In July `of 1947, the skies and vast open deserts of south central New Mexico became a backdrop for a sequence of still-unexplained events.

Tuesday, July 1, 1947
An object appears on radar screens in the Roswell, White Sands and Alamogordo area. The radar equipment is running normally in every way, and the speeds and maneuvers of the object give no clues to link it to any known airborne object.

Wednesday, July 2, 1947
In Roswell, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Wilmot observe an oval object "like two inverted saucers, faced mouth to mouth", passing over their house. This object is moving at a high rate of speed in a northwesterly direction.

Thursday, July 3, 1947
Steve MacKenzie, who is stationed at Roswell Army Air Base, is ordered by Brigadier General Martin F. Scanlon of the Air Defense Command to report to the radar sites at White Sands and monitor the movements of an object in the skies above Roswell. MacKenzie continues the watch for twenty-four hours straight, reporting all observations to Warrant Officer Robert Thomas, who is stationed in Washington, D.C.

During the entire period of MacKenzie's watch, the object appears Periodically over southern New Mexico, usually "flitting from one location to another."

Friday, July 4, 1947
Independence Day fireworks are small potatoes compared with the startling sequence of events that unfold in the course of the night

Robert Thomas arrives in Roswell from Washington and immediately requests an on-site briefing.

William Woody and his father see a flaming object that is white with a red trail fall north of Roswell.

While a thunderstorm rages near Corona, New Mexico, Mac Brazel, at home on his ranch, hears a tremendous explosion that differentiates itself from the thunder. Others corroborate his observation.

11:27 p.m.: Radar sites see the object they have been watching pulsate repeatedly, then explode into a starburst.

Camping in the desert north of Roswell, James Ragsdale and Trudy Truelove see a flaring bright blue-gray light that Ragsdale believes is lightning striking near him until he sees the object roar over his campsite and slam into the ground about a mile away. Driving to the spot where they saw it land, they see what appears to be the remains of an airship stuck in the side of a cliff. With their flashlight batteries failing, they decide to return in the morning.

Two nuns at Saint Mary's Hospital in Roswell see a brilliant light plunge to earth between 11 and 11:30 p.m., recording its passage in their logbook.

A group of archaeologists in Roswell on site studies also see the object fall to the around not far from them and make plans to search for it the following morning.

Saturday, July 5, 1947
Archaeologists working in the area stumble on the crash site and call Sheriff George Wilcox that they have discovered the remains of a crashed aircraft of some kind. Wilcox dispatches the local Fire department, escorted by Roswell police, to the site.

James Ragsdale and Trudy Truelove return to the site at sunrise. From the edge of a cliff, they see an object which looks like part of an aircraft with narrow wings sticking into the cliff at an angle. The craft is crumpled in front, and debris is scattered across the site. Picking up a few pieces of the debris, they discover that it is made of a totally unfamiliar material: "You could take that stuff and wad it up and it would straighten itself out." Of another piece, Ragsdale said, "You could bend it in any form, and it would stay;" More amazing than the craft or the debris are the "bodies or something" the two see lying there; "they looked like bodies.... four or five feet long at the most." Ragsdale has thrown a few pieces into his truck, but as the two see army trucks and Military Policemen approaching, Ragsdale, frightened, throws it back out.

A sheepherder in central New Mexico finds the remains of a crashed suacer. He refuses to tell anyone about it until decades later

5:30 a.m.: The military arrives at the site with a recovery team. Civilians who have already arrived are escorted off while military personnel secure the area. Five bodies are discovered. Within six hours, the site has been completely cleared and secured.

On horseback, Mac Brazel and a young neighbor set out to inspect the pastures. They discover a large debris field. Scattered about are metal, plastic-like beams, pieces of lightweight material, foil and string. Brazel picks up a few scraps of the material and takes them to the home of his closest neighbors. Returning to the debris field with his truck that evening, Brazel takes a large, circular piece of odd material to a livestock shed, where he stores it.

Once Warrant Officer Thomas and his crew arrive. at the impact site, the bodies are placed in lead-lined body bags. Military guards keep all but those with the highest security clearance away. Although warned not to look at the bodies, one of the guards does so at the earliest opportunity. He later reports that they are small, with large heads and skin that is yellow or orange.

Glen Dennis, a Roswell mortician, receives a call from the base mortuary officer asking about small caskets. Later, the officer calls again with questions about what various chemicals do to blood and tissue. He also asks what to do with a body that has been exposed to the elements. Because his mortuary also operates the town's ambulance, Dennis later takes an airman injured downtown out to the base. He sees three ambulances; in the rear of one are small canoe-like devices and strange debris. Two officers threaten him with bodily harm if he reveals anything about what he has seen.

Another report from a firefighter dispatched to the crash site claimed that one of the aliens was still alive and was walking around.

Once the bodies arrive at the base, doctors who have arrived on a special flight begin the autopsy. Later that evening, the bodies are sealed in a long crate, which is placed in a hangar. Military police guard it through the night, but never approach it.

Sunday, July 6, 1947
Mac Brazel takes his story to Sheriff Wilcox in Roswell. Wilcox immediately calls Major Jesse A. Marcel, intelligence officer for the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell Army Air Base. Marcel contacts the base commander, Colonel William Blanchard, who orders the major to conduct a thorough investigation. Marcel, Brazel and senior counterintelligence agent from the base Captain Sheridan Cavitt go to Brazel's ranch to examine the debris field, arriving too late to continue that day.

Monday, July 8, 1947
Brazel escorts Marcel and Cavitt to the crash site: an area three-quarters of a mile long and two to three hundred feet wide. The three men load Marcel's car with samples and head back to Roswell. Marcel and Cavitt persuade Brazel that it is his duty to turn over everything that he retrieved from the site to the military.

The cloud of military secrecy that descended over the entire series of events Since that day has been only partially effective. Too many people witnessed too many separate incidents to keep the stories from resurfacing time and again over the years

Now, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of what has come to be called the Roswell Incident, tens of thousands of people interested in the issue are expected to convene in the area July 1-6. Scheduled events include a rock concert, UFO symposiums, a film festival, costume contests, tours of crash sites and other activities. For information. call the Roswell Conference and Visitors bureau at 505-623-5695

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