From: jeh@@vestnett.no (John-Erik Hove) Date: Wed, 08 Feb 1995 21:08:12 -0100 Ok, here are the three articles from 'Roswell Daily Record' Tuesday, July 8., 1947. All from the front page. RAAF CAPTURES FLYING SAUCER ON RANCH IN ROSWELL REGION No Details of Flying Disk Are Revealed Roswell Hardware Man and Wife Report Disk Seen The intelligence office of the 509th Bombardment group at Ros- well Army Air Field announced at noon today, that the field has come into possession of a flying saucer. According to information re- leased by the department, over authority of Maj. J. A. Marcel, intelligence officer, the disk was recovered on a ranch in the Ros- well vicinity, after an unidentified rancher had notified sheriff Geo. Wilcox, here, that he had found the instrument on his premises. Major Marcel and a detail from his department went to the ranch and recovered the disk, it was stated. After the intelligence office here had inspected the instrument it was flown to "higher headquar- ters". The intelligence office stated that no details of the saucer's construction or its appearance had been revealed. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Wilmot ap- parently were the only persons in Roswell who have seen what they thought was a flying disk. They were sitting on their porch at 105 South Penn. last Wednesday night at abou ten minutes before ten o'clock when a large glowing object zoomed out of the sky from the southeast, going a northwesterly direction at a high rate of speed. Wilmot called Mrs. Wilmot's attention to it and both ran down into the yard to watch. It was in sight less than a minute, perhaps 40 or 50 seconds, Wilmot estimat- ed. Wilmot said that it appeared to him to be about 1,500 feet high and going fast. He estimated be- tween 400 and 500 miles per hour. In appearance it looked oval in shape like two inverted saucers, faced mouth to mouth, or like two oldtype washbowls placed to- gether in the same fashion. The entire body glowed as though light were showing through from inside, though not like it would be if a light were merely under- neath. >From where he stood Wilmot said that the object looked to be about five feet in size, and making allowance for the distance it was from town he figured that it must have been 15 or 20 feet in diam- eter, though this was just a guess. Wilmot said that he heard no sound but that Mrs. Wilmot said she heard a swishing sound for a very short time. The object came into view from the southeast and disappeared over the treetops in the general vicinity of sixmile hill. Wilmot, who is one of the most respected and reliable citizens in town, kept the story to himself hoping that someone else would come out and tell about having seen one, but finally today decided that he would go ahead and tell about seeing it. The announcement that the RAAF was in possession of one came only a few minutes after he had decided to release the details of what he had seen. ROSWELLIANS HAVE DIFFERING OPINIONS ON FLYING SAUCERS Roswell is a bit uncertain about these flying disks, it would appear from interviews today with a number of local citizens, with about as many ideas concerning them as there are people interviewed. The reactions ran the gamut from scoffs at the whole idea to serious thoughts that they represented ex- periments by the government. No one interviewed thought they came from sources outside the United States. Representative thought were about as follows: Dr. A.D. Crile: - An obsession. I think it is a fixed curiosity. The con- dition of the eyes is such that some people think they see them when they look up into the sky, but others without the same deficiency do not see them. It is just an obsession; there is no such thing at all. Ben Ginsberg: - I am satisfied it is not an illusion, I feel there is some foundation for it. It is not reasonable to suppose it would be enemy disks. My frank opinion is that it is an experiment and as quickly as they find one - which they will soon - the disks will be ex- posed as experiments by some in- dividual or our own government. H.M. Dow: - I have come to the conclusion that there are some disks flying around, and I think it is an experiment of some tactical branch of our armed forces. W.W. Merritt: - I think most of them are optical illusions. If it is anything at all it is something of the army's, but I don't think there is a thing to it myself. Rolla Hinkle: - I think the United States government is trying out something new. These disks may be radio-controlled instruments of some kind. In fact, I would make a guess that it is some military division of the government trying out radio- controlled objects flying through the air, possibly at super-sonic speeds. Ross Malone Jr.: - I am still not convinced but that they are (Continued To Page Four) (Continued From Page One) mass hysteria. If they keep in- creasing the reports and if the reports become more authentic I may have to revise my opinion later. But I am not going to re- vise it yet. Claude Simpson: - I think un- doubtedly there is something to it but there is a lot of hooey to it too. Some people are seeing them when they really don't ex- ist, but there must be something to it. I have no idea what they are. George Baideree: - Personally, I think it is some experiment of our war agencies. I don't think it is anything to be alarmed over, because I think it is some ex- periment being carried on by our own people. Tom Hall: - I am as much at sea as anyone else. I think it is a scientific experiment emanating from some source, where I do not know. But I do not think it is our own country. Walter Harrison: - I don't have the least idea on earth what it is. I haven't seen one and don't know anything about them ex- cept what I have read. It seems strange to me that if there are as many as have been reported that they aren't hitting some- thing. Bruce Poorbaugh: - I enjoy reading the stories about them. I believe it is an army or scien- tific experiment. Wayne Adams: - There must be something to it or it would not be observed by so many people in so many areas. It is more like- ly that it is some solar phenome- non than experimental work by some enemy nation. If they are man made and as big as a house, as some reports have it, some- one should be able to find one. Dan Wilmot: - I think it is evi- dently a radar-controlled defense instrument of some kind which is being experimented with, and I think the atomic commission knows about it. Will C. Lawrence: - I think this is some test the government is making. If it weren't the govern- ment, they would already have run this down and let the public know what it is all about. AIR FORCE GENERAL SAYS ARMY NOT DOING EXPERIMENTS Portland, Ore., July 8 (AP) - The Oregonian said today that Maj. Gen. Nathan F. Twining, chief of the AAF material command, told it flatly that the "flying saucers" are not the result of experiments by the armed services. "Neither the AAF nor any other component of the armed forces had any plane, guided missile or other aerial device under develop- ment which could possibly be mis- taken for a saucer or formation of flying discs," the newspaper quoted Twining as telling it by telephone from Kirtland Army Airbase, Albuquerque, N.M. It continued its quotation: "Some of these witnesses evidently saw something but we don't know what er are investigating." Meanwhile, Air National Guard squadrons flying from Portland, Boise and Spokane bases patrolled Pacific Northwest skies late yes- terday, landing after sundown, without observing any of the ob- jects. Col. G. Robert Doddson com- manding the 123rd and 116th squadrons, said camera-equipped planes would take the air twice daily from the three fields.