USA, New Mexico, Roswell

“These days Roswell is a growing city with a population of about 50,000 but in the late 1940s it was a much smaller town of about 15,000, servicing local farmers and local military bases.”

“Since the 1930s, the empty high plains of southeastern New Mexico have been a test area for the United States’ space and aerospace technology.”

“The New Mexico White Sands testing ground, two hours’ drive west of the crash site, was where the US Army had conducted the world’s first-ever detonation of the ‘Trinity’ nuclear device on 16 July 1945.”

“They also frequently corresponded with Robert Goddard, who by that time was working alone in the deserts outside Roswell, New Mexico.”

“the town hosts an annual four-day UFO festival”

“Throughout 1947 there were many reports in the New Mexico newspapers of odd lights.”

“On 1 July, a disc-shaped UAP was seen zigzagging across the sky in New Mexico”

“on the evening of July 2, something was seen by members of the public in the skies over Roswell and reported locally. This object was brightly lit and crossed the skies in a northwesterly direction.”

“On 5 July 1947, a ranch foreman named Mac Brazel found crash debris scattered across a cattle ranch 120 kilometres from Roswell in New Mexico.”

“So Brazel drove into Roswell to report his find.”

“The flying object landed on a ranch near Roswell sometime last week. 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 Major Jesse A. Marcel of the 509th Bomber Group Intelligence Office.”

“Later a report was issued to the effect that this disk was a crashed weather balloon.”

“Wednesday, July 9th in 1947, newspaper The Irish Times says this. The U.S. War Department stated last night that they were without news of the New Mexico flying saucer and were checking with Roswell.”

“Jacobsen wrote that in July 1947, US Signal Corps engineers tracked two anomalous objects flying across the south-western United States, the craft sometimes hovering before continuing to fly on.”

“One of the flying objects crashed near Roswell and 'immediately, the office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff . . . took command and control and recovered the airframe and some propulsion equipment, including the crashed craft's power plant, or energy source'.”

“The craft was nothing like any conventional aircraft, with no wings or tail, a round fuselage and a dome on the top, with secret army memos declassified in 1994 referring to it as a 'flying disc'.”

“...with secret army memos declassified in 1994 referring to it as a 'flying disc'.”

“A UAP fell that day in the vicinity of a government test facility in New Mexico and broke into two crash sites.”

“A crashed balloon associated with Project Mogul outside of Roswell, New Mexico, is assessed to be the source of early UFO claims.”

“and his early years growing up in Roswell, New Mexico, the site of the world famous Roswell UFO crash.”

“He was also a longtime champion of the UAP topic, due to his childhood growing up on a ranch in the Roswell, New Mexico, area and what he had since learned as an astronaut.”

“Three decades later, Marcel claimed that he was ordered to collude in a cover-up and that the real debris he recovered from near Roswell was extra-terrestrial in origin.”

“Strieber told the Senator in his letter that US Army Brigadier General Arthur Exon had told him personally in 1989 that there was a 'completely unequivocal cover-up' of a retrieved alien craft at Roswell and 'it went from [President Harry] Truman on down'.”

“General Art Exon, who was allegedly heavily involved in the retrieval of the Roswell craft in 1947”

“Corso asserted that there was indeed an alien spacecraft crash at Roswell in 1947 that was recovered by the US government.”

“FBI agents visited ranchers in the region, going door-to-door to deliver the threatening message: if you speak about the crashes, you will be killed.”

“President Clinton said, "As far as I know, an alien spacecraft did not crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947...if the USAF did recover alien bodies, they didn't tell me about it...and I want to know."”

“a 9 January 1950 issue of the news magazine Time reported rumours that crashed 'flying saucers' and 'small humanoid looking bodies' had been recovered from crashes in New Mexico”

“That was followed by an astounding report to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) boss J. Edgar Hoover in March 1950, telling him that an air force investigator had disclosed 'that three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico.'”

“which alleged there had been multiple crashes and retrievals of ET flying saucers in New Mexico”

“and one possible date given for the infamous UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico”

“The memo described the now famous crash of a flying saucer in the New Mexico desert in 1947 near Roswell and the recovery of bodies and a subsequent cover-up of the same events.”

“Where her book courted most controversy was Jacobsen's extraordinary assertion that what crashed at Roswell was actually Russian, crafted by captured Nazi Germany scientists.”

“Her even more dramatic claim – that bodies found on the craft were those of 'grotesquely deformed' children with unusually large heads and abnormally-shaped oversize eyes – was savaged by sceptics.”

“Jacobsen's source also claimed the deformed children were 'comatose but still alive'.”

“Joseph Stalin supposedly intended the craft to land at New Mexico and cause a War of the Worlds-style panic.”

“it's said that the Roswell crash may have been caused when two disks passed too close to a high powered radar station. And the thought is that these high powered microwaves from the radar interrupt the flight envelope, the field propulsion around their craft. and it'll veer off course and crash into something.”

“Well, on March 25th, 1948, oil workers discovered a lenticular craft laying up here after being called out because of a brush fire.”

“Edgar’s parents owned two farm supply stores in the Roswell area and he knew most of the ranchers and workers in the area because they were always in his parents’ stores.”

“he knew most of the ranchers and workers in the area because they were always in his parents’ stores.”

“He told me that after he came back from the moon he was not only a national hero but a hero to the folks in Roswell.”

“When he returned to Roswell, many of the old timers and their children began to pull him aside and told him very intimate stories of the ship that crashed in Roswell.”

“This is a confession tape by Dr. Wright, who says that she studied under Albert Einstein at Princeton and was... I guess, taken to the crash at Roswell and was given a tour inside the craft, shown the bodies where there lay eight dead and one alive, and even had an exchange and communication with one of these entities.”

“Tyler was always fond of saying that the best place to conceal the truth was in a mess of confusion... the UFO narrative was a good cover story for it, or a way to camouflage it.”

““Roswell is difficult because not only do humans not understand what is going on within the topic of nonhuman intelligence, but the topic has been intentionally confused and aggravated by some other forces, human and possibly nonhuman.”

“In the middle of the New Mexico desert, a stone's throw from Roswell. Historian David Mahler has been compiling a treasure trove of top secret files spanning more than half a century.”

“Under the watchful eye of the town's flightless guards, Ross Coulthart has arrived here to investigate the strange activities of something that's been flying above Exmouth. Down Under's very own Roswell.”

“And one of them was recovered from near here.”

“These events also all happened just before a sighting event in New Mexico, USA, that, for many, is the origin myth of the great modern extra-terrestrial conspiracy theory – Roswell.”

“in Roswell, New Mexico, 2007, not 1947, Patricia Carroll reported seeing a triangular or possibly horseshoe shaped dimly lit object that looked ghostly or smoky and seemed to be dimming and brightening in and out of visibility.”