Unidentified flying objects -- Sightings and encounters -- New Mexico -- Roswell
And a lot of them were doing this, sort of picking up things and
feeling things. I was picking up things and feeling things. It was all
kinds of material and metal, stuff like that. I heard it, well, we all
heard it, the sound of a motor coming, like a truck. And I went back up
the incline area to the ridge line and I could see out there, there was
a truck coming up. It was an old pick-up truck. It was sort of a beige
color, a tan colored van with an antenna on it. And it stopped and this
guy got out and he’s wearing brown clothes. He’s got boots on and he’s
wearing a straw hat, just like the kind that Harry Truman always wore,
and he had wire rimmed glasses. He was a big man and he looked exactly
like Harry Truman to me. You know, I’d seen him in the Movietone News...
Q: He was president then.
A: Yes, I was well aware who Harry Truman was. Everybody was. He was
kind of a hero, you know, and he just kind of looked like him except
bigger, bigger. You know, I don’t think he—and he didn’t look as old
either. His hair was kind of light gray.
And he walked over there and they got to talking, you know, with
everybody and he told them that he worked out on the plains out there
and that he made maps and that he had seen the wreckage from out there
on the plains and he saw the people and he thought it was a plane wreck
and, you know, that something was going on and he came over to see.
And he hadn’t been there but just a very, very few minutes when we
heard all kinds of motors and engines straining and stuff. And here
comes a military car with a big white star on the side of it followed
by a six-by which is a military truck with a kind of canvas wagon, kind
of a canvas thing over it and it’s full of soldiers. They’ve got guns.
And right behind them is what we call a four-by which is like a medium
sized jeep/truck situation and it had two big high whip antennas, all
kinds of radio gear in the back and a guy back there with ear phones
and stuff on and he’s, you know, working these radios. And they all
pulled up and stopped.
Q: Which direction did they come from, do you know?
A: They came from the north, from the Horse Springs area, right...
Q: So they could have come off the highway there...
A: Oh, yes. I’m sure that’s exactly how they got there. They come off
the highway, the same way we did. Well, in the meantime, when they
stopped, this black soldier, this sergeant, the reason I know he was
a sergeant, my brother told me he was, and he got out of this car and
then a guy got out on the other side and he was a, Glen said he was a
captain, he told me later he was a captain and this guy had orange and
red hair. So all the soldiers and them came running over there pointing
guns at people, telling them, “Get away, get away, get away,” you know?
And when this creature saw these people, the military, he went nuts. He
went into an absolute panic, worse than what he did when he saw us.
Q: Did he move around or just his eyes or...
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