Encounters: The UFO Phenomenon, Exposed!/Encounters - The UFO Phenomenon, Exposed (1995).iso/roswell/roswel21.txt

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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
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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.