RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region No Details of Flying Disk Are Revealed Roswell Hardware Man and Wife Report Disk Seen

The intelligence office of the 509th Bombardment group at Roswell Army Field announced at noon today, that the field has come into possession of a flying saucer. According to information released by the department, over authority of Maj. J.A. Marcel, intelligence officer, the disk was recovered on a ranch in the Roswell vicinity, after an unidentified rancher had notified Sheriff Geo. Wilcox, here, that he had found the instrument on his premises. Major Marcel and a detail from his department went to the ranch and recovered the disk, it was stated. After the intelligence officer here had inspected the instrument it was flown to higher headquarters. The intelligence office stated that no details of the saucer's construction or its appearance had been revealed. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Wilmot apparently were the only persons in Roswell who saw what they thought was a flying disk. They were sitting on their porch at 105 South Penn. last Wednesday night at about ten o'clock when a large glowing object zoomed out of the sky from the southeast, going in a northwesterly direction at a high rate of speed. Wilmot called Mrs. Wilmot's attention to it and both ran down into the yard to watch. It was in slight less then a minute, perhaps 40 or 50 seconds, Wilmot estimated. Wilmot said that it appeared to him to be about 1,500 feet high and going fast. He estimated between 400 and 500 miles per hour. In appearance it looked oval in shape like two inverted saucers, faced mouth to mouth, or like two old type washbowls placed, together in the same fashion. The entire body glowed as though light were showing through from inside, though not like it would inside, though not like it would be if a light were merely underneath. From where he stood Wilmot said the object looked to be about 5 feet in size, and making allowance for the distance it was from town he figured that it must have been 15 to 20 feet in diameter, though this was just a guess. Wilmot said that he heard no sound but that Mrs. Wilmot said she heard a swishing sound for a very short time. The object came into view from the southeast and disappeared over the treetops in the general vicinity of six mile hill. Wilmot, who is one of the most respected and reliable citizens in town, kept the story to himself hoping that someone else would come and tell about having seen one, but finally today decided that he would go ahead and tell about it. The announcement that the RAAF was in possession of one came only a few minutes after he decided to release the details of what he had seen. The above is the Roswell Daily Record exactly as it appeared 50 years ago.

A recent exhibition in Russia claims to be the first event in the world to actually show an authentic extra terrestrial space craft.

The object is said to be disc shaped, fifty feet in diameter and 15 feet deep, and made of an unknown metallic substance. Where the exhibitors obtained the craft from is not being made public but rumors abound that a cash stricken military may provide a clue.

More on this story in a future update.

In an ongoing barrage of anti-UFO press releases the US military have come out strongly in denial of extraterrestrial visitations.

Hot on the heels of a report that claimed the famous Roswell incident to be nothing more than a misinterpreted military operation involving rubber dummies comes the news that most UFO sightings of the last half century have been manufactured by the military.

The Pentagon goes on to say that clever use of lights and disguised planes had been employed to cover up top secret weapons testing. They did admit however that there were some unexplained sightings that they had no involvement with - leaving the door open for future announcements perhaps?

Ever since chartered planes flew across the Plains of Nasca in the early part of this century and Erik Von Danikken wrote the best selling Chariots of the Gods, the mysterious lines that form huge animal shapes and strange geometric patterns have been a source of wonder to the world.

Von Danikken claimed that the geometric shapes that seemed to stretch for miles in perfect straightness could only have been formed by superior beings and were possibly landing patterns of visiting space craft.

Now the latest evidence to come from this remote region of South America suggests that in fact the lines were created by a desperate people caught in the ravages of a forty year drought. It has been shown that the lines converge on sacred mountains or small hills that resemble those mountains where the Nascans believed rain came from. It is believed that they were painstakingly constructed to entice the gods to create rainfall and lead it to local farms and villages that would have been at the end of those lines if you were to scale them up accordingly.

The animal shapes were apparently also a ritualistic part of this desperate rain making attempt and would have been constructed for Shamen - a type of medicine man - to process along summoning the Gods to release rain from the heavens.

NASA announces strongest possibility yet of life in our Solar System

A recent report issued from NASA has created the biggest stir since the fossilized microbe containing Martian Meteorite was brought to the attention of the public recently by the same organization.

The report highlighted the fact that the space probe Galileo had sent back incredible pictures and data from one of Jupiters moons Europa which strongly suggested that beneath its icy exterior exists an ocean with all the conditions
necessary to easily support life.

A spokesman commented that this was the clearest indication yet that the people of Earth may not be alone in the Solar System.
...And then announces that it does not intend to do anything about it!

Two weeks after crowing about "mind blowing pictures" of a possible life sustaining ocean on Europa, NASA officials decided Jupiter's icy moon wasn't worth the trip.

In what space experts called a strange decision, NASA on Wednesday passed over two proposals to send probes to Europa.

Two Europa missions were part of 34 proposals submitted to NASA for its Discovery Program, which is the agency's project to fund "lower-cost, highly focused scientific spacecraft." NASA on Wednesday chose five projects as finalists for funding.

Projects to study Mercury, Venus, solar wind, comets and Mars' moons were picked as finalists. NASA eventually will fund one or two of the proposals.

"It's kind of a strange decision," said American University astronomy professor Richard Berendzen, who two weeks ago appeared on "Nightline" with NASA officials to rave about the latest Europa photos taken by the Galileo space probe.

When the photos were revealed April 9, NASA astronomer Richard Terrile said, "These are really mind-blowing pictures. How often is an ocean discovered?" Berendzen said the photos meant Europa had the three main ingredients for life: water, hydrocarbons and energy. But NASA spokesman Doug Isbell said the European proposals "Just didn't make the cut." (extract from "The Orlando Sentinel" )

As part of a conference organized by the Fortean Times to mark fifty years since the first official flying saucer sighting, a spotters guide to Aliens has been launched.

The Field Guide to Extraterrestrial is intended as a 'bible' for extraterrestrial visitation investigators and describes, coincidentally, over fifty varieties of EBE' (Extraterrestrial Biological Entities).

Author Patrick Huyghe produced the work after gathering together over 1000 recorded sightings from around the world. He noted that although many of the aliens exhibited similarities toward popular ideas of the time (such as little green men in the 1950s), there was still an underlying core of certain sightings that didn't seem to fit this convenient pattern, such as the 'small gray'.

The guides aliens fit into four bands: Humanoid (two arms, legs, face etc.); Animalian (ape, bigfoot or troll like); Robotic (mechanical in composition or nature); Exotic (the more elaborate such as pulsating brains and floating blobs). (adapted from the Daily Mail, April 19, 1997 Thousands witness mile long UFO in 60-mile trek across Arizona

It was huge. So large that it blotted out the stars for more than a mile as it swooped silently over Arizona.

Thousands saw it and dozens videotaped it. After months of investigation, computer analysis and talks wit eyewitnesses, experts have been unable to come up with any earthly explanation for the sightings.

The V-shaped formation of red and white lights passed over several towns at a steady 30mph, covering a distance of 60 miles.

Witnesses - who included pilots, air traffic controllers, doctors and lawyers - said the object glided across the sky without sound, its height ranging from 500ft to several thousand feet.

The incident has captured the imagination of America like no UFO sighting in decades. It has revived memories of the Roswell incident of 50 years ago, when the supposed crash of a flying saucer in New Mexico was allegedly covered up by the authorities. Black and white film exists which purports to show autopsies on some of the aliens recovered at the scene. Peter Davenport, of the National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle, said the Arizona incident was the most dramatic in his experience. 'What we have here is the real thing - they are here' he added.

The files of the UFO Center record that the first sighting came from a retired police officer in Paulden, 60 miles north of Phoenix. He reported a cluster of red lights heading south.

The second call came from Prescott, 15 miles down the road. This time the report was of one red light and four white lights.

Within minutes the center's switchboard was jammed with calls from Wickenburg, Glendale, Phoenix and Scottsdale. Police stations, fire departments and city halls were overwhelmed by hundreds of calls in the space of around two hours on March 13.

Bill Grava, a pilot and air traffic controller for 12 years, was on tower duty as Sky Harbour International Airport. 'I have never seen anything like that,' he said. 'It was weird - inexplicable.'

Tim Ley, a 54-year-old management consultant, had just arrived home when he saw the lights. 'They looked like gas,' he said. "There was a distortion on the surface. The light didn't spill out or shine. I have never seen a light like that.'

Truck driver Bill Greiner, 51 said: 'Before this, if anyone told me they saw a UFO, I would say "Oh Yeah, and I believe in the tooth fairy". Now I've got a whole new view. I may be just a dumb truck driver, but I've seen something that don't belong here.'

Michael Tanner and Jim Dilettosa are partners in a firm which designs computerized effects. They ran computer analysis of video footage and compared the lights to every other light in the Phoenix area. Nothing matched.

The Luke Air Force Base between Phoenix and Glendale has been a target for hundreds of callers who assumed that the sighting was linked to the base. Officials denied it.

Lieutenant Colonel Mike Hauser said many callers became angry and accused the Air Force of a cover-up. There were F-16 fighter jets in the air that night and one of the last sightings of the UFO was near the base.

Mr. Greiner said he saw three of the jets take off and veer towards the object. "Then it shot straight up and disappeared in the blink of an eye,' he said. "Those pilots had to see it."

If they did, the Air Force is not confirming it - adding to claims of a cover-up worthy of the X Files!

The Daily Mail, London, June 19, 1997

May 1997 saw the first new Labor Government in the United Kingdom for over twenty years and with it the possible release of top secret UFO files.

Although early days, Labor have pledged to introduce a Freedom of Information act similar to that in the United States within the next couple of years.

Coupled with a basic bill of rights, which is also pledged, the general public of Britain should at last be able to request the release of thousands of previously hidden documents from the huge military and MI5 archives.

In July 1994, the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force concluded an exhaustive search for records in response to a General Accounting Office (GAO) inquiry of an event popularly known as the "Roswell Incident." The focus of the GAO probe, initiated at the request of a member of Congress, was to determine if the U.S. Air Force, or any other U.S. government agency, possessed information on the alleged crash and recovery of an extraterrestrial vehicle and its alien occupants near Roswell, N.M. in July 1947.

The 1994 Air Force report concluded that the predecessor to the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Army Air Forces, recovered debris from an Army Air Forces balloon-borne research project code named MOGUL. Records located describing research carried out under the MOGUL project, most of which were never classified (and publicly available) were collected, provided to GAO, and published in one volume for ease of access for the general public.

This report discusses the results of this exhaustive research and identifies the likely sources of the claims of "alien bodies" at Roswell. Contrary to allegations, many of the accounts appear to be descriptions of unclassified and widely publicized Air Force scientific achievements. Other descriptions of "bodies" appear to be actual incidents in which Air Force members were killed or injured in the line of duty.

The conclusions are:

Air Force activities which occurred over a period of many years have been consolidated and are now represented to have occurred in two or three days in July 1947.

"Aliens" observed in the New Mexico desert were actually anthropomorphic test dummies that were carried aloft by U.S. Air Force high altitude balloons for scientific research.

The "unusual" military activities in the New Mexico desert were high altitude research balloon launch and recovery operations. Reports of military units that always seemed to arrive shortly after the crash of a flying saucer to retrieve the saucer and "crew," were actually accurate descriptions of Air Force personnel engaged in anthropomorphic dummy recovery operations.

Claims of "alien bodies" at the Roswell Army Air Field hospital were most likely a combination of two separate incidents:

1.) a 1956 KC-97 aircraft accident in which 11 Air Force members lost their lives; and,

2.) a 1959 manned balloon mishap in which two Air Force pilots were injured.

This report is based on thoroughly documented research supported by official records, technical reports, film footage, photographs, and interviews with individuals who were involved in these events.