Well in June of 1947 our radar people were stationed at White Sands noticed a series of erratic movement of blips. And on the night of July 4th we were watching the blips – it must have been about 11 p.m. – there was a severe thunder storm and heavy rain going on into the entire area. The screen lit up ... What caught our attention that something went down north of Roswell is that people driving on highway US285 north going south noticed an orange ball falling towards Earth ... What we saw was a craft of unknown origin. Frank Kaufmann, ex-military intelligence officer
The craft itself I would say might have been I don’t know about twenty, twenty-five feet in length, maybe six feet in height, possibly about fifteen feet maybe in width. There was a metallic smell around the craft. Inside the craft a bluish-greenish light. Frank Kaufmann
They [Roswell aliens] didn’t have any of these, you know, slanted eyes or horny fingers, anything like that. They were ... people. I call them people ... They were good-looking people. Fine skin. Kind of ash colour ... No hair. Very fine features. Very well built. Maybe five-four, five-five in height. That’s what I can remember seeing. Frank Kaufmann, televised interview
The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious. General Nathan Twining, classified memo to senior officers September 1947
We knew it was a cover story. Brig General Thomas DuBose, interview 1980
The heads were very much larger than the body. Glenn Dennis, Roswell mortician
What I seen, it wasn’t made in this world. George Newling, former Aircraft mechanic 509th B-29 Bomb Group
My dad came home from work. He was really excited. You’re not going to believe what we saw when we got there. But we saw a crash of one of the flying saucers. And he said, One of them was still alive. And it was walking around. And he said, There were two other bodies. But they were in body bags. Frankie Rowe, daughter of firefighter called to second crash site, interview Unexplained Mysteries
And I remember on the phone he [Brazel] told me he’d got some dead aliens out there. Frank Joyce, former radio reporter KGFL Radio
Roswell, New Mexico: location of the most famous UFO sighting of all time. In July 1947 a violent electrical storm swept over the desolate plains of south-central New Mexico. Unsolved Mysteries
The military also discovered the second crash site after an aerial search but they arrived too late to secure the area. Barney Barnett and his students had a clear and detailed look at the craft and its occupants. ibid.
A roll of film arrives in the mail. There is no name and no return address. When developed it reveals a conspiracy that reaches all the way up to the president of the United States. That’s what happened to Jaime Shandera. Unexplained Mysteries: The Majestic 12 documents
The documents were part of a 1952 briefing to President Eisenhower. They told of an alien spaceship crashing in Roswell, New Mexico. And the twelve men whose job it was to keep it a secret. Their code name was Majestic or MJ12. When Shandera received these explosive documents, he didn’t believe they were real. ibid.
In 1989 Unsolved Mysteries aired a segment about a mysterious 1947 crash of a UFO near Roswell, New Mexico. Unsolved Mysteries s5e4: Roswell, Netflix 2024
The very first network show that presented Roswell as an historic event. ibid. Don Schmitt & Kevin Randle
The late evening of July 2nd 1947 there was a severe lightning storm that came off of the Capitan Mountains in New Mexico. Ranchers described that between thunderclaps, they heard what sounded like an explosion. ibid.
The media in Roswell were threatened with the loss of their licences. ibid.
He [Jesse Marcel senior] told the truth. Marcel shared details of his experience in the TV series In Search of in an episode. ibid.
To date we have interviewed over 600 witnesses. ibid.
If it was just a weather balloon, why was there the need for the security in the first place? ibid. Kevin
Everyone agrees something fell, but what was it? ibid.
What about all the rumours about bodies? ibid. Don
They feel for example that the Pentagon has used their family. ibid. Don, re relatives of witnesses
Thirty miles south of Gallup, New Mexico, lies the pueblo of Zuni ... Much of the Zuni people’s history is etched into the rock-faces of the surrounding New Mexican desert ... These legends are rooted in the belief that the tribe’s creators and protectors are supernatural beings who came from the sky ... They appear to depict modern space travellers and their astral vehicles. Ancient Aliens s1e2: The Visitors, History 2010
Why might these images resemble modern astronauts? If they are aliens, is it possible they are similar to humans with similar limitations? And could they have come from a planet something like Earth? ibid.
Roswell, New Mexico: On 8th July 1947 a UFO sighting was reported that even the United States government had trouble denying. Why? Because this time the report was issued by the US army. One night in early July 1947 a major thunderstorm rolled across New Mexico. The next morning rancher Mack Brazel went to check on the damage. Ancient Aliens s1e5: The Return, History 2010
In the occult science of numerology the number 33 represents the ultimate attainment of consciousness. Mount Hermon is located at the latitude of 33 degrees North. Tracing the 33rd degree parallel to the exact opposite side of the globe takes you directly to the site of the most famous UFO encounter in modern history: Roswell, New Mexico, USA. Ancient Aliens s2e7: Angels and Aliens, History 2010
Prehistoric sculptures of reptilian beings. Weird elongated skulls nearly 4,000 years old. And ancient myths of small grey beings with large heads and black oval eyes. All around the planet ancient evidence suggests strange other-worldly visitors. Ancient Aliens s4e3: The Greys
Roswell, New Mexico, 3rd July 1947: A flash of light streaks across the sky before crashing in the desert near the Roswell Army Air Field. Ranch Mack Brazel heard the impact and investigated the next morning. He reported what he found to authorities … If alien beings didn’t crash at Roswell, who were they? ibid.
‘There are some figurines and some cave drawings that look like Greys.’ ibid. Giorgio
In the American south-west the ancestors of the Native Hopi Indians believed in deities from other worlds. They drew illustrations of them on canyon walls … [that] match modern descriptions of Greys. ibid.
Chaco Canyon, New Mexico: The ancient ruins of a mysterious Pueblo people. Called the Anasazi they thrived from 900 to 1,000 A.D. … How did these ancient people engineer such elaborate structures without modern machinery? Ancient Aliens s4e9: Time Travellers
Mysterious stories of extraterrestrial contact. Secret messages from alien beings. And inexplicable events hidden from the public. All around the planet evidence points to other-worldly visitors, yet governments continue to deny their existence. Ancient Aliens s5e2: Aliens & Cover-Ups
After this [Roswell] and many other UFO sightings the American public demanded to know who or what was behind these unexplained objects in their skies. But instead of answering these questions, the government responded by creating the National Security Act [of 1947]. ibid.
Roswell is probably the single most known UFO event in history. Ancient Aliens s11e13: Beyond Roswell, comment, History 2016
Roswell was the home of the 509 bomb group. This was the only atomic bomb-capable squadron anywhere in the world. ibid.
Did the dawning of the nuclear age really usher in a new era of extraterrestrial encounters? And if the US military were actively retrieving UFO wreckages, just where were they taking them? ibid.
Col Philip J Corson: The Day After Roswell: The Truth Exposed AFter Fifty Years! A Former Pentagon Official Reveals the US Government’s Shocking UFO Cover-Up. ibid. book
A fiery object crashes into the Earth and ignites the modern UFO era. For over seven decades the army has denied what it initially reported – that it had recovered a flying disc. But could evidence of such an event still exist? Ancient Aliens s15e2: The Relics of Roswell, History 2020
‘We are presently analysing meta-materials that we did not make that’s created in a way that is beyond our technology.’ ibid. George Knapp
Is it possible that Giorgio is holding an actual fragment of extraterrestrial craft? And if so, could even more incredible artefacts remain in the desert outside Roswell? ibid.