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Date: 06-25-91 00:37
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From: James Hartman
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The following is in the original text as it printed in Roswell
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Roswell Daily Record for Tuesday, July 8, 1947.
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RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region
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No Details of Flying Disk Are Revealed
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Roswell Hardware
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Man and Wife
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Report Disk Seen
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The intelligence office of the 509th Bombardment group at Ros- well Army
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Field announced at noon today, that the field has come into possession of a
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flying saucer.
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According to information released by the department, over authority of Maj.
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J. A. Marcel, intelligence officer, the disk was recovered on a ranch in the
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Roswell vicinity, after an unidentified rancher had notified Sheriff Geo.
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Wilcox, here, that he had found the instrument on his premises.
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Major Marcel and a detail from his department went to the ranch and
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recovered the disk, it was stated.
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After the intelligence officer here had inspected the instrument it was
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flown to "higher headquarters.
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The intelligence office stated that no details of the saucer's construction
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or its appearance had been revealed.
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Mr. and Mrs. Dan Wilmot apparently were the only persons in Roswell who seen
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what they thought was a flying disk.
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They were sitting on their porch at 105 South Penn. last Wednesday night at
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about ten o'clock when a large glowing object zoomed out of the sky from the
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southeast, going in a northwesterly direction at a high rate of speed.
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Wilmot called Mrs. Wilmot's attention to it and both ran down into the yard
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to watch. It was in sight less then a minute, perhaps 40 or 50 seconds,
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Wilmot estimated.
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Wilmot said that it appeared to him to be about 1,500 feet high and going
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fast. He estimated between 400 and 500 miles per hour.
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In appearance it looked oval in shape like two inverted saucers, faced mouth
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to mouth, or like two old type washbowls placed, together in the same
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fashion. The entire body glowed as though light were showing through from
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inside, though not like it would inside, though not like it would be if a
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light were merely underneath.
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From where he stood Wilmot said that the object looked to be about 5 feet in
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size, and making allowance for the distance it was from town he figured that
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it must have been 15 to 20 feet in diameter, though this was just a guess.
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Wilmot said that he heard no sound but that Mrs. Wilmot said she heard a
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swishing sound for a very short time.
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The object came into view from the southeast and disappeared over the
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treetops in the general vicinity of six mile hill.
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Wilmot, who is one of the most respected and reliable citizens in town, kept
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the story to himself hoping that someone else would come out and tell about
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having seen one, but finally today decided that he would go ahead and tell
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about it. The announcement that the RAAF was in possession of one came only a
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few minutes after he decided to release the details of what he had seen.
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I gather from this record account that it was real flying saucer and could
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not have been a weather related object or condition.
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