In the summer of July 1947, something crashed close to Roswell. " Mack" Brazel, a rancher in New Mexico, got his horse and rode out with some neighbors to check on his sheep after a crazy thunderstorm the night before. As they rode along, Brazel began to notice unusual pieces of what seemed to be metal debris, scattered over a rather large area. As he looked more into it, Brazel saw that a shallow trench, several hundred feet long, had been etched into the ground.
Shocked and curious Brazel took a peice of the debris back home to his shed. After sharing the unknown object with his neighbors they suggested he go and tell the sheriff about his find.
After Mack had delivered the news to Sheriff George Wilcox, he then reported it to Intelligence Officer, Major Jesse Marcel of the 509 Bomb Group, and for days, the debris site was closed while the wreckage was cleared.
On July 8, 1947, a press release was stated that the wreckage of a "crashed disk" had been recovered and was issued by Lt. Walter G. Haut.
Only Hours later the first press release was rescinded.
Then on July 9, 1947, the second press release stated that the 509th Bomb Group had mistakenly identified a weather balloon as wreckage of a flying saucer
[From Wikpedia.org]
The Roswell UFO unidentified flying object incident was the alleged recovery in 1947 of at least one alien space craft and its occupants near Roswell, New Mexico, USA.
Debris was recovered from a ranch near Roswell in early July 1947, and the Roswell Army Air Field issued a press release stating that a “flying disk” had been discovered, sparking intense media interest. Within hours, a retraction was issued claiming instead that a weather balloon had been recovered, and a subsequent news conference featured debris said to be the object which seemed to confirm the weather balloon description.
The case was quickly forgotten and almost completely ignored, even by UFO researchers, for some 30 years. Then, in 1978, Stanton T. Friedman interviewed Jesse Marcel, who was involved with the original recovery of the debris in 1947, and Marcel expressed his belief that there had been a cover-up of the recovery of an alien craft. His story started to be told in UFO circles, including in the documentary “UFOs Are Real.” In February 1980, an interview with Marcel appeared in the National Enquirer, bringing the story national and worldwide attention.
Additional witnesses and reports emerged over the following years. They added significant new details, including accounts of a large military operation to recover alien craft and aliens themselves, as many as 11 crash sites, and intimidation of witnesses. In 1989, former mortician Glenn Dennis revealed a detailed account which included alien autopsies carried out at the Roswell base.
In response to these reports, and after political pressure, the General Accounting Office launched an inquiry and directed the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force to conduct an internal investigation. The result was two reports. The first one, released in 1995, concluded that the material reported recovered in 1947 was likely debris from a secret government program called Mogul. The second report, released in 1997, addressed the reports of aliens and concluded these reports were likely transformed memories of the recovery of anthropomorphic dummies in programs like Project High Dive, conducted in the 1950s. The psychological effects of time compression and memory contamination explained the discrepancy with the years in question. These reports were dismissed by many as being either disinformation or simply implausible, though significant numbers of UFO researchers discount the probability that any alien craft was in fact involved.
Today, “Roswell” is almost synonymous with “UFO,” and likely ranks as the most famous alleged UFO incident. But there are widely divergent viewpoints on what actually happened, and passionate debate on what evidence can be believed or discounted. It is therefore difficult to assemble a sequence of events which will avoid strenuous objection from one side or the other.
Well back in Roswell, Glenn Dennis, a mortician received some curious calls one afternoon from the morgue at the air field. It seems the Mortuary Officer needed some small hermetically sealed coffins,and wanted some info on how to preserve bodies that had been exposed to the elements for a few days, without contaminating the tissue.
Dennis later drove out to the base hospital later that evening where he saw large pieces of wreckage with "strange engravings" on one that was sticking out of military ambulance.
Upon entering the hospital he talked with a nurse, when suddenly he was threatened by military police and forced to leave.
The next day, Dennis met again with the nurse. She told him about the bodies and drew pictures of them on a prescription pad.
Within a few days she was transferred to England, her whereabouts remain unknown.
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