell and other UFOs called UFOs Are Real was picked up by the National Enquirer. Dr Michael Shermer, publisher Skeptic Magazine
1947, Roswell, New Mexico: Strange-looking debris is found by rancher Mac Brazel … Roswell sceptics claim there is no physical evidence supporting a UFO crash. Best Evidence s1e3: The Roswell Incident, Discovery 2007
Mogul was a project using high-altitude listening devices suspended from weather balloons. ibid.
In the summer of 1947 the whole of America was gripped by a wave of sightings of flying saucers. Secret History: The Roswell Incident, Channel 4 1995
For 30 years the Roswell incident remained a dark secret. The story didn’t see the light of day until 1978. ibid.
There were other witnesses with strange reports of aliens. ibid.
Roswell, New Mexico, which is ground zero for modern-day UFO researchers … I’m headed out in search of the Roswell Rock. In Search of Aliens s1e3: Rock of Roswell, H2 2014
A small triangular-shaped rock of brown colour; it has this design on top of it that isn’t etched into the rock but actually protrudes from it. ibid.
Inside these boxes our experts discovered new evidence of a controversy over the handling of the Roswell incident that raged behind the scenes. UFO Files s1e4: Roswell: Final Declassification, History 2004
One of the greatest mysteries of the twentieth century: what really happened in the desert outside Roswell, New Mexico, in the summer of 1947? ibid.
Within hours the material was flown to Fort Worth, Texas, for inspection by high-ranking Air Force experts. ibid.
Are now convinced that a Project Mogul radar target like this one is at the heart of the Roswell mystery. ibid.
July 1947, Roswell, New Mexico: Wreckage found in the desert outside this small town is believed by many to be a UFO. UFO Files s2e6: The Day After Roswell
Colonel Philip J Corso: The Day After Roswell [1997]: The material he presented in his book is still controversial. ibid.
The aliens, according to these witnesses, were four small human-life beings with four-fingered hands, thin legs and feet, an oversized head and large almond-shaped eyes … The documents have not been authenticated. ibid.
But according to many UFO researchers, at the same time that the press is distracted with supposedly fake debris, the actual Roswell wreckage and possibly other retrieved items are taken under military control. They are surreptitiously flown almost fifteen hundred miles away to a military base in Dayton, Ohio, named Wright Field. According to UFO legend its precise destination is a hangar on the base: Hangar 18. UFO Files s3e12: Hangar 18: UFO Warehouse
New Mexico is abuzz with with UFO mania and talk of invading Martians. UFO Files s4e3: Roswell Secrets Unveiled
The mystery remains exactly why and how it [army] issues this sensational release. ibid.
The Air Force issues a second document called The Roswell Report: Case Closed in 1997. ibid.