Unidentified flying objects -- Sightings and encounters -- New Mexico -- Roswell
Now this whole time, no one has ever frisked us down, no one has ever
checked our pockets to see if we picked up any of this material and
this girl, Agnes, still had that stuff in her pocket and some of the
other students had stuff. To my knowledge, up to that point, they had
not been searched. Whether they did so afterward, I don’t know. They
never searched us, ever. They ran us back up the hill and when we got
to where the car was parked, where dad had parked the car up there,
there’s a jeep with a guy sitting in the back and there is a mounted
machine gun in the back of this jeep and all of these soldiers.
The jeep pulls out, we’re told to get in the car, we follow the jeep,
and the soldiers go with us all the way back out to the highway. When
we get back out to the highway, they set us right there. They wouldn’t
let us out of the car. They wouldn’t let us move forward. I don’t know
whether they were making a decision or what.
When we got out to the highway, this place was absolutely full of
military personnel, military equipment. There was airplanes sitting out
there that they had landed on the highway.
Q: Did you see any airplanes when you were back at the site?
A: Yes, there was airplanes in the sky but nobody thought much about.
You know, I didn’t think anything about it. I was used to airplanes
being in the sky, having been raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, the home
of the Norden bombsight, you know, the sky was always full of military
aircraft at night.
And when we get back on to the highway, there’s observation aircraft,
you know, high winged aircraft, and there’s one, of what I know now to
be a C-47 setting there. And how we didn’t hear that land is beyond me
and how he landed—well, of course, I guess you could land it if you’re
a good pilot out there as there were no poles or anything.
And it was—they had torn the fence down on the north side of the highway
and all this equipment was setting back up there. The plane was up
there and they were taking stuff out of the plane. There was military
ambulances and there were trucks with—like wreckers, cranes on them.
And there was tankers, like maybe had fuel or water in them. There was
just—everywhere you looked there was military.
Q: A major recovery operation?
A: Yes, it looked like an invasion force. It really did.
And they were all wearing these light khaki uniforms. They didn’t look
like, you know, olive drabs. They were light khaki and they all had the
same patch over their—that kind of blue funny patch with the circles on
it, was on his shoulder.
And a lot...
Q: Do you have a clue as to where they came from? Did your brother or
your uncle?
A: No. I don’t know where they came from. No, I don’t think anybody
ever ascertained that.
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