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Basics of Roswell

THE BASICS OF ROSWELL:

July 4, 1947: Mac Brazel a local rancher finds foreign material in a
field on J.B Foster ranch where hes working. Brazel takes pieces of
it back to the ranch and over the weekend of July 4th shows it to
some of his friends and family. Neighbors Floyd & Loretta Proctor
look at the materials and advise Brazel he should report it in to the
Sheriff since it was unlike anything they had seen before, and might
be military property.

July 7, 1947: W.W Brazel travels to town and visits the local
Sheriffs Dept, where he reports he has found a crashed object out in
a farm field. Sheriff George Wilcox calls Roswell Army Air Field, and
speaks with Jesse Marcel, who is the intelligence officer of the
509th Bomb Group. It was then that Marcel and either commanding
officer William Blanchard or a Counter Intelligence Captain named
Sheridan Cavitt traveled to the office to speak with Brazel and the
Sheriff.

That evening Brazel was accompanied back to the ranch by the Colonel
and Counter Intel Officer where they spent the night. The next
morning they traveled back to the crash site to collect debris.

July 8, 1947: On the morning of July 8th an army group was sent to
the ranch to collect the rest of the debris. All the material was
loaded onto trucks and moved to the Air Force Base. Later that day
the Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) published a press release claiming
it had recovered a "Flying Disc", this article was written by Walter
Haut, the RAAF Public Relations officer. Brazel traveled into town to
the local radio station KFGL, where he arranged an interview about
his discovery. Details from this point become sketchy, and several
accounts of the events after vary in great detail.

However it is agreed that a few hours later Brazel returned to the
station, where he spoke to the radio operator once again, and
explained it was all a mistake, and that it was only a weather
balloon. This was followed by a press release only hours later
stating the same thing, that the wreckage found was nothing more than
an ordinary weather balloon. Initially the Associated Press blamed
Walter Haut for making a mistake.

That same day according to Marcel, he was flown to Fort Worth with
the wreckage to meet General Roger Ramey of the 8th Air Force. A
press conference was called where Marcel displayed a balsa wood
frame, weather balloon material, and a radar target. (The famous
Roswell Newspaper Front Page). Marcel claims the material he
displayed was not the wreckage from the Foster ranch.