And that was that, case closed - or so everyone thought.īut interest began to grow again. The very next day, shortly after government scientists began to arrive at the scene, officials claimed (opens in new tab) that the debris was actually from a crashed weather balloon, and Marcel was asked to be pictured at a press conference with the debris. (Image credit: Source: Wikipedia Commons © Public Domain)īut just as quickly as excitement of the find grew, the Army took swift action in debunking the story. The Roswell Daily Record reported on the RAAF’s capture of a flying saucer, a story based on the initial press release. One of the objects was said to have hieroglyphic-like markings, something that stuck in the mind of the young boy, according to a report in The Guardian (opens in new tab). There, he whipped out a couple of boxes of debris that he popped into the trunk of his car and showed to his 10-year-old son, Jesse Jr. He had gone with Counter Intelligence Corps officer Sheridan Cavitt, but on his way back took a detour to his own home.

Marcel was the group intelligence officer dispatched to the scene. This was reported (opens in new tab) in the Roswell Daily Record along with the news that Major Jesse A. According to David Clarke's book 'The UFO Files: The Inside Story of Real-Life Sightings,' published (opens in new tab) by Bloomsbury in 2012, the RAAF's public information officer Walter Haut issued a press release on July 8: 'The many rumors regarding the flying disc became a reality yesterday when the intelligence office of the 509th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force, Roswell Army Air Field, was fortunate enough to gain possession of a disk through the cooperation of one of the local ranchers and the sheriff’s office of Chaves County.' What happened next would cement the idea that the debris represented the remnants of an alien spacecraft. In the Roswell Daily Chronicle (opens in new tab), Brazel is said to have 'whispered kinda confidential-like' that his find may be one of the flying disks, so an equally intrigued Wilcox contacted Colonel William Blanchard, the commanding officer of the Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF), who sent agents to the site to gather the remaining material. Īll About Space (opens in new tab) magazine takes you on an awe-inspiring journey through our solar system and beyond, from the amazing technology and spacecraft that enables humanity to venture into orbit, to the complexities of space science.īy now there was talk of a reward for anyone who recovered one of these unidentified flying objects. This article is brought to you by All About Space (opens in new tab).

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