The
events of Roswell began on either July 2 or July 4 (there is some disagreement
here). A throwback to western days, William W. "Mac" Brazel, a sheep rancher,
would etch his name forever into UFO history, a designation that he neither
desired, nor appreciated. A common working man, Brazel was foreman of the Foster
Ranch in Lincoln County, near Corona, New Mexico. Brazel was a family man, but
his wife and children lived in Tularosa, near Alamogordo. The reason for this
arrangement was so his children could attend better schools than they would at
Corona. Brazel stayed in an older house on the ranch, where he tended sheep, and
the general chores of the ranch. He was a simple man, content with his job,
family, and his life. Mac would be thrust into the limelight for a brief period
of time, and ultimately regret ever reporting what he was about to discover on
the range of the Foster Ranch.
An evening thunderstorm was raging at the close of another workday, The storm
was highlighted by numerous bolts of lightning. These summer storms were not
uncommon for these parts, but this evening Mac noticed something different.. a
sound, like an explosion mingled with the typical sounds of a storm. Two of
Mac's children were staying with him that night at his farm house. Mac retired
with his two children, and temporarily forgot about the sounds of that night.
The next day's sun brought Mac out again to ride the fences, and check on his
sheep. He was accompanied that day with a seven-year-old neighbor boy, William
D. "Dee" Proctor, who often rode with Mac.
As they rode into the open field, ahead of them they noticed an area about a
quarter of a mile long and several hundred feet wide, covered with debris of
some type. The debris was composed of small pieces of a shiny, metallic
material, a material that Mac had never seen before. The sheep would not cross
the fragmented pieces, and they had to be taken the long way around that day.
Because of the curious nature of the debris, Mac picked up some of it and
carried it back to store in a shed. Little did he know the significance of his
find.
One of his children, Bessie Brazel recalled: "There was what appeared to be
pieces of heavily waxed paper and a sort of aluminum-like foil. Some of these
pieces had something like numbers and lettering on them, but there were no words
you were able to make out. Some of the metal-foil pieces had a sort of tape
stuck to them, and when these were held to the light they showed what looked
like pastel flowers or designs. Even though the stuff looked like tape it could
not be peeled off or removed at all."
"[The writing] looked like numbers mostly, at least I assumed them to be
numbers. They were written out like you would write numbers in columns to do an
addition problem. But they didn't look like the numbers we use at all. What gave
me the idea they were numbers, I guess, was the way they were all ranged out in
columns."
"No, it was definitely not a balloon. We had seen weather balloons quite a
lot, both on the ground and in the air. We had even found a couple of
Japanese-style balloons that had come down in the area once. We had also picked
up a couple of those thin rubber weather balloons with instrument packages. This
was nothing like that. I have never seen anything resembling this sort of thing
before,- or since..."
Later that afternoon, Mac took young Dee Proctor back home, a journey of
about 10 miles. He took along a piece of the debris that he had found, and
showed it to Dee's parents, Floyd, and Loretta. Mac tried to get the Proctors to
go back with him, and look at the strange material strewn in the fields.
Floyd Proctor would later state: "[He said] it wasn't paper because he
couldn't cut it with his knife, and the metal was different from anything he had
ever seen. He said the designs looked like the kind of stuff you would find on
firecracker wrappers...some sort of figures all done up in pastels, but not
writing like we would do it."
Loretta Proctor remembered: "The piece he brought looked like a kind of tan,
light-brown plastic...it was very lightweight, like balsa wood. It wasn't a
large piece, maybe about four inches long, maybe just larger than a
pencil.""We cut on it with a knife and would hold a match on it, and it wouldn't burn. We knew it wasn't wood. It was smooth like plastic, it didn't have real sharp corners, kind of like a dowel stick. Kind of dark tan. It didn't have any grain...just smooth." "We should have gone [to look at the debris field], but gas and tires were expensive then. We had our own chores, and it would have been twenty miles."
The first hint that the debris could be "not of this world" would
come the next night from Mac's uncle, Hollis Wilson. Mac told Hollis about his
find, and Hollis urged Mac to report the findings, since there had been reports
of "flying saucers" in the area as of late. On July 6, Mac was going to Roswell
to strike up a deal for a new pickup truck. He took along some of the debris,
and stopped off at the Chaves County Sheriff's Office and spoke to George
Wilcox. The story of the find was not significant to Wilcox until he actually
handled a piece of the silvery material. Wilcox telephoned the Roswell Army Air
Field, and spoke to one Major Jesse A. Marcel, who was the base intelligence
officer. Marcel told the Sheriff he would come into Roswell and talk to Brazel
about his find. Word of the goings on began to spread rapidly in the community,
and soon Mac was talking to radio station KGFL about the incident. Mac told the
station what he knew over the telephone.
Marcel and Brazel met at the Sheriff's office. Mac told Marcel what he knew,
and showed him a piece of debris. Marcel reported the results of his interview
to Colonel William H. Blanchard back at Roswell Army Base. A decision was made
for Brazel to go out to the site, and investigate for himself. Marcel would take
his old Buick, and Army Counter Intelligence Corps officer Sheridan Cavitt
accompanied him in a Jeep all-terrain vehicle. Following Marcel back to the
ranch, it was too late that day to visit the site, so they all three stayed in
Mac's ranch house. After a dinner of beans, the three headed to the site the
next morning. After a brief look around, Mac left Marcel and Cavitt, returning
to his chores.Radio station KGFL reporter Frank Joyce informed his
boss, Walt Whitmore Sr. about the recent developments, and Whitmore drove out
and picked up Brazel and took him to his home in Roswell. There an interview
took place, all taped into a recorder, but the interview would never be made
public. Threats from the military would prevent the transmission of the tape.
The next day, Whitmore took Brazel to the radio station, and called the Roswell
Army Base. What Whitmore told the Base is not known exactly, but the military
came and picked Mac up, and transported him to the base, where he was a "guest"
of sorts, for about a week. On July 8, the military returned Mac to the Roswell
Daily Record, where a press conference was conducted.
Oddly enough, Mac's story was somewhat different after his "stay" at Roswell Army Base. Mac now said that he and his son had discovered the debris on June 14, but he was so busy, that he didn't pay it any attention. He stated that some weeks later, on July 4th, he, his wife, and two children drove out to the debris field, and collected some samples. Among the collection were gray rubber strips, tinfoil, a type of heavy paper, and small wooden sticks. Mac further asserted that he had found balloons on several occasions, but that this debris was totally different from the other finds. "I am sure what I found was not any weather observation balloon," he said. "But if I find anything else beside a bomb they are going to have a hard time getting me to say anything about it," he said. Mac's military escort led him out to a car after the conference, and drove him to KGFL. Eye witness accounts say that as Mac left the newspaper office, he kept his head pointed to the ground, and did not speak to any of his friends who were present at the time. Brazel went into the radio station without his escort, and began telling Frank Joyce the same story he had related at the press conference. Joyce was shocked by the sudden change in the story's details, and interrupted Brazel at one point, asking him why he had changed his story. Brazel became upset at the question, and stated, "It'll go hard on me." After this interview, Mac was taken back to the Army Base. After finally being released from Roswell Base, suddenly Mac didn't want to discuss his find anymore. Those who knew him say that in private, he complained about his harsh treatment by the military. He was not allowed even to call his wife during his stay at the base, and he told his children that he took an oath to never discuss the details of the debris field. Within a year after finding the strange debris, Mac had moved off the ranch he loved so much, into the town of Tularosa, where he opened a small business of his own. He passed away in 1963. All of this for a weather balloon? Major Jesse A. Marcel was the intelligence officer at Roswell Army Air Force Base, which was home of the only bomb group in existence at the time. It should be noted that all of the personnel at the base had high security clearance. Marcel was a veteran officer, who was trusted fully. He had been a highly skilled cartographer before World War II, and was sent to intelligence training by the Army, because of his impeccable character. He was even an instructor for a time at the training school. He also logged over 450 hours of combat duty as a pilot during the War, and was highly decorated with five air medals for shooting down enemy aircraft. After the War ended, he was chosen as a member of the 509th Bomb Wing, handling security for "Operation Crossroads," which conducted nuclear testing in 1946. After being awarded a commendation for his work on the nuclear project, he was named the intelligence officer for Roswell AAFB. Marcel was on a lunch break when he received a phone call from Sheriff Wilcox. Wilcox informed him that rancher Mac Brazel had found debris from a crash of some object on a sheep ranch. Marcel went to town, talked to Brazel, and reported his findings to Colonel Blanchard. Marcel was given orders to go to the site, which he did, accompanied by CIC officer Sheridan Cavitt. Arriving too late for ample light for a search, the two soldiers spent the night with Brazel, and then proceeded to the sight the next morning. Marcell related the events of the search through the debris in his own words: "When we arrived at the crash site, it was amazing to see the vast amount of area it covered." "...it scattered over an area of about three quarters of a mile long, I would say, and fairly wide, several hundred feet wide. "It was definitely not a weather or tracking device, nor was it any sort of plane or missile." "I don't know what it was, but it certainly wasn't anything built by us and it most certainly wasn't any weather balloon." "...small beams about three eighths or a half inch square with some sort of hieroglyphics on them that nobody could decipher. These looked something like balsa wood, and were about the same weight, except that they were not wood at all. They were very hard, although flexible, and would not burn at all. There was a great deal of an unusual parchment-like substance which was brown in color and extremely strong, and great number of small pieces of a metal like tinfoil, except that it wasn't tinfoil. I was interested in electronics and kept looking for something that resembled instruments or electronic equipment, but I didn't find anything. "...Cavitt, I think, found a black, metallic-looking box several inches square. As there was no apparent way to open this, and since it didn't appear to be an instrument package of any sort, we threw it in with the rest of the stuff." "It had little numbers with symbols that we had to call hieroglyphics because I could not understand them. They were pink and purple. They looked like they were painted on. I even took my cigarette lighter and tried to burn the material we found that resembled parchment and balsa, but it would not burn , wouldn't even smoke," "...the pieces of metal that we brought back were so thin, just like the tinfoil in a pack of cigarettes," "...you could not tear or cut it either. We even tried making a dent in it with a sixteen-pound sledgehammer, and there was still no dent in it." Having rode to the site in two vehicles, Marcel sent Cavitt back to the base with his Jeep full of the material, and Marcel took his Buick, and stopped by his house to show his wife and son his amazing find.
Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr.(Marcel's son):
"The material was foil-like stuff, very thin, metallic-like but not metal,
and very tough. There was also some structural-like material too,- beams and so
on. Also a quantity of black plastic material which looked organic in nature."
"Imprinted along the edge of some of the beam remnants were hieroglyphic-type
characters."
When Marcel arrived back at the base, he was instructed by Colonel Blanchard
to load the debris on a B-29, and fly with it to Wright Field in Ohio, stopping
on the way at Carswell AAFB in Ft. Worth, Texas. The military was hard at work
at Roswell. Colonel Walter Haut was given an order from Col. Blanchard to write
a press release stating that the RAAF had in its possession a "crashed saucer."
According to Haut, the saucer was transported to the 8th Air Force, to be turned
over to General Ramey. Haut discharged his duty, and finished the press release
he'd been ordered to write, giving copies of the release to the two radio
stations and both of the newspapers. The famous headlines hit the newspapers.
"RAAF CAPTURES FLYING SAUCER ON RANCH IN ROSWELL REGION"
When Marcel arrived at Carswell, Brigadier General Roger Ramey, Commander of
the 8th Air Force took full charge of the case. The debris from Brazel's field
was taken into Ramey's office, and photographed. The photographer was James Bond
Johnson. Marcel was in one photo with the real debris. Ramey took Marcel into
another office, and upon their return to Ramey's office, some new and different
material was spread on the floor. Marcel, under orders, stated that this debris
was from a weather balloon. After more photos were taken, Ramey sent Marcel back
to Roswell, along with a stern warning not to disclose anything he had seen at
Carswell. It was then reported that General Ramey recognized the remains as part
of a weather balloon. Brigadier General Thomas DuBose, the chief of staff of the
Eighth Air Force, after many years of silence would state: "[It] was a cover
story. The whole balloon part of it. That was the part of the story we were told
to give to the public and news and that was it." There can be NO doubt that the
orders to cover-up the saucer story came from our Chief Executive.
General Ramey
Marcel was stunned to find upon his return to his home base, that he was made
a laughing stock because he ignorantly misidentified the balloon material with
that of "something unknown." Some three months later, however, Marcel was
promoted to Lt. Colonel, and assigned to a new program. He was in charge of
testing atmospheric particles to detect Russian atomic discharges. When he was
interviewed in 1978, he maintained that the debris he found on the Foster ranch
was definitely NOT a weather balloon. He insisted that it was like nothing he
had ever seen...
Through the first part of the Roswell story, we have heard of strange debris,
and two different explanations of what that debris was. So what about the
alleged alien bodies, an actual saucer on the ground, or an alien autopsy? To
accurately continue our quest for all of the facts behind the Roswell case, we
move to a new location. The site is San Agustin, near Magdalena, New Mexico.
This story is based upon the testimony of Vern and Jean Maltais. The couple
states that in February 1950, an engineer friend of theirs, Grady L. "Barney"
Barnett told them that while working in the fields near Magdalena, July 3, 1947,
he had come upon a crashed disc-shaped object. This flying disc had alien bodies
strewn about it. There were aliens inside and outside of the craft. As important
as this seems, there is a flaw in his story. It seems that Barnett's wife kept a
diary of his comings and goings. His wife stated that his diary did not
corroborate the date as July 3, 1947. This may or not mean anything, as surely a
mistake could have been made, or a date mixed up, or plans changed after the
entry was made.
Barnett's claims were controversial though, until yet another witness would
come forward which would shed new light on his claims. After an airing of a
"Roswell Crash" segment on the popular "Unsolved Mysteries" show in 1990, Gerald
Anderson came forward with some fascinating details. Anderson states that he and
his family were hunting rocks on the Plains of San Agustin in early July 1947,
when they also came upon a crashed saucer-shaped craft. The craft had four dead
aliens inside. Though Gerald was only six years old at the time, the
extraordinary sighting was one he would never forget. To take matters a step
further, archaeologist, Dr. Buskirk, and five of his students also came upon the
crash scene. Anderson's story also has holes in it, however. It seems that Dr.
Buskirk was a former teacher of Anderson. Records indicate that the Doctor was
in Arizona at the time of the alleged sighting.
There is also a case for a second crash near Roswell. Testimony of mortician
Glenn Dennis, along with Captain Oliver Wendell "Pappy" Henderson seem to
substantiate this theory. The actions of the military can tell us a lot.
Supposedly cordoning off the area, and removing every iota of the debris field
does not make sense if all that was there was weather balloon material. Much
importance must also be put upon Marcel. His word seems to be above reproach. He
states without wavering that the debris was NOT balloon material. He should
know. He also states that the debris he brought from Brazel's field was NOT the
debris in the newspaper photographs. What about all of the eyewitnesses? In all
fairness, it must be said that many of the witnesses are NOT first hand. We know
how stories can be changed, or amended by being passed down the line. But there
are also many firsthand witnesses. What about their testimony? If their stories
are all lies, then a large group of people, some unbeknownst to the others, have
perpetuated one of the best organized conspiracies in the last century. Let's
examine the testimony of these "first hand" witnesses. Maybe the truth is out
there after all. Is there a way to reconcile all of the different theories into
one authentic account of the events of Roswell?What about the alien bodies? There are many rumors
about the "little men." Some say there were three, some say four, some even
count 5. Let's see if we can find the truth behind the rumors by relying on eye
witness testimony.
Ray Danzer, a plumbing contractor, was working on the Roswell Base. He was standing outside of the emergency room, when he saw alien bodies being brought into the base hospital on stretchers. Dumbfounded by the event, he was shaken back to reality by military police who warned him to leave, and forget what he saw. Steve MacKenzie saw four bodies around the crashed UFO. He said that another one was out of sight. Major Edwin Easley was commander of the Military Police who cordoned off the crash site. He related to his family that he made a promise to the President that he would never speak of what he saw that day. Herbert Ellis, a painting contractor at Roswell AAFB, reported that he saw an alien "walking" into the Roswell Army hospital.
Major Edwin Easley
Mary Bush, who was secretary to the base hospital administrator, told
mortician Glenn Dennis that she saw "a creature from another world." She was
called on to assist two doctors in a hospital room where three "alien" bodies
were being examined. Though suffocated by an overwhelming odor from the bodies,
she clearly recalled that the aliens had four fingers, and no thumbs.
Joseph Montoya, Lt. Governor of New Mexico, told Pete Anaya that he had seen
"four little men." One of them was still alive. He states that they had
oversized heads, with big eyes.
Their mouth was small, like a cut across a piece of wood. "I tell you they're
not from this world."
Sergeant Thomas Gonzales, with the 509th, was a guard at the crash site, and
saw bodies he called "little men."
A member of the Army COINTEL, Frank Kaufman, saw a "strange looking craft
embedded in a cliff." He also states that he saw debris being put into crates
which were stored under heavy military guard at Roswell AAFB.
Frank Kaufman
Again, we must ask the question. Are all of these witnesses lying? Are these
stories simply fabrications? What are the odds? How far would this kind of
testimony go in a court of law? The conclusion to me is obvious. Although every
tiny detail can be put under a microscope to find fault and error, it is only a
normal human assumption to believe this story.
There is just too much evidence to support it.
Many researchers have, in my opinion, wasted countless hours trying to find
fault in a report by one witness or so. At times, there have been discrepancies
found in a date, a name misspelled, a time of day an hour or two off, and these
researchers believe that the ability to discredit one witness makes it logical
to assume that ALL of the other witnesses who say essentially the same thing are
not to be believed.
On the contrary, when so many agree on one general concept, even with small
errors in detail, all the more reason to believe the consensus of the gist of
the whole.
There can be NO doubt that a flying craft of unknown origin crashed into the
deserts of New Mexico. At least three dead bodies were found, and examined. It
seems that possibly one of the aliens lived through the crash. Many theories
abound about the location of these bodies, and the crash debris. I have no
answers to that end. There are just too many first-hand witnesses to the events
of Roswell not to believe their accounts. The saga of Roswell continues even
today.
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