Unidentified flying objects -- Sightings and encounters -- New Mexico -- Roswell
W. W. Brazel, 48, Lincoln county rancher living 30 miles south east
of Corona, today told his story of finding what the army at first
described as a flying disk, but the publicity which attended his
find caused him to add that if he ever found anything else short of
a bomb he sure wasn’t going to say anything about it.
Brazel was brought here late yesterday by W. E. Whitmore, of radio
station KGFL, had his picture taken and gave an interview to the
Record and Jason Kellahin, sent here from the Albuquerque bureau
of the Associated Press to cover the story. The picture he posed
for was sent out over AP telephoto wire sending machine specially
set up in the Record office by R. D. Adair, AP wire chief sent here
from Albuquerque for the sole purpose of getting out his picture
and that of sheriff George Wilcox, to whom Brazel originally gave
the information of his find.
Brazel related that on June 14 he and an 8-year old son, Vernon
were about 7 or 8 miles from the ranch house of the J. B. Foster
ranch, which he operates, when they came upon a large area of
bright wreckage made up on rubber strips, tinfoil, a rather tough
paper and sticks.
At the time Brazel was in a hurry to get his round made and he did
not pay much attention to it. But he did remark about what he had
seen and on July 4 he, his wife, Vernon and a daughter Betty, age
14, went back to the spot and gathered up quite a bit of the debris.
The next day he first heard about the flying disks, and he wondered
if what he had found might be the remnants of one of these.
Monday he came to town to sell some wool and while here he went to
see sheriff George Wilcox and “whispered kinda confidential like”
that he might have found a flying disk.
Wilcox got in touch with the Roswell Army Air Field and Maj. Jesse
A. Marcel and a man in plain clothes accompanied him home, where
they picked up the rest of the pieces of the “disk” and went to his
home to try to reconstruct it.
According to Brazel they simply could not reconstruct it at all.
They tried to make a kite, out of it, but could not do that and
could not find any way to put it back together so that it would fit.
Then Major Marcel brought it to Roswell and that was the last he
heard of it until the story broke that he had found a flying disk.
Brazel said that he did not see it fall from the sky and did not
see it before it was torn up, so he did not know the size or shape
it might have been, but he thought it might have been about as
large as a table top. The balloon which held it up, if that was how
it worked, must have been about 12 feet long, he felt, measuring
the distance by the size of the room in which he sat. The rubber
was smoky gray in color and scattered over an area about 200 yards
in diameter.
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