Roswell Revisited

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At first, and for nearly forty years afterwards, the Roswell case, when it was mentioned at all, was concluded to be a hoax or a misidentification with a weather balloon as the most likely solution. Among the few exceptions were a couple of paragraphs in Frank Edwards’ 1966 book Flying Saucers Are Serious Business. Almost everything he wrote about the case was wrong, other than his suggestion that something had crashed and that the Air Force attempted to explain it away but he did mention Roswell and the crash of something unusual. Harold T. Wilkins, in his 1954 book Flying Saucers on Attack mentioned it once in the same inaccurate vein.

The Roswell story as we now understand it, begins when Mack Brazel, a hired hand and ranch foreman living near Corona, New Mexico, drove into Roswell in early July 1947 with samples of strange metallic debris. The date of this event has always been in dispute. The some of the news reports suggest Brazel went to Roswell on Monday, July 7, yet there are other stories, such as one attributed to the United Press quotes Wilcox as saying that it had been the day before yesterday, or, in this case, Sunday. Time lines constructed by researchers and based on the testimony of various participants seems to corroborate the Sunday, July 6 date for Brazel’s trip into Roswell.

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