No Details of Flying Disk Are Revealed
Roswell Hardware Man and Wife Report Disk Seen
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The intelligence office of the 509th Bombardment group at Roswell Army Air 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 sight 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 that 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 out 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.