The Alien. United States

According to an interview with farmer William Brazel (Interview with Mac Brazel, Roswell Daily Chronicle, July 9, 1947), this story began on the night of June 14, 1947 (a specific date appeared in the farmer's later interviews, in the early ones he indicated it as "sometime last week"). The owner of the Foster Place ranch (Foster homestead), located 50 kilometers north of the city of Roswell, farmer William Ware "Mac" Brazel (William Ware " Mac " Brazel) with his eight-year-old son Vernon came across a field covered with some strange substance. The wasteland was somewhere 7-8 miles (about 12 km) from the ranch, and the substance resembled foil, but when it was crushed and bent, it took the same shape. In addition to the" foil", pieces of a very light and durable material were found on the wasteland, which did not burn and was not damaged by a knife, as well as some cord and rubber scraps. In his interviews, the farmer notes that there were not even hints of any engines or propellers. At that moment, they had no time to study the find in detail, but they decided to return to this place as soon as they could.

After telling about what he saw at home, the farmer returned to the same place with his wife, daughter and son on July 4, 1947. Together, they collected some of the things they found and took them with them.

William Brazel's daughter Bessie also described the discovered objects in an interview in July 1979:

It was something that looked like scraps of heavily waxed paper and aluminum foil at the same time. Some of them had something like numbers and inscriptions on them, but we couldn't read a word. Some of them had some tapes glued to them. If you look at them in the light, it seemed that they also had some inscriptions or drawings on them. Despite the fact that the tapes looked glued, they could not be removed or removed. All the things were very light, and there were a lot of them.

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Toronto, Ontario, GLOBE AND MAIL, July 9, 1947, page 1

Just Weather Balloon Crashed

The game of "saucer, saucer, who has a flying saucer" is still raging across most of the North American continent, but so far no one has found any of them, although in Fort Worth, Texas, they thought one of them had been found. It turned out to be a weather balloon.

The military authorities of the United States, trying to find some meaning in what is still a lot of nonsense with simple and bizarre lies, are combing the sky with fast pursuit planes, but so far they have not found any flying saucers or disks.

When General Roger Raimi announced in Washington yesterday that a strange object had been discovered at the Roswell Army Airfield, New Mexico, there was a real stir. Lieutenant Warren (Walter) Haot, a public relations officer at the Army airfield in Roswell, was more optimistic than General Raimi. Hout said that the Air Force had taken possession of the flying disk. He landed at a ranch near Roswell last week. Then the disk business split into fragments. It was just a weather balloon. Lieutenant Haot made no further statements.

Last Saturday, Sherman Campbell, a farmer from Circleville, Oh., found a strange object on his farm. It was in the shape of a six-pointed star, 50 inches high and 48 inches wide, covered with foil. He weighed about two pounds. Attached to the top were the remains of a balloon with a neck five inches in circumference.

The weather station of the airfield in Columbus, Oregon, reported that the description corresponds to an object used by the Army Air Forces to measure wind speed at high altitudes using radar.

Some of the flying discs, which were reportedly seen by hundreds of people in 41 states and at least five provinces in Canada, were much larger and flew at an amazing speed. It is reported that the objects were first seen on June 25.

There were many" explanations " for flying saucers, ranging from radio-controlled flying missiles sent by United States military scientists to light reflected from the wing tanks of jet aircraft. Some scientists said that it was just a trick that vision played on people who claimed to have seen the disks.

Lloyd Bennett said Tuesday that the drive crashed into his front yard Monday night. He demanded a reward. He described it as a piece of metal 6.5 inches in diameter and about an inch thick. Metallurgist Ed Koons analyzed the disc, which said that the disc was cast under pressure.

Strange stories about" flying saucers " spread in Sydney, Australia, and Johannesburg, South Africa, where, according to local residents, they also saw strange objects.