Unidentified flying objects -- Sightings and encounters -- New Mexico -- Roswell
A: He was a very tall man, a very big man. He was wearing a pith helmet
when he first came up, one of those kind of explorer helmets. And he
was bald and I know that because he had taken it off and he had, you
know, wiped it with a handkerchief and put it back on. He was a balding
man. And he had a round face. He was very ruddy complected. A big man,
and he apparently was a doctor because they kept calling him doctor and
it was my understanding that it was an archeological group that was out
there on some kind of summer thing. And they talked and he apparently
was able to speak several foreign languages and he tried to talk to
this creature several times in different languages, again to no avail.
Q: How did they happen to be there? Had he seen the thing...
A: Well, they claim that they saw—they said they saw this thing come
down the night before in flight, you know, and they thought it was a
meteorite and they had talked about well, early in the morning, you
know, we’ll go over and see this, where this meteor came down, because
that’s what they thought it was.
And when the sun came up the next morning, you know, and they got
about their business, got up and somebody looked over and said, you
know, they saw this shiny metal and stuff across the plains there and
they realized it wasn’t a meteorite, it may have been an airplane that
had crashed so they all decided to go over there and see if there was
anybody left alive, you know, that was hurt that needed help.
Q: They had driven over?
A: No, they walked over apparently, the way I understand it. And it’s
quite a ways across that plain so it had to take a very long time
to do this or they may have had a vehicle, I don’t know. That’s an
assumption, I think, on my part, where they walked.
Q: Okay. So they’re around...
A: But they came across...
Q: ...with the family...
A: ...the plains. I don’t know why I said that. I’m not sure if they
drove or not. I didn’t hear any cars.
Q: And then somebody else shows up?
A: Yes, they were down just, oh, 15 maybe 20 minutes tops, you know.
And they were picking up things, some of the students. And this Dr.
Buskirk, that they called him, this one girl went up and said, “Look,
doctor, wouldn’t this make a beautiful ring?” And she was holding what
looked like a red rod, a red tube that was some kind of silvery-red.
And he kind of snapped at her, you know, “Put that down because you
don’t know what that thing is. That thing could hurt you. Don’t pick
this stuff up.”
And she kind of said, “Well, yes, okay, doctor.” And then he went back
to what he was doing and she walked away and put it in her pocket.
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